✨ Introduction
🌿 In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains the true origin of hardships and suffering.
People believe hardships come from external conditions, but in reality, they arise from the self—the attachments, ego, and arrogance that bind us to our perceptions. 🌫️
This teaching reveals a powerful insight: when the self disappears, hardships naturally disappear as well, and one can enter a state beyond both joy and suffering. ✨
🌌 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Hardships
Hardships exist
because of life.
What is life?
It is none other than
one’s self.
To have self
is to be bound to one’s form,
which is why hardships exist.
There is one way to escape from hardship:
If one lives in a place of hardships,
they disappear when he is without self.
People have many such hardships.
The reason people make hardships for themselves,
is their attachments, ego and arrogance,
all of which they are unable to discard.
Those hardships are not the enemy;
the enemy is the entity that is aware of those hardships;
the true world is a world where
neither joy nor hardships exist.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching becomes a path to true freedom.
🌿 Through meditation, you can:
- Recognize that hardships come from the self
- Let go of attachments, ego, and arrogance
- Experience a state beyond suffering and pleasure
✨ When the self disappears, suffering disappears.
