- A Work of Renewal for Getting Rid of the Thievish Mind
- 1 To test the minds of His followers, Sahng-jeh-nim left things here and there on the floor before telling someone to clean the medicine room.
- 5 One day, when Sahng-jeh-nim had Yu Chahn-shik clean up, Chahn-shik wrote something with Sahng-jeh-nim’s brush.
- 6 The brush wrote so well that he wanted to keep it.
- 7 Thinking that Sahng-jeh-nim was asleep, he put it in his pocket; but as he did so, his hand shook uncontrollably. When he took the brush out of his pocket, his hand stopped shaking.
- 8 He held the writing brush for a long time, rolling it in his hand. Finally, he put it in his pocket, thinking, “Oh, I’ll die.”
- 9 At that moment, Sahng-jeh-nim rose from the floor where He had been lying, and said, “You just said you would die, so you will die.” He then lowered Chahn-shik’s trousers and paddled him.
- 10 A wooden paddle, carved by Sahng-jeh-nim Himself, usually stood by the door. When someone did wrong, He used it to strike that person’s behind or to slap the person’s face. Whoever walked by the paddle did so in fear.
- 11 During the time in which Sahng-jeh-nim did works of renewal in Gu-rit-gohl Village, there were often large sums of money lying around in the medicine room. If anyone had attempted to pick any of it up, there would have been trouble. No one ever dared take any of the money.
- (JSD Dojeon 9,93)
