🔎 Introduction
✨ In this reflective and poetic teaching, Master Woo Myung contemplates the profound questions of human life, existence, and loneliness.
Why do people live? Why do they grow old without knowing the answer? 🌌 Human life, he explains, is often like wandering through a roadless desert, searching for meaning without finding the water of life.
Yet when one discovers Truth within, everything changes. The desert becomes full, loneliness disappears, and the universe is found inside oneself.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Human Life I
Blue sky,
blue mountains and rivers,
through which jade water flows.
Many bitter human feelings and grudges
would have existed in these mountains and rivers.
Who blamed who?
Who killed who, and who saved who?
Only the sky knows,
but the sky is silent.
Human Life
is absent of freedom.
That life is an endless road without a destination.
What do people live for?
Why do they live?
Why do they exist?
Man grows older and older fleetingly
without knowing the answer.
It is like walking through an endless desert alone;
it is a lonely and forlorn road
that continues on and on without a path.
When one has Truth within,
Truth exists within.
He is the master,
for he has the universe within him.
There is no loneliness or solitude,
and there is no coming or going.
Everything is ‘me’ as is.
People busily continue along in a roadless desert;
however, there is no true road,
and there is no destination.
Thus, without finding the water of life,
which is an oasis,
they die.
– Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners contemplate the essential question: What is the purpose of human life? 🌠
Without Truth, life feels like wandering through a desert without direction. But when one discovers the water of life — Truth within — loneliness dissolves, and the universe becomes one’s own.
The path is not found outside.
It is awakened within.
