Category: Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers

Women, or the female, represent greatness.

Master Woo Myung – Questions and Answers – Dragons and phoenixes are thought to be imaginary. Do they actually exist?

The Bible teaches us that those who die for God do not die. What this means is that a person who discards his false self for the sake of Truth will become Truth and live as Truth.

Angels work in heaven and pass on messages from God to the Earth.

A god is an existence that dwells in heaven. Heaven is a place that is different from the human world.

The eyes of heaven refers to the eyes of the origin which is the body of one mind.

It is the state in which
you have reached your original self.

Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – What does, “asking the way while standing on the path” mean?

This means that even though one’s life itself is Truth, man looks for Truth in the wrong places. Namely, it means that one searches for dō ignorant of the fact that when he becomes enlightened, the land of God and Buddha is the place where he is. Both sides of the hand are dō, and such is Truth.

Master Woo Myung Truth’s Answer – The Way, Truth, God, Buddha, and Allah

The Way, Truth, God, Buddha, Allah, ‘Haneol-nim’, and so forth all refer to the Universe before and beyond the universe. The emptiness of the Universe is Truth; it is eternal and everlasting, and all of these different names describe this state of being.

Master Woo Myung Words of Truth – Wisdom

People think someone who studies a lot, is successful, or solves problems well is wise. But, this does not mean one has wisdom. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.

Master Woo Myung Wisdom’s Answer – What Is True ? What Is False ?

One who has become Truth is true.
One who has not become Truth is false.
The age of spiritual creation is the age when only Truth lives.

Master Woo Myung Words of Wisdom – Truth Remains Once All Falseness Have Been Destroyed

There is a Korean saying that goes, “Huh, huh, cham, I’m at a loss for words!”
Huh, huh, cham (an interjection or exclamatory remark that literally means “false, false, Truth”) means once all falseness have been eliminated, Truth will emerge. While living in this world, the world of illusion, we have only learned how to add to our minds.

Master Woo Myung Words of Advice – What Is Wisdom?

In the false human world, crafty people are often said to have wisdom. However, such tricks and stratagems are not wisdom but merely ways of life in the human world. Man’s words and actions all take place within the picture world, the mind world that he has made, so all of his words and actions are not real but false. No matter how like a saint a person may speak or behave, his words and actions are false and fake because they were spoken and done by a picture.

Master Woo Myung Wisdom’s Answer – What does “the words of the Universe” mean?

The universe is without end. The universe only speaks true words, so they are Truth. Because Truth is genuine, the words will come true. The universe tells Truth to humans, and the words of the universe come true for they are genuine. This is Truth. Truth has no exceptions, and it is as it is. Therefore, when one speaks the words of the universe, everything in the world will be accomplished; so the words of the universe are the greatest.

Master Woo Myung The Book of Wisdom – What is the meaning of the phrase, “Only I am great in all of heaven and earth”?

The phrase, “Only I am great in all of heaven and earth”, is speaking of the state when one does not dwell as a man even as he lives as a man, and when he does not dwell on earth even while he lives on earth; it is speaking of when one exists in the place of Truth, the Universe, where neither man nor earth exists.

Master Woo Myung Truth’s Answer – What is the meaning of the Buddhist phrase, “Everything comes from the mind.”?

Everything produced by the human mind is false because it is not Truth. The mind in the phrase “Everything comes from the mind”, refers to the mind of the Universe. This mind is our Mother which created all things and brought forth all creations. Commonly people confuse the mind in this phrase as being their own minds, but it is speaking of the mind of the original self.

Master Woo Myung World Beyond World – Gaining Insight into One’s True Nature and Becoming It

Gaining insight into one’s true nature and actually becoming it are not the same. To have such insight means that one sees Truth, while becoming it means to become Truth, itself. Seeing it and becoming it are as different as the sky and the earth. One can only attain eternal Heaven when one becomes Truth itself.

Master Woo Myung World Beyond World – How to Hear God’s Voice Through Prayer

A prayer is something a person offers so that he may become one with God, and through it, he can indeed become one with Him.

Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – Kyuk-Am-Yu-Rok, a Korean Prophecy, Tells Us that at the End of the World Only One Person in Every Hundred Leagues Will Live and the Bible Tells Us that Only Those Who Believe in God Will Live

People live from the energy that comes from the food they eat. When this energy disappears, they die.

It is possible for man to live forever without food, when he becomes Truth itself – when he becomes the very Energy and Light of Truth. If man changes his body and mind to the Energy and Light of Truth that never dies, he is Truth’s Energy and Light. In other words, he is the Universe’s Soul and Spirit, and therefore he will live forever even after his body disappears.

Master Woo Myung Words of Awaken – What does the phrase, “A mountain is a mountain, water is...

Master Woo Myung Words of Enlightenment – What does the koan, “What is this?” mean?

This koan asks about the origin of the subject, whatever it happens to be – object, vegetable or animal. Man is originally complete as a man, and all creations (things that are in existence) are all complete in their individuality, but they all came from me. This me is the energy of the origin – the original body of the Universe.

To believe in God means to believe in Truth. To believe in Truth means to believe in righteousness – in trueness. Moreover, to believe in trueness means to become true. To become true means to become complete. To believe in Jesus means to become Jesus. He who has become Jesus has faith in him and answer with his mouth. This means that he who answers ‘Indeed, Truth is inside me!’ with his mouth shall enter into Heaven.

