Master Woo Myung Writing – A Sense of Inferiority
Human desires differ from person to person but every desire is manifested from feelings of inferiority: of feeling not good enough or having less than other people. A person who lacks love seeks love and a person who lacks money chases money. The powerless seek power and he who has had his pride trampled on seeks to regain his pride. What one felt he lacked during his developmental years becomes his sense of inferiority. For example, if a woman suffers abuse from her mother-in-law, she will in turn be harsh to her daughter-in-law because she has that mind. One pursues what he desires and these arise from the innumerable minds that he has; they are all expressions of his mind.
There is a saying that things happen according to the mind one has. This means that one lives exactly according to the mind that he has taken in – no more and no less. What one eats is excreted through urine and feces but man has never excreted any of the countless minds he has consumed from birth and he lives with the burdens, suffering, worries and anxieties that they bring.
Those minds are all pictures taken of what belongs to the world, and he is dead in the world of that mind, which itself is a picture. He strives to achieve within that picture world but his actions and deeds are all false because he lives according to the script of that mind.
The world beyond the world, that is, the world beyond the human mind that has been eliminated, is the true land; a real world that is not a picture. When this real world is inside one’s mind, his feelings of inferiority will disappear and he will have only the highest mind of Truth. He who is born in this place is God; he is one who has shed all human minds and he is one who is free. It is because of the pictures in one’s mind that there are conflicts and obstacles while living in the world. When this fixed framework of mind is gone, those conflicts and obstacles also disappear and he will be able to live better than he did before.
Acceptance is the absence of judgment and discrimination; when one sees things just as they are, when he just lives. If one has a framework of pictures in his mind, then many things catch in his mind and bother him, which cause him to blame others and the world. No one in the world blames himself instead of other people. But because your mind exists, everything is your fault. When the people of the world can blame themselves, everyone will have an accepting mind; they will be able to live without conflict and everyone will live well. When man eliminates the false world that he has eaten, he will live a life of nature’s flow and he will be able to live well because he will no longer have feelings of inferiority.
When people act with minds that originate from feelings of inferiority, they will act as the worst evil. These actions will only bring more evil as their result; evil begets evil. However the evil will end up dying within evil. Within evil, the evil will live with pain and heavy burdens.
-Woo Myung-
