조오현 선시「일색변」에 나타난 무아론

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study Zen poems called Gaeosi meaning that truth can be understood through the truth of Buddhism. First, the poet Jo O-hyeon represented a variety of thoughts related to Zen poems especially through the Buddhism performance, one of which is Ilsaekbyeon, a series of poems, “Jeolgan Story”. Through the work, “Ilsaekbyeon”which was continually and intensively depicted, the poet revealed his ardent poetic exploring for being and the deep theory of being and life. In this paper, the truth he pursued on the basis of the analysis of Buddhism principle is examined especially by way of the work,“ Ilsaekbyeon”as to the real life image and the method of transcending the value of being on the way to finding the nature in the process of Buddhism performance. “Ilsaekbyeon”regarded humans asked, “Who am I?”as poetic importance. The studying process by the monk reveals the answer through the continual circulatory relation, that is, O-on without authors. In other words, the spiritual struggle made in the stage of acknowledging the emptiness of the world called ‘saek’and “myeong”is understood based on the inner property of things. Through the study, the real source of knowing the real thing of things stemmed from the mental path and vulgar one as well, on the other hand, all the things existing in the world are co-related one another, being one as an O-on being. In addition, some materialism underlain in humans suffering from the vulgar world is represented in the Buddhism aspect which denies substantial thoughts, being construed as O-on for the object of pursuit of physical and mental liberation. The centerpiece of this study is the relation such as saek to soo, soo to sang, sang to haeng, and haeng to sik, all of which symbolically and paradoxically represent that myeong and saek stem from body and mind, material and spirit from O-on respectively. In a nutshell, as the human nature originates from all kinds of desires and it has an empty being along with the world, the basic concept as to all things is just the same as the self called“ ja-a”. However, the desire happening in the mind has a variety of agony and anxiety, although most humans have the world in the midst of desire of possessing all materials. This reaches the selfless questions which all kinds of desires radically are based on foolishness. The poems as a text search for the nature of human being assimilated into nature from the property of things, realizing that humans are just the very feeble beings, entering the ground of Zen as a Zen tool in order to obtain the real freedom. The prerequisites to get the real freedom is to perform incessantly through self-denial. This study suggests that the real picture toward being should be found and reached the ground of Zen through the proper thoughts. From the study, the real picture of being is hypocricy and vanity stemmed from desire and all things are the same as I, of course, obtaining empty world view. That is, all things are the truth as they are and as they are true, they are all Buddha. The only method of meeting Buddha is through waking our sleeping Buddha in our mind, only meeting the Buddha existing in all things.