INTRODUCTION
✨ In this poetic teaching, Master Woo Myung uses the image of cosmos flowers to reveal the true nature of strength. 🌿 Although fragile in appearance, cosmos flowers bloom beautifully even amid wind, frost, and harsh conditions.
Likewise, people grow strong not in comfort, but by enduring difficulties. Just as flowers that only bloom under ideal conditions wither easily, humans who withstand hardship learn resilience—and ultimately, gratitude for life’s blessings. 🌸
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Cosmos Flowers
Cosmos flowers, swaying in the breeze,
blossom by the roadside and are beautiful
even in the cold wind and frost.
Cosmos flowers, swaying in the breeze,
are both fragile and strong.
Flowers that bloom only under good conditions
are sensitive to changes in humidity and temperature
and wither easily.
The reason flowers are strong,
and the reason all creations are strong,
is they endure and withstand the harsh wind and waves;
they grow in harsh and severe conditions.
A person who has lived his life laboring in poverty
is grateful when he finds easier work.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, writings like Cosmos Flowers remind us that endurance and gratitude are born from hardship. 🌿 By discarding the false mind, one discovers the inner strength to bloom like the cosmos flower—fragile yet unshakably resilient.
