“I bow with a thankful heart and become converted to the Buddha.”
This is #61 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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59. 외로운 사람에 대한 자비심의 부족함을 참회하며 절합니다.
“I bow in repentance of any insufficiency [in showing] mercy toward lonely people.”
60. 죄를 지은 사람에 대한 자비심의 부족함을 참회하며 절합니다.
“I bow in repentance of any insufficiency [in showing] mercy toward guilty people.”
61. 부처님께 귀의하게되어 감사한 마음으로 절합니다.
I would read this sixty-first affirmation as: “I bow with a thankful heart and become converted to the Buddha.”
I was dreading #61 because the syntactic pattern changes completely, but it wasn’t too bad. I’m unsure whether the “-게되어” is a causative, a passive, or some other type of structure, so I’m not sure about the “become converted” part – it could be a much simpler “embrace.”
