🌟 INTRODUCTION
✨ In this poetic reflection, Master Woo Myung paints a vivid picture of nature awakening at dawn and contrasts it with the human mind that lives in greed, envy, and comparison. 🌿
He shows that while all people live in the same world, only those who have become one with nature live as divine beings, free from worry, conflict, and attachment. 🌌
This teaching reveals that true freedom is not found by changing the outer world, but by letting go of the human mind and simply living as Truth. 🌠
📄 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Divine Being Just Lives
In the east, the sun has risen,
and the mountains, streams and fields have woken, and are dancing.
There is a cottage nestled in them,
where a child who has woken is chasing baby chicks with a stick,
shadowed by a puppy trotting behind him.
Frogs are leaping around by the stream,
and shoots that had been underground,
are pushing through the earth
and changing from a pale yellow to a vibrant green.
The rowdy people in the lower village
are busily getting ready to farm,
while the frail grannies and grandpas are making porridge.
The womenfolk are in the kitchen,
cooking on a fire stoked with wood and twigs.
The fields are dotted with the menfolk working,
and when the women arrive laden with food,
they eat leisurely in the fields.
Larks are singing in the sky,
and flowers are blossoming in every house in the village.
In the mountains and fields, wild azaleas are in full bloom.
Even though man lives in nature,
his mind puts nature inside him
and he lives his life with greed.
His minds of envy and jealousy form
in his efforts to live a better life than other people,
and to succeed over other people;
he makes the world unclean.
A divine being who has become one with nature
may outwardly lead a life that looks the same as anyone else,
but he does not live in the human world.
He lives in the world of divine beings without any worries;
he lives a life filled with song, sung leisurely.
He lives waiting for the world of divine beings to come;
he lives to make such a world happen.
Even though all people live together,
a divine being lives in heaven,
while man lives inside his own mind.
Therefore, man suffers inside the burden
speaking the words of a ghost.
Only divine beings know the ways of the world,
and live freely, silently and without anxiety.
I was living in the ghost world,
but suddenly arrived in the world of divine beings.
I have become a companion of nature,
a companion of the sky and moon;
I have become the origin that just exists,
and therefore I live a life of freedom;
I just live without greed in the true world,
the complete world, where everything has been cast off.
I live, I just live, without conflict, silently,
like the wind that blows, and water that flows.
I live with the mind of a bird that leisurely sings,
the mind of a deer frolicking in the woods.
It is a mind without thorns;
a mind that is always at rest,
a mind without any greed
because it has let go of everything.
Dead people cannot speak,
but a living person does not speak either.
A divine being just pities sentient beings
who struggle in the saha world with burden and suffering.
– Woo Myung
🔍 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to observe how the human mind lives in comparison, greed, and worry. 🌿 Through meditation, they learn to release these habits and return to the natural mind that simply lives—free, silent, and at rest—exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung.
