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Again Answering Letian's "Mind and Body Ask and Answer" — The Mind Answers the Body Once More (又和樂天心身問答 心復答身)又和樂天心身問答 心復答身
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter 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.
人行底處不爲家。所宅殘頹棄者多。兜率天中吾若去。古宮雖在奈如何。
Wherever a man goes, what place is not a house? Many are the houses once lived in that have crumbled and been abandoned. If I go off into the midst of the Tusita Heaven (兜率天), what does it matter that the old palace still stands?