“True Mind — A Poem on What Lies Beneath Self-Glory”

We live with our heads held high, but there will come a time when we must bow them low. This reflective poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s Nature’s Flow contrasts the false exterior of self-glory with the true mind — a mind absent of self, boundlessly kind, and sweeter than the scent of a thousand flowers.

Video Transcript

Nature’s flow by teacher william the true mind man lives with his head held up high but there will come a time when he will live with it hung low man has his self and so he lives raising himself high this is not his true mind only his exterior and it is what leads to his ruin when one is absent of self he is boundlessly kind.

Full of warm-hearted affection when someone treats him wholeheartedly he in return treats that person wholeheartedly however if there were a person who says one thing but means another one in return would treat him the same way he who revels in the show of his self glory ends up a disgrace.

That which is done from the true mind is sweeter than the scent of a thousand flowers the one may find it difficult to realize what living without oneself means he will come to know it in the future the world has been a place of hardship where the distribution of wealth has been unequal amongst people if one were not alert the person next to him snatched away what.

Was his if one tried to live he found himself hungry man’s life in such a world and in such times have been a contradiction human life is determined by conditions where by their presence is governed by the universe thus the universe is the master.

Consequently a life ignorant of the universe’s will is an untrue life indeed listen you live thinking that life is something you simply live you live not knowing your trueness nor do you know your righteousness and so all that remains of life is endless sadness since I have eliminated this lingering mind of mine I no longer exist when the mind does not exist it is the one mind.

To be one means that everyone and everything live together.

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