🌟 INTRODUCTION
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains the true meaning of dōn-soo (頓修)—the practice of maintaining immediate enlightenment.
Dōn-soo is not a technique or discipline, but the natural state of keeping the Mind of the origin—a mind that simply exists as it is, without dwelling in human kleshas, delusions, or doubts.
Ultimately, dōn-soo does not exist as a separate practice. One must already be enlightened to understand that there is no such thing as dōn-soo. When the individual self is eliminated, what remains is the open, clear awareness that one and the Universe are one. 🌌
📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Dōn-soo (頓修)
‘Dōn-soo,’ or the practice that maintains immediate
enlightenment,
is the act of maintaining the Mind of the origin.
To be of the origin means to be as it is.
The whole of creation is as it is.
Maintaining the original Mind means
not having it dwell in the kleshas and delusions of man.
Originally there is no such thing
as dōn-soo or ‘dōn-ō (immediate enlightenment),’
but you must be enlightened to know it.
You must be enlightened
in order to know what is what,
just as you must be enlightened of dōn-soo
to know that it does not exist.
The whole of creation exists as it is.
But due to his karma and habits,
man cannot see the origin.
Dōn-soo is the state of being cleansed
after one has eliminated his individual self.
Thus it is the clear and open state
absent of any doubts or suspicions —
the state in which one knows that
he and the Universe are one.
– Woo Myung
🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn that dōn-soo is not about acquiring new knowledge or wisdom. 🌈
Rather, it is the natural unfolding of enlightenment—the clarity that remains after the false self disappears. When there is no individual mind to cloud perception, the origin is seen directly.
This is the open, doubtless state in which one recognizes the truth:
the self and the Universe are one.
To remain in this state is the essence of dōn-soo. 🌿
