For the First Time

4 PREFACE

Part I.
14 As It was In the Beginning
16 夜深星逾輝 The Deeper the Night, the Brighter the Stars
18 Needle Point
20 The Rings of a Tree
21 A Kiln of Discipline
22 Water
24 Where Spring Comes
25 Life History of a Butterfly
26 Teacher & Student
27 Love & Hate
28 The Place of Sorrow
29 Judgment of Autumn
30 서울 ‘Seoul’, A Calligraphy Writing
32 An Old Carpenter’s Drawing of a House
33 A ‘Tak(Pattern)’ and a ‘Jok(Foot)’
34 A Bird that Flies High in the Sky Lightens Its Bone
35 Reflection
36 ‘A Half’ and ‘A Company’
37 Winter is the Season of Thinking of Stars
38 A Grass Seed on the Window Pane of a Prison Cell
39 A Thin Notebook
40 Idol of a Cave
42 Greater Pain
43 Common Gypsophila
44 너른 마당 A Big Yard
45 The Spring of the Mountains and the Rivers & the Spring of the Human World
46 The Longest Journey
47 The Peach Half
48 百鍊剛 A Hundred-time-forged Steel
50 Waiting for a Sunrise at Mt. Tae San
52 Similar Faces
54 One More Hand
56 Sunset
58 A Curved Road
59 Flowers and Butterflies
60 한솥밥 Sharing Rice Boiled from a Pot
61 Spring Flowers
62 What a Himalayan Hare Should Beware of
63 A Linden Baum
64 Columbus’ Egg
66 Humanism
67 Machu Pickchu
68 Light Green Pine Needles
69 Camouflage
70 Waiting
71 The Whistle of a Train in My Memory
72 The Stage and TV
73 Speed Leads to Overspeed and Overspeed to Scud
74 自由 Freedom
75 Journey
76 빈손 An Empty Hand
77 Missing
78 샘터찬물 Cold Water in a Wellspring
79 No Money No Problem
80 Pyramid
81 The Leopard at Mt. Kilimanjaro
82 觀海難水 A Person Who Has Seen the Sea
83 The Size of a House
84 Look Back!
86 The Meaning of Offspring
87 A Lying Cow
88 Life

Part II.
90 中 Moderation
92 愚公移山 Woo Gong Moves the Mountains
94 함께 맞는 비 Getting Wet in the Rain Together
96 To Become a Flower, and to Become the Wind
97 Dandelion of the Earth
98 Trees! Oh, Trees!
99 Goodness and Beauty
100 더불어 한길 Together on the Road
101 Water Flows to Lowlands and Becomes the Sea
102 Mt. Ji-Ri
103 The Sun
104 衆志動天 Majority Will Moves the Sky
105 Do Not Mirror Yourself On Water
106 더불어숲 Together Into a Forest
107 White Cranes of Saigon
108 손잡고 더불어 Hand in Hand, Being Together
109 An Impulse to Stand in the Rain
110 길벗 삼천리 Travelling Companion Along a 3,000 Li Distance
111 Theory of Relationship in Calligraphy
112 The Morning Bugle
113 Great Skill Is Like Lack of Skill
114 바깥 Outside
115 On-Dal’s Fortress
116 Dawn
117 Lee, Kwang Shoots a Rock
118 A Thousand Hands
119 Promise
120 Relationship
121 My University Days
122 A Genius in Carpentry
123 Walking on One foot
124 A High Place
125 Water Runs Forward After Filling in Empty Spaces
126 We Make a Way, Going Forward
127 Prison Life in Summer
128 People Who Make a Living by Moving Their Bodies
130 Missing Friends on a Snowy Day
131 If the Water in the Chang-Rang River Is Clean
132 春風秋霜 Spring Wind and Autumn Frost
133 Hundred Rivers Learn the Sea
134 Equality is the Highest Form of Freedom
136 Liberty Space
138 Cold Wall
140 Auschwitz’s Conscience
141 Colossal Colosseum that Puts Us to Sleep
142 Proof That the Earth Is Round
143 My Hand and Your Hand
144 Ban-Gu-Jung and Ap-Gu-Jung
146 Beautiful Accompaniment
147 여럿이 함께 Many People Together
148 나는 걷고 싶다 I Want to Walk
149 Minerva’s Owl
150 Stepping Stones
151 The Shade of a Zelkova Tree
152 The Simplicity of Foolish People is What Changes the World

Part III.

154 省 Awakening
156 Truth of One’s Own
158 通 Communication
160 當無有用 The Usefulness of Being Empty
161 The Fabric of Joy and Sorrow
162 Foot
163 On Love
164 Discarding and Rearing
165 Concentrating on the Middle, No Power
166 Harmony, but not Conformity
167 A Window and a Door
168 Decoding the Nazca Lines of Peru
170 Love and Reason
172 Incompletion
173 Lonely Pain
174 새날 A New Day
176 The Size of Sorrow and Joy
177 Autumn Meditation
178 A Paper Airplane
179 Understanding and Relationship
180 Culture and Agriculture
181 Between Yesterday and Today
182 New Year’s Wisdom and Courage
183 King Midas’ Hands
184 The Story Himalaya Tells Us
186 Products of the Sun
187 The Amazon
188 The Wall of Division
190 No Material Basis, No Constant Mind
191 흙내 Smell of the Soil
192 Reflections on the Past
194 For Whom the Bell Tolls
195 The Chorus of a Blue Mosque
196 The Basis of Identity is Independence
197 Gandhi’s Spinning-Wheel
198 Kim, Yu-Shin’s Horse
199 Resounding Echo
200 Chung-Mu-Gong, Admiral Lee, Sun-Shin
201 On Breaking a Ceramic Ware
202 Things We Do
203 Step on Me and Rise
204 Each and Everyone
205 The Truth is Nowhere to Be Found, But only Colors Are Straying Our Eyes
206 Dream and Darkness
207 Comfort Puts Us to Sleep
208 Piggyback
209 Welcoming the Full Moon
210 Prison Cell Doors
211 A Forgotten Flower Pot
212 Shortcut and Luck
213 Silence
214 Cultivation of Love
215 Simultaneous Cry Inside the Egg and Pecking off the Shell from Outside
216 Seed-Fruit is Not to Eat