🌿 Introduction
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung uses the nature of water to reveal the essence of Truth and true living.
Water flows endlessly, without resistance, without conflict, and without attachment, following only its natural path.
🌊 No matter what obstacles it encounters, water continues silently, never holding onto anything.
Because it has no mind of events, nothing remains within it—
and therefore it is always free, clear, and alive.
🌿 This teaching shows that true liberation comes when one becomes like water—without self, without judgment, and fully aligned with the original foundation.
📖 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Water
The flowing water, even as it flows and flows,
always follows its path.
The water swirls and churns,
then becomes a cascade—
it is truly magnificent.
Flowing and flowing, crystal clear water flows.
Whatever is in its way,
it flows unhindered along its path
and even though it runs into thousands of things,
it flows without conflict, without speaking.
Following the flowing water’s path,
descending valley after valley,
without change, the water is just water.
Water that is without minds,
goes and goes, somewhere, without any worries.
Even though many things happen,
because the water does not have the mind of those happenings,
they do not exist.
Whatever happens, it is silent.
It does not have even the mind of silence,
so it is free and liberated.
It is the always living Truth itself.
Water knows the laws of the original foundation;
it is the original foundation itself.
Whether or not water exists,
whatever it runs into,
whether or not this or that exists,
water that has no attachments to itself, is alive.
People, with their many happenings, with their many excuses,
with their individual minds, are shameful.
When one becomes the mind of the clear blue sky,
the mind of water, the mind of nature,
and is reborn from the original foundation,
only then, can one become
the divine, a saint, God, Buddha.
People, living with their evil sins,
do not know to be ashamed.
Believing they are superior and worthy,
they think the world exists for them.
– Woo Myung
🌠Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to discard the mind of conflict, attachment, and self, and instead return to the natural flow of existence—like water. 🌿
By becoming free from the mind of events and judgments, one can experience the state described by Master Woo Myung—
a life that is clear, flowing, and aligned with Truth itself. ✨
