INTRODUCTION
✨ In this profound and compassionate message, Master Woo Myung delivers a scolding filled with wisdom, urging mankind to look beyond material comfort and reflect inwardly. 🌿
He explains that comfort, wealth, and outer beauty are illusions that prevent one from reaching Heaven and Truth. Those attached to outer appearances and self-superiority find it ten thousand times harder to follow the true path.
Through vivid metaphors—like the wise farmer who sows seeds in heaven—Master Woo Myung reminds us that only through inner reflection and discarding attachment can one prepare for eternity. 🌤️
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
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to look within and discard attachment to comfort and pride. 🌠
By freeing oneself from illusions of wealth and success, the true seed of Truth and eternal life can be sown within—allowing the heart to blossom into wisdom, humility, and peace.
