To Love Right Here, Expecting Nothing Back

answered by Bhagavad Gita 2:47

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

A Moment to Remember (2004)

dir. Lee Jae-han · South Korea

One loses memory and forgets the other a little more each day. Will the one who remains agonize, clutching at memory that will not return, or begin today's love anew, remembered or not? Where does the strength to sustain love without return come from?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When the beloved can no longer remember me, can I go on loving them anew each day?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

The Gita's old teacher said, "Yours is the right to act, never to its fruits." Love, too, collapses if it is conditioned on the fruit of being remembered.

📝The Classic Answers

The Gita's old teacher said, "Yours is the right to act, never to its fruits." Love, too, collapses if it is conditioned on the fruit of being remembered. But if one dwells in the very act of loving right here, not wishing to be remembered, that love is unshaken even by the other's forgetting. I refuse to treat love as a trade repaid. To love again today one who cannot remember — that is the purest love, beyond any fruit.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If waiting for return or recognition has worn you out, dwell today, just once, in the act of loving itself without counting what comes back.

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gita 2:47.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.