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Seongcheol's parinirvana gatha

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Seongcheol 's parinirvana gatha reads: > Deceiving people all my life, my sins outweigh Mount Sumeru. > > Falling into hell alive, my grief divides into ten thousand pieces. > > Spouting forth a red wheel, > > It hangs on the blue mountain. Has anyone written about what this means? I see that Seongcheol had this explanation > I've lived my entire life as a practitioner, and people have always > asked me for something. Everyone is already a Buddha, but they do not > try to realize that fact and only look towards me. So, in a way, you > could say I've deceived people all my life. I've failed to get this > message across to everyone so I'm suffering in a kind of hell. But I wonder if it is definitive? You read people who think it's an admission that he's wasted his "entire life", whereas I thought it could be a statement about "saving all sentient beings".
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Feb 1, 2017, 05:15 PM
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