INTRODUCTION
✨ In this striking teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that people unknowingly live inside a picture world—a dark, illusionary mind world made of memories, karma, and past images. Because one is trapped inside a video of shadows, he cannot hear the words of Truth. Only by discarding again and again, escaping the picture world, and being reborn in the true world can one finally live, speak true words, and work for the world. 🌌
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Picture
In the darkness of night,
nothing can be seen.
Likewise, a person who lives within his sins and karma –
his mind world – does not know the ways of the world.
Just as it is possible to see the world clearly
in the bright light of day,
man can know the world
only when the true world exists in his mind.
Man, your mind is so ignorant –
was there so little to eat,
that you ate picture scraps?
You do not know they are false, and not real,
because you are inside a picture,
and can only see the world of pictures.
If you see from the world,
they are all false.
What is real is the world;
what is real is the living world;
what is real is the true world.
Only man does not live in the world
but takes pictures of the world,
stores them in his mind,
and lives within them.
Salvation is escaping from this world
and being resurrected in the true world.
Man lives with the delusion he is living in the world,
because his mind world overlaps the real world.
Inside a video of past memories,
he is groaning with pain, suffering
and there, ageing, sickness, birth and death exist.
Inside a video,
he lives bound within its framework;
he cannot rest for he is not free.
Sighing, he re-lives the shadows of past memories,
believing that those shadows are him,
and he lives speaking the nonsense of pictures.
Those who know this are wise,
but those who do not know do not understand
because they cannot hear the words of the world
from within the video.
It is unlikely that a dead person, an illusionary person,
who is inside a video would be able to hear the words of Truth.
He jabbers on without knowing the true meaning or purpose,
but his words are all lies and nonsense.
So close your mouth,
and concentrate on cleansing your sins and karma
by discarding, then discarding again.
You may speak the nonsense of picture scraps,
but they are just the sounds of a ghost,
so just keep discarding
for then you will be able to hear the words of Truth,
and speak words of Truth.
Do not walk around speaking lies and doing false deeds,
but be born from Truth
so that you may live for the world, and speak true words.
You should learn to listen to words of Truth.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to discard the picture world step by step—escaping the video of memories and being reborn in the true world where real life, freedom, and Truth exist. 🌠
