๐ INTRODUCTION
โจ In this concise yet profound message, Master Woo Myung clarifies that โemptying the mindโ does not mean removing something that never existed. Rather, it is the process of discarding the individual mindโthe accumulated mass of thoughts, habits, and karma that forms oneโs false sense of self.
Although the human mind appears to exist, it is merely a product of memory and conditioning. When this thought-mass is removed, one returns to the natural, original state that simply exists as Truth. ๐ฟ
To empty the mind is not an act of losing oneself; it is the awakening to the self that is already free, infinite, and one with the Universe. ๐ผ
๐ ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Emptying the Mind
The mind does not really exist.
That it does not exist means it exists.
Though this seems to mean
two completely different things,
polarities always coincide.
Emptying the mind does not mean
emptying a mind that never existed;
it means to eliminate the individual mind.
The individual does not exist.
But because he has a life, he has a mind,
which means that mind – that thought-mass – is
his self.
And that self was created โ
in other words, his thought-mass became immanent โ
due to his karma and habits.
Therefore emptying the mind means
becoming free of the thought-mass.
โ Woo Myung
๐ REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to discard the thought-mass in which they have livedโmemories, judgments, feelings, and habits gathered throughout life. ๐
By eliminating this individual self, one returns to the originโfree, empty, and at peace. This is not a loss, but a return to Truth.
When the mind becomes empty, what remains is the Universe-mind, which is infinite, silent, and alive. ๐ผ
