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Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What kind of a person does the word sage or dō-in refer to?

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What kind of a person does the word sage or dō-in refer to?

People try to become sages by gaining enlightenment about something, but a complete sage is a person without any greed. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to become a sage if one is not walking down the right path or dō. It is easy to misunderstand that a person who speaks of extraordinary things is a sage, when actually he is a person who is possessed.

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Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – How can one reach nirvana or spiritual death?

Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – How can one reach nirvana or spiritual death?

Nirvana or spiritual death is to eliminate absolutely everything. In other words, it is to eliminate one’s self completely. The way to teach people nirvana is the following: First, get them to repent their sins and karma, and their whole lives in order to eliminate their selves. Second, let them know when they are not repenting. Third, get them to eliminate everything and enter into nirvana. Fourth, make them disappear completely so that they may go to the land of God.

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Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – What is nirvana (spiritual death)?

Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – What is nirvana (spiritual death)?

Death refers to the end of a person’s physical lifespan. However, if greed remains in his mind at the time of his death, this does not disappear, so in terms of dō, nirvana or spiritual death is getting rid of man’s mind (soul) and his self entirely.

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Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – How can people become enlightened?

Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – How can people become enlightened?

Enlightenment is meeting the origin of the mind. However, it is no easy feat to get someone to understand that origin. In order to teach people where the origin of the mind is, one must bear in mind the following four key points:

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Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – How can one find the true self?

Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – How can one find the true self?

No one can see their true selves, because it is hidden by their forms and their lives. This is a similar state to a dirty mirror that should reflect back one’s image, but does not. In order to find one’s true self, one must clean that dirty mirror. Namely, one must cleanse one’s self. Cleansing one’s self is to eliminate it completely, which is the way to truly find one’s self.

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Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – What is the real self ?

Master Woo Myung Book – The Book of Wisdom – What is the real self?

People understand that the existence with the original mind is the true self. The original mind is indeed the true self, but no one knows what this original mind is. The original mind is the mind that exists originally, and is the pure mind that does not change according to shapes. That pure mind cannot be said to exist or not; but it does not exist from the viewpoint of humans, whereas it exists from the viewpoint of Truth.

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Master Woo Myung Wisdom’s Answer – What is dō (the path, the way, or Truth) and why must we do dō?

Master Woo Myung Wisdom’s Answer – What is dō (the path, the way, or Truth) and why must we do dō ?

The word dō refers to a path; a path that must be travelled. People do not know what dō is, in fact it is something that everyone does as they live their lives. Dō is the very life that one is living but people mistakenly believe that it exists somewhere else.

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Master Woo Myung The Book of Wisdom – If mind exists within pieces of stone and dirt, what are the boundaries or distinctions between those with and without mind, and how do we differentiate between them?

Master Woo Myung The Book of Wisdom – If mind exists within pieces of stone and dirt, what are the boundaries or distinctions between those with and without mind, and how do we differentiate between them?

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