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"What did the painter who drew the human figure so small mean to say through the mountain?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This anonymous Chinese landscape holds towering mountains and the scenery between them. In East Asian landscape painting the human figure is usually drawn small as a dot at the mountain's foot. The meaning is to make us weigh the human place before vast nature. This gaze, which weighs the measure of a person through the mountain, is the same in any land. Here I see the gaze of humility. Set yourself at the center of the world, and the mountain cannot be seen. Only when one places oneself small within great nature does it become clear where desire must be set down. In knowing how to grow small there is calm.
🌱Apply It Today
Place your worry within a larger picture, and weigh its size anew.
