- Cultivation and Enlightenment
- 1 Bahk Gohng-ooh once pleaded, “Please grant me enlightenment.”
- 2 Sahng-jeh-nim chastised him, “What are you saying? In heaven, there is a council containing one representative for each family name.
- 3 If enlightenment is granted to one person now, these ancestral spirits will gather and criticize the unfairness.
- 4 I cannot be swayed by personal preference.
- 5 All will attain enlightenment simultaneously, according to the degree of their cultivation.
- 6 Outside the mainstream, I plant the seed of enlightenment.
- 7 This seed will sprout and eventually cover the whole world.”
- (JSD Dojeon 6,88)