Seongcheol 's parinirvana gatha reads:
> Deceiving people all my life, my sins outweigh Mount Sumeru.
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> Falling into hell alive, my grief divides into ten thousand pieces.
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> Spouting forth a red wheel,
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> 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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