💡 INTRODUCTION
From afar, a sailboat gliding across the blue waves may appear peaceful, detached, and beautiful.
Yet, as Master Woo Myung reveals, the sailboat’s journey is not without effort—it pushes through the water, alone beneath its white sails.
🚤 In the same way, when people speak of heaven or claim detachment while riding through life’s waves, there can still be an underlying loneliness.
True understanding comes when we see that loneliness is not simply being without companions—it is ignorance of what we do not know.
📺 Watch the video and read the original writing below.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Sailboat
The passing sailboat
may look peaceful, detached, and beautiful,
but it is not so for the sailboat.
Pushing through the blue waves,
with its white sails raised,
it is lonely.
When man rides a sailboat
and speaks of heaven, pretending to be detached,
it is also a type of loneliness.
What is loneliness?
It is what people do not know,
what they are ignorant of.
Being without any accompanying passengers
is also loneliness.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
Loneliness is more than the absence of people—it is not knowing.
Through Master Woo Myung’s meditation method, we can discard ignorance, awaken to Truth, and experience a life beyond loneliness.
