Heaven's Way Has No Favorites, Yet Is Ever With the Good

answered by Laozi, Dao De Jing, ch. 79

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

dir. Akira Kurosawa · Japan

One who would topple vast corruption slowly borrows the other's methods to win. When a justice meant to punish evil begins to resemble that evil, how can we win without losing ourselves?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

In trying to defeat evil, am I pawning my own goodness by borrowing evil's methods?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

天道無親常與善人

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Heaven's Way shows no favoritism, yet it is always on the side of the good.

💡 TL;DR

Laozi said heaven's Way favors no one yet is always with the good.

📝The Classic Answers

Laozi said heaven's Way favors no one yet is always with the good. This means justice has a place on the side of the good without borrowing evil's methods. When one who would topple corruption grows to resemble its methods, even in winning he drifts from heaven's Way. Before the craving to punish evil, I choose to remember that keeping my goodness, more than winning, is the path that stays with heaven.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you reached for a wrong method toward a right end today, gauge where that method is taking you.

📖 Classic Source: Laozi, Dao De Jing, ch. 79. 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.