Master Woo Myung Question and Answer – What does ‘of and by itself’ mean?
Of and by itself” means ‘just as it is’. That something is ‘just as it is’ means that though its traits may change, what it essentially is does not actually change at all. That all creations in the world came forth of and by themselves means that they were and are always in existence just as they are. Because they ‘just exist’, they exist of and by themselves. It means existence and non-existence of form is one and the same.
-Woo Myung-
