溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
All Things Flow — Even a Child's Today
Death and flowing time first reflected in a child's eyes — what question do they leave in that heart?
All things flow; this very moment, and the child's gaze that watches it, are already passing.
Aurelius said all things flow ceaselessly, that even this moment is already passing.
📝The Classic Answers
Aurelius said all things flow ceaselessly, that even this moment is already passing. I read this layered over the eyes of a child first facing death. A child who first meets, with young eyes, the death of someone close and the flow of time cannot explain it as an adult would, but engraves it deep in the heart as a single question. Adults, taking the flow for granted, grow numb, but the child feels for the first time, with their whole body, the impermanence of the world before the fact that everything passes. That question, left unanswered, makes the child grow. Rather than the numbed eyes of an adult inured to time's flow, I choose not to forget the startled eyes of a child seeing, for the first time, that all things pass.
🌱Apply It Today
Look at one flow of daily life you have grown numb to today with the freshly startled eyes of a child seeing it for the first time.
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.
