Labor, although not beautiful, is the
most precious and meaningful landscape On a
weekend morning, like believers going to a religious facility, I sometimes realize that I am going somewhere at a crossroads just like them. The difference between them and me is that in their hands they hold a small bag of Bibles and Buddhist scriptures, and a row of gimbap and a backpack of water are hanging from my back. Just as they have a 'special' reason to go to a religious institution, I also have my own reasons. The reason is that while the grand name is 'escape from everyday life', it is a desire for a different daily life.
There are so many things I want to escape from, so I shudder at the reprimand of making a fuss, but let's just call it a temporary escape to get away from everyday life. In any case, the end of the escape must be at the foot of a certain mountain.
Daily life is a life that is repeated every day. That is why it is 'always', and it is also a word with the meaning of always (恒常). Then, it is natural to wonder if there was any great thing that could be dubbed an escape out of what he was doing all the time. So, if you think about it, the expression of escaping from a life that has nothing to do with it is difficult and excessive. Even if it is just a time for 'rest' or rest (休止), I think it will be enough. It may be a 'new space' to move on to the next sentence after a long sentence ends, or it may be an 'ellipsis' that leads to a dot at the end of a sentence and gives a lingering sound. The subject is probably 'work'.
Selling one's time and effort is labor, and when profit is attached to it, how can that labor be just as enjoyable? So most of the work and labor is hard. And in a lot of work, there is also the incentive to take more and the competition that results from it, so the tiredness is a nag to say the least. So, on the weekends, the body that has endured the labor loses its color and withers and hangs like an out-of-season red red hanging on a persimmon tree in late autumn.
nevertheless what to do I know that these boring, simple and regular days of getting paid for work, buying rice and eating rice with the money, and dreaming of a better life are in labor.... Although this rule may not be beautiful, it is the most precious thing in human life. And how can you deny that it is a meaningful landscape? Living is sometimes sad to tears, but that's what life is like, and what should I do?
Still, the desire to escape is another thing. If I jumped, it would be a flea, and if I ran away, it would be in the palm of the Buddha, but fortunately, there is a mountain where I left for a while from work, and there is a path that I can walk around the mountain.
The
road to
Dutasan (頭陀山)
Loom Rock The road to the
mountain was long.
This is because the mountain stretches parallel to the wide sea at the eastern end of Gangwon-do. But even as I traveled a long way, my heart was thrilled. This is because it was a mountain that I did not even know existed for a long time, but I promised myself that I would definitely visit it sometime soon after facing the outstanding mountain scenery through the media.
The mountain is Dutasan (1,357m), a famous mountain that encompasses the East Sea and Samcheok. Duta (頭陀) is an ancient Indian language (Sanskrit) that means 'discard, wash, and polish'. Meditation has been done on the ground of asceticism since ancient times, so the meaning that comes to those who go to the mountain is not light at all. But, how much of a valuable thing was obtained without pain. So it's just a matter of going.
One of the reasons why Dutasan's beautiful and strangely shaped rocky peaks made the world buzz with their names is because of the deep and rugged mountains. This means that it is not a mountain that anyone can climb. So, no matter how beautiful the mountains and scenery were, most of them were the rice cakes of the paintings, except for some mountain people. Until the recent Dutasan 'Loombawi Mountain Road' and 'Geumgangbawi Road' opened. Didn't they say that even when you vaguely miss someone, your relationship deepens?
That's why the road to the mountain was full of people.
As it was a mountain with many restrictions on hiking for a long time, the mountain was really crowded on the weekend to walk on the newly opened road.
While climbing this distant mountain, it was rather difficult to see them line up as if climbing Bukhansan or Gwanaksan near Seoul.
The road is uphill from the beginning.
It must have been natural, as it was the way to face the peaks that soared freely through the sky.
The slope is steep, so even if you don't walk for a long time, the surrounding mountains are parallel to your waist.
The gap that forms the valley between the mountains is rather a canyon rather than a valley.
The space between the mountains spread out beneath the mountains is deep, so it is dizzying.
