What Are Blessings?

People want to have many blessings. 

Some lament that they do not have luck with acquaintances; others lament their unluckiness in finances. 

Some desire good fortune for their children. 

They ask endlessly for blessings; they want to be wealthy, they want good food and good clothes, they want to have children and hope to meet a good life partner, they want to be healthy, they want to study well and go to a good school and have a good job. 

Their desires are endless. 

They ask for blessings rough prayer, from fortune teller, or from other beings.

There is a Korean saying that everything turns out according to one's mind. 

This means that people live only according to what they have in their minds and that their behaviors are determined by what they have in their minds. 

For example, if they learned medical science in school, they will come out into society and make a living out of the knowledge they have. 

If they learned law in school, they will work in the field of law. 

They will work with computers if they learned about computers. 

Likewise, how we live now is the reflection of our minds. 

If we have diligence in our minds, we will live prosperously by working very hard, while if we have laziness in our minds, then we will live in poverty for we are lazy.

Let me assume that there are two people who do the same work. 

While one adapts to the minds of others, the other does not. 

A person who is able to adapt to others would be more successful in the job than one who is rigid and inflexible to the minds of others. 

If you do not have good scholastic abilities, you cannot go to a good school. 

Similarly, you cannot get money no matter how much you pray for it. 

Instead, you must work diligently to earn money. 

It is obvious that results will come about only when one works hard.

Taking action and the way we treat people - all come from the mind. 

Wisdom also comes from the mind. 

You will have results the moment you take action. 

Only when you have blessings will you live well and be happy.

Only when people have blessings in their minds, will they be blessed. 

But because people do not have blessings in their minds, they do not have it. 

People's minds are self-centered, so there cannot be any blessings in their minds. 

In such a mind, no matter how hard one tries, there will be no blessings. 

Such minds are full of false delusions. 

When a person cleanses his false, self-centered mind and there is no existence his self, and when he has the widest, biggest, highest, and Iowest mind, which is Truth, everything in the world will turn out well as he is blessed. 

When there are no conflicts, hindrances, discrimination, or judgment, when people accept everything, then blessings will follow. 

When they have a big enough mind to put everything in, this means that they are the Messing itself and that they have no self; then blessings will follow. 

Whatever they do would be a blessing itself because there is no self. 

Then everything will be accomplished.

The greatest blessing in the world is to have the blessing of heaven. 

The blessings of heaven are to become Truth and to live forever in the kingdom of Truth.

When you have the blessings of heaven you cannot help but live well because you manage your life wisely and act with wisdom. 

You will live with all the blessings of the world. 

This is the same for all people when they live in this world, for one who is pessimistic with a narrow mind cannot be successful while one who has a big accepting mind, the mind of Truth's blessings, is optimistic. 

When you are optimistic you can put your ideas into action and when there is action then results will follow. 

And thus you will have blessings. 

If you want to be blessed, you must cleanse your mind; you must get out of your passive, narrow conceptions and behaviors and change your mind into the biggest mind. 

When you do this, everything in the world will be a blessing. 

You can receive the blessings you wish for when there are true actions.

You will live just as much as you have in your mind, and live no more no less in that frame of mind. 

But your destiny can completely change when you are reborn; you can accomplish your will. 

To accomplish this, you must have a mind that is big enough to accept it. 

And your mind will be big enough once you have cleansed it.

Reference: The great teacher Woo Myung's book "The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living". p.209