✨ INTRODUCTION

In this insightful reflection, Master Woo Myung explains why humans are naturally drawn to beauty. He distinguishes between basic instinct, which is universal, and desires that arise from feelings of inferiority. 🌿

This teaching clarifies how the self-existent mind operates from birth and how instinct differs from comparison.

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

Is it basic instinct to be drawn to beautiful things, or is it because of one’s feelings of inferiority which makes him continuously compare things to himself?

It is basic human instinct. Man has a self-sufficient mind from birth — the mind of self-existence — which gives him, of and by himself, the desire to eat, drink, and procreate. He does not need to be told to do so; it is simply his basic instinct. This is the reason he is drawn to things that are pretty or beautiful.

When something arises from a person’s sense of inferiority, he craves and desires only that which he feels is lacking in himself, but basic instinct is the same for everyone — all people find good things to be good and bad things to be bad.

– Woo Myung

🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to observe the mind clearly, distinguishing natural instinct from desires born of comparison and lack.