✨ Introduction
🌿 In this powerful and contemplative teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals the true meaning of penance—not as punishment, but as the process of letting go of the self.
Human struggle, suffering, and breathlessness arise because of the constant presence of the self-centered mind. It is the sense of “I” that creates tension, conflict, and hardship.
🔥 This message shows that when actions are done without the self, one becomes free from struggle, unaffected by conditions, and no longer bound by opposites.
✨ Master Woo Myung teaches that true penance is the complete release of the self, leading to freedom, peace, and Truth.
📖 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Penance
A hunter is gasping for breath;
no one knows whether those who run
are gasping for breath or struggling.
Everything is self-centered,
and it is because I exist that I gasp for breath.
Man is an existence who does not know –
A human being is an existence who does not know –
It does not matter whether creations struggle,
or whether they live or die if he does not exist.
When he does something without self,
he is not affected by the struggle.
When he does something without self,
he does not know this or that.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, penance becomes transformation.
🌿 Through meditation:
- One recognizes the root of suffering as the self-centered mind
- Learns to act without ego and attachment
- Becomes free from struggle and duality
✨ True freedom begins
when the self no longer exists.
when the self no longer exists.
