What is eternal and unchanging? What truly is Truth?
In this powerful message, Master Woo Myung offers a universal definition of Truth that transcends religious labels and human conceptions. Truth is not simply a principle or belief—it is the Spirit and Soul of the universe, the eternal and unchanging existence within the emptiness of the cosmos.
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📝 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
What Is Truth?
We learned at school that Truth is an eternal and unchanging existence. I tell people that Truth is not only eternal and unchanging, but it is also a living existence. We learned as truth the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. However, it is not Truth because both the sun and the earth will eventually disappear. Only the existence that has neither beginning nor end and only the existence that never changes is Truth. People cannot see this existence and cannot find this existence, even if they try for eternity, because people live inside their own mind worlds—they cannot see nor find what belongs to the real world.
In Christianity, the existence of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Father that is God is Truth. In Buddhism, they call the existence of Truth Buddha—Dharmakaya and Sambhogakaya. In Islam, they call this existence of Truth Allah. In the ideology of a Korean folk religion, they call it Haneolnim that is Jung (Spirit) and Shin (Soul). The leaders of those religions say that no one has ever seen this existence.
God, Buddha, Allah, which are Truth, are the emptiness of this universe itself. The Spirit and Soul exist in this emptiness. The emptiness of this universe is the existence of the Spirit, and the Soul exists as the one God in that emptiness. This existence is omnipresent in the universe and is the existence that is always alive. This existence created all creations in this world. Buddhism says that things came forth from the earth, water, fire, and wind. And according to a Korean folk religion, Haneolnim and everything emerged through the harmony of the sky and the earth. These sayings all mean the same thing, although they are expressed differently. All the creations in this world come from the emptiness of the universe and return there. People can see and know this existence when they have it within their minds.
But because people live inside their mind worlds, which overlap the world, people can neither see nor know this existence because the world is not within their minds. If one’s karma, habits, and body did not exist, there would be nothing in this world. Without people, there would not be any other creations in this world either, and there would be nothing. One can see the Spirit and Soul of the universe, which are the existence of Truth, when one’s self does not exist and when only the universe emptiness remains. You can only see and know this entity when it exists within you. Then when your mind becomes the Spirit and Soul of the universe, the masters of the world will create you anew from there. Following this, the new Heaven, the new earth, and this world are born again as the never-dying Truth inside your mind that has become Truth.
When this world is born from the mind of a person who has been reborn, it is Truth. As the human mind world is false, a person can neither see nor know this existence, Truth. When you discard this falseness, the mind becomes real, and when you are reborn from that mind, you can know that the entire true world exists within you.
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