INTRODUCTION
🪷 The Buddhist phrase “Everything comes from the mind” points to a truth far deeper than personal thought. As Master Woo Myung explains, it refers not to the individual’s mind but to the mind of the Universe — the original mind that created and sustains all things.
While people often mistake this saying as referring to their own human thoughts, the true meaning reveals that all existence arises from the universal mind, the infinite source that is both form and non-form, being and non-being. 🌿
To awaken to this mind is to see the Mother of all creation, the eternal energy and light from which everything in heaven and earth is born. This is the heart of enlightenment.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
What Is the Meaning of the Buddhist Phrase, “Everything Comes from the Mind”?
Everything produced by the human mind is false because it is not Truth. The mind in the phrase “Everything comes from the mind”, refers to the mind of the Universe. This mind is our Mother which created all things and brought forth all creations. Commonly people confuse the mind in this phrase as being their own minds, but it is speaking of the mind of the original self.
The mind of the original self is omnipotent and omniscient; everything in the world is made by this mind. It exists without form, and it exists amidst non-existence. When man sees this mind with his inner eyes or mind’s eyes, it has a bluish hue and exists as a sticky substance. Thus it cannot be said that it exists, and neither can it be said that it does not exist. It is therefore Truth. This mind is the mother of all creations in the Universe, which is why in Buddhism it is said that “Everything comes from the mind.”
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🌠 At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to discard the false human mind and return to the mind of the Universe — the true origin of all things. When the self disappears, one’s consciousness merges with this limitless Mother mind, realizing that everything indeed comes from the mind.
This is the awakening where the individual and the universe become one — where there is no boundary between creation and Creator, for both arise from the same eternal source. 🌿
