True enlightenment is not about gaining knowledgeโit is about letting go. ๐ฟ
In this powerful message, Master Woo Myung explains that real enlightenment is fundamentally different from what people normally consider “knowing.” While human knowledge is limited to worldly realizations, enlightenment occurs only when one discards the self-centered mind, conceptions, and habits that confine consciousness.
Through Santa Clara Meditation, individuals are guided to cast off their false selves and expand their minds to the infinite Universe. ๐
Only when one has emptied the mind, eliminated images, and transcended ego, can one reach Truth. Enlightenment is not something to be collectedโit is what remains when everything else is discarded. ๐
Enlightenment Comes Only When One Discards
When we come to know or realize something while living in the world, we say that we have been โenlightenedโ. But enlightenment and what man knows are two very different things; they are fundamentally different in nature.
What man knows is a realization about his daily life or something he did not know before. Enlightenment is what one comes to know and accept when he escapes from the conceptions and habits of his entity.
There is enlightenment only when the individual that is trapped inside the narrow grave of his self comes closer to the consciousness of Truth.
Put in a different way, when oneโs mind that is only as big as he is expands to the infinite Universe and he goes towards complete Truth, there is enlightenment.
When there is nothing in the Universe, only Truth remains. There is enlightenment when all things have disappeared, or in other words, when one has cast off all his conceptions and habits.
When one denies even his self and eliminates all his images of the Universe, he becomes Truth. He goes towards Truth as much as his conceptions and habits have been broken. Therefore enlightenment only comes when one discards. Enlightenment does not come when one stores the words of saints he has seen and heard or when he tries to gain something.
โ Woo Myung
