INTRODUCTION
✨ In this insightful reflection, Master Woo Myung reveals why modern religions face deep division and confusion. People interpret scriptures through their own conceptions, form countless denominations, and cling to historical figures rather than the living Truth. The fundamental issue, he explains, is the lack of true repentance—the sincere acknowledgment and cleansing of one’s sins. Only through genuine repentance can religions unite and people return to the forever-living God and Buddha. 🌌
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Problems Surrounding Current Day Religions
I once gave a seminar to an audience of religious people in Georgia, U.S.A., on the problems surrounding current day religions.
One minister commented that Christianity was currently divided into over fifty thousand denominations. I said to him that so many denominations have been formed because people have their own interpretations of scriptures based on their own conceptions and habits since they do not know Truth. I told him that it is also because of man’s own greed. A different minister told me that another present day reality was that of churchgoers denouncing anyone who does not attend their church as being a heretic. I told him that the first problem of religions today is that the true meaning of what a religion stands for has been lost, and so people put their faith in the Jesus or Gautama who died two thousand, three thousand years ago, instead of the living Lord Jesus Christ and Buddha. It seems people do not really know what it means when they say that one can go to Heaven if one believes in Jesus Christ. The second problem, I told him, is that man is not repenting his sins, to which everyone in the seminar agreed.
Repentance means acknowledging one’s own wrongdoings and being sorry for them, for such wrongdoings are in fact one’s sins. Man lives according to his own delusional point of view because he seeks God or Buddha – Truth – with his mouth instead of seeking absolution of his sins. It is my hope that all religions come to know the forever-living God and that everyone truly repents so that we may all become one.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn the meaning of true repentance—discarding the false self and returning to the living Truth so that all may become one. 🌠
