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"What does a painting of straight, hollow bamboo tell a person?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This ink-bamboo painting holds bamboo standing straight, in ink alone. It came from the tradition of Chinese literati painting, yet the virtue of uprightness likened to bamboo is one East Asia has prized together. I see here what is straight because it is hollow. The bamboo is hollow within. Yet thanks to that empty core, it bends in the wind without breaking and stands straight again. What is packed full and hard breaks the more easily. People are the same. A heart that knows how to empty itself is in fact the firmer. That uprightness is upheld not by filling but by emptying, the bamboo shows with its own body.
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than filling yourself more so as not to break, empty one corner of your heart to leave room to bend.
