To Enter Fully into the Transformation of All Things

answered by Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Wings of Desire (1987)

dir. Wim Wenders · Germany

A being longs, from a place eternal yet unfeeling, for a finite life that fully undergoes love and loss. Between an eternity that cannot be wounded and a warm finitude that will one day end, which is real life?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Which is worth more — a life that only watches forever, or one that loves and feels, knowing it will one day lose?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

Zhuangzi called the endless transformation of life, death, and all things "the flow of things," and did not fear entering that flow.

📝The Classic Answers

Zhuangzi called the endless transformation of life, death, and all things "the flow of things," and did not fear entering that flow. An eternity without wounds feels nothing, but only a finite life that has leapt into the change knows the warmth of love and the ache of loss. Rather than stand outside life to avoid being hurt, I choose to feel the present fully, knowing it will one day end. It is because we are finite that love is this precious.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If fear of hurt keeps you merely observing life, let yourself fully feel just one emotion today without pushing it away.

📖 Classic Source: Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal.
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.