
INTRODUCTION
β¨ In this essential teaching, Master Woo Myung explains the difference between what is real and what is fake. The world itself is Truth, but people create their own illusions, live inside those false worlds, and even treat imitations as if they were real. True completion comes only when a person is reborn as Truth, becoming the never-changing body and mind of Truth.
All human knowledge based on attachments and desires is simply an extension of the self-centered mind, which is fake. Only Truth is real. Therefore, if one does not become real while living, the false mind completely dies after death. The real lives, the fake diesβthis is the difference between existence and non-existence, life and death, Truth and falseness. π
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Real and Fake
This world is Truth as it is, but people make their own illusions and dreams. Sometimes they follow their illusions and make real-looking imitations and then sell those fakes as real.
The real completion of humans is to become the never-changing Truth; it is for oneβs body and mind to become Truth by being reborn as Truth.
People appear to know a lot of things, but such knowledge is mere self-centered words from their minds of attachments. It is important to understand that man does not actually know anything. Oneβs self-centered mind is the mind of what he has learned in this world from his selfish desires.
What is real is Truth and what is fake is falseness. If people do not become real now, they will completely die after death because they are not Truth. People must become real while they are alive, and they must have the real world while living; only then can they go to the real world. Everything fake will die.
To live forever, by being complete, means humans are reborn and live as the body and mind of Truth and have the land of Truth.
Once there was a lot of commotion because people made counterfeit clothing and accessories. People have even made artificial food; but none of this is real. Things like this are part of manβs daily life; but man himself needs to be real because the real will live and the fake will die. It is the difference between true and false, the real and the fake. This is the difference between life and death, existence and non-existence.
The place everything in this world comes from cannot be seen by people, yet it does exist. People are unable to become complete while living in this world, because they do not know the way to be reborn as Truth, which is within them. People speak and live according to what they have learned, that is all they know. If people have Truth in their minds, they will know Truth and make others become Truth.
β Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to discard the fake, become real, and be reborn as the body and mind of Truth, the only world that lives eternally. π
