Caveat: 30) 거짓말과 갖가지 위선을 참회하며 절합니다

This is #30 out of a series of [broken link! FIXME] 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).


28. [broken link! FIXME] 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. [broken link! FIXME] 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?

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