Introduction
✨ In this deeply personal and reflective writing, Master Woo Myung shares the journey that led him to begin teaching people about Truth and human completion.
Through memories of youth, sorrow, and inner questioning, Master Woo Myung reflects on a life once filled with regret, confusion, and a deep search for meaning. He describes a time when he questioned why people live, why they suffer, and where they ultimately go. 🌿
While others lived focused on their own lives, he felt drawn to live for others and to understand the deeper purpose of existence. This search eventually led him to discover the ways of the world, Truth, and the method for human completion.
This writing reveals that true fulfillment does not come from living for oneself, but from transcending the false self and being reborn with the real body and mind. Through his realization, Master Woo Myung began guiding others toward liberation, completion, and eternal life.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
When I Began to Teach People
The train passes over the rails,
making a clickety-clackety noise as it rushes by.
It makes me think of those days of long ago,
when I could hear the far-off sounds of the train
in the early hours of the morning.
The noises of the Kyungbu railway may make
the people who live in the villages alongside it
want to leave and travel somewhere.
The many, many people who take the train
all have their own stories.
I once took a train during the saddest time of my life
and looked around to see if anyone was as sad as I was,
but other people were all slouched in their seats sleeping
and only I was sad.
Now as I look back at the events of that time,
when I was the saddest I had ever been,
I realize that for quite awhile I had forgotten them.
In my childhood and youth, and even as I grew older,
I lived without ever having laughed properly.
Why man had to die after living this way,
was a perpetual riddle in my mind.
In those days my mind held sighs and regrets,
and alcohol became my best companion.
It was my assignment of assignments,
to figure out where man comes from,
why he lives, and where he goes.
No one knew why I drank so much,
they only knew me as a person who drank a lot.
As we grew older my friends began to live lives
that revolved more and more around the events of each day,
but I cared more for others than myself.
As time went on, everyone I knew became busier and busier,
chased by the circumstances of their daily lives,
because they lived trying to protect themselves inside their self-centered lives.
On the other hand, I wished for others’ success,
because I doubted if there was any meaning or significance
in a life where only I lived well.
While many people were living only for their own sake,
I sacrificed my personal life, and tried in my own way to live for others.
I sometimes wondered why in a world where everyone was created together,
only some people became saints,
while I remained an ordinary person.
The past saints were chosen by heaven,
to prophesy the coming of a real saint at a certain time in the world.
All scriptures are indeed stories of Truth,
but furthermore, they speak of a time when man will become complete;
they speak of the age of human completion.
Only when a complete person comes to the world,
can man become complete.
Completion is the Universe itself,
and a complete person is he who comes to the world as such.
Man believes he lives by his own will,
but only after he has matured
will he know he lives not by his own will,
but by the will of the world.
He will also know the ways of the world, afterwards,
when he has matured,
and he will become one with the world.
The world just existed,
but during the time of immaturity,
I too lived like a vagabond,
endlessly rushed and busy;
rushing here and there but without actually achieving anything,
like a rat inside a well.
It makes me dizzy to think of that time,
when I nearly ended up dying,
and now, it seems like a dream.
Although in the human world,
there is nothing great about me or anything I did,
I have shed light on the ways of the world
which was a constant enigma,
so I have in a way, achieved my will.
Although people may all look the same,
a person who has Truth in him,
a person who has become complete,
is not human, but God.
Although I did not even dream of it,
I have come to the human world as the master of the world,
and I am teaching man how to become complete.
The method for man to become complete is
to discard one’s false body and mind
and to be reborn with the real body and mind.
It seems this method is popular.
For over ten years, many people have become free and liberated,
and they have gone to eternal heaven,
so I feel that I have done my work in the world.
– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌿 The teaching of Master Woo Myung reveals that the search for meaning, often filled with suffering, doubt, and questioning, can become the very path toward discovering Truth.
This writing shows that a life lived only for oneself may feel empty, while a life that seeks deeper understanding and lives for others can lead to transformation. The journey from confusion and sorrow to realization reflects the process of moving beyond the false self.
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to discard the false mind and discover the real body and mind. Through the teachings of Master Woo Myung, one can reflect on life’s purpose, human completion, liberation, and becoming one with the world, moving toward a life of true meaning and eternal existence. ✨
