Santa Clara Meditation Book – Red Lighthouse
Written by Kim Myung Seok from South Korea
The book cover looks rather too heavy and gloomy to be one for a kid’s storybook, with the dark contrasting colors of black, red and yellow.
From the very first page, a page without words, just simply a depressing picture, the book portrays the desperation and pain of the world.
Pictured in the photo are people – all of them – crouched in pain and struggling to conquer darkness, coldness and solitude, in their own ways. The void, isolation, despair, and loneliness we feel from looking at that picture grips at our souls, terrifying us.
In the story, there are people who, one day, see the light shining from the red lighthouse beyond the distance. They believe the lighthouse is lighting something special and so they make their way to where the light is pointing. They embark on this journey full of hope. After overcoming adversity tougher than the life they are living, the people finally get to their destination: a big tree that the lighthouse illuminates.
They climb up to the top and try to find the missing something, which they hope for, but there’s nothing.
At the moment they are about to give up, they feel the light of the lighthouse.
Then, they realize
that the hope is in their mind,
not somewhere far away from them.
‘this warm, bright hope is in us.’
Although you may feel as if you are lost in the dark forest, you may feel as if you are alone on the boat floating on the ocean, you roam around in yourself not knowing the reason for living or the path towards meaning, and even though you are suffering from desperation and solitude and would rather just give up everything, a ray of hope is present in such things, in your mind.
There must be a reason why we live in this world.
Master Woo Myung Writing – From Despair To Hope
There were people living in the world even a long time ago. The many people who lived in the world throughout the ages have all disappeared, silently and without a trace. While they lived, they were attached to the realities of their daily lives and they suffered because of their minds of possession, but despite all of their agonizing over the meaningless events of life, no trace of them remains. Ultimately, there is no meaning in human life.
The only way for man to live forever and escape from suffering and burden is to die while he is still living. Only then can he find his true self. His true self is God who remains when he is dead.
Even if all people and the world disappear, what remains is the existence without form, taste, scent, sight, hearing and feeling. That is, the existence – for which these minds have completely ceased – remains: the original foundation. If one is reborn from the original foundation, he and the world become eternal and never-dying immortals, and both the world and man live, for they become God that never dies.
Discarding falseness and becoming real is the only path to life. People want to become real but at the same time keep the falseness; there are not many people who know that they can only become real if they throw away what is false. They have such strong attachments to their falseness that they look for Truth within it. They do not know that Truth does not exist within falseness – that is how foolish people are. The right way, or the answer, is to discard falseness so that only Truth remains, and to be reborn as Truth.
-Woo Myung-
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Source: WisdomsWebzine.com
