If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hillBe a scrub in the valley,but be the best little scrub on the side of the hillBe a bush if you can’t be a tree,If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grassAnd some highway happier make.If you can’t be a muskie, then just be a bass,But the liveliest bass in the lake.We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,There’s something for all of us here.There’s

I close my eyes only for a momentAnd the moment’s goneAll my dreams pass before my eyes a curiosityDust in the wind. All they are is dust in the windSame old songJust a drop of water in an endless seaAll we do crumbles to the groundthough we refuse to see.Dust in the wind. All we are is dust in the windDon’t hang on!Nothing lasts forever but the earth and skyIt slips awayAll your money won’t anoth

No man is an island, entire of itselfevery man is a piece of the continent, a part of the mainif a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were.Any man’s death diminishes mebecause I am involved in mankind,and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tollsit tolls for thee.사람은 아무도 그 자체로 온전한 섬이

I CEREBRATE MYSELFAnd what I assume you shall assumeFor every atom belong to me as good belong to youThe smallest sprout shows there is really no death,And if ever there was it led forward life,and does not wait at the end to arrest it,And ceased the moment life appeared.All goes onward and outward…and nothing collapses,And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.나는 찬양한다 나의 자

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and, by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flash is heir to, ˙tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death.Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.내일, 또 내일,

Wonhyo was a Great Master of the Silla Kingdom period and one of the most creative thinkers in the history of Korean Buddhism. He chose the name Wonhyo indicating his desire to be a light in Buddhism, as the term was used locally to mean “dawn(曉)”.Why Wonhyo now? Violent conflict is everywhere around the world. In the Middle East, Palestine and Israel seem helpless to break the cycle of violence

Whose vestige is the leaves of paulowniathat fall silently in vertical wavelets against the windless sky?Whose faces are those patches of bluethat peep through the cracks in the dark clouds,driven by the west wind after a long spell of wind.Whose breath is this subtle scentthat wafts through the green moss on old flowerless tree,to lure the quiet sky above an ancient pagoda?Whose song is the narro

For one Chrysanthemum to bloom,the cuckoo must have cried since spring.To bring one chrysanthemum to bloom,thunder must have rolled through the black clouds.Chrysanthemum! You are like my sisterstanding before her mirror,just back from the far gone byways of youth,where she was racked with longing and want.For your yellow petals to open,last night such a frost fell,and I could not sleep.한 송이 국화꽂

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn.If there were no death, life would be meaningless.Because death stands behind life, supporting it, life can shine brilliantly.Life and death, like day and night, are complete in their symbiosis.As there is no such thing as an endless day, so too, no endless night.The day wanes and night comes; as the night deepens, the new day grows near.In this way, moment to

“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. When we understand the true meaning of “non-possession,” we can attain a more carefree and light-hearted life. A pure but honest life without excess that we have chosen is so much more noble and valuable th

To Hui-neng, to perceive the self-nature is to attain Buddhahood. In fact, as he says, " Our original nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha."  He  conceives of the self-nature of man as "so great that it can contain all things." All the Buddhas of the past, present, and future ages and all the twelve parts of the Scriptures(十二部經 twelve divisions of the Bud

To see a world in a grain sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. (중략)Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro’ the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine; Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine. 한 알의 모래 속에서 온 세상을 보며한 송이 들꽃에서 천국을 본다. 그대 손바닥 안에 무한을 쥐

Causality, usually defined as the interrelation of cause and effect, is about how things happen, how change occurs, how events relate. The Buddhist terms Dharma carries the same meaning. It also refers to the Buddha’s teachings as a whole, stemming as they do from his doctrine of causality; for the ways that life is understood and lived are rooted in causal assumptions. A major shift is occurring

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s (mind) there are few. The goal of practice is always to preserve our “beginner’s mind”. For Zen student, the most important thing is not to be dualistic in one’s thinking. If you discriminate too much, you limit yourself. If you are too demanding or too greedy, your mind is not rich and self-sufficient. Our “original mind” en

So far as I am aware, the Buddha never rejected Hinduism or the message of the Vedas but broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation. What the Buddha did was to introduce a living reformation in the petrified faith that surrounded him. It is my “deliberate opinion” that the essential parts of the teachings of the Buddha formed an integral part of Hinduism. By his immense sac

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers…4월은 잔인한 달죽은 땅에서 라일락을 피워내고추억과 욕망을 뒤섞고봄비로 잠든 뿌리를 일깨운다.차라리 겨울에 우리는 따뜻했다.망각의 눈이 대지(땅)를 덮고마른 구근으로 가냘픈 생명만 유지했으니.▲전옥배 원장 [해설] 엘리어트(T. S. Eliot)는 미

If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we should know the mind of God. I think that the existence of God was unnecessary to explain the origin of the universe.(‘A Brief History of Time’)I do not believe in a “personal” God. The question is- Is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can’t understand, or was it determined by a l

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] If people are good only because

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it w