Seeking A Mind
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Seeking a Mind

This poem is dedicated to the Zen master Woon-Gyung (1910-1997).

At the last day of July

Lying down on the seashore.

From the beginning

The naked one was a phantom.

Once more

The old Zen master asked me

“Where you are sitting on?”

I was willing to uproot the tongue of the master.

–With a respect to Zen master,

Woon-Gyung (An old man who is ploughing in the cloudland).

Dae-Heui Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Copyright ⓒ2004 Dae-Heui Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

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One early evening in the winter of 1996, I visited a small Buddhist hermitage with my old friend. After supper, an old Zen master asked me abruptly, “Where are you sitting?” I did not know how to reply and I was sweating frozen. One year later, when I visited the hermitage again, the Zen master had already entered Nirvana. Last summer, I was lying on the seashore. When I was falling asleep, I suddenly understood the meaning of the question. I could not find myself anywhere, there is only the sense of self and interrelationship of cause and occasion.