“The Flow of Nature — Living Without Plans or Worries”

The stars move silently through the sky without will, worry, or resistance. This poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s The Enlightened World explores what it means to live according to nature’s flow — absent of the plans and worries that confine us — and why that state of effortless living is actually the greatest success a person can achieve.

Video Transcript

The enlightened world poems to awaken the mind to heavenly truth by teacher wooyoung this poem is called the flow of nature the countless stars in the sky all live and move according to the flow of nature whether they are standing still in the emptiness or moving about the stars are silent absent of will the sky allows them to maintain their place the countless stars are the emptiness.

Itself even the numerous galaxies are the emptiness itself the emptiness creates and eliminates everything the emptiness operates according to nature’s flow yet it operates in and of itself for it has no mind if man had no mind he would be able to live naturally according to nature’s flow but man does not know this logic the only thoughts man has are nothing more than his plans.

Worries such thoughts are what confine him but he does not know it rather he is bound to his karma and abbot’s nature’s flow is of its own accord nature’s flow is as it is every creation in the universe is of nature’s flow that is everything except man’s mind it is only when man lives absent of his mind that he too could be of nature’s flow if you.

Were to ask me why this is I would tell you that to do as your body naturally does is the flow of nature what this means is man is his body and so if he were to become bound to a certain thought he would be unable to see it in the right way to see something the right way means to act accordingly all creations exist.

Yet they do not human life exists and yet it does not when man eliminates his life his shape his body is able to act of its own accord according to nature’s flow but man lives ignorant of this logic listen all of you do not worry about life and living well.

Instead try living absent of your mind when you’re absent of mind your body will naturally be able to act according to the truth and to nature’s flow just as the planets have no purpose will or thought but live by their own ability for self existence so.

Can you the ability for self existence is not a thought of men’s it is greatness itself the difference between acts that stem from man’s thoughts and the ability for self existence is that thoughts enslave men they keep him bound while the ability for self existence is a thing that is of itself.

Is of nature’s flow the ability for self existence has no hindrances hang-ups or conflicts and so one’s life would be smooth sailing even if we were to apply this to what people generally refer to as success this would be a great success for sure this is because human life is false.

Hollow yet man lives creating it he lives creating conflicts that are hindrances which is why his life is indeed false and hollow when one has no mind he has no hindrances conflict is hindrance and hindrance is conflict nature’s flow is truth to live according to this flow means to have no hindrances or conflicts.

Man does not know this instead he is forever deceived by the scheming minds of others for when one puts up his defenses others do the same.

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