Episode 1188 This is the path we will continue to take. (3)
The court, which was glaring at Baekcheon as if he would attack him at any moment, took a deep breath. Then he slowly sat down again.
However, his eyes were emitting a colder light than before he sat down.
“Didn’t I tell you? “It’s a rumor.”
His voice penetrated Baekcheon like ice.
“You choose what you cannot choose. It could be so. However, it is the leader who has to make that choice. “A person who has to make choices that no one else can make!”
“⋯⋯.”
“That’s why you compare the incomparable and make decisions you shouldn’t make! Didn’t Deputy Jang Moon say it with his own mouth? I will take that responsibility. “Then, are you saying that it is right for Mr. Jang Moon to give up the lives of a thousand people to save one person?”
Baekcheon does not answer. Then the court frowned at her face as if to see that.
“Anyone can discuss this. But who will compensate for the lives of those who die because of those ideals?”
“Who gave you the right to make that choice?”
The court widened its eyes at Baekcheon’s question.
“Because you are the leader of Shaolin, are you able to weigh the lives of others? Or is it because you are none other than the court ambassador that you can make that judgment?”
“Look! “A long sentence!”
“You have to choose what you cannot choose. “We must shoulder that responsibility.”
Baekcheon muttered and shook his head.
“Please don’t speak as if the manager is the only one who has taken on that responsibility. This is a path that many people have already taken, and it is something that our predecessors have pondered over and over again. And they have already passed on their conclusions to future generations.”
“⋯⋯in future generations?”
A look of puzzlement flashed across the court’s faces. What on earth did their ancestors tell them?
“This is something the manager is well aware of. “We call that meaning agreement.”
The court’s face distorted.
“What an obvious…”
“What’s wrong with saying the obvious?”
Baekcheon’s face was filled with passion.
“He who considers himself wise puts a standard on everything. But the truly wise do not evaluate what should not be evaluated! Even if they were sages, wouldn’t they have known what the manager was talking about? Could it be that they were just too stupid to discuss that fact?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Don’t just think with your head! Instead of worrying about this or that, follow the path of your heart! The predecessors called it consultation. And he asked us only to keep that agreement! “It wasn’t because they were stupid, it was because it was the only correct answer.”
The faces of the court trembled.
“They already knew. What happens when their future generations rely only on their own brilliance to judge their worth!”
“What the hell…”
“That is why I emphasized consultation more than anything else when teaching my students. In that simple teaching, we captured what we should prioritize. Let me ask you a question, boss! “What did the great and lofty ancestors of Shaolin convey to Bangjang?”
The court clenched its fists. His mouth was tightly closed and did not move. But Baekcheon already knew the answer to this question.
Of course it can’t be like that. Shaolin is the place that emphasized consultation and salvation for living beings more than any other school in the world. Isn’t that why Shaolin has been able to become the North Star of the Gangho, the North Star of the Gangho, and the protector of the Gangho until now?
“What would the previous generation say when they see the current head of the house? Do you really feel sorry for that sad self-sacrifice? Would you praise me for making a good choice that I made while shedding bloody tears?”
“Shut up!”
A lion’s roar burst out of the mouth of the court.
This was the sound of his reason being cut off and at the same time the precariously maintained agreement being broken.
“If you listen and listen, there is nothing you can’t say! Are you saying that Shaolin has reneged on the agreement?”
“So are you following it?”
“what!”
“What on earth does the head of the room think an agreement is?”
“So you know about volcanoes?”
“I don’t know. But there is someone in the volcano who knows.”
Baekcheon’s eyes immediately turned to one person.
“Yoonjong!”
Suddenly, a voice calling out to him sounded like a yell, and Yoonjong looked at him in shock.
“Are you saying that?”
“Answer as a disciple of Huashan. “What is consultation?”
“What is consultation…”
Yunjong quietly closed his eyes. It was an embarrassingly sudden question, but I couldn’t answer it. This answer must be more sincere than ever.
So, Yunjong’s answer started from a somewhat unexpected place.
“The Taoist Path is a non-universal path.” Just as if you call the Tao Tao, it is no longer Tao, just as the moment you call a consultation a consultation, the consultation is no longer a consultation.”
His voice became increasingly calm.
“The more I think about it, the more it seems like something out of nowhere, and it is not something as complete and ideal as people think. Likewise, the consultation is not complete. Sometimes he’s eccentric, sometimes he’s selfish, and sometimes he’s unreasonable. “It’s because the human heart is like that.”
“also.”
