What is the right way to exercise self-restraint?

By Teacher Woo Myung

It is not nature’s flow to forcedly suppress one’s self. 

Trying to consciously remove things 

will only result in a bigger mind remaining. 

When one is suppressed, it begets more suppression, 

and when one thinks that one must not do something, 

it makes the desire to do it grow. 

Such pretentious actions are wrong.

Personality cannot be built through restraining; 

it can only be found in pureness. 

Pureness is when one is completely without self, 

and when his mind inwardly is the same as his outward actions; 

The best way is to live without self, 

without suppression or restrictions. 

When man is free from all suppression 

he can live as a true human being and see nature’s flow.

From “How to Have a Meeting with God, Buddha, Allah”

Written by Teacher Woo Myung