This Body of Mine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Bitter Flower 1
6. Daydream 2
7. Distant Holy Man 3
8. Elm Tree & Moon 4
9. Desire, Deeper than The Marrow 5
10. What I’ve Always Said 6
11. The Sound of Ancient Wood 7
12. The Dance & The Pattern 8
13. Spring 9
14. Musan’s Ten Bulls 10
15. Regarding My Penmanship 20
16. Weekend Scrawl 21
17. Wild Foxes 22
18. Hoarse 23
19. Speaking without Speaking 1 24
20. Speaking without Speaking 2 25
21. Speaking without Speaking 3 26
22. Speaking without Speaking 4 27
23. Speaking without Speaking 5 28
24. Speaking without Speaking 6 29
25. Waves 30
26. What The Northeast Wind Said 1 31
27. What The Northeast Wind Said 2 32
28. What The Southeast Wind Said 33
29. Amdu—Drowned Man 34
30. Buddha 38
31. Children of Namsan Valley 39
32. Walking in Place 40
33. The Path of Love 41
34. At The Razor’s Edge 42
35. Crime & Punishment 43
36. Today’s Beaming 44
37. The Way to Gyerimsa Temple 45
38. Jikjisa Temple Travel Diary 46
39. Tales From The Temple 53
40. The Way To Biseul Mountain 58
41. 2007—Seoul At Noon 59
42. 2007—Seoul At Night 60
43. Wild Ducks & Shadow 61
44. Winter Mountain Beasts 62
45. A Day at Old Fragrance Hall 63
46. Bodhidharma 1 64
47. Bodhidharma 2 65
48. Bodhidharma 3 66
49. Bodhidharma 4 67
50. Bodhidharma 5 68
51. Bodhidharma 6 69
52. Bodhidharma 7 70
53. Bodhidharma 8 71
54. Bodhidharma 9 72
55. Bodhidharma 10 73
56. Sunset, Bay of Incheon 74
57. The Sea 75
58. Words of a Boatman 76
59. Moments I Wished Would Linger 77
60. You and I: Our Outcry 78
61. You and I: Our Lamentation 79
62. Siblings 80
63. When The Dawn Comes Down 81
64. A Fistful of Ashes 82
65. Holding On to a Finger 83
66. When The Thunder God Came to My Body 84
67. Opening The Mountain-Side Window 85
68. Proximation 86
69. Sun & Moon 87
70. Arising, Passing, Attachment 88
71. The Wind That Once Wept in The Pine Grove 89
72. Gwanseum 90
73. This Body of Mine 91
74. The Day I Try Dying 92
75. As I Look Upon Myself 93
76. Waning Landscape 94
77. At The Tomb of King Seondeok 95
78. Forest 96
79. New Shoots 97
80. Early Spring 98
81. Three Views of Spring 99
82. The Sound of My Own Cry 100
83. All The Same at Journey’s End 101
84. Scarecrow 102
85. Days Living on The Mountain 103
86. Vapors 104
87. My Lifelines 105
88. Embers (Afterword) 106
89. Translator’s Afterword 107
90. Acknowledgments 119