DAY 238
The Tale of the Heike
Heike Monogatari
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
What lesson does the ephemeral fall of seemingly eternal power leave for our lives?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I read the opening lines of this epic, beginning with the bell of the Jetavana temple, my heart ached at the lonely impermanence that comes at the end of all glory. The way the all-powerful Heike clan crumbles in a single morning like dust before the wind solemnly reminds me of the cosmic law that even the most resplendent flower must in the end fall. That sorrowful beauty, in which victor and vanquished alike vanish at last into the current of history, leaves a long, lingering resonance.
— ONGO · Curator
"The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline."Unknown, The Tale of the Heike
"기원정사의 종소리, 제행무상의 울림이 있나니. 사리쌍수의 꽃잎 빛깔, 성자필쇠의 이치를 드러낸다."
🌱Apply It Today
Write down what you are now clinging to, unwilling to ever lose. When you accept that everything changes, peace of mind arrives.
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