The Mind Before Human Minds
The countless things that silently come and silently leave,
Come from great nature and return to great nature.
Man lives according to what is in his mind,
But the mind before his mind is the mind of great nature.
Regardless of whether things come and go,
Great Nature is silent.
And regardless of whether things go and come,
Great Nature exists, silently.
All forms that come and go, and go and come,
Are incomplete.
Only he who has returned to the place of the origin
From whence all creation comes forth
Knows the providence of coming and going.
Even if all things in the world change,
The original world, which brought forth nature,
Will not change.
Only this existence is Truth and only it is real.
People are dead because they do not have this mind of Truth
And they are not born in the world of this mind.
Living in his own mind world
And unable to become one with the true world that exists,
Man is trapped within the mind he has
And thus ends up dying an eternal death.
He who knows he is the most pathetic, useless existence in the world
And therefore detests himself, has the right to become Truth;
While he who greedily consumes and tries to possess everything,
He whose self tries to accomplish Truth or become Truth
Is far from Truth.
Truth is the place before all creation;
Truth is the place before human form and human mind.
In order to become Truth, one’s mind and body must not exist –
Only then can one go to the land of Truth,
And it is the master of the true land
Who allows one to be reborn in this land.
Only when man stops seeking something
And completely denies his self
Can he be reborn and live in the true kingdom.
If we are not born in heaven while living,
We will die eternally.
Unless your mind returns to the origin of the universe
And is reborn from that origin,
The word eternal cannot and does not apply to you.
Only the place of the origin is eternal;
Only this place is the forever-living and never-dying immortal;
And only in this place will you be reborn as the never dying immortal.
Truth is this place,
And only one reborn as Truth will live.
– Woo Myung
