- Sahng-jeh-nim Withdraws the Energy of
Confucius, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Lao Zi
- 1 Later that day, Sahng-jeh-nim lay down on a straw mat in the yard and told ee chee―bohk, “spread another mat before Me.”
- 2 Suddenly, He called out for Confucius and said, “Confucius, you killed Shaozheng Mao. How can you be a sage?
- 3 For three generations, the wives were driven out of your family. How can you say you governed your family?
- 4 You are no longer needed here. Go to another world.”
- 5 Then, He summoned Shakyamuni Buddha and said, “Shakyamuni, sitting in the shade of a tree, you tried to extinguish the human race by tempting the children of others to cut the heavenly ties with their parents and the ties between man and woman.
- 6 What do you know about nations, ancestors, or multitudes of people?
- 7 You are no longer needed here. Go to another world.”
- 8 Next, He called Lao Zi and said, “Lao Zi, people say that a pregnant woman in her tenth month wonders each time she retires to her bedroom whether she will put on her shoes again. She feels as if she is entering a place of death. It is said that you were in the womb for eighty-one years. How could there be a greater disrespect?
- 9 It is also said that you wrote eighty volumes, but no one on earth has seen them, nor have I.
- 10 You, too, are no longer needed here. Go to another world.”
- 11 He also said, “Today, I have finally addressed a matter that has been postponed for thousands of years. Starting today, the knots of all bitterness will be untied.”
- (JSD Dojeon 10,33)
