INTRODUCTION
💔 In this tender and contemplative poem, Master Woo Myung captures the universal sorrow of parting — the ache that accompanies love, longing, and separation.
People scatter through life chasing survival, comfort, and meaning, yet in the process they leave behind unspoken love and unresolved heartbreak. Though the world is filled with people, it has become a place where many no longer truly know one another — where the warmth of love has faded into loneliness. 🌧️
Through this poem, Master Woo Myung gently reminds us that true reunion and peace are found not in clinging to love or loss, but in returning to the mind of Truth, where there is no separation, no parting, and no sorrow — only oneness. 🌿
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
At Santa Clara Meditation, people come to understand the deeper meaning of love and separation. 🌺
When we discard the false self that clings, fears, and longs, we awaken to a world where no parting exists — a world of oneness, where all hearts are connected through Truth.
By cleansing the mind, we move beyond the sorrow of loss and rediscover the eternal bond that lives in the True Mind.
