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When people hear the words ‘Friends show’ they might exclaim, ‘ah!’ If you are 30 years or older, you probably remember a sitcom called Friends and recall the last episode of this sitcom on May 6, 2004. On the last day of the sitcom, many said they had lost the joy in their life. Friends had been widely loved by many people and even after it was over, many fans said that there was along-lasting lingering despondency from the deprivation of Friends. The sitcom Friends first began in 1994 with its first Season and had been loved by so many people for over 10 years, as if it would never end. It was full of interesting, feel-good content that comforted people’s hearts. Countless fans around the world still become excited and miss all six characters from Friends– Rachael, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross. However, as we already know, nothing can be everlasting no matter how good it once was. The six friends who we thought could be with us forever had eventually left us. (Of course, the actresses and actors are still actively involved in their career.)
Another series that provided us similar feelings is the film series Harry Potter. It is not too much to say that the Harry Potter series, beginning with fictional novels by J.K. Rowling, had swayed the world for over 10 years. After big success with the novels, it was put into a series of films over a period of 7 years. With the end of 2011, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, there came great sadness and frustration to many fans all over the world. But nothing in the world is eternal. Even a very good series and interesting facts all vanish as time goes by and only remain in our memory. When the young people of this generation become old with grey hair, they would remember their young days watching Friends or Harry Potter. And, that would be it.
No matter how splendid dramas and films are, they would vanish one day when time passes, and so would our body. However, there is only one thing that never changes forever in this world. We call it Truth. Many people say that Truth is something everlasting and never-changing.
Just like we need the foundation for the houses we live, there is the original foundation of everything and beings of the world. Where the world has come from is not somewhere else but the infinite emptiness of the Universe. In the beginning, before the Earth came out, and before the material Universe, including stars, came out, nothing would exist. Although nothing exists, this existence is the living existence, and so all materials could come out from this existence. Because this existence is a non-material real existence, this existence does not have a lifespan and will continue to exist even after everything of the world, including our body – that has lifespan –vanishes one day. This existence is our true mind and original mind. Therefore, while living we need to return to the mind of this existence and receive the body and mind that never dies from here. Are we born again, we can live forever.
As I said earlier, although something is splendid and successful in the world – even Friends and Harry Potter–they are not eternal. However, if you, while living, return to the original foundation and are born again from the original foundation, the soul lives forever. Therefore, what you need to do after being born in the world; the most important thing is to save yourself and live forever.
Now the generation has come when you can become the Truth, and it is coming to cities all around the world – you don’t need to abandon your life of going to work and family. A good teacher is now present with a good method. Therefore, everyone should now become the Truth, which never dies and is a never-changing existence, while living.
Although Friends and Harry Potter series have been over, let us, at least, change our life to the one that is everlasting. The time you can accomplish this has come.
To conclude, let me introduce a writing of master Woo Myung, whom I sincerely admire and follow, the Great Master and a number one Amazon bestselling author.
From Amazon no.1 Bestseller, Stop Living in This Land, Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness, Live There Forever
Man Ends Up Following His Mind: If There Is Falseness In His Mind He Will Follow Falseness, If He Seeks Truth He Will Follow Truth
In the world, there is no such thing as a free lunch. That is, one acquires as much wealth and material things as the effort he has put into acquiring them. Even with this meditation, there are some people who are not able to finish the levels due to the karma they have amassed. They can only reach the level of this meditation that matches the size of their mind, the amount of their karma. That is to say, their mind does not have the capacity to take in more.
I have seen many narrow-minded people who do not have any thankfulness towards people who taught them something; they happily believe that what they learned was accomplished on their own because they are somehow superior. Because their minds do not have the capacity to take in what they have learned, later they speak only of what is in their minds – they talk of their own preconceptions.
Even though many people live in this world, no two people are of the same mind. This is because everyone has his own mind. The mind one has is false so no matter how much Truth is spoken to that person, he cannot understand or hear it because he does not have Truth within him. Jesus said that people cannot see although they have eyes to see and they cannot hear although they have ears to hear. This means that man is shackled to his mind and he does not know anything which is not within him. But what is in him is all false; it is not true.
When the mind of man which is false, becomes the mind of the world which is true, man can understand the ways of the world. Only then will he see the world as it is and only then will he know Truth. Knowing Truth is only possible when one’s mind becomes Truth.
Man only sees the outer form, but Truth sees whether the mind within is true. Man keeps scraps in his mind – everything he has learned and all that has happened to him – but these things are far from Truth and cause him to lose his human nature and know only himself. If man recovers his human nature, the world will become truly peaceful. It will become a world where people can trust and believe in one another.
When one’s preconceptions and habits are thrown away, he can accept everything in the world. The world will be a good place to live, as the narrow, negative mind becomes a positive, practical and active mind. It is the same in the false world; human life unfolds by what is in the mind, therefore if one has lived for money and academic achievement then he has that in his mind and he will live according to that mind.
Academics, the law and all that is man-made in the world will naturally disappear with time. The world where people live without the mind of self, in other words, the world of saints, of righteous people, will be a truly joyful place to live, for all will be of one mind. Without the minds of burden and suffering, there will be days of endless laughter. It will be a world without division between nations; a just world where people will be honored to live for others and thus will work with laughter and live joyfully. It will be a world where all people live well. There will be no fear of death, because heaven will be within one’s self and one’s self that is born in heaven lives forever; this world and the world beyond will be one.
