💡 INTRODUCTION
What is human life really worth?
In this profound reflection, Master Woo Myung reveals that all of human life — joy, pain, gain, loss — is fleeting and ultimately meaningless unless one returns to Truth.
To cry or rejoice over life is like reacting to a movie — all the while forgetting that you are not the character on screen.
There is only one real way to live: to cast away your self, to escape the illusions of gain and loss, and to return to the unchanging self outside of you. That alone will save you.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Human Life
Do not sing or dance about human life.
There is nothing to be had in it;
there is nothing one can leave with.
Hear me when I say
that you have gained nothing from your fleeting life
and that there is nothing to gain.
Whether it is to gain or to have gained,
are all things that you have created.
That you have created them means they are your greed.
So cast aside your greed –
your mind of want.
Do not sigh at passing pain.
Do not be sad about passing solitude.
Do not dwell on passing happiness.
Do not discern the passing rights and wrongs.
Be neither boastful nor sad about
fleeting youth and old age.
Life is a process that you undergo in the world.
Your life never existed.
So do not judge or blame the world.
To do so is like
crying and laughing while watching a movie,
whereby once you step outside the movie theater,
you are yourself.
The world that is absent of your self is Truth.
Therefore, come out into this Truth,
for it is the only possible way to live;
for it is the only true Way there is.
Everything in this world is of a mere moment.
They are all things that pass in a blink of an eye –
things that, as time passes, are meaningless.
Your unchanging self must exist outside of you.
This alone will save you.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
✨ Why do we cry or laugh about a passing illusion?
At Santa Clara Meditation, we help you realize that your life in your mind is not the true life. It is temporary, illusionary, and empty.
The only thing that matters is to discard this illusion and find your unchanging true self—the self that exists outside of you, in the world of Truth.
🔹 Let go of your mind of want
🔹 Discover the self that never dies
🔹 Come out into the real world, the true Way
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