INTRODUCTION
🌺 The Lotus Sutra teaches that when a person sincerely strives toward Truth, his six senses — eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind — become clean.
In this short yet profound explanation, Master Woo Myung reveals that true cleanliness does not mean moral or physical purity, but the absence of self.
As one walks the path toward Truth, all human conceptions and fixed frames of mind disappear.
When everything false is eliminated, only the original self — the mind of the Universe — remains, perfectly clear and boundless.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
In the Lotus Sutras, it is said that man’s six senses — his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind — will become clean if he diligently strives towards Truth. What does this mean?
To strive towards Truth is to walk a path towards one’s original self.
It is said that man’s senses become clean when he does so
because the more he goes towards Truth,
the more he is able to shed human conceptions and fixed frames of mind.
However, the state of things just as they are
is the state where neither cleanliness nor dirtiness exists —
where there is absolutely nothing.
The word clean is used when people go towards Truth
because their selves disappear.
It is said that one becomes clean
because his entire mind is eliminated.
When everything is gone there is no self:
only the original self remains.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🌼 When one strives toward Truth, he removes the stains of his false mind — the judgments, attachments, and conceptions that veil reality.
Through meditation, these layers gradually fall away until no distinction between clean and unclean remains.
In this state of complete elimination, only the clear, original self — the eternal mind of the Universe — exists.
✨ True purity is not gained but revealed, for it was always there beneath the illusions of the self.
