Introduction
✨ In this profound continuation, Master Woo Myung explains enlightenment as the complete elimination of the thought-mass—the accumulated attachments, karma, and environment that shape the human mind.
He teaches that all the affairs of this world arise from man’s tumultuous thoughts. Choices, worries, and struggles are born from the mind’s stored impressions. Because of these attachments, human life feels heavy and confined. 🌌
According to Master Woo Myung, happiness begins when one becomes absent of mind—free from worries and no longer dwelling in the self. Enlightenment is returning to the foundation of the Universe, where nothing exists and yet everything is complete.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Enlightenment II
All the affairs of this world are dust.
All the affairs of this world man creates
with his tumultuous mind;
all of his choices are based on his thoughts.
A choice is a thought of man’s,
and depending on it,
his life can be lived in whichever manner.
Man has countless different things in his mind.
The countless different things
are what the individual has in his mind.
Such a mind never came from anywhere;
the mind is born of one’s environment
and is determined by its environment.
Therefore “environment” is
the life one comes to have due to living.
Man lives his life one way or another,
but it is all in vain.
It is only when his life is not life
that it is a joy and happiness.
Human life is meaningless for an enlightened person.
Such a person does not dwell in life
and is happy in his ever non-existence.
Happiness comes when one is absent of mind;
happiness means to have no worries.
One’s mind is his attachment
and what he has come to store within;
it is a burden he is unable to be free of.
In order for him to become free of it,
the most important thing
is for him to abandon his thought-mass.
One’s thought-mass is
the immanent thoughts that exist inside him
because he has a life.
In order to do away with this thought-mass,
one must discard it little by little
while he is in the emptiness of the Universe.
This is the best way to eliminate the thought-mass
and the fastest way to know what Truth is.
But man is unable to know Truth
due to the mind he has.
To break free from one’s mind is
to no longer have the self.
In order to eliminate the self, one must eliminate
the whole of his thoughts and his body.
The Universe is a place where nothing exists.
But man creates countless things, for his self exists.
Originally man is perfect,
but the reason he cannot be so is that
his self exists, for he has attachments.
To man, ‘original sin’ refers to
the road of attachments one embarks on
from the moment he is born into this world;
such is the beginning of original sin.
Man has original sin,
for he does not live as a perfect being.
During the creation of heaven and earth,
the Universe bore forth humans that were perfect.
But they have their bodies and thus their lives,
which while they are living them,
they grow confined to their thought-masses;
therefore they are unable to live perfect lives.
This is because of their lack of wisdom
and because they have attachments.
In order to teach man that he is without sin or karma,
one must get him to realize the foundation.
The foundation simply exists as it is,
but man does not know it,
which is why he must realize it.
The reason people of this world lack wisdom is
they are bound to words and to religious scriptures;
they cannot see Truth
but instead bind themselves to their thought-masses.
The scriptures are righteous,
but in order to know them,
one must be enlightened of them.
The scriptures merely teach us that Truth exists
but are not Truth itself.
Truth is only Truth when man seeks it out.
But no one knows the will of the Universe,
and all live in the world with worries.
The being from Heaven
does not exist in a different manner,
but people see him as being different,
and this is the problem.
The Universe is ever-high and infinite,
and once one knows that
his mind and others’ minds are the Universe,
he will be able to easily understand the realm of God.
In other words, man’s mind would be
the Universe and the realm of God,
and in it he would exist.
– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌸 At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to gradually discard the thought-mass—attachments, karma, and accumulated impressions—while remaining in the emptiness of the Universe.
In the teaching of Master Woo Myung, enlightenment is not acquiring knowledge. It is returning to the foundation that simply exists as it is. When attachments disappear, the mind becomes the Universe itself.
