Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom. Today’s story is called Joy of Subtraction, the column on woomyung.org

Do you know how joyful subtraction is? What I mean by subtraction here is mind subtraction. Have you ever subtracted your mind? While living life, things do not always work out as you wish and you become stressed. Each time this happens, what did you do? Maybe, you could not do anything, but instead, have accumulated all that stress in your mind. When we eat food, nutrients are absorbed in the body and we excrete the waste products. The reason why we can continually eat food is because we also have a method to get rid of the waste. However, our mind does not have an organ to discard the waste from our mind, like the digestive organ does for the body. When we take in mind, it is not just a few times, but we continuously accumulate the mind. We have been accumulating all kinds of mind from the time we were born up till now.

All kinds of minds – sadness, suffering, worries, attachments, negative minds – have become our mind’s shit at the moment and we live holding onto them. That is the mind of pain and stress. The reason why we were born in the world is to live joyfully. However, not many people live truly joyfully and happily. Everyone lives carrying worries and burdens in the mind. Let’s look at nature. Flowers bloom in fields and trees. They do not have the mind that we, humans, have. Because they do not have the mind accumulated from the past, i.e. the mind of stress, they are always free of worries and do not have mind at all. Only humans carry all kinds of pain and burdens in our life.

Now, in a great generation, a good method has come out to the world. It is to achieve human completion. While living, we need to throw away the false mind of pain that we have and come out to the world. The nature is living in this world of truth. However, only humans keep taking in all kinds of mind throughout their life, never subtracting them. Those minds have become pain and stress. Even at this moment, humans do not throw away that mind and live in pain while continuously carrying them these heavy loads. It is truly unnecessary.

Now, it is the generation that you can throw away the mind; and it is the generation of throwing away stress, too. A great time has come. Scientific technology is extremely developed nowadays in all areas including electricity, semiconductors, computers, telephones and cell phones, the internet, transportation and medicine. Likewise, the method of throwing away the mind has come out to the world. Everyone can now know the joy of subtraction. The generation has come such that everyone can throw away their mind’s burdens and come out to the true world; thus, they live joyfully and happily with the mind of nature.

Let’s throw away our mind’s burden and come out to the true world. Let’s live joyfully together!

From the Great Master Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever…

Let’s Go to the Living World

The world is alive, but man is not able to live.

The world just exists,

But man has countless troubles and is dreaming unreal dreams –

He does not know all of it is meaningless and false,

For he is not Truth,

And so he dies after a lifetime of agony and anguish.

He does not know the true meaning of the plaintive words

That one lives forever.

Is it not natural and logical that one dies if he has not become Truth?

Man thinks that someone will save him even if he has not become Truth

But this idea is wrong;

So come to your senses, strive to become Truth

As becoming Truth is of the utmost importance.

What is real and false,

Is the world and man; the world is real and man is false.

It is nonsense to think that one can live eternally

Without his mind becoming the eternal world

And being born in that land.

Do not try to find or achieve something

For Truth is revealed only when one discards his false self

And the only thing for man to do

Is to be born in the land of Truth

By the will of Truth’s master.

If one does not do this

There is no purpose or reason for living.

Instead of living a human life of seventy or eighty years

Live an eternal life, live to the life of the world –

Such a person is wise and sage.

He who tries to possess more, commits more sins

While he who discards and eliminates even his self

Can be born into the world of Truth.

One whose mind has become Truth

Has heaven in his mind and the whole world is alive

And he himself is born in his mind.

If there is no human mind at all

And only the mind of God within you

You no longer take pictures

And the master of the consciousness is within you.

Your true soul must be born

In the land of that original foundation

If you are to become the forever-living immortal.

He who talks of going to heaven after death

When he has not gone to heaven while he is living

Is not able to go to heaven and dies forever.

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Meditation USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called If You Want To Really Love…

Someone said that humans were born to love. It sounds right. Half of the world’s population is male and another half is female. Correct? Just for the reason that genders are different, they love each other and they have a relationship or marry and have children. In some ways, love plays a very big role in one’s life. More than 90% of lyrics – from oldies to modern hip hop and pop songs – are all about love. Falling in love, meeting each other, breaking up and experiencing the pain of breaking up are all expressed through songs. It seems that humans are born to love. So many people have been researching about real love from the past. Then, what is proper love? What is real love and what is truthful, unchanging love?

To speak of a conclusion first, real love is possible when there is no self. If you have a girl/boyfriend or a spouse, ask yourself. Can you really love that person? Can you embrace and accept all faults of that person in any circumstance? It is usually said in a marriage proposal or ceremony. When people propose, they seem to give and do everything for their lovers. However, human mind changes as time goes by. They start to fight and become selfish.

Being selfless means that there is no mind that you call yourself. Take a very easy example: nature. The sun unconditionally burns itself to illuminate the world brightly for everything and being in the world. Trees are the same, too. Trees purify air and provide cool shades to people without any return. Although we have not done anything for the sun or trees, they just stay where they always are and exist for others, without the mind that they are doing so.

