Introduction
✨ In this reflective teaching, Master Woo Myung explores how human emotions and perceptions are shaped by the mind itself. People often blame others, the world, or even their circumstances when they experience dissatisfaction or bitterness.
However, according to Master Woo Myung, these feelings do not arise from the world itself. The world simply exists as it is. Instead, such emotions appear because the mind creates expectations and judgments about how the world should be. 🌌
When reality does not match those expectations, bitterness and resentment arise. Yet these feelings exist only within the mind that created them.
Through this teaching, Master Woo Myung suggests that when one returns to the original nature of Truth, the mind that produces resentment disappears. In that state, a person lives naturally and harmoniously with the flow of existence, free from the conflicts created by the self-centered mind. 🌿
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Everything Exists Because It Exists in the Mind
Should one blame others?
Should one blame the world?
Should one blame his ancestors, his parents, or his family?
One has bitter feelings
while all just exist as they are and live as they are;
many things exist in his mind
because his mind has not become the world.
One has bitter feelings
because the world does not fit his mind.
Bitter feelings exist because they exist in one’s mind.
Because things do not fit his mind, he has bitter feelings.
If one no longer has bitter feelings in his mind,
then he no longer has any bitter feelings altogether.
Only a person who has become
the mind of Truth, the original nature,
has no mind at all.
He lives the life of true nature, and he lives like nature.
Everything exists because it exists in the mind.
— Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners reflect on teachings from Master Woo Myung that reveal how the human mind creates perceptions of reality.
Through meditation and self-reflection, individuals begin to see how expectations, judgments, and memories shape their emotional responses to the world.
🌠 As these accumulated thoughts gradually disappear, the mind becomes clearer and more aligned with the original nature of Truth, allowing life to be experienced as it naturally unfolds.
