Another translation. Scroll down here for the korean. 5th question down.
Any mistakes are mine in translation.
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Q: Why do you say that ordinary people have to enlighten?
A: Because of their life. Their life is what makes their selves exist.
Saying they have to enlighten means they have to open the eye of their consciousness. Saying ‘open their eye’ means recongnizing how a certain matter makes ’what is’ come into being, and it’s knowing how that matter makes a result through a particular process. Complete Enlightenment is opening one’s eyes.
If the eyes open, living becomes different. You can feel that you have become simple. It’s the difference between when you have all sorts of thinking popping up and when you live without much thinking. Without too much thinking you make few mistakes, and if you don’t make mistakes you don’t resent others.
Thinking or fantasy are of no great help to life.
What do you do so you can be free from all kinds of useless thinking? What do you do so you are able to change into a simple person? When you listen eagerly to the Enlightened Being’s teaching and you come to know the fact that you don’t know anything, and you listen, see and try to know more keenly, you open your eyes to ‘what is’.
It’s coming to know if ‘what is’ or what you have done is a right thing or a wrong thing. Because you know obviously that it will be making a mistake, you don’t make the mistake. Because you know ‘what is’ you can help others.
People who don’t know ‘what is’ can’t help others. Because people who couldn’t enlighten are moved by the activity of the karma inside them, it’s difficult for them to recognize ‘what is’
But a person who has enlightened can see ‘what is’ and they match ‘what is’ so they live with ease. In this way, a person with great enlightenment isn’t acting according to their karma, but they see ‘what is’ and behave in accordance with ‘what is’
Life is the way that trains oneself, and enlightenment is certainly something you need for a good life.
