Being With My True Self All the Time

Though I’ve lived with my True Self,
I’ve forgotten it.
Once I have found it in a flash,
There is nothing but my True Self.

Though, in spite of myself and deceived by past and present forms,
I have turned my back on it,
I can now see it in everything.

Why have I been deceived by shadows
Though I have been with it all the time?

It reveals itself clearly
Once you come to know it.
You don’t know even the fact that you don’t know it
if you don’t know it.
How can you shake off the yoke of not knowing it?

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

Monthly Magazine SEOUL(August 2008)