Blame Neither Heaven nor Others

answered by Analects, Xian Wen

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

My Left Foot (1989)

dir. Jim Sheridan · Ireland

A person lives bearing a disability he must carry for life. Is a life restored only by shedding it entirely, or can one hold one's own place, as oneself, while still carrying that body?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Carrying an illness I must bear for life, can I still live as myself?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

不怨天不尤人下學而上達

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

I do not resent heaven nor blame others; I learn what is low and reach through to what is high.

💡 TL;DR

Confucius said he resented neither heaven nor others, learning from what is low to reach what is high.

📝The Classic Answers

Confucius said he resented neither heaven nor others, learning from what is low to reach what is high. For one bearing an unchangeable burden, resentment is the easiest road, yet that road gnaws the person further. Not to cling to erasing the illness, but to learn and love today while carrying it and step by step reach through — that is how to stand upon an illness without defeating it. Instead of resentment, I choose to lay my hand on one low thing I can learn now.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

When you want to resent an unchangeable condition today, turn instead to one small thing you can learn now.

📖 Classic Source: Analects, Xian Wen. 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.