Understanding Human Suffering and Jesus Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) －In View of Asian Yangdanjõk (兩端的) Wisdom in Epistemology

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Referring to Asian epistemology, this work explores how Asian wisdom shed a tremendous light on Christian understanding of Jesus Prayer, pertinent to Jesus’ response to the problem of human suffering. Through formulating a reasonable contingency, Jesus Prayer at that time, still standing in the flux of Jewish wisdom tradition, appears to provide the frustrated faith community as well as his perturbed disciples with wisdom of assimilation and integration in society. This exploration prompts Christians to utilize their commitment and enrich many dimensions of truth among themselves by openness to deep insights and lights of others which cannot be neglected. It may involve a serious risk of confusion in Christian identity, but surely will be helpful for its fertilization.
The yangdanjõk perspective, surely found in Jesus Prayer, tells the wisdom of how to deal with and solve desperate problems of human suffering, although which it would be soon blurred and lost in the following Western philosophical dualism. Never comprehensible by illusory conceptualization, even theological formulation, which is deconstructed and nullified as meaningless by Jesus, the reality in and of itself shows what it has ever been as it is. It is not different from the recurring message of wisdom: Just “fear of the Lord” by emptiness and union with him, in solidarity with the suffering communities. This yangdanjõk (兩端的) wisdom, similar to the wisdom teaching in Asian Religions, “Sanggubori hahwajungsaeng” (上求菩提 下化衆生), is tantamount to an urge to live in the undifferentiated continuum. Hence for proper rendering of yangdanjõk meaning of Jesus Prayer into English or Korean, the adverbial clause (i.e., “As in Heaven, also on earth”) may need to relocate just before the first Thou petition (i..e, “Hallowed be your name”), in which the Prayer clearly exposes Jesus’ ultimate concern dovetailed heaven and earth. Jesus Prayer was not tailoring a platform for theological, conceptual and logical formulation to deliver individuals, but rather show Jesus’ followers, more probably as his personal experience did, a practical wisdom to save the entirety, engaging in solidarity with suffering people, still maintaining the faith of fearing God. In order to fully internalize the power and significance of Jesus Prayer, a yangdanjõk contemplating practice in the four levels, i.e., Spirit, Wisdom, Power, and Peace, is suggested.

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