You Are Everything

Take a good look at yourself.
You are already saved.
You are originally Buddha.
You are overflowing with happiness and glory.
To talk of paradise or heaven is
to be talking in your sleep.

Take a good look at yourself.
Transcend time and space,
and you'll see that you are eternal,
you are infinite.
Should the universe collapse and disappear,
you would still be immovable.
You are all forms and all formlessness
in the universe, the universe itself.
You are the twinkling stars and
the dancing butterflies - you are everything.

Take a good look at yourself.
All truths are within you.
To look for truth outside yourself is
to search for water outside of the ocean.

Take a good look at yourself...
Forget your selfishness and
use all your energies to help others.
If you remove all traces of greed and desire,
the Eye of the Heart will open up and
you'll see yourself as you really are,
as pure gold.

~ Seong Cheol Sunim