There is a famous storybook, The Giving Tree. There was a tree and a boy who were best friends. Whenever he had difficulties, the boy went to the tree and whined about his problem and the tree would listen to him. When the boy got old and wanted to earn money, the tree said that if he cuts it and makes firewood, he would earn a lot of money. The tree gave its body to him so that he could earn money. When the boy became an old man and came back to the tree, the tree welcomed him and told him to take a rest on its stump. Can any human do something for someone else selflessly like the giving tree? Probably no one would be able to do so and some would even get angry and argue why they should sacrifice.

However, real love is when you give everything without the self. It is not important whether a counterpart loves you or not. Selfless people only exist for someone else and give everything of them. Moreover, they do not even have the mind of having given. How great is it? If such people live in the world for real, the world would be a much better place.

From now on, I hope everyone has real love. How to have real love is very simple. It is to eliminate the mind that you call yourself. Although you want to eliminate it, if you don’t have a method, you cannot do it. However, the method has come to the world. Everyone becomes the mind of nature, exists for one another and lives for others. Then people can know true love. It is possible when there is no mind that you call yourself – selfish mind. The generation of only speaking about it has passed. Now, you really need to eliminate that mind for real and you yourself must become the nature itself. Let’s meditate diligently and become the existence that can give everything for all, for the world.

To conclude, let me introduce a writing of teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of the generation who has been devoting his entire life to wish everyone in the world could be enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called True Love.

True Love

Love each other

Love means

To accept everything

To accept everything without judgment

Acceptance is

To embrace

Acceptance is

To see as it is, to live as it is and to exist as it is

Discernment of what is what

Derives from the human mind

And exists because of one’s own conceptions

That is one’s false mind

Everything in the universe is already enlightened

Everything in the universe is already living

Only humans do not know this

Only humans have self

Love is to accept

Love is to have no judgment

One can love only when he is the Creator’s mind

One can love only when he is the Great Soul and Spirit of Truth

One can love

Only when his mind is that of Truth and free from his self

True love is only possible for one who has the biggest mind

True love is only possible for the living

Who are reborn as the soul and spirit of Truth

Only Truth can love

True love of the enemy is only possible

When one becomes Truth

Love is to see as it is since you are Truth and without self

True love is

Not to make judgments

Not to have discernment

Great nature gives food and light from the sun

Blows wind and gives water

Without the mind that it has given

That great nature is Truth, love

True love does without the mind of doing

True love is unconditional

A love that is without expectations

True love is the law of nature itself

True love is great

True love does not have a mind of its own

But it is nature’s mind, the Creator’s mind

It is the mind that accepts everything

The mind which exists but is non-existent

It is the mind that sees things as they are without judgment

From teacher Woo Myung’s book, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

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Today’s story is called Elysium – Unfair Human Mind.

The director of District 9, Neill Blomkamp, has created another Sci-Fi blockbuster, Elysium. Using the Sci-fi genre, he satirizes many things, inculding the gap between the rich and the poor, hierarchy and a society where you can get proper health care benefits only if you have money. In this film, Matt Damon is a standout as he plays Max Da Costa.

In this movie, it is the year 2154 and there are two classes of people: The very rich and the rest of the population.  A very high percentage of the human population remains on the devastated Earth in poor conditions. Only the upper class lives an extravagant life on the luxurious space station Elysium, with access to medical devices that keep them free of disease just by lying in it. Max wishes to bring his beloved friend Frey to Elysium one day and works everyday as a factory laborer with that yearning. In contrast, on Elysium, no one has to do tough labor because the robots do it all for them. One day, Max is exposed to lethal radioactivity at his factory and his expected lifespan is decreased to only five days. With the solid resolution that he must survive, he embarks on a mission to Elysium. However, his fight for his own survival actually becomes a fight for the fate of the whole population of Earth. He eventually becomes a hero for the world.

Some might think that Sci-Fi movies are full of delusional and fantastical stories that are far from reality. However, in fact, this film sets the space as a background to express and depict social issues and conflicts that are happening in our reality today so that people can sympathize on such issues portrayed in this movie. Through this genre, you can look into the problems we are currently facing in today’s modern society more deeply. Since mankind appeared, what is called class has existed endlessly: inequality – those who have and those who do not, the rich and the poor – exists all the time.

I would like to blame our human mind as the root cause, rather than the system that operates society, i.e. problems of the system. Humans exist fundamentally with selfish mind. Selfishness is the mind to keep the self. It is referred to as ego in psychological terms. One psychologist said that the difference between nature and man is that nature is selfless whereas man is selfish. Nature coexists for one another and does not have ego, the self; therefore, nature just lives and just exists. Of course, you might regard a lion eating a deer as a selfish action but that is only for survival and to maintain the food chain. A lion would not eat a deer to attain wealth or benefits for the self. But humans, although they have enough of something already, they try to accumulate more. If we take the rich as an example, they already have adequate wealth – enough for eating and living – but they keep searching for something more. Human’s greed and the mind for the self are endless.

