“The ‘gratitude diary’ and the ‘anger diary’ are actually ‘wisdom diaries’”

Interview with Monk Hansan

Monk Hansan, who spreads the gospel through a one-man publishing company he founded through a startup platform. He said, “If you write a gratitude journal, you will realize how much there is to be thankful for in the world, even for small things, and how much we have lived without knowing this gratitude and have not expressed it.” Reporter Jin-gu Lee, Ulsan = [email protected]

“Try writing a ‘gratitude journal’ once a day. You will realize once again how thankful we live in this world.”

“Buddhism is this ‘hip’?” Buddhism these days naturally comes out. Behind this, there are ‘young monks’ who set up temple stays in the streets of the city youth, not in the mountains, and spread the Buddha’s words through various methods such as YouTube and Instagram. Local government startup platforms and crowdfunding are also useful missionary tools for young monks.

On the 12th, Hansan, a monk I met at Baekyangsa Temple (Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism) in Jung-gu, Ulsan, is a young nun who has established a one-person publishing company (Geubom Publishing Company) and is doing missionary work. She recently published “Now Here, Gratitude Diary,” and said, “There are existing Buddhist publishing companies, but I thought it would be much better to establish my own one-person publishing company to promote Buddhism without any restrictions and with the content and method I like.”

‘Now Here, Gratitude Diary’ is a kind of meditation practice book that trains the mind by actually writing a gratitude diary and an anger diary for 100 days. Monk Hansan said, “We receive a lot of help in our lives, but surprisingly, instead of saying ‘thank you’ or ‘I’m grateful,’ we just say, ‘You know what I mean even if I don’t say it,’ and move on.” He added, “Especially when it comes to family and close friends, we tend to be stingy with our expressions, but practicing writing a gratitude diary can be a great help in developing the ability to express gratitude.”

He recommended keeping an ‘anger diary’ along with a ‘gratitude diary’ to control your mind. If you suppress something in your mind because you don’t want to think about it again, it will become a mental illness. However, if you act on it out of anger without even thinking about it properly, you will fall into even greater suffering, so it is necessary to control your ‘anger’ and ‘fury’ well. Monk Hansan said, “Anger diaries are a practice of first looking at the situation as it is and then trying to understand the other person’s feelings by putting yourself in their shoes,” and “That’s why I have them write sentences as ‘~구나’, ‘~거리다’, and ‘~감사’.” For example, ‘Mom is angry because you didn’t clean your room, so I guess she’s angry because you kept telling her for days and she didn’t do it.’

Monk Hansan said, “If you keep a gratitude journal, you will realize how much there is to be thankful for in the world, even for small things, and how much we have lived without knowing this gratitude, and how much we have not expressed it.” He added, “Anger, rage, and fear are illusions that do not exist, so if you see them as they are and let them go, they will disappear and gratitude and love will appear. In that sense, an anger journal is actually a ‘wisdom journal. ’”

Reporter Lee Jin-goo [email protected]

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2024-08-13 12:41:56