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Seun Confucianism (禪儒敎) Seunbi, Dr. S. H. Kim

Seun Confucianism can be easily understood by explaining a phrase “BeungSin does 6-gap” as follows. “BeungSin does 6-gap”: Earlier than 5,000  years ago, both Chinese and Koreans  had already  understood  that the creator god concept is nonsense. Especially, both races understood that  if the concept of the creator god is true, we must forever  worry regardless of whether we live on  this miserable earth  or in the blessed  heaven.

The reason is as follows: [When I were nothing, I had never asked the creator guy having me  being  born into this miserable world. This creator guy, out of the blue, created me without any particular reason and had me suffer  hardship, misery and agony in this miserable world. Therefore, if  I go through  all kinds of hardship, misery, and agony  to glorify this guy and if,  thus,  I were seen by this guy as good   and had got  being sent into the heaven, I  must worry by judging the past  behavior of this guy since this guy could again abruptly change his mind without any particular reason, and might send me into the hell.

Certain low-intelligent life forms who believe in the concept of  the creator god, whom we call  herein Yesujaengis  claim that when the creator god sends any good soul to the heaven, he remodels (overhaul) the soul such that the remodeled soul does not worry any longer in the heaven and only enjoys immeasurable happiness of  the heaven. If this Yesujaengis’ claim is true, it is an ultimate tragedy. Remodeling of a soul is equal to that the  original soul is annihilated and a clone of the soul is created. Hence, I must go through all hardship, agony, and misery to glorify the creator guy, and finally be annihilated to be replaced by my clone, and my clone enjoys the heaven life. Hence, as far as the creator god concept is concerned, both races had the firm conviction and, hence, had   Comfortable Mind.

But, there  had been other  worry  and question, especially, as to what will happen after I die. We know that our body eventually decays. If there is nothing besides body, we do not need to do any good. This is because  whether we do good  or  evil  become nothing without making  any difference once  we die   [This concept is called 斷論 (‘theory of nothing’ )]. By this reason, some people, especially, ‘brain empty’ or ‘tofu brain-container  Yesujanengis believe that      soul exists, and soul becomes  detached from body  if we die. Yesujaengis claim that a human consists of a body and a soul  which are bound together when the human is alive. They have too low intelligence to  think whether the binding  is    mixing (‘化’)   or   sticking to each other (‘合’ ). If we apply a similar physical picture used in Surangama Sutra (首楞嚴經) to the binding of the soul  and the body,  neither of  ‘mixing’  and ‘sticking to each other’  cannot explain the mental and physical phenomena of our body  when we are alive. However, we  do not discuss it herein. Since soul does not have body, we cannot say where  soul is. Having no body, soul  cannot be incarcerated in the hell, and cannot feel any pain, hot or cold, and cannot be burnt by the hell fire. Actually, anything cannot inflict any damage  to soul. This means that Yesujaengis claim that  whether we become ‘sincere and earnes Yesujaengis or we hit to death    Yesujaengis as many as the   grains of  sand in the Mississippi River every day during  kalpas  as many as the  grains of sand in the Mississippi River, it does not make any difference once we die. Therefore, needless to make a scrutiny into Yesujaengis’ claim, we can intuitively find that Yesujaengis’s concept about soul must be wrong.

The Greatest Saint, the Ultimate Saint, GongJa (孔子)  (孔夫子 Confucius)  established  an intention  (立志) to get the perfect clear answer to these questions and to be free  from  all misery,  agony, worry, sorrow, disease including  Alzheimer,  and any accident and disaster, and to become a perfect saint at his age  of  twenty (20), and  attained  Peaceful  (or Comfortable) Mind  and Establishment of Duty  (安心立命) at his age of thirty (30),  and arrived  at the stage of not being infatuated or   disturbed  with anything  (不惑)  at  his age of forty (40),  and  so  on.

In this  author's understanding, both Confucian and  Buddhist reasoning  as  to whether such Peaceful Mind is possible  is  as follows.

Even if one billion hydrogen bombs explode,  or   anthrax or any other vicious virus spreads, or sky collapse, or  earth  sinks, and so on,  the vacuum  space is not affected. Anything cannot inflict any damage to  the  vacuum space at all. Similarly, anything  cannot  affect  our seeing  nature or hearing nature even though eyesight  and  sound-hearing ability is affected by the external things.

