INTRODUCTION
✨ In this teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that human suffering originates from self-centered conceptions and the behaviors shaped by those conceptions. These false frameworks—built from past experiences, habits, and accumulated ego—prevent people from seeing Truth and living as one. Only by escaping these self-made frames can a person be reborn as Truth, live without conflict, and flow in accordance with Nature. 🌱
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
People’s Conceptions and Behaviors
What are people’s conceptions and behaviors? People’s conceptions are their false minds self-centeredly accumulated from their past. Behaviors are the habits embedded in the body as a result of these conceptions. That is to say, conceptions are the frame of one’s self-centered mind, and behavior is what that frame of mind has embedded in the body. In order for humans to be reborn as Truth, become complete, and be recreated, they must escape from these conceptions and behaviors.
Due to differences in conceptions, there are conflicts of opinions between husbands and wives, between siblings, and between parents and children; there are continuous quarrels on each side of political, social, and religious groups, each claiming they are right. People either think the popular idea is right or that their own conceptions are right, but actually none of these are truly right. What is truly right is only the true mind, not one’s individual conceptions. If something goes against traditional conceptions and behaviors, many times they are thought to be wrong even if they are true.
Jesus died on the cross as a heretic because the Jewish people believed in the Old Testament and were waiting for a Messiah of their own conceptions. In Korea, the monk Chadon Lee died trying to spread Buddhism, and Father Taegeon Kim and many other Christians were martyred for their beliefs. All this happened because people could not accept anything outside their own conceptions.
In earlier times, it was common practice in politics for the most strongly opinionated person to kill his opponents whose opinions did not match his own. However, people can live as one, without arguments and quarrels, if they become free from their individual conceptions and are reborn as Truth. They will live according to nature’s flow.
Historically many have died or suffered due to mankind’s false conceptions, and this continues even today. The way for people to become one is by becoming free of their conceptions, free of their minds. They can become one by being reborn as Truth as they get rid of their selves that have conceptions and opinions. People can become one when they escape from their own conceptions and behaviors, which they mistake as being right. People trapped inside the conceptions of present day religions will not know Truth has come when it does, because they are waiting for their fantasized Messiah of Truth, just as the Jewish people did. One who is waiting for Truth in the shape of his own fantasized Messiah will never find it because Truth will never fit his conceptions.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🌠At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn the method to discard conceptions, habits, and the self-made frame of the mind—allowing them to awaken the true mind and live in harmony with all.
