Hold to the Uncarved Simplicity

answered by Laozi, Dao De Jing 19

기원전 6~4세기

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Marathon (2005)

dir. Jeong Yoon-cheol · South Korea

One the world's arithmetic deems lacking finds pure joy in running. Is that purity a deficiency the world must tend, or the undyed ground the world itself has lost?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Might a person the world calls lacking in fact hold the purity the world itself has lost?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

見素抱樸少私寡欲

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Show the undyed silk and embrace the uncarved block; lessen the self and make desires few.

💡 TL;DR

Laozi urged embracing the undyed silk and the uncarved block, lessening self and desire.

📝The Classic Answers

Laozi urged embracing the undyed silk and the uncarved block, lessening self and desire. The world calls cleverness and calculation ability, but Laozi said it is unhewn purity that must never be lost. If a person who looks lacking by the world's measure in fact holds a mind like undyed silk, what is lacking is not him but the measure that cannot see it. Before I belittle purity as simplemindedness, I look back at what undyed ground I have lost inside my calculations.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you're about to read someone's purity as naivety today, check whether it holds the undyed ground you have lost.

📖 Classic Source: Laozi, Dao De Jing 19. 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.