We have often heard,
that human life itself is an illusion,
that we live in a delusion,
and that someday the Savior will come to save us.
Religions tell us to cleanse and empty our minds
because we do not live in a righteous world.
Man believes he lives in the true world
but the world he lives in overlaps the real world.
He is living in a film, a movie that he himself has made.
From a young age, he makes a film
which he keeps inside his mind –
he lives inside this film of pictures taken of the world.
Think about the breakfast that you had this morning:
the place where you were sitting and what you ate
were taken as pictures inside your mind;
it is not what happened in the world
but it was in a picture, in your mind.
The breakfast you ate and what you did all day,
aren’t they all inside that film, in your mind?
You were not inside the world,
but inside your mind,
and even this moment, if you think about it once it has passed,
isn’t it also in a picture?
The world and this moment is overlapping inside the mind
so man believes that he is living in the world.
If he becomes one with the world, and lives in the world,
he will not have any pictures.
The human mind is a film that takes and stores pictures
but the mind of the world does not take pictures.
Man does not know this
so he is not born in the world
and he is not saved.
There is suffering, burden, life, death, good, bad,
aging, sickness, birth, death, the past, the future and the present
in the world of these pictures;
but when you become one with the true world
and you are born in the world,
these things do not exist;
it is eternal, never-changing life itself.
Drawn, Written by Woo Myung
Teacher Woo Myung is the founder of the meditation method to achieve human completion. In addition to being an accomplished composer, artist, calligraphist, and lecturer, Teacher Woo Myung has created works that transcend languages and cultures to deeply touch the heart and minds of people worldwide.
He is the award winning author of 10 bestselling books, including Stop Living in This Land, Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness, Live There Forever which hit #1 on Amazon’s Bestseller list in 2014 and received many book awards that year. Also in 2014, Where You Become True Is the Place of Truth won the Montaigne Medal by Eric Hoffer Book Awards as the most thought provoking book.
From humble beginnings and the perpetual questions about life and existence, the answers to these questions only came to Teacher Woo Myung after he achieved Truth. He then realized that anyone can become Truth if they discarded their selves, and he began to ponder on the best method possible to teach others to also become Truth. “In order to teach people, there needed to be a method. I studied this question from the perspective of ordinary people.” He no longer needed to cleanse his own mind, but he studied even harder, eventually resulting in seven levels of meditation methods. To this day he continues to study, write, and give speeches on these questions.
