- Tae-mo-nim’s Silk Cloth and Her Long Pipe
- 1 Tae-mo-nim had five pieces of silk, each five ja in length, that She would wear around Her neck as scarves. One of them was blue, one red, one yellow, one white, and one black. The disciples called them “guest cloths.”
- 2 She wore the white one most often. When She touched the sick with a sweeping motion of the white cloth, they were healed. If poor people were touched by the cloth, they became more prosperous. Everyone wished to be touched by it.
- 3 Whenever Tae-mo-nim left the house, She took Her long pipe with Her. If a disciple, unaware of Her habits, tried to carry it for Her, She would strike the person mercilessly with the pipe as a warning.
- 4 Tae-mo-nim often used the pipe in healing the sick. If a disciple complained of pain, Tae-mo-nim would place the bowl of the pipe on the affected area and chant a mantra. Instantly, the pain would leave without a trace.
- 5 Her tobacco drawer was made of stone. The followers had a brass ashtray as big as a washbasin made for Tae-mo-nim. During a work of renewal, She struck the ashtray with Her pipe and pieces of brass broke off.
- 6 After a few brass ashtrays had been broken in this manner, the disciples decided it was just as well to have a wooden one made.
- 7 After Her ascension, Tae-mo-nim’s wooden ashtray was given to Gahng Hwee-mahn. The ashtray was so large that, in it, he stored his book of family lineage and other important books.
- (JSD Dojeon 11,238)