If you leave the Loombawi Observatory, which is about 3km away from the ticket office, and come up, hundreds of iron stairs are blocking it.
But what other way can I do it than to bow my head politely, look under my feet, and climb one step at a time?
Nevertheless, because of the many people who 'go up', even this is a board that has to be lined up.
Nevertheless, since this staircase has been laid, it is possible to approach even within a short distance of Loom Rock.
In the past, there was no other way than climbing up a rock wall.
Looking back, it's not easy to 'play' because it's an escape from everyday life.
How much sweat was pouring in the middle of running a long way and climbing a mountain, and how much calf and how much cries of knees?
That's what life would be like in the first place.
How can we even discuss life without experiencing the pain and tears of life, the sorrow of parting, and the joy of love?
The
universe rests on a
spoon
We often refer to work as 'to earn a living'. This is because rice is the key to sustaining life. Therefore, rice is the central axis of life to the extent that it occupies the center of food, clothing, and shelter, which are the basic conditions for survival. That's why people say 'rice is the sky' and 'the universe is on a spoon'.
Hoon Kim, the author of <Song of the Sword>, confesses in his prose collection <The Boring of Earning Meals>, 'I have been choked by the fishy smell of cooking rice in a rice cooker for the rest of my life.' This is because rice, which must be eaten unconditionally until the day of death, is the joy of prolonging life, and on the other hand, it is also connected with the fate of having to work at work as a condition to prepare the rice. So, earning a living is also a dreadful desperation.
'Meals always came back. All past meals were null and void in front of one meal to come. The meals I ate, the meals I didn't eat, or the meals that passed, couldn't deal with the meals that were to come. - Kim Hoon, <Song of the Sword>
Even on the battlefield, the immediate hunger of the soldiers is more important and urgent than the distant enemy. The enemy faced in front of the attack of meals that could not be prepared or skipped was a hungry stomach. Even Yi Sun-sin, who was preparing for the final battle with the enemies in the sea of Myeongnyang, was as strong and sad as fighting Japanese enemies.
The hunger of the hungry soldiers who lacked even barley porridge in the face of the desperate need to deal with hundreds of enemy fleets clasping their leash from a short distance with only 12 ships placed in front of the general who was transported to Seoul and barely spared their lives from torture. . Hunger was a knowingly unstoppable natural enemy and unbearable sadness. Whether we eat or starve in front of the upcoming meal, the reality of only giving up our helpless body is nothing less than a tragedy. Therefore, solving meals by eating is itself desperate and sublime.
Poet Jang Seok-ju asks, 'How many times have I sinned and deceived myself in order to eat a bowl of hot rice' in his poem <Rice>. In order to save 'a life in chains of a bowl of rice', I had to bow my head that I didn't want to bend, hide what I had to say, hold hands I didn't want to hold, and set my feet in places I didn't want to go. 'This was embarrassing. The object of that sadness is rice. That's why sometimes earning money is scary and tedious.
In order to maintain a house of two or three rooms, and in the evening, we sat around the dining table where the light was young by the window of the house and the sound of children's laughter bursting out and we pushed the spoons in so that our cheeks would burst. will be. That is why, while engraving the precious and great meaning of earning a living, and never forgetting that it is a fate that cannot be denied for even a single moment, it is sometimes said that earning a living is boring.
Ah!
Loom Rock
So it is not known whether they are talking about an absurd expression of escaping from everyday life. It's like standing on the road to get away from the boredom. Even without realizing that hardships are bound to be rife on the road.
In front of a huge object called a mountain, the body that resists gravity barely moves forward. Sweat pouring down like rain is an unexpected byproduct of that bloody bloody battle. The feeling of sweat running down your back, which you don't know where it came from, is rather chilly. Countless sweat pores all over the body open the floodgates at once, and the discharging that started unintentionally shows no sign of stopping. But at some point, that proud moment comes when the dripping sweat becomes bliss.
So you're here!
