INTRODUCTION
🌌 In this profound writing, Master Woo Myung explains that although human beings believe they live in the world, they are actually living inside the world of their own minds, which overlaps the real world like a video or photograph.
This teaching reveals that the empty sky — the origin, Jung and Shin, Soul and Spirit — existed before all creation and is the true foundation of the Universe. 🌿
Master Woo Myung clarifies that only when the human mind world is completely destroyed can one be reborn in the real world of God, the eternal land of freedom and liberation. ✨
📖 ORIGINAL WRITING BY Master Woo Myung
God’s World Beyond the Human World I
People have been in the world for a long time. Man is born in the world through the balance and harmony of creation and the will of heaven and earth enables him to live. However, he lives as he wishes; he makes his own world and believes he is alive because of his own greatness. He does not know he exists because the world exists. He is not thankful for the world and he only acknowledges what suits the framework of his mind; if something does not suit his mind, he rejects it as being wrong.
We need to think about what the source of the world is, that is, what the existence of the origin is. Let us suppose for a moment that we had not been born in the world – the Universe would still exist. If all the stars in the sky that were created by the Universe had never been created, then only the empty sky would exist. This existence, the empty sky, existed before the beginning, exists presently and will exist for an eternity afterward. It is the original foundation that exists of and by itself. It is the eternally living, never-dying Jung and Shin, the Soul and Spirit, the Holy Father and Holy Spirit, Dharmakaya and Sambhogakaya.
There is absolutely nothing in this existence but the one God that exists amidst the nothingness. The nothingness is the body of the Universe and the one God is the mind of the Universe. The word holy refers to this existence; it is holy because it is alive and creates all of heaven and earth. It is the way of the world that all creations come from this existence and return to this existence. The Korean euphemism for death, “he has returned” means you return to this existence when you die.
This existence is the origin, the source and the Creator. This existence is the master of the living Universe. This existence brought forth heaven and earth and created heaven and earth. From the viewpoint of this existence man who lives a self-centered life is not living righteously.
Man lives in his own mind and is therefore a sinner who acts against the original foundation, which is Truth and the master of the world. The original form of God is the infinite Universe – the empty sky itself. Man was made to resemble God but he copies into his mind everything in the world that God has created and constructs his own mind world. God is the world that is true, and what man makes is a world of a video – a type of picture. A photograph is a print on paper of what belongs to the world, but man prints and keeps in his mind of what belongs to the world and all that has happened in the world. The place where man is living overlaps the real world and so he mistakenly thinks he is living in the world but he is actually living inside the world of a video. This is his karma and the reason he is a sinner.
God’s world is not the human world, but the true world that can be seen. Even though man is born into the world, he has never once lived in the world. When he destroys his mind world and his self disappears, he can go to the world of God, the true world. Beyond the complete destruction of the human world, the illusionary world, lies the true world, the world of God. Man is a sinner and an illusion and when he disappears, he can go to the true world of God.
People follow the words of saints because they are incomplete and there are people all over the world who strive to become saints themselves. However, only God knows the way to get to the land of God and only he can give new birth to those who have come to the land of God.
The world of God is the land where one lives as an eternal immortal. Therefore the Savior must be the master of the world. He will take people to the world of God and enable them to be reborn in this world as well as enabling the world to be reborn in the world of God. In other words, only when everything in the Universe is reborn in the empty sky, the origin, as the substance of the empty sky, can it live eternally like the empty sky.
The human world is a false world,
the human world is a fake world,
the human world is a non-existent world,
the human world is a dead world.
The human world is one without life,
the human world is a world of hell,
the human world is a world of pictures,
and the human world is one of suffering and burden.
But God’s world is the world of reality,
God’s world is a real world.
God’s world is a world that exists,
God’s world is one that is alive.
God’s world is a world that has life,
God’s world is the world of heaven,
God’s world is what the pictures have been taken of –
the original form of the world.
God’s world is one of freedom and liberation.
The way to go to God’s world beyond the human world is by dying and completely destroying one’s mind world. This method is causing a sensation around the world because it has this method.
– Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners contemplate the difference between the false human mind world and the real world of God, learning the way to completely destroy the illusionary self and return to the true land of freedom and liberation. 🌠
