🌟 INTRODUCTION
✨ In this teaching, Master Woo Myung examines the life of the philosopher Diogenes, who rejected possessions in search of freedom, and explains why such extreme non-possession does not lead to true peace. 🌿
He clarifies that human life requires certain material conditions, and that freedom is not found by rejecting the world, but by living in it without the self residing in possessions. 🌌
This message reveals that true non-possessiveness is not the absence of things, but the complete absence of greed. 🌠
📄 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The philosopher Diogenes believed that freedom is the only ultimate goal. He believed in no possessions; in the pursuit of mental stability, peace, and freedom through honest poverty. In particular, he had a tub which he used to sit on during the day to teach and which he slept in at night. Are his actions and ideas correct?
There are things that people need in order to live, and there are many conditions that are necessary for daily life. The pursuit of stability, peace, and freedom through non-possession is a meaningless folly. Man should live with the material possessions he needs, but there should be no self in that life. It goes against the ways of the world to spout such folly and justify non-possessiveness.
True non-possessiveness is to have everything but to not reside or be in what one has; it is true non-possessiveness when such greed is completely gone.
– Woo Myung
🔍 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to live naturally in the world while eliminating greed and attachment. 🌿 Through reflection and practice, they learn that true freedom is not found by rejecting possessions, but by living without the self residing in them, as taught by Master Woo Myung.
