💫 Samsāra: The Dream of Human Life and the Eternal Reality of Truth | MASTER WOO MYUNG | SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

INTRODUCTION

🌿 Master Woo Myung teaches that samsāra—the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth—is no more real than a dream.
Human life, seen from the Creator’s perspective, is merely an illusion arising from the false mind filled with self-centered attachments.

Just as dreams vanish upon waking, one’s delusional world disappears when he becomes Truth,
and then he lives forever in the real Land — the eternal Heaven that exists here and now. 🌈

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

Samsāra

It is in each of us to wonder
what will happen to us once we die.

Last night,
one had a dream.
Whether it was a dream of romance
or that of pain,
once one wakes up from it the next day
that dream is not real but false.
The dream is false;
it is not reality.
Human life is like a dream,
for when seen from the Creator’s point of view,
man lives a life that is of his delusions.
For example, he lives with money in his mind, and thus
there can be no reality in this self-centered mind of his.

Reality can only exist for those who have Truth inside them;
only then would this world be
Buddha-ksetra and true Paradise.
But there is no way that a person
who is full of delusions would know
the logic that this earth, here, is the Land of reality
upon which man is to live eternally.
Man’s mind is one of attachments,
and it is one that is not real but false.
Therefore, he will die once he is dead,
for he is as false as a dream.
And it is this falseness that will suffer samsāra.
A person who has become Truth
will live forever in the eternal world,
for he is Truth.

Just like the dreams one has each night,
samsāra is the state in which the whole of one’s life remains as
a dream that does not really exist.
The mind one has lived with is an illusion, just like a dream,
which is why one’s mind is nothing more than a delusion.
Both Heaven and hell are unreal
when they are of man’s delusions.
But a person who has become the reality
lives in the real Land as the reality –
as Truth.
A person who lives is one
who has entered into the eternal Heaven while he is alive.

Truth is just as you see and hear it.
This world and that world are not separate.
Samsāra is like a dream.

– Woo Myung

REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

🌌 The endless circle of samsāra is not a cosmic punishment — it is the reflection of one’s own false mind.
Through mind cleansing meditation, one awakens from the dream of self and becomes the living Truth.

When the illusionary mind disappears, Heaven and Earth become one,
and life itself is realized as the eternal paradise. 🌠