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All Within the Four Seas Are Brothers
Do I reckon a sibling only as gain or burden, missing that they share my very blood?
If the noble-minded are reverent without lapse and courteous and proper toward others, then all within the four seas are brothers.
When a disciple grieved over having no brother, Confucius' student Zixia comforted him: "all within the four seas are brothers." This extends kinship beyond blood, yet it also lets us see a real sibling anew.
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When a disciple grieved over having no brother, Confucius' student Zixia comforted him: "all within the four seas are brothers." This extends kinship beyond blood, yet it also lets us see a real sibling anew. I sometimes treat a sibling as a stranger precisely because they are so familiar — summing them up as a single trait or condition. Yet coming to know a long-distant sibling again is as precious as embracing a stranger as kin. The moment a bond measured by gain is returned to a person, a sibling becomes a sibling at last. Today I try to meet, as if newly, the one that familiarity hid from me.
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When you catch yourself summing up someone close as a single trait, newly discover one other side of them.
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.
