Nature = 3 Chi + 3 Heats + 4 Bodies + 3 Kingdoms
Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang, Founder of Korean Natural Farming (Janong)
Master Cho spoke Korean, with an interpreter. We translated every Korean line again and checked it, so you read what he said, not only what the room heard.
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Cho puts up his 'Natural Farming' title slide and asks what nature is: three chi, three heats, the bodies and three kingdoms; farming is heaven, earth and people working with them, and food is the gift. Then he recites the Lord's Prayer, tells how pastors scolded him and threw him out, and says 1 Corinthians 3:16–17 is why he farms. A voice from the room sums it up in English.
What he taught
What does Cho mean by nature, and why does he farm?
Cho's slide deck opens on '자연농업' (J. Natural Farming Institute). He lists nature's parts from the floor, then spends most of this page on faith: the Lord's Prayer in Korean, an argument with pastors, and the verse that brought him to natural farming. The page ends on the slide '자연농업은 생명과 환경을 지켜나가는 농업이며, 회복의 농업입니다.'
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Nature is three chi, three heats, four bodies and three kingdoms
Cho's opening definition on the title slide.
▶ 39:47 As spoken
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Three chi: heat, air, water
▶ 40:10 As spoken
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Three heats: heat of the sky, heat of the earth, heat of fermentation
▶ 40:20 As spoken
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Bodies: sky body, earth body, object body, air body, microbe body
Cho names five (천체, 지체, 물체, 기체, 균체) while saying 'four bodies'. 물체 is the physical body: 'our body, the papaya'.
▶ 40:31 As spoken
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Three kingdoms: plant, animal, microbe
▶ 41:39 As spoken
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Farming is what heaven, earth and people make together using all of nature; its gift is our food
Food is 'our daily bread' from God; Cho then recites the Lord's Prayer.
▶ 42:13 As spoken
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Cho came to natural farming through 1 Corinthians 3:16–17: the body is God's temple
Eat proper food grown by God's grace to keep the temple healthy. 'Right there I got caught, and that's how I came to do natural farming.'
▶ 52:16 As spoken
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Cho regards natural farming as God's work and farming as loyalty given with love and hope
▶ 55:19 As spoken
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Natural farming protects life and the environment; it is farming of recovery
Slide: '자연농업은 생명과 환경을 지켜나가는 농업이며, 회복의 농업입니다.'
▶ 56:08 From the slides
- This page is philosophy and faith; there are no rates, dates or recipes.
- Cho names five bodies while saying 'four'; which four he means is not settled here.
- The Lord's Prayer recitation is partly garbled in the audio; the transcript gives the standard Korean wording he was reciting.
- The English summary at about 3254 s comes from someone in the room whose name is not said.
- In Cho's frame, fermentation heat stands beside the sun and the earth as one of nature's three heats.
- Microbes are a kingdom of nature in their own right, beside plants and animals.
- Farming is people working with sky, earth and living things, not over them; food is what that work gives.
What the room didn't hear
Where the English in the room left out or changed what Master Cho said in Korean.
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▶ 39:51
The room heard So, what was natural farming? There is three chi.
Cho said What is natural farming? Nature was three chi, three heats, four bodies and three kingdoms.
The four-part definition was dropped on the first pass, then given piece by piece.
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▶ 40:59
The room heard Water body... water.
Cho said The object body (물체): our body, the papaya, is an object body.
물체 (object) was heard as 물 (water); Cho corrected it and the interpreter then said 'physical body'.
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▶ 42:15
The room heard So we, those nature and the human being all together, that became a natural farming.
Cho said Using all that, what heaven, earth and people make together is farming.
Heaven, earth and people dropped.
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▶ 48:46
The room heard So is a Christian born before God or God, I mean, Jesus Christ came and then the Christian born.
Cho said Was Jesus born because of theology, or was theology made after Jesus was born?
신학 (theology) heard as 'Christian'; the point of the question was lost.
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▶ 53:55
The room heard So to take care of your body, you need to eat healthy food, so you can serve this God's blessing.
Cho said So right there I got caught, and that's how I came to do natural farming: I eat proper food grown by God's grace to keep my body healthy.
The interpreter dropped 'that's how I came to natural farming'; a voice from the room supplied it a moment later.
