Maum Column_Life Is a Moment of 0.000001 Seconds

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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 lifeas a result ofdeadly 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; andthey 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 Earthis 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 rollercoaster 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 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.

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

Maum Column_ Light of Wisdom

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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 saltare 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.

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.

- From The Living Eternal World, Teacher Woo Myung.

Maum Column_ Your Happiness Matters

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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.

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.

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

Woo Myung's Words of Wisdom_ What God Is

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International Conference on the Topic of 'Maum Meditation: Happiness, Peace, and Coexistence' Was Held in Great Success

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Michael Furlong, a world-renowned specialist in school psychology, announcing keynote speech

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

On May 3rd, the 2014 International Conference on Human Completion on the topic of ‘Maum Meditation: Happiness, Peace, and Coexistence’ was held with great success.

The conference was hosted by the Academic Society for Human Completion and supported by the Center for Korean Studies, UCLA in order to discuss how to realize the true coexistence of mankind in a practical way. The conference was of great interest to academic societies and scholars to such an extent as to attract hundreds of people at UCLA.

At the event, leading scholars including Professor Michael Furlong, world-renowned specialist in school psychology and Dr. Sam Himelstein, Director of Programs and Research at Mind Body Awareness, and young and outstanding Korean scientists gathered for an in-depth discussion on the topic.

The research on the theoretical basis and effectiveness for mind subtraction, which is emerging as one of the key global issues, was a source of significant interest.

One of the research projects was ‘Breast Cancer Survivor’s Psychological Well-Being’ conducted by Dr. Mi Ra Yun (PhD, Researcher, Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University) and the study was conducted at Asan Medical Center in Seoul targeting breast cancer survivors. This research established the fact that mind subtraction can show outstanding efficacy for cancer survivors to improve the qualities of their lives such as psychological stability, positive emotions, and satisfaction.

Also, the study conducted by Dr. Namin Shin (PhD, Professor, Department of Education, Dongguk University, Korea) showed the positive effects of Maum Meditation on depression, social nervousness, and aggression. The study was based on the effect of Maum Meditation on stress and drop of cortisol hormone of elementary school students. This proposes a new method for personality education through inner peace and happiness for elementary school students, which garnered great attention.

Professor Furlong and Dr. Himelstein expressed surprise to the personality education which Maum Meditation has implemented in school fields and its results in the training of mind and body of the youths. Dr. Himelstein showed deep interests in the method of Maum Meditation verified through the results of scientific and empirical studies.

Furthermore, the studies received congratulations from Dr. Charles Mercieca (President, International Association of Educators for World Peace) and Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University) who is a leading researcher on Positive Psychology and best known as an architect of the flow model. In 2002, IAEWP awarded the founder of Maum Meditation, Woo Myung the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize for his contributions to the recovery of the original nature as well as reconciliation and peace. Dr. Charles Mercieca said “Once we achieve a permanent peace we can give it to others“, and highly appreciated the significance and accomplishment of Maum Meditation which has contributed to human internal introspection and the recovery of the original nature.

Michael Treacy, the director of Las Vegas Maum Meditation Center, gave a special lecture ‘Human Completion for Happiness, Peace, and Coexistence’ and made a great appeal to the audience.

In addition, the Academic Society invited LA Maum Meditation Center to host a workshop where people could try the meditation hands-on. The attendees of the conference showed deep interest to the mind subtraction method.

Another highlight of the conference was the stunning Youth Art Exhibition, which was comprised of a collection of pieces submitted from children from thirty five countries. The art exhibition was titled, ‘Youths, Imagine a Beautiful World’ and it involved continuous visits with the evaluation of ‘healing drawings’.

The Academic Society, founded in 2008, has hosted conferences twice a year, achieving more than expected through opening a new prospect in the field of personality education. On the basis of this, the Academic Society held the first international conference at Seoul National University on the topic of ‘Happiness, Ask the Mind’ under the sponsorship of Korean ministry of education last year.

Today, Maum Meditation is practiced at more than 350 centers from 40 countries. Founded in 1996, Maum Meditation is a method of meditation that uses a unique principle called mind subtraction. The main center is located in Nonsan, South Korea and it runs a variety of programs for youth, university students, and the general public including office workers.

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Podcast of Wisdom_#11 Wind II

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WIND II 

When the wind blows

man asks why the wind is blowing.

Man’s mind changes day and night.

If you were to ask me why,

I would tell you that it is because of

the fixed habits of his body.

Man judges and resents the blowing wind,

but the wind does not give care to this.

Without notice or warning,

the wind tries to coax him –

even provoke him –

so that he may seek to understand its will.

The wind does this without the mind of having done it.

The wind is without a mind,

but man judges it – he even curses it –

all the while pretending to be good

to others that are of the same religion as him

and to Jesus, Gautama Buddha, and Mohammed;

for sure, he does not curse them.

The wind does not resent man who is childish;

it does not even pretend to hear man,

but simply goes about doing its duty

silently and heedlessly.

The wind blows regardless of man and his mind.

From Nature’s Flow

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