Universe: Original Foundation

When you look upon the universe with clear and true mind

The universe is living; the universe is within you.

The Essence of the Universe

The universe is infinite and it has no beginning or end. The universe always existed and its origin is the emptiness – the sky before the sky. All of creation came forth from this existence. It is not material, in fact in this existence there is absolutely nothing yet it is alive and divine because it consists of the one God and the emptiness. The universe is alive and it is the semblance of omnipotent and omniscient Truth.

The true existence is the pure emptiness of the universe beyond the universe. This existence existed before entity eternity and will exist after eternity. It is endless without beginning and/or end. It is the living existence, which exists as it is and on its own.

The Original Foundation

The place this world came from is the original foundation, and the place it will go back to is also the original foundation.

Everything in the world is able to exist because the ground exists. The ground is able to exist because the earth exists, and the earth is able to exist because the empty universe exists. The pure empty universe, that has not one material thing, is the original foundation and the place of Truth.

The whole world is able to exist because the empty sky exists; this is the true will of the sky. It is because of the existence of the empty sky, that the celestial bodies of the universe and everything on earth are able to exist. Just as we are able to live because the earth exists on which to live, the earth and all celestial bodies are able to be, because the empty sky exists. Every material thing in the world is able to be, because the original foundation exists.

The original foundation or the place beyond material existence is Truth, the master of the universe and the Creator. This existence is a non-material, immortal and living existence. This existence is the master of the world; it is the Jung and Shin of the universe (meaning the Body and Mind of the universe) that is the master of the world; the universe’s Soul and Spirit. The only eternal existence in the universe is this existence.

All creation came from this place – the animals and vegetation that existed in the world thousands of years ago have all disappeared; in the place that remains after they have gone, there is the original foundation – this is the place of Truth and the origin of the universe.

It is the same when people die. Coming from and going back to the origin is the providence of nature, the way of the world and Truth. All people, animals and plants go back to this place at the end of their life spans.

The Way for Mankind to Live Forever

Every creation in the universe is already enlightened and all is living in the world of Truth since everything in the universe is this existence itself that has come into form. However, human minds have stored the attachments and delusions. Simply, the world that man has stored in his mind by copying everything in the world does not exist. Because of this false picture world that is hell, man cannot live in the world of the original foundation. This is absolutely not the way humans are meant to live in this world. Instead, people have come to this world to become complete in the land of this existence which is Truth.

We must go back to the origin and be born in the origin. If we think about it, the original foundation existed before you were born and it exists after you were born. And it will still exist even after you die. Unless you swap your mind into this existence of Truth, which is the origin, an eternal land does not exist. Doesn’t the universe still exist even after both your mind world and yourself disappear?

Material matter in the universe exists because your mind exists; even after all the material matter is erased, the sky still exists. When you become this empty sky and you are reborn from this sky, you will never die.

One goes back to the origin when his self has completely disappeared, and only when one dies and does not exist at all, will he be truly reborn and resurrected and live as true entity in the true world – infinite pure universe.

The world is enlightened,

But man living in the false world, is not enlightened.

All of creation comes from the original foundation,

Lives in the original foundation,

And returns to it,

But having lost the original foundation,

Man has a world of his own mind with which he lives.

And the original foundation does not exist in his mind.

Originally, man’s mind and the world are one

But man has taken pictures of the world inside his mind,

And he lives in this world of his mind; an illusionary picture world.

Such is the reason man is dead.

Even if everything in the world does not exist, it is the original foundation.

Even if everything in the world does exist, it is still the original foundation.

Those who become the mind of the original foundation

Will always live in the original foundation.

But those who live in their mind world live inside that world always,

And when they die, they will die forever since they do not have life.

-Woo Myung