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(Poetry) ์‹ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ | God Is Always Near Us

  

Summary

 

A meditative poem born from a real moment of deep stillness during

early-morning Zen practice. Through pure love and gratitude, the poet

encounters a bright, moon-like lightan intimate sign of the divine

presence that has always been near.

 


A meditating practitioner sitting with closed eyes, hands joined, while a round moon-like light appears before me

 [์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ]

 

✨ Original Korean Poem

 

์‹ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ

 

ํ‰์ƒ

์ˆ˜๋ จํ•ด๋„ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ 

 

์‚ผ๋งค์— ๋“ค๋ฉด

๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ 

 

๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์–ด์•ผ

๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋„ค

 

๋‘ ์† ๋ชจ์•„

์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด

 

๋ฐ์€ ๋น›

๋‘ฅ๊ธ€๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋‹ˆ

 

์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ

๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์˜ค๋Š” ์ด์น˜ ์•Œ๊ฒ ๋„ค

 

์‹ ์€

ํ•ญ์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ 

 

 

๐ŸŒ™ Condensed English Version

  

God Is Always Near

 

A lifetime of practice feels difficult,

yet in deep stillness

the sacred appears.

 

When the self softens

and gratitude fills the heart,

a round, gentle light rises within.

 

Pure mind, simple truth

God has always been near.

 

 

๐Ÿ’ญ  Author’s Comment

 

์ด ์‹œ๋Š” ์„ ์›์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ์ˆ˜๋ จ ์ค‘์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋‘ ์†์„ ๊ฐ€์Šด ์•ž์— ํ•ฉ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ ,

๋งˆ์Œ์†์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ถฉ๋งŒํ•  ๋•Œ -

๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‘ฅ๊ทผ ๋‹ฌ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•ž์— ๋‘๋‘ฅ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ณ ,

์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค’๊ณ  ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆด ๋•Œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ณธ๋ž˜์„ฑ

๊ทธ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ์‹œ๋กœ ๋‹ด์•„๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

๐Ÿ’ก Appreciation Points

 

1. ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€๊ณผ ๋‚˜์˜ ์†Œ๋ฉธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ญ์„ค

์‹œ์˜ ์•ž๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์˜ค๋žœ ์ˆ˜๋ จ์—๋„ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์˜ ๊ธธ,

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์–ด์•ผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง๋กœ ์ž๊ธฐ์ค‘์‹ฌ์  ์˜์‹์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๋•Œ

๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ์‹ ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ด ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  

์˜์  ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์˜ ์—ญ์„ค์„ ๊ฐ„๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•œ ์ ์ด ๊นŠ์€ ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

2. ํ•ฉ์žฅ·์‚ฌ๋ž‘·๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋น›์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์ƒ์ง•์„ฑ

ํ•ฉ์žฅ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ํ•œ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์œผ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์ด์ž ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š” ๋ชธ์ง“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋”ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด, ‘๋‘ฅ๊ทผ ๋‹ฌ์˜ ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„๋œ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ์‘๋‹ต์ด

๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์  ์ƒ์ง•๊ณผ ์ข…๊ต์  ์ฒดํ—˜์„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

3. ์ง์ ‘ ์ฒดํ—˜์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ์˜์  ํ˜„์‹ค๊ฐ

 ์‹œ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์ƒ์ƒ์  ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹ค์ œ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์ค‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๋น›์˜ ์ถœํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅธ ์›ํ˜•์˜ ๋น›์€ ๋…์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ,

์ดˆ์›”์  ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ด€๋…์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹ค์ œ์ ์ธ ์ฒดํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

4. ‘์‹ ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ณธ์—ฐ์˜ ์ง„๋ฆฌ ํšŒ๋ณต

๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์€ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ,

์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์†์—์„œ ๋ณธ๋ž˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋˜ ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๋Š”

ํšŒ๋ณต์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ž„์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ—๋ณธ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ์ผ๊ณผ๋„ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

5. ์งง์€ ์‹œ ์†์— ๋‹ด๊ธด ์ข…๊ต์ ·๋ช…์ƒ์  ๋ณดํŽธ์„ฑ

ํŠน์ • ์ข…๊ต์˜ ๊ต๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋‹ค, ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ·๊ฐ์‚ฌ·๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ ์†์—์„œ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‹ ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š”

๋ณดํŽธ์  ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ถˆ๊ต·๊ธฐ๋…๊ต·์˜์„ฑ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์–ด๋””์—์„œ๋„ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น›์˜ ์ฒดํ—˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ์ง•์„ฑ์„

์ง€๋…”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  

 

 ๐Ÿ–‹  Themes & Keywords 

This poem explores themes of Zen meditation, early-stage awakening, gratitude prayer, the emergence of inner light, and the ever-present nature of the divine.

  

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