Master Woo Myung Message 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.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What is the state of ‘no concepts and no ideas’?

The state of ‘no concepts and no ideas’ is to be without any thoughts whatsoever; when one is alive but has no self within his thoughts; when one is not bound to any ideas at all. Such is the complete state of ‘no concepts and no ideas’.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What does the following poem mean?

The green mountain tells me to live silently,
and the blue sky asks me to live simply;
to let go of greed, and anger,
and to live, and leave the world,
as the water and wind do.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – In the Lotus Sutras, it is said that man’s six senses – his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind – will become clean if he diligently strives towards Truth. What does this mean?

To strive towards Truth is to walk a path towards one’s original self. It is said that man’s senses become clean when he does so because the more he goes towards Truth, the more he is able to shed human conceptions and fixed frames of mind.

Teacher Woo Myung Question and Answer – What Is Samsara (The Eternal Cycle of Birth, Death and Rebirth)?

Many people have questions about samsara. The world was created by the Creator and because the Creator is Truth and complete, the world is also complete. However, man is not complete so he seeks to become so through religion or other practices.

Teacher Woo Myung Question and Answer – Why is man called a ‘small Universe’ and is it right to call him this?

Man is called a small Universe because it is possible for man to have the Universe within him, as well as become the Universe.

Teacher Woo Myung Question and Answer – What does “returning to the origin of the Universe” mean?

Whether it be man, animals, plants, the celestial bodies in the sky, or Earth itself, everything returns to nonexistence – the origin of the Universe. Non-existence is without form and immaterial, and it exists amidst nothingness as the original body that is the origin of the Universe.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – Where does human come from?

We did not come from anywhere, and there is nowhere for us to return to. We came from the mind, and we return back to the mind. The mind is the energy of the origin which exists in both the states of vacuum and air in the Universe.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What Is Heaven and What Is Hell?

In the Bible it says that God and heaven are within you. In the Buddhist sutras it says that your mind is Buddha and that paradise is inside your mind. These sayings seem to have different meanings but they actually mean the same thing. According to Buddhist beliefs Shakyamuni, Buddha, resides in paradise.

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?

Man and all creations in the world have an origin, and that origin is the same for all things. To be the same is to be one; it is not something that is here, there, or somewhere else. It is from this origin that we were born and it is where we will return. It is the place from whence all creations came, and where they will go back to.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What is the providence of nature?

Nature, or great nature, is the Universe. The providence of the Universe is nature’s flow. Nature’s flow is free of obstacles and hindrances; it is fair; it exists and yet it does not. Things happening of and by themselves through nature’s flow is the providence of great nature.

Master Woo Myung Question & Answer Kyuk-Am-Yu-Rok a book of prophecy, describes the Savior as being the “king of the clouds in the sky”, and “the true master of paradise”. What does this description mean?

When it is said that the Savior is the “king of the clouds in the sky”, it means he is the true master of the sky – heaven – itself. This is because the clouds themselves are the sky; the purple mist and the sunset are also the sky. Not only is the Savior who is to come the master of the sky, he is also the master of earth and man. He must have the power to unite heaven, earth, and man, and give them everlasting life.

Master Woo Myung Question & Answer – How did Nam Sa-go the author of Kyuk-Am-Yu-Rok, come to write this book?

Nam Sa-go is the author of book of prophecy, Kyuk-Am-Yu-Rok. He was a person who had the ears of heaven; he could hear messages from heaven. The book is the answers to questions about the future which he wrote down. After writing the book, he claimed that he received it from a god because he feared what might happen to him if he admitted that he wrote it himself.

The essence of the book, Chun-bu-kyung, is the idea that heaven, earth, and man will become one. In Korea, the philosophy of this idea passed down for many generations and it was eventually recorded in written form in the Bae-dal-guk and Dan-gun dynasties. The Dan-gun dynasty was able to last for such a long time because it was governed by this ideology, which venerated heaven with heaven, earth, and man united as one.

Nature’s flow’ means everything is based on and happens according to a certain order. Everything in the world took place, and is still taking place, according to nature’s flow. Thus nature’s flow, or universal order, is the work of the world; it is the work of heaven and earth. People try to fix and change this universal order, but each time they do so they encounter severe disasters and suffer. And when this happens they look to God, because they cannot overcome these disasters.

Of and by itself” means ‘just as it is’. That something is ‘just as it is’ means that though its traits may change, what it essentially is does not actually change at all.

The Universe consists of yin and yang. If everything that can be seen is yang, that which cannot be seen is yin. Yin is the body from which all things in the world are created. Although its activity is not visible, it is what created the universe and gives birth to all things.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The Kingdom of the Soul and Spirit Where All Creation Has Life

When a person achieves enlightenment, all of his sins disappear. For this to happen, he must find his original self. People themselves make their karma, or sins, because of their human minds; in order to escape from their sins, they must become enlightened.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – Where does human greed come from, and what is the standard that decides what is and is not greed?

Human greed comes from the desire to survive. The desire for comfort and personal gain, which comes from having a self, gives rise to a person’s greed.

Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – Some people believe that God does not exist. They want evidence of God’s existence in order to believe otherwise. Is there any way to prove God exists?

Every moving thing is God. People do not believe this because it is not something that they can see, but the emptiness is God, as are all celestial bodies in the sky. They are God because they move. The Universe is also God.