๐ ใ์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ผใ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ - Reading โBe Happy on Your Ownโ
๐ก (ํ๊ตญ์ด) ๋ง์์์ ํ๋ณต์ด ์์๋ค
ใ์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ผใ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ
๐ ์ฑ
์ ๋ชฉ: ใ์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ผใ
โ๏ธ ์ ์: ๋ฒ์ ์ค๋
๐ฏ ์ถ์ฒ ๋์: ๋ง์์ด ์ด์ง๋ฌ์ด ํ๋์ธ, ๋ฌด์์ ์ ๊ณ ์ํ ์ถ์ ์ฟ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ฌ๋
๐ ํ์ค ๊ฐ์: โํ๋ณต์ ๋ฐ๊นฅ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ด ์์ ์์๋ค.โ
๐ง ์ค๋์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋ค ๋๋์ผ๊น?
์ด ์ฑ
์ ํตํด ๋ฒ์ ์ค๋์ด ์ด์๋ธ โ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถโ์ ์์ฃผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด์์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณผ ์ ์์๋ค.
์์ฐ์ ๋ฒ ์ผ์, ์ด๋ ๊ณณ์๋ ์ฝ๋งค์ด์ง ์๊ณ ํ์ฉ ๋ ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ก์์
๋ด ์ผ์๊ณผ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ค๋ฅธ, ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ฟ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ธ๊ณ์๋ค.
๊ฐ์ง ๊ฒ์ด ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ ๊ณ ,
๊ทธ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ ๋์ ๋์ฑ ๊น์ด์ง ์ ์์๋ ๋ง์.
์ฝ๋ ๋ด๋ด โ์ฌ๋ ๋ฐฉ์โ์ด ์๋๋ผ โ์ฌ๋ ํ๋โ์ ๋ํด ์๊ฐํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
๐ ๋ฒ๋ก๋จ๋ถ, ์กฐ๊ธ ๊ท์ฌ์ ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด
์ฑ
์ค๊ฐ์ ์ค๋์ด ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ํ์๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ด ๋์จ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ด์ด์ง๋ ๋๋ชฉ์์, ์์ ์ ์ฃผ๊ฑฐ์ง์๋ ๋ฌผ์ ๋์ด์๋ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ์๋
์๊ฐ โ์, ๋ฒ๋ก๋จ๋ถ(๋ฒ์ ์ค๋์ ๋ก๋งจ์ค ๋จ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ถ๋ฅ?ใ
ใ
ใ
) ๐โ ํ๊ณ ์์์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ทธ๊ฒ์กฐ์ฐจ ์์งํ๊ฒ ํธ์ด๋๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ์ ๋ด๋ฐฑํจ์ด ๋ ์ธ์ ๊น์๋ค.
์์ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐํ ์ด์๋ณด๋ค๋, ์์งํ๊ณ ํฌ๋ช
ํ ์ํ์์ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ์ด ์ฃผ๋ ์ธ๋ฆผ์ด์๋ค.
๐ญ โํ๋ณต์ ๋ด ๋ง์์์ ์๋คโ
์ด ์ฑ ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊น๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์จ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
ํ๋ณต์ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ์์ง ์๋ค.
์ธ์ ๋ ๋ด ๋ง์์์ ์๋ค.
๊ทธ ๋ง์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋ฉด์๋, ํํธ์ผ๋ก ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ค์๋ ์ค์ณค๋ค.
์ด ์น์ดํ ๊ฒฝ์์ ์๋,
๋ด ๋ง์์ ํ๋ณต๋ง ๋ถ๋ค๊ณ ์ด๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด,
๋ง์น ์๊ตฌ ์ด๊ฐ์ ๋จนํ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๋จํํ์ ์์ ๋๋ผ๋ค์ฒ๋ผ,
๋๋ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ์๋์ ํฉ์ธ๋ ค๋ฒ๋ฆด๊น ๋ด.
