INTRODUCTION

✨ In One’s Stories, Master Woo Myung reveals how human beings continuously create inner burdens through the stories they accumulate in their minds. While nature remains silent and unchanged, man alone fills his mind with interpretations, memories, and personal narratives. 🌿

🌠 He explains that these countless stories distance people from their original nature. The stars simply twinkle as they always have, yet man gives them endless names and meanings. In quiet places untouched by human influence, one can feel closer to Truth because the mind momentarily returns to Nature and the Universe. 🌌

Freedom comes when one stops creating these stories and lives according to nature’s flow, free from attachment and inner noise. ✨

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

One’s Stories

The wind begins to stir as the sun sets
causing one to feel empty inside.
Man’s mind changes according to his atmosphere.
Amidst his non-existent true nature
comes forth righteousness and the true Mind.

A person who thinks that he is singular in his greatness
is one whose self exists
and so he does not know what righteousness is;
he is a person who is blinded by his great self
and thus cannot see Truth.

More often than not,
man’s experiences are
what make him look back on himself.
Those who wander in search of Truth
and of ‘dō (the Way)’
are ones with many experiences and many stories.

The countless stories of that far away Universe
are all in one’s own mind.
The far away Universe simply exists,
but man creates countless kleshas.

When the sun sets and the sky becomes dark
small stars simply twinkle as they are.
But man alone creates stories in his mind.
The stars are now just as they were then,
but they have countless different names.
Only the stars twinkle silently in the black night sky
without a word.

In places uninhabited by man,
one feels as if one can hear the stars,
for his mind becomes Nature and the Universe.
One feels as if he can hear their voices from close by,
for he has come closer to the original nature.

As time passes, man stores in his mind
his countless stories and experiences.
His mind is tumultuous
and so he is always creating burdens for himself
that are without gain.
Such is human life;
such is living.

One can be free of this
when he leads a life that is of nature’s flow
and a life that is absent of attachments.

— Woo Myung

🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is practiced as the art of emptying the mind of accumulated stories. By returning to nature’s flow and discarding attachment, practitioners rediscover the quiet clarity of the original mind—exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung. 🌠