[Book] `Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter¡¯ by Bobjong

An essay collection by Buddhist monk Bobjong has hit the market. It is sort of a book of proverbs on the author`s feelings about the seasons. At the end of the book, there are letters from the monk.

If readers expect high-flown lessons from a Buddhist monk, they are bound to be disappointed.

The monk simply wrote letters to his friends telling them, for example, that he went to a market some 10 kilometers away and bought bean curd, a bundle of mallow, a loaf of bread, a sickle and two pencils.

Nowhere in the sentences are there any traces of denouncing somebody else or preaching, but I felt was being scolded while reading the book.

Written by Bobjong/ edited by Ryoo Shi-Hwa/ 219 pages, 8,000 won/ Published by Irae.

Poet Kim Kap-Soo