“Earth — A Meditation Poem About Our One Shared Origin”

The earth gives life to every creature, yet we rarely stop to appreciate it. This poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s Nature’s Flow is a sweeping meditation on our shared origin — reminding us that heaven is earth, earth is man, and when we let go of all our wishes and expectations, we can finally see the connection that was always there.

Video Transcript

You nature’s flow by Teacher Woo Myung this poem is called earth one upon the earth is where life is lived upon the earth is where creations live upon the earth is where many images exist independently upon the earth is where many memories exist upon the earth is where life cries upon the earth is where man enjoys himself upon the earth is where joy anger sorrow.

Pleasure exist but man lives in sorrow upon the earth is where many unexpected things occur upon the earth is where fantasies and dreams exist upon the earth is where man is born and where he dies upon the earth is where creations are born and where they die creations exist in the world because the earth exists.

Humans know neither what the earth is nor what it does though it it is without an image upon the earth is where there is the divine dull truth or the way that gives life to all things anything and everything is brought forth by the earth people do not know that the earth is the mother of all creations people do not appreciate the earth people do not know.

But the earth knows everything people very rarely know that heaven is earth earth is men earth is heaven heaven is man man is earth and earth is heaven those of you living a sad life I beseech you be as virtuous as me pitiable beings I beseech you be as virtuous as me I live having let go of all wishes or expectations.

You live wanting everything such as the difference between you and me.

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