📖 Introduction
🌌 In this deeply reflective writing, Master Woo Myung speaks about loneliness, suffering, youth, burdens, and the awakening to Truth. What begins as a solitary moment beneath the empty sky unfolds into a profound realization: human beings live trapped inside their own minds, unaware that they are spiritually “dead.”
Through this revelation, Master Woo Myung explains that the true purpose of life is not success, busyness, or superiority—but to remove the self, return to the origin of the universe, and be reborn as eternal Truth. ✨
This message reveals that even the most ordinary voice may carry the most important thing in the world.
🕊️ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
The Most Important Thing in the World
I drink, then look up at the sky.
There is no way to express my mind.
I sigh into the empty sky,
and I gulp down a bowl of makkolli (rice wine).
There is no one who understands me.
There is no one who can help me.
As the years went by, my worries were forgotten
and I just steamed ahead like a train.
My past became my memories;
there are many stories I do not want to think about.
Every person has a lonely path to go.
But why did I live so busily? Why did the train keep going?
As I have become Truth, I have realized that such is life.
I had lived thinking that I was the loneliest and that
only I was heavily burdened with pain.
I thought only I suffered
because I could not see the sufferings of others.
My youth has passed with time, and I have come
to the origin of the universe in this period of the universe.
I realize why there were so many burdens of pain in my life.
Because I existed,
I thought that I had to do everything and have everything.
All of those minds were useless, futile dreams.
Now I understand the sayings of saints
and how they must have felt.
Now I know that all those saints came to this world
by the will of the living God.
The owner of the universe is ‘I’;
it is ‘I’ that makes the universe and humans live
by making the universe and humans become one.
The foolish are trapped, dead, within their own minds;
people think they are too good to follow the will of the universe.
I teach people the words of the divinity,
the words of Buddha, and the existence and identity of God,
which has only been spoken of until now;
I let them be reborn as the children of that existence.
The reason why
the most mediocre and lonely person in the world
such as myself had lived such a life
was to teach and make people Truth.
The whole of humanity is dead
within their own conceptions and behaviors
with painful burdens,
but they do not know they are dead.
The dead do not know they are dead.
The way to live is to remove the self, remove the universe,
return to the origin, the foundation of all creation,
and be reborn as the eternal, never-dying God.
Only Truth, the origin, can do this.
People all live a life of their own;
they live with painful burdens because they have their selves.
When I look in the mirror the ‘me’ in the mirror has no worries;
a person who becomes God
is like the ‘me’ who exists in the mirror.
When the ‘me’ in the mirror exists on its own
like the ‘me’ who is outside the mirror,
that is human completion.
The ‘me’ outside the mirror has countless worries and agony
while the ‘me’ inside the mirror is devoid of them.
We come to this world only once.
We must all be reborn as the forever-living, never-dying God
by becoming this one world, which is the whole of the universe.
The true purpose of human beings, the true purpose of life, is
to be born again as a complete person, as Truth.
This world is not perfect when there is only superior people in it;
when you listen to what the ordinary person says
and try to follow what he suggests,
it may well be the most important thing in the world.
It may well be the most precious thing in the world.
— Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to discard the false self and return to the origin—the foundation of all creation. Through systematic meditation practice, one can remove painful burdens, transcend loneliness, and awaken as eternal Truth. 🌿
The path is not about becoming superior. It is about becoming complete.
