Category: Master Woo Myung Teachings

People tend to have their own conceptions of what an ideal ‘dō-in (道人)’ or ‘one walking the Way of enlightenment’ is.

The world of divine beings refers to the energy of the origin.

Master Woo Myung Words of Life – Acceptance Is the Greatest Thing in the World

The reason a person may insist that only he is right is that person is narrow-minded. He who insists that only his religion is right is also narrow-minded, for he cannot see the bigger scheme of things due to the attachment he has toward his own religion. A broad mind accepts everything. Only for the broadest of minds is the act of acceptance possible.

Master Woo Myung Words of Truth – Enlightenment of Truth Comes Only When One Discards

People commonly talk about having had an “epiphany” or having been “enlightened” about something. However, enlightenment means that one has become what he has realized and it only comes along the way to Truth.

Master Woo Myung Method to Become Truth – One Must Have No Kleshas in Order to Be Complete

Man’s kleshas are born of the mind he has.
This mind he has is his body and mind.
So long as he has this delusional body and mind,
his kleshas cannot go away.
It is from the mind one has that his thoughts occur,
and the mass of those thoughts is his mind.
In order for the whole of his kleshas to disappear,
one must be free of the existence one calls his self.
Unless one is free from his self,
one’s kleshas will exist.

Master Woo Myung Words of Wisdom – Do Not Be Fooled For Man There Is No Afterlife: Man Disappears After Death

While people often perform rites of passage to heaven for the dead, and believe that they will receive salvation from their religion, if one does not receive salvation while he is alive he cannot be saved after death. He ends up dying an eternal death or in other words, he dies because he does not have the true Soul and Spirit.

Master Woo Myung Method to Awaken – Enlightenment Is Needed to Have Faith, Enlightenment Is Needed to Live, Enlightenment Is Needed to Know All Scriptures, Enlightenment Is Needed to Go to Eternal Heaven

Enlightenment comes only on the way to Truth. That is when enlightenment comes. Your mind is only as big as yourself. When the mind which is the size of the self becomes as big as the universe before the infinite universe, it is enlightened. What one’s self-centered false self believes in is the self-centered false God, Buddha, or Allah. This is not believing in Truth. For example, if I believe in God and I merely say, “I believe, I believe,” then this is not true faith. Yo

Master Woo Myung Method for Finding Your True Self – Only Truth Can Make One Become Truth

The original existence of Truth in the world is the empty sky – the place that existed before all creations of heaven and earth came forth. This existence is the original Truth, and the creations of heaven and earth that came forth from this place are also Truth. The existence of Truth, the origin, is not material but a Soul and Spirit. This metaphysical real existence is omnipotent and omniscient so it was able to create the world.

Master Woo Myung Method to Know Truth – What Is Real (Truth), What Is Fake (Falseness)

There is not one person who is living in the real world. The sky of the infinite great Universe is the origin, the source, and the Creator. This Creator consists of a great Soul and Spirit. In other words, it has a body and mind. This existence is Truth itself that existed before the beginning and will exist after the world ends. It is the mother and father of all creation and it is the Creator that created all things.

Master Woo Myung Meditation Teaching – Man Tries to Attain Truth Through Possession but Nothing Can Be Attained by Possession

Human life has only taught us to have and possess more. That mind of possession and attachment arises from one’s feelings of inferiority. Many seek dō – Truth or the Way – not for the purpose of becoming a true saint but to use what he learns from dō to earn money or to trick ignorant people into thinking that they are great.

Master Woo Myung Method to Become Truth – Resurrection and Rebirth I

What are you looking for and what are you trying to know and gain?

If you die completely, you do not gain anything or know anything. Your mind becomes the mind of the emptiness itself, where everything has ceased – the mind that has become one with the world. Then the world exists within you, you exist within the world, and the world exists in all creations. The reason a speck of dust and the Earth weigh the same is the world exists inside the speck of dust.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The Minds of All Creations Reside in Their Images; Their Minds Are What Move Them

A person’s mind comes to exist
due to his parent’s images.
As he lives his life with that mind,
he lives doing deeds that stem from that mind.
Because his mind has sin from the moment he was born,
he has original sin;
the life he lives is his personal sin.
Repenting these sins is cleansing the mind.

We have heard the expression ‘to cleanse one’s mind.’ The expression exists because the false mind exists.

Teacher Woo Myung Teaching – Only a Sage Can Recognize a Sage; A Divine Being Cannot Be Seen by Man; Only a Person Who Has Become Truth Can Know Truth; A Living Person Can Distinguish the Living from the Dead but a Dead Person Cannot

The expressions in the title above mean one must become the very existence of what he desires to know in order to truly know it.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The True Meaning of Omniscience and Omnipotence

In this world,
there are countless different religious denominations.
In Christianity alone,
there are some fifty thousand different denominations,
each saying that only their faith is right
and that all others are heretical.

