Master Woo Myung Teaching – God, Buddha and Heaven Are Within Man’s Mind
If you ask what Buddha is, Buddhism tells us that you are Buddha and that your mind is Buddha. Although this is correct, only a person who has the mind of Buddha is Buddha. Buddha, God, and heaven, do not exist in the human mind.
The human mind is the mind of one’s own world, made by copying the real world. When one lives in such a world which has turned against the real world, that world is false, non-existent and illusionary. Although man may think that he is alive, he is dead because he lives in this illusionary world – a world that is not alive.
In other words, the world is real but the mind world of pictures taken of the world is false. Man is an entity that lives inside a “videotape” that he has made. This is why man is incomplete, and in order to become complete, he takes up a religion, cleanses his mind and seeks Truth. Even now, many people all over the world are striving to achieve human completion.
Man does not exist in the real world because he lives inside this picture world; he does not have life and is therefore dead. God, Buddha and heaven do not exist inside such a mind – the human mind. When this mind is discarded and one returns to the mind of the true world, the mind of the origin, what is real and true – Buddha, God, heaven – will be within him, within his mind. Only he who has God and Buddha within him can know God and Buddha; only he who has heaven within can know heaven.
This existence that is Truth, the origin, is the master of the world that created the world. When this true existence becomes one’s mind, God, Buddha and heaven will be within him.
He who has become this mind has the mind of the world; he has the whole world within him. Therefore heaven is right where he is, and God that is Buddha is within him; the world becomes his mind. On the other hand, he who has the false picture world inside his mind is in a world of hell. Not only is he living in hell now, it is where he stays even after death because this world is the only one that exists within him. Simply put, a person in the picture world goes to hell while a person who has the mind of the original foundation, of Truth, will live forever in the land of Truth.
-Woo Myung-
