📖 Introduction
🌿 Many people wonder how to make true friends and build lasting relationships. Often, friendships are formed based on shared interests, similar personalities, or mutual benefit.
According to Master Woo Myung, true friendship does not begin by trying to gain something from others. It begins by transforming one’s own mind. ✨ When the false, self-centered mind is discarded and replaced with sincerity and truthfulness, genuine friendship naturally follows.
True friends are not created by effort alone—they arise from a truthful heart.
🕊️ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
How to Make Friends
People usually make friends with those who have the same state of mind as their own. All people prefer people who have similar states of mind to their own, and they try to befriend those who can understand them and those who like them. Instead of trying to make a friend or expecting something from them, change your mind to have a genuine mind and be sincere when making friends. Being sincere is the way to find unwavering friendship. If your mind is truthful, others will treat you truthfully, truly understand, and become your friend. The way to find true friends is discarding your false mind and becoming the true mind—then, you can have true friends in life.
— Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, relationships are understood as reflections of one’s mind. 🌌
When one approaches others with expectation, attachment, or self-interest, relationships become unstable. But when the mind becomes sincere and genuine, connection becomes natural and enduring.
To find true friends, become true within yourself.
Friendship begins with the transformation of the mind.