So far, we have blamed society and systems, along with the leaders and others. But stop doing that. Each one of us needs to look inside ourselves. The cause of everything in the world is within the mind of the self; it is within me. Not only should we look within and reflect on ourselves, but we should throw away the ego, what we call our self, and selfishness. When the existence that we call our self is completely eliminated, we can also live for others naturally without trying hard, just like nature, like the world. There is no self and everyone becomes one. How could you harm others? The generation has come when you can throw away the false mind of the self and live as the truth with the true mind.

There is an old saying that in the 21st century, or in the future, the generation of material civilization will pass and the spiritual civilization will come. What has ruled our society so far was human greed, authority and money, i.e. materialism. However, the generation of materials is passing by, and so those who hold onto such things and depend on them will not be better off, eventually, because it is not of nature’s flow. Now, anyone can reflect on the self and throw away that selfish and greedy self completely. The generation where you become the non-material existence, reborn as the soul of the truth in the world and live forever – the generation of spiritual civilization – has come. A teacher who can teach you righteously has come along with the method. Now, anyone can practice themselves and prove it by themselves through the method. The method of living forever while living has come out.

This material body and money cannot be brought with you once you die. Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson earned enormous amounts of money but they left everything behind. However, while living, if you have a never-dying soul and become one with it, the complete soul never dies after the body disappears, and even, after tens of thousands of years pass. Everyone in the world will become the mind of the truth and the mind of oneness. Then, the world will become righteous and everything will be just.

Such a good generation has already come and countless people have become complete, the truth. Should you just do nothing during this good season? If someone can make you the truth, the teacher who teaches you that truth would be the truth; yes or no? Every year, so many people have become complete and become the truth. Don’t hesitate to practice this magnificent study that can get you the righteous soul in this new generation of spiritual civilization.

To conclude, let me introduce a writing of teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of the generation who has been devoting his entire life to wish everyone in the world could be enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called Let’s Go To the Living World.

Let’s Go To The Living World

The world is alive, but man is not able to live.

The world just exists,

But man has countless troubles and is dreaming unreal dreams –

He does not know all of it is meaningless and false,

For he is not Truth,

And so he dies after a lifetime of agony and anguish.

He does not know the true meaning of the plaintive words

That one lives forever.

Is it not natural and logical that one dies if he has not become Truth?

Man thinks that someone will save him even if he has not become Truth

But this idea is wrong;

So come to your senses, strive to become Truth

As becoming Truth is of the utmost importance.

What is real and false,

Is the world and man; the world is real and man is false.

It is nonsense to think that one can live eternally

Without his mind becoming the eternal world

And being born in that land.

Do not try to find or achieve something

For Truth is revealed only when one discards his false self

And the only thing for man to do

Is to be born in the land of Truth

By the will of Truth’s master.

If one does not do this

There is no purpose or reason for living.

Instead of living a human life of seventy or eighty years

Live an eternal life, live to the life of the world –

Such a person is wise and sage.

He who tries to possess more, commits more sins

While he who discards and eliminates even his self

Can be born into the world of Truth.

One whose mind has become Truth

Has heaven in his mind and the whole world is alive

And he himself is born in his mind.

If there is no human mind at all

And only the mind of God within you

You no longer take pictures

And the master of the consciousness is within you.

Your true soul must be born

In the land of that original foundation

If you are to become the forever-living immortal.

He who talks of going to heaven after death

When he has not gone to heaven while he is living

Is not able to go to heaven and dies forever.

From teacher Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Maum USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called Our Life in a Movie.

Have you ever felt that there is something wrong with the life we live?

Since you were born in the world, it may seem that more things happen against you than as you wish. Sometimes you feel melancholy without any specific reason. There are always people with whom you feel uncomfortable with or do not like at work or school. There may also be times when you get too exhausted in your life that you think about dying. But all we can do is accept our current situation telling ourselves that life is about suffering and pain, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad, constantly hoping for good things to come along. However, what would you do if the life you are living is not real? What if your life is not real but false? What if your life is just a movie film?

When we watch movies, we all recognize that they are not reality. For example, if you watched Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones, you’d know that Indiana Jones is not a person in the real world. He is merely a character of the film. The character called Indiana Jones, supporting characters, villains and even backgrounds exist in the world of fantasy that director Steven Spielberg created. They do not exist in the real world.

Looking into our life from this perspective, we were born as a movie director. Everyone is a movie director like Steven Spielberg. Why is it so? Because our body – eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body – is like a camera, we take pictures. Not just that, but we live in the false world of pictures that we have created. For instance, if you bring up a house you lived in when you were young, it would be in your mind. Your room, the living room, the bathroom, and also you, yourself have been imprinted in your mind. It is just like a scene from a movie. Think about when you went to high school. There is ‘you’ in a mathematics classroom, listening to a mathematics teacher with your peers sitting around you, which may include best friends, friends you hated, girl/boyfriends you had a secret crush on… Every story has been taken as a video clip in your mind with yourself in there as well. Moreover, let’s think about what you did yesterday. Whether you stayed at home or worked, even though you may not be able to recall all scenes, many scenes could be recalled and yourself would be recalled, too.

