INTRODUCTION
🌌 In this powerful writing, Master Woo Myung reveals the relentless struggle with the thought-mass, the delusion-filled mind that continues to arise even after deep repentance and meditation. Though one may deny the self countless times and approach the state of the Creator, the remnants of thought-mass—our inner demons—still remain until Truth completely occupies the mind.
✨ This teaching shows that only when the self fully disappears into the Land of Truth does the infinite Creator reside within. At that moment, Heaven is no longer sought—it is lived, and the practitioner becomes a living embodiment of wisdom and Truth, as taught by Master Woo Myung.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Thought-Mass, Begone
Thought-mass, begone!
Thought-mass, begone!
Thought-mass, begone!
My demon, begone!
My thought-mass, which is my delusion-filled mind, begone!
Demon, begone!
Wearisome demon of my delusions, begone!
Only God has wisdom,
and only God can save me.
So delusions, begone!
Though I deny myself countless times,
though I become the Creator countless times,
the persistent attachment-filled mind does not seem to go away.
Only after I disappear from the Land of Truth
is Truth infinite;
only then has it always existed
and that Truth is wholly me.
But I am still curious
and have questions and doubts,
for I have not yet completely transmuted into
the Creator, who is Truth, itself.
Once I become the Creator,
I feel I have become complete,
but because I still have the remainder of my thought-mass,
or in other words, my demons,
I continue to have kleshas and discernments.
Though I have repented countless times
and have eliminated my self,
have I been able to wholly become the Creator?
The more I meditate, I realize
that my self still remains,
that I am far from the infinitely clean, pure, and living Truth,
that for me to enter into Heaven is more difficult than
for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle,
that everything is not within me as perfection,
that my consciousness is small,
and that it is impossible for the Universe,
which exists as it is,
to wholly become me.
Logically I know all of this,
but my thought-mass—my demons—remains.
I cast myself into Heaven,
and I am Heaven;
I cast myself back, far into the Universe.
As I do this countless times,
the thought-mass in my mind suddenly disappears,
and in its place God, who is Truth, resides;
I have repented for all of my sins;
the whole of creation is alive and lives just as it is;
I will live eternally in this earth;
though my body will disappear,
this earth and Heaven of Truth will live in me;
I have become the God of wisdom,
and as such, I teach Truth.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to face and dissolve the thought-mass—the root of delusion—until the mind is completely occupied by Truth itself. 🌠
Through this process, one does not merely remove demons, but becomes the wisdom of the Creator, living Heaven on earth through the teachings of Master Woo Myung.
