๋๋ง์ 25-26๋ ๋์๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ์์๋๋ ๋ ์ด๋ค. ์ด์ ์ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ์ฌ์ค์ธ๋ฐ, ์ค์น๋์ ์์ ๊ณผ ๋์๊ฑฐ๋ 10์ผ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ๋๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์ ๋ ์ค์น๋ ์์ ๋ถํฐ ๋์๊ฑฐ ์์ 10์ผ๋์ ๋์๊ฑฐ ๋ค์ง์ด๋ ๋์๊ฑฐ ๊ณํ์ ์ธ์๋ณด๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฑ ๋ง๊ฒ ์ง์ฌ์ง ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด๋ค.
์ฌํด ๋์๊ฑฐ ์ฒซ๋ ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ ๋ณด๋ค ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์์์ด ์ข์๋ค. ๋ญ๊ฐ ์ฐจ๋ถํ๊ณ , ์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฒ์ ์ ํ์ง 11๋ ์ฐจ ๋์๊ฑฐ ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋์๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ก 100์ผ ๋๊น์ง ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ํด๋ณธ์ ์ด ๋ณ๋ก ์์ด์ ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ ํ ์ ์์๊น ์์ฌ์ด ๋ค๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๋์๊ฑฐ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ค์ํ๋ค๋ ์ค์น๋์ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฒ ๋์ ํด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ ์์นจ ์ผ์ด๋์ ์ผ์ ์ ์ํํ๊ณ ์ค์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์นจ๋์ ์์์ ๊ฐ์๋ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋ช ์๋ ํ๊ณ , ๋๋ฆ ๋์๊ฑฐ ๊ณต๋ถ์ฒ๋ผ ์ ํ๋ธ์๋ ๋ณด์ง ์๊ณ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ค๊ณ ์ ์ผ๋ค. ์์นจ์ ์์ด๋ค๊ณผ ์์ฌํ๋ฌ ๋ฐ์ ๋๊ฐ๋๋ฐ, ๋๋ฌด ์ถ์์ ์๋น์์ ๋ถ์ธ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ์๋น์์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ณ์ผ์ด ์๋๋ฐ ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋ฒ๋ญ ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค. ๋์๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ ํ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ ค ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ ๋ณด๋ค ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋์์จ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฌด ์ถ์์ ์ผ์ธํ๋์ ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์์ด๋ค๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์บ๋กค์ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ผ์ด๋ธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๋๋ผ์ด๋ธ๋ฅผ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์์ชฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ก์๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ง๊ฒ ํผ์ณ์ง ๊ธธ์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋๋ฐ ์์ดํ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ๋ณด์ง ์๊ณ ํธ๋ํฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ๋ง๋ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ค๋ ์ง์ฆ์ด๋ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ธ ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ๋ถ์๋ค. ์ด ๋์๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์๋ ์์ดํํ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ญํ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ด ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ๋ด ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ง์คํ๋ฉด์ ๋ด ๋ถ์กฑํจ์ ์ฑ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋ค์ง์ ํด๋ณธ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ ๋ฐ์ ๋์์ ๊ฑท๋๋ฐ, ์ง์ ์ฃ๋ ์์ ์จ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ ์ง์ ์ฃ๊ณ ์ด๋ ํฑ์ ๋์ด๊ฐ์ผํ๋๋ฐ ํฑ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์ ๋์ด๊ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ์๋ ๋ฅผ ํฑ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ด ์๋๋ผ ํํํ ๊ธธ์ ๋๊ณ ์ง์ ์ฃ๊ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ฉด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ผ์ด ์์์ํ ๋ฐ ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ๋ค.
์ค๋์ ์์นจ์ ์ค์ํ๊ณ ํ๊ตฝํ ํด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ , ์คํธ๋ ์นญ๋ ํ๊ณ , ์์ฌ๋ ์ ๋นํ ์ํด์ ๋ฐธ๋ฐ์ค ์๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ณด๋ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ด์ผ๋ ๋์๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์์ ์์ง ๋ง๊ณ , ํ๋ ์ง์ฆ ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ด ๊ณต๋ถ์ ์ง์คํ๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค.
Today marks the beginning of the long-awaited 2025โ2026 Winter Retreat (๋์๊ฑฐ). Yesterday, I learned for the first time that my teacherโs birthday and the start of the retreat are exactly ten days apart. It turns out this is intentionalโthe ten days from my teacherโs birthday to the start of the retreat are meant to be used for setting intentions and making plans for the 100-day practice.
The first day of this year’s retreat began more smoothly than usual. The day felt calm and quiet. Although this is my 11th year practicing Jeongbeop, Iโve rarely completed all 100 days of the retreat properly. So I began to doubt whether I could do it well this time. Still, remembering my teacherโs words about how important this yearโs retreat is, I decided to challenge myself once again.
This morning, after waking up, I followed my usual routineโtook a shower, sat on my bed listening to a lecture, meditated, and tried to spend the day focused on practice by avoiding YouTube Shorts. I went out with our children for breakfast, but it was so cold that we waited inside the restaurant for my wife. While we were eating, I suddenly snapped over something trivial. Since itโs the retreat season, Iโve been trying to be mindful and avoid getting angry, so I made an effort to return to my calm state quicklyโand thankfully, I did faster than usual.
Because it was freezing, we couldnโt do outdoor activities, so we took a drive while listening to Christmas carols. As we drove down a beautiful tree-lined road, I noticed Joohee looking at her phone instead of the scenery, so I made a comment. But that was the only moment today when I felt annoyed or irritated. During this retreat, instead of interfering too much with wife, I intend to focus more on myself and my environment, and work on filling my own shortcomings.
Later, while I was walking outside, I saw a man trying to push a loaded cart over a curb. The cart kept getting stuck. I thought that if he had placed the cart on a flat surface from the beginning instead of near the curb, he wouldnโt have had this problem.
Today felt balanced overallโI showered in the morning, did push-ups, stretched, and ate well. I hope I can remember that Iโm in the middle of the retreat and spend tomorrow focused on study and practice rather than anger or irritation.


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