🌿 What Does the Koan, “What Is This?” Mean?: Understanding the Origin of All Existence | Master Woo Myung | Santa Clara Meditation

INTRODUCTION

✨ In this insightful explanation, Master Woo Myung unveils the deep meaning behind the famous Zen koan, “What is this?” — a question that points directly to the origin of existence.

This koan is not a riddle to be solved intellectually but an invitation to return to the source of being — the mind, which is the metaphysical real substance of all creation. Everything in the universe, including man, originates from this mind, which is the energy of the origin, the original body of the Universe. 🌌

When one awakens to this truth, one realizes that all things come from the same place, and the self, the world, and the universe are one and complete within this infinite mind. 🌿

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

What Does the Koan, “What Is This?” Mean?

This koan asks about the origin of the subject, whatever it happens to be – object, vegetable or animal. Man is originally complete as a man, and all creations (things that are in existence) are all complete in their individuality, but they all came from me. This me is the energy of the origin – the original body of the Universe.

The metaphysical real substance is the mind. Everything in the world was born from this mind. Mind, that is the metaphysical real substance, is man’s real self, and this real self is the mother of all creations. Man is, in himself, a complete real substance as a man, but the place that this substance comes from and goes back to is the mind. If the subject of the koan, “What is this?” is a person, his complete or perfect self exists in the greatness of that mind. Therefore, the mind is mysterious and miraculous.

– Woo Myung

REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

🌠 The koan “What is this?” leads one to realize that everything — thought, form, and life — arises from the same infinite mind. At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners explore this truth by discarding the false self and awakening to the energy of the origin within.

To ask “What is this?” is to awaken from illusion and return to the source — the metaphysical mind of Truth, the Universe itself. 🌿