Next to Master Cho's books
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Agrees
Nature = three chi (heat, air, water), three heats (sky, earth, fermentation), four bodies, three kingdoms Same list in the 2016 Master Cho Conference notes. Older CGNF basic material says 'two heat' (sky, ground); here fermentation heat is the third.
Master Cho Conference , p. 1
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Differs
The four bodies The CGNF basic copy lists four bodies: heaven, earth, air, object. Here Cho also names a microbe body (균체), five names for 'four bodies'.
BasicCopy3 SESSION2: PPPHILOSPHY, p. 1–14
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Agrees
Natural farming protects life and the environment It is the motto of his technical bulletins and Theory book; here he adds 'farming of recovery'.
Cho, Cho Han-Kyu's Natural Farming (Theory), p. 1–4
“You have to live a faith of daily life. How can you just do a faith of teaching?”
▶ 44:48
“So right there I got caught, and that's how I came to do natural farming.”
▶ 53:35
“Natural farming is farming that protects life and the environment, and it is farming of recovery.”
▶ 56:08
In this part
- 39:34What is nature: three chi, three heats, bodies, kingdoms
- 42:32Food is daily bread: the Lord's Prayer
- 44:31Scolded by pastors: a faith of daily life
- 45:21The Mongolian spot and Samsin Halmoni
- 47:43Theology, blasphemy, thrown out of church
- 52:151 Corinthians 3:16–17: why Cho farms
- 56:06Natural farming protects life and the environment
Transcript
English translation, checked against the Korean as spoken.
39:34 Master Cho: All right, go on to the next slide.
자, 그럼 다음 장으로 나가요.
39:36 Kim Chang (interpreter): Yes, please go ahead.
39:40 Master Cho: What is natural farming? Nature was three chi, three heats, four bodies and three kingdoms, wasn't it?
자연농업이라고 하면 뭐냐? 자연은 3기, 3열, 4체, 3계였었잖아요.
39:51 Kim Chang (interpreter): So, what was natural farming? There is three chi.
39:56 Master Cho: Three chi, three heats. Heat chi... three heats.
삼기, 삼열. 열기, 삼열.
40:09 Kim Chang (interpreter): Three chi: heat, air, water.
40:19 Master Cho: Then the three heats: heat of the sky, heat of the earth, heat of fermentation.
그 다음 삼열은 천열, 지열, 발효열.
40:23 Kim Chang (interpreter): So three heat: heat from the sky, heat from the ground, heat from the fermentation.
40:30 Master Cho: And the four bodies: sky body, earth body. Four body: sky body.
그리고 사체. 천체, 지체. 4 body, 천체.
40:39 Kim Chang (interpreter): the soil body and the
40:44 Master Cho: Sky body, earth body. Then the object body (물체).
스카이 바디, 지체. 그 다음에 물체.
40:58 Kim Chang (interpreter): Water body... water.
41:04 Master Cho: Isn't this an object body (물체)? Our body, the papaya, is an object body. Isn't this the object body?
이게 물체 아니여? 우리 몸이, 파파야가 물체고. 이게 물체 아니여?
41:17 Kim Chang (interpreter): Physical body, air body, micro-organism body, that's the four body.
41:20 Master Cho: Then the air body (기체). Then the microbe body (균체). Microorganism body. Those are the four bodies. Plant kingdom, animal kingdom, microbe kingdom.
그 다음에 기체. 그 다음에 균체. 마이크로오가니즘 바디. 그게 사체거든. 식물계, 동물계, 균계.
41:44 Kim Chang (interpreter): So those four got all together, there is a plant kingdom, and animal kingdom, and microorganism kingdom.
41:56 Master Cho: So those: three chi, three heats, four bodies, three kingdoms. That is nature, we say.
그래서 그 삼기, 삼열, 사체, 삼계가 자연이다 그러지요.
42:03 Kim Chang (interpreter): So all those, what he just said, That's the nature.
42:13 Master Cho: But using all that, what heaven, earth and people make together is farming.
그런데 그걸 활용을 해서 하늘과 땅과 사람이 합작해서 만들어내는 게 농업이요.
42:14 Kim Chang (interpreter): So we, those nature and the human being all together, that became a natural farming.
42:32 Master Cho: And the gift that comes from it is our food.
그래서 만들어낸 그 선물이 먹을거리지.
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