“He cures serious illnesses with medicinal herbs.
In a world with poor harvests, become rice and save it.
“Should I take away something that has benefited many sentient beings?”
I still remember the day I first heard this petition. It was a summer. Since it was the children’s holiday time, I had some free time in the morning and could attend the morning function. The first dawn service I attended out of pure curiosity introduced me to a new world. A monk took a piece of paper and read it, listening as if I were absorbed in every single sentence, and towards the end my eyes opened. I looked it up later and found it was “a prayer by Seon Hyewon Lee San.”
Until then, when I went to the temple, I bowed before the Buddha statue and prayed: please do this, please do that, but this prayer was on a completely different level. My heart warmed at the vow that I would become a medicine to cure a serious disease, that I would save the world by becoming rice in a world of famine, and that I could not miss a single thing that would benefit all living beings. It was a prayer that helped me break down the rigid boundaries of “me” and expand my interests to the larger world.
After this encouraging experience I opened a research center and gave several suggestions to the Buddhist community. What I wanted to change more than anything was the temple calendar. Every month there is a new moon, a full moon, a Ksitigarbha day and an Avalokitesvara day. We proposed using public transport on the first day of every month, turning off the lights for at least an hour on the first full moon and turning them on when moonlight, eating vegetarian food instead of meat on the day of Ksitigarbha and doing Gwaneumzai a day not to use disposable products. I really wanted to see how cool it would be if something like that was written on my calendar, but I couldn’t do it and I’ve thought about it that way ever since. <달력으로 배우는 지구환경 수업>published a book entitled
We live in an era of skyrocketing prices, to the point where the price of a bunch of green onions can decide elections. Not only is there a problem with the distribution structure of agricultural products that is responsible for the high prices, but the harvest was very poor last summer due to the abnormal weather. I was reminded of Master Lee San’s desire to become a sorcerer while he was suffering from a serious illness called Corona. Even if there is a desire to save the world by becoming rice in a world of poor harvests, how can one become rice if the environment for cultivation is ruined?
April 22nd is “Earth Day”. On Earth Day 2020, the Dalai Lama said: “We often say lightly that the moon and stars are beautiful, but it would be a shame for anyone to live there. Our planet is a very uncomfortable place to live, and life on Earth is our life.” life and the future of the Earth”. “This is our future,” he said. However, faced with global problems such as global warming and ocean acidification, solutions cannot be found unless we all work together. So, to what extent are we aware of these environmental problems? As I reread Zen master Hyeyeon Lee’s prayer, I think about how we can live comfortably from generation to generation in our common home, the Earth. I think it’s time for us to act together by creating a temple calendar containing sincere wishes and actions for each day.
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