INTRODUCTION
🌌 In this profound writing, Master Woo Myung examines Descartes’ claim that the interaction between the mind and body occurs in the pineal gland. While this idea shaped modern thought, it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about how mind and body truly relate.
✨ This teaching explains that the pineal gland is not a connector, but merely a channel—a path through which the mind is expressed in the body. The true connection is not located in a single point, but in the entire pathway of existence itself, as taught by Master Woo Myung.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Pineal Gland and the Mind–Body Path
Descartes claims that the interaction of the mind and body occurs in the pineal gland, which is situated at the back of the neck. Is this assertion right?
The pineal gland is not the connector between the mind and body. It is simply a channel, not a connector. The brain is connected to the whole body, not just through the pineal gland. It is simply a channel, a path to the body. Simply put, it is not that the pineal gland connects a separated brain and body; the entire path or channel itself is the connector. It is simply an organ that enables the mind to go to the body.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to experience the mind–body relationship as one continuous path, rather than a mechanical connection in a single organ. 🌠
Through this realization, one comes to understand the body not as a separate entity, but as the living expression of mind, according to the teachings of Master Woo Myung.
