“A Poem of the World — Why We Cannot See What Is Real”

Have you ever felt like you were living inside your own thoughts, unable to truly see the world around you? This beautiful poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s book Where You Become True Is the Place of Truth describes the moment we break free from our self-made mental pictures and finally experience the world as it really is — vibrant, alive, and complete.

Video Transcript

Where you become true is the place of truth Teacher Woo Myung a poem of the world there is day and there is night there are mountains and there are oceans and in the ocean there are thousands of different life-forms I had countless different delusional thoughts I followed and chased those delusions during the day.

At night I was lost within them I lived inside my mind the source of all useless thoughts and bound inside it I could not see the world just as it is just as one sees it I did not know the river tried to persuade my deranged mind by leisurely flowing past without words nor did I know when the wind blew to comfort it a demented person does.

Not know what it is that man must do I was tied to my mind I was blind and deaf to the ways in which the world tried to let me know my delusional self only understood words of delusion and it was a delusion that believed it was alive or dead I wasted all the countless futile years that went by although I wandered.

Wandered inside my non-existent mind I had no destination only later I realized I had lived inside my mind the mind that I had made was one of pictures pictures of the world and pictures of my whole life in the world I had stored them within me.

I had lived according to its script they were not real hence their pictures I had turned my back against the world that is God and made my own world which is sin and karma when I escaped from it and became the mind of truth I could see the world is alive that the world is already enlightened that the world is complete only I had been trapped inside.

Myself and unable to see the world because my mind had not been one with the world now that I am reborn in the world everything in heaven and earth exists because I exist and right here is heaven I have begun to be able to see the trees that are lushly green after rainfall.

The wild flowers in the fields whose names I do not know that bloom red and blue and yellow there is nowhere in the world that is more beautiful than nature and this heaven and earth that God created in the past they could not see anything because I was inside the drama series of my making everything is created by the providence of nature.

This exists because that exists and everything that is born is born into the world and are therefore the children of the world they will live to the age of the world.

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