DAY 276
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묵련도 (연꽃)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does the flower that blooms from the mud yet is not defiled teach us?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This anonymous Chinese ink painting holds a lotus. The lotus puts its roots in muddy water, yet is not stained by that filth and blooms a clear flower. People of old likened it to one who keeps himself even amid a world like mud. This teaching of the lotus is constant in any land. Here I see the power of keeping. It is easy to blame one's surroundings, yet in the same mud one is stained while another blooms a flower. Whatever the surrounds may be, it is oneself in the end that decides what not to be stained by.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
However muddied the surrounds become, fix clearly upon one thing you will not be stained by.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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