Pleasure and Pain Both Come and Go — Endure Them

answered by Bhagavad Gita 2:14

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

dir. Michel Gondry · USA

The wound a love left is so sharp that one wishes to erase the whole memory. But erasing the pain erases the shared joy too. Between removing the suffering and keeping the memory whole, which does one choose?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

If you could erase the memory of a painful love, would erasing it be better?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

The Gita's old teacher said, "Pleasure and pain come and go like cold and heat; endure them." Pain is not an error to be deleted but the mark that a love was real.

📝The Classic Answers

The Gita's old teacher said, "Pleasure and pain come and go like cold and heat; endure them." Pain is not an error to be deleted but the mark that a love was real. To cut out only the suffering is to tear up the roots of joy with it. Rather than erase the pain, I choose to endure it until it passes. When we neither clutch nor rush to delete what comes and goes, love remains not as a wound but as a whole memory.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If a painful memory begs to be erased, instead of straining to delete it, resolve once: "I will endure this pain until it passes."

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gita 2:14.
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.