¹One day in April, Taemonim was sitting on the raised wooden floor of the Oseongsan Dojang,²when a man in his thirties limped toward the dojang, supporting himself with a bamboo cane. He sat down on the front footstep to rest.³Taemonim asked him, “Who are you?”

“I am from Haenam County, Jeollanam-do Province,” he answered.⁴“My younger brother left home when he was fifteen and has not been heard from since. I have searched for him everywhere throughout the country, but have not yet found him. It occurred to me that I might find him at a temple, and so, as you can see, I am searching for him in the mountains.”

⁵Taemonim praised him. “Your dedication as an older brother is commendable. Come up and sit with Me.”⁶She continued, “You must be enduring terrible hardship searching in all directions, especially with a bad leg.⁷When did your leg become lame?”

“When I was eighteen, I injured it while roughhousing with friends.”

⁸“You need good legs for long journeys,” Taemonim said.⁹“Rise.” While rubbing his injured leg up and down, She declared, “It will soon heal.” She then said, “Try walking around below the front footstep.”¹⁰As he paced back and forth several times, his limp disappeared, and so he cast himself upon the ground and offered prostrations again and again, thankful for Taemonim’s grace. ¹¹“Bring us a midday meal,” Taemonim ordered the disciple working as the cook. Providing the man this meal, She said to him, “Discard your bamboo cane.”