1. The peach trees bloom seven times a year
Bak Jong-Bok
The peach trees bloom seven times a year
As peach blossoms
As fallen blossoms
As fresh greens
As peach fruits
As maple leaves
As fallen leaves
As snow flakes
2. Lost myself in the middle of road
Bak Jong-Bok
I lost my self (self lost)
I forget me (self forget)
Now I am not I (un-myself)
Therefore there is not I at all (nothing-I)
3. Rain of Love
Bak Jong-BOK
Oh, rain of love
On the dry heart of mine
Like whispering sweet rain in Spring
Like a pouring shower in Summer
Drench me to the skin by early or late rain*
Let rain of love fall on me
Pour your love like pouring water**
I am thirsty of your love
Take my love for you
I will give you my soul and heart
Who can stop the love toward you,
Even death can stop it?***
*Deuteronomy 11:14
**Hymn 301‐2
***Hymn 323-1
4. Peach blossom blooms and falls
One who left when peach blossom bloomed
One who promised to come back when peach fruit ripens
How many times peach blossom blooms and falls
Tears stand in my eyes holding the peach tree branch
Ari ari sri sri arario
Cross over the Ari Ari Mountain Pass
5.The suffering and relief(nirvana)
After lunch food stuck between teeth
How uncomfortable it is
But putting out that by means of teeth brushing or tooth pick
How refreshing it is
The suffering is same as the stuck food between teeth
The relief (say nirvana) is same as refreshing after putting
out stuck food.
6. Until now I can live along
Until now I can live along
is my Lord’s great Grace
How dare I can express unlimited God’s Love
Awaking or sleeping Lord’s right hand always
protect my path
All things will be fulfilled in my God
Although weak in body and mind
I can live by new strength God gives
God’s grace like pouring waters is sufficient
Walking through the street without love,
rough mountain path
Holding God’s hands
I will go on singing hymns
7. Honesty is not the best policy
Honesty is the best policy?
No
Honesty is not the best policy
Telling lies skillfully at times is the best
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable⁕
You must learn to tell lies in good sense skillfully
Honesty may hurts both of you and her
An opened letter is not a mystery any more
It can not attract others interest
Conceal your secrets and inner self until you die
Tell lies as if nothing happens
*Kent M. keith(Anyway)
8. What is Love?
Love is burning thirst
Love is unsatisfying hunger
Love is a passing fever?
Love is a lie?
Love is a thunderstorm in Summer?
Five loaves of bread and two small fish
can feed five thousand by love.*
Love conquers all
Amor vin-cit om-nia**
What I only know is love
Love is answer to all questions
Finally I realized that
God is love
Love is God
*Matthew 14:13~21
(L) = Love conquers all
9. Money is
Money is good to use good
But money is the worst to use bad
Maybe money makes the mare go
But money is not everything
10. Shopping is a kind of orgasm.
Ladies experience orgasm while buying things,
especially buying expensive things
The more expensive things, the more intensive orgasm.
In that means shopping of expensive things is not waste
When going abroad tour
eating, showing, and shopping is three pleasures of trip, you know
11. Whenever peach blossom blooms and falls
Peach blossom blooms
It’s Spring again
Every year when peach blossom blooms
I suffer from Spring fever
But now never again fall in ill
Peach blossom is falling
No sorrow even if it falls
You can taste sweet peach after when it falls
Everything can bear fruit after when blossom falls
We are destined to falling someday
What kind of fruit could we bear when we fall?
Can we throw A HOPE into this world?
12. Do not die young
Although your age is seventy and your
body is weak
You are still young in spirit
Active senior, amortality you are
Do not die young.
You are not old enough until you have
a dream and love in your mind
Even if you now lead a life with trivial
agony, you have the reason to live.
So don't say I would like rather to die.
Life is so much beautiful and worthy
Please do not die young.
13. Sitting at the rear bench of Sun Am-sa, temple
Sitting at the rear bench of Sun Am-sa,temple*
While looking at the sinking sun
Think of the monk, late Bub-Jung**
Whom met at Bulliam of Song kwang sa, temple***
He told me to forget the words
When come to mountain
There are much talks in the world;
So much troubles because of much talks
Living in the secular world
Nothing to have is a hard thing
But never covet
money
goods
fame
people
Be contented with what you deserve
Never desire more than that
*Sun Am sa, temple
-located at Sunchon, ChullaNam-do
southern part of Korean peninsular
*the monk, late Bub Jong(1932~2010)
be famous for NON-POSSESSION
founded Gil Sang sa, temple at SungBuk-dong, Seoul
***Bulliam, Song kwang sa.temple
located near Sun Am sa, temple
14. That′s O.K. No problem, But
Committed a grave crime?
If you apologized for it
That′s O.K.
Failed in the entrance exam
No problem
You can try it again
Have no much money?
Earn money while live on
That′s O.K.
Feels like illness?
If you do not suffer a fatal disease
No problem
Every body lives feeling some pain
That′s life
Wanna commit suicide?
Every thing above is O.K But to kill your self is NO, Never do that.
Commit suicide is against your parents and God who give your life.
Your day will surely come during your life
So don′t despair. Never give up.
While there is life, there is help.
15. Alone or together
Two walk the same road
Alone walks
Two live in the same house
Alone lives
Two enter the same restaurant
They sit at the separate seats
Heavy burdens of life
Each must bear his part
16. For a moment
-this moment
Whether we live for a long life or short one
Let′s live for A moment –just for this moment
Who knows next moment?
None
There are not next moments.
Therefore let′s live for a moment and a moment each
—Just for this moment
Such a moment will amount to our whole life
Just for this moment
We are alive
So we have to enjoy this moment to the full.
17. Meaningless or Meaningful
You are you, they are they.
You live your life, they live their life.
Don′t beg them. You are not a beggar.
Even if she is ungrateful and unfaithful,
She is still your baby whom you take care for forty years.
However ungrateful they are
Don′t mind, Don′t lament.
Drank a bottle of Soju at lunch.
On my way of home
Collapsed in the street.
Helpless, helpless, poor, miserable!
Some handed me to raised my body
Man lives together-that′s true.
18. Song of 4 don′t
Don′t go to the place where you must not go
Don′t meet the people whom you must not meet
Don′t talk the thing which you are not allowed to talk
Don′t touch the woman who is not yours