“My Will — A Poem on Dedication to Helping Others Awaken”

In this deeply personal poem, Teacher Woo Myung reflects on his life’s journey — from lonely nights in a mountain temple to the boundless joy of watching others awaken to truth. “My Will” is a moving testament to his dedication to helping every person in the world become complete, even as his own hair turns gray and time grows short.

Video Transcript

Stop living in this land go to the everlasting world of happiness live there forever by Teacher Woo Myung turning to page 269 this is the poem my will deep in the night a nameless bird sing sadly from a tree long ago when I was studying in a mountain temple steeped in solitude the hoots of an owl.

The gurgle of a flowing stream would sound throughout the night those lonely times of solitude have changed to longing there was a time when countless thoughts boiled over in my head a time when I was chased by my circumstances but did not achieve anything now with hindsight I see it is fortunate I did not fulfill any of my big ideals I was not a great person.

I lived ridiculing myself disliking ignoring and cursing myself telling myself that I was the one who was wrong perhaps this is why I did not have much to repent I was not great in any way so I was humble and I worked hard as a result I lived well.

Compared to the days of scarcity in my childhood of the years that silently passed during the time when I first started teaching truth in mount gaia I again heard the cries of the owl every night the owl the head struck a chord in my lonely heart every one who sought me out each came to me with fifty thousand thoughts as they shed these fifty thousand agony’s they.

Showed the forms of their minds in fifty thousand different ways only then did I realize man is uglier dirtier and infinitely more vile than I was when I had scolded myself telling myself that I was dirty ugly and the worst person in the world it had been an unknowing repentance with the title of a doan I awakened people I cannot describe the joy I felt when after.

Many nights meditating together till dawn those countless people who had laughed and cried within their 50,000 agony’s enlightened to the truth I had also felt happy when I escaped from the grave and came out into the world but I had more joy in their enlightenment than I had in my own which was boundless each time a person’s consciousness changed from falseness to truth it was the first.

Time in the world people were truly becoming enlightened and as the founder the fact that people were actually achieving truth was tremendously moving people’s 50,000 agony’s decreased as they moved up through the levels but there were those who tried to achieve truth inside the frameworks of their selves which is something man grimly holds on to until the end those who false self tried to enlighten.

Truth were unable to ignore their false selves or progress further and ultimately did not achieve truth however those who were like bears and did not give up those who are constant and had thankful hearts are still meditating and are close to completion time flew by silently and since then twelve thirteen years have passed I started teaching truth in my mid-40s but now.

My hair has turned gray and my youth and energy have vanished I’m entering into old age I am becoming a wrinkled grandpa with gray hair and ground own teeth my body does not move as I will it too as it did in my youth the world is wide but I am living a human life with only 70 to 80 years and there’s so.

Much left to do in the world so regardless of whether it is day or night all my time is there dedicated to teaching people truth my mind is busy so busy with the constant thought that people all over the world must be awakened and I am waiting and waiting for the day when all people have become complete.

All people are able to live it is my hope that before I die truth will spread all over the world and everyone will be resurrected as truth I pity people who live and die without meaning or purpose it is heartbreaking it is my will to work hard so that even one more person may live you.

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