Introduction
✨ In this profound reflection, Master Woo Myung explores the difference between illusion and reality and points to the forgotten origin from which all existence arises.
According to Master Woo Myung, the origin is the place where clouds and wind come and go, where time flows, and where all the countless events of human life ultimately exist. Yet people do not recognize this origin because they have separated from it and now live inside their own minds. 🌿
Human beings create their own mental world through greed, desire, and attachment, taking pictures of the world in their minds and living within those images rather than within reality itself. In doing so, they become trapped in illusions and mistakenly believe those illusions to be real.
Through these words, Master Woo Myung reveals that the true destination of human life is the world of reality and existence, not the imagined world formed by human thought. This teaching invites deep reflection on origin, illusion, reality, greed, and the false mind.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Illusion and Reality
The place where the clouds stayed awhile,
where the wind stayed awhile,
the place where the clouds rested awhile,
and where the wind rested awhile,
is the origin.
All the countless events of human life are in the origin,
but man does not know the origin.
Time that flows by is in the origin,
as are countless events
filled with sighs, blame, love and hate.
But man does not know the origin
because he has separated from it
and he lives inside his own mind.
For what did he live his life having turned against the world?
What did he want to achieve,
that he turned his back on the world that is the origin?
Human mind does not exist in the origin.
It came into existence because of man’s greed,
and his greed made him turn against the world.
But all he has done is take pictures of the world in his mind,
and he lives not in reality, but in an illusion, holding onto illusions.
It is something to be ashamed of.
All those who boast of how great they are
are living in a non-existent world,
but they do not know they are in such a world.
What man must achieve, and where man must go,
is the world of reality, the world of existence.
But man does not know where he must go,
or how to get there.
He only has the minds that he has eaten,
and he lives as a slave to those minds.
He does not know what is right and correct
because his mind is clouded by the minds he has taken in.
He does not know he is in a useless world,
he does not know what it is he has to do,
and he lives thinking the conceptions and habits of the minds he has eaten are correct,
but they are only illusions of pictures taken.
Man is a ghost
because he lives inside an illusion where nothing is right.
– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌿 The teaching of Master Woo Myung reminds us that much of human life unfolds within a mental world constructed by thought, belief, and habit.
This writing suggests that people often mistake their own thoughts and images for reality. In doing so, they become separated from the origin, the true world where existence simply is. Greed, attachment, and the accumulation of countless mental impressions can cloud the mind and make it difficult to see clearly.
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to observe and discard the false mind, letting go of the pictures and illusions that have accumulated within consciousness. Through the teachings of Master Woo Myung, one can reflect on returning to the origin, recognizing the difference between illusion and reality, and discovering the world of true existence. ✨
