Introduction
✨ In this expansive and deeply insightful writing, Master Woo Myung describes what happens when one becomes Truth.
According to Master Woo Myung, when a person becomes Truth, the individual self disappears, and only the original mind of the universe remains. 🌿 In that state, all separation—between people, nations, and religions—vanishes, and humanity becomes one unified existence.
This teaching presents a vision of a world where all people live in harmony, gratitude, and according to nature’s flow, free from conflict, division, and suffering. It also reflects on the current human condition—living without knowing the purpose of life, birth, and death—and contrasts it with the life of one who has awakened to Truth.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
When One Becomes Truth
When one becomes Truth,
none of his individual mind exists;
it is when all people return to the original mind of Truth,
that the world will become one.
Then, all will be of one mind,
which is a mind that does not change.
This mind is wisdom itself.
People will live with the mind of one,
and there will be no you and me.
No longer will there be your country and my country,
or your religion and my religion.
Everyone will go to heaven while they are living,
and all will live a life of heaven.
Everything will be done according to nature’s flow
and everything will be done with true actions.
People will live according to the perfect solution,
because it exists.
All people will become complete,
and with the mind of one,
they will live for others.
The existence of the sun alone means on Earth
there are some places with one season,
and some with a spring, summer, fall and winter.
If there are cold places, there are hot places also,
and there are places where the temperature is just right, all year round.
Due to their individual minds people blame and fault the events of the world as they live,
but a person who has become the world lives with gratitude.
This exists, and that exists;
everything exists because the world exists
so there is thankfulness for the worth of this existence,
and thankfulness for its ways
when one returns to the origin of the world’s profoundness and mystery,
when he returns to the origin of this existence’s eminence
for one’s self and this existence is one
and all things exist of and by themselves.
Singapore, a man-made place,
is only the size of a city
and it is spotlessly clean.
Although it is a good place to live,
it lacks nature.
In the world, there are countries that are well-off,
and also countries that are poor;
in the world there are countless stories,
and there are countless events.
It is within these stories and events that people live
and while it can be said that they live,
no one knows where they are going,
or the reason and purpose of their lives.
There are those that are born, and those that die,
but no one knows the purpose of birth and death.
Futilely and meaninglessly they possess a self,
but they eventually die.
Over in the horizon of the blue sky,
the waves sway silently,
and endlessly they repeat their work.
It is impossible to know when people first started living here in Guam
where people ceaselessly come and go.
They all live in their various ways.
Though countless people come and go,
and go and come,
the nature here always stays.
Nature itself may change,
but the sky will always remain, silently.
People live lives that are like the flowing water,
but in the midst of ignorance of life and death’s true meaning,
I teach people how to know the ways of the world,
and how to live in the world.
I teach the life of great nature,
and I teach the principles of great nature.
I alone fret that there is no one in the world who knows.
But many people are drawing closer to true knowing
and the loneliness in my heart is slowly lessening.
Until all people in the world become people who know,
I will silently continue to make turfs of knowing.
The ways of the world may be this or that way,
and I live silently, just the way the world is, and the way it can be seen,
but people who have much to say, speak ceaselessly
and live lives where nothing remains.
They blame the years that are futile,
and they take a mind of greed.
A life of nature’s flow that follows nature,
can only be had when one becomes nature.
When one is born as the mind of that existence
that is silent and where everything is alive,
everything is one.
Man believes himself to be great,
and lives trapped inside his great self,
so he is blind to the world
and deaf to the words of the world.
He only mutters the sounds of his own self,
and within those meaningless words, he dies.
Without knowing where he will go,
he sighs.
– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌿 The teaching of Master Woo Myung reveals a complete transformation—from living as an individual self to living as the mind of the universe.
This writing emphasizes that division, conflict, and suffering arise from the individual mind, while unity, wisdom, and peace arise when one returns to the original mind of Truth. When this happens, life flows naturally, without resistance, and one lives with gratitude and clarity.
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to cleanse the mind and discard the false self. Through the teachings of Master Woo Myung, one can reflect on oneness, nature, life’s purpose, and awakening, and move toward a life where all is one, all is alive, and all is Truth. ✨
