One Yin, One Yang — This Is Called the Way

answered by I Ching, Great Treatise I

기원전 편찬(십익 전국~한대)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Forrest Gump (1994)

dir. Robert Zemeckis · USA

Without much calculation, a person drifts as if by chance through the great events of an age and lives an unexpected life. It asks whether life, like a feather on the wind, is a fixed fate or a self-made chance, and how the two coexist within a single life.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

In a life carried like a feather on chance, do a fixed fate and a self-made path exist together?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

一陰一陽之謂道

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

One yin, one yang — this alternation is called the Way.

💡 TL;DR

The I Ching called the very alternation of one yin and one yang the Way.

📝The Classic Answers

The I Ching called the very alternation of one yin and one yang the Way. From this line I draw an answer about fate and chance. Even when life seems to drift here and there by accident, like a feather on the wind, through that drifting flows a great rhythm in which yin and yang call to each other. Seemingly chance meetings and partings, fortune and misfortune, push and pull to weave the pattern of a person's life. The fixed and the self-made do not oppose each other; their alternation is itself the Way. Regarding life as neither pure accident nor rigid fate, I choose to trust the rhythm flowing between them and take this one step now.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

When life feels tossed by chance and you feel powerless, regard 'chance and fate weave the pattern together,' and focus on the one step you can take now.

📖 Classic Source: I Ching, Great Treatise I. 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.