INTRODUCTION ✨
In Enlightenment I, Master Woo Myung reflects on the fleeting nature of life—whether filled with laughter or sighs, all becomes a futile dream as time passes. What people cling to are only scattered images, and attachment to them is error.
True enlightenment lies in recognizing that Truth is not in the sky, but in the emptiness from which we came and to which we return. Though invisible, this emptiness contains all existence. Truth is the eternal and never-changing self that everyone must realize in order to live together forever. 🌌
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG 🕊️
Enlightenment I
Though one may live in the world sighing,
though one may live in the world laughing,
they are all futile dreams.
Time passes,
making everything into a dream
and scattering all existent images into pieces.
Having lived attached to those images is one’s error.
Let us go seek out Truth.
Where could it be?
It is not up in the sky;
Truth is the place where I have come from
and it is where I will return.
But people do not know Truth and thus are lost.
I see that Truth is the existence
that is within the emptiness,
and though it may be invisible,
in it there is material existence.
Truth is the eternal and never-changing self,
which everyone must know
so that we may be together forever.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION 🌿
This poem reminds us that life without Truth is illusion. Through meditation, one can awaken from futile dreams and discover the eternal self within emptiness. At Santa Clara Meditation, the practice of discarding the false self allows people to realize Truth and live in oneness forever.