I can't close my mouth easily in front of the majesty of the countless mountain peaks that surround the observation deck beyond the stairs. I climbed quite a few rocky peaks, but Loom Rock was different. I'm sure we'll see something like this in the mountains of our country! The appearance of the rocky peaks uplifted by the naked body was sudden and surprising in itself, but the peaks were as sharp and dignified as a forged blade.
What was it that took off even the single layer of jeogori that was on my body and made me stand on that mountain with such a skinny and bare body? As the poet Yoo Chi-hwan sang, 'Billion years, as the rain and wind cut it', was it the result of 'whipped inward only'?
The rock walls that make up the peak are imbued with a fierce earnestness to cut them like the training of a high-level monk who devoted himself to himself with sharpness like a blade. The reason why Loom Rock has completely preserved its appearance over the centuries is no different. The group of rocks like spears may have been warriors who longed for the heavens, or maybe they weren't monks who whipped themselves without having anything of their own. Perhaps it was.
If you go up some mountain after passing the loom, you will see Mireukbawi, the summit of the 'loom fortress road'. It is a rock that seems to be sitting from a distance and looking at the Buddhist disciples who practice courageously with the spirit of Duta with a gentle smile. The rock resembles Maitreya Buddha, hence the name Maitreya Rock. The reason why this rock was named Maitreya is probably because he wished to spread the cover of Maitreya Buddha, which appeared in the world of Saba in the distant future to save sentient beings, to spread throughout the world.
Food and love
preceded resentment and disgrace
. Shin Kyung-jun, a Silhadist and geographer in the late Joseon Dynasty, said that 'a house and a road are of the same importance'. This is because 'a person has cessation (止) and actions (行止), and cessation is accomplished at home, and actions are carried out on the road'. Therefore, the importance of the two places where cessation and action take place is also not different.
However, unlike a house, which is a place of rest, he said that 'there is no original owner on the road, and the person who goes down that road is the owner'. If you do something and ask for something in the process, that request is applicable to everyone, and it is also said that it is the responsibility of the person who seeks it. So, the road has no owner, is shared by everyone who wants to go, and there is no discrimination. It is also said that the result of going on the road is ultimately up to you.
After all, everything we do on the road is our daily life and the way we live. Therefore, the road not only serves as a passage connecting here and there, but also has all the bends and various landscapes it has. The world will be the same. As humans, there are pains and sorrows that make us laugh and cry, and there are also various landscapes that those pains and sorrows solve. People live on that road. In this way, people live quietly while adapting to that path.
Among the objects of conformity, making a living is the top priority.
This is also the reason why Kim Hoon said, “In life, food and love always come before resentment and disgrace.”
This is because it is the nature of earning a living to have to bear even resentment and disgrace.
Everyone eats rice, but only the rice that passes through my throat is meaningful to me.
This means that the food that others eat does not fill my stomach.
That's why people live with a small grudge in return, risking shame in order to push the rice into their throats, and even more.
'It's not something you can only eat one or two meals, but you must eat it until the day you die.
this is rice
That this is disgusting rice.'
- Kim Hoon, <The Tiredness of Making Money>
However, even though earning a living is terribly boring, the shame and resentment mixed with the rice are too sharp and dangerous to pass through the throat and swallow. Because shame and resentment are the reasons that make people unhappy. For that reason, even if it is the core of the heart that is unavoidably embraced, it is necessary to soften the sharpened tip and dull the sharp blade.
How long will it be for a person to live and live as he pleases? not much Because living is not a journey solely for myself. It is not the case that the beneficiary of my income is me, but it is not the placenta.
The Buddha says, 'Gather the promise that everything will come true according to my will (期必). It means that the world is not something I can do as I please. What you need to do to do that is to let go of arrogance and egotism. Life in the world is like that, especially, making a living. The same goes for my food.
It wasn't long before I reached my 30th year of working life, and my income was also quite tumultuous. Maybe that's why, looking back, there are many times when the past years seem like a dream. The reason was because it was a series of making a living that seemed to be exhausting and crazy, and since it would have been revealed at first glance in everyday life that he was not paying attention to earning money, his own troubles filled with uproar was probably a natural gift.
