INTRODUCTION
✨ In A Poem of the World, Master Woo Myung reflects on a life once lived inside the delusions of the mind and the awakening that comes when one escapes that inner world. 🌌
🌿 He describes how nature silently tried to guide him—the river flowing, the wind blowing—while he remained trapped inside pictures stored in his mind. Only after becoming the mind of Truth did he begin to see the world as it truly is: alive, complete, and already enlightened. 🌠
This poem reveals the beauty of the world that appears when the false mind disappears. ✨
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Poem of the World
There is day, and there is night,
there are mountains and there are oceans,
and in the ocean, there are thousands of different life forms.
I had countless different delusional thoughts.
I followed and chased those delusions during the day
and at night, I was lost within them.
I lived inside my mind – the source of all useless thoughts –
and bound inside it, I could not see the world
just as it is, just as one sees it.
I did not know the river tried to persuade my deranged mind
by leisurely flowing past without words,
nor did I know when the wind blew to comfort it.
A demented person does not know what it is that man must do;
I was tied to my mind, I was blind and deaf
to the ways in which the world tried to let me know.
My delusional self only understood words of delusion,
and it was a delusion that believed it was alive or dead.
I wasted all the countless futile years that went by.
Although I wandered and wandered inside my non-existent mind,
I had no destination.
Only later, I realized I had lived inside my mind.
The mind that I had made was one of pictures;
pictures of the world and pictures of my whole life lived in the world.
I had stored them within me and I had lived according to its script.
They were not real; hence, they are pictures.
I had turned my back against the world that is God,
and made my own world, which is sin and karma.
When I escaped from it and became the mind of Truth,
I could see the world is alive;
that the world is already enlightened;
that the world is complete.
Only I had been trapped inside myself and unable to see the world,
because my mind had not been one with the world.
Now that I am reborn in the world,
everything in heaven and earth exist because I exist,
and right here, is heaven.
I have begun to be able to see the trees that are lushly green after rainfall,
and the wild flowers in the fields, whose names I do not know,
that bloom red and blue and yellow.
There is nowhere in the world that is more beautiful than nature,
than this heaven and earth, that God created.
In the past, I could not see anything because
I was inside the drama series of my making.
Everything is created by the providence of nature,
and this exists because that exists,
and everything that is born, is born into the world
and are therefore the children of the world.
They will live to the age of the world.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, this poem is contemplated as a reminder that the world is already complete and alive. By discarding the false mind, practitioners begin to see nature, life, and Truth as they are—exactly as taught by Master Woo Myung. 🌠
