A Silent Place in Magok-sa Temple.

The main reason why I am visiting the temples is to enjoy the tranquility. We all are disturbed by the noses and the disorders in our mind in this world. But in temple, especially in Korean temple, we can escape from the noses from the world where we belong, because the temples in Korea are usually located in the mountains far from the city.

But even in the temple, we can find a place of the real tranquility. Yeongsan-jeon seems one of those places in Magoksa.

Yeongsan-jeon is the hall for the memory of the remarkable Buddha’s teaching which was performed in the mountain translated in Korean Yeongsan.

I was sitting in the hall, and no body was there. I could enjoy the perfect loneliness and tranquility. The loneliness is the another name of the tranquility. If you do not overcome the loneliness, then you can not enter into the world of the silence and tranquility.

Sitting and closing my eyes for a several minutes, and looking the scenes of the autumn out of the door. The world where I am living now was beautiful, and I felt deeply the gratitude for the nature which made and sent me here.

There were 1000 Buddha statues in the hall. Nothing was there except the statues. So many Buddha statues in the hall, but actually the hall was extremely simple.

Some voices told me that there were visitors. It was the time to yield the place of the tranquility to them. I wished they also felt the same thing as I did.

The hall yeongsan-jeon was had been fired in the Japanese invasion 1592 - 1597 like many other temples in Korea.

There was the resident place for the monks on the left of Yeonsan-jeon. It was not colored, but looked very nice.

I'd like to stay here, and take a cup of tea alone sitting on the floor under the mild sunlight.