- Accumulate Virtue in Your Lifetime
- 1 “A fireplace and a mouth are the same. A fireplace can consume every tree on a mountain, no matter how high and forested.
- 2 In the same way, though a mouth is small, it consumes all that is harvested from heaven and earth. The mouth is most fearsome.
- 3 “A human being comes into the world empty-handed and leaves it empty-handed.
- 4 In your lifetime, you must accumulate virtuous deeds that benefit the world.”
- Attach Virtue
- 5 To escape poverty, Chey Nae-gyung’s son decided to enlist in the auxiliary troops of the military police.
- 6 When asked about this, Sahng-jeh-nim replied, “It does not matter as long as he attaches virtue to the tip of his sword or the barrel of his gun.”
- An Act of Virtue
- 7 “It is an act of virtue for a thief to share with others. Such a person might survive.”
- (JSD Dojeon 9,63)
