🌟 INTRODUCTION
✨ In this illuminating teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that dō (道), often translated as the Way or the path to Heaven, is not something separate from life itself. Life is dō, and every moment, every breath, and every existence already embodies it. 🌿
When people ask, “How can I be enlightened when dō does not exist?”, they fail to see that the path and enlightenment are not apart—for they are already within. When one discards all traces of self and becomes the state of nonexistence, one realizes that this nonexistence is the true self, the Universe itself, where all is One. 🌌
📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
What Does the Phrase “How Can I Be Enlightened When Dō Does Not Originally Exist?” Mean?
Dō refers to a path to heaven. In other words, it is the path to discovering your true self. It is the path to the Universe. When it is said that dō does not exist, it means that life is dō and that there is no action that is not dō. People search for dō elsewhere but dō does not exist because life itself is dō.
When one casts off all of one’s self, he becomes the state of nonexistence. This non-existence is one’s original real self.
This original real self is the Universe, and thus everything in the world, just as they are, are all one’s original real self. Such is the land of God and Buddha. Man lives in the land of God and Buddha, but because he lacks enlightenment he does not realize that he is living his life in the land of God and Buddha. Both sides of the hand are all dō.
– Woo Myung
🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners awaken to the realization that the path to Truth already exists within life itself. By discarding the self and returning to the state of nonexistence, one comes to dwell in the eternal land of God and Buddha—the world that has always been one’s own. 🌈
