“How to Become Truth — One Man's Journey to Awakening”

Since childhood, Teacher Woo Myung pondered life’s deepest questions — where we come from, why we live, and where we go. In this personal account from World Beyond World, he shares the remarkable story of how he left everything behind, meditated in the mountains, and ultimately discovered truth — and how that discovery led him to teach over a hundred thousand people.

Video Transcript

World beyond world by Teacher Woo Myung this passage is called how to become truth ever since I was a child I had given much thought to the questions of where we come from why we live and where we go but all to no avail my father passed away when I was 9 and so.

It seems my fear of death had led me to think about these things I continued to ponder about these questions later in my life but there seemed to be no way to find the answers in my 30s I delved deeply into religious literature but this too did nothing to satisfy my questions so.

I decided I would meditate on them by myself someday at the time I was running a private educational institute so I made up my mind to make some more money and in a year or two have a nice building constructed and then afterwards I would go to the mountains build a cottage near a stream and seek enlightenment on the questions of our origins why we live.

Where our destination lies around the end of December 1995 I set off to gaia mountain I planned to stay there until the beginning of the next year hoping to abandon the life I had lived up until that point my wife had shown no interest in such ponderings but she had witnessed my struggling on the subject.

Had thus asked to come along with me on my trip I refused telling her that I myself had yet to become complete and that going there together may be a distraction but my wife was relentless despite my constant refusal in the end after giving the matter much thought I realized that there would be no harm in her coming along after all what we were doing was seeking.

A way to become saints even though I had been meditating for three months prior to arriving at gaia and continued to do so at gaia I had yet to reach enlightenment my wife on the other hand was able to reach enlightenment after three days and three nights she was staying in the room adjacent to mine and I could hear her joy.

She tried not to show it in case I would be distracted by it initially I did not feel very good about the whole situation but then I thought it was great that at least one of us had achieved what we had come to achieve it was then.

That I looked back on the life I had lived I thought to myself that there could be no one more sinful than I and that the notion of a horrible person like me becoming a saint would be laughable to the world so I meditated diligently ruthlessly eliminating myself again and again and then one day truth appeared I realized that this truth was me.

I was able to meet the Jesus and Buddha of heaven as well as the many scenes I realized that because I was truth it had become my feet to teach this truth to the people of the world so in June 1996 I gave up my business.

Starting in November of the same year I turned my attention solely on teaching people truth at first I met with people once a month gradually more and more people joined and so our meetings became twice a month then later four times a month to date over a hundred thousand people have practiced our meditation and had become enlightened of truth.

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