Do you remember the 2007 film The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman? These two actors played roles of terminally ill cancer patients. They take on a road trip to accomplish “things they must do before dying,” their bucket list. A bucket list literally means “a list of things you must do before dying.” If you would write your bucket list, what would you like to include? Would you like to drink a quality espresso at a fabulous café around the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France or go to Africa to do voluntary work for refugees? You would have many things you want to do. There are lots and lots of thing to do in the world, and also lots of things you can do. However, there is the most important thing you should not forget to include in your bucket list.
Human’s life span is seventy to eighty years on average. Compared to the infinite age of the Universe, human life is shorter than turtles (not all turtles live long, but I heard that many of them live more than 100 years). We believe that this life which is shorter than 100 years is all about us, but actually it is not. What we must accomplish while living is to accomplish completion. To accomplish completion means to live forever. As we already know, this body returns to the soil someday when the body ceases to last. This is what we call the end of our life. However, while living, if you completely eliminate the mind and body of yourself, the false being, only the original mind of the Universe remains. The Universe existed before we were born and would still exist after we die. If you change your human mind to the mind of the Universe, while living, and are born again as the soul of the Universe mind that never dies, you will exist as the true soul that never dies while living. Although the body will vanish someday, the soul will live forever together with the true world, just as it is.
When we die, nothing remains and we don’t know anything. After death, we cannot even practice the study of becoming complete. We must write ‘to finish the study of becoming complete’ on our bucket list. Think about it. What would be more important than living forever in the world? People quickly get older, quickly age and quickly die. It is said that time flows like water, isn’t it? You don’t need to weep over your age. Everyone should practice the method at this good time – when the method of living forever while living has come out to the world – and accomplish completion. Everyone must live forever.
No matter how joyful and great the life you live with your body is, it only lasts 100 years at the most. Moreover, the time flies. However, if you throw away yourself, that is false, and become the Universe mind, you can be born again as the true soul, your true being. As that soul is not material but non-material, wouldn’t you live forever just as it is? If you live for 100 years, die and disappear, there is no meaning at all. We must live forever while living. Because only the soul of Truth can live forever, we must meet the right place where it can be accomplished and we must achieve that first of all.
The generation, in which humans live forever while living, has come. How good is it? The time has already come that countless people have already become complete and live forever. During this good time period, let us all practice the meditation diligently at a place where everyone can accomplish the completion. What else would be greater than this for your bucket list? To conclude, let me introduce a writing of master Woo Myung, the Great Master of this generation that I sincerely admire and follow, and the Amazon number one bestselling author.
From Stop Living In This Land, Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness, Live There Forever
It Is Not the Material Body That Lives Forever, But the Soul
Nothing that is material in the world is eternal. The sun, the earth, the moon, and all the millions upon millions of stars in the sky are material entities. Scientists estimate that stars have life spans ranging from five to fifteen billion years. At this very moment, there are some stars in the sky being created and some disappearing. Everything that is material in the world is the origin, the sky before the sky, namely, the original foundation. It is the place of absolute emptiness – when everything in the universe that one thinks exists is taken away. All material things come from and return to this place. This is the way of the world and Truth. And as all material things have a life span, there is nothing that is everlasting.
Heaven, or paradise, refers to the world where this world has been born in the land of the origin. Only this land is Truth and does not disappear. There is no eternal place unless one is reborn in this land as the element of Truth. The word eternal is only applicable to the land of Truth.
Some religious sects believe that man and the world can live forever, but this is because they do not understand the true meaning behind the religious scriptures. They think that to live forever means man can live in this land eternally as a material existence. However, only the soul that has been reborn in the land of the Creator that is this land can live forever. Once again, the fact that anything that is material eventually disappears is Truth and the law of the world. Coming from the origin and returning to the origin is the way of the world. The land of the origin, of Truth, is heaven. When one believes Truth, becomes Truth while living, and is reborn in the land of Truth, then he can live forever in this land where the true world exists.
Although many people are curious about where they go after they die, if one is not reborn as the element of Truth he will die because he does not have the soul of Truth. Rather than just talking theoretically, when one actually repents and is reborn in heaven, he will come to understand all the ways of the world. One will know Truth as much as he has repented, as much as he has become Truth; this is enlightenment. When one becomes Truth, he will know the principles of the world but if he just reads the words of Truth without knowing their true meaning, then he will think his understanding is correct but he will die forever. If one changes his way of thinking and goes to the place where one can become Truth and truly becomes Truth, then he will know that the true soul is the true everlasting never-dying immortal.
Truth knows both Truth and falseness, but the false self knows neither. The false self does not know the true meaning of the holy writings and just interprets them with his human mind. Thus he cannot know or understand their true meaning. There is nothing higher, more supreme or more perfect than becoming Truth. Therefore, if one achieves completion by becoming Truth, he will know all the laws of the world.
