This is an introspective study on life seen through literary analogies focusing on Yiseganpum in the Avatasakasūtra. What is dealt with here intensively can be divided largely into three perspectives.
First, in Chapter Ⅱ, this author analyzes the cent ...
This is an introspective study on life seen through literary analogies focusing on Yiseganpum in the Avatasakasūtra. What is dealt with here intensively can be divided largely into three perspectives.
First, in Chapter Ⅱ, this author analyzes the central idea of the main text in this study, The Avatasakasūtra Yiseganpum . The key point here is ‘Yisegan’ which means a pure mind that is not tarnished by loka though it is in loka. This is expressed with following analogies: you stay in loka but are not trapped as in the air, and the lotus never gets wet. In other words, Yisegan is interpreted as the lotus border which means that as the lotus does not get tinged by dirtiness, our mind is clean originally and transcends loka. In Chapter Ⅲ, this researcher analyzes literary images contained in Yiseganpum , and through that, it has been found that The Avatasakasūtra Yiseganpum deals with the core doctrines of Buddhism including the steps of Hwaeom cultivation: sipsin, sipju, siphaeng, siphoehyang, sipji, deunggak, and myogak. The cultivation hierarchy of Hwaeom is expressed in the form of 12 bungyo with splendid words, literary analogies, and images.
In Chapter Ⅳ, this author investigates through literary analogies introspection on life found
in The Avatasakasūtra Yiseganpum . The center of this pum, expositor Samantabhadra
Bodhisattva, delivers a sermon on a variety of beneficial lessons about life and the core of
religious introspection contained in Yiseganpum . In particular, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
gives an answer to each of the two hundred questions asked by Bohye Bodhisattva about the ultivation and mastery of Bodhisattva or such, and two thousand items are explained in 10 articles. Among the hierarchy of cultivation, ethical virtues that are directly associated with our lives are 10 gye, 52 hierarchy of cultivation, yukbaramil, and samuryangsim. These are the ethical virtues we must practice in our lives; therefore, we should reflect on and develop the core ideas of physical and mental [theoretical] perspectives contained in The Avatasakasūtra Yiseganpum as Hwaeom Bosaldo or such and create them as sources for our self-discipline. The deed of that practice can be a well-formed guideline of meditation which will lead you to a clean and peaceful life that is not tarnished by dirtiness although all of you exist in loka. Consequently, the key point of this study is to
allow all of you to lead a free and happy life not being trapped into conflict or tinged by any sorts of anguish and illusion although you exist in loka