Benevolence Is to Love People

answered by Analects, Yan Yuan

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Patch Adams (1998)

dir. Tom Shadyac · USA

In a world that treats only the disease by cold procedure, someone would meet the person first with laughter and love. Is that approach an immaturity that muddles treatment, or a recovery of the person healing was always meant to serve?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

If the love of the person is left out of curing an illness, is that true healing?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

樊遲問仁子曰愛人

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

When Fan Chi asked about benevolence, Confucius said, "It is to love people."

💡 TL;DR

Asked what benevolence is, Confucius answered in two words — 'to love people.' However refined the knowledge of treating disease, if the love of the person before you is missing, it is only half.

📝The Classic Answers

Asked what benevolence is, Confucius answered in two words — 'to love people.' However refined the knowledge of treating disease, if the love of the person before you is missing, it is only half. When you meet a person first with laughter and warmth rather than cold procedure, the body's illness and the heart's illness move together. Healing is, before a technique for beating disease, one form of love toward a person. Before handling a problem, I choose to meet the person before me first as a person.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Before solving someone's problem today, first offer them one warm word, person to person.

📖 Classic Source: Analects, Yan Yuan. 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.