✨ INTRODUCTION
In this brief yet profound poem, Master Woo Myung reveals that the burdens we carry do not truly exist. People suffer under the weight of worries, stories, and thoughts, believing them to be real. But these burdens arise only from the false mind; they disappear when seen from the perspective of Truth.
The wanderer struggles only because he does not know where he is headed—because he lacks wisdom. With wisdom, one sees that burdens are nothing more than illusions: self-created weight carried by the mind. When the self is discarded, the burden disappears, and one can finally live freely. 🌿
📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Burden
The burdened wanderer walks alone
without knowing his destination.
The many stories of this world become burdens,
but such burdens are non-existent.
That he moans under the weight of his needless burdens
is due to the fact that he is absent of wisdom.
Man alone agonizes and carries burdens.
Every story in this world becomes a burden,
and he regards such burdens
as either being heavy or light
depending on the mind he harbors.
Not a single person in this world knows that
burdens are things that man harbors
and needlessly moans about.
— Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
Burdens are not fixed, physical objects—they are mind-made illusions. Only humans, through attachment to thought and memory, create suffering where none inherently exists.
Through meditation, one discards the stories, emotions, and identities that form these imagined weights. When the false mind disappears, so do the burdens that once seemed impossible to bear.
True wisdom is realizing that nothing needs to be carried—
because, in Truth, there was never anything to carry.
