Blessings

People complain that they have no blessings. 

They say that they are not blessed in terms of their parents, spouse, children, or finances; and they complain about their lives. 

Countless people live with countless different matters of life. 

A blessing means to find the place which speaks of oneness. 

In other words, it means to see the place that speaks of Truth, which is oneness.

People speak and act to the extent of what they have in their minds. 

Therefore only when they have blessings in their minds are they blessed. 

Those who do not have blessings in their minds envy other people's fortune. 

People will live and have as many blessings in the world as they have within their minds. 

A person who does not have those blessings in his mind will live without it.

What currently determines one's actions and spoken words is his mind within. 

Therefore people who do not have blessings in the mind are not blessed because they cannot accept blessings and only reject them. 

You cannot earn money just by thinking and talking about earning money. 

But rather you will earn just as much as your mind is prepared to accept and act. 

What determines one's actions is his mind, and thus people live accordingly, no more, no less. 

As I meet more and more people, I find that many people have closed minds, and therefore they do not have blessings.

Those who have an open mind can accept and contain everything. 

Therefore, they can contain blessings. 

No matter what they do, people with big minds will be successful without conflicts and hindrances as they work and behave without their frames of mind, which are their selves. 

People who try to fit the world into their own selfish minds will find the world disagreeable. 

When their minds become as big as the world, they can understand the world and fit into it. 

People who do not have Truth in their minds cannot accomplish anything because their minds change all the time; and even though their minds are busy they achieve nothing. 

But the minds of those who have a foundation of Truth are not busy; their actions match their words, for which they can gain as much as they have done; thus they live righteous and successful lives.

We can commonly see people praying for blessings, but there is no room in their minds for blessings. 

In other words, they have narrow minds and their minds are not big enough and are not a true existence. 

Blessings will reside only in those who have a big mind, who have a clean mind. 

Moreover, blessings come from one's actions, and those actions come from their minds. 

Therefore, when people truly cleanse their minds and are reborn as Truth, they will have their worldly blessings as well. 

The biggest blessing in the world for man is to become complete and live eternally. 

A person with true blessings will not expect blessings for him but accumulates true blessings for others.

Blessings do not come when you ask or beg for it, but blessings are something we build like we build a house. 

When you accumulate your blessings in the kingdom of your true mind, you will live forever with those blessings in the everlasting true land. 

One who does not have blessings in his mind expects blessings, while one who has blessings in the mind accumulates blessings. 

Blessings do not come to one who expects blessings for he expects them through his false mind. 

But one who accumulates his blessings will build his blessings and everything he does will be a blessing.

Reference: Great Teacher Woo Myung's book "The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living" p.331