- 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
Return to Emptiness
Return to Emptiness
- Chapter:
- (p.213) Chapter 14 Return to Emptiness
- Source:
- Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun
- Author(s):
Kim Iryŏp
, Jin Y. Park- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter reveals the final evolution of Kim Iryŏp's Buddhist philosophy, with particular emphasis on her reflections on emptiness. Here Iryŏp talks about the meaning of “I,” the generation of the “lost self,” and other themes of her earlier Buddhist thought. According to Iryŏp, everything begins from the “I.” The universal “I” travels through eternity and eventually inherits that eternity. The mind does not lose the “I” and is therefore the basis of human existence. The concept of “I” has meaning only when one is fully in charge of oneself. Iryŏp argues that emptiness is the “I” that makes us think and the creator of the universe, the principle that governs the eternal life of humans.
Keywords: emptiness, Kim Iryŏp, Buddhist philosophy, self, eternity, mind, existence, universe, eternal life
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- 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
