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

Sin Won-Sop: Ki-bong

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.

• Kibong : His name is Hyegok. Although he is far away from us in the mountains, he is like a beacon lamp. To be effective, mustn't a beacon be situated high up and far away?

• Kibong : I became a hermit to free myself from the dust and the dirt of the world, looking for perfection. But I realized that it was impossible without loving the garbage and the dust of the world, even life's passions.

• Kibong : If it's easy to fight against reality and fate, it is difficult to love them. What a beautiful world when you know how to love it!