Master Woo Myung Poem – The World I
The world is full of words and so noisy
but nothing happens according to man’s will.
Man believes he makes the world
because he is superior,
but heaven is silent.
In a noisy world full of countless things
man builds and destroys,
in vain, he ages and disappears.
It is by this karma he both lives and dies.
There is nothing more wretched than one’s own mind;
because of it, he does not know how deep his karma is,
and does not try to enter into Truth.
Heaven has never told people to be a certain way.
It just exists without plans or a certain will.
Only man makes words such as creation and birth
and he is blind to the fact that things, just as they are,
are the real existence.
With the mind of a viper,
he insists that he is great.
It is hard to know how to teach that kind of mind,
and what kind of medicine could cure it.
But it seems everything will be all right
because the will of heaven is heaven itself.
These things occur to me
only because people need saving.
-Woo Myung-