๋๋ ์์งโฆ
์๋ จ์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ถ์กฑํ ์ฌ๋์ด๊ตฌ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
โ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์๊ฐ
ใ์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ผใ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์๋ก์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ด ์๋๋ผ
์ถ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ด ๊ฒ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๋ฌผ์์ ๋์ง๋ ์ฑ
์ด์๋ค.
- ์์ฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ๋ ํ๋ ๐ฟ
- ์ธ๋ถ ์๊ทน์ ๋๋ ค๊ฐ์ง ์๊ณ , ๋ด๋ฉด์ ๊ณ ์ํจ์ ์งํค๋ ค๋ ์ถ
- ๋ ๋จ๊ณผ ๋จธ๋ฌพ ๋ชจ๋์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ์ค๋์ ์์
- ์์๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋์ด ํจ๊ปํ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ๋ก ๐
- ๋ฌผ ๋์ด์จ ์ผํ๋ฅผ ํฌํจํด, ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๊ฐ ์คํ๋ ค ๋ ์ง์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค
- ํ๋ณต์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ง๊ฒ ํ๋ ์ฑ
๐ง
- ๋ฐ๊นฅ์ด ์๋ ๋ด ๋ง์ ์์์ ์ฐพ์ผ๋ผ๋ ๋ง
- ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ๊ธธ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์ฝ์ง ์์์ ์ธ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ฑ
โ์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ผโ๋ ๋ง์,
์ค์ค๋ก ํ๋ณตํด์ง ์๋ฐ์
๐ก (English) Happiness Was Inside Me All Along
Reading *Be Happy on Your Own*
๐ Book Title: Be Happy on Your Own
โ๏ธ Author: Beopjeong (Venerable Beopjeong)
๐ฏ Recommended for: Anyone feeling emotionally overwhelmed, curious about a minimalist, tranquil life
๐ One-line impression: โHappiness isnโt out there โ itโs always been within me.โ
๐ง What Does It Feel Like to Live as a Monk?
Through this book, I got a vivid glimpse into the life of โnon-possessionโ that Venerable Beopjeong practiced.
A life that wandered freely without attachment, with nature as his constant companion โ
it was so far from my own reality, and perhaps because of that, felt even more deeply desirable.
He carried almost nothing, and it was that very lightness that deepened his mind.
As I read, I found myself not thinking about a โway of life,โ but a โway of being.โ
๐ A Cute Moment of โMonk Logicโ
At one point in the book, the monk says,
no water or electricity should be connected to the hut where he lived.
But a few paragraphs later, he casually mentions that he did have water piped in to his own residence.
It made me chuckle โ
โAh, Beop-ro-nam-bul! (Beopjeongโs version of โrules for thee but not for meโ? ๐)โ
Still, I found it endearing in its honesty, not hypocritical.
Rather than portraying an unattainable ideal, it felt like a transparent and sincere confession of a spiritual practitioner.
๐ญ โHappiness Is Inside Meโ
The most powerful message in the book was this:
Happiness isnโt far away.
Itโs always been within me.
I deeply agreed with that sentiment โ
and yet, at the same time, I felt a hint of fear.
In this fiercely competitive world,
if I focus only on inner happiness,
would I end up like one of those small Pacific island nations swallowed up by Western powers?
What if I, too, get swept away by the tide of modern life?
I thought to myself:
Maybe I still have a long way to go in my own spiritual training.
โ Final Thoughts
Be Happy on Your Own wasnโt just a book of comforting words.
It posed a far more fundamental question:
How do I want to live my life?
- A way of being with nature ๐ฟ
- A life untouched by external noise, centered in inner peace
- One that sees meaning in both departure and stillness
- A mix of gentle humor and deep reflection ๐
- Even his story about water brought in to his hut felt sincere and human
- It added warmth to his wisdom
- A book that repositions happiness ๐ง
- Not something to chase outside, but something to find inside
- Yet it honestly admits how hard that path can be
The phrase โBe happy on your ownโ isnโt just advice.
Itโs a truth โ and a responsibility we must all accept.