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Joy Of Subtraction
Do you know how joyful subtraction is? What I mean by subtraction here is mind subtraction. Have you ever subtracted your mind? While living life, things do not always work out as you wish and you become stressed. Each time this happens, what did you do? Maybe, you could not do anything, but instead, have accumulated all that stress in your mind. When we eat food, nutrients are absorbed in the body and we excrete the waste products. The reason why we can continually eat food is because we also have a method to get rid of the waste. However, our mind does not have an organ to discard the waste from our mind, like the digestive organ does for the body. When we take in mind, it is not just a few times, but we continuously accumulate the mind. We have been accumulating all kinds of mind from the time we were born up till now.
All kinds of minds – sadness, suffering, worries, attachments, negative minds – have become our mind’s shit at the moment and we live holding onto them. That is the mind of pain and stress. The reason why we were born in the world is to live joyfully. However, not many people live truly joyfully and happily. Everyone lives carrying worries and burdens in the mind. Let’s look at nature. Flowers bloom in fields and trees. They do not have the mind that we, humans, have. Because they do not have the mind accumulated from the past, i.e. the mind of stress, they are always free of worries and do not have mind at all. Only humans carry all kinds of pain and burdens in our life.
Now, in a great generation, a good method has come out to the world. It is to achieve human completion. While living, we need to throw away the false mind of pain that we have and come out to the world. The nature is living in this world of truth. However, only humans keep taking in all kinds of mind throughout their life, never subtracting them. Those minds have become pain and stress. Even at this moment, humans do not throw away that mind and live in pain while continuously carrying them these heavy loads. It is truly unnecessary.
Now, it is the generation that you can throw away the mind; and it is the generation of throwing away stress, too. A great time has come. Scientific technology is extremely developed nowadays in all areas including electricity, semiconductors, computers, telephones and cell phones, the internet, transportation and medicine. Likewise, the method of throwing away the mind has come out to the world. Everyone can now know the joy of subtraction. The generation has come such that everyone can throw away their mind’s burdens and come out to the true world; thus, they live joyfully and happily with the mind of nature.
Let’s throw away our mind’s burden and come out to the true world. Let’s live joyfully together!
From the Great Master Woo Myung’s book, Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever…
Let’s Go to the Living World
The world is alive, but man is not able to live.
The world just exists,
But man has countless troubles and is dreaming unreal dreams –
He does not know all of it is meaningless and false,
For he is not Truth,
And so he dies after a lifetime of agony and anguish.
He does not know the true meaning of the plaintive words
That one lives forever.
Is it not natural and logical that one dies if he has not become Truth?
Man thinks that someone will save him even if he has not become Truth
But this idea is wrong;
So come to your senses, strive to become Truth
As becoming Truth is of the utmost importance.
What is real and false,
Is the world and man; the world is real and man is false.
It is nonsense to think that one can live eternally
Without his mind becoming the eternal world
And being born in that land.
Do not try to find or achieve something
For Truth is revealed only when one discards his false self
And the only thing for man to do
Is to be born in the land of Truth
By the will of Truth’s master.
If one does not do this
There is no purpose or reason for living.
Instead of living a human life of seventy or eighty years
Live an eternal life, live to the life of the world –
Such a person is wise and sage.
He who tries to possess more, commits more sins
While he who discards and eliminates even his self
Can be born into the world of Truth.
One whose mind has become Truth
Has heaven in his mind and the whole world is alive
And he himself is born in his mind.
If there is no human mind at all
And only the mind of God within you
You no longer take pictures
And the master of the consciousness is within you.
Your true soul must be born
In the land of that original foundation
If you are to become the forever-living immortal.
He who talks of going to heaven after death
When he has not gone to heaven while he is living
Is not able to go to heaven and dies forever.
We hope you enjoyed today’s insightful poem by Great Teacher Woo Myung.
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