INTRODUCTION
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains how people often miss Truth because they focus on appearances rather than essence—the finger rather than the moon it points to. Humans see the world through their own standards, judgments, and accumulated images, mistaking those personal perceptions for reality.
Because everything exists in one’s mind, people view the same person or situation in completely different ways. A true dō-in is not a fixed or imagined figure such as a stone statue, but one who lives among people while having been born into Heaven, saving the world through Truth. 🌟
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
People Look at the Finger Instead of the Moon It Points To
W e criticize and judge others with our own standards and scales.
I teach Truth, and there have been many who have been following me. My aim has always been to teach people of Truth, but I pity those who seem to have followed me instead of following Truth. Truth is the world as it is and as we live it.
People think that a ‘dō-in (one who walks the Way of Truth)’ should be like a stone statue of Buddha, but a true dō-in is one who lives amongst others and yet has been born into Heaven, thus living eternally and saving mankind. Consequently, I do not fit into the standards of these people who have their own notions of what a dō-in is. Each person sees everything through his own standards. To some, a certain person may seem merely annoying, but to others, that same person may be their worst enemy. Indeed, to see from these different perspectives is one’s own mind – his own image. There is a saying that the eyes are the mirrors of a person’s mind. This means that everything exists is one’s mind and that that mind is reflected in his eyes.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to see beyond personal standards and images, awakening to the moon—the world of Truth—rather than the finger shaped by the human mind. 🌠
