INTRODUCTION
โจ In this poetic reflection, Master Woo Myung reveals the meaning of nakednessโnot simply without clothes, but without masks, disguises, or the false self. ๐ True nirvana is not far away; it is reached when the body and mind die, when one abandons useless clothes without shame and lives as the naked self.
This teaching shows that to live life but not be bound by it is to have entered true nirvana, the state of selflessness and freedom beyond all disguises.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Naked
I am naked and my life is naked, too.
I lived wearing clothes โ
I lived behind a mask.
Which was more expensive,
the clothes or the man?
I did not know.
Having lived disguising myself with clothes,
I became them
and thus could not find my naked self.
Nirvana โ
there is nothing to it.
To die means to enter nirvana.
Nirvana is when the body and mind die.
It is when one abandons his useless clothes
but feels no embarrassment in his nakedness.
That is nirvana.
I had lived not knowing this.
To live life but not be in it,
to exist but not be existent in it,
means to have entered true nirvana.
โ Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, writings like Naked guide practitioners to discard the clothes of the false self and live without masks. ๐ฟ This is the path to nirvana, to existing freely in life without being bound by itโnaked, true, and liberated.
