Thus It Flows Away, Never Resting Day or Night

answered by Analects, Book 9 (Zi Han)

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

The Remains of the Day (1993)

dir. James Ivory · UK

A person, putting duty and restraint first, never speaks his love and lets the years slip by. Was that restraint faithfulness, or an evasion that deferred his own life? Can the flown time be recovered?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

For one who hid love behind duty a whole life, what can a belated realization undo?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

Standing before a flowing river, Confucius sighed, "Thus it flows away, never resting day or night." Time flows like a river, and the heart left unspoken is carried off on its current.

📝The Classic Answers

Standing before a flowing river, Confucius sighed, "Thus it flows away, never resting day or night." Time flows like a river, and the heart left unspoken is carried off on its current. What has flown cannot be recovered, yet that sigh asks how to live the days remaining. I refuse to leave past restraint as mere regret. Upon the time still flowing, not to postpone one cherished word today — that is the river's lesson.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If there is a word of the heart you have postponed, offer it today before more time flows by.

📖 Classic Source: Analects, Book 9 (Zi Han).
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.