Man is born with a mind that wants to possess, so he seeks satisfaction and happiness through possession. However, there is no end to such means; ultimately, he cannot be satisfied or happy. All greed arises from his mind of inferiority and when he is not able to have or achieve what he wants, this turns into feelings of regret and bitterness. Only when he discards his greed, will those feelings of regret and bitterness truly disappear. Until now, man has lived trying to possess what he can because of his mind that wants to make everything his. At present, this is the way all people live. The world is in a state of instability;
people have lost their trust in each other and they live struggling to appease their feelings of inferiority. Rather than learning how to possess more, in this age learning how not to possess is the way to become complete and live a better life. This is because instead of just thinking that we must discard money in our minds, we will be able to carry it out into action.
A mind full of greed is always anguished; and a life lived following one’s anguish is without action; it is a life with thoughts leading only to more thoughts. If the past was the age of adding to one’s mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind. A person who subtracts his minds in this time will recover his original nature. Consequently, the whole human race will become one and the world will become complete because everyone will live for others and the world. Human completion is becoming God’s mind by subtracting all of one’s own minds. One will then be able to live well for he will have wisdom and his mind that is the Soul and Spirit will live eternally. Subtracting all human mind – all the mind one has, that he has “eaten” – is completion.
Woo Myung founded Maum Meditation. For his outstanding dedication to the service of humanity, he was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award by the United Nations International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP). He is the author of numerous books including World Beyond World, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living, Nature’s Flow, Mind and Stop Living In This Land, Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness, Live There Forever which have been published in English. His other books, Heaven’s Formula For Saving The World, The Living Eternal World, The Book Of Wisdom, and The Enlightened World are in the process of being translated into English as well as Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
