INTRODUCTION
✨ In this powerful and poetic message, Master Woo Myung speaks about the difficulty a virtuous person faces in a world built on falseness. He describes a world where Truth cannot be freely spoken, where corruption fills politics, economics, and religion, and where people hide behind masks—wolves in sheep’s clothing. 🌑
He shows that true rest, true freedom, and true peace do not exist in a world shaped by delusion. Only great nature, which is one with Truth, stands with the virtuous person. For humanity to live in genuine peace, the false world—the world of ghosts, pretenses, and pictures—must be stripped away. Only when people die to their false selves and are reborn as the mind of the true world can the complete world emerge. 🌅
This writing exposes the falseness of the world and offers a path toward a future where the world becomes one through Truth.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Virtuous Person Has Nowhere in the World to Rest
Under which sky, in which country,
is there a place for me to rest?
There are many countries and places in the world,
but there is nowhere for me to rest,
and nowhere can I speak openly of the Truth.
In which country, and under which sky
do true freedom and peace exist?
Only great nature is one with my mind, and exists silently
but the world is so completely false,
that for someone such as me
who teaches people they are false
and gives them new birth as Truth,
it is not just a place of rest that is the issue,
but that I cannot openly teach my message.
Great nature, that is silent, is one with me
and it is on my side,
but in the world there are only wolves in sheep’s clothing
beckoning from a dark and non-existent place
to come into their worlds.
If something does not suit their frame of mind,
they are cold and even take lives,
and although it cannot be seen with the eyes,
a wolf is a ghost who asks others to live by its rules.
Even though it is told that such a world is not right
it thinks that what it is doing is the most correct.
The world is filled with wolf packs,
with ghosts, in sheep’s clothing.
A world where one either eats or is eaten
has continued for thousands, tens of thousands of years,
but in such a world,
does a place of true freedom and peace for man exist?
The land must be stripped of the wolves’ clothing,
and the wolves – the ghosts – must die and be reborn
and become one with the mind of the true world,
for only then can they live in the complete world created by the
Maker.
But wolves, telling the stories of countless events,
are living in the lap of luxury, and for their own benefit,
they mask themselves in sheep’s clothing
while eventually feeding on others.
Just as Jesus Christ told us,
the mountain creatures and birds all have homes,
but there is nowhere in the world
for a virtuous person to rest.
Politics, economics and religions, none have a perfect plan;
so, even the Soviet Union collapsed.
Many countries under this system have fallen,
subsisting quietly for awhile while under the governance of a competent
person,
then eventually crumbling.
The economy also does well for a time before failing,
recovers, then fails again.
Religions are not able to become one with the words of past saints –
they may speak of their words,
but their minds are that of pictures, of ghosts.
To argue that one is right when he is not Truth
and there is not one iota of Truth in him,
is foolishness amongst foolishness,
yet no one even realizes that this is foolish.
The plan to live well, with true peace, freedom and equality,
the plan for man to live happily and forever,
is to get rid of pictures – to get rid of the world of the mind.
The problem is man only hears what he already knows,
and furthermore, he does not even try to listen.
He who is trapped inside a grave,
can only spout stories of the grave
but for someone who lives in the world
they are stories of rotting corpses,
the sounds of gas emitting from shit-filled graves.
All around, there are only sounds of rotting,
the sounds of boiling shit,
so a living person cannot speak
and there is nowhere for him to rest;
at a loss, he waits.
Without the ghosts knowing, he moves.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to break away from the false world of pictures and awaken to the true world. 🌠 Through cleansing the mind, one escapes the world of wolves and ghosts and finds genuine peace and rest in Truth.
