August 14, 2005

In the morning I went to a methodist church. Christianity is widespread in Korea, and everywhere I go I see church steeples. The sermon was in Korean, but I had an English Bible and the reading was 1 Proverbs, which says that wisdom is found in the streets. After church I went to a Zen Temple. There was a Dharma talk, and the speaker (forgot his name) at one point said that the truth unfolds before us, every moment. Our center is like the unborn, it doesn't live or die. We talked about a few passages from Swampland Flowers, a hard-to-find Buddhist book.


Painting on the side of a temple building. I still
haven't found out what dragons symbolize here.