INTRODUCTION
✨ In this reflection, Master Woo Myung reveals the fleeting and childish nature of human life. 🌿
People laugh when life brings joy and cry when changes bring sorrow. Yet to live bound to these emotions is to remain childish to the utmost. 🌌 True maturity is found not in clinging to joy or despair, but in singing the song of life itself, beyond the dualities of happiness and sadness.
When one awakens to Truth, life is no longer tossed about by fleeting conditions. Instead, it becomes great, wonderful, and eternal.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Childish Life
On days when the wind blows,
on days when the rain pours,
I sing and dance,
I sing and laugh,
about this one and only life.
Life is great;
life is wonderful.
But when changes occur in their lives,
people become very concerned about them;
they become sad and they cry.
The heart which cries is full of sorrow;
the heart which laughs is full of joy.
Listen!
Can you understand my will?
Can you understand my thoughts?
Can you understand my heart?
Though life may be swallowed by joy,
though life may be swallowed by sorrow,
let us sing and sing;
let us sing that joy is life.
On the days when the wind blows,
on the days when the rain pours,
people of the world become sad.
Though they have been given life,
people are childish;
they are childish to the utmost.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn that both joy and sorrow are fleeting conditions of the false mind. 🌠 By discarding childish attachments, one awakens to the eternal mind of Truth, where life is free, wondrous, and whole.
