✨ Introduction
👻 In this striking and thought-provoking writing, Master Woo Myung reveals the meaning of true acceptance.
🌿 He contrasts the mind of a “ghost,” which is bound to lack and attachment, with the mind of God, which fully accepts all things as they are.
✨ Through simple yet powerful questions—about money, love, fame, and even existence—he shows that true freedom comes when everything is seen as “OK.”
🌌 This teaching points to a profound realization: when one reaches the mind of acceptance, one transcends fear, loss, and limitation.
📖 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
It Is Okay for a Ghost to Have Nothing
- Money
- Love
- Fame
- Death
- Family
- Pride
- The World
Is it ok not to have money? OK
Is it ok not to have love? OK
Is it ok not to have fame? OK
Is it ok not to have family? OK
Is it ok not to have pride? OK
Is it OK for you to die? OK
Is it OK for the world not to exist? OK
The mind of acceptance is the mind of God.
For a ghost, nothing is OK,
but the mind of God is the mind of acceptance –
everything is OK.
It is OK for a ghost not to have money.
It is OK for a ghost not to have love.
It is OK for a ghost not to have fame.
It is OK for a ghost not to have family.
It is OK for a ghost to have his pride hurt and to not have any pride.
It is OK for a ghost to die.
It is OK for a ghost not to have the world.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, one learns to cultivate the mind of acceptance by letting go of attachments and judgments.
✨ When everything is accepted as it is, fear and suffering disappear.
🌿 True peace arises when one reaches the state where everything is simply “OK.”
