Wisdom

The Mind is one.

The Mind is everything.

Everything exists in the Mind, and everything is the Mind.

The mind that has always been absent of attachments

is the one Mind.

When that Mind stirs 

countless different minds arise therein.

Such are manifestations of the Mind.

And it is from within man's mind 

that those manifestations arise and disappear; 

man's thoughts are what become his numerous minds 

with which he creates numerous things.

But when seen from the perspective of 

the non-existent Mind 

nothing in the world exists.

Man is lost and knows not where he goes, 

for he is bound to the life he lives.

Man's mind is one,

but the reason he does not know this is because 

his eyes have their limits 

and because he has his self.

If he were without his self, there would be nothing; 

if his self were to exist, everything would exist.

Man does not know the reason for why 

having one's self is unrighteous.

What he knows is nothing more than his attachments.

Thus he does not understand the logic of Truth 

nor its will.

No one can teach you how to understand 

the will of Truth, 

not even a saint.

They cannot teach you how to become a saint, 

for they have no wisdom.

To have wisdom means to have no attachments, 

and in order to have no attachments

you must eliminate the memory of your thoughts, 

which are the entirety of the mind you have.

Man lives believing that he is his self, 

but this idea that he has of himself 

is nothing more than the memory he has of living; 

he has created a thought-mass of himself 

and with it, he lives his life.

It has become his self -

his karma and his habits -

whereby the life he lives has become his self. 

The life one lives is his karma, 

and this karma is what continues to shape his life.

What is life?

It is the outcome of the mind one has.

In other words

it is the whole of what one remembers.

All the things that are in his memory are 

the attachments of his life, 

which in turn are his karma and habits 

as well as his human mind.

This human mind is made up of 

all the things he remembers and the life he has lived. 

If you were to live without thoughts -

if you were to live completely absent of them - 

you would live without any hindrances, 

nor would you get caught up in anything.

Listen and etch it deeply in your hearts when I say 

that your human mind is none other than 

the things you have come to store in your memory.

Reference: The Great Teacher "Woo Myung's book "Nature's Flow" p. 196

Heaven (Heaven is in the mind)

Heaven

Heaven is 

in the Universe.

Heaven is 

in the mind.

Man's mind and the Universe 

do not exist separately.

But man does not know that 

the mind is the Universe, 

and thus does not know where Heaven is.

Heaven is within the mind, 

for which a mind absent of all sense of individuality 

and absent of attachments 

is Heaven.

So long as his self ceases to exist, 

anyone may live in Heaven.

Reference: The great teacher Woo Myung's book "Nature's Flow" p. 229

February 2025 News Letter

My Will

Deep in the night, 

a nameless bird sings sadly from a tree.

Long ago, when I was studying 

in a mountain temple, steeped in solitude, 

the hoots of an owl and the gurgle of a flowing stream 

would sound throughout the night. 

Those lonely times of solitude have changed to longing.

There was a time when countless thoughts boiled over in my head; 

a time when I was chased by my circumstances 

but did not achieve anything.

Now with hindsight, I see it is fortunate 

I did not fulfill any of my big ideals. 

I was not a great person, 

and I lived ridiculing myself; 

disliking, ignoring and cursing myself; 

telling myself that I was the one who was wrong. 

Perhaps this is why I did not have much to repent. 

I was not great in any way 

so I was humble and I worked hard.

As a result, I lived well 

compared to the days of scarcity in my childhood.

Of the years that silently passed, during the time 

when I first started teaching Truth in Mount Gaya, 

I again heard the cries of that owl every night; 

the owl that had struck a chord in my lonely heart.

Everyone who sought me out each came to me 

with fifty thousand thoughts.

As they shed these fifty thousand agonies, 

they showed the forms of their minds 

in fifty thousand different ways.

Only then did I realize man is uglier, dirtier, 

and infinitely more vile than I was.

When I had scolded myself, 

telling myself that I was dirty, ugly, 

and the worst person in the world, 

it had been an unknowing repentance.

With the title of do-in, I awaken people.

I cannot describe the joy I felt 

when after many nights meditating together till dawn, 

those countless people, who had laughed and cried 

within their fifty thousand agonies, enlightened to the Truth. 

I had also felt happy when I escaped from the grave 

and came out into the world, 

but I had more joy in their enlightenment than I had in my own,

which was boundless each time a person's consciousness

changed from falseness to Truth.

It was the first time in the world

people were truly becoming enlightened,

and is the founder,

the fact that people were actually achieving Truth 

was tremendously moving.

People's fifty thousand agonies decreased 

as they moved up through the levels, 

but there were those who tried to achieve Truth 

inside the framework of their selves, 

which is something man grimly holds onto until the end.

Those whose false selves tried to enlighten to the Truth, 

were unable to ignore their false selves or progress further 

and ultimately did not achieve Truth.

However, those who were like bears and did not give up,

those who were constant and had thankful hearts 

are still meditating and are close to completion.

Time flew by silently,

and since then twelve, or thirteen years have passed.

I started teaching Truth in my mid-forties, 

but now my hair has turned grey 

and my youth and energy have vanished.

I am entering into old age;

I am becoming a wrinkled grandpa, 

with grey hair and ground-down teeth.

My body does not move as I will it to, as it did in my youth.

The world is wide,

but I am living a human life with only seventy to eighty years, 

and there is so much left to do in the world.

So regardless of whether it is day or night, 

all my time is dedicated to teaching people Truth.

My mind is busy, so busy, with the constant thought 

that people all over the world must be awakened; 

and I am waiting and waiting, 

for the day when all people have become complete, 

and all people are able to live.

It is my hope that before I die, 

Truth will be spread all over the world 

and everyone will be resurrected as Truth.

I pity people who live and die without meaning or purpose; 

it is heartbreaking.

It is my will to work hard 

so that even one more person may live.

Reference: The great teacher Woo Myung's book "Stop Living in this World Go to the everlasting world of happiness live there forever"

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"

Parting

Parting

People dislike partings.

Some partings are absent of reluctance or regrets.

There are partings in which 

one has had to say farewell to a person he should not, 

only to live pent up with heartache.

To part with one who has helped you and loved you is indeed heartbreaking.

But out of all others, man has a mind in which partings are sad and full of grief.

The most important thing in the world for people is to eat and live, 

and so they scatter here and there in pursuit of this, 

only to be left with heartbreak 

and thus becoming a heartache to one another.

They are never able to forget their love; 

they bury it in their hearts 

and live their lives in utmost longing.

Though the world is not perfect,

there were loving people here and there.

It is on the warmth of love that man lives;

thus it is heartbreaking that

the world has become a place

where people do not know each other,

only their own selves.

Great Teacher Woo Myung's book "Nature's Flow"

Everything Is Made By The Mind

Everything Is Made By The Mind

When there is no sun

The world is dark

When there is sun

The world is bright

If there is day

There is night

If there is the sun

There is the moon 

And the Earth

Because there is this and there is that on Earth

Every creation is born

All is alive

The entire world is alive

Every creation is alive

Therefore the world is perfect

When everything does not exist

Everything exists

And the Creator is 

Within humans

Who can save or kill Truth?

One's own mind determines life or death

People with Truth in their mind

Will live

People who have false in their mind

Will die

The great teacher Woo Myung's book 

"The Way to Become a Person in Heaven While Living"