Even at this moment – the moment you are reading this, you continue filming. Let’s say that you bring this moment up tonight, everything of this moment – this writing, yourself reading it and even backgrounds – will be recalled. We have always been living in a film in our mind. That’s why some sages said that humans live in a dream. Humans take pictures of what they see, hear and experience in the world with the body and store them in the mind. The self that takes pictures is also living in that mind. Just like Indiana Jones is not a person in reality, you are not real either. Also, your life is not real. We should know this. Even now, we are taking pictures every moment; filming continuously. Let’s suppose that you go out now, look at the sky and come back. Where is the sky that you just looked? Isn’t it in your mind? Moreover, yourself at that moment and the background has been imprinted in your mind like a movie film. This is clear evidence.

You have never lived in the world. That’s why the life you live is pain and stress. Pictures are the mind of stress and pain. Birds living in a cage look trapped, don’t they? But birds that freely fly in the sky look so peaceful and joyful. Likewise, we are dead trapped in our mind so we cannot help but live a painful and tough life. Pictures are poison in our mind; that means we are carrying poison in our mind. A detox therapy is famous among young ladies. They skip meals and drink lemon juice to eliminate toxin from their body. As a result, toxins in the body are discharged and it is extremely good for skin and health.

However, people do not know how to eliminate toxins from their mind. What’s actually important is yourself living happily and living without sadness, pain and worries that exist in your mind. We also earn money and marry to become happy. However, there hasn’t been any institution that teaches how to eliminate the mind’s toxins – until now. The institution, where you can subtract the film of your mind so that you can recover the mind of true peace and happiness, is open. It is causing a sensation throughout the world.

It is not late for you at all. Knock on the door quickly. The solution is not far away. If you need more information, visit www.meditationusa.org. It has more detailed explanations.

To conclude, let me introduce a writing of teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of the generation who has been devoting his entire life to wish everyone in the world could be enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called The Human Mind.

The Human Mind

Man’s eyes, nose, ears, mouth and body were made from birth as tools to take pictures and the human mind stores the pictures that are taken of the world. What we call sin or karma is when one does not have the mind that is one with the world but instead takes pictures of what belongs to the world and lives within those pictures in his mind. Such a person is a sinner – one who has accumulated karma – for he has betrayed the origin, the world, by making and living in his own world.

When man dies after living in the world, he ends up dying forever because he lives in an illusion; a world that does not exist in the real world. However one who has absolved all of his sins and has been reborn in Truth is an eternal immortal. Man does not know this because his mind is overlapping the world and he mistakenly thinks that he is living in the real world. He is actually living in an illusionary world that he himself has made in his own mind – this is man’s sin. This is why life is futile; a life of a weed, of a cloud, of a bubble and something that does not, simply does not, exist.

Man whose mind is false has the mind of hunger. Thus he constantly tries to consume things, and furthermore tries to seek and gain from what he has consumed but such actions only add more falseness to falseness; it adds ever more suffering and burden. One can truly become Truth only through the path of discarding those burdens.

While the time of incompletion was the period of addition and gain, the time of completion is one of subtraction. If one eliminates all that is false, only what is true will remain. Because man is false he can become true when he – the false man – is eliminated. Those who try to gain Truth while holding onto falseness cannot achieve Truth, and even if they do achieve it, it is false.

The human mind is one’s own world that he made by taking pictures of the world and engraving his emotions therein; emotions made by what he has seen, heard, smelled and felt in his mind. The human mind only has the pictures, the illusionary mind that is self-centered and selfish; it is a mind that knows only itself.

This was from Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever by Teacher Woo Myung.

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called Light of Wisdom.

A little beam of light filters into the lightless dark room.

In a dark, pitch-black room, a feeling of space starts to appear.

Silhouettes are visible.

The more the light filters in,

More things start to appear gradually–the structures in the room, desks, chairs and vases.

As the light exists in the room, you ‘get to know’ that the black chunks were desks, chairs and vases.

Likewise, the light is like wisdom to us. As the state of ‘knowing nothing’ is usually expressed as ‘being dark,’ we can see the truth with the light.

Without the light, we cannot see the world. There is a saying that we should exist like light and salt in the world; light and salt are two essential things in the world, so we should become that which the world needs.

Also, the origin of the name Lucy is ‘light’ and thus means ‘a person who brings hope and wisdom.’ This implies that light and wisdom were the same meaning from a long time ago.

The true wisdom would be to know the truth. ‘Knowledge’ and ‘wisdom’ clearly have different meanings, there would be a difference of land and sky between one who copies knowledge of the world from books and keeps it in his head and one who ‘just’ knows principles of the world. The true wisdom exists in our mind from the beginning. However, it has been concealed with unnecessary, lifeless knowledge and false minds, and so the light could not be illuminated. One who knows the light, true wisdom, in his mind, illuminates the light and keeps the light bright, must be the one like light and salt of the world.

And that light will illuminate the world forever.

This is a poem by teacher Woo Myung and it is called Light part II.

Light II

If there were no light in this world,

heaven and earth would be out of sight.

