INTRODUCTION
✨ In this sharp and uncompromising teaching, Master Woo Myung exposes the deepest root of human suffering: we blame the world while living imprisoned inside our own minds.
🌿 He explains that people wander in ignorance — not knowing where they came from, why they live, or where they are going — and therefore live in resentment, dissatisfaction, and self-made “tombs.” The radical message of this piece is simple yet difficult: everything in the world is one’s own fault. When one truly recognizes this and discards the false self, conflict disappears and the living world of Truth opens. 🌠
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
One’s Own Fault
The blue sky, green mountains and clear water
open wide the human mind.
People live their lives in the world
but they do not know where they come from,
why they live and where they will eventually go.
While in ignorance of the true meaning and purpose,
they blame the world and others
because nothing in the world suits their minds.
For them, all things are dissatisfactory,
and this remains in their minds.
They live foolishly with these regrets.
When will they go to the land where the world is alive?
People who are already there worry about those who are not.
Those who have not reached this world
are trapped inside themselves, speaking the words of ghosts,
and the people of the world are unable to distinguish whose words are true,
but moreover, they are not even interested.
They do not know that this is a matter of the utmost importance,
of life and death,
and they are simply unable to see or hear.
Ironically, the angry people are those who are in the wrong,
and they do not realize their wrong-doings at all.
No one knows what human life is,
no one knows where they are headed,
and indeed there is nowhere to go.
Everyone is insane —
they only say insane and crazy things.
The insane are running amok, not realizing they have gone crazy.
They believe their insanity is normal, that it is right.
Everything in the world is one’s own fault,
and one must repent himself.
Know that everything in the world is your fault,
and if you discard yourself that is at fault,
you can live in the world
without hindrances or conflict.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is practiced not as guilt, but as awakening to truth. By seeing that conflict arises from the false self and repenting that self, practitioners step out of the “tomb” of the mind and enter the living world — exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung. 🌠
