Heaven is the world that exists and hell is the world that does not exist. People say that you can only go to heaven or hell after you die, however, you can only go somewhere after you die if you’ve already gone there while you are still alive. If you go to heaven while you are still alive, then you can live in heaven after you die.
What if you believe you will go to heaven after you die, but it turns out to be wrong? What will you do then? It’s too late to start over. It would be a disaster.
People don’t live in their bodies, they live in their minds. People live inside the many different kinds of minds they have. If you live inside a stressful mind of tens of thousands of thoughts – of anguish and anxiety – that mind will be hell.
If all you know in this life is hell, then how do you expect to go to heaven after you die?
I have lived with my head in the clouds since I was young. I was lazy and I sat around a lot instead of moving my body. I was the main character in the world that I created. However, reality was much different, so I had countless complaints and regrets in my heart. No matter how much happiness I had found in life, I was never the master over my body because I was commanded and controlled by what I had in my subconscious mind.
Try this – Close your eyes, and in your mind, go to your friend’s house. Ring the doorbell and go inside. Watch TV, and eat food from their fridge. Now open your eyes. Your body stayed in one place, so it might seem like your mind was too. However, the fact is that your mind was separated from your body the entire time you were walking around the friend’s house in your mind.
You can go anywhere you want inside your mind, because you are already inside your mind. Therefore, if you’ve never lived in your body, and you died in a sudden accident, wouldn’t you still be wandering around inside your mind?
It would appear to be like the real world, but it’s a world that only you created. You will have the same thoughts as when you were alive, for example, “I have to go to school”, or “I have to go to work”, and many other busy and stressful thoughts. However, even though you may try to do all of those things, you will not be able to because you do not have a body anymore. Then you may begin to wonder, “Where am I? What is this place?” And when you realize that you can’t do anything, it will feel as if you’re 10,000 feet down in a well. It’s a very painful loneliness.
Back in Korea, I was friends with a girl whose father was a lifelong farmer. He was very ill and spent his last days in a hospital bed, surrounded by his wife and children. In the moments before his passing, they said his mind became very clear. He recited all the names and details of all the people who were good to him throughout his life. As he closed his eyes for the last time, he muttered the words, “I am going to work in the field.”
When you are in a dream, you may laugh or cry in it because you believe it is real, but when you wake up, it just disappears. Your mind world is a world that also does not exist. Hell is to live in a world that does not exist. Heaven is the place where you can abandon all of your stress, pain, and burdens. It is the place where you live as the universe’s mind, and you can see and hear the world as it is. So, shouldn’t we go to heaven while we are still alive?
