“We Must Come Out of the Shadows and Into the Real World”

You think you are living in the real world, but what if you are only an extra in a tragic play staged inside your own mind? This vivid teaching from Teacher Woo Myung compares human life to a drama acted out on a fake stage, and calls on us to escape from the world of shadows and illusions into the true world of freedom.

Video Transcript

Where you become true is the place of truth by teacher room young this poem is called we must come out from the shadows the illusions into the world man has the mind of shadows and he lives in a shadow of the world man thinks he is living in the world but he is not because he takes pictures of the world.

On the stage of that mind of pictures he lives according to what is scripted in this mind as a slave to it since he lives with this mind he is just an extra in a tragic play on that stage in this mind there are all sorts of things there is this and that judgment and discrimination aging sickness life and death the five desires.

Seven sins there is coming and going cold and hot high and low the great and the inferior it is a particularly difficult life because he is staging his opera on a fake stage man thinks he lives in the world because he is great but the world comes first.

He should be ashamed for stealing everything in the world after being born in that world he should have just lived as he was made and placed in the world what need was there to steal what belongs to the world to make his own picture world this has only ever increased man suffering and burden and stopped him from living with freedom your stage is not real.

Fake and a picture if you think about the fact that you are living in a picture isn’t it clear that it is terrible and without life that it is illusionary if you escape from the illusionary stage and come out and live in the world of truth you will have no worries and you will have the freedom of freedoms such a life sets everyone.

Everything in the world free all human thoughts are pictures and illusions they are all useless they are all futile delusions and even the fact that you are living is a delusion so you must come out from your mind world in order for you to live you.

These teachings come alive through practice. Experience them firsthand at our guided sessions in North Park — your first class is free. Discover how the method works.