INTRODUCTION
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains the true meaning behind death and life as taught in both Buddhist sutras and the Bible. The writing reveals that dying refers not to physical death, but to the complete elimination of the false self—attachments, habits, and the human mind filled with preconceptions. This perfect death, known as parinirvana, uncovers the original mind: the mind of God, Buddha, and the Universe. 🌿
When the false self dies completely, the true self is reborn. This rebirth is what allows one to live eternally in the land of Truth. Without this inner death, people live in falseness, believing they are alive when they actually exist outside the true world. 🌌
Through this teaching, readers understand that resurrection must happen while living: only those who discard all falseness and become Truth will live forever.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Dying Is Living and Living Is Dying
The Mahaparinirvana Sutra, a Buddhist holy writing, says that in the future, in the world of the future Buddha, parinirvana or perfect death can be achieved. Parinirvana is to die completely, without holding onto anything. What this means is that one must discard all of the human body and mind. Thus, death means to discard or eliminate.
Death means to not exist. To die a “big” death is to die fully without anything remaining – it is when man kills everything in his mind and discards all preconceptions and habits. This is parinirvana or nirupadhishesha-nirvana (nirvana without residue). When one dies completely, the original mind, the origin, the mind of the Universe, is revealed. This is the mind of the origin; it is God, Buddha and Allah. This is Truth. When man who is false completely dies, he has the mind of God, Truth. When he is then reborn with the Soul and Spirit of God, he will live forever in heaven – in the world of immortals, the land of Truth.
There is a saying in the Bible that he who tries to die will live and he who tries to live will die. This essentially has the same meaning as the sutra above: once one’s false self completely dies, his true self is reborn and lives in his land that is true. So, in order for the true self to live, the false self must die. Man believes that he is alive but as he does not exist in the true world, he is a dead entity.
The only way for people who are dead to live is to discard their false selves. Falseness must die, if the new, true person is to be reborn and live. People often think that when the Savior comes, their bodies will live forever or the souls of their bodies will live forever. However, they are dead because they do not have the mind of the true world and their true souls have not been born in the true world.
It is nonsense to say that one can truly live, if one has not died and been resurrected while he is living. When one repents his sins, it is the death of his self; the complete elimination of one’s self that has turned his back on Truth. Without true repentance that is death, one’s false self lives in sin that is the false world. This is not truly living; it is death. Only those who have died completely will live forever in the land of Truth.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn the method to eliminate the false self and experience true rebirth. 🌠 Through this process, one realizes parinirvana—not as theory but as lived transformation—and awakens to eternal life in the world of Truth.
