INTRODUCTION

🌌 In this writing, Master Woo Myung explains that human beings are unable to live like flowing water because they cling to images, stories, and delusions that do not exist.

This teaching reveals that when one holds onto the past and judges the present through countless stored pictures, life becomes burdened with karma and suffering. 🌿

Master Woo Myung clarifies that only by living in the present reality, free from false images and habits, can one truly flow with the world. ✨

πŸ“– ORIGINAL WRITING BY Master Woo Myung

The Reason Man Cannot Live like Flowing Water

History and the numerous different stories of the past –
images that do not exist – are in one’s imagination.
People live with the countless stories that arise from their greed,
but these are all just dreams.
A dream is an illusion that does not exist, though it may seem to exist,
and just as it exists, yet at the same time it does not,
these stories are born from delusions.
Human life is born from a delusion and it is lived in a delusion.

Man tries and struggles to possess time that has already passed,
he tries to turn back time,
but it is futile.
Living in the present reality, and being in the present is dō.
Living out the present holding onto countless images
is burden – this is man’s karma.
Although it has been said that man must just live, and just exist,
they are all just words.

Man cannot live like the flowing water
because of the pictures he has in him,
and with them he judges and discriminates what is right and wrong.
These judgments and discriminations arise from his conceptions and habits.
A tree must be a tree;
the shadow of a tree is not the tree.
Likewise, if man is living in the world,
he should live in the world and nowhere else.

Why then has he drawn and stored the world –
the shadow of the world – within him?
It is greed, from the mind of possession.
Man, who cannot hear or speak the news of the world,
does not know the true will or purpose,
and there is no one who tries to know.
Far from repenting, all people are bellowing they are great –
it is no different than a scene from a tragic play.
It is laughable to see them building and destroying castles in the air
within the plays they themselves have made.

Man is not in the world because he does not have the consciousness of the world,
but inside the play he himself wrote,
he must live like a squirrel running in his wheel;
like a character in a video, he does not have life –
an illusion is not alive; it is dead.

– Woo Myung

🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners contemplate how to release delusions and stored images and awaken to the present reality, allowing life to flow naturally like water. πŸŒ