From Despair to Hope - Founder's writings

"There were people living in the world even a long time ago. The many people who lived in the world throughout the ages have all disappeared, silently and without a trace. While they lived, they were attached to the realities of their daily lives and they suffered because of their minds of possession, but despite all of their agonizing over the meaningless events of life, no trace of them remains. Ultimately, there is no meaning in human life.

The only way for man to live forever and escape from suffering and burden is to die (in the mind) while he is still living. Only then can he find his true self. His true self is God who remains when he is dead.

Even if all people and the world disappear, what remains is the existence without form, taste, scent, sight, hearing and feeling. That is, the existence- for which these minds have completely ceased- remains: the original foundation. If one is reborn from the original foundation, he and the world become eternal and never-dying immortals, and both the world and man live, for they become God that never dies.

Discarding falseness and becoming real is the only path to life. People want to become real but at the same time keep the falseness; there are not many people who know that they can only become real if they throw away what is false. They have such strong attachments to their falseness that they look for Truth within it. They do not know that Truth does not exist within falseness- that is how foolish people are. The right way, or the answer, is to discard falseness so that only Truth remains, and to be reborn as Truth.

Every human being and every creation in the world have minds of individual beings. How can man, animate beings, and inanimate objects survive if they discard their individual minds?

True mind is the core and the origin of everything in the world. True mind exists but it does not; it does not exist but it exists. It is the existence as it is. However, people are ignorant and misunderstand; they think they cannot live without human mind. The original mind exists as it is no matter if the human mind exists or not. Yet people have their own human mind, and think that individual mind is what constitutes their selves.

When the original mind exists but one's human minds do not, he lives a true life. One's own individual mind only confines and restricts; it does not help him at all. Becoming free from one's ego entirely is 'do' (Tao) or going towards Truth. Only when one lives with the original mind, is his life a well-lived life.

When one's own minds are added to this original mind, they form to make his soul and become the source of various delusions. When one's individual mind does not exists, he can live according to nature's flow- a complete life of Truth."

Woo Myung.

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