INTRODUCTION
✨ In this contemplative writing, Master Woo Myung sheds light on the fragile nature of human life. People wander through existence shaped by their environments and delusions, living and disappearing like fog. Only the one who becomes one with the sky and the earth can understand the futility of death and discover the true solution to live. 🌌
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Frailty of Human Life
When dusk approaches on a cold day,
a person with somewhere to go does not worry
but someone who has nowhere to go worries deeply.
If he cannot find anywhere to go,
he will give up and look for any place to sleep
while worrying about how not to freeze.
A roaming wanderer will just roam, without thinking.
People and everything in the Universe live according to their environment,
and then pass away in vain.
Man lives according to human delusions
and then disappears somewhere;
like smoke or fog, he vanishes in vain.
But there were no solutions –
I mean there has been no way to just exist and just live.
Man blames life for being futile,
but those who know life’s futility are those with a little sense,
while those without a clue perhaps have no sense at all.
One may ask the blue sky,
but his words do not reach it
because the sky is hidden by the cloud of the human mind.
For certain, the silent sky knows the answer, and the earth knows,
but man does not know
because no man is one with the mind of the sky and earth.
He accepts this state as fate that is not fate,
and dies without having anything to blame.
The answer is, for sure,
in the mind of the person
who has become one with the sky and earth.
I mean, he will know the futility of death
and he will have the solution to live.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners discover how to go beyond the illusions of the human mind and awaken to the sky-and-earth mind—where the futility of life is understood and the true way to live is revealed. 🌠
