Cardinal Dharma Master Chŏngsan admonished ordained devotees and wrote for them a phrase in literary Chinese: ‘Let your vision pervade the universe,/ May your faith and dedication remain consistent from past to present.’ He then explained, “Vision refers to your aspiration and your plans; only when your aspiration and plans are grand will your success also be grand. Faith and dedication refer to..

Since, in all matters, their effects must have a cause and their cause must lead to an effect, the past, present, and future are mutually interconnected through relationships of causes, conditions, and effects, ceaselessly circulating over and over and unfolding this infinite world. If there is a plant here that is thriving, one may surmise that its seed was originally of good quality and it rec..

With this Great Opening of matter, Let there be a Great Opening of spirit.

The Founding Master said, “The truth of the universe originally involves continuous circulation over and over again without either arising or ceasing, so that whatever goes, comes again, and whatever comes, goes again; and a giver becomes a receiver, and a receiver, a giver. This is the constant Way that never changes throughout all eternity.”

The Founding Master said, “When a person whose mind is crooked has a lot of money, knowledge, or power, then those things instead become the basis for transgression and unwholesomeness. Only after one’s mind is upright will money, knowledge, and power be transformed into eternal blessings.”