What is this?

Brightness lies in darkness and darkness lies in brightness.
However, there is one thing that is not related to either of them,
Which, never having been dyed with brightness or darkness,
Is always bright and controls darkness and brightness.
What is this?

Everything keeps changing,
But this has never changed.
A movement, however, is conceived in this.
How can we deny
This is the same as the forms between the sky and the earth?
Though it reveals itself everywhere all the time,
We can't see it.
Its form changes even in a small movement.
Catching it up at this moment,
You will find it revealing itself clearly.

Written by Master Subul Sunim of Ahnkook Zen Center
Translated by Boo Ahm (Song Soo-kyong)

Monthly Magazine SEOUL(June 2008)