In his teachings on the five aggregates (skandhas), the Buddha introduced the unique Buddhist concept of sañña (recognizer) to explain the subject of sentient beings. One of the key characteristics of sañña is that it is impermanent, it is arising and disappearing. Also at the time of the Buddha, terms like "I," "myself," and "mine" were commonly used without any specific religious connotations.
The emergence of the great arhat monk Beopgi and his sermons have revealed that the sañña preached by the Buddha corresponds to the subject of sentient beings, and the Nirvana, the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice can only be attained by eliminating this subject of sentient beings,
Furthermore, the fact that the three-stages of Buddhist practice taught at the temple Geumgangbeopgi is to eliminate sentient being-sañña, the subject of sentient being, and to become an eternal great free person led by the subject of the Tathagata has been confirmed only through the sermons of the sutras preached by the Buddha.
In this book, the author explains and introduces that Buddhist practice is the process of eliminating the subject of sentient beings, the sentient being-sañña, and replacing it with the subject of the Tathagata.
Author KIM HAKRIONG
Born in Busan, South Korea in 1956, psychiatrist
In 1987, when I was a resident and completely ignorant of Buddhism, I became curious about the book 『Seonga Gwigam』 on a fellow resident's bookshelf. While searching the Buddhist book corner of a bookstore to buy the same book, I happened to see 『Joju-rok』 and bought it. While reading it, I became suspicious of the Ganshi-gwol koan, and after thinking about it for several months, I finally broke through the koan. After that, I recorded and organized the changes in my own mental state and studied Buddhism out of curiosity about what breaking through the koan meant. In 1991, through a friend's introduction, I met the master, and at that time he was a layman whose Dharma name was Chwiam, and I became a lay disciple. And I received the Dharma name Do-myeong[Taoming] from the Master.