πŸ“– Introduction

Clouds pass across the sky.
They come and go β€” leaving no trace.

In this profound reflection, Master Woo Myung explains why humanity would not recognize Truth β€” even if it stood before them. The problem is not that Truth is absent. The problem is that the human mind is filled with preconceptions.

When the mind is full of its own images, it cannot see what truly is.

πŸ•ŠοΈ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung

Man Would Not Know Even If Truth Came or Left

A cloud lingers.
Many clouds have come and gone in the empty sky
but now, there is not a single trace of them.

I show people the origin of Truth, but they are unable to see.
They cannot see,
because there is no Truth within the human mind.

In the many ages that have passed by,
countless people have tried to achieve Truth
without knowing its meaning and purpose β€” what Truth is.

Innumerable traces of their efforts remain,
but no dō-in, a person of Truth, has ever existed
because man tried to find and achieve Truth with himself,
not knowing Truth means one is born in the land of Truth
by discarding his self so that only Truth remains.

If someone had achieved Truth,
there would already be a method to become Truth.

While many people sacrificed their precious youth seeking Truth
their frustrated sighs were the only result,
and after a lifetime of years wasted,
they died of old age or sickness.

Time has taken their regrets and their lives.
The years continue to pass,
and no one knows where they have gone.

Later after many years, people drew their own delusional images of Truth
so that to each would have been his own thoughts.

In the past, a hero was a person who killed many people
while a saint was a person who talked about Truth
and prophesied its coming as a human being.

Truth must come as a person
in order for people to become Truth.
For people to become complete,
a completed person must come.

All the scriptures told of this happening some day
but not a single person knows when that day will be
nor would anyone know even if it had already arrived
because there is no Truth in man’s mind.

All that exists inside man’s mind
are the preconceptions and habits from the pictures he has taken,
and bound by those self-centered conceptions and behaviors
he cannot know the true will of Truth.

People would not know even if the Savior comes or leaves.
Only those who become Truth will know.

β€” Woo Myung

🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation

This writing confronts a difficult question:

Why has humanity searched for Truth for thousands of years, yet still remains divided and uncertain?

☁️ The Cloud Metaphor

Truth may appear β€” and disappear β€” like clouds in the sky.
But unless one’s mind is empty like the sky, nothing is recognized.

☁️ The Problem of Preconception

The human mind is filled with:

  • Learned images
  • Religious concepts
  • Cultural conditioning
  • Self-centered habits

Truth cannot enter a mind that is already full.

πŸ‘€ The Completed Person

The text emphasizes something radical:

Truth must appear embodied.
A completed person must come for others to become complete.

Yet even then β€”
without discarding the self β€”
no one would recognize it.