Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)

Yi Pan-Yong: Hye-gok

Quotes 

• Haejin : Why have we all left the world?

  Kibong : It's because in the world, there is no peace or freedom of the heart.

  Haejin : Why?

  Hyegok : Because people haven't enough heart to put in all the things of the world. In fact, they have enough heart, but it's full of the idea of Self.

• [first lines] 

  Hyegok : Haejin! Haejin! There is no beginning and no end. Nothing is immutable, everything changes. That thing which does not come into being does not die.

• Hyegok : You must keep the Koan between your teeth even if you fall into a furnace. The one who has decided to solve the Koan must go to the end. When you reach Enlightenment you will find freedom like the breeze on the mountaintop and a peace unshakable like a rock in a storm. The Place where you stood today can be the Land of Perfect Bliss itself.