Introduction
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals the meaning of the Great Path—the path that unites existence and non-existence, life and death, being and non-being.
To see one’s Buddha-nature is to return to one’s original nature. When the false minds disappear and one becomes one with all creations, separation dissolves. Life and death are no longer opposites, but expressions of one unified Truth. 🌌
According to Master Woo Myung, the complete path is the path of Yin and Yang, the harmony of existence and non-existence. This is the never-changing Truth, the eternal paradise that does not arise or perish.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
The Great Path
To see one’s buddha-nature is to see one’s own original
nature.
To become Buddha is to see from one’s self
after his minds have disappeared
and he has become one with all creations in the world.
The unity of life and death is to find oneself
within himself,
and realize life and death are not separate but one.
The real world is knowing the world before the mind,
and in the Truth of existence and non-existence
the complete path is that of both
existence and non-existence.
Just as one must see one’s buddha-nature
and become Buddha
to achieve the Truth of non-existence,
it is the same for the Truth of existence.
In existence, one must see the oneness of life and death
and be of the level where one knows the body and
mind are not separate.
To know is to always be one with
what is outside one’s self,
and when one’s mind is not separate
from heaven and earth.
In the Great Path of heaven and earth,
one knows everything –
he knows all Truth.
Being and non-being are one,
as are non-being and being –
this is the Truth of existence and non-existence.
Truth, where one finds that which is true,
is where existence is non-existence
and non-existence is existence.
This is the never-changing Truth that comes to light,
and such is the Great Path
and the Path of Yin and Yang.
Being without any want or lack,
without anything further to know
and nothing that one does not know
is the new law and new path
that is the Truth among Truths.
The real world is the world from whence
the mind that existed before other minds came forth.
The true world is the world that does not change,
and it is eternal paradise.
The Great Path brings to light the principle
that where there is life, there is also death,
and where there is death, there is life.
– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌸 At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to eliminate the false mind and experience the unity of life and death described by Master Woo Myung.
When one realizes that existence and non-existence are not separate, the Great Path becomes clear. This is the harmony of Yin and Yang, the eternal paradise that does not change.
