I say to you all:
do not try to know
where it is I have come from,
or how I have come to know
the Truth I teach.
I say to you all:
do not try to know
what it is I do,
or where I am going.
I cannot be understood through man’s common sense.
People do not know me;
they live
simply judging me with their self-centeredness.
I say to you all:
you must understand the principle that
among the ordinary exists the extraordinary,
just as man may teach others because man exists.
A person who is Truth must come forth
in order for man to become Truth.
If one were not Truth,
then man would not be able to be reborn as Truth.
I say to you all:
the whole of the Universe is alive
and is already enlightened.
However man is not enlightened,
for he has lived self-centeredly.
May you all repent
and be reborn as Truth.
Once you repent,
all that remains is the Mind of Buddha and of God.
The living, eternal, and never-changing existence
is God, Buddha, Truth, and the Creator.
Every creation that exists is a representation of the Creator,
and is thus alive.
But only man is trapped in his delusions,
which are his attachments;
he alone is trapped in his tomb and is thus dead.
He who has been absolved of his sins
will be eternal and will not die.
He who has been absolved of his sins
will have the seal of God on his forehead
and thus will not die but live doing the work of Heaven.
He who has reached completion while alive
will not die,
for he is Truth.
He who is born into eternal Heaven while he is alive,
does Heaven’s work while he is alive
and accumulates heavenly blessings
is a person who is Truth.
He who does the work of Heaven
will have the glory of Heaven
and will accumulate his blessings in Heaven.
One’s blessings are one’s own,
but there seems to be
no ‘dō-in (a person walking the path of Truth)’ –
no one who understands the logic that
one’s blessings exist in Heaven
according to how much of it one has accumulated.
Though I have come from Heaven
man does not know me.
This is because divine beings
cannot be seen by the eyes of man.
Only a person who is a dō-in
is able to recognize a dō-in.
Everything man knows
is a lie that stems from the attachments of his false mind.
But with it he discerns and judges,
for he lives not knowing
that the mind is his image.
A divine being is one whose self has completely died
and has thus been reborn as the perfect Truth;
he is Buddha, God,
and the Universe that is before and beyond the universe.
The Mind of this Universe is the existence
for which there is no existence that is
wider, larger, lower, or higher,
and he who has this Mind is a divine being and a dō-in.
In man’s delusional mind,
there is not even the slightest hint of Buddha or God.
He who has the widest, largest, lowest, and highest Mind
is one who has been reborn as Buddha and God.
When one does not exist,
then he is in the state of Truth.
He who has completely died
is one who the infinite Creator has become reborn as;
therefore, such is resurrection
and rebirth as the child of Truth.
This universe is alive and already complete.
This universe is already enlightened.
But only man lives with countless delusions inside him;
He is trapped inside himself and is dead.
On the other hand, a person who is alive is one
who has abandoned his delusional self
along with all that is his,
has been reborn,
and is alive in eternal Heaven while he is still living.
The living know the dead,
but the dead do not know that they themselves are dead.
Only when we wake up from our dreams
do we know that those dreams were delusions
and are completely false.
Man’s life is like a dream
and so he lives ignorant of the fact that
his life is false.
From God’s and Buddha’s point of view,
man lives in a dream
just like the dreams he has.
Truth is reality,
and from its point of view,
the whole of creation is alive.
This world is already perfect.
But because man sees all things from
his narrow, human mind,
he does not know whether
the whole of creation is alive or dead.
Abandon all that is yours
and have the greatest Mind
so that you may become Truth and have
the Land of Truth in you.
It is from the Creator
that all things of the Universe came forth.
The Creator is the infinite Universe
that is before and beyond the universe.
In the Universe,
there are stars, the Moon, the Sun,
as well as Earth.
Where did all of these things come from?
They all came from
the Universe that is before and beyond the universe.
Even in science class,
we learned all creations came from the universe.
This Universe is, in itself, the eternal Truth.
It is the Creator,
as well as God and Buddha.
The Universe before and beyond the universe is
God and Buddha, who are the Creator.
And it is from this Creator
that all creations of the universe came forth
and to Him all creations will return.
From this Creator all things are
born according to condition,
live according to condition,
and die according to condition.
Buddhism teaches that all creations
are born through earth, water, fire, and wind,
while Christianity teaches
that all creations are created by God.
The Christian view is the one seen from God’s perspective –
God who is the Whole and who is
the Universe that is before and beyond the universe;
the Buddhist view is the one that recognizes
the conditions that bring about creation.
Though these two views may sound different,
they are one and the same.
Truth is the Creator,
and by Truth all things are created.
People are bound in their words
and so if some words are different from their own,
people disregard them,
which is why people will never be able to know that
the Christian view and the Buddhist view are the same
because they try to understand these views
from their own perspectives,
which are their own self-centered point of views.
When seen from Truth’s point of view –
or in other words, the Whole’s point of view –
there is only one Truth;
though the exact wording may differ,
whether we say
that all things were created by the Creator
or that all things were created according to
the conditions of creation –
earth, water, fire, and wind –
both are one and the same.
Woo Myung
