✨ INTRODUCTION
In this insightful teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that enlightenment is impossible without a clean and open mind. Those who are trapped by their self-centered conceptions and habits cannot accept Truth or understand even the simplest teachings. Enlightenment is achieved when the mind is cleansed of false conceptions, allowing the soul to become Truth itself and align with the universe. 🌿
As one progresses through stages of enlightenment, they gradually cleanse their mind, body, and self to become Truth, living in heaven while still alive. Only by clearing the mind of attachments and habits can one truly understand and know Truth. 🌌
📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Inability to Enlighten Is Because Your Mind Does Not Accept Thus You Are Unable to Know
For the past ten years I have spoken about Truth. Even though what I said ten years ago and what I say now are the same, people who heard my words back then say only now can they actually hear and understand what I have been saying.
If their level of enlightenment is not the same as the writings in the sutras, the Bible, or other holy scriptures, then people cannot understand them. They do not have Truth within their minds so they cannot hear even though they have ears; they cannot see even though they have eyes. This is because they are trapped in their self-centered conceptions and habits. People speak, know, and live according to what they have in their minds, and therefore those who do not have Truth in their minds do not know Truth. People cannot understand that which is even slightly beyond the level of enlightenment they have achieved. No matter how hard I try to make them understand, it is impossible because they do not have Truth in their minds.
Each level of this study has a different level of enlightenment. In the first and second level we cleanse the mind.
First Level: Knowing I am the universe.
Second Level: The universe and I are not separate because there is no mind.
In the third and fourth level we discard the body.
Third Level: Realizing through enlightenment that the universe is in me.
Fourth Level: Seeing and knowing the Soul and Spirit of the universe.
Fifth Level: Knowing this Soul and Spirit is the master of the universe, Truth.
Sixth Level: Knowing that this place is heaven.
Seventh Level: Being reborn as the Soul and Spirit which is the body and mind of the universe by cleansing the self who knows Truth.
When you enlighten that your spirit is joined to the universe and to being reborn as the body that is the soul of the universe, then you will enlighten that this body is perfect and that you will live in heaven forever. In other words, the body and mind which are reborn as Truth while you are alive will live as the forever-living, never-dying God in this land, in this place; in the land of Buddha, heaven, and the land of Truth. Only one who becomes Truth and is reborn in heaven will live because he is Truth.
When I speak to students about Truth, I see that they cannot understand anything beyond their level of enlightenment and cannot receive enlightenment; they begin to make discernments with their conceptions and habits and cannot overcome their selves, so they leave.
It is only one’s own mind; it is trapped in his sin and karma. If one cleanses his self, then his mind becomes bigger and he will become Truth; he will know all.
One is unable to be enlightened because he does not have a clean and big mind due to his conceptions and habits; he is unable to accept Truth.
– Woo Myung
🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, we practice cleansing the mind of all false conceptions and habits. When the mind is cleansed and expanded, enlightenment naturally occurs, and we become Truth—living eternally in heaven while still alive. 🌸
