Pleasure and Pain Both Come and Go — Endure Them

answered by Bhagavad Gita 2:14

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

dir. Alain Resnais · France

A person tries to forget the wound an old love left, yet the memory keeps rising before a new encounter. Erase the pain and the shared time vanishes too. Between cutting out the suffering and carrying the memory whole, which one lets me live?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

A memory of love so painful you wish it gone — should you erase it, or carry it?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Pleasure and pain come and go like cold and heat; endure them.

💡 TL;DR

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

📝The Classic Answers

The Gita's old teacher said, "Pleasure and pain come and go like cold and heat; endure them." A painful memory is not an error to be deleted but the mark that a love was true. To cut out only the suffering is to tear up the roots of the time we shared. Rather than erase the memory, I choose to endure its ache until it passes. When I neither shove away what resurfaces nor rush to be rid of it, a past love remains not as a wound that breaks me but as one layer of memory that made the self who lives today.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If a memory aches each time it rises, instead of straining to erase it, resolve once today: "I will endure this ache 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.