Your life is a mirror of your mind—what you say and do reveals everything that’s inside. 🪞
In this profound reflection, Master Woo Myung teaches that every person’s actions, speech, and path in life come from what they hold in their mind. Whether it is a profession, a belief, or a burden, people live according to the content of their self-centered minds—which are filled with attachments, delusions, and limiting perspectives shaped by their environments.
Quoting Albert Camus, Master Woo compares human suffering to the fate of Sisyphus, forever pushing a stone uphill only to watch it roll back down—a metaphor for the repetitive suffering born from the false self.
However, when one discards attachments and lives by the flow of nature, a transformation occurs. A mind free of selfishness becomes Truth, and such a person lives without burden or worry. Through Santa Clara Meditation, one can discard the false mind and become a complete person—free, peaceful, and truly alive. 🌱
One’s Words and Actions Reflect What and How Much He Has in His Mind
People live in the world with suffering and with countless agonizing thoughts and delusions.
Albert Camus compared human life to the toils of Sisyphus – that it is like having to repeatedly push a heavy boulder up a steep hill, only for it roll back down to its original position.
People claim to know things from inside their own self-centered minds formed by the environment in which they grew up. Within this mind, this mass of attachments, they say they know or do not know something.
People live, speak and act according to what and how much they hold in their minds. For example, people’s professions and the ways in which they make a living are decided in this way. Those who have studied the law, or those who have law in their minds, make a living from the law while those who have studied medicine make a living from medicine. People live according to what they hold in their minds.
People’s abilities also come from what they have in their minds. They move because they have minds and they live because they have minds.
People who do not have selfish minds are saints and complete people. It is not one’s mind of attachments that allows him to live a good life. A person lives well when he does not have such attachments and he lives according to nature’s flow.
A person who has Truth in his mind is Truth itself, and such a person does not live with a selfish mind. He can be said to live a good life, because he is free and he lives without worries, burdens and hindrances.
– Woo Myung
