Mind

There is the original Mind

and the human mind.

The original Mind is the Universe,

and the human mind is thoughts.

The human mind is created because

one’s struggle to survive creates thoughts,

which form a self.

Man’s mind was originally the Mind of the Universe,

but greed, from the human mind, came to exist

because of his life.

His human mind created his self.

However, the human mind is also

the Mind of the Universe.

Mind

The human mind is a thought mass,

whereas the Mind of the Universe is vitality.

The human mind is a self that exists

within the Mind of the Universe that is vitality.

If man is to return to the place from whence he came,

he must eliminate his mind.

His mind was formed and set

through the life he has lived.

Eliminating this,

is to cast off all remembered thoughts.

If he does not cast this off, he lives within himself

and in suffering, and even in death he bears burdens.

One’s human mind and one’s thoughts

refer to the same thing,

but because man does not know this,

he is not able to achieve Truth.

Man was made unable to return

to the origin by the Universe

because even though he is originally the Universe

he makes thoughts and tears them down.

When a person is created,

he is born with a mind of a human-being,

and when an animal is made,

it is born with the mind of an animal.

Man and all creations have the same heart of the origin.

Their forms are not things that exist,

yet they are not non-existent either.

There is a truly existing real existence -

all creations and their minds are all Mind.

The original Mind is not separate

from man’s mind and the minds of all creations,

but ego or self

is different from the original Mind,

because of greed.

Only when one sheds his greed, is he complete.

Single-mindedness

A mind that hesitates has many motivations,

and actions with many thoughts and motivations are not true.

A true action is one that is just carried out as things are,

which can happen when there is unity of body and mind.

A person with many thoughts cannot succeed in this world;

in order to succeed, there must be no minds inside one’s mind.

When man dies, his thoughts remain

and these thoughts form his self.

This is what the individual self is.

Bound by his own self, there is no escape,

and only the mind of hesitation remains in his mind.

Reference: Mind by Woo Myung