Master Woo Myung Wisdom’s Answer – It is said the time after the coming of Truth is an era when women will hold influence and power. What is the reason for this?
Women, or the female, represent greatness.
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Read MoreA guardian god, sometimes referred to as a guardian angel, is a god that protects a person.
Read MoreMaster Woo Myung – Questions and Answers – Dragons and phoenixes are thought to be imaginary. Do they actually exist?
Read MoreThe true mind exists within oneself.
Read MoreThe saviors are the masters who save this world. This world can only be saved when the existence of the Way, the Truth, and the Life comes. In other words, it can only be saved when the masters of the world come.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAngels work in heaven and pass on messages from God to the Earth.
Read MoreA god is an existence that dwells in heaven. Heaven is a place that is different from the human world.
Read MorePeople have made different levels of heavens in heaven, but originally these levels of heaven did not exist.
Read MoreThe eyes of heaven refers to the eyes of the origin which is the body of one mind.
Read MoreIt is the state in which
you have reached your original self.
In the Bible, it is said that Heaven, the Land of Bliss, and Paradise exist within the mind. It is also said that God, Buddha, Allah exist within the mind.
Read MoreCreation is making something that does not exist, exist.
Read MoreResurrection is when all the creations of the universe within this world are made to live as Truth in the Land of Truth.
Read MoreSalvation is when the dead world and dead people are brought to life. The reason why the world is not alive is because people are incomplete.
Read MoreThat a person is kindhearted means that the true Mind dwells in him; that we must be kindhearted means we must have the true Mind in us.
Read MoreNirvana is death.
What this means is
one can achieve ‘dō (Truth)’ after one dies.
Master Woo Myung Questions and Answers – ARE GOD, BUDDHA, ALLAH DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER?
There are countless religions and religious denominations throughout the world, and they each think that theirs is the correct one. Although it cannot be seen with the eyes, there are religious wars taking place; so the world cannot be united.
Read MoreMaster Woo Myung Book – How to Have a Meeting with God, Buddha, Allah – WHAT IS THE MIND?
Absolutely nothing but the Jung (Spirit) and Shin (Soul) exists in the true mind. This Jung and Shin are the Spirit and Soul that exist in the universe emptiness.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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:
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster Woo Myung Questions and Answers – Cause and Effect
Everything that is of the material realm exists because of ‘cause and effect’. A cause is the condition (reason) for why there is a resultant effect or consequence. Accordingly, because there is condition, there is karma.
Read MoreMaster Woo Myung Truth’s Answer – The Meaning Behind: Maitreya Shall Come from Paradise and the Messiah Shall Come from Heaven
In the Buddhist sutra, Mahayana Mahaparinirvana, it says that man shall be completely enlightened and that he shall know the four states of nirvana – nitya (eternal), sukha (blissful), atman (the self) and subha (pure) – when Maitreya comes and that Maitreya shall come from paradise. This means that one who comes from the place of the origin and Truth in human form as the embodiment of this place, is Maitreya. In Christianity, it is said that God shall come from heaven. The heaven mentioned here is also the heaven of the origin; the heaven of Truth; the heaven of heavens, and it also refers to an existence of this place coming in human form.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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?
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster Woo Myung Words of Wisdom – What is Gesong?
Gesong is a written expression of one’s enlightenment. Gesong resides in the enlightenment, and the enlightenment resides in the gesong.
One can know by reading gesong whether or not the writer has been enlightened, because gesong is a writing from the heart.
Master Woo Myung Words of Awaken – What does the phrase, “A mountain is a mountain, water is...
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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’.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreTeacher 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.
Read MoreTeacher 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.
Read MoreTeacher 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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?
Read MoreMan 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNature’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.
Read MoreOf 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
Read MoreMaster 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.
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