건강증진(健康增進)을 지향(志向)한 퇴계(退溪)의 명상담론(瞑想談論) = A Study on Toegye`s Health Promotion-oriented Meditation Discourse

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This study explores Toegye`s practicing on health promotion from a meditative point of view. Health promotion is for individuals and communities to make good progress in their physical, mental and social wellbeing by employing various schemes. Toegye made three attempts for health promotion. First, he practiced Hoal-In-Sim-Bang that he created for improving his physical, mental, and social wellbeing after learning from Hoal-In-Sim. Second, he wrote memoirs about his discussions on ways of health promotion with his disciples. Third, he expressed the ultimate in meditative experiences in his creative works. Furthermore, Toegye tried to overcome his disease and stress that are similar to those experienced by contemporary people by doing walking meditation, eating meditation, and respiration meditation. Although Toegye did not call his health-promotion activities meditation, his efforts for health promotion are not different from today`s meditative health-promotion schemes. Toegye`s individualized meditative health promotion schemes need to be examined more systematically for universal applications in our modern-day society.