INTRODUCTION
✨ In this bold reflection, Master Woo Myung redefines what it truly means to be a heretic. 🌌
🌿 Rather than labeling others for differing beliefs, he points inward—explaining that real faith begins when one recognizes the living God or Buddha within and repents one’s sins.
This teaching shifts the focus from external judgment to internal transformation and the building of the Kingdom of Heaven within oneself. 🌠
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Heresy
People have a tendency to discount beliefs that differ from their own, accusing others of paganism and heresy. Buddhism is known to have its own pagan cults, and so is Christianity.
However, the real pagans and heretics are those who neither believe in the living God or Buddha within themselves nor repent their sins. Christians regard those who do not believe in Jesus who is Truth, as heretics, which makes sense because a person who has faith in the living Jesus Christ and repents his sins could not be a heretic.
People continuously pray to God to ask for things. But instead of doing this, each of us should have faith that God dwells within, establish God’s temple inside us, and build the Kingdom of Heaven.
He who believes in the God within him and has cleansed his mind by repenting his sins lives born in Heaven; therefore, he is not a heretic.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is reflected upon as an invitation to turn attention inward. By cleansing the mind and recognizing the living Truth within, practitioners move beyond labels and experience the inner Kingdom of Heaven described by Master Woo Myung. 🌠
