- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Preface -
Chapter 2 Life -
Chapter 3 Buddhism and Culture -
Chapter 4 In Memory of the Great Master Man’gong on the Fifteenth Anniversary of His Death -
Chapter 5 On New Year’s Day of the Twenty-Fifth Year after Joining the Monastery -
Chapter 6 A Proposal to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference -
Chapter 7 Why Has Buddhism Launched a Purification Movement? -
Chapter 8 Is the Mind One or Two? -
Chapter 9 What Is Faith? -
Chapter 10 The Path to No-Mind -
Chapter 11 Having Burned Away My Youth -
Chapter 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand -
Chapter 13 Having Prepared a Clean Copy of My Master’s Manuscript (by Yi Wŏlsong) -
Chapter 14 Return to Emptiness -
Chapter 15 Meditation and the Attainment of the Mind -
Chapter 16 Prayer and Chanting -
Chapter 17 Path to Eternity - Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Translator
- Series Information
- Production Notes
The Path to No-Mind
The Path to No-Mind
A Letter to Mr. R.
- Chapter:
- (p.120) Chapter 10 The Path to No-Mind
- Source:
- Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun
- Author(s):
Kim Iryŏp
, Jin Y. Park- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter contains Kim Iryŏp's letter to one Mr. R., with whom she had a “romance” that caused quite a scandal both in Seoul and in the countryside. Iryŏp recalls the images of those days she spent with Mr. R nearly forty years ago—scenes seen both from a distance and close up as well as various events and her feelings about those events. She says reality proves that all of those images were the products of her thoughts and belong to the world of what she terms the “small self.” Iryŏp claims that Mr. R. loved her not as an individual, but because of his sexual desire. She then shares with Mr. R the path out of a life of loneliness and suffering, the path of no-mind, that will allow him to enjoy both sadness and pleasure at will. For Iryŏp, no-mind is in fact one's own self.
Keywords: no-mind, Kim Iryŏp, romance, self, love, loneliness, suffering, pleasure
Hawaii Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Preface -
Chapter 2 Life -
Chapter 3 Buddhism and Culture -
Chapter 4 In Memory of the Great Master Man’gong on the Fifteenth Anniversary of His Death -
Chapter 5 On New Year’s Day of the Twenty-Fifth Year after Joining the Monastery -
Chapter 6 A Proposal to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference -
Chapter 7 Why Has Buddhism Launched a Purification Movement? -
Chapter 8 Is the Mind One or Two? -
Chapter 9 What Is Faith? -
Chapter 10 The Path to No-Mind -
Chapter 11 Having Burned Away My Youth -
Chapter 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand -
Chapter 13 Having Prepared a Clean Copy of My Master’s Manuscript (by Yi Wŏlsong) -
Chapter 14 Return to Emptiness -
Chapter 15 Meditation and the Attainment of the Mind -
Chapter 16 Prayer and Chanting -
Chapter 17 Path to Eternity - Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Translator
- Series Information
- Production Notes
