✨ Introduction
🌿 In this insightful teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that blessings are not something to chase externally—they are received according to the capacity of one’s mind.
Many people seek blessings, yet fail to receive them. Why? Because the mind that is filled with self-centeredness and falseness cannot hold them.
🏺 True blessings can only be received when one has the “bowl” of Truth within.
✨ Master Woo Myung teaches that when the false self disappears, the true mind becomes the vessel that can receive endless blessings.
📖 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
One’s Capacity for Receiving Blessings
Do not blame, cry, and laugh for your blessings.
If you cry and laugh for me,
you are the blessed one.
If you blame, cry, and laugh for yourself,
you are the unblessed.
For a person who has falseness in his mind,
his false mind drives out the blessings, and thus,
those blessings cannot remain; blessings do not come to him.
One who cries and laughs for me is a person who is blessed.
One who laughs and cries for himself
is the unfortunate one without blessings.
Do not try to find blessings outside;
when the mind of the self does not exist
your true mind is the bowl
in which you can receive your blessings.
When you have a bowl, you can put things in it;
likewise, you can receive blessings
when you have your ‘blessings bowl’.
A person lives life according to what he has in his mind;
if a person seeks blessings without having any within,
he is a poor fool.
The mind is the self, and the body and mind are one;
a person speaks and does
according to what he has in his mind.
Thus, one who does not have Truth in his mind
cannot gain recognition from others
because people do not believe him.
One who does not have Truth in his mind
cannot receive blessings even though they are given to him;
he does not have a big enough bowl for to receive his blessings.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching becomes a practical realization.
🌿 Through meditation:
- One removes the false, self-centered mind
- Expands the inner capacity (bowl) for blessings
- Lives with true abundance and trust
✨ Blessings are not given based on desire—
they are received based on the state of your mind.
