Do Not Be Loyal To Your Body Which Will Rot Away

Do Not Be Loyal To Your Body, Which Will Rot Away

People want to be comfortable, eat well, live affluently, and live long lives without illness. They want to spare their bodies, and they do not want to do difficult work or do work that others do not want to do. They want their children to be successful and to take care of them when they become old, when they become ill, or when they are close to death. 

A few decades ago, it was difficult to live past sixty, but now our lifestyles have improved, and it is common to live past seventy or even eighty. So as people live a mere seventy or eighty years, they live their lives only for their false bodies. But no matter who you are, our bodies will eventually die, rot, and become soil.

The best way to live with wisdom is to be reborn with the body and mind of Truth now and live in the kingdom of Truth. In the Bible, it says that the foolish accumulate treasures on the earth and the wise accumulate treasures in heaven. To be reborn as the mind and body of Truth and to live in the kingdom of Truth is to accumulate treasures in the kingdom of Truth within oneself, and those treasures become his forever.

There is nothing more precious than this. Rather than seeking good clothes, good food, and comfort for the false body, the wise will become Truth and accumulate their treasures by working in the kingdom of Truth. Do not build your own kingdom for the false body that will die and rot away. Instead, even if we were to live only for a day, let us accumulate our blessings in our minds, the kingdom of Truth, by devoting our bodies.

People in the past spoke about life's futility. Those who recited words and poems of futility have all passed away. Likewise, we too will pass on after seventy or eighty years of life. However, even though our bodies are no more, those who can go to the forever-living land, those who have a place to return to, and those who are already there must have their true blessings in this true land in order to live eternally in that land with their own blessings.

Reference: Great Teacher Woo Myung's Book "The Way To Become A Person in Heaven While Living" p.80

What Is The New World? What Is The New Heaven And New Earth? Where Are They?

What Is The New World?

What Is The New Heaven And New Earth?
Where Are They?

When people hear the words, ' new world, new heaven," and a new earth, they think that sucks a world will be created someday. They also think that these places exist somewhere else. It seems people are waiting for a new world because their lives are painful and troubled, or because they want the present world to disappear. They have these fantasies because the existing world does not fit into the conceptions of their mind. In their conception, people have a mind only as big as their body due to greed. People do not know about the existence of the new world, the new heaven, and the new earth because they do not have the new world, the new heaven, and the new earth in their minds.

Only those of us whose minds become the body and mind of the universe before the universe, the Creator and our original master, can have the new heaven and new earth, which is the new world. Only when we have the widest, the largest, the lowest, and the highest mind, and only when the original Creator remains in our mind, do we have eternal life without life or death. Because the new heaven and new earth is in us, because Truth, the original place of pure energy and light is in us, the whole universe is the world of energy and light. It is God's kingdom. Only one who is reborn as this living existence will have within him the new world, the new heaven, and the new earth.

One whose mind becomes the world

And whose mind is as big as the world

Knows the laws of the universe

Knows the will of the universe

Because man has a mind that is

Limited to the size and shape of his body

He speaks only of himself

From his narrow mind of preconceptions

Not knowing that what he says is daft

Not knowing that what he says is dead and not true

The new world is a living world

When one is in it

Everything one speaks or does is Truth, is living

They are words of Truth and deeds of Truth

The great teacher "Woo Myung's Book "The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living"

Only People Who Go To Heaven While Living Can Live In Heaven

Only People Who Go To Heaven While Living Can Live In Heaven

People whose consciousness is living will live and those whose consciousness is dead will die.

In general, it is accepted that we go to heaven or hell after death, but if we do not become Truth now, we already live in hell.

When we watch a movie we become involved in it. We must follow the movie as it is written in the script. The way we live is the same as this in the sense that we live following the script written in our minds as we would if we were watching a movie. Just as the movie is not real, neither is the script in our minds. People live according to this false script of the mind not only while they live in this world but also after they die.

What is on film is not actually visible. However when it is projected, what is on the film becomes visible. Likewise, people's minds, invisible at first, can be seen when projected, for which the way one lives and one's shape are projections of one's individual mind. People's destinies are limited to the script of their minds. The life which they have been living

makes their shape now, and the way they are living now will determine their future.

People's minds are the same as their shape. People store in their shape the minds of what they see, hear, and feel throughout their life. People have anguish and desires because they are controlled by the countless different minds they have. Thoughts are the human mind which is in fact anguish and desires. In Buddhism, this is called the mind of 'desire, anger, and ignorance' and 'seven feelings and five desires'.

The root of this mind is the life one has lived. We must pull it out, and when that entire mind is discarded, it will disappear. The body and mind are not separate, but one. Even the shapes of the cells in our bodies are the same as our minds. This is because everything that is in our minds is embedded in every single cell of our bodies. This is why even after cleansing the mind we must cleanse our habits that are stored in our cells. One's mind is the life he has lived, which is karma, and the body is where the mind dwells. One's mind is his body itself. The body is one's habits.

