INTRODUCTION
✨ In this reflection, Master Woo Myung explains why people live with heavy burdens. 🌿
Man believes knowledge is wisdom, but in Truth it is nothing more than burdens placed upon oneself and others. Burdens arise because one defies the laws of Heaven and lives outside nature’s flow. 🌌
True freedom comes when one discards the false self, along with knowledge, greed, and anxiety. To live without burdens is to live in Truth and nature’s flow, free from trembling with anger and attachment.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
One’s Burdens
One must shoulder burdens.
One must shoulder burdens if
he is not of nature’s flow.
One shoulders burdens because
he defies the laws of Heaven.
One is good at shouldering one’s burdens.
What one knows are all his burdens.
He is under the false impression that he has wisdom,
but what he has is nothing more than burdens.
Man teaches man knowledge,
but what he is doing is putting a burden on another
person’s shoulders.
One would have to shoulder nothing
if he knew nothing,
if he had nothing,
and if he himself were no more.
Man carries his own burdens,
unwilling to be free of them.
He acts superior even though he knows nothing about
departures and arrivals,
or existence and non-existence.
Though it is a non-existent life,
he lives thinking it is real;
he lives bound to it,
trembling with anxiety, anger, and greed.
But he does not try to break free from it;
instead he carries all of his burdens
in his attempt to have everything.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, seekers are guided to see that knowledge, greed, and anxiety are false burdens. 🌠By discarding the false mind, one becomes free from carrying life’s loads and enters the flow of Truth and Heaven.
