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Subject FOR NIRVANA /Korean Seon(zen) Master Cho Oh-Hyun àääÀ Ùöߣ ðÆçéúè-9 | ||
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FOR NIRVANA CHO OH-HYUN
ntroductory by KWON YOUNGMIN translated by HEINZ INSU FENKLE Associate professor of English and Asian studies at SUNY New Paltz.
75 WHEN THE THUNDER GOD CAME TO MY BODY Today, out of a mad sky, the thunder god came into my body saying, Let¡¯s smash the world to bits and ride the lightning to the West. Even just a flashing bolt leaves me all choked up. Peel off this coagulated blood porridge, you¡¯ll see the landmines on the path, not an inch of dirt to bury them, and thoughts of moving up are a walk, footsteps on that bridge. Sorrows-they pile up day by day like fallen leaves, unweighable till the end, the load of freedom. Long time from now, I¡¯ll be alone, unable, to label, this day. 76 OPENING THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE WINDOW When I spread out the Flower Garland Sutra and open the north window. All manner of birds, names unknown to me, have already read it. Here and there, between the tree branches, they fly... Blades of grass amidst the grasses, lawn bugs amongst the insects, Trees, shrubs, wild beasts of the mountain, large and smal, Heaven, Earth-all of this-all these lives... Merging into one, and becoming one They leave their bodies and appear, visible, Sustenance, each to each, radiant, each other for the one... 77 PROXIMATION spring coming, and a frog- that one frog-its incessant croaking calls me out from sitting in my cell, and then- mountain and meadow, the frozen flora, ice up and go green again 78 SUN & MOON the sky- that high, the sea-this deep, the last rays of twilight sunk on the horizon, clouds like dyed flowers and the great of Heaven, opening, as if to close- Ah!-the moon is rising in the east again 79 ARISING, PASSING, ATTACHMENT for Yi Yun-yeong, wife of Son Hak-kyu In your garden, when autumn passed like a cloudburst, A single fruit, all the world¡¯s flavors clutched inside, Falls with a thud- A shriveled quince. 80 THE WIND THAT ONCE WEPT IN THE PINE GROVE The wind that once wept in the pine grove fell asleep-because it was a pine grove and the wind that once rushed through the great forest breathed softly-because it was the great forest that moon, too, passing through the empty sky, is honest-it cannot be anything but bright 81 GWANSEUM The candle-lit dream is melting, dyed with lotus blossom, Yet after your final bath, you still cannot take the lotus seat. You are the Bodhisattva who cannot bear the sounds of sorrow. The 108 prayers in your grasp, the more you count, the heavier They grow, scattered thoughts strung, bead by bead As you stand in the moonlight garden, watching over Paradise. 82 THIS BODY OF MINE I went up to the top of Namsan and watched the sun go down Seoul was a dark, red, frothing swamp And in it, this body of mine, a leech stuck to a duckweed leaf 83 THE DAY I TRY DYING The day I get the death notice I try dying myself- Build a coffin, close my eyes, lie down inside; Sprinkle blue-smoke ashes from the oven of the crematorium. 84 AS I LOOK UPON MYSELF Sitting, in the meditation hall, I look upon myself- a single bug crawling by stretching its body, contracts it; gnawing at all manner of things, it evacuates, but also does lay its eggs. |
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