What Rises from the Heart Becomes the Loveliest Song

answered by Shijing (The Book of Songs)

기원전 11~7세기(주나라 시가 모음)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

dir. Baz Luhrmann · USA

Behind a dazzling stage, two share a brief, fierce love fated to end in loss. Is throwing oneself wholly into a love bound for heartbreak recklessness, or the most precious thing in a life?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Knowing love ends in loss, can one still say to love and be loved is the most precious thing?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

The old songs of the Book of Songs carried whatever rose from the heart — joy and sorrow alike — straight into song.

📝The Classic Answers

The old songs of the Book of Songs carried whatever rose from the heart — joy and sorrow alike — straight into song. Those people did not hide even love's pain but left it as music. Even a love bound to end in loss, if the heart was true, remains like a song. I refuse to ration my song for fear of the wound. The memory of loving and being loved becomes, even after it ends, the melody that rings longest in my life.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If fear of hurt makes you ration expression, offer a loved one one heartfelt word today, as if singing it.

📖 Classic Source: Shijing (The Book of Songs).
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.