The fly was so sad about having lost her girlfriend. The fly said, “Oh… my life is now over. I didn’t know I would be this sad losing her. I don’t want to do anything. I am just so depressed. I am hopeless…”
A man saw the fly’s anguish and told him, “Hey Fly, it is so ridiculous. You only live for a day. You won’t be in the world tomorrow since you would die today. So why are you having these worries? If I were you, I would rather enjoy today.” Eventually, a day passed and the worrying fly died.
The man started to worry. “Oh my goodness… I have to get a job quickly. I need to pay rent and buy food, too. I don’t know what to do…” The Sun in the sky looked at him and gave him a word, “Compared to me, humans live shorter than a day. They live only 100 years. Why are they worrying? They are so foolish. They will die tomorrow, but then why are they struggling so much? They would live happily if they empty out their mind.”
Yes, that’s right; our life is equivalent to a second, compared to the infinite life of the universe. If you empty out your greed and false mind, you can live much more freely and joyfully. Moreover, if you become the never-dying universe mind and are born again as the true soul and spirit, you can live forever as the true soul and spirit, just as the universe never dies. In our short life, spanning less than 100 years, what would be a more important task than saving yourself and gaining eternal life? It would be a task you must, at the very least, accomplish. Give it a thought.
From teacher Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living in This Land Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness Live There Forever
Man’s Fate is at a Crossroads of Eternal Life and Death
There are often more days of difficulty and suffering than there are days of happiness in life. And it is in the midst of difficult times that we begin to think of certain matters. I am sure there are many who have given some thought to where they go after they die, though they will never find the answer within their human thoughts. This is because man’s consciousness is dead and instead of living in the real world he is living inside the mind that he has made.
People seek out religion and other institutions in pursuit of Truth because they are incomplete. The ultimate goal of all of these institutions is to live forever. In other words, in their efforts to find a way to live eternally, people seek out religion, pursue Truth in various places and eventually come to places like Meditation. However, the only way for people to live forever is to be reborn in the land of the Creator, the origin, and Truth.
One must live in an eternal place, namely, the land of Truth, in order to live forever. To get to this land, he must first destroy all of his falseness and then he must be reborn there; without doing this, no one can live forever. In other words, only a person who completely discards his entire mind and body is able to go to the land of this existence, the land of Truth. While on the cross, Jesus asked why God had forsaken him, but that he was still willing to die if it was God’s will. This means he was willing to discard himself and stand on the side of God who is Truth; he loved God and Truth more than he loved himself. And it was through Jesus’ death that the way was set to cross over into the land of God.
Everyone living in this world is a sinner. When the sinner completely dies, only Truth remains and this world is heaven – it is the world of Truth and God. No one can live forever unless his self, the sinner, completely dies and he is reborn as a righteous person. Again, every single person in this world is a sinner. So the only way to live in heaven for eternity is to repent fully and be completely absolved of all sin. Then he will have the righteous world in his mind and he will be resurrected as a righteous person.
Unless one’s mind becomes one with the righteous world and is reborn in this world while he is still living, he will die forever. He who has completely destroyed his false self is one who has won the battle against his self. There is no way to live forever without eliminating the false sinner within and being born as a righteous person, as Truth.
