💡 INTRODUCTION

What does it mean to be truly pitiful?

In Master Woo Myung’s piercing message, “A Scolding,” he confronts the illusion of comfort and affluence.
Most people think living well—eating well, enjoying luxury, and being free of worry—is the key to a good life.

But Truth does not dwell in comfort, noise, or outward beauty.
Instead, people who cling to appearances and possessions have minds too deeply rooted in ego to even see the path to heaven.

💰 Even gold cannot buy peace after death.
🌾 And without sowing spiritual seeds now, no amount of regret will change the harvest later.

This message is a wake-up call—a scolding—to reflect now before it’s too late.

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📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

A Scolding
What man wishes for is to be comfortable.
Comfort is living well, eating well
and being without worries.
But when one lives an affluent life
he does not reflect back on himself
which makes it hard for him to reach heaven.

Truth does not exist in a noisy place,
and it does not exist as people think
in luxurious outer trappings,
thus it is not likely that the affluent will follow Truth.
They only wish for the world to move
according to their wishes –
isn’t this utter foolishness?

How can self-superior people
who are attached to outer appearances
find Truth that is without smell or fragrance?
The roots of their minds are deep,
so deep they are difficult to discard,
and since they form these people’s centers,
they have so far to go.
It is a thousand, nay, ten thousand times harder
for such people to follow Truth
than it is for a person who does not possess.

People act as if they are great,
not knowing their life is wretched,
but from my point of view,
they are the most pitiful.
Oh, wretched sentient beings!
Oh, pitiful sentient beings!
You try to buy the world with gold,
but you will not be able to manage death
in the same way.
Your current contempt – when you die, you will see me.
You will see.

A wise farmer survives the winter
with his harvest in the fall,
from the seeds he has diligently sown and tended to
in the spring and summer.
The body may live for a time in comfort
without sowing seeds in heaven and tending to them,
but when it has aged, it is too late for tears or regrets.
Mark these words, for you will come to know.
– Woo Myung

🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

🌟 True reflection is uncomfortable—but necessary.

Master Woo Myung urges us to look beyond wealth, pride, and pleasure, and to sow seeds of heaven while we still can.

💧 Discard the false mind
💧 Let go of possessions and ego
💧 Awaken to the unseen Truth within

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