“I bow in repentance of all kinds of hypocrisy and lies.”
This is #30 out of a series of 108 daily Buddhist affirmations that I am attempting to translate with my hands tied behind my back (well not really that, but I’m deliberately not seeking out translations on the internet, using only dictionary and grammar).
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28. 무시 함으로 인해 악연이 된 인연들에게 참회하며 절합니다.
“I bow in repentance of the ties that become like an evil destiny due to ignorance .”
29. 비겁한 생각과 말과 행동을 참회하며 절합니다.
“I bow in repentance of cowardly thoughts, words and actions.”
30. 거짓말과 갖가지 위선을 참회하며 절합니다.
I would read this thirtieth affirmation as: “I bow in repentance of all kinds of hypocrisy and lies.”
I have a big issue with hypocrisy. So much so, that in fact I have, over the years, tried to get better at ignoring it, for the world is full of hypocrisy. Being guilty of various kinds of hypocrisy myself at one moment or another, I think that disliking or repenting of hypocrisy might be a sort of hypocrisy, too. Complicated, the ways of guilt. Is that what this is about?
