Is your life full of joy, pain, or confusion?
Master Woo Myung offers a deep reflection on the human condition — one shaped by self, attachments, and dreams.
Through Santa Clara Meditation, we are guided to examine our lives, not through surface experiences, but through Truth itself.
The life you are leading, with all its highs and lows, joys and sorrows, may simply be a dream within a dream — a life shaped by false self and unending desire. Whether you call it exciting or painful, savory or nonsensical, Truth asks you to go beyond.
“If you were to ask me how to live well,
I would tell you that you must completely be rid of your self.”
True life, according to Master Woo Myung, is the life Truth lives — free of self, burden, and illusion.
And if you ask how to transform your life into that of Truth,
“I would tell you that I have the key.”
The Life You Lead
If you were to ask me
what this life is that you are living,
I would tell you that there is no Truth in that life.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is one of Truth,
I would tell you that your burdens are heavy.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is exciting,
I would tell you that you are dreaming
an exciting dream within a dream.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is an exhausting one,
I would tell you to let go of your useless greed.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is nonsensical,
I would tell you that
there is no such thing as life or death.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is wrong,
I would tell you that
it is because you have an attachment and greed for life.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is savory,
I would tell you that
you have almost reached the true world.
If you were to tell me that
you are terrified of the life you are leading,
I would tell you that you are living well.
If you were to tell me that
the life you are leading is full of pain,
I would tell you to get rid of your self.
If you were to tell me that
you are leading a happy life,
I would tell you that it is nothing more than dust.
If you were to ask me how to live well,
I would tell you that
you must completely be rid of your self.
If you were to ask me what a life of Truth is,
I would tell you that a life that is alive is Truth,
that it is the life Truth lives.
If you were to ask me
to make the life you are leading into that of Truth,
I would tell you that I have the key.
– Woo Myung
