🌌 What Is the Original Substance of the Universe? | Master Woo Myung | Santa Clara Meditation

INTRODUCTION

🌠 In this writing, Master Woo Myung addresses the ancient philosophical question of the original substance of all creation, examining the views of early philosophers such as Thales and Anaximander.

This teaching reveals that neither water nor an indefinite principle is the true origin, but rather the pure energy of the origin—the fundamental existence that gives rise to all things in the Universe. 🌿

Master Woo Myung clarifies that this energy has no form, yet truly exists everywhere, filling both vacuum and non-vacuum states, and is the living foundation of all creation. ✨

📖 ORIGINAL WRITING BY Master Woo Myung

What Is the Original Substance of All Creations?

One of the very first philosophers, Thales, claimed that the original substance of the world is water. Anaximander gave us the theory of apeiron—an indefinite matter that is infinite and indestructible—which tells us that movement of cold and hot temperatures creates fluids, which in turn becomes air, and from air all creations are made. What is the original substance of all creations and how was it created?

Thales’ theory that the original substance of all things is water and Anaximander’s theory that an indefinite principle that is infinite and indestructible is the original substance are not right. The original substance of all things is the pure energy of the origin.

Energy of the origin has no form, but it is something that actually exists. Air is the combination of energy of the origin with other by-products, so although Anaximander’s theory is not right, it is close. In order for all creations to be formed, there must be pure energy of the origin. Energy of the origin is the energy of the Universe that exists in the entire Universe—in the states of both non-vacuum and pure vacuum.
– Woo Myung

🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners reflect on the question of the original substance of the Universe, learning to go beyond ancient theories and discover the pure energy of the origin as the living foundation of all existence. 🌠