However, in hindsight, the first thing to do is to regret that you have foolishly struggled in front of your role or destiny. Even if it is tiring or difficult, earning a living is a living, and which type of earner will have a less difficult way of making a living? Making a living is dignified, and whether it's mine or someone else's, it's the same desperate minimum for survival. What I now realize is that I am truly fortunate that Inama has survived thanks to that earning income that I am grateful for tears. To this day, I look back on myself, who was lacking in front of just making a living.
A large (?) squirrel
who has
gone.
People do not know that they are
afraid. The road turns into 'Dutasanseong-gil'.
Dutasanseong Fortress was first built in 102 AD (23rd year of King Pasa of Silla) and was built in 1414 during the reign of King Taejong of the Joseon Dynasty. But now, even the traces of it are faint. In the old days, even the rocks that supported the walls of the fortress were scattered all over the ridge without being able to overcome the years. People go through those old stories. However, the road is smooth and easy.
Then you meet Sanseong 12 Falls.
The waterfall that slams down twelve times is overwhelming in terms of its scale. The waterfall that slides and cascades constantly rolls like a water slide, dreaming of a comfortable landing on the ground. The flow of water that left the mountain for hundreds of millions of years carved a trough in the granite rock wall to complete the twelve-wide curved waterfall.
After passing Sanseong 12 Falls, the road leads to 'Geumgangbawi-gil'. The Geumgangbawi-gil opened in June this year and is the road to the 'Dutasan Gorge Skyscraper'. It is said that before the opening of Geumgangbawi-gil, this place was also an unexplored place where human access was difficult due to the rough rock walls. As a result, the new path was green and deep.
Then I met a squirrel.
A squirrel was playing alone under a rock about 10 meters high that covered the eaves as if it had been covered with a roof. Then, eye to eye met. If you were like a normal squirrel, even if you ran a line, you would have already done it several times. It was obvious that he was a little brazen or a guy with a big liver. Look at this guy! So what, what? attitude to do Cheeky nigga logo... One of the
party members put a few nuts on the palm of his hand just in case, and secretly held it out. The squirrel reacts. I'm scared too, so I look at everything, but it's approaching. And then one glance, one nut... The sudden increase in the audience to see me is burdensome, but they are eager to eat everything in their palms. Was it because he was hungry, or had he forgotten his fear in the face of a boiling appetite? Or did he trust the goodness of the person who gave him the snacks?
Whatever the reason, it was really grateful that the wild squirrel made a difficult decision and started interacting with humans like that. Perhaps it was more beautiful and moving than the wonderful scenery of Dootasan Mountain. It was because the fact that the squirrel recognized us as friends was touching and warm enough. He realizes again that the mountains and nature are not places that only humans have the exclusive right to enjoy, but are also shared with the animals that live here. The premise of sharing was communication and connection.
When it
is sad to say goodbye to the squirrel
hanging on the cliff of the
skyscraper of Dutasan Gorge
, the road leads to the 'Dootasan Gorge Skyscraper', an observatory built as if suspended from a vertical rocky cliff. It is said that the name 'skyscraper' got its name because the huge rocks soaring around the observatory look like a forest of buildings.
Standing at the observatory, a panorama of skyscrapers embroidered with steep cliffs unique to Ambong and various rocky peaks unfolds. The point of view provided by the Dutasan Gorge skyscraper is similar to the point of view of Son Goku while riding Geunduun, so the magnificent view of the world unfolds in front of your eyes and under your feet.
The canyon formed by Dutasan Mountain and Cheongoksan Mountain is deep and looks like a distant abyss. Therefore, the boundary between the mountain and the mountain is a space of disconnection that only deepens longing while facing the cliff of the cliff. It's sad because it's as deep as a trace cut by a forged blade, and my heart gets cold at the brink of death. Their abrupt separation, which had once been one body, was cut off like a camellia.
