
β¨ INTRODUCTION
In this message, Master Woo Myung explains that those who are thankful and positive can be reborn as Truth. Because Truth is the greatest and highest, it is difficult for the narrow human mind to contain it. One can only receive as much Truth as the capacity of their mind allows, and this capacity expands only as one progresses through the stages of spiritual completion.
The common characteristic among people who reached Truth is gratitude. A thankful and all-accepting mind is the greatest mind; only those with such a mind can harmonize with Truth and become one with God. πΏ
π ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Only Those Who Are Thankful and Positive Can Be Reborn as Truth
Those who are thankful and positive can be reborn as Truth. Truth is perfect; it is the greatest and the highest. However, because manβs mind is the narrowest and the lowest, making it possible for him to have this great Truth within him is quite difficult, to say the least. Throughout the years, I have seen that a person can only have as much Truth in him as his mindβs capacity will allow. Those who had finished up to Level 1 gained a mind capacity of that much, while those who had finished up to Level 2 gained a mind capacity of that much. Evidently, the limit of the capacity of oneβs mind lies in how far one has come.
Jeungsan, founder and teacher of Jeungism, once said that if a person were at a place where he should not be, God would remove him. In other words, a personβs body is one of wants and greed, and in it there is only falseness, thus distancing him from Truth. Accordingly, that Truth, which is God, cannot connect with him, nor can his falseness harmonize with Truth, and that is why God removes him.
The common denominator among those who were able to reach Truth was that they were thankful. An all-accepting mind is the greatest mind of all, and thankful and positive minds belong to those who are accepting. Those with great minds know how to be thankful, and they alone are the ones who can be one with God.
It is out of his arrogance that man – after having completed only the first level – speaks of having reached the enlightenment he has gained through his own greatness. However, that is all he can have, for he has no gratitude in his heart towards the method that has allowed him to be enlightened. Only those who are thankful and enduring (like the bear) may enter true Paradise.
β Woo Myung
π REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners cultivate a thankful and accepting mind. As one discards arrogance and becomes humble, the capacity for Truth expands, leading to rebirth and oneness with God. Such hearts alone may enter true Paradise. π