If there were clouds in this world,

heaven and earth would be out of sight.

If there were fog in this world,

heaven and earth would be out of sight.

If there were a sandstorm in this world,

heaven and earth would be out of sight.

If there are clouds in one’s mind,

he is unable to see Heaven and earth

for they would be out of sight.

If there is fog in one’s mind,

he is unable to see Heaven and earth,

for they are out of sight.

If there is a sandstorm in one’s mind,

he is unable to see Heaven and earth,

for they are out of sight.

If there is no Light in one’s mind,

he is unable to see Heaven and earth

and therefore does not know the logic of Heaven and earth.

If in this world there were only light,

without cloulds, fog, or sandstorms,

this world would be bright and easy to see.

Likewise, if there were

no clouds, fog, or sandstorms in one’s mind –

the Light appears therein, and thus he would

know the logic of the world,

know both the living and the dead,

and live eternally as that Light.

This was from The Living Eternal World by Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Maum USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called Your Happiness Matters.

People are born into the world, live their life and depart. On average, human’s life span is seventy to eighty years. People age and become old. That person eventually dies. It is said that there is no exception in death. Life has a definite end one day; it is the principle of the world that a human is born and dies one day, just like parting is “waiting” after meeting. Then, in this one precious life, ask yourself, “do you live a happy life now?” Some people might say that their life is too busy and tough to even answer such a question. However, this is indeed a very important question.

There is a seventy-year-old old man in my neighborhood. That man told me with a somber face that he was a very good looking man when he was seventeen years old and he felt like it was only yesterday. He woke up today and had become a wrinkled old man with no energy. For him, his life passed by in the blink of an eye. If you live so busily not affording any time to look back at yourself, get old and die, isn’t your life meaningless? We should give a thought to our life whether we have a happy life now. Life happens only once. And, time does not wait for us and passes by instantly. Happiness is when our mind is happy. Our mind must change from unhappiness to happiness.

We should think about a way to make ourselves happy sincerely even though we live a tough life. Isn’t it futile if we get old like this? True happiness is in us and it exists when emptying out the mind. Suppose that you have found the way to become happy, you have actually emptied out the mind and found happiness in your true self. Then, you will have joyful time in the rest of your life. Moreover, the true self having happy mind is everlasting even after the body dies; and therefore, you can live eternally with happy mind. What would be more valuable and noble than this in the world? Also as you live, you live a difficult and busy life unaware of where human comes from, why he lives and where he goes after he dies and, if you just live and vanish from the world by aging or sickness, what meaning would there be?

Your happiness matters.

We must find the solution of life while living. Such a solution and happiness can be found if you throw away your human mind, which is false, and find the true self that is the universe mind, the mind of happiness. Then, you can be born in the true world and live in the true world as you are, happily forever. Even after the body dies after its lifespan, the true self that has been born again is the everlasting life, and thus, you live eternally without death. Will you simply struggle in your life for seventy to eighty years and vanish forever? Or, will you diligently eliminate your false mind and find the true mind? You really need to give it a thought whether or not to live a life of the truth. Your happiness matters.

To conclude, let me introduce a piece of writing by teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of this generation, who has been devoting his whole life with only hope that everyone in the world becomes enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called Thinking You Are Alive Is a Dream – Save Yourself Before You Are Devoured by the Devil of Time.

Thinking You Are Alive Is A Dream – Save Yourself Before You Are Devoured By The Devil Of Time

Rain is pouring down;

Late April showers are hurrying spring in.

As the rain falls I look back on life –

It has all become dim memories.

All of it was futile, it was just a dream.

All people; those who loved me, those who cherished me

And those who disliked me,

Have all scattered and disappeared somewhere.

What remains inside my mind are pictures that my mind has held onto.

All those who lived in the world, within time that flows,

Were busy and noisy while living,

And though they tried to fill their sense of inferiority,

They were unsuccessful,

And have vanished somewhere

With just their regrets and bitterness.

That we are living is just a nap-time dream.

Just as when we wake from a dream

We discover that it is not real but false,

It is so with human life.

While one might not know whether it is real or false

When he looks from within himself,

As one knows that a dream is a dream when he has woken,

When man’s consciousness sees from outside himself,

From the origin, human life is something that does not exist.

Human life is lived inside a false dream,

Lived according to that scripted dream.

Thus man does not know he is dead even when he dies

And even the thought that he is alive

Does not exist in the world and is a dream.

Your mind is the path that you have walked,

Producing a video of sorts.

Because you live inside that video

You are truly ignorant of the world.

The world is real,

And when you live in the real world

It is possible to know the ways of the world

And the will of the world.

But because you live inside your own world

Having turned your back against the world

It is a dream without meaning or purpose,

Far from the world.

The life that one lives is a false dream,

Gaining false things which become meaningless and false.

Such is human life and the human world.

All were born and lived without meaning or purpose

And have all gone to a false world after doing false deeds.

Is there anything more lamentable than this?

The world is the land of the skies.

The world is nirvana.

The world is heaven.

This land is a place of oneness,

A land that exists.

The land that does not die but lives forever

Is the land of Truth.

