농암(聾巖)의 경천(敬天)사상 ― 聖俗間 거리두기를 위한 자연의 재발견 ―

Abstract

The sansugyeongseok, representing the spirit of ‘wayu(臥遊)’, symbolized nature in Joseon Thought. And it can be assumed that the symbolism of 'nature' is 'the space of the Sacred'. Seongho-yiIk said in 『Wayucheopbal (臥遊帖跋)』 that when it is difficult to tour the whole world and when you have no energy, you just lay it out and play with your mind and appreciate the landscape. In Korean thought, Nature was close to a symbolic space where scholars who left the world could descend or ascend. In fact, in the history of Korean thought, there is a tradition of not only appreciating nature with the naked eye, but building it as a real utopia and calling it the space of the Sacred. In this regard, the life and poetry literature of Nongam Lee Hyun-bo(聾巖 李賢輔, 1467-1555), a mastermind of Joseon, who took advantage of the Gangho(江湖) by escaping from the early Joseon scholars' calamity and enjoying nature through a totally different life-style. The key of enjoying nature is to be able to build up the space of sacred that exists independently from the present secular world. You should be able to appropriate yourself in that space with your whole body as if there is only one space. Pure pleasure or immersion(養眞) emerges from the differenciation of the space between the sacred/the inner and the secular/outer, and the movement between these separated places. It can be said that Gyung(敬, Korean mindfulness) can be completed in this way. Nongam was a rare scholar(儒仙) at the time who secured such a sacred spatiality in the history of Korean thought beyond the history of Korean literature and had a sense of style enough to sing about the daily life of the sacred. Nongam also sang the atmosphere felt in the constructed sacred space in the most indigenous way, and he found freedom in the space he stayed in and confidently enjoyed the Korean sentiment with his fellow writers. This paper is an attempt to explain the Korean literary achievements of Kang-Ho-Ga-do(江湖歌道) achieved by Nongam LeeHyunbo, not only in the history of literature, but also in the philosophical concept of space.