“Let Us Go Up and Over the Arirang — Finding Yourself”

The beloved Korean folk song “Arirang” is more than just a melody — it is a metaphor for the inner mountain each of us must cross to find our true selves. In this reading from Teacher Woo Myung’s World Beyond World, discover how the arirang represents the journey of eliminating one’s delusional sense of self, echoed in both Buddhist sutras and the Christian Bible.

Video Transcript

World beyond world by teacher room young this passage is called let’s go up and over the audio arirang is the name of an age-old Korean folk song for which this name is believed to be derived from the word added young there are many different interpretations for arirang the majority of them based on historical accounts or historic figures it is also believed that the arirang is metaphorical.

It refers to the mountain that one must go up and over in order to find oneself it is not an actual mountain where they can find themselves but actually it is about finding the God or Buddha within this mountain is one that can be overcome only when each of us have eliminated our own delusional sense of self only those who have rid themselves of such delusions along.

With their own demons are able to cross that mountain only those who no longer have their own selves can gain their true selves in the song arirang the lyrics read he goes up and over the arirang he who abandons me will not go far because his feet ache what this means is that he who abandons his true self will no longer have a place to go nor.

Will it be possible for him to have new life it means that he will live in his own delusive thoughts and that he is dead a our verse can be found in one of the buddhist sutras which reads let us go let us make haste.

Go let us go over that hill even in the Christian Bible there is a verse that says we will meet after crossing the river jordan.

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