A cup of tea was placed in the place where it was cut like a dent.
Liang Liu, who was chased by Hang-wu and went to Pachok, told him to burn the old island, but Arthur! If there is no remnant of the canyon skyscraper, what would you do with this scenery? It is a matter of walking down the road and savoring the hillside. Going towards the center of the canyon thinking about the hard work of someone who made a path crawling on a distant cliff is half dizzying fear, and half exhilaration of walking on the back of a rock wall. And in front of countless superb views equal to the number of steps, the mouth opens by itself.
If you carefully take one step at a time and capture the scenery in your eyes and in your heart, you will start to think that good things are staying within a slow speed. This is because everything that becomes memories by walking, stroking, touching, and piling up in your eyes as if in a rush, is found in slow steps. The important thing is not the speed of the world, but my speed, my inner speed. Dootasan also learns that life is richer when you walk straight and firmly step by step, even if it is slow.
Playing properly
is playing alone
with the
world
After all, I think that the meaning of life is not far away. Even though I have been quietly guarding where I am for hundreds of millions of years, people come to me like a mountain that makes them happy, and living is like a mountain quietly. I wonder if life in the world will be enriched when we are enriched in ourselves without the need to be noisy.
At some point in my old age, free from the urgency of earning a living, I wonder if I should live while mimicking Jeongjung Yeosan. Staying quietly like a mountain and resembling the mountain is perhaps a free life. And again, it will be the 'playing' life I've been dreaming of for a long time. According to Hoon Kim, it is not said that 'playing is sacred'. It must have been a lot of cycling trips for him.
The reason why Kim Hoon says that playing is sacred is that 'when we play, we become whole and deep'. There is a destructive element in work, he argues, and furthermore, 'work alienates me from myself'. So, he confesses that he hates work. Perhaps most of what you call a job is like that. So, someone sensitive (?) is displeased, anxious, and uncomfortable with the labor of the body where their existence cannot stay.
But whose lives are not hard and dull.
On the other hand, many young people who are tired of even earning a living are ashamed of the complaints of older people.
But what can I do about the fact that earning a living is like that in the first place?
If so, is it just as easy to play because you are tired of earning a living?
Hoon Kim says, 'Playing is easy in words, but in reality it is difficult'.
Because what he says playing is 'playing alone with the world that is there'.
'Wandering around spending money while playing is not playing, but an extension of labor.
If you can't play if you don't depend on money, it's not playing because it's connected to the world of money making.
To play is to play alone with the world that is there.'
- Kim Hoon, <The Tiredness of Making Money>
What kind of game is playing alone with the world? There is a saying that even if you play, you are a child if you act according to the pleasure principle, and you are an adult if you act according to the reality principle. That is why adults who cling to reality principles become 'snops' and 'kondaes'. Even me, who has entered my fifties, has neither dreams nor romance, a snobby, a kkondae is not what I want. However, there is a fear that the habit that is ingrained in the body may make him stay as a kinsman. Because I also want to play well with the world.
So, what do you need to play well? Personally, I think it might be 'resignation'. To give up means to give up. When I am no longer bound by the things of the world, when I let go of what I was holding in my hands, I wonder if I can play at that time. This is because there is a belief that when you let go of myriad worldly desires, your hands and your heart will be at peace, and even freedom will dwell in that peace.
It is said that human life is a journey across the river of loss. To live is to go on a journey to lose something. It also means that we can move on to change and growth through that experience after we have let go of things that we have to let go of. Therefore, to live is a sad thing in itself. But there is another thing in life that you can't just be sad.
Looking back, I think that playing alone with the world means that we are no longer bound by the world and people that come and go. Enjoying that freedom and having fun. Wouldn't it be nice to stay quiet without getting entangled in even the idyllic dream that everyone dreams of? Then, to play alone with the world means to play alone, and to play alone also means to find pleasure in staying. On the other hand, as Kim Hoon said, 'It's okay to have no hopes or prospects' to live, if we don't have to be caught up in hopes, we will be able to avoid even our worldly hopes and desires running towards them, so it would be a wonderful life. Didn't you say that if you throw it away, it will be filled? How? It's probably up to each of them.
