Seomunbo Sansudo
"What does a landscape that paints people so small mean to say?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a landscape painted by Seo Mun-bo in the early Joseon period. Between vast mountains and water, the people sit small as dots. This is not from holding people cheap, but from showing that people dwell within the great current of nature. From these small figures I learn humility. If one believes oneself the center of the world, then mountains and water become mere backdrop. But when one places oneself as a single dot within the scene, only then are the height of the mountain and the depth of the water seen rightly. The smaller one grows, the wider one sees.
🌱Apply It Today
Place the worry pressing on you now as a single dot within a great landscape, and gauge again whether it is truly that large.
