What is the Mind, truly?
In this poetic and penetrating reflection, Master Woo Myung reveals that the Mind is not emptiness, existence, or non-existence. It is the source itself—free from senses, attachments, desires, or concepts. The true identity of the Mind is the empty void, beyond the grasp of even the idea of nothingness.
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📝 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
What Is the Mind?
The Mind is not emptiness.
The Mind is not existent.
The Mind is not non-existent.
There is not a single thing in the Mind;
even this non-existence of things
is non-existent in the Mind.
The Mind is absent of what Buddhism refers to as
‘the five desires’ and ‘seven emotions.’
The Mind is absent of sight, hearing,
sense of smell and taste,
as well as sensation.
The Mind is absent of any sense of
having or not having.
Yet, the Mind simply exists.
The Mind is all things.
The Mind has everything.
The Mind has nothing.
The Mind is not all things.
This Mind is the source.
It simply exists as it is.
It is non-existence;
even its non-existence is non-existent.
Furthermore, the image of all creations is the Mind.
That one lives absent of mind means
he has eliminated his existent mind.
The true identity of the Mind is the empty void.
The Mind is absent of any want, image, or shape.
Such things only exist in a greedy mind.
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The Mind is the infinite source of all, and yet it is nothing.
When you let go of desire and form, the true Mind reveals itself.
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