Finding Peace at Hyuhyua Hermitage and Myojeok Hall in Yangyang
In Yangyang, Gangwon-do, there is a temple and hall with unique names.
They are Hyuhyua Hermitage (休休庵) and Myojeok Hall (妙寂殿), affiliated with Shinheungsa Temple on Seoraksan Mountain.
The names likely suggest resting and relaxing deeply in the embrace of the Buddha, so that your heart becomes beautiful and peaceful here.
Like a bed advertisement's copy about unwavering comfort, living an unshaken life in reality is not easy.
Once you get out of bed, you must cling to one side or another in your constantly wavering mind to survive, or so I think.
Dualistic attachments fuel suffering in life.
The mind that agonizes and feels confused between being and non-being, comparing oneself to others, love and hate, duty and right, purity and pleasure – that is attachment.
On Mondays, we worry about the week ahead at work, and when the weekend arrives, our minds are complicated with thoughts of how to spend it.
It would be nice if we were carefree on our own, but we are full of worries either way.
Thoughts never stop.
We cannot stop them.
There are many excuses before time.
We look for reasons not to do something rather than reasons to do it.
That time passes so quickly.
If it was a time of hesitation, we would have already arrived at the starting line.
The first thing you decided or thought of is always the answer.
Let's regard it as the answer and proceed.
Even if it's wrong, flawed, boring, or uninteresting, let's not think of it as a loss or wasted time.
We have created a day and managed our time.
Even if we quit midway, let's look forward to the next time.
Sometimes there will be days when we rest due to rain or oversleeping.
Let go of the obsession to fill that gap unconditionally and leave it to the flow.
But, what will change if we do this?
There is no need to expect anything, and nothing will change.
We neither desire nor deny it.
We simply exist freely, apart from it.
We must escape the dualistic chaos of life.
In Buddhism, this state of mind is called 'Jeok' (寂).
The Chinese character 'Jeok' (寂) means tranquility, referring to the freedom to be detached from attachment and not belonging to anything.
A mind not fixed in one place -
The beauty of Jeok (寂)
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