“Enlightenment — Like Washing Dirty Clothes, One Layer at a Time”

What is enlightenment, really? This clear, accessible teaching from Teacher Woo Myung compares the process to washing dirty clothes or erasing scribbles from paper: the more you throw away the illusionary pictures in your mind, the more truth enters in, and the closer you come to knowing things as they truly are.

Video Transcript

Hello today we are going to hear from the book stop living in this land go to the everlasting world of happiness live there forever bye teacher moo myung we’ll talk to the page 19 enlightenment in the world there are falseness and truth man’s mind that lives copying what belongs to the world is false.

The world is true man is not one with the mind of the world instead he lives in an overlapping copy of it in any case it is a certain fact that he lives in his own mind world he comes to know truth to the extent that the mind of the world enters his.

This is enlightenment man’s mind is made up of illusionary pictures consequently when he throws away these pictures truth will enter into his mind and he will know truth to the extent of what he has discarded this is enlightenment only when one repents can one gain enlightenment.

Go to the place of truth it is the same principle as washing dirty clothes the more you clean the dirt away the more it goes back to its original state a piece of paper which has been scribbled on gets cleaner the more the scrabbling is erased enlightenment is the same as knowing the true state of the paper once it is clean.

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