poems of truth
Enjoy full passages from Teacher Woo Myung’s book, Nature’s Flow
Earth II
The earth is the mother of all creations, and it exists where man lives. Everything that is living on Earth is able to exist, for the earth exists. The earth bears forth everything that man needs in order to live. The earth lives of its own...
Earth III
The earth is everlasting. But as earth, it is not everlasting. It is everlasting when man returns to the source. The earth does its duty without a word. The earth has neither complaints nor laughter. The earth has no sense of superiority or...
Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzDYt5SaAt8 The tree lives its life. Its life is one that is lived standing firm. No matter how much distress may befall it, it remains silent. The tree has no mind that it is living, but people call it a...
Wisdom
The Mind is one. The Mind is everything. Everything exists in the Mind, and everything is the Mind. The mind that has always been absent of attachments is the one Mind. When that Mind stirs countless different minds arise therein. ...
Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RhlWiikdA Love is endlessly peaceful. Love is endlessly understanding. Love is something that only humans have. Love is about giving what you have. Love is about humans loving humans. Love is about...
Agony
Agony is the product of human life. It is when man tries to achieve something then fails that this becomes his agony. Agony is the output of man’s unfulfilled greed. The countless experiences of man’s life are his agonies and joys, but they are...
Attachment
Human life is the life man lives. Man lives following the passage of time ignorant of his purpose. But there is no one in this world who is able to give him an answer. Listen! Commit yourselves to the work of this world without any...
Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzmX0PZCeI The thing that man will hold on to until the very end is his pride. One’s pride is the life he has lived until now and so he is unwilling to let go of it. He is unwilling to let go of it even...
Human Life II
Man does not know the wrongdoings of his life, nor does he know what he yearns for in life. Man limits his life. Saints of the past said that the reality of this world was not its true reality – that everything in the world passes by like the clouds...