💡 INTRODUCTION
Why does parting cause such deep heartache?
According to Master Woo Myung, people part ways not just physically but emotionally, often burying their longing and regrets in their hearts. In pursuit of survival—just to eat and live—they scatter across the world, leaving behind love and becoming a heartache to others.
🌎 Modern life causes people to forget the warmth of love,
and in doing so, they begin to forget each other.
This poem reminds us that human connection, once lost, becomes a sorrow we carry forever.
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📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Parting
People dislike partings.
Some partings are absent of reluctance or regrets.
There are partings in which
one has had to say farewell to a person he should not,
only to live pent up with heartache.
To part with one who has helped you and loved you
is indeed heartbreaking.
But out of all others, man has a mind in which
partings are sad and full of grief.
The most important thing in the world for people
is to eat and live,
and so they scatter here and there in pursuit of this,
only to be left with heartbreak
and thus becoming a heartache to one another.
They are never able to forget their love;
they bury it in their hearts
and live their lives in utmost longing.
Though the world is not perfect,
there were loving people here and there.
It is on the warmth of love that man lives;
thus it is heartbreaking that
the world has become a place
where people do not know each other,
only their own selves.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
When we let go of our ego-driven lives,
we begin to see the interconnectedness of all things.
Through meditation, we can release painful partings,
heal our longing, and return to the oneness of love.
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