🌌 “I REALIZED NATURALLY — THE UNIVERSE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN ME” | MEDITATION TESTIMONIAL | SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

📖 INTRODUCTION

Many people spend their entire lives searching for answers to life’s deepest questions.

Why are we born?

Why do we suffer?

What happens after death?

For Grandmother Jun-ok P., those questions remained with her throughout a lifetime filled with hardship, sacrifice, and perseverance.

Born in rural Korea during a time when girls were rarely given educational opportunities, she married at sixteen and spent decades enduring poverty, family struggles, and personal sorrow while raising four children.

Although she worked tirelessly for her family, resentment, sadness, and unanswered questions remained deep within her heart.

Then, at the age of seventy-two, she encountered Master Woo Myung’s meditation method.

Through years of sincerely practicing meditation and letting go of the memories, attachments, and emotional burdens she had accumulated throughout her life, she experienced a profound transformation.

Today, at eighty-four years old, she says she no longer carries suffering, resentment, or fear.

Instead, her days are filled with gratitude, peace, freedom, and joy.

This meditation testimonial shares her remarkable journey.

💬 MEDITATION TESTIMONIAL: “I REALIZED NATURALLY — THE UNIVERSE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN ME”

By Grandmother Jun-ok P.

🌾 “I Married at Sixteen and Endured Endless Hardship”

I was born in Uiseong, Gyeongsangbuk-do.

I never attended school.

In those days, adults believed girls did not need education.

Even though I desperately wanted to study, there was nothing I could do.

I helped with housework until I married at sixteen.

Life as a daughter-in-law was difficult.

Every day began before sunrise.

I prepared meals for the elders.

Worked in the fields.

Returned home.

Then continued working late into the night.

Yet hard work itself never bothered me.

If I worked a little harder, someone else could rest more comfortably.

That was enough for me.

The true hardship came from my husband.

He rarely worked consistently and often spent money carelessly.

Whenever I tried to express concern, he became angry.

So I spent my life simply saying:

“Yes.”

And enduring.

💔 “Everything I Did Was For My Children”

Because I never received an education, I became determined that my children would study.

No matter what sacrifice was required.

I traveled constantly to earn money.

I sold handmade embroidered products.

I distributed work.

Collected finished goods.

Delivered them to shops.

Traveled from city to city.

Even when I became sick enough to collapse, I kept working.

Many people mistreated me.

Many people looked down on me.

But parents endure almost anything for their children.

That is simply how it is.

Still, deep inside my heart, pain continued accumulating.

I often wondered:

“Why was I born?”

“Why must people suffer like this?”

“Where do we go after death?”

Most of all, I wanted freedom from the heavy resentment I carried toward my husband.

That was why I spent my life searching for truth.

🌱 “When They Told Me Anyone Could Do This”

In 2000, I encountered this meditation.

At first, I doubted myself.

I asked honestly:

“I am uneducated. Can someone like me really practice this?”

The answer I received touched me deeply.

“Anyone can do it because the answer already exists within themselves.”

I trusted those words completely.

And I practiced with sincerity.

From the beginning, I was instructed to let go of everything I had seen, heard, experienced, and stored throughout my life.

To my surprise, it felt wonderful.

Because honestly, I had spent much of my life wishing I could simply disappear.

So letting go felt natural.

Sometimes I practiced for fourteen hours a day.

One memory after another disappeared:

• Raising my children
• Financial struggles
• Humiliation in business
• Pain caused by my husband

Everything gradually faded.

✨ “Then One Day, I Completely Disappeared”

As I continued practicing, something extraordinary happened.

One day, it felt as though I completely disappeared.

And naturally, a realization arose:

“Ah… I had never originally existed as this separate self.”

“This universe itself had been me all along.”

At that moment, I felt as though I had awakened from a long dream.

I thought:

“Oh my… I had been dreaming this entire time.”

The joy was indescribable.

The more I continued practicing, the less of “me” remained.

And the happier I became.

🌌 “The Universe Entered Inside Me”

During one stage of practice, my awareness suddenly expanded.

It felt as though the entire universe entered within me.

I cannot explain it properly.

I never received an education.

I do not know sophisticated words.

But it felt unimaginably beautiful.

One day during meditation, I was told:

“Travel as far as you can through the universe.”

When I was young, we often lay outside at night watching shooting stars.

So I imagined traveling endlessly upward.

But there was no end.

Then I imagined traveling endlessly downward.

Still, there was no end.

That was when I realized:

“The universe truly has no end.”

And somehow, that realization felt deeply familiar.

💙 “All That Remains Is Gratitude”

As I continued practicing, there came a day when I felt completely united with the universe itself.

There was no separate “me.”

Not even a trace remained.

And my heart understood:

“This is how life continues eternally.”

The gratitude I felt was overwhelming.

I cried endlessly.

I thought:

“How could someone as insignificant as me survive such a difficult life and still encounter this practice?”

Then I realized something else.

All the suffering I endured throughout my life had ultimately led me here.

Even my resentment toward my husband disappeared.

I came to understand that holding onto resentment had only imprisoned myself.

Once I saw that clearly, forgiveness happened naturally.

🌸 “Life Became Comfortable for the First Time”

There were many happy moments during my life.

When my children entered college.

When they found jobs.

When they married.

When my grandchildren were born.

But those moments never lasted long.

Soon after came new worries.

“What if something happens to them?”

“What if they suffer?”

“What if they lose everything?”

The worries never ended.

But now, after letting go of my attachment to my children, something changed.

I realized:

“Life can actually feel this comfortable.”

“Life can actually feel this peaceful.”

Now, gratitude rises naturally.

Laughter rises naturally.

Happiness rises naturally.

I no longer carry worry.

I no longer carry suffering.

I no longer carry fear.

Instead, I simply feel grateful to be alive.

🌟 “Now I Understand”

I once spent my entire life wanting to die because life felt so painful.

Today, I feel completely different.

Now I understand why I lived.

Now I understand what I searched for all those years.

Now I understand why letting go is important.

Words cannot fully describe it.

When a person experiences it directly, understanding comes naturally.

And that understanding brings freedom.

🌟 CONCLUSION

Jun-ok Park’s story demonstrates that profound transformation is possible at any age.

After decades of hardship, sacrifice, resentment, and unanswered questions, she discovered a path that helped her release the emotional burdens she had carried throughout her life.

Through meditation, she found forgiveness, gratitude, inner peace, and freedom from worry.

Most importantly, she discovered answers to the questions she had searched for since childhood.

Her story reminds us that regardless of age or background, genuine happiness can emerge when we learn to let go of the burdens we have carried for so long.

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