Karma and habits are the conceptions and behaviors of the mind and when one discards them, he will see the place of Truth. One's conceptions are the way he sees things. One's behaviors and habits are the embedded desires of what he sees. People only know that which they have come to experience through their lives. If one is asked to speak the language of Uzbekistan, for which he is uneducated in, he will not be able to speak it, nor can anyone speak Malay if they have not learned it. People store their experiences in their minds. Such minds make judgments and people live as slaves to those judgments. They live only for their narrow self-centered minds which consists of what they have seen and felt. When this world is destroyed, when this false world of hell is destroyed, only the world of the Creator exists. This is heaven, the place of Truth.

Generally speaking, people say heaven exists; some best-selling authors go so far as to say they have been to heaven. However, there is such a thing as the heaven of the false mind, the heaven of hell; this is a delusion. Even though one says that he can see heaven through the opening of one's spiritual eyes, it does not necessarily mean that he himself can go to heaven. Such a heaven is not real but is a self-centered delusion.

Real heaven is the land of complete Truth. It can only be seen by those who become complete Truth. True righteousness is to know with wisdom rather than simply seeing heaven. Knowing with wisdom only comes by being reborn as the body and mind of the universe, the Creator of the infinite universe.

One must be free of his individual conceptions and habits, and become the originally-existing Truth in order to go to heaven and the world of Truth. In this world there is no individual and there is no whole. Each individual is the whole and the whole is the individual. This is the world where only Truth, which is one, exists.

When a person has his body he lives by the energy from food, and lives in his delusional mind. When he stops eating and his body dies, he who has a delusional mind will completely die. That delusional mind is false. One's past memories are his mind, and thus, he dies for that mind is false and not true. He will live in the false world, which is not true.

The false world is the mind that each individual has and it is embedded even in one's cells. Therefore one's body is not Truth, and he will live forever in the false world which is non-existent like a dream. He will live continuously being reincarnated in the false world forever; he lives in a dream which he can never wake from. This is hell.

In other words, since one is reborn as the soul and spirit of the universe, Truth, he no longer has death and lives forever. Thus, heaven is a place where he who no longer has his individual mind - he who is complete - lives. Heaven is not a place one goes to after death but the place where people are reborn and become Truth while living. Heaven is not a place where somebody, be that a savior, can take a person to after death. Only people, who are reborn from their narrow, limited, individual minds to the infinite, widest, biggest mind of the Creator, can live in heaven. Only Truth can live in heaven. Falseness cannot live in heaven. Those who become true while they are still alive can go to heaven. Those who have heaven while they are still alive can go there.

Reference: The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living

The Most Important Thing In The World Is To Come Out Of One's Tomb And Live In The Land Of Light

The Most Important Thing In The World Is 

To Come Out Of One's Tomb 

And Live In The Land Of Light

Do you know why you live?

Or what it is to live a true life?

Do you know why you were born?

Or what the true purpose of human creation is?

Do you know what you live for?

Or what the true purpose of life is?

Without an answer, without a purpose in life

People live only for their bodies, for good food and good clothes

All they know is a life in which the body is everything

Where they live only for themselves

Not knowing that they are trapped in the tomb they have dug

They do not know about the world outside of the tomb

The land of light

Land of freedom

Land of Truth

The living land

They do not know the land outside where there is no death

They cannot see, hear, or have that land

This itself - the inability to see, hear, or have that land - is death

How can a dead person know whether he is alive or dead?

Only a living person knows what is dead

And only a living person knows what is alive

The most urgent thing in the world is

To come out of one's tomb

Instead of being trapped living in it

This world is a tomb

People who are trapped in this tomb

Do not know they are in it

This world is the world of hell

But people do not know they are in hell

Likewise, how can people know the world of Truth

When they do not know Truth?

People only have what they have experienced 

Thinking that that is knowledge 

They only know as much as they have learned 

People do not know the true land of Truth 

Because they do not have it in their minds 

In the hell world

They are busy doing useless, unnecessary things;

They think that is all there is

Though they may busily scurry about

There is no place to go

What is the use of gaining something

Within the delusional, false world?

What is it that you have actually gained?

In their delusional false worlds

People hold on to what is actually fake 

Thinking that it is theirs, thinking they have it

Thus their lives are without purpose or meaning

What is the purpose of man who were born

With only one life as a human being

If this world is the end?

What is the purpose of humans?

The most urgent thing is

To come out of one's tomb, the false world

And to live forever without anxiety or worry

In the land of eternal Truth

The land of bright light

The living land

Why is it that you are unable to go

To the place you must truly go to

Even though you have no place to go

Even though you have nothing to be busy about?

One should live while living

One should go to the living kingdom while living

The ultimate purpose of human life is to live

He who does the work of the living kingdom

Is an enlightened person

Who knows all

Who has accomplished all

One must accumulate his own blessings in that world

He will live forever with those blessings

Because they are his

Such a person is the most extraordinary

And the wisest in the world

But the dead continue to build their tombs in the dead land

Reference: Great Teacher Woo Myung's book "The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living" p.231