- Ho-yun’s Life Span Is Increased
- 1 Sahng-jeh-nim said to Ho-yun, “For you, the Venerable Seed That Mediates Immortality, I have borrowed some life span to extend your life. You must live long in order to become the person you are destined to be.”
- 2 “If I live long, who will take care of me and feed me?” Ho-yun asked. “If I am to wait for the time, shouldn’t You teach me the principles of the world?”
- 3 “Though you do not know, spirits know.”
- 4 Then, He said to Himself, with a worried look, “So that the pulse can continue, I have brought a young child and offered her to heaven and earth as the Venerable Seed That Mediates Immortality.
- 5 I cannot order her death, but if she is left as she is, someone will kill her. What should I do with her?”
- (JSD Dojeon 9,110)
