✨ Introduction
🌿 In this insightful teaching, Master Woo Myung explains the deeper meaning behind the phrase “mea culpa”, often used in Catholic prayers for repentance.
🙏 Traditionally meaning “my fault,” it reflects a willingness to take responsibility rather than blame others.
🌌 However, this teaching goes further, revealing that while such reflection may be seen as a virtue, one must understand the deeper Truth about sin, self, and responsibility.
🕊️ It emphasizes that human beings originally have no inherent sin, and that misunderstanding oneself as sinful can itself become a burden created by the mind.
🧘 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
What Is the Meaning of Mea Culpa?
What is the purpose behind the practice of calling out mea culpa during Catholic prayers to aid repentance and penitence?
Due to corrupted politics, people lost their faith in the world where wrongdoing is justified.
So they said mea culpa, which means “my fault,” not to blame others but to blame themselves.
It is a virtue in the human world; but it is not right because when a person thinks he is guilty and is sinful, the blame on himself becomes his original sin.
Humans originally do not have any sin.
Yet it is wrong to take on oneself a sin with its responsibilities when he is innocent.
Originally, we do not have any sins and karma.
This is because we came from the real substance of the Universe, and when we disappear and return to this existence sins no longer exist.
However, our own minds make our sins and karma, as well as controlling and restricting ourselves – this is the reason sins and karma exist.
People began saying mea culpa in order to point out the deeds of corrupt politicians who justified their actions.
This phrase is a virtue of the human world, but it is wrong to unconditionally blame oneself when he did nothing wrong.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Practice at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, you can learn and practice the method taught by Master Woo Myung step by step. 🌿
Through meditation, one can eliminate the false mind, understand the nature of sin and self clearly, and return to the original state of Truth and freedom.
✨ Begin your journey toward clarity, balance, and true liberation today.
