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
