Renewal Day by Day Is Abundant Virtue

answered by I Ching, Great Commentary I

기원전 편찬(십익 전국~한대)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Shall We Dance? (1996)

dir. Masayuki Suo · Japan

A middle-aged person, pressed under a dull routine, secretly takes up again a thrill long folded away. Is reviving a past dream a childishness that ignores reality, or the virtue of a life that renews itself day by day?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

To take up again, in middle age, a dream folded away in youth — is that childish?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

日新之謂盛德

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

To be renewed day by day — this is called abundant virtue.

💡 TL;DR

The I Ching called daily renewal abundant virtue.

📝The Classic Answers

The I Ching called daily renewal abundant virtue. Renewal has no age ceiling. To unfold in middle age a dream folded away in youth is not a regression backward but a virtue that makes today new. 'It's too late' is only the excuse of one who has stopped renewing himself. Even inside a hardened routine, the person who begins one thing anew grows younger each day. Before I cage myself with 'at my age,' I look for one thing I can make new today.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Take one thing you folded away with 'too old for that' and begin it again today, even in the smallest form.

📖 Classic Source: I Ching, Great Commentary I. 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.