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"If there is something firmer for being hollow within, what does it tell us?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This anonymous Chinese ink painting holds bamboo. Bamboo is hollow within, yet it does not break even in a harsh wind, and never loses its green through the four seasons. People of old likened its uprightness and its emptiness to the virtue of the noble person. The teaching held in bamboo is prized in any land. Here I see the strength of emptiness. What is packed full within is rather easily snapped. What sets itself upright by leaving joints and emptying out desire is what endures in the end. Firmness comes not from filling but from emptiness and from joints.
🌱Apply It Today
Empty one corner of a heart that has been straining to fill itself, and make a single joint where it can breathe.
