Zhuangzi
Is the right answer I firmly believe in truly a universal truth outside my own narrow well?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Open the first chapter of the Zhuangzi, and a giant Peng bird soars into the air. The cicada and the dove laugh at that enormous bird, but Zhuangzi urges us to look at the vast world beyond their laughter. When I first read this book, I grew ashamed of myself, struggling and scrabbling inside a narrow well of my own making. The essence of what Zhuangzi calls xiaoyaoyou, the free and easy wandering, lies in liberating the spirit from worldly measures and hardened prejudice. His paradox, that uselessness can become the greatest use of all, breathes a cool wind into our cramped and choking lives.
"You cannot discuss the ocean with a well frog, he is limited by the space he lives in."Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi
"우물 안 개구리에게는 바다를 이야기할 수 없다. 자신이 사는 좁은 곳에 갇혀 있기 때문이다."
🌱Apply It Today
For one day, deliberately ignore a small rule or habit you've always taken for granted, and quietly notice what kind of freedom that unfamiliar moment brings.
