“What Is Life? — A Meditation Poem That Lays It All Bare”

Life is youth and old age. Life is happiness and sorrow. Life is having and not having. In this sweeping poem from Teacher Woo Myung’s Nature’s Flow, every facet of the human experience is laid bare in rapid succession — revealing that all of it exists due to the existence of your mind.

Video Transcript

Nature’s flow poems to awaken the mind to heavenly truth by teacher william what is life life is existence life is the existence of image life is non-existence life is youth and old age life is to exist as you are life is solitude life is happiness life is about having life is about not having life is sorrow life is futility life is about success life is about failure.

Life is arrivals and departures life is about farewells life is about the attachments of the mind life is foul ness life is filthiness life is empathy life is indifference life is wealth life is poverty life is starvation life is satisfaction life is the whole of what you see and what you hear due to the existence of your mind.

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