INTRODUCTION
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals the paradox that “the dead are the living, and the living are the dead.” 🌿
People think they are alive, but most live in a false world made of their own minds—a world of pictures and illusions copied from God’s world. This counterfeit life is not real life; it is hell, like a dream that disappears after waking.
Only when one discards his false self, repents sincerely, and dies to his mind world can he be reborn in heaven while still alive and truly live. 🌌
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Dead Are the Living and the Living Are the Dead
People believe they are alive and those who are religious also believe that they will go to heaven after they die. However, man is not living in God’s world but in the mind world he has made. This is because it is human nature to live in a world that has copied God’s world, a counterfeit world that resembles God.
He has betrayed God by making his own world. The world man has made does not exist in God’s world. His world is the enemy of God; one that has turned away from God. This is the reason man is a sinner. From the perspective of the origin, the true God, it is a non-existent world that only exists in one’s own mind – an illusion. It is a world where one thinks according to the false minds contained in his own mind world.
Man is an entity that does not exist; he is incomplete. Even though many people have spent their precious youth and lives seeking Truth through religion and other means, they have been unable to find Truth because what is incomplete can only find incompletion.
Many things have existed in the world but all that had existed have disappeared, as will the Earth one day. They came from the origin and have gone back to the origin. This is the way of the world. Man however, does not know this; he lives in his own non-existent dream world and without being able to go back to the origin, he dies in vain and disappears.
One’s mind world is a non-existent picture world. Therefore, it does not exist in the world. Everyone living in the picture world has disappeared. Life in the picture world disobeying God and Truth is hell. It is hell because it is the same as living inside a picture or a video. Just like a dream, it does not exist after you wake up.
It is a world made of pictures that man has taken during his life, through his eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body. From the perspective of the Universe, the origin, human life is a dream that lasts a split second and it does not exist in the Universe. This is why people in the olden days compared life to a dream or a bubble that is worthless, short, and futile.
If one discards and kills his self, and is ashamed and remorseful to heaven for his false world and his self living in it, heaven will become his and he will be born in that land and live there.
The dead are the living, because he who tries to die lives. But those who try to live are dead, because they are not Truth; they are false.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to discard their false mind world—the “pictures” of life—and “die” to their false self so they may be reborn in heaven while still alive. 🌠 This is the true meaning of living eternally as Truth.
