- The Basis of Meditation, and the Yin and Yang of Time
- 1 One day, while conducting a work of renewal, Sahng-jeh-nim wrote:
- 道傳於夜 天開於子
轍環天下 虛靈
- 2 Convey dao at night.
Heaven opens in the Hour of the Rat.
Confucius traveled everywhere under heaven.
Emptiness and divinity.
- 敎奉於晨 地闢於丑
不信看我足 知覺
- 3 Receive teachings with reverence at dawn.
Earth opens in the Hour of the Ox.
Shakyamuni stuck his feet outside his coffin
to banish unbelief in the way of life and death.
Wisdom and awakening.
- 德布於世 人起於寅
腹中八十年 神明
- 4 Spread virtue to the world.
Humans get up in the Hour of the Tiger.
Lao Zi was born in the world
after eighty years inside his mother’s womb.
Spirit and illumination.
- (JSD Dojeon 5,265)
