Master Woo Myung Quote – The Mind of a Viper
Man looks at the sky
with the mind of a viper,
but heaven does not accept
the snake-like mind.
Heaven only accepts minds
that are delivered with warmth.
A study or practice done devoid of wisdom,
with the head, and with a cold body,
is far from heaven.
Only when one repents with a mind
that carries the warmth of the whole body
does heaven accept,
and without such warmth,
it is not received.
Man thinks of heaven
with his snake-like mind;
he tries to build castles in the sky
with a snake-like mind,
but heaven does not allow any falseness at all.
Only Truth is permitted and lives.
Heed the fact that sly cunning –
what is done only with the head –
cannot possibly reach the true will of heaven.
You and I are one,
and one with heaven,
but if you do not know this,
you are the most lost of all.
-Woo Myung-
