Why do we feel there’s something missing when we look to the sky?
In this gentle and meditative poem, Master Woo Myung reflects on the nostalgia and sorrow of human-bound life. Through vivid imagery and quiet insight, he shows how life becomes a dream when we are no longer bound to it—and invites us to awaken.
📺 Watch the video and read along below.
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📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Memories
Upon the windy hills you lay
thinking about memories past,
which bring tears to your eyes
and a sigh to your breath.
No one asks you why;
you are alone,
watching the woolly clouds
float lightly across the sky.
As you look to the sky,
you feel as if
there is something missing –
something that seems just out of reach –
but a something that you want to find.
All you do is sigh as you look back upon your life
which has been riddled with pointless sadness.
Indeed they say that life is like floating duckweed,
but having to live it in this manner is such a shame.
You know nothing,
which is why you have been able to accomplish nothing
throughout the years that have passed.
Upon seeing those dear to you disperse,
all you can do is cry.
Everything is existent and non-existent in the Universe.
Everything that is existent in the Universe is as it is,
but man lives thinking that there is something beyond
the Universe.
Grieve as you may to Nature over the fact that
human life is a useless thing
and that it is all just a dream,
Nature remains silent.
When you are removed from human life
and then look back on it,
the days in which you lived a human-bound life
will be a distant dream.
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
What if life is a dream we must wake from?
This poem invites us to look beyond memories and regrets—to find the stillness of Truth.
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