Like Running Through Pouring Rain

A practitioner,
faced with pitch-darkness and constantly pouring rain,
should never give up his vow to reach his goal.

Only when you feel relieved and refreshed
through your whole body after your desperate struggle
can you open the eye of wisdom.

Then you will neither get wet even in the rain
nor be influenced by warmness or coldness.

Something that neither dies nor changes,
changing its form constantly,
is covering heaven and earth.
Birth and death are like this.

 

 

 

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

Monthly Magazine SEOUL(August 2009)