✨ INTRODUCTION
In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that God is not separate from existence. 🌿
Everything that truly exists is God, and the mind that contains the whole universe is the mind of God.
When one becomes one with that mind, he sees that the sounds of birds and the wind are not separate from God—they are God.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
God Is Everything
While the sounds of birds and the sounds of the wind
are all sounds of God,
people look again and again for God.
That which exists is God,
and everything that exists is God.
Man cannot find God inside his falseness
because God does not exist there;
man cannot become God.
God is never-dying and forever-living,
and God is the mind which has the whole of the universe.
One who becomes God knows
that the sound of birds and the sound of the wind are God.
But one who does not become God
hears the sounds of birds as the sounds of birds
and the sounds of the wind as the sounds of the wind.
God and everything are one;
the instincts of every creation is God.
Every creation lives on its own according to its own shape;
that itself is the shape of God.
Everything, which is the real existence itself, is born
because there is the real existence.
The real existence is God;
humans do not know it because they do not have it in their minds.
The emptiness of the sky is God;
but humans do not know God, the emptiness,
as they do not have the emptiness in their minds.
Everything is the representation of God,
and everything is the life of God;
humans say that this is this and that is that,
which are their own conceptions and behaviors.
Each person has a mind of his own,
and, in that mind, he has his opinions to which he binds himself.
However, God is freedom and emancipation;
God is the self-existing mind which exists but does not exist.
It is an empty mind because it knows everything.
It has no judgment because it knows everything.
It has no thinking because it knows everything.
God is always alive;
only one who becomes the living God knows God.
To be enlightened about all, to accomplish all, and to know all
is to be reborn as the perfect God.
The life of everything in this universe
is of one mind which is the life of God.
However, only humans are unable to be the great one mind,
for they live with self-centered minds.
Everything is perfect in and of itself,
and everything lives in harmony, which is nature’s flow.
Only man lives in the illusion of his world.
– Woo Myung
🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, we learn that God is not something to search for externally.
When the self-centered mind disappears, the mind of the universe appears.
Then one sees that everything that exists is already God.