Christians are waiting for the new Messiah to come and Buddhists are waiting for Maitreya. They are waiting for the Savior of the world but the existence of their conceptions that they are waiting for will never come no matter how long they wait.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – It Is Not the Material Body That Lives Forever, but the Soul

Nothing that is material in the world is eternal. The sun, the Earth, the moon, and all the millions upon millions of stars in the sky are material entities. Scientists estimate that stars have life spans ranging from five to fifteen billion years.

Master Woo Myung Teaching- The Existence and Non-Existence of the Soul

Many people are interested in whether or not they have a soul that exists after they die. In the Bible, it states that those who do not believe in Jesus will die forever, and go to hell. However, if one’s true soul has been reborn, this soul exists, while one’s false soul, or the fake soul seemingly exists, but does not actually exist.

The mind is the Universe,
so when the mind holds sorrows and regrets,
it affects all creations.
The mind is originally something
that did not appear or disappear;

That a human being has reached completion means he has become free of his sins and has been born again as a child of God. Those who have become free of whatever conceptions or habits that constitute who they are and have been reborn as the almighty God or Buddha of the Universe – or in other words, the Whole – are those who have become one with God and have thus become the children of God.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The Difference Between One Who Cleanses and One Who Accomplishes All

Come find me, for me,
come find me, to see me,
come find me, when you become me.
You are the one who has accomplished Truth.
One who comes for his self is still cleansing,

Every time a seminar or lecture is held in the U.S. I ask people if they know what the existence of Truth is, but no one knows.
Those who study the philosophy of dō call the existence of Truth “dō”. Christians call Truth “God” and in Buddhism, it is called “Buddha”. In Korea, it is called “Haneol-nim”, and elsewhere it is also called “Allah”.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Do You Know Where You Will Go After You Die?

People live without knowing the reason they were born and then they die and pass on to the next world. Since the beginning of time countless people have lived and died. The correct answer to the title above can only be known after one dies and goes to the next world. No one has ever known the answer because no one has ever truly died.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – When One Drinks the Water of Life, His Past Self Will Be Forgotten

It is often said that when one dies and drinks water from the spring of life, he will completely forget the past.

The Bible states that sins committed in our minds are also sins.
God’s mind is one of goodness, kindness and virtue, while the human mind is an evil mind of sin.

People are born without knowing the reason or purpose of their birth and then die ignorant of what everyone should fundamentally know: the value of life, where one goes after he dies, whether it is possible to live forever, whether or not heaven actually exists, and the ways of the world.

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

The eternal, never-dying God is the universe before the universe. This existence is empty, however, the soul and spirit exists there; it is the place where the universe is created by the soul and spirit. All creation in the universe is the embodiment of this soul and spirit. When the right condition is fulfilled all creation comes forth in the shape of this existence.

We commonly speak of people having or not having wisdom.
Among the legends of King Solomon, there are stories illustrating his “wisdom”. One story tells us how he distinguished real flowers from artificial flowers by opening a window and using a bee to show him which were real. Another story describes how he wisely helped to settle a quarrel between two women, each claiming to be the birth mother of a new-born baby.

The reasons people follow or do dō (a Korean word meaning Truth or The Way) is in order to succeed, to become superior to other people in some way, or to appease their feelings of inferiority. However, dō is the opposite of these things because the existence of dō is the existence of Truth. In order to achieve true dō, one must discard his very self and shed all of his own preconceptions and habits. Only then is it possible to get to the place of dō. However many people fail because they try to achieve dō whilst holding onto their selves.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – One Who Tries to Become Enlightened While Holding onto His Self Will Fail, While One Who Knows That His Self Is a False Wrongful Entity and Truly Discards Himself Will Be Enlightened and Become Truth to the Extent That He Has Discarded

Many people seek out meditation because they want to find a way to assuage their feelings of inferiority. There are also many who have wandered from place to place, trying to find a way to fulfill their desires and resolve their regrets and bitterness. However, one thing that is certain is that all those who have tried to find or fulfill something with their selves were only able to meditate to the point where they met their limitations, after which they departed.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Man Ends Up Following His Mind – If There Is Falseness in His Mind He Will Follow Falseness, If He Seeks Truth He Will Follow Truth

In the world, there is no such thing as a free lunch. That is, one acquires as much wealth and material things as the effort he has put into acquiring them. For example, some people were not able to finish the levels due to their karma.

