INTRODUCTION
🌠 Everything in the Universe — man, animals, stars, and Earth — follows the same flow of returning to the origin.
In this teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals that this origin is non-existence, the infinite and formless state from which all things arise and to which all return.
To do dō (practice Truth) means to return to this original body — the existence that is both substantial and insubstantial, existence and non-existence.
When one realizes this origin as his true self, he transcends life and death and lives as the eternal essence of the Universe itself.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
What Does “Returning to the Origin of the Universe” Mean?
Whether it be man, animals, plants,
the celestial bodies in the sky, or Earth itself,
everything returns to nonexistence – the origin of the Universe.
Non-existence is without form and immaterial,
and it exists amidst nothingness as the original body
that is the origin of the Universe.
To do dō (seek or practice Truth)
is to return to this original body that is insubstantial and yet substantial,
that exists amidst non-existence and does not exist amidst existence.
The creations of the Universe, just as they exist,
are this existence that is substantial and insubstantial.
Therefore dō is knowing this existence
that is our original selves,
and this knowing is to return to the origin of the Universe.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🌿 Returning to the origin does not mean traveling somewhere far away — it means awakening to the non-existent existence that already lives within you.
Through meditation, one gradually discards the false forms and self-centered mind until only the pure origin remains.
This is dō — the living awareness that you and the Universe are one, that non-existence and existence are not separate.
When the mind returns to the origin, you live freely as the infinite Energy and Light of the Universe, eternally unbound by form.
