š” INTRODUCTION
What is samsÄra, the endless cycle of birth and death?
According to Master Woo Myung, samsÄra is not reality, but an illusionāa dream state in which the deluded self repeats false lives over and over again. Just like last nightās dream, it feels real while weāre in it, but it disappears the moment we awaken.
š Only those who become Truth escape samsÄra and enter eternal life. While the mind of man is full of attachments, greed, and delusions, the Creatorās perspective sees it all as fleeting and false.
This writing invites us to wake up from the dream called life and realize Truth while livingānot after death.
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š ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
SamsÄra
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 Creatorās 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.
Manās 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 samsÄra.
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,
samsÄra is the state in which the whole of oneās 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 oneās mind is nothing more than a delusion.
Both Heaven and hell are unreal
when they are of manās 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.
SamsÄra is like a dream.
ā Woo Myung
š± REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
āØ You are not meant to endlessly reincarnate in illusion.
At Santa Clara Meditation, through the teachings of Master Woo Myung, you can discard the delusional self and awaken to the real world, to Truth. This is the only way to end samsÄra and enter eternal Heaven while alive.
