- Often Going Without Eating During Works of Renewal
- 1 Once He began a work of renewing heaven and earth, Sahng-jeh-nim would not stop to eat or relieve Himself. Only when He had finished the work would He attend to other matters.
- 2 Sometimes, when He was conducting a work in the medicine room, He would not leave the room even for a moment.
- 3 Bahk Gohng-ooh would bring a wet cloth so that Sahng-jeh-nim could wipe His face.
- 4 While performing a work of renewal, He often went hungry for lack of time to stop for a proper meal.
- 5 Sometimes, He wet His hands and made three rice balls from the rice in His bowl, then ate them in the blink of an eye.
- 6 One day, when Sahng-jeh-nim was served a meal, a fly landed on the rice. Sahng-jeh-nim said, “Having the first bite, you are higher than Me.
- 7 There is nothing dirtier than a fly.” He would not eat a meal if a fly landed on it.
- 8 Often, when there was nothing to eat, He eased His hunger by picking fruit in the mountains.
- (JSD Dojeon 5,329)