Maum Meditation Centers 마음수련회 & Other Religious Cults

I want to address this particular organization today because this organization, Maum Meditation, uses meditation in all the wrong ways. They are really giving "meditation" a bad name. 

I was a member of the organization for about a year around 2006, and my wife was a member for many years. 

The organization says it is all-inclusive, taking in members of all different types and denominations of religions—Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and atheists.

Most people mistake Maum Meditation for something similar to Buddhist Zen meditation.

That is one very important reason why I want to write this blog about the Maum Meditation Centers, 마음수련회.

In reality, however, the Maum Meditation Centers' meditation system of "Emptying the Mind" is nothing like Zen meditation, the Buddhist concept of Non-Self, and "Emptying the Mind."

How do they, at the Maum Meditation Center, empty their minds? 

They are emptying their mind by erasing their memories of mind. 

In real and actual practice, they mentally chop and mince a body organ (eye, ear, heart, nose, all body organs ...) after a body organ to oblivion, to out of existence, and thereby delete all bad, problematic, or past experiences related to body organs and therefore one's whole body in the end. 

This same mental deduction practice applies to the relationship to the people, especially troubled relationships with people who are close to them. 

I noticed "zombification," where members are not "remembering" or "recognizing" things or their past experience with their acquaintances. They tend to not make eye contact with other people. So they would not be bringing in new life pictures and people they might have to delete from mind later.

Their minds become "blankfied ("white-paged")." They tend to fall under suggestive modes of a group act or their leader's words, which I call them becoming "hypnotized on demand." (This is where I have failed miserably, and I could not progress up the ladder. I was not programmable).

This is what makes them very dangerous, especially to the minors of the member family or young adult members. They can easily fall under the control of the bad actor adult and elder members (other religious cult groups are the same in this regard), and I may have seen many times these criminal actors (Maum Meditation member-bad actors, police, and firemen included) have used minors in their stalking criminal activities, exposing minors to their criminal activities at young ages. Such activities alone should be a serious crime in themselves.

And I have read somewhere that Maum Meditation "infiltrated" the schools in Korea. Hundreds and thousands of teachers and their students are the Maum meditation members. 

I just can't fathom why kids would be doing meditation practice, especially when it comes to deductive mind meditation. 

The way these mind deduction practices apply, I can see how dangerous these mind deduction mental exercises can be to the minors, young adults, mentally unstable or challenged, and people with already vulnerable life situations.

Their mental suggestions of cleaving and mincing a body can, in my own opinion, be too powerfully suggestive and therefore very dangerous. 

And they are very vengeful people, like all other religious cults are; they harass their ex-members constantly in groups by stalking, threatening, injuring, and even killing if they can get away with it. They hold so much hatred for people who leave their organizations or talk the truth about their organizations. They won't forget. If they find an opportunity to hurt you, they will try to hurt you. I felt like I was attacked by them endlessly, on and off, hidden, over two decades (2006 - present).

I believe they commit hate crimes against their ex-members, people like myself, to set an example for those who are thinking about leaving them. 

Now, I am wondering very loudly if any of the vicious, hidden, and deadly attacks I was under for the past 8 years carried out by Korean nationals in Korea and Korean Americans (including Nayoung Hwang, Monica Choi, and East Asian ethnic policemen) in the US were members of the Maum Meditation Centers.

I am dealing with them every day in Korea. I can't point fingers because I can never positively ID them. They do not walk around advertising they are Maum Meditation members, but they are there following me around, trying to find ways to hurt us in Korea.  

They could be everywhere, especially in KORAIL, KT, the police departments, fire departments, all levels of government agencies, and in all professions, including real estate agents, engineers, bank employees, herbal doctors, acupuncturists, medical doctors, nurses, local gangsters, and owners of all types of local businesses. 

In the US, there are many members who work in Korean grocery chains that are equally vindictive and vicious but very limited to the small confines of their familiar ethnicities. 

Here in Korea, I feel their presence of hatefulness every day. They just make your life difficult, harassing and stalking you in any way possible if they mark you as enemies. All I know is I could be living right next to their houses or buildings. That's how close they are. They stalk you 24/7.

These are very dangerous people, especially those who are in the high levels (7th or 8th) and run these centers. It is best to avoid them from the very beginning. They are like all other religious cults, the Unification Church and SinCheonJi.

The leaders of these cult organizations accumulated enormous wealth on the backs of their followers. 

With Maum Meditation, the members were required to pay exorbitant amounts of money and time to stay with the organization, for one's meditation progress, and for one's required activities. The higher the grade you attain and stay at, the more hooked you are for life. This put many of its member families in a state of falling apart financially (because they often ask members for an extended period of training away from their home), broke, heavily in debt, and bankrupt. I have seen them and their families destroyed in the US, with parents divorced and children neglected.

These days I hear all this news about corrupt politicians from both parties taking bribes from these religious cult organizations—ShinCheonJi and the Unification Church—in Korea. 

Maum meditation is no different from them, except that the Maum meditation leader, Woo Myung, stays in the US and South America mostly. I am sure he is living extremely well and well protected by a cadre of lawyers, politicians, and government leaders.

I believe the Maum Meditation Centers and their lesser-known offshoot organizations targeted me for retaliation, harassment, and destruction because I know too much about what organization it really is. I saw him, Woo Myung, a few times in Norcross, GA in 2006. I was not really impressed with him, like I have never been impressed with any known cult leaders like Moon Sun Myung or Lee Man Hee.  

Any religious leaders making millions and millions of dollars from their followers; I consider them all to be con-men. 

It is very disingenuous of them, the Maum Meditation Centers, that they entice and welcome new members as if they are some sort of Zen meditation center, luring people like us who wanted spiritual guidance through meditation.

As a Buddhist, I find their teaching and practice of "meditation" so abhorrent. 

For all those minds destroyed and the valuable one's lifetime and energy the members have wasted, the karma for these cult leaders will be severe.

Karma has very severe consequences for those who knowingly mislead their followers' trusts for their personal gains.

And karmic consequences of such evil acts, adding more pain and suffering to others, are not limited to one life cycle. The endless number of rebirth processes will be affected by your evil thoughts and deeds today that may last millennia. 

Almost all people think people like Stalin, Tojo, or Hitler have not had all that bad a life for themselves. Considering the many millions of people killed by hunger, disease, in pain, and in concentration camps, some as guinea pigs during World War II, it is greatly wrong to believe these evil men's karmic consequences will be limited to just one lifetime, going to heaven or hell just once indefinitely. Unlike other religions, in Buddhism, bad deeds, bad karmas, are not salvageable or forgiven; they have to be paid back with just the same intensity and weight sooner or later; if not in this lifetime, then in many tens or hundreds of the next lifetimes. 

And Buddhists' versions of heavens and hells come in many varieties and change with their own time limits.

Likewise, your luxury sports cars, Porsches, Maseratis, and other multiple luxuries these criminals are enjoying today by adding pain and suffering to other hundreds and thousands of people with profits from drug trafficking, human trafficking (babies, minors, mentally challenged, and young adults), computer hacking, eavesdropping, electronic stalking, vehicular mobbing, insurance fraud, predatory lending, and financial and criminal entrapment fraud will have just consequences—karma—through many rebirth processes.

In the end, your karma is your only true belonging that you take over to the next rebirth; nothing else.