✨ Introduction
🌿 In this reflective and deeply human writing, Master Woo Myung shares memories of youth, longing, and unfulfilled emotions, revealing how these experiences shape one’s life journey.
From the innocence of adolescence to the weight of responsibility, life unfolds through dreams, struggles, and hope. Even as time passes, people continue to live with hope as their driving force.
✨ Yet beyond all of this, Master Woo Myung reveals something greater—a calling. A life not lived for personal desire, but for a higher purpose: the work of heaven and saving others.
🌌 This message shows that true purpose is not found in what we wanted in the past, but in what we are meant to become.
📖 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
A Calling
How pretty the girl with long hair looked,
when she ran with a smile upon her face
to a safe place that nobody knows;
how beautiful she looked.
The girl with the bob,
the girl with the braided hair,
the girl with the parting –
they were all beautiful,
and they all had many beautiful dreams
and they were all far better off than I.
My heart fluttered when I saw them,
and even though I wanted to talk to them,
I was only able to blush.
Those girls in their black uniforms and bulky school-bags,
have now become middle-aged.
In my youth, I could not date anyone
because studying and making a living
kept me more than busy.
Man desires something
when it is the time – at such a time he comes to have such emotions.
This was my adolescence
and it is the providence of God.
Man experiences all sorts of things in his life,
many kinds of troubles,
so he should know better,
but he remains ignorant
because he has minds inside his mind.
Though the people of the world
may have had their beautiful time of dreams and hopes,
it is called life because even after they grow old
they still live with hope.
Without hope,
no one is of any worth.
People live with hope until they grow old and die.
I am at an age that is neither old nor young,
and now I use my experiences to save people.
This job is the best job of all that you can have for a lifetime,
and it has been given to me, and I save people.
I live having forgotten
the regrets and sighs with which I lived,
and because I have neither maturity nor any minds,
it is the only duty I have.
I have been assigned the work of heaven,
and I worry whether I will act like a person in charge of heaven’s work.
It is said that when heaven creates such a person,
only a person of use will be created,
but it makes me think that I am not such a person,
and that I am not enough for the job
because in life, I was neither noble nor base.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, this message becomes a realization of purpose.
🌿 Through meditation:
- One understands the flow of youth, desire, and life experiences
- Lets go of regret and personal attachments
- Discovers one’s true calling beyond the human mind
✨ True fulfillment comes not from what we once desired,
but from living a life aligned with Truth and purpose.
