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My endless search for Truth began since I was young. When I was seven years old, my father passed away. I started to have, within me, a series of questions that had remained unanswered for over twenty years: Why are we born? Why do we live? Why do we die? Does God exist? Where is the Truth? As a little girl, I began my peregrination with various religions, philosophies, and practices in search of a ‘being’ that could fill my existential void. However, what I had found from those many promises were only false prophets and disappointments. A search for such answers even influenced my professional training: International Relations and Psychology. However, the academic and scientific world could not fill up this void. To the eyes of those around me, my life was always perfect. They could not see the suffering I had from my meaningless life. The experience as a psychologist confirmed my perception that a life was that of nonsense. However, this story, which seemed to be destined to have a dark end, gained life and sense when I was introduced to this meditation. Upon hearing the first explanation about the meditation, my instinct knew that it was... View Article
Have you ever felt no matter how hard you tried that it was just never good enough? Has there ever been a time in your life where it seemed there was more wrong than there is good in this world? I have. I would go through the day and everything seemed so dark and gray. Living life day by day and just going through the motions. When I was a child, I faced trauma no child should and not even therapy could help. But this eventually changed. I remember the day I found the pamphlet. I was leaving a restaurant and there on the counter was a pamphlet for this meditation. I have never heard of it but what it offered seemed too good to be true. It offered happiness and a real life through true existence. I began to meditate and found that I have an unbelievable amount of memories, both good and bad, stored inside of me that hid the real world. I kept going back to the meditation center. It was my safe haven where I could feel calm and relaxed also learned to be more grateful to the Universe and see my life in a more... View Article
Before I came to this meditation, I was an active Christian in church, enjoy pursuing the true meaning of human life with brothers and sisters. I believe that the word from Bible is truth and never changing: “One Body and one Spirit, even as you were called in one hope of calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism; One God and Father of all, Who is over all and through all and in all (Eph.4:4-6)”. But I felt dismayed, asking why are there so many religions in the world? How can this world become one? I often thought: How wonderful the world will be if it becomes one, if everyone and everything becomes one! By chance, I got a brochure from this meditation. I was attracted by the words “This meditation transcends the boundaries of all religions. Anyone from any religious group can become a part of this practice without giving up their own faith. On the contrary, the practice of this meditation when incorporated in a person’s own faith, can make them a stronger adherent to their belief system.” Since I sought to find the oneness of the world without giving up my beliefs, I joined this meditation. After I have... View Article
Manila Center, Philippines Do we frequent the beach? No. At the Manila Center, there is a pretty pool. With emptying of the mind, we feel so light, we can even cool off in the pool afterwards…enough said, right?
Where Do We Go When We Die? In the world, there is the true world and the false world. From the true world, it is possible to know the ways of the world and where people go when they die. People are trapped in the false world – their mind world – and they know nothing for they are all dead. All scriptures spoke of the true world. The Ma Eum Soo Ryun teaches how to destroy the false world and live forever, reborn in the true world. A person who is born in the true world while living – human completion – will live forever while a person who dwells in the false world will die.
To Those That Hate Me To those that hate me, thank you for showing me there is hate in my heart. To my enemies, thank you for teaching me that enemies remain in my heart. To those that scold, and those that nag, thank you for teaching me scolding and nagging remain in my heart. I thank those in whom I see flaws, for I know those flaws exist within me. When there is discomfort in my mind for whatever reason, I am thankful for I know those minds exist.
The Sound of Wind Chimes The wind chimes of Heaven ring leisurely, but people do not know this and so they look to the sky and sigh. Listen! Listen! I say to you all that life in Heaven does not exist separately from life on earth. What is truly valuable is the life you live on the earth with each others’ love. People are bound to their bodies, and so they childishly think that the lives they are living are everything. However the place where everyone has come from is the Universe; its Body is all of you and so all of you are one and the same. Since you live your own lives in the world ? a world where the distinction between ‘you’ and ‘me’ exists but love does not and since your lives are not of the will of Heaven, man, and earth, what you are doing is seeking to do nothing more than satisfy your meaningless attachments. A life that is of nature’s flow is not a life that is lived only for oneself; nature’s flow is about living together.
As Naked As The Day You Came Where have you come from and where will you go? Do you have sadness? Do you have kleshas? If so what? Are they kleshas of knowledge? Are they kleshas of meetings and farewells? Are they kleshas of death? Are they kleshas of birth, sickness, and old age? Whatever sadness or worries you may have they are all your meaningless delusions, which have been born of your impure discernment. Thus if you were to abandon all of your attachments you would be free from your sadness. In society today, a person’s worth is determined by his state of wealth and rank, and people believe that such things enrich their beings which are nothing more than empty shells. But man is an existence that departs as naked as the day he arrived. Do you not go alone just as you have come alone? Once you find yourself, you will come to know that you have come from nowhere and will go nowhere; once you truly realize that you are bound to your sadness, kleshas, and delusions and are thus not really alive, you will become Buddha. Kleshas, along with all the delusions you see, are... View Article