Master Woo Myung Teaching – We Are Not Living in the Right Way
The reason the lives we humans live are false is the empty Universe – the original Truth and the original foundation – is our origin. That is to say, even if you had not been born, the emptiness that existed before all creation exists just as it is. You came into the human world with what you call your “self”, and lived as that false self having made your own world inside your mind. From the perspective of the original foundation, your life is less than a second when compared to the eternal land of the original foundation; it is nothing more than eighty or so odd years.
Everyone lives according to his own will inside an illusionary world that he has made, turning his back on the original foundation, his true self. He does not know that the world he is living in is a dream, wherein he has his spouse and children, money, fame, family and love. Believing that the dream is his, he lives only for his own sake, amassing fortune in his world. How foolish this is! Furthermore, he leaves his fortune to his children; in effect, adding burden to their illusionary world. He is truly very foolish. He does not understand that possessing something – making something his – is suffering and burden. Therefore, he constantly tries to gain everything he can and fulfill his purpose. Within that burden and suffering, he dies eternally; which is why his illusionary world is meaningless.
What one truly needs to do and achieve is to completely destroy his false self, become true and live forever. How can a person be called righteous if he does not amass blessings in the land of Truth? One who lives for the sake of righteousness discards his self, and transfers his family, money, love and fame to the land of righteousness. Such a person is truly righteous; he is an eternal and never-dying immortal.
Man is certain that he is living in the world, but he is a false and incomplete being who lives inside his own mind that is an illusion. In other words, he is a ghost: a dream-like, non-existent being. He does not know the will of the true world and he only has selfish minds, so he lives by his own will inside his own world that he has made wherein he sees, hears, and learns. Believing that only he is right and everybody else is wrong, he lives only for his own sake with discontent and hunger endlessly trying to fill that void with his desires. However, this only results in suffering.
A ghost is an entity that dies and disappears, and as such, the only thing it is able to teach its children or other people is how to have its own particular brand of greed. We must teach our children of death before we teach them of life; we must teach them of not having before we teach them to possess; of non-existence before existence; and of Truth before falseness. We must teach our families as well as the people in this world to live for righteousness and to live in righteousness together. Living in such a way is a true and righteous life.
Do not become a pitiful person – the sort who thinks only of leaving money to your children and family, thus allowing them to die within their minds. It is only when you commit yourself to a true, righteous life while you are alive that the blessings from your life’s actions will remain in the true world. A person who does not amass blessings in heaven while living cannot ultimately be born in the kingdom of heaven. This is because God within him is dead and he is more attached to his self that is a ghost.
-Woo Myung-
