DAY 294
The Scholars
儒林外史
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
What is the true face of intellectuals blinded by success and honor?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first opened this novel, my skin crawled to see how the old scholars, growing servile in their obsession with the civil examinations, so closely resemble today's worship of success. The author's keen satire pokes, with humor and precision, at a gallery of people who feign refinement while inwardly steeped in greed. Chuckling along as you read what true learning and humanity might be, you will suddenly find your own heart pricked.
— ONGO · Curator
"Wealth and honor are like passing clouds; they cannot be forced."Wu Jingzi, The Scholars
"부귀공명은 뜬구름과 같으니, 억지로 구할 수 없는 것이다."
🌱Apply It Today
Look back and ask whether, bound by others' eyes or social titles, you've been turning away from your truly precious values and your own inner voice.
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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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