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Eight Songs on Minister Gi's Toesik-jae (退食齋) — Yeonmuk-dang (燕默堂), the Hall of Resting in Silence奇尙書退食齋八詠 燕默堂

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.

一堂虛白映山明。隱几冥觀滌世情。谷鳥那能啼破寂。心空萬物本無聲。

A single house, empty and white, reflects the brightness of the hills and leaning on the armrest, gazing deep, he washes off worldly feeling How should a bird of the valley cry and break the stillness? When the mind is empty, all things are of themselves without sound