“Pride — A Meditation Poem on the Last Thing We Let Go”

Of all the things we cling to, pride may be the very last to go. This reflective poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s Nature’s Flow describes how pride — the sum total of the life we have lived — becomes an attachment we carry even beyond death, and how the universe calls on us to let it go and live free.

Video Transcript

Nature’s flow by teacher hua mian this poem is called pride 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 after he is dead tears come to my eyes man may look back on his.

Life over and over again however no one else but he knows his experiences with the flow of time man rears his mind a mind which he gains throughout his life and lives fixed upon the universe blames that mind it tells man to let go of that mind and live life is a passing memory in which anything.

Everything passes in which man sees what he sees as existence in which man thinks he is his self in which man does not realize that attachments are burdens the will of the universe is the mind which is one that is absent of attachments such as the will of the universe the mind is the universe the mind is the origin one who does not know this true will.

Of the universe will live with his own distant and obscure mind you.

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