Heaven and Earth Live with Me, All Things Are One with Me

answered by Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Dersu Uzala (1975)

dir. Akira Kurosawa · Japan

A person who lived knowing the forest and river like his own body and regarding all things as friends is gradually pushed out of the natural world he belonged to as he ages and his senses dull. It asks whether a life lived as one body with nature fades as something obsolete before civilization, or leaves behind something that will not vanish.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When one who lived as one body with nature is pushed out of that world and fades, what vanishes and what remains?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

天地與我並生，而萬物與我爲一

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Heaven and earth were born together with me, and all things are one with me.

💡 TL;DR

Zhuangzi said heaven and earth live together with me and all things are one with me.

📝The Classic Answers

Zhuangzi said heaven and earth live together with me and all things are one with me. I read this line layered over the life of one who lived alongside nature. To a person who knew the forest and river like their own body and regarded all things as friends, being pushed out of that world is not mere aging but being torn from the root of their being. When civilization pushes him aside as one left behind by the times, his body fades, yet the way of life that was one with all things remains as a principle in the heart of those who remember him. Though the person vanishes, the friendship he shared with nature does not. Rather than measuring a person by what is old and left behind, I choose to remember the deep oneness he formed with the world.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If there is a person or way you passed over as old and left behind, look again at one deep relationship with the world it holds.

📖 Classic Source: Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
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.