💡 INTRODUCTION
✨ In the path of spiritual practice, immediate enlightenment (頓悟, dōn-ō) may come suddenly—but maintaining it requires continuous practice (頓修, dōn-soo). According to Master Woo Myung, even after awakening, the stored karma, habits, and memories within a person cause kleshas and delusions to reappear.
🌱 Therefore, true enlightenment is not a one-time event but an ongoing process of cleansing karma and habits again and again. By diligently practicing dōn-soo, one eventually awakens to the source that simply exists as it is.
🌌 The source is always present, but because of delusions arising from thoughts, people cannot see it. Practicing dōn-soo is the way to pierce through karmic obstructions and realize the source.
📺 Watch the video and read the original writing below.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Practicing Dōn-soo (頓修)
Even after one gains
‘dōn-ō (頓悟),’ or ‘immediate enlightenment,’
his kleshas and delusions are bound to reoccur
due to all of the things he has stored in his memory
and due to the karma and habits he has.
Thus the best thing to do
is to eliminate his karma and habits
through dōn-soo (the practice that maintains immediate enlightenment);
if he eliminates them again and again –
if he keeps at it –
he will eventually be enlightened of what dōn-soo is.
To be enlightened means
to know that the source exists as it is.
So long as one is not cleansed of his karma and habits,
the source is something that
he will never be able to see.
The source exists as it is,
but due to the kleshas that are born of his thoughts,
he is unable to see the source.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
Dōn-ō is the spark of awakening, but dōn-soo is the lifelong practice that sustains it.
Through Master Woo Myung’s meditation, one can cleanse karma and habits repeatedly, until the source is revealed in its pure state.
🔗 RELATED LINKS
📌 Santa Clara Meditation YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@santaclarameditation7075