We just proceed only with  the seeing  nature. The seeing nature is ‘I’ because it cannot be returned  to any  other  except  myself [In Shurangama sutra (首楞嚴經),  Buddha   explained  it  to the Venerable Amanda ]. The seeing nature is like the second moon (the second  moon is the  moon around the real moon when we see the moon with pressing    eye with finger). The second moon is neither the real moon itself nor  the fake moon.

Both the vacuum space and the true nature are the same in the aspect  that anything cannot affect  them. However, the true   nature  is different  from  the vacuum in the aspect that the true nature is  not  empty in nature, and has action. What we  think  as ‘I’ is not my true nature but the shadow of the true nature’s action to distinguish and judge and discern.

We (herein, sentient beings) have been playing an extremely good  virtual-reality  video  game  and  have  been fancying   of  identifying ourselves as the heroes in the video game which we have been playing. Even though the hero in the  video  game  is beheaded by the enemy, and we cry for the loss of our head,   the real ‘I’ in the reality is not affected by anything in the video game.

The enlightened person is a person who is awakened from this illusion and sees that the real ‘I” is not the hero in the video game and, thus, the real ‘I’  is not affected by anything in the game and, hence, is  a thing of  No-Birth and No-Death in  terms of the things in the game. Since the enlightened person is enlightened to understand that any misery is an illusion, he has Comfortable Mind. Since he  has no fear to anything and bring forth  the intention to do what he should do, which is called Establishment of Duty. Since Establishment of Duty cannot be separated from Comfortable Mind, we combine both into one  and call it ‘Comfortable Mind and Establishment of Duty’. Comfortable Mind is in principle possible only when we see the true nature, which is termed as See-Nature.

Let someone arrives at the level  of  Peaceful Mind and Establishment of Duty; we normally call such one the Big Dignified Man (大人君子). Then, even if something like the Christian god appears  in front of him, and promises the heaven life for him,  he  does not  thank to the god. Also, he does not have any fear  even if the  god  threatens him with the eternal burning  in  the  hell.

According to Buddhist scripture, it is said that something  like the  Christian god cannot even approach to DaeIn Gunja (邪不犯正 in Confucian concept)  because such a thing that is claimed as the creator god will be destroyed  if  DaeInGunJa makes observation (觀).

This is because this world,  the thing which we consider as ‘I’, and the would-be  creator  god   are all something  in a  big  dream,  that  is,   illusion.

Accordingly, if he makes ‘observation’ (look into that anything  is the  illusion in the Big Dream), anything including, needless to say,   the  would-be creator god, and even Buddha  in the Dream which we call the  Reality is  destroyed. This is because darkness cannot coexist with brightness, and illusion and enlightenment have similar characteristics as darkness and enlightenment, respectively.

Thus, if one awakes  from the  dream  (illusion),  he is not stupefied  by  anything  in the dream  (this  does not mean that he is not subjected to the law of Cause and Result.  There is  a  famous  Hwadu  called the Seun Master, BaekJang's wild-fox Hwadu about it). He  lives  according  to   his Establishment of Duty without any conflict and fear in mind. If he  were a person of bad mouth (DaeInGunJa cannot be a person of bad  mouth), he would say to the god:  “You (the god),  Beungsin, cham (really) do 6-gap''.

In the old Korean Confucian society, if  one  was born as  blind, deaf, hunchback or other  defected  in body or body function,  or maimed or  crippled by accidents or diseases in juvenile times so that he could not make living as farmer, government officer, merchant, craftsman, butcher,  slave  (servant) [In the China and Korea, slavery is a job],  he learnt  the Book  of Change (Iching,易).

These people said that the Ultimate Saint (Confucius) nim gaeseu read over and over the Book of Change such that the leather cover of the book was worn out three times. If they became some familiar with Iching,  they  made their livelihood as  fortune tellers. ‘6-gap’ is the technology (or methodology or science (?)  or pseudo science) to predict the future destiny by the  calculation in  accordance  with the content of this book.

