Subtraction meditation is a step-by-step method of self-reflection and letting go. At Suwanee Meditation, we guide you to release accumulated thoughts, habits, and emotional patterns so you can experience greater clarity and inner peace.
Many meditation practices help calm the mind for a moment. Subtraction meditation goes deeper by helping you identify, reflect on, and let go of the thoughts and patterns accumulated throughout your life.
Rather than trying to stop your thoughts, you learn a guided process that helps you understand where they come from and release them.
01
Reflect
Recognize the thoughts, memories, and experiences stored in your mind.
02
Let Go
Practice releasing the thoughts, habits, and attachments that create stress.
03
Return to Clarity
Experience a clearer and more peaceful perspective beyond accumulated thoughts.
The Principle Behind Subtraction Meditation
Humans are incomplete because they live inside their self-made mind world that overlaps the world. This is karma, habits, and body. If you throw away the self and the incomplete world, which is the karma, habits, and body, go to the existent world of Truth, and are reborn, that land is the existent world of Truth. It is the land where you can live eternally without death. You must go to this land while you are alive and live forever.
[The world where humans live]
- Full of pain, burden, stress and doubts, -People cannot become Truth, which is the real existence, and they do not know anything. -When people die, they just die and disappear.
[The existent world of Truth]
- There are no pain, burden, stress, or doubts. - you can know everything. - You live forever.
If there is something you do not know, you can learn it by going to a place that knows it. just like that, to learn how to live forever, you can come here and learn. Now you can go to the Land of Truth while you are alive and live an eternal, happy life. Is there anyone who wouldn't do this?
FOUNDER’S VISION
The Philosophy Behind the Practice
Guided by a Vision of Human Completion
Founded by author and meditation teacher Woo Myung, this method offers a clear path to move beyond the self-centered mind-world.
His vision is to help people release their accumulated false minds, discover the true mind within, and achieve human completion.
At Suwanee Meditation, you’ll learn subtraction meditation through personalized, step-by-step guidance. Your instructor will help you reflect on the thoughts and experiences stored in your mind and practice letting them go.
You can progress at your own pace, with support available both in person and online.
Rather than suppressing thoughts, the practice helps you recognize and release them.
1. Discarding Karma (7 steps program):
Level 1- Discarding remembered thoughts Level 2- Discarding image of relationships and myself Level 3- Discarding body Level 4- Discarding body and the universe Level 5- Discarding body and the universe Level 6- Discarding me who have all minds Level 7- Discarding me who have mind world Discarding me who have negativity Discarding me who have all thoughts