📖 Introduction
🌫️ Why do people feel restless, longing, and burdened even when life seems ordinary?
In this reflection, Master Woo Myung describes how human beings live attached to sadness, memories, and endless thoughts—creating what Buddhism calls kleshas, the afflictions of the mind. ✨
The Universe itself exists without attachment. Only man clings, thinks ceaselessly, and suffers. Freedom begins when these attachments are discarded.
🕊️ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Kleshas
People live with longing,
not knowing what they must live for.
People live in this world
laughing, crying, talking, and sighing.
The sadness passes with the years,
but one lives attached to it.
The Universe exists as it is
and thus all creations in the world
are absent of attachments.
There is no sadness in the Universe,
but man alone has countless kleshas.
Man alone thinks ceaselessly in vain
and thus lives creating useless kleshas.
— Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, kleshas are understood as attachments formed by the false mind. 🌌
The Universe flows without clinging. Creation exists naturally. Yet human beings attach to sadness, pride, longing, and memory—replaying them endlessly.
When one discards the false mind, kleshas dissolve.
When kleshas dissolve, peace appears naturally.
Freedom is not gained—it is uncovered when attachment ends.
