INTRODUCTION
✨ In this reflection, Master Woo Myung addresses the long-standing debate: is human nature inherently good or inherently bad? 🌌
🌿 He explains that before man and all creations existed, there was the state of absolute emptiness—where there were no concepts, no thoughts, and no distinctions. From this perspective, human nature is neither good nor evil. 🌠
Good and evil arise only after the self appears. Truth exists where such distinctions do not exist at all. ✨
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
There are opposing theories, one being that human nature is fundamentally good and the other being that human nature is fundamentally bad. Which is right?
Before all creations and man were born, it was the state of absolute nothingness. This emptiness of non-existence that is perfection transformed into man. This emptiness of nonexistence is where originally nothing exists, in other words, where there is no thought, no meaning, and no existence or nonexistence. Therefore, when one is born it is not that one’s nature is fundamentally good or bad. It is neither good nor evil.
Truth is when the very conceptions of good and evil do not exist, but the reason that man has both good and evil in him is because he has the mind of self-existence.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is contemplated as a way to go beyond dualistic thinking. By discarding the self-centered mind, practitioners move toward the state where good and evil no longer bind the mind—exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung. 🌠
