š Introduction
āØ In this deeply compassionate writing, Master Woo Myung speaks of the contrast between the false dream world and the true world of Truth, freedom, and eternal life.
People live busy lives filled with worry, self-centeredness, regret, and longing ā yet nothing lasting remains. š«ļø According to this teaching, human life is like a dream within a dream, and most do not awaken because they do not know they are dreaming.
The invitation is clear: leave behind the world of suffering and enter the new kingdom of Truth, where the soul and spirit live eternally.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The True World
Because I am compassionate,
no matter who I meet, my mind does not fluctuate.
I always treat people with compassion.
I am always of that mind.
Even when I lived without mind, I treated people to drinks
and that compassion was always there.
I never lost that compassion at any moment;
I never hated or disliked.
Although people are busy living for their own well-being,
they have done nothing;
there remains nothing, they have achieved nothing,
and there are more sighs and more agony.
As time passes, old memories fade away,
and people become busier and busier;
they are trapped in their own prisons which they have made,
and their minds become more narrow
as their self-centered minds become more concrete.
They had never been able to have
any of the numerous things of true existence,
but their minds become hollow as they age.
People live in this world; they are unable
to understand the laws of the world at all
and are dazed in their false minds with dead eyes and dead ears.
Although there is no place to go,
they live only for themselves; it is a meaningless life.
But it seems
the reason they have yet to awake from these dreams of theirs
is that they do not know it is a dream, for they are still in it.
I have returned to the human world, the dream world,
from the world beyond;
I see that though everything in this world is a dream,
people do not know this and they continue to dream.
Although I talk about the new world,
they just speak of crazy, delusional things;
they do not know the new world because they have never been
and cannot hear the story of the new world.
Even though the time of harvest has come,
people do not know the time has come.
I tell them that this false world will come to an end,
that I have the true world and āIā am the master of the true world;
the world of Truth, freedom, and the undying world.
I ask them all to go and live there,
but immature humans do not listen to my words.
I keep on telling them out of compassion
which I have had since long ago,
but nobody in the world listens to me.
They listen to me and see me with their minds of the past.
They do not understand me because they do not have
the new world and the life of the new world within them,
and because they have never been there.
Leave this world behind
where there is pain, burden, no freedom, and worries.
Let us go to the new world where life is better.
I am not a distinguished person nor am I so unfortunate;
the true world, which is ordinary but extraordinary and perfect,
fits my nature and is thus my world.
It is only natural that people do not know this.
Do not judge me by my uncomely appearance.
Though the true, living, eternal and everlasting God
cannot be seen, it is my nature, my wisdom itself.
In order to know this,
one must become Truth and go to the new kingdom.
Come with me, come with me to the kingdom of Truth;
leave behind all yearnings, compassion, hatred, sighs,
bitter feelings, and desires to accomplish.
That life is of continuous suffering because it indeed is that life.
Let us go in haste
to the living and perfect kingdom, the eternally living kingdom.
A person who has a mind that resembles me has the kingdom
where existence lives forever as existence.
A person whose mind is reborn as my mind has this kingdom.
As both the body and mind are the mind,
there is the soul and spirit within that mind, and
only a person who is reborn as that soul and spirit will live.
To those who cry for compassion,
to those who cry for love,
to those who cry for blessings,
to those who cry for life,
to those who cry because of bitter feelings,
because of their hatred of the world, because of religion,
because of worries, because they have or do not have,
because they do not have this and that,
because of their failure to achieve,
because of their failed dreams and desires,
because of not knowing the principles of nature,
to those who want to know,
to those who want to be enlightened, to be perfect,
and to go to eternal heaven while living;
all who are reborn as the new body and mind
will live in the new world and live as the new world.
Then they will know everything and achieve everything.
Foolish-looking I may be,
but what I am saying may actually be true.
ā Woo Myung
šæ Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners reflect on the difference between the dream world of falseness and the true world of eternal life. š
The invitation is not to improve the dream, but to awaken from it.
When one is reborn as the soul and spirit of Truth, one enters the living and perfect kingdom ā a world beyond burden, fear, and self-centeredness.
The true world is not somewhere else.
It begins when one becomes Truth.