“But that is why consultation is consultation. Tao means letting everything go naturally. Then it flows naturally like water flows downward. Sometimes it bends, then it stays, and sometimes it scatters, but in the end it heads to where it needs to be. The same goes for the human mind. “The mind is sometimes foolish, sometimes evil, and sometimes selfish, but in the end, like flowing water, it moves toward a vast place.”
A profound light appeared in Yunjong’s eyes that opened again.
“So in the end, consultation means trusting people. It’s answering the call of my heart. If you can do that, you will eventually go to the right place.”
Baekcheon nodded deeply and looked at the court.
“Did you hear?”
But the court still reacted with anger.
“What did you hear? Isn’t this just an obvious idealism? So, those who will die for that great idealism…”
“Oh, I really can’t listen to that.”
The court’s heads turned to one side at the sarcastic remark that came out of nowhere. Lim So-byeong, who was sitting by the door, quietly turned away from his gaze but continued to speak steadfastly.
“If you have such a great heart for all people in the world and want to help just one more person, I don’t know why you are stuck in a temple and shaking your fists. “It would have been much more helpful if I had run for government office.”
“W-What on earth are you saying now…?”
The court looked at Lim So-byeong with an expression of shock. Although he is called the Green Forest King, at best he is the leader of Sapa. How could someone like that say something like that in front of a court?
“That’s not wrong.”
The person who embarrassed the court even more was Namgung Do-wi. Sogaju of the Namgung family, the head of the five major families, came forward to support the words of King Nokrim, and no one else.
“If we say that doing bigger things and achieving bigger goals is necessarily the right thing to do, isn’t it a contradiction in itself? The reason we can exist is because the power of the country cannot reach all corners of the world and look down on everyone. “If you really want to discuss a great cause, wouldn’t it be better to make the country rich and make the strong and powerful disappear rather than discuss the world in small Shaolin?”
“Sogaju!”
The eyes of the courtroom were bloodshot.
“Is everyone going to come out like this? “With that useless sophistry, the situation was really…”
“Stop it, boss.”
At that moment, a calm voice interrupted the courtroom.
The court was momentarily speechless. It was because I heard a very familiar voice. It was Hyeyeon.
“The manager was wrong.”
“⋯⋯What did you say?”
“The manager said you were wrong.”
“You…”
A look of bewilderment appears on the faces of the court.
Others may. But Hyeyeon shouldn’t do that. No matter how much the court excommunicated her, Hyeyeon was raised and taught by him anyway.
How could Hyeyeon say something like this?
“Now, the manager is trying to deny what they said and is saying things he shouldn’t have said.”
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“What did Buddha and Shakya do after attaining enlightenment after a long period of penance?”
Instead of answering the sudden question, the court stared at Hyeyeon. Hyeyeon elaborated.
“After attaining enlightenment, after suffering for seven days and seven days, the Buddha gave the answer that he would spread his teachings throughout the world and save living beings. “What was the first thing that Buddha did?”
There was no answer this time either. As if she wasn’t expecting an answer, Hyeyeon gave an answer.
“It was to preach to those within reach and accept as disciples those within reach.”
“Hye-yeon. “This guy…”
“Amitabha Buddha.”
Hyeyeon spoke as class president.
“Although the Buddha wanted to save the world, he did not create Buddhist sutras on his own that would reach all corners of the world, nor did he try to use his past status to spread the message further. What Buddha did for the suffering beings in the world was to convey and teach his noble meaning to those close to him. Yeah, that’s just it.”
Hyeyeon’s clear and transparent eyes turned to the court.
“Those words became sutras, and those teachings became Buddhist laws. “Isn’t that how it spread and flowed and reached the head of the room?”
The eyes of the court wavered.
As the head of Shaolin, he cannot deny this.
“According to Bangjang’s logic, what Buddha did was nothing more than a small thing. It’s just the act of a foolish person who couldn’t see the bigger picture. The Buddha who realized the great way of Buddhism did nothing for all the people in the world. But the head of the room. Were those teachings really in vain?”
“⋯⋯.”
“That is why those who think of themselves as Buddhists should not criticize Jang Moon Dae-ri’s will. Isn’t lawlessness originally an infinitely selfish path that begins with saving oneself? So how can you criticize someone who tries to save those within his reach as foolish and selfish?”
“Yes, this guy…”
“Before you are the head of Shaolin, if you are a Buddhist who tries to follow the teachings of Buddha…”
Hyeyeon’s loud voice swept through the courtroom and shook it.
“Before you just say you will go to hell, you should have thought about which is truly Buddhism.”
Hyeyeon declared with utmost regret, but with utmost determination.
“The room manager was… wrong.”
Those words pierced the court’s heart like a sharp dagger.