- Even Grandfathers Will Kneel Before Ho-yun
- 1 One autumn day, when Ho-yun was eleven, she heard Hyung-yul and the former caretaker of his farmland, Gim Duk-chahn, whispering as they went out to gather the rice harvest.
- 2 Frustrated that she could not understand what they said, Ho-yun asked Sahng-jeh-nim, “What were they whispering about? Teacher, You wouldn’t whisper like that, would You?”
- 3 “They were talking about you,” Sahng-jeh-nim said. “They said that I am deceiving you.”
“How are You deceiving me?”
- 4 “Don’t worry about it,” Sahng-jeh-nim said, softly. “I did it for the sake of our dao study. No matter what they say, don’t worry about it. You are not going to Hyung-yul to be his companion.
- 5 He is very old. It is not so that you can be called his wife. It is for the work of saving people with our dao.
- 6 They are they and we are we. Don’t worry. Though you are young and Hyung-yul is old, in the future even people as old as grandfathers will kneel before you.”
- (JSD Dojeon 4,64)