Life and Death Are Fate, Like Day and Night

answered by Zhuangzi, "The Great and Venerable Teacher"

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Forrest Gump (1994)

dir. Robert Zemeckis · USA

Born different from others and living without any plan, a man drifts through unexpected moments of history. Without ever designing his life, he lives it faithfully in his own way.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

If life is a string of chance events, where does freedom live within it?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

死生，命也，其有夜旦之常，天也。

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Life and death are fate, as constant as night following day — this is the way of heaven.

💡 TL;DR

Zhuangzi saw life and death as natural as night and day, the way of heaven itself.

📝The Classic Answers

Zhuangzi saw life and death as natural as night and day, the way of heaven itself. Rather than straining to control what cannot be controlled, he met what came calmly and let what left go according to its own course. Before a life full of chance, freedom is not the power to plan everything but the largeness of heart to accept calmly what cannot be planned. Like a feather carried by the wind wherever it goes, I choose to walk this present step without regret, even not knowing what comes next.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If something did not go as planned today, try accepting it, not as failure, but simply as the direction the wind carried it.

📖 Classic Source: Zhuangzi, "The Great and Venerable Teacher". 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.