[Collection of Poetry] Mind

Poems of enlightenment that lead a person’s mind to Truth: Book 1
About widsom, how to live life without being bound to it.

This book is part of an anthology of poetry written and collected by Teacher Woo Myung. Using concise and simple language, Teacher Woo Myung expresses his hope for all the people of the world to cleanse their minds, be enlightened, and live happily with the mind of nature’s flow just like nature.

Published 1998 Korean First Edition, September 2001 Korean Revised Edition, 4^th Edition 1^st Printing September 11^th 2017 Hardcover Edition | Cham Publishing Co., Ltd.

Typeset New Edition / 202 pages

Translated English, Italian, Swedish, French / Chinese (Amazon Kindle e-book)

Introduction to the Book

The great freedom to live life but not be bound to it; the life of wisdom

This is a collection of poems by Teacher Woo Myung who founded Ma-Eum Su-Ryun, the meditation method of subtracting out one’s minds. These writings contain his earnest wish for all the people of the world to empty their minds and live comfortably without minds, like nature. It was first published in 1998 under the title True Poems, which was later revised to Mind and became more approachable and reader friendly. In the fall of 2017, thanks to the love and support of the readers, the book was revised and newly published. Teacher Woo Myung’s poems are written without embellishment. Not poems written for ostentation/show, they are poems that flow from pure consciousness. When you relax and savor the poems, your consciousness grows and your mind becomes endlessly comfortable.

Publisher’s Review

Using language as pure as the dew of the dawn, he writes of how people cleansing their minds, becoming truth, and then becoming one and complete without the self is coming to pass.

These words of truth help guide people to live a true life that is not bound to life but is greatly free. Also allows people to become free from ignorance and pain through the wisdom of nature’s flow.

As you read line by line, you will feel and find that your once pressured, anxious, restless and closed heart has become purified and free. It awakens the great nature, the grand universe, the truth that is hidden deep inside of man. It leads man to the world beyond the material world that is dominated by competition and greed to the true world of the pure and pristine consciousness.

Part I: Life

Nature’s Flow I 16 / Nature I 17 / Stars 18 / Clouds 19 / The Sky I 20 / Sailboat 21 / Cosmos Flowers 22 / Memories 23 / The Path 25 / Destiny 26 / Life I 27 / Human Life 28 / Worries 29 / Agony 30 / Restrictions I 31 / Sorrow and Regret 32 / A Superior Person 33 / The World I 34 / The Mind of a Viper 36 / Basic Instinct 38 / A Demon 39 / Delusions 40 / Chasing Out Demons 41 / A Scolding 42 / Sunset 44/ Home 45

Part II: Karma

Day and Night 50 / Light 51 / Elixir of Life 52 / Grief and Joy 54 / Nature II 55 / Habits I 56 / One’s Body Price 57 / Truth I 58 / Sighs 59 / The Natural Span of Life 60 / Man I 61 / Our Forebears 62 / Indifference 63 / Me I 64 / Karma 65 / Absence of Self 66 / Greed 67 / The Master 68 / Thoughts 69 / Blessings 70 / A Pure Mind 72 / Illusions 73 / Attachments 74 / Burdens 75

Part III: Existence

Discarding 78 / Emptiness I 79 / The Years 81 / Form 82 / Character 83 / Mind I 84 / Single-mindedness 85 / Existence 86 / Emptiness II 87 / Studies 88 / Restrictions II 89 / Mind II 91 / Words 92 / Eyes and Ears 94 / Inner Eyes 95 / Union 96 / Man II 98 / Past Life 99 / Mind III 101 / The Path of Salvation 104 / Darkness 105 / The Principle 106 / The Ordinary 107 / Resolution of Angst 108 / The Road I 109 / Wandering 110

Part IV: Awareness

Truth II 114 / Repentance 115 / Life II 116 / Me II 117 / Salvation I 118 / Futility 119 / Habits II 120 / Wisdom 121 / Elder Sister 122 / Awareness 123 / Real and Actual Existence 124 / One’s Place 125 / The Origin I 126 / Unity 127 / Salvation II 128 / Liberation 129 / Consciousness 130 / The Real Mind 131 / True Sounds 133 / Nature’s Flow II 134 / The Ultimate Path 135 / Transcendence 136 / The Body 137 / Mind IV 138 / All Things 139 / The World II 140

Part V: Completion

Heaven and Earth 144 / One 145 / Dream 146 / Faith 147 / Resurrection 148 / Eternal Life 149 / Completion 150 / Original Instinct 151 / Discrimination I 152 / Yin and Yang 153 / The Path of Yin and Yang 154 / Advent 155 / Lamp-light 156 / The Great Path 157 / A Saint 160 / A Sage 161 / A Divine Being 163 / A Buddha 164 / A Grave 165 / Oblivion 166 / Nature’s Flow III 167 / The Origin II 168 / True Light 169 / Material Things 170

Part VI: The Dawn of the New World

Early Morning 174 / Embrace 175 / Providence I 176 / The Fourth Dimension 177 / Discrimination II 178 / Us 179 / The Dawn of the New World 180 / A Joyous Occasion 181 / Union of Heaven, Earth, and Man 182 / Humanitarianism and a World of Peace 183 / A Fool 184 / The Wind 185 / Teachings 186 / Dojang 187 / Actions 188 / Sorrow 189 / The Road II 190 / The Sky II 191 / The Complete World 192 / Scriptures 193 / My Calling 194 / Providence II 196 / Hardships 198

Closing Poem: 200

Excerpts from the Book

When the wind blows,
I follow the wind;
and when the rain falls,
it soaks my body.
When you live life without minds,
life is simply what it is.
Without blaming time that continues to pass,
I just live.
Unaware of good or bad,
I just live.
p16 ‘Nature’s Flow I’

When your mind does not exist,
you become heaven and earth.
When even your self does not exist,
heaven and earth exist within you.
You become the master of all things.
p66 ‘Absence of Self’

Truth is something that can be found
only when it is sought.
Truth is that which can be found through cleansing
only when one actually cleanses his mind.
Truth is that which is true,
and what is true is the whole.
Therefore, if one does not become the whole,
it is not possible to find true Truth.
One must seek and cleanse
in order to find Truth
p72 ‘A Pure Mind’

Man and all creations have the same heart of the origin.
Their forms are not things that exist,
yet they are non-existent either.
There is a truly existing real existence –
all creations and their minds are all mind.
The original mind is not separate
from man’s mind and the minds of all creations
but ego or self
is different from the original mind,
because of greed.
Only when one sheds his greed, is he complete.
p103 ‘Mind III’