INTRODUCTION
โจ In this profound message, Master Woo Myung explains that all creations arise through the harmony of Heaven and earth. Everything with form lives according to karmic conditions and ultimately disappears once those conditions are fulfilled. Because all existence is a dream, human joy and sorrow arise from the self, attachments, and lingering emotions within the mind. ๐ฟ
When one discards these attachments and recovers Jung (Body) and Shin (Mind)โthe true essence of the Universeโone is reborn as Truth and lives eternally in Paradise while still alive. This eternal state is free from pain, regret, fear, and sadness. To cast away oneโs karma and habits is to enter true Paradise and discover the blessing of blessings. ๐
Master Woo Myung teaches that wisdom is the source of all creationsโthe omnipresent and omnipotent state of God and Buddha. When one becomes Truth, there is no life or death; existence and non-existence are one.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Birth of All Creations
Everything in the universe was created through
the harmony of Heaven and earth.
Human beings were also created through
this harmony of the universe.
Through this harmony, they live;
through this harmony, they die.
Everything that has a shape has a lifespan,
and everything has a slightly different lifespan
depending on harmony.
Everything that exists is a dream.
Everything that exists lives in its image.
Everything arrives and departs of its own accord.
Karmic ties are conditions,
and such conditions bear forth outcomes.
All creations come to the world due to their karmic ties
and live according to their karmic ties.
And when their karmic ties have been exhausted,
they will depart empty-handed.
Man has people he longs for,
as well as sad and regretful stories,
because he is man.
Manโs life is based on conditions โ
according to conditions he is born,
according to conditions he lives,
and according to conditions he departs.
When the physical bodies of others disappear,
man cries thinking that
they have parted from one another.
However, everything is a dream amidst a dream;
everything is a single nightโs dream.
Futility exists because man exists.
Sadness exists because man exists.
Even the tears man cries
due to his affection for someone or something
is because his human self exists.
Man is unable to let go of
such affections that remains in his heart
because his mind exists.
Such a mind is human nature.
When man is no more, his affections do not exist.
So long as he harbors his affections in his heart,
his mind will be in sorrow.
Everything returns to the place
from where it will be born,
and there, it disappears.
Thus we say that everything passes on
and passes away.
The place from where we came
is a place in which nothing exists.
The place where we will go
is a place in which nothing exists.
For a person whose body has died while he is alive,
amidst the nothingness exists the consciousness;
thus he will become reborn while he is alive
and will live forever.
He who dies while he is alive will go to Paradise.
For sure, Paradise is a place to be had
only for those whose minds have died
while he is alive.
To a person
whose consciousness
has been reborn as Truth,
this universe is the Paradise where
there is no pain, fear, or sadness.
He will live for all eternity but will not be bored;
he will be one with the source โ with Truth โ
and so there would be no death.
Manโs karma is his want-filled mind โ
the attachments he has come to have
due to the existence of his self
and through living his life.
Karma and habits are the same.
In oneโs karma are oneโs habits,
and it is from the mind one has lived with that
oneโs habits are created.
Only when one abandons those habits
can one be reborn in true Paradise.
Listen all of you!
Everything that has a shape
comes to this world due to its karmic ties,
lives due to its karmic ties,
and disappears due to its karmic ties.
That all things will someday disappear
once their karmic ties have been fulfilled is
the Truth among truths.
A person who has found the Mind,
and who has been reborn as Buddha, Divinity, and God
will live for all eternity in Heaven.
When you have recovered
the โJung (Body)โ and โShin (Mind)โ,
you can make it possible
for the dead and for your ancestors to live.
In other words, once you have become Buddha,
you may allow for them to live.
People are ignorant
and so they live their lives bound within themselves.
Their consciousnesses are unable to wake up
and so they eventually die;
their delusions become their selves
and so they undergo samsฤra.
One is reborn depending on oneโs karma.
When we observe how one lives now,
we can know the life of oneโs past.
Therefore, how one lives now is
how one will live in the future.
Time is a thing that exists because man exists.
That all things eventually disappear
like the foam of the sea
is Truth.
Existence and non-existence are one.
When one recovers his Jung and Shin
from within the non-existence and is reborn,
when the regrets and bitterness of oneโs life
become Truth,
when one no longer has any regrets and bitterness,
then one will live with the blessing of blessings โ
Heavenโs blessing.
Such a person is a wise person.
A foolish person is one who
accumulates delusions on this earth โ
delusions that he cannot take with him.
They are his attachments,
and because of them he will die.
But a person
whose consciousness is Truth even after death โ
whose consciousness has been born in Heaven โ
is one who will live in Heaven.
He is one who has
accumulated his heavenly blessings in Heaven
and so as he lives forever,
he will do so with those blessings.
Death, in which there is wisdom, is not death.
A person who has no wisdom will eventually die.
Wisdom is
the source of all creations;
in other words, it is the state of God and Buddha.
This state is both omniscient and omnipotent.
It is omniscient,
for it knows everything.
It is omnipotent,
for everything has come forth from this state.
Thus it is from it that all creations come forth
through the harmony of the Universe.
Listen all of you!
Only those who have
entered into true Paradise while they are alive
will live in true Paradise.
May you cleanse and eliminate your mind and body
so that we may enter into the state in which
there is no life or death.
May you realize
the place you must come to once you have died.
Those of you who die but have wisdom
will know where to go;
you will know your true self
and you will know what it means to be alive;
thus you will not cry.
But those who have no wisdom
think that the absence of image is death.
The consciousness that knows that the image lives
and that it is both existent and non-existent
is the consciousness that is Buddha, God, and Divinity.
So may you cast away your old rags.
To live as your true self is the blessing of blessings.
May you be cleansed of your selves while you are alive
so that all of you may come to the one Land.
May you be completely cleansed of
your karma and habits
while you are alive
and come to true Paradise.
โ Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to discard karma and habits, awaken their true nature, and realize the Paradise that exists here and now. ๐
By uncovering Jung and Shin, one becomes one with Truth and lives eternally โ free from sorrow, fear, and the cycle of birth and death.