He who has cleansed his mind,

His mind becomes one with the mind of Truth

And is reborn within it

And thus he is reborn, resurrected.

Wherever he is, wherever he lives

Is heaven and Truth and therefore, alive.

As part of the world, he lives without death

In the land of that consciousness.

People! Do not live a life of falseness.

Do not waste even a single moment but repent your sins

And come out from within your mind world.

Let us go to the heaven we have only heard of

While you are still living.

Know that time which passes silently

Is the devil that devours people without rhyme or reason.

Do not waste your time with false deeds

And come out into the world.

Life in this world is all a dream.

No matter how well you live or how happy you are in a dream,

What use is it if it is not real?

What meaning does it have?

Before you are devoured by the devil of time,

Save yourself.

In the world where the devil of time does not exist,

In the world without time,

When you are born in that world,

There is no time,

And so there is no death either.

This was from teacher Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever.

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Maum USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called To Find the True Self – Spirited Away.

The Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki is very famous. Many people in the world know his work, such as My Neighbor Totoro. Spirited Away that I will introduce in this writing is also a well-known piece throughout the world. It was also nominated and earned an award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The film’s synopsis is truly profound. In short, a girl named Chihiro and her family move to a village and while moving, they arrive at a strange countryside village with no people in sight. While looking for food out of hunger, Chihiro’s parents eat some food and instantly become pigs. Chihiro is left alone. The reason why her parents have become pigs is due to a spell by the witch Yubaba. Yababa runs The Bathhouse, and Chihiro gets to work as a servant girl in the big Bathhouse. The witch changes Chihiro’s name to Sen. She did this because she wanted for Sento forget about her original name and life and work for the witch the rest of her life as Sen. Without knowing the reason, she works as a slave and meets a boy named Haku. Haku is also a loyal servant who carries out important tasks for Yubaba.

Throughout the film, Chihiro wants to be called as Chihiro, not Sen. She could have spent her entire life in The Bathhouse as Sen. However, she continuously tries to escape from it and to keep her name Chihiro. In a circumstance where she could have forgotten her real self, she earnestly goes through many ordeals so that she doesn’t forget her real self. After much effort, she finally saves her parents from the witch’s spell and successfully escapes from the Bathhouse. Haku has been influenced by her and finds out that he is originally a dragon, not a boy. Haku had also lived as a false self under Yubaba’s spell.

Like the characters in this film, we really need to give a thought as to whether the life we live is real or false. I will tell you that the life we live is false. People mistakenly think that they live in the world but they are not actually living in the world. The human body operates under the same principle as a camera. Human’s eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body function as a camera taking pictures. People take pictures into their mind of what they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, smell with their nose, taste with their mouth, and feel with their body. This self who takes pictures also lives inside that mind. Humans have copied the world exactly into their mind and the self who copies the world also lives in that mind of the self.

If you think about elementary school, all of the scenes are in your mind. Teachers explaining in classes, friends and even yourself have been taken as pictures. What happened during the graduation ceremony has all been taken as pictures in your mind. When thinking about it, it can be all brought up, can’t it? When thinking about having breakfast this morning, it is in your mind. And the ‘self’ eating is there, too. Go out for a moment, look up at the sky and come back. If you think about it now, the sky has been imprinted in your mind, and also yourself looking at the sky has been imprinted there in your mind. Try to think about yourself reading this before going to bed. Then, even this moment must have been imprinted in your mind. Humans have never lived in the world. Humans are living as the false self.

Haku was not a boy but a dragon. Sen was not Sen but Chihiro. Likewise, you think the life you live and yourself are real but they are not real. There is a real self. We should find our real self quickly, just like Chihiro did. Chihiro was to live as Sen trapped in the Bathhouse for her entire life. However, time after time, she resisted against that life and kept her real self in the end. Thanks to her, Haku also found his real self and felt thankful to Chihiro. When finding your real self, you can become happy. One’s real self is not human but mind of the universe that exists as it is anytime – even before we were born and after our body vanishes.

Humans are originally supposed to live as the universe mind. However, as we were born, we have been taking pictures into our mind and even the self keeps living trapped in that mind. Therefore, once the lifespan of body ends and the body dies, we vanish and die forever because the self is a picture. Doesn’t it sound horrible? As the life we live is false, we must find our true self and live forever. The way is to destroy the false world that the self has made and throw away the ‘self’ living in that, too. Then, your mind becomes one with the universe mind and you must be born again as a never-dying soul from there. The generation to achieve it has come. Countless people have achieved completion and found the true self, i.e. live the most happily and joyfully. Thousands of people are becoming so every year. Do not die forever after living as the false self. The time when you can find the true self while living and live forever has come. Find the place where the right method is taught. Let’s learn the method and live forever together as our true self.

Let’s live as Chihiro, not Sen. Let’s live as a true one, not false.

To conclude, let me introduce a writing of teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of the generation who has been devoting his entire life to wish everyone in the world could be enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called We Are Not Living in the Right Way.

