DAY 143

The Upanishads

Anonymous · -500
Upaniṣad
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Who is the true self residing in the deep stillness within me?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Reading these philosophical dialogues left by sages in the forests thousands of years ago, I felt the clamor within me grow still. The Upanishads ask, again and again: what is the true "I"—the Atman—that is neither body, nor feeling, nor thought? Their insight that the essence of the universe and the essence within me are one turns my gaze, forever directed outward, fully inward. When I wish to find an unchanging center amid a shifting daily life, this book quietly shows the way.

— ONGO · Curator
"Thou art that. (Tat Tvam Asi)"
Anonymous, The Upanishads
"네가 바로 그것이다."

🌱Apply It Today

For ten minutes today, turn off your phone, close your eyes, and focus only on your breath. Take a still, solid time entirely your own, fully shut off from outside noise and stimulation.

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