At Peace With Time, Following Its Course, Sorrow Cannot Enter

answered by Zhuangzi, "The Great and Venerable Teacher"

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

dir. Roberto Benigni · Italy

Confined in an oppressive camp amid historical upheaval, a father tells his young son that it is all a game. The imagined game cannot change reality, but it protects his child's heart.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Amid an oppressive reality, can imagination create real freedom?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

且夫得者，時也，失者，順也。安時而處順，哀樂不能入也。

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

What is gained comes by its season; what is lost follows its course. Being at peace with the season and settled in its course, joy and sorrow cannot seep in.

💡 TL;DR

Zhuangzi said that if we accept all we gain and lose as season and course, even sorrow cannot seep into the heart.

📝The Classic Answers

Zhuangzi said that if we accept all we gain and lose as season and course, even sorrow cannot seep into the heart. Before an unbearable reality, a father's imagination in naming it a game is not denial but the bravest kind of acceptance, taking hold of the course in his own way. So that fear alone would not seep into his child's eyes, he carried the full weight himself, alone. Before a reality I cannot change, I learn that renaming it is not escape, but can be my own way of enduring its course.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If there is a hard situation today you cannot change, try giving it a different name and see what shifts.

📖 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.