DAY 46
The Story of Hong Gildong
洪吉童傳
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Will you conform to the limits set by the world, or build your own ideal kingdom?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Having read The Story of Hong Gildong only as a tale of heroism in my childhood, I opened it again as an adult and saw the loneliness of a man struggling to find himself within the oppression of a rigid class system. Even in the sorrow of being unable to call his own father "father," he does not collapse, but presses on toward the world. Before the wall of an unjust world, what choice should we make? The longing for a new world that Heo Gyun once dreamed of reaches even us today, burning and alive.
— ONGO · Curator
"If a great man cannot follow the sages, he should learn the art of war, and gallop across the world to feel the thrill of a true man."Heo Gyun, The Story of Hong Gildong
"대장부가 세상에 나서 공맹을 본받지 못할 바에야, 차라리 병법을 익혀 동서남북으로 뛰어다니는 것이 장부의 통쾌한 일이라."
🌱Apply It Today
Find one thing where you've unconsciously told yourself "I can't" or "it's impossible anyway," and take a tiny first step toward trying.
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✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
無爲而化
Flow in the Quiet
무위이화 · effortless flow
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