INTRODUCTION
🌿 In this powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals that human life is fleeting and insubstantial, like a momentary movie projected upon the screen of the world.
He reminds us that there is nothing to gain or lose, for everything we pursue—wealth, pleasure, pain, even youth and old age—is temporary and self-created.
True liberation arises only when one steps out of the movie—when one comes out from the false self and lives in the Truth that is unchanging. 🌠
To live in this eternal Truth is the only true Way, beyond the illusions of gain and loss.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Human Life III
Do not sing or dance about human life.
There is nothing to be had in it;
there is nothing one can leave with.
Hear me when I say
that you have gained nothing from your fleeting life
and that there is nothing to gain.
Whether it is to gain or to have gained,
are all things that you have created.
That you have created them means they are your greed.
So cast aside your greed –
your mind of want.
Do not sigh at passing pain.
Do not be sad about passing solitude.
Do not dwell on passing happiness.
Do not discern the passing rights and wrongs.
Be neither boastful nor sad about
fleeting youth and old age.
Life is a process that you undergo in the world.
Your life never existed.
So do not judge or blame the world.
To do so is like
crying and laughing while watching a movie,
whereby once you step outside the movie theater,
you are yourself.
The world that is absent of your self is Truth.
Therefore, come out into this Truth,
for it is the only possible way to live;
for it is the only true Way there is.
Everything in this world is of a mere moment.
They are all things that pass in a blink of an eye –
things that, as time passes, are meaningless.
Your unchanging self must exist outside of you.
This alone will save you.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, seekers learn to let go of fleeting attachments and step out of the movie of illusion. 🎬
Through meditation, one awakens to the unchanging self, the Truth that exists beyond birth and death.
This is the only true Way—to live not as the temporary human self, but as the eternal Mind of the Universe.
