INTRODUCTION

✨ In How to Become Smart and Wise, Master Woo Myung clarifies that being smart and being wise are not separate. True intelligence is not quick thinking or clever speech—it is wisdom born from a mind free of self-centeredness. 🌌

🌿 When the self-centered mind is discarded and the true mind appears, one’s words and actions naturally become righteous. From righteousness comes objectivity, and from objectivity comes clarity. This is what it truly means to be smart: to speak so that others can clearly understand and genuinely receive what is said. 🌠

Smartness, therefore, is not manipulation or persuasion—it is truthful communication grounded in an objective mind. ✨

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

How to Become Smart and Wise

To be smart means to be wise.

It is not possible to be wise when one’s mind is only occupied with a self-centered mind. When you throw away your self-centered mind and have the true mind, your words and actions are righteous. When you are righteous, you will speak objectively, and you will become smart.

Being smart means that when you speak, your words are easily understood by others, and your words are communicated to others effectively.

When you discard your self-centered mind and have an objective mind, you can become smart.

— Woo Myung

🌿 REFLECT AT Santa Clara Meditation

At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is practiced as a way of living and communicating. By discarding the self-centered mind and awakening to the true, objective mind, practitioners naturally become wise and smart—speaking with clarity, righteousness, and truth exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung. ðŸŒ