INTRODUCTION
✨ True greatness is hidden in ordinariness.
In this deeply insightful teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals that the most extraordinary being is not the one who exalts himself but the one who has no self at all.
A truly great person is humble, accepting, and compassionate — embracing all things as they are with a mind free of judgment.
To be ordinary is to live as Truth itself, with an open, vast heart that contains the universe.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Amidst the Ordinary There Is the Extraordinary
There are no trees; some mountain peaks are too high for trees.
Like high mountain peaks where trees cannot grow
people who believe they are the most important
have no one around.
One who has a large open mind without self
can accept everything.
One who is Truth, without self,
reaches the zenith of familiarity with people.
He loves all,
has great mercy and compassion,
and treats others with great mind.
He saves people with that great mind,
without the mind of doing so.
He accepts everything with the original mind,
without discernment or judgment.
Everything is alive within him.
Among the ordinary there is the extraordinary.
A person who thinks he is the most important
thinks that only he is excellent and supreme.
But the ordinary person has the greatest mind
and can accept everything.
He lives
with the extraordinary and remarkable Creator’s wisdom.
He who lives in familiar harmony
with the people in the world,
with warm heartedness,
is extraordinary.
But no one knows this man is extraordinary.
One who enjoys being the best
cannot live in harmony, for he thinks only he is excellent.
He is foolish
for he lives with his own standards of
what is good and what is bad.
An extraordinary person is one who is reborn as Truth,
a foolish person is one who is not reborn as Truth.
To live well means to be reborn as Truth and to live as Truth.
To live poorly means to die.
An extraordinary person is one with everything.
He is liked by everyone,
has no thorns, no ill will, in his mind,
sees others just as they are, even with all their faults,
and has no mind of his self.
Amidst the ordinary, there is the extraordinary.
The ordinary is the greatest,
the most distinguished, and sublime perfection;
but no one knows this
for there is no one who is truly ordinary.
One who is ordinary can accept everything
for he has a large, great mind.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🌿 To be ordinary is to live in harmony with Heaven, Earth, and all people.
Through mind-cleansing meditation, one discards the narrow self that measures, compares, and judges.
When the self disappears, the great ordinary mind — vast, accepting, and luminous — naturally appears.
The extraordinary lies not in fame or superiority, but in humility, compassion, and unity.
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to live as this ordinary yet divine mind — where all things are embraced as one.
