One day, with a flood of warmth, she suddenly knew that her true self had always been within her.  It felt so wonderful and kind, unlike the father who awaited her at home, that she called it “Daddy.”  This wasn’t the father whom she didn’t dare let see her, but was her true owner, the inherent nature that had made her.  Sunim cried and cried with joy at knowing that her true parent, her true nature had always been with her.
Years later Sunim laughed about this saying, “If I hadn’t been so young and uneducated, I might have called it Buddha-nature or true self, but at that all I knew was that it was so full of love and warmth that I took the ‘Daddy’ that I felt within me as my father.” From that time on, Sunim took what she called “Daddy” as her place of comfort and poured all her love into there.  As a poor and abused girl, she had nothing but “Daddy” to rely on.  She knew that her “Daddy” was not separate from her and had always been within her.  Furthermore, feeling that everything was the same as her “Daddy,” she couldn’t treat anything carelessly, not even a blade of grass, a root, or a stone.
Afterwards Sunim just completely relied upon “Daddy” and knew that it could answer all of her questions. She did so naturally because she knew that it was the source of all things. She spent years like this, always taking “Daddy” as her guide and companion.