Our Life In A Movie
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.
Our life is false and a movie. Our body’s lifespan is around a hundred years maximum. If we live in the movie and die, we just disappear because the movie is false and does not exist in reality. However, while living, if you are born again in the true world, you live forever and you can really live with never-changing happiness, great freedom and joy. Now is the generation when anyone can live and it is now that you can prove this while living.
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.
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