Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – Do Heaven and Hell Truly Exist?

Many people are curious about heaven and hell – about where they are and whether or not they truly exist.

What happens when man dies? Everyone has thought about it at least once, but there are no clear answers. People have vague ideas that they will go to heaven if they have faith in their religion, if they get rid of their karma and sins, or if they do good deeds.

Man lives in hell – a non-existent picture world – from the moment he is born. Through his eyes, nose, ears, mouth and body he copies into his mind world everything in the world – all that he has seen, heard, smelled, spoken and sensed with his body as well as everything he has experienced. He puts the world and all that belongs to the world in his mind, and he believes that he is living in the real world because his mind world overlaps the real world. In the same way a video is produced, the human mind duplicates the world and everything that belongs to the world into his mind and lives within it. This is the reason man is a sinner; why he lives with karma.

When one dies after living in this world of false images, he goes to this picture world. This is hell. It is said in Buddhism that when a person dies, he will follow his karma and karmic ties. This means that he goes to the illusionary world that he himself has made; he ends up dying because this world is false and not true. This is what hell is.

The dreams that we dream at night do not exist, but yet they do. Likewise, hell also does not exist from the standpoint of the real world but it exists in the way dreams do. One must eliminate this hell – his mind world and his self – for then, it is heaven.

The world God created is already complete and it is already
enlightened. What this means is the world is completion itself and is thus, everlastingly alive. But man is trapped within his own mind of karma and sin and he is not born in the world. Therefore, the way for man to go to heaven is to get rid of his sins and karma while he is living and be reborn in the world of heaven where there is no death. Hell is one’s mind world, the illusionary picture world, and it is a world that does not exist in the real world. Heaven is this world, which is Truth.

-Woo Myung-

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