🌟 INTRODUCTION

✨ What does it mean to live as Truth itself? 🌿
In this deeply personal reflection, Master Woo Myung unveils the loneliness of enlightenment —
the silent solitude of one who has become the Universe, yet remains among people who cannot see or understand him.

Though he is eternal life itself, he cannot tell the world.
His tears, sighs, and unspoken truths become his writing,
and his solitude becomes the song of Truth. 🌌

To become Buddha, to become Truth, is not an exalted throne —
it is a station of loneliness,
where one must let go even of the longing to be understood.

📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

Lonely Mind

I cannot begin to describe how I am Truth.
That I am Truth is a thing beyond expression.
I am Truth, but this is something that is unspeakable.
I was frustrated again and again
at people who were unable to see and understand me.
There was so much heaviness in my heart.
But I could not say anything.
I alone understand my will.

People are childish.
I tried persuading them.
I complimented them.
I humored the demons;
I coaxed them.
However, those days of heartache
are slowly passing;
the days in which I was unable to say anything
are slowly passing.
They were futile days,
but they were necessary.
I had no friends,
and there was no one who knew me –
it was a sad time.
I had to let go of my longings, regrets,
and even my sighs;
I had to truly let go of them.
I could not tell people who I was.
None of them believed me,
even when I did.
Sad and regretful times they were.
Sad and regretful days they were.
I alone knew.
I alone was worried.
I alone sang.
But there was no one who knew my song,
nor was there anyone who understood my will.
I had eternal life,
but I could tell no one that I did.
My sighs and my regrets,
my tears,
all flowed out through my writing.
Had I known that
being Buddha was such a lonely station,
I would not have become Buddha.

– Woo Myung

🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners come to understand the sacred solitude of one who has become Truth. 🌱
To live as Truth is to live without self, without recognition, and without attachment,
yet to love humanity so deeply that one continues to guide in silence.

Loneliness is not emptiness —
it is the space of purity where all longing dissolves,
and only the eternal light of compassion remains. 🌕