We Are Not Living In The Right Way

The reason the lives we humans live are false is because 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 as it is. You came into the human world with what you call your ‘self’, and have 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.

Everyone lives according to his own will inside an illusionary world that he has made, having turned his back on his true self, which is the original foundation. He does not know that the world he is living in is a dream, wherein he has his spouse and children, money, fame, family and love. Believing that the dream is his, he lives only for his own sake, amassing fortune in his world. How foolish is this! Furthermore, he leaves his fortune to his children; in effect, adding burden to their illusionary world. He is truly very foolish. He does not understand that possessing something – making something his – is suffering and burden. Therefore, he constantly tries to gain everything he can and fulfill his purpose. But within that burden and suffering, he dies eternally; which is why his illusionary world is meaningless.

What one truly needs to do and achieve is to completely destroy his false self, become true and live forever. And if he does not amass blessings in the land of Truth, then how can he be called a righteous person? One who lives for the sake of righteousness discards his self and transfers his family, money, love and fame to the kingdom of righteousness. Such a person is truly righteous; he is an eternal, never-dying immortal.

Man is certain that he is born into and lives in the world, but he is living inside his own mind, which is an illusion. He is false and incomplete; in other words, he is a dream-like, non-existent being, a ghost. He does not know the true will of the true world; thus he is selfish and, in turn, creates his own world in which he sees, hears and learns, living only in accordance to his own will. He thinks that only he himself is right and that everybody else is wrong. He lives with discontent and hunger because he lives only for himself, endlessly trying to fill that void with his desires, which only end up becoming his burden and pain.

A ghost is an entity that dies and disappears, and so the only thing it can teach its children, or to anyone, is to have the same greed it has; that is, the greed of its form. Instead, we must first teach our children of death before we teach them of life; of not having before having; of non-existence before existence; and of Truth before falseness. We must teach our families as well as the people in this world to live for righteousness and to live in righteousness together. Living in such a way would be a true and righteous life.

Do not be the sort of pitiful person who only thinks to leave money to your children and family, thus allowing them to die within their minds. It is only when you commit yourself to a true, righteous life while you are alive that the blessings from your life’s actions will remain in the true world. He who does not amass blessings in heaven while living cannot ultimately be born in the kingdom of heaven. This is because God within him is dead and he is more attached to his self that is a ghost.

From Teacher Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Maum USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called Life Is a Moment of 0.000001 Seconds.

Our life is finite. The average lifespan of human is 70~80 years. Some people will have an even shorter life as a result of deadly accidents or illnesses. When we are young, it doesn’t seem that life is so short and we don’t realize that life passes by in the blink of an eye. But you soon get to your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, etc. Man only has one chance in the world and then he leaves as quickly as he came into the world. That thing called life is too short. That’s why many are very curious about this thing called life. Why were we born? Why do humans live? And where do we go after we die? Mankind has been researching since we can remember and putting a lot of effort into finding the solution, for example, through philosophy or religion. As it implies, this is the most important matter in one’s life.

Humans are born, go to school, grow up and graduate; they then go into society and earn money;they also marry and have children;they become middle-aged and then old; and they eventually leave the world. This would sum up most everyone’s life. Let’s think about it from the viewpoint of the Universe. The Earth we live on is like the stars we see in the Universe. There are countless planets like the Earth in the Universe. To compare a human being to the Earth, the Earth is billions of times bigger than a human. Human beings who live on this enormous planet, are also insignificant beings, and when compared to the Earth, are tinier than ants. The lifespan of the Earth would be at least a billion years. Human’s life span is even shorter than one hundred years. Moreover, if we compare our life to the everlasting life of the Universe, we just live for a moment lasting 0.000001 seconds. Thinking in this way, our life is really futile.

We were not born or live our life by our own will. We compulsorily live for a determined lifespan and die. Life is like a roller coaster so good things happen but, from time to time, some crisis comes along. No one can foresee even the nearest future. You might be joyful at the moment but one day, everyone will become a gray-haired old man/woman and that last day on Earth will inevitably arrive.

The wisest person in the world is the one who knows to prepare for what will happen. It is not important whether you are young and better off right now. Once we were born as a human being, we must find the answer, a definite answer, to why we live and where we go after we die. If we live aware of it, how comforting and good it is to live.

Literally, time flies like an arrow and our life is a mere 0.000001 seconds. It is surely important to accomplish many things within this time but the most important is to find our true self that lives forever while living. Then, if we become that true self, we live as we are forever even after this body vanishes. Shouldn’t we meet the method to achieve it and live like it? It seems that this task must be done while living. Fortunately, the time has come when anyone can become the true self.

What is everlasting in the world is the Universe. This Universe is not the material universe with the stars, moon, earth and sun we think of. It is the Universe before the material universe, which is never-dying: the infinite emptiness. This existence is the non-material, eternally-living existence composed of soul and spirit, in other words, light and energy. This is actually our true self and also our true mind. Through meditation, we can throw away our false mind and become one with the mind of this existence. If we are born again as the soul of the never-dying true self, this soul of the true self lives forever as it is even though the body vanishes one day. The generation when you can achieve this has already come. The teacher who teaches righteously to help people to become this exists in the world, too. Everyone is born in the world once. But if you just live a short life of a hundred years, or relatively 0.000001 seconds, and leave, there is no meaning at all. Right? The answer is not far away. I hope you meet this right method soon so that we can all live happily forever as the true self.

