INTRODUCTION
✨ In this teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that what the world calls “great” is not true greatness.
True greatness is not winning wars or achieving fame—it is simply living ordinarily with the biggest mind. When one defeats the self and becomes Truth, life itself becomes extraordinary. 🌿
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Ordinary Is Extraordinary · The Ordinary Is the Greatest
We think that for us to be great is not realistically possible; we believe, instead, that some other great being exists somewhere else. True greatness is to just live, to just exist, and to accept everything. True greatness is when one’s mind is the mind of nature, which has the entire universe. It is the mind that does not change and is ordinariness itself.
To be extraordinary is to be outstanding. The person whose mind is the biggest and whose life is ordinary is the most extraordinary and the greatest.
Greatness is to have the biggest mind. We think that the greatest person is one who has grand achievements, or wins a war. However, to defeat one’s self is more difficult than conquering millions of soldiers. The person who defeats his self and becomes Truth is the greatest.
The person who has become Truth is the living, everlasting, and never-changing God and does not have self. He lives in the eternal world where only the greatest live.
One who thinks he is the best will die imprisoned inside his own excellence, and one who thinks he is the greatest lives confined inside his greatness. But one who is just ordinary accepts everything and lives silently and harmoniously with others, and is, therefore, the greatest and the best.
Only one who knows the law of nature and becomes Truth and works for the true world is Truth. This is the one who is the greatest.
– Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners discover how true greatness arises naturally when the self is defeated and life becomes simply ordinary—yet extraordinary. 🌠
