DAY 259
Journey to the West
西遊記
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How can I tame the uncontrollable desires and the monkey-like mind within me?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading the original text carefully again, this tale of subduing monsters that I had only encountered lightly in comics as a child, I slapped my knee in recognition. Reckless, rampaging Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) was none other than my own ever-wavering mind, and the monsters symbolized the endless afflictions and desires within. Weaving mythic imagination and Buddhist metaphor exquisitely into a harsh and painful journey toward enlightenment, it is the East's finest philosophical fantasy of growth.
— ONGO · Curator
"When the mind is active, all kinds of demons are born; when the mind is extinguished, all kinds of demons are extinguished."Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West
"마음이 생기면 갖가지 마귀가 생겨나고, 마음이 멸하면 갖가지 마귀도 멸한다."
🌱Apply It Today
When your mind grows restless and emotions surge, ask yourself what your own inner 'headband' is, the gentle restraint that can calm the wild self within.
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天生緣分
Made in Heaven, Met on Earth
천생연분 · destined bond
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