Falling water,
and
carefully walking along the road in
Mureung Valley
, along the Bakdal Valley, you can hear the sound of rushing water. It is the cries of waterfalls. The drop of the stream flowing through the deep valleys of Dutasan (1,357m) and Cheongoksan (1,404m) is magnificent. Yongchu Falls, a three-tiered waterfall located on the Munganjae Cliff of Cheongoksan Mountain, is the highlight of the festival made by water. The waterfall is shaped like a dragon ascending to heaven, and the upper bath and the middle bath are shaped like an earthenware pot, and the lower bath consists of a large chrysanthemum-colored bath. On the bedrock below Yongchu Falls, a stone carving called 'Byeolyucheonji (別有天地)' engraved on the bedrock accurately represents the natural scenery of Yongchu Falls. This is because this is the question and answer to the question of whether this place is a different world or a different place.
The stream that left Yongchu Falls does not go far and soon dreams of a long fall again. It rolls, pours, and falls like a flower in spring, like a fallen leaf in autumn. They pass through the Simsim Valley of Dutasan Mountain and meet with the stream and become Ssang Falls (雙爆布). The feast of water pouring from the left and right is as great as the pleasure to listen to. When you close your eyes, the sound of Nanta's performance is partly regular and sometimes dissonant, passing through your ears, creating a warm echo that fills your heart. The sound of the wind rustling the green leaves and scattering them is a bonus.
At the end of the journey, when the steps become heavy, the water that leaves the waterfall, and the season it embraces, shows the beautiful backside of 'a person who clearly knows when it is time to go', as poet Lee Hyung-ki sings. The water in the valley that embraces a single leaf like that is 'the sad eyes of a mature soul as if it is stagnant in a spring'. A little red and a little yellow, he was running with a spicy pace 'toward the lush greenery and soon the fruitful autumn'.
The place where the water flowed and reached was Mureung Valley. The peach blossoms of the Mureung Valley, which were planted long ago, are not visible, and only a flat rock of 1,500 pyeong welcomes travelers.
Mureung Valley, which stretches about 4km between Dutasan Mountain and Cheongoksan Mountain, is a place that has long been admired by many people. It is impossible to know the reason for their names and writings on the rocks in the mountains with a stone mason, but I do not know the details, but I feel lonely as if they were the crude bluffs of old scholars who wanted to leave only their names. Among the main characters of these writings are the stone carvings of Bong-rae Yang Sa-eon, the 4th great writer of the Joseon Dynasty, and Kim Si-seop of Maeol-dang.
This is the path I took with my camera, and it captures the Mureung Valley.
Unfortunately, however, the sound of the wind playing in the pine forest, the sound of water crashing in the valley after running a long way, and the gentle chirping of birds that occasionally drop are not captured. Of the things I miss, it seems that there are always only a few things I can capture with my eyes.
Poet Jiha Kim confessed that he learned from Dutasan that 'only people miss people' in his poem <Dootasan>.
Perhaps it will.
Even if he goes far away because he is afraid of people, he will always miss him.
However, some people come to think that Dootasan may miss the mountain.
I will miss this acid and the big (?) squirrel.
Of course, I will definitely miss the good people who accompanied me on the hike.
But sometimes I miss mountains, water, and squirrels more.
The painting was said to be 'to miss'.
It means that all we can draw is what we miss.
Suddenly in the mountains, I miss the many connections that I passed during my life and the times that passed me by.
If so, it is unlikely that you will miss even the tedious job of earning money in the near future.
Perhaps it will.
〇 Dutasan Loombawi Sanseong-gil
▶ Management Office → Loombawi Observatory → Mireukbawi Rock → Sanseong 12 Falls → Dutasan Gorge Skyscraper → Yongchu Falls, Ssang Falls → Mureung Valley → Management Office (About 8km, 4 hours)