π Introduction
π In this profound reflection, Master Woo Myung addresses a common concern: If every being has its own individual mind, how can one survive without it?
According to Master Woo Myung, what truly sustains life is not the individual human mind but the original mind, which is the core and origin of all existence. The original mind exists whether human thoughts exist or not. β¨
When the individual ego is discarded and one lives with the original mind alone, life becomes aligned with Truth and flows naturally.
ποΈ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Every human being and every creation in the world have minds of individual beings. How can man, animate beings, and inanimate objects survive if they discard their individual minds?
True mind is the core and the origin of everything in the world. True mind exists but it does not; it does not exist but it exists. It is the existence as it is. However, people are ignorant and misunderstand; they think they cannot live without human mind. The original mind exists as it is no matter the human mind exists or not. Yet people have their own human mind, and think that individual mind is what constitutes their selves.
When the original mind exists but oneβs human minds do not, he lives a true life. Oneβs own individual mind only confines and restricts; it does not help him at all. Becoming free from oneβs ego entirely is dΕ or going towards Truth. Only when one lives with the original mind, is his life a well-lived life.
When oneβs own minds are added to this original mind, they form to make his soul and become the source of various delusions. When oneβs individual mind does not exist, he can live according to natureβs flow β a complete life of Truth.
β Woo Myung
π Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, the distinction between the individual mind and the original mind is essential. πΏ
The individual mind, built from memories and attachments, limits and confines. The original mind, however, is the natural state of existence itself. When ego dissolves, life aligns with the greater flow of Truth.
To discard the ego is not to cease living.
It is to begin living fully.
