“The Meaning of Humility — When the Self Is Truly Absent”

True humility is not something you can perform — it is something that naturally arises when the self is absent. This brief, striking passage from Teacher Woo Myung’s The Living Eternal World explains that being humble, loving, and merciful are not things we can achieve by merely speaking them, but qualities that emerge once the creator dwells within us.

Video Transcript

Hello we all start to read from the book the living eternal world by Teacher Woo Myung the meaning of humility humility is the absence of oneself because one does not exist one is able to be humble because one does not exist one can accept because one does not exist one can lower himself true humility is accepting truly humble are the deeds one does in the absence.

Oneself be humble be loving be wise but not your left hand know what your right hand is doing be merciful love your enemies love your neighbors as you love yourself such are not the words one can become by merely speaking them these are the things that one will naturally become once the creator dwells within man is incapable of keeping his left hand ignorant of what his right.

Hand is doing for the deeds remain in his mind.

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