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Inscription for Jijiheon Hall (止止軒)止止軒銘
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 19 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.
子欲觀我。觀我所止。止止而其不動乎。然則猶未止。不動之謂靜。靜則有動意。動靜不見。然後曰止。止止以名軒。軒亦不可視。
If you would see me, look at that in which I stop. To stop and stop again — is that then not to move? If so, it has not yet stopped. Not moving is called stillness, and in stillness there lies an intent to move. Only when neither movement nor stillness can be seen is it called stopping. "Stopping and stopping" was made the name of this hall, and so the hall too cannot be seen.
Interlinear notes 1
解在止止軒記
The explanation is given in the "Record of Jijiheon Hall" (止止軒記).