When you consider the term "Oon myung" (destiny), Oon means life, and Myung means to move. The term means "moving life." Myung also means going toward one standard. Destiny means the path one is going. In Korea, there is a common expression, "Born with a wrong fortune." For a frog, it is better to live in the water than on the land. It is born this way, and should live and die this way. It has no other way of living. A cicada has a larval stage. Although a cicada lives in a puddle or a hole in the ground, this is not the way it is supposed to live in the future; it is supposed to fly in the sky. Whether it is digging under the ground or swimming in the water, it has to make a certain preparation for flying. The wings must be prepared. This is an absolutely necessary condition. To become a full insect, the preparation should be made from the larval stage. It should go through a period of taking off the shell and organizing itself. When it is in the water, its shape has to be wide so that it can comfortably float above the water, but this is not good for flying. Everything has to be restructured in order for the cicada to adapt to the flying stage. This is its lot. A fish has the lot that it can never leave the water and live. (120-236)

From what originate human happiness and unhappiness, and good and bad fortune? Can human beings change and create their fortune and build their own foundation of happiness? Of course, efforts may lead to some relative foundation, but is not individual fortune directly connected to the fortunes of the country, the group, the world, and heaven? From this point of view, there must be lot. (78-263)

You can make a new start when you make one turn. The universe turns around. Considering that history repeats itself while unfolding, in the spiral pattern of historical time-identity the destined time is coming. When this time comes and you receive it well, you can put 365 days in line, and your individual fortune will follow the heavenly fortune towards a happy life. Then where should this life of good fortune proceed? Fortunes of the country and of the individual differ. Why were Vietnam, Laos, and Khmer taken over by Communists? That was bad fortune. Your individual fortune has to follow the beats. (78-275)

If somebody enjoys 120 of his assets when he only has 100, then his descendants will suffer the consequences. Human destiny tightens like an elastic band. When someone only lives 80, however, he can bequeath the remaining 20 as a blessing to his descendants. (78-333)

Destiny can change, but lot cannot. Can you change the fact that you were born as a Korean? Can you change your parents? No matter how strong a country's government may be, it can never change someone's parents. The way of restoration is a way of destiny; eventually, it has to be resolved. (172-55)