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 story is called a Mirror and a Little Girl.
A seven-year-old girl came back home after playing around at a playground. She nonchalantly checked herself in a mirror and found a dark stain in the middle of the mirror.
She tore off some tissue and wiped the mirror but the stain didn’t come off. So the girl put some water and soap on a towel and began wiping out the stain. No matter how hard she rubbed and rinsed it with water, the stain did not come off at all.
The girl got irritated but she couldn’t do anything about it. She finally gave up and washed her face. The moment she lifted her head up after washing her face, the girl found out that the stain on the mirror disappeared.
The human mind is a picture world that is taken self-centeredly. Humans living inside the self-centered picture world just believe that they are right and others are wrong, no matter what. However, because the pictures are already false, humans cannot easily recognize that they themselves are false, most of all, that they have made the picture world and live inside it. Only those who have thrown away the false mind through subtraction can realize that everything has been their fault by themselves and be born again as the truth by eliminating the remaining false mind completely.
Everything Is My Fault
When something goes wrong, people tend to blame it on others and resent them. All creation exists because I exist. Therefore, if we found the conditions by which everything came to be, we would find that those conditions are our own faults that are within us.
Because we have hatred within us, we hate others. Everything exists because we exist. When we acknowledge that everything is our own fault and see absolution then we are reborn into the kingdom of heaven as the children of God.
This was an excerpt from World beyond World by Great Teacher Woo Myung.
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