“Tree — A Meditation Poem on Living Without Complaint”

A tree stands firm through wind, rain, and distress without a single complaint. It simply lives, does everything it needs to do, and leaves one day without demanding to know why. This gentle poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s Nature’s Flow holds up the tree as a quiet model for how we might live — rooted, selfless, and one with the universe.

Video Transcript

Nature’s flow poems to awaken the mind to heavenly truth by teacher william today I’m gonna read a poem called tree the tree lives its life its life is one that is lived standing firm no matter how much distress may befall it it remains silent the tree has no mind that it is living.

People call it a tree because it is of its image the tree simply lives its life the tree is able to live of its own accord even though it has no sense of self there is no mind of self-inflicted turmoil in the tree the tree is in existence that must exist in the world it dislikes neither wind nor rain it just exists as it is.

World and then leaves one day without demanding to know why the tree has no attachments of its own only its instincts the tree simply lives but does everything it needs to do the tree lives of its own accord and dies of its own accord while man has his discernments of what is good and what is bad the tree is a representation of the universe.

It lives and dies due to the conditions of nature the tree exists in order for the whole of creation to exist it exists in the world following harmony the tree has no specific purpose or objective but it is able to do its duty due to the conditions of nature indeed the tree is a tree.

It is the hole though it seems to simply be the tree is able to exist for it is one with the universe.

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