The Narrow Road to the Deep North
What kind of self do we meet on an unfamiliar and rugged road?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading this travel account that walks in Bashō's footsteps into the rugged nature of the north, I suddenly felt a fierce urge to cast everything off and depart. Relying on a single worn robe and a staff, he captures the changes of nature and the impermanence of life in haiku of seventeen syllables. His gaze, eschewing ornate rhetoric to seize the beauty of a fleeting moment, washed clean my mind, caught up in cluttered thoughts. In it you can meet his solitary yet free spirit, one who wished to live as an eternal wanderer.
"Days and months are travellers of eternity. So are the years that pass by."Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
"세월은 백대의 과객이요, 오고 가는 해 또한 나그네로다."
🌱Apply It Today
On your familiar commute or walking path, set down your phone and give your full attention to the beauty of small passing scenes, the temperature of the wind or the weeds along the road.
