“Why Acceptance Is the Greatest Thing of All in Life”

What does it truly mean to accept everything without judgment? In this reading from Teacher Woo Myung’s World Beyond World, we hear how acceptance is not passive — it is the highest form of wisdom, a state of great mercy and freedom that arises when the narrow self falls away.

Video Transcript

Good evening tonight we’ll hear from the book world beyond world by Teacher Woo Myung will turn to the poem acceptance is the greatest thing of all found on page 290 acceptance is the greatest thing of all because it means to embrace everything without discernment one embraces so.

That one may be awakened of that which one has embraced being awakened does not mean to gain enlightenment by discerning until one knows for sure what is and what is not rather it means to gain enlightenment despite such discernment it means to discern until one knows it for sure yet not be bound to one’s discernment it means to discern with the mind that is absent of self.

Because this mind embraces the narrow mind of others it is the mind of great mercy and great benevolence it is the mind of true great freedom according to nature’s flow acceptance is the wisdom of life in which a life that follows this flow is a life of acceptance acceptance is perfect so.

It belongs to nothing yet it allows for everything to become one it allows us to seeing things as they are so that though one may teach one does not belong to the teachings one just teaches one simply does it which is why it is acceptance you.

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