If  one  masters IChing,  one can really pin-point one’s  future  except those  of  the  enlightened persons  by  calculating  the  future destiny   according   to  IChing  (There  are   many   historical evidences).

Even if a Confucian is not enlightened such that he arrives  at  the level of Comfortable Mind and  Establishment  of Duty,  he has  at least the following  understanding and concept :

(i) Since the vacuum space is constant,  the vacuum space  does  not have Life and Death. We cannot  say  its  birth date. Thus, the vacuum space is not created by something like the creator god. Similarly, the  seeing nature  is not created. Hence, there cannot be “Creator God ‘ which created everything at a certain time or in a certain time interval; the time can be specified. Since the seeing nature does not change, the seeing  nature does  not  die. Since the seeing nature is ‘I’,  there  will  be after-life  after I die. By the same reason, there was  before-life before my birth. However, there is no need to know or  be concerned  with  before-life (前生) and   after-life (後生) in order  to arrive  at the level of Peaceful Mind and Establishment of  Duty.

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(ii)   Peaceful Mind and Establishment of Duty can be  obtained and  can  only be obtained by enlightenment, i.e.,   見性  (see nature)   [GeunSeun is not a terminology originated from the Seun sect of  Buddhism. GeungSeung as well as AnSimIbMyeung is originally  a terminology of Confucianism. Later, the Seun sect adopted these terminologies as their own ones. Since low-level Korean and Chinese Confucians  have not given attention to  or not understood  the reasoning of AnSimIbMyeung, and they misunderstood Confucianism as a teaching which is emphasizing   only 修身 (order himself), 齊家 (control family), 治國 (govern nation), 平天下 (make the whole world peaceful),  and  think that GyeungSeung is a terminology used in the Seun sect].

(iii) See-Nature cannot be   achieved  without   practicing  the  right  way  (in Buddihism)  or the Big Way (in Confucianism) by myself. No  any other  can make  myself  enlightened.

(iv)  This  world  is  an illusion. However, the phenomena are governed by the Law of Cause and  Effect as the function of the Original Nature which is absolutely good. As  long as I am not  perfectly  enlightened,  I cannot escape from the Law of Cause and Effect. So, if I do  bad thing, I should get bad retribution. It is much better not to commit bad  sin and, instead, do good thing. Even when the  ultimate saint Confucius do good thing, why should I do bad thing and risk to suffer pain and misery? As long as I do not stray from  the right path, why should I be concerned with my future?

Thus, the general Confucians,  who call  themselves  SeunBi (scholar), do not  respect  much  Iching. No matter how accurately does one foretell the  future destiny  by means of 6-gap, some Seunbis, who  were   somewhat DaeInGunJa in their conceit, despise future-telling since DaeIn (big man) need not be concerned with future destiny.

Further, in reality, some of  the  fortune telling people did not study Iching, and they faked doing Iching. Thus, 6-gap became as  a terminology which  did not stand for  Iching but fake Iching. The  general Confucians hated that some handcuffed people made living by doing only   obvious  fake  Iching  without having   studied   Iching. Especially, they hated that some handcuffed people talked  some jargons and incomprehensible terminologies to give the impression that  they  were  the  experts  in Iching.

No matter how nasty were some Confucians,  they  would not  have hated an iota if the fortune telling people  just  have used   crystal  balls as fortune-telling Gypsies do. Some  nasty Confucians,  who  could not  fully understand  the  pain of  the handcuffed  people who had to live in this miserable  world   and hated only some handcuffed people talked as if they were  Iching  doctors  (in the ancient time there was the public officer  who was called Iching Doctor),   usually ignored  whatever  the fortune-telling people had said  with  saying: “Beungsin (defected person) does 6-gap.”

The interpretation of what  this  word intends is : “If they had been people of no-defected body or of  normal-body-function, they would not have  said such odd thing or  incomprehensible terminologies. Since they have no other way  to make  their livelihood except doing 6-gap, we should let them  do such  6-gap. So  I will just ignore what  they  have  said.”

This word is also frequently used as a response  when an idiotic or  brain-defected  person stubbornly insists some  unreasonable  thing  or talk incomprehensible terminologies.

Seun Confucianism is a Confucianism mainly  oriented in Seeing My Original Nature without any neglecting his/her occupation.