Introduction
✨ In this teaching, Master Woo Myung explains why perseverance and humility are essential in the pursuit of Truth. Many people begin spiritual practice with enthusiasm, but along the way some lose patience, believing they can reach enlightenment through their own understanding alone.
According to Master Woo Myung, such thinking arises from the sense of self and personal pride. When people believe that their progress is the result of their own ability, they forget the guidance and support that helped them move toward Truth. 🌌
He emphasizes that the path to Truth requires continuous practice, patience, and guidance. Spiritual transformation does not happen instantly; the accumulated mind and deeply rooted attachments must gradually be removed step by step.
Through this teaching, Master Woo Myung reminds practitioners that remaining on the path with sincerity and dedication is essential for reaching the ultimate stage of completion — a state where all doubts disappear and one lives as the true consciousness of the Universe. 🌿
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Those Who Leave The Place of Truth While in the Pursuit of Truth Will Never Attain It
Because of their own sense of self, people mistakenly think that the amount of Truth they achieve through meditation is all due to their own greatness. Such people have no gratitude towards people who guided them towards Truth.
There are many people who give up meditating mid-course because it takes a lot of time to pass level four. The reason for this is that because people are simply taught to abandon their selves and eliminate everything, they get to thinking that they know the method completely.
However, it is not possible for a person who could not complete his practices at the place of Truth to leave and then reach Truth on his own. At most, he would be able to maintain what he has achieved, but he would still never be able to reach Truth.
Such a person is one who has already developed his own wants, attachments, and sense of identity, and so he is not able to meditate properly. His own sense of identity – his inner demon – is so big and so strong that he has nowhere in him to contain Truth – a Truth for which there is nothing greater or higher.
As a person is guided by meditation instructors and follows their teachings in times of hardship, his consciousness will eventually be awakened. It takes a certain amount of time for a person to be cleansed.
And in order to complete each level, smaller things must be broken down in order for there to be a great breakthrough.
Man’s mind is bound so strongly by sin that that bind is stronger than a diamond. But if he keeps at it without being anxious, he will eventually be enlightened one day.
In the end, those who are not single-minded cannot achieve.
Those whose delusions – in other words, their demons – are strong and powerful cannot achieve, just as Christianity says that sinners cannot be born into Heaven.
Buddhism also teaches something similar to this, in that those with heavy karma cannot reach enlightenment.
Even the teacher Jeungsan once said that God removes those who dwell where they should not. This means that because his delusions distance him far from God, man cannot become God, and therefore, he is dragged out from the place of God.
Even after passing level four, the meditation methods taught in levels five, six, seven, and eight are all different from one another, and so if not for these methods, thousands of people would not be able to take even a single step closer to reaching Truth.
Just because a person has passed a certain level does not mean that he can reach total enlightenment right then and there; that is not enough and thus he would just remain where he is.
This is why people should be guided one step at a time towards completion.
Until a person reaches level eight, which is completion, he will still be curious, full of doubts and suspicions, ignorant due to his own insufficiency, and harbor delusions.
A person who has yet to reach completion would know firsthand that he has yet to become complete.
But a person who is complete would not be curious about anything nor would he have any doubts or suspicions.
He would neither have delusions nor be in want of anything; he would know everything and would have achieved all.
Thus, he would live as the original God of the Universe, born into the Land of God – the Land of Buddha and true Paradise.
— Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners reflect on teachings from Master Woo Myung that emphasize perseverance and humility on the path toward Truth.
Meditation is not simply a method to calm the mind but a process of gradually eliminating the accumulated mind and the sense of self.
🌠 Through patience, sincere practice, and guidance, individuals can progress step by step toward completion — a state where doubts disappear and one lives with the consciousness of the Universe itself.
