💡 INTRODUCTION
🌍 What does it really mean to live forever?
Many people interpret eternal life as living forever with their physical body on this earth. But Master Woo Myung challenges this belief by pointing out the undeniable truth of impermanence—everything born in this world eventually perishes.
🔍 In this deeply reflective writing, Master Woo Myung explains that eternal life is not about physical endurance but about living in the Land of Truth—a world that exists within one’s mind. Only when reborn in this inner land can the soul and spirit live forever without death.
✨ True life is beyond the physical—it is the Spirit and Soul of Truth.
Let go of the illusion of material permanence and awaken to what truly lasts.
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📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Material Things Cannot Live Forever
In certain denominations of Christianity, when people are told that they will live eternally right here on this earth with this body, people think that they live with this body, in this world.
All the stars, the sun, the moon, the earth, and all plants and animals that are born in this world disappear and perish—such is the way of the world. Although one may live a slightly longer or shorter life depending on the surrounding environment and circumstances, for this body to live eternally, he should not die even if he gets into an accident. He should not die even if he ingests poison and he should not die even if he is cut with a knife or shot by a bullet.
This body lives and then disappears when it has lived up to its lifespan.
What does it mean to live eternally right here in this land? This world, which is real, has to exist within your mind and when the masters of the world create you anew in that land, this land and this body live eternally within your mind—the true world—as the Spirit and Soul of Truth. Only this land is the land where you can live.
No one can live unless they are born in this land. You should live in the Land of Truth within your mind.
You should be in that land while this body is alive and you should still be in that land even when this body does not exist. It is Truth and has no death.
Life and death are one, and there is no death.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
Reflect on what it means to truly live.
At Santa Clara Meditation, we practice letting go of the illusion of permanence and returning to the Land of Truth within.
Eternal life is not in the material, but in awakening to what is real.
