Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – Only When You Die Can You Know the World Beyond
When a person in Korea does not have the solution to a dilemma he will often be told, “You will know the world beyond (the afterworld) only after you die.” However no one in this world knows with certainty about the world beyond. In religion it is often said that those who do good deeds will go to heaven and those who do evil deeds will go to hell. Yet there is no clear answer to this question: Does the world beyond exist or not?
The sky of the Universe, the living original existence of Truth, existed before you were born in the world. This existence exists when you and everything in the world are alive and it still exists even when you and the world disappear. Compared to this existence, the dream that man is in lasts for a split second, and for his life, he lives in a dream having turned away from the origin. Dying is discarding one’s self who dreams as well as discarding the places and the content of the dream.
When one removes all of his life in the dream from the Universe, he can go back to the origin. If he is reborn from this origin as the Soul and Spirit of the origin, he can know the world beyond and all the ways of the world.
All material things come from the origin and go back to the origin. This is Truth. The world and the people born in the origin will live forever. He who does not die while he is living will end up dying forever because his true soul does not exist in the land of Truth. Until now, everyone ended up dying and no worlds existed after death. Hell is one’s false mind and it does not exist.
If you die while you are living, you will know whether or not the world beyond exists. Now is the age when the world beyond does exist. The world beyond, namely, the true world, exists for one who by killing his self, is born into it and his self who lives in the world beyond also exists.
-Woo Myug-
