💡 INTRODUCTION

Why do people carry so many burdens in life?

According to Master Woo Myung, burdens come from going against the flow of nature and defying the laws of Heaven. What people believe to be knowledge or wisdom is, in truth, only a collection of mental burdens that bind them to a life of anxiety, anger, and greed.

📚 People unknowingly burden others by passing on this false knowledge.
⚖️ True freedom lies in knowing nothing, having nothing, and being nothing—in returning to the original state of non-existence, free from the illusions of the false self.

Most people, however, cling tightly to their burdens, thinking their life is real, never realizing that they are enslaved by illusion.

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📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

One’s Burdens

One must shoulder burdens.
One must shoulder burdens if
he is not of nature’s flow.
One shoulders burdens because
he defies the laws of Heaven.
One is good at shouldering one’s burdens.

What one knows are all his burdens.
He is under the false impression that he has wisdom,
but what he has is nothing more than burdens.
Man teaches man knowledge,
but what he is doing is putting a burden on another
person’s shoulders.

One would have to shoulder nothing
if he knew nothing,
if he had nothing,
and if he himself were no more.
Man carries his own burdens,
unwilling to be free of them.
He acts superior even though he knows nothing about
departures and arrivals,
or existence and non-existence.
Though it is a non-existent life,
he lives thinking it is real;
he lives bound to it,
trembling with anxiety, anger, and greed.
But he does not try to break free from it;
instead he carries all of his burdens
in his attempt to have everything.

– Woo Myung

🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

Let go of your mental burdens.
Abandon the false knowledge and return to the natural flow of the universe.
Through meditation, you can discover a life without anxiety, anger, or greed.
Master Woo Myung guides the way to be free of all attachments.

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