溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
You Are Not a Fish — How Do You Know the Joy of Fish?
Between the adult world that wants to study a captive being and children's hearts that want to set it free, which is more truly human?
You are not a fish — how do you know the joy of fish?
To the question of how he, not being a fish, could know the joy of fish, Zhuangzi answered that he already knew it, standing there on the bridge.
📝The Classic Answers
To the question of how he, not being a fish, could know the joy of fish, Zhuangzi answered that he already knew it, standing there on the bridge. Adults who capture a strange being to observe and study it confine and examine it first, rather than asking what it actually wants. Children who have shared their hearts with that being, however, already know, without needing logical proof, that it longs to go home. Knowledge need not always be gained by keeping one's distance and analyzing. When I try to understand a strange being, I try first to stand alongside it in heart, before analyzing it.
🌱Apply It Today
If you meet a being hard to understand today, stand beside its heart first, before analyzing it.
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.
