When anonymous accusations stain a town, neighbors suspect one another, each busy digging up another's guilt. Where blaming others is so easy, few look first at themselves. Where do we earn the right to judge another?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
Busy digging up others' faults, do I put off looking first at myself?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
躬自厚 薄責人
躬自厚而薄責於人 則遠怨矣
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
Demand much of yourself and little of others, and resentment stays far away.
💡 TL;DR
Confucius said to hold a heavy measure to yourself and a light one to others.
📝The Classic Answers
Confucius said to hold a heavy measure to yourself and a light one to others. Most of us do the reverse — magnify others' faults and shut our eyes to our own. Anonymous accusations stain a town because each holds the opposite measure. Look first at yourself before blaming others, and resentment — and the poison that stains a town — recedes. Before raising a hand to judge someone, I choose first to hold that measure to myself.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If you wanted to point out someone's fault today, hold that measure to yourself once first.
📖 Classic Source:
Analects of Confucius, Wei Ling Gong.
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.
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