INTRODUCTION
🌤️ In Heaven I, Master Woo Myung invites us to look beyond the visible sky — beyond the blue expanse and drifting clouds — to find the endless Heaven that is our true nature. While the sky symbolizes the infinite and eternal, man cannot become Heaven because he lives bound by his own creations: thoughts, attachments, and illusions.
Heaven simply is. It neither begins nor ends; it is existence itself — pure, still, and eternal. But man, unaware of this truth, constantly stirs turmoil in his mind, creating his own karma. The poem reminds us that Heaven is not somewhere above, but within — the source of all creations that remains ever present, waiting to be realized. 🌿
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Heaven I
Patches of clouds are afloat in the sky.
They spark the fantasies of man.
What exists beyond the blue sky?
There is the endless sky –
the source that is man’s true nature
which has no end.
Though man creates the sky and the patches of clouds,
they simply exist as they are in Heaven.
The sky is Heaven,
but man cannot become Heaven.
Thus man lives bound to so many things.
He is ignorant of the fact that
every single creation in the world is Heaven.
Instead, man grows older daily,
as he constantly creates turmoil in his mind.
Heaven simply exists as it is
without having been born
and without ever dying.
But man is the one who creates all sorts of things
with which he thinks and lives according to
what he sees.
Man lives not knowing that doing so is his karma.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, we come to realize that the true Heaven is not a place above us — it is the infinite sky within. ☁️
Through meditation, one learns to discard the clouds of thoughts and attachments that obscure the clear sky of the mind. When these clouds disappear, Heaven reveals itself — vast, peaceful, and eternal.
Heaven does not change or die; only the mind that clings to illusions does. To know Heaven is to awaken to the mind that has no beginning and no end — the pure existence that is our original nature. 🌠
