Knowing and Not Knowing

 

Man does not know that

in the state where familiar faces join hand in hand

and sing songs of Truth,

Man is not man.

Thus no other creature in the world

could be more ignorant than man.

 

It is funny how

neither the people at the institute where I used to work

nor my own family members know.

They do not know what life is,

what a divine being is,

what Heaven is,

or what the Universe is.

They think about nothing

and just go on with their lives.

 

Whether I come or go,

I have always remained as I am since the beginning.

But people see me as being human.

They do now know where I have come from

or where I will go. 

 

– Woo Myung