In Christianity it is said Christ, the Savior, will come down on a cloud with trumpeting angels. In Buddhism, it is said that Maitreya will come to the world of sentient beings, the saha world, to save people. Jung-san told us the Great Commander, Dae-doo-mok, will come, and So-tae-san also said that Maitreya will come.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Those Who Are Unable to Complete the Meditation

In the early days of teaching Truth, I have seen many people who wanted to achieve Truth in order to become a superior version of themselves.

The world consists of the body and mind of the universe, the true existence. This true existence is the origin itself; the never-changing, everlasting existence which creates everything in the universe.

Man’s eyes, nose, ears, mouth and body were made as picture-taking tools from birth, and his mind is where the pictures taken of the world are stored. What we call sin or karma is taking pictures of that which belongs to the world and living in those pictures in one’s mind, instead of having a mind that is one with the world. Such a person is a sinner – one who has accumulated karma – because he has betrayed the origin that is the world by making and living in his own world.

Handsome, good-looking, stylish,
great figure, well groomed,
so good-looking, so distinguished,
so pretty, so lovely,
radiant as the moon, well-defined features,

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The Meaning Behind “Words Becoming Seeds”

In Korea people believe that when they speak badly of someone or curse them, the words become reality and what is said actually happens – that the words become the “seed” of what happens in reality.

One who has placed
demons and ghosts – his delusions – inside his mind
will live with a demon-like mind.
One who has a negative mind
will live with a negative mind.

The reason the lives we humans live are false is the empty Universe – the original Truth and the original foundation – is our origin. That is to say, even if you had not been born, the emptiness that existed before all creation exists just as it is. You came into the human world with what you call your “self”, and lived as that false self having made your own world inside your mind. From the perspective of the original foundation, your life is less than a second when compared to the eternal land of the original foundation; it is nothing more than eighty or so odd years.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Does One Live Eternally with the Body or with the Mind?

Some sects of Christianity assert that a person who is the omnipotent and omniscient God will live for eternity in the world with his human body. They also argue that the Bible makes the same claim.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – The Way to Become a Person in Heaven While Living- The Way to Heaven While Living

People commonly believe that they will go to heaven after they die and that bad people will go to hell after they die. People living in this world do not know this world is hell; they also do not know heaven. This is because people who live in heaven know both heaven and hell, but people who live in hell know neither.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – How to Become Truth and Why One Must Not Fail to Reach Truth

First, we must understand what Truth is. What is Truth? We have learned that Truth is everlasting and never-changing. So then, what is this eternal and never-changing existence? Let’s begin by thinking about the Universe. The Universe is infinite so it cannot be drawn but let’s represent it in this way.

Idealism is Truth itself: the state of completeness. To be ideal is to become Truth; it is when all of one’s thoughts and actions are oriented towards Truth. Therefore, an ideal life is when one is born as Truth and lives as Truth.

If you ask what Buddha is, Buddhism tells us that you are Buddha and that your mind is Buddha. Although this is correct, only a person who has the mind of Buddha is Buddha. Buddha, God, and heaven, do not exist in the human mind.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Why the Holy Writings of Saints Cannot Be Heard or Understood

The holy writings of saints are often read and even memorized, but no one understands their true meaning. This is because they were written from the perspective of Truth, the true world and unless one becomes this viewpoint, he inevitably reads them from his own perspective.

Christianity tells us we have original and actual sin, and Buddhism tells us everything is in our minds and that what we hold in our minds is karma.

Master Woo Myung Teaching – Man Does Not Live in the World, He Is Not True but False so He Is Dead

From the beginning, the world was created complete; it is already enlightened and has life. Because man is not born in this world, he is not born in the complete world. The source of all creations is the great Universe. This existence is the Creator and the source; namely, it is the sky before the sky that existed before everything came forth.

The reason we repent is so that we can go from our false worlds to the true world and be reborn there. We repent so that we can discard our minds that are false and become the true mind. It is also in order to discard ourselves that are sinners and become our true selves.

What is salvation and why do people need to be saved? It is the way of the world that all creations come from the original foundation and return to it. This is the law of nature. Because man is false and an illusion, this falseness must be eliminated if he is to return to the world and be born as a real person. This is man’s salvation. Man can only be saved when he is reborn in his mind that has become the world. In other words, only when his false self has completely disappeared can he become real.

Many people think about death and have questions about it but there is no one who knows the answers to their questions. Each religion talks of a world beyond this world: in Buddhism, it is said the world of paradise, where Buddha resides, exists. In Christianity, it is said that heaven exists. However, no one knows which place is true.

Truth is an everlasting, never-changing and living existence. This is the correct definition of Truth. The existence that is everlasting, never-changing and alive is the body, Jung, and mind, Shin, of the Universe, which existed before the great Universe. This existence is the sky before sky: the emptiness that is the great Universe itself. It is Truth and the very Soul and Spirit of the great Universe.