💡 INTRODUCTION
What does it mean to be non-existent, yet fully alive as Truth?
In this succinct yet powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung expresses the ultimate spiritual paradox: when the self is completely gone, what remains is Truth. And Truth is beyond death, beyond duality—it is the state where existence and non-existence are one.
🌀 When there is no longer “I,” when even the idea of self has been eliminated, there is no more separation between inside and outside, form and formlessness, birth and death.
🌿 Nimitta and animitta—form and no-form—are one. The open, boundless connection of all things becomes clear when one becomes non-existent, and thus, Truth.
This is the essence of spiritual completion—to become eternal by becoming nothing.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Existence and Non-Existence
Now that I am no longer of my self,
now that I have abandoned my self,
now that I have eliminated the one I call my self,
I am non-existent.
So no matter how many times I die,
no matter how many times I am eliminated,
I am Truth.
To be Truth means
that nimitta and animitta are one,
that existence is non-existence,
that non-existence is existence;
that what is inside and what is outside
are open and connected through and through.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
✨ What does it mean to truly let go of your self?
At Santa Clara Meditation, we practice the method to completely eliminate the false self, so that what remains is not emptiness—but Truth itself.
🧘 Only then can you understand the unity of existence and non-existence, and live in eternal peace beyond all dualities.
🔗 RELATED LINKS
📌 Santa Clara Meditation YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@santaclarameditation7075
