📖 Introduction

🌎 From childhood, many people live as if they are constantly fighting—competing for better grades, higher income, and greater recognition. Survival feels like an endless mental battle.

According to Master Woo Myung, true survival and lasting success do not come from competition alone, but from cultivating the big mind. ✨ Those who remain small-minded encounter conflict and obstacles everywhere, while those who are generous and understanding gain cooperation and support.

To survive well in this world is to transform the mind.

🕊️ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung

How to Survive

Since childhood, people living in this world have been fighters in their minds who constantly had to fight invisible battles to be better at school, make more money than others, and do everything better than others. However, those who are big-minded can become successful and achieve what they want in life. Those who are small-minded face obstacles on their way toward their goals because they encounter conflicts in everything they do.

In the U.S., statistics show that rather than those who have good grades in school, those who have better characters and personalities become more successful later in life. When it comes to surviving in this world, one who lives an overly selfish life does not last long. Those who are generous, understanding of others, and big-minded become successful because people around them support and cooperate with them. One can become successful if he changes his mind to the big mind, allowing him to diligently dedicate himself to the work that he does with that big mind. The way to change one’s mind to a big mind is to eliminate one’s conceptions and customs.

— Woo Myung

🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation

At Santa Clara Meditation, survival is not about defeating others—it is about expanding the mind. 🌌

A narrow, self-centered mindset leads to friction and exhaustion. A big mind fosters understanding, cooperation, and resilience. When one eliminates rigid conceptions and habits, diligence becomes natural and success becomes sustainable.

To survive well is to live with the big mind.
To live with the big mind is to harmonize with the world.