To conclude, let me introduce a writing of teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of this generation who has been devoting his entire life to wish everyone in the world could be enlightened to the truth and live happily forever since he became the truth.

This is called All People End Up Dying – Everyone Who Does Not Become Truth While Living Will End Up Dying.

All People End Up Dying – Everyone Who Does Not Become Truth While Living Will End Up Dying

Many people wonder what will happen after they die, but man does not have the answer or solution to this question. While people of each religion all believe that they will go to heaven after death, they end up dying and are not able to live because they live inside the mind worlds that they themselves have made.

This is because the human mind world is a picture world copied from the real world; a world where one lives having put what is the world’s inside him. A person living in his mind does not exist as he is false. Just as one’s self recorded and seen on a videotape is an image and not real, man is dead because he is not born in the world and he does not have the Soul and Spirit of Truth. He is dead because his soul has not been resurrected. In the mind world that the false self, the delusion, has drawn or made, because of its attachments it thinks that it is the delusion, the shadow of the fleshly human body, that lives.

Even in a video people eat and talk but what happens in the video is not real. Only what is born in the world is real but because man lives inside a video that has recorded the world, he is false. He who is alive has the mind of the world but he whose true soul is not born inside his mind ends up dying forever because he does not have a true soul.

Changing the human mind that is pictures to God’s mind is repentance and true penitence. Man is not real so when a person who has not become real and is not born in the real land dies, he ends up dying forever but for one who has, he will remain alive because his Soul and Spirit is born. Only he who throws away his false self completely, goes to the real land, and is reborn in that land, will live. Everybody else will die.

From Teacher Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

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Hello, I’m your host Kristine and welcome to Woo Myung Cast, where you can listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s words of wisdom.

Today’s story is called Let’s Become the Mind of the Great Nature.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a location (man-made or natural) that is listed by UNESCO as having a special cultural or physical significance. In order to be nominated for this list, the site must meet a criterion as set by UNESCO.Search the internet and you can easily find such beautiful scenes posted on this site. Some of the most famous natural heritages by UNESCO include Canada’s Rocky Mountain National Park, America’s Yellowstone National Park and Nepal’s Everest National Park. Just by looking at the pictures, you cannot help but admire their beauty that nature has made over the course of time. At the same time, you become solemn about how tiny mankind is in the bigger scheme of the great nature. If you are given an opportunity to visit the natural heritage sin person, you would feel great inspiration and admiration.

Birds in the sky, fish in ocean and animals and plants on ground live silently together with the great nature. The great nature does not have confinements and judgments towards one another. That is, it ‘just’ lives with the mind of the truth, without the mind of an individual, ‘as it is.’

However, human mind has many aspects contrasting with the great nature. Humans like to boast about themselves because he is self-centered. It is so difficult to live the true life of nature without the self as we are bound to conceptions and customs that have been formed by the life we live, that which we call ‘our self.’ However, there are still many people who have abandoned conceptions of the self and live the life of sacrifice and service. It is truly amazing and just by looking at them we become ashamed of ourselves.

Why don’t we become the mind of the great nature by escaping from this tiny frame that we call ‘myself’? If we can become one with the great nature rather than just a tiny human being in the extensive great nature, it would be true joy and happiness to us. The great nature is our teacher and the birthplace of our mind.

To conclude, I would like to introduce a piece of writing by Teacher Woo Myung. Please think deeply about the life of nature that is ‘just as it is.’

This is called Great Nature.

Great Nature

Birds singing, insects chirping

The sounds of beasts in the dark

Trees and grass are thick

After resting from the heat of the day

There are the beasts that move in the night

This deep, deep forest is no different from ancient times

I try to figure out how many have come to this place

But I do not think anyone has come looking for it

All the while nature stays silently in its place

People think nature has unheard complaints of its own

But nature just stays as it is

With no mind of having done so

The mind of nature is the mind of Truth

In the mind of Truth

There is no mind of individuality at all

It stays as it is without judgment or discernment

Water flows from high to low

Running into trees, stones and moss

So clear that it is almost white

The water tastes sweet

And upon its surface, water drops roll like crystals

The water runs along the valley

To become the river, to become the sea

The sea is a composition of the rivers and the sea

And thus, salty

It changes to vapor to become rain

And rain falls to land

Round and round in circles it goes

On the highest mountains

There are no trees and grass

Because conditions do not allow for them to exist

Likewise, people who regard themselves too highly

Have no one around them

This was from < The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living > by Teacher Woo Myung.

We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.

Thank you for listening and please join us next time on Woo Myung Cast where the more you listen to Great Teacher Woo Myung’s writings, the more you gain wisdom. This Woo Myung Cast is sponsored by Maum USA. If you would like to learn more about Great Teacher Woo Myung, please visit Woomyung.org.

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