✨ Introduction
🌌 In this deeply emotional reflection, Master Woo Myung expresses the quiet sorrow of nostalgia, lost youth, and the longing for rest.
Life passes like a dream—filled with unfulfilled hopes, wasted time, and fading strength. Many live without knowing where they are going, only to awaken later and realize that their years have been spent chasing empty dreams.
🌿 Yet within this sadness lies a deeper desire—the wish to return to a place of innocence, peace, and true rest.
✨ Through this message, Master Woo Myung reveals that what we truly seek is not merely a physical hometown, but a return to the original mind and the true place of existence.
📖 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Nostalgia
Over in the far hills,
the herders are sleeping,
oblivious of where the cows have gone.
Those who just sleep,
do not know where the cows have gone,
and when they wake up,
they find that they are old and weak,
and have spent the years dreaming a sad dream,
a futile dream.
Why is life,
why are people,
so sad and feeble?
It is pitiful.
No one knows.
There is no one that knows.
They waste their youth,
spending it dreaming useless dreams;
they waste away their good years.
I want to go,
I want to go to the endless horizon where there is nothing but grass,
stretching out endlessly, further than the eye can see.
I want to roll and run there like a colt,
shrugging off worries, anxieties, this, that, and everything.
My hometown is no different than my mind at a time
when I would run and play in the fields
near the mountain graveyards of my home.
I was a young child,
a mischievous, immature child.
I did not have a lot to eat,
but neither did I starve.
All that I want
is a place of rest.
– Woo Myung
🌠Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, this longing becomes clarity.
🌿 Through meditation:
- One understands why life feels like a sad and fleeting dream
- Sees how youth and time are often lost in illusion
- Finds the true place of rest beyond the human mind
✨ True rest is not found in returning to the past,
but in awakening to the eternal Truth that never changes.
