🌟 INTRODUCTION

✨ Everyone wishes to receive blessings, yet most people misunderstand what blessings truly are. 🌿
In this deep and poetic teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that blessings are not possessions or rewards given from outside, but the freedom from worries that arises when the false, desire-filled mind disappears.

Prayers and efforts to gain blessings can prevent further karma, but the true blessing is the mind that has nothing to gain—the mind that is at peace and in harmony with Heaven. 🌈

📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

Blessings

Blessings are a sort of having;
everyone tries to have blessings,
but the blessings man wishes for
come from his own mind.
One’s mind is the memories of his actions
and all of his thoughts.
Whether or not blessings come
depends on those remembered thoughts.

The blessings of the sky are the blessings of heaven –
abilities, gifted by heaven.
Human blessings are man’s blessings;
blessings that are gained through one’s connections.
Longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a peaceful death –
often called the Five Blessings –
are blessings that come from connections,
but the making and breaking of these
also depend on one’s self.
Blessings do not come from praying and bowing,
and yet, during times of prayer
people do not add more to their karma
which in itself is a blessing gained.

Blessings come from the thoughts one has;
depending on what those thoughts are
one can be without worries;
and it is from these that all things
happen and are gained,
though they cannot be seen.
They are blessings,
but people try only to gain and have
and no blessings exist within such minds.
A blessing gained is to be free of worries.

– Woo Myung

🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn the true meaning of blessings—to live without worries or burdens. 🌱
By cleansing the false, possessive mind and discarding karma and habits, one’s mind naturally becomes peaceful, pure, and blessed.
True blessings are not what we receive, but what remains when we have nothing to gain—the freedom and serenity of the True mind. 🌏