💡 INTRODUCTION
What happens in a seon-bang (선방, 禪房)—a meditation hall where seekers go to find their original nature?
In this poetic and profound writing, Master Woo Myung describes the seon-bang as a sacred space where people empty their minds, return to their original foundation, and share dam-hwa (담화)—stories of Truth.
☸️ True meditation, he teaches, is not gaining but abandoning.
🌀 To empty is to fill. To abandon is to return.
And when stories are shared without mind, they become the voice of Nature, heard even by the clouds and winds.
🔊 Listen carefully to the dam-hwa. Within it lies the ideal world we long for.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Seon-Bang Dam-Hwa
‘Seon-bang (禪房)’ is a place people go to
in order to find their original nature –
to find Truth.
They meditate by staring into a small dot.
They meditate with their minds.
Meditation is a battle with one’s self;
it is liberation from one’s secrets.
At the seon-bang,
people focus on emptying their minds.
That they empty their minds means
they eliminate what they have within.
To eliminate means
to return to the original foundation.
Thus they abandon over and over again
the thoughts they have stored within.
Listen all of you!
You must learn Nature’s flow as you live in this world –
you must learn to abandon.
Nature’s flow is non-existence.
Nature’s flow is oneness.
Nature’s flow is the existence of all things
amidst non-existence.
You must learn that to empty is to fill.
You must learn to live with your eyes open wide.
At the seon-bang,
people exchange ‘dam-hwa (stories)’
that are absent of their minds –
stories that are Truth.
They also talk to each other about the lives they lead.
Listen all of you!
Listen to the dam-hwa of Truth that I tell you.
Listen to them again and again,
as I tell them to you forgetful of the time.
People speak of a godly life,
but it is only when they speak absent of their minds
that they are able to all become one.
Even the drifting clouds hear my stories.
Even the passing winds hear my words.
When all creations become Truth,
when all creations are joyous,
then the images of every creation in the universe
are as they should be.
The ideal world that people wish for resides in
the dam-hwa at the seon-bang.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
Are you ready to listen deeply—not with the mind, but with the whole being?
Santa Clara Meditation invites you to discover your original nature through abandonment, emptiness, and stories of Truth.
🔹 Learn the power of “to empty is to fill”
🔹 Return to your origin through dam-hwa
🔹 Experience harmony beyond thought or speech
🔗 RELATED LINKS
📌 Santa Clara Meditation YouTube Channel: Click Here
