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The Gateless Gate-Training to become a Buddha, a path to enlightenment where death is immortal

“Do dogs have Buddha-nature?”


Unofficial. Only the exact exploration of'nothing' means the first gateway to the end of the Zen gate. Mumungwan, a unique Buddhist practice, passed down from the Seonseung Mumunhyegae of the Song Dynasty in China, is a meditation method in which a solitary door of about two pyeong or so is locked from the outside and devoted to one meal a day for a short period of 3 months and a maximum of 3 to 6 years. .


<Unmungwan> (2018), produced by Daegu's private broadcasting company TBC, is a documentary film that records 11 monks performing unmungwan for a thousand days. In the first place, the Buddhist monks practice the spearheads of the monks, but the general public is prohibited from entering, but with the permission of the sailors, the monks' practice was captured with a camera.



The 1,000-day Unmungwan practice held at the Muil Seonwon in Gampo-eup, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, was attended by 11 monks, led by Woo Hak, who is in charge of Hoeju (the judge in charge of the Beophoe) at Daegwaneumsa, the University of Buddhism in Korea. It can be said that it is a practice that cost his life because he cannot go out the door for a thousand days. In fact, during the filming, a monk couldn't overcome the heat and gave up the practice of uninformation.


Along with meditation without lying down and a spirit of valor without sleeping, it is regarded as a difficult practice only for a monk with a certain degree of performance. If so, why do monks practice reckless meditation to the point of threatening their lives?


“Where do we come from and where do we go?”


The main purpose and core of Zen Buddhism (Seonjong) is Gyeonseongseong Buddha. You become a Buddha based on your nature. Buddhism is a religion that enlightens itself and institutes all regeneration. It may be sufficient for ordinary believers to offer offerings to the Buddha and the monk using the method given by the Shakyamuni Buddha, or to prepare an example, but the monks who decide to become Buddha must become enlightened beings like Buddha. In order to gain enlightenment, the monks bring their own solitude and try to find a way to liberation in it.



In 2016, <Mumungwan>, which was produced and aired as a special plan for the 21st anniversary of TBC's founding, was filmed for an additional year at the request of the Jogye sect of the Korean Buddhism, who wished to inform many Buddhists across the country to practice the practice of Unmungwan. It was made into a movie. Reborn as a documentary film, <Mumoonkwan> is an actor Jeon Moo-song, who is devoted to his valor while listening to the topic of ``nothing'' (the problem of meditation in Buddhism to seek truth by meditation). An epilogue was added that was divided into the beginning of Mumoonhyegae.



Director Park Dae-won, who directed <Unmoon-Kwan>, thinks about what is truly a happy life for modern people who are losing their precious values ​​in a material-oriented modern society through the practice of uninformation by monks who are overcoming physical and mental limitations for a long time by holding onto only one topic. He expressed his feelings that he wanted to create an opportunity to see. The figure of an investigator who puts everything down to gain enlightenment and continues practicing for a thousand days in a locked sergeant, but from the point of view of the regenerates, the state of the monks who prepare for death and do not hesitate to practice dangerous practices does not understand.



One high priest refers to the Buddhist term for practicing without even thinking about his own body for the sake of illegality, and emphasizes that Buddhist practice is nothing to be regrettable even if a pampered body is offered. If so, would the monks who embark on the meditation with their own bodies got the realization they wanted so much? The monk, who has completed the practice of uninformation, says, "It is over, but when I look back like this, I can't see three years."


Zen meditation is a practice method to realize that there is nothing to realize. However, to know the simple truth, constant practice and mind study must follow. So Buddhism is both difficult and interesting. Although it does not clearly tell what the enlightenment of Buddhism is, it is a documentary film called Mumun-gwan that gives you a taste of the process of enlightenment.


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