🔎 Introduction
✨ In this powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung describes what it truly means to live a life guided by Truth rather than the false self.
Through vivid imagery of storms and mountain peaks, he explains that human suffering comes from holding onto the false body and false mind. True completion is not achievement in the world, but discarding the self entirely and being reborn with the real mind of great nature. 🌿
This writing reveals that happiness does not come from possession, superiority, or success — it comes from living without greed, without self, and in harmony with universal order.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Life Lived by Truth
When a storm blows,
all creations hold their breath,
and submit to the might of the storm.
When the storm passes after raging awhile,
everything is simply as it was;
as if there had never been a storm.
It is the same with human affairs:
if there are dark and cloudy days,
there are also days that are clear.
Namely, time solves everything.
While taking man to the peak of completion,
incomplete people had much to say
and incomplete people spoke and behaved how they wanted,
but even in the thick of that storm,
I was dragging them to the peak.
At the peak where the storm does not blow,
it is infinitely peaceful and quiet.
Looking back from the peak,
I think people had trouble following me here
because they lacked dedication and diligence.
Human completion is discarding one’s false body and mind,
and being reborn with the body and mind of the origin that is real.
Those whose sly and cunning minds wanted to become complete,
those who sought Truth in order to become superior,
all ended up dying.
The clean and sublime place of Truth
cannot be achieved while holding onto one’s self;
it is achieved by completely discarding all of one’s self.
When there is no self, only that which is real remains,
and one can only be born if Truth
enables him to be born in the world of Truth.
If one is resurrected as what is real in the land that is real,
his self, the person of the past that is false, dies
and his real self is born in the real land.
He can become real in the land that is real
by the words commanding his self that is real to be born.
Such is what Truth is.
What is profound and mysterious is the real world,
which man cannot understand, for he is false.
The land that is real was created by the existence that is real,
by his words, be reborn.
Those who meet the requirements can live,
namely, those who do not have a self,
only when the existence that is real
allows them to be born in the real land.
The people of the world live with falseness that is not real,
and they pretend to be clever, and believe that they are clever,
but they do not actually know anything —
everything they know is false.
Man speaks, behaves and lives according to what his mind holds,
and because his mind is not real but falseness itself,
there is nothing he knows.
What he knows is an illusion,
acquired by taking pictures of the world.
It does not exist in the world and it is not real,
so it is the epitome of an illusion.
Within this illusion, it can be said that people’s lives progressed,
but it was progress that is not true progress.
And in the end, for their own sakes,
they killed and were killed,
they stole and robbed;
there are many, many people
who lost their humanity and are at odds with the world.
In a self-centered world where one wants to live better
and do better than others, all he gains is loneliness;
and even if he himself succeeds and lives a good life,
his descendants end up failing and suffering.
Man’s happiness comes from living without worries,
and the mind of happiness is one that wishes for others to live well.
Man has as much anguish as what he has in his mind,
but he does not have anguish if in his mind there is no greed.
He who has, or holds, in his mind what he possesses,
ends up suffering even more when his possessions disappear
because he has them in his mind.
If there is nothing in one’s mind,
he has no worries, whether he possesses something or not.
If man is reborn as the real mind — the mind of great nature —
he will live according to universal order, just as nature does,
because he will not have any human minds.
He will live adapting to the world,
and everyone will live as one.
Everyone will live in togetherness, as “we” rather than “me”,
and the world will become our world —
a place of one.
– Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn that true completion comes not from achieving more, but from discarding the false self completely. 🌠 Through meditation, one gradually releases greed, comparison, and illusion, and awakens to the real mind of great nature.
A life lived by Truth is peaceful, selfless, and in harmony with universal order — a life where “we” replaces “me.”
