DAY 5
Cold and Heat Come and Go — Endure Them
기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)
ORIGINAL
mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityāḥ
📜 THE VERSE
Cold and heat, pleasure and pain, are brought and carried off by the senses — they come and go and do not stay. Endure them.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Am I treating a passing feeling as if it were permanent, and collapsing before it?
📝Reflection
I repeat this verse whenever I pass through a hard season. Cold and heat, joy and pain all arrive like guests and leave; none of them is the house that I am. The old teacher compressed into one word — endure — the same truth Buddhism calls impermanence and the Stoics call the passing of things. Rather than straining to erase the present feeling, I endure it, knowing it too is a guest, and leaving the door slightly open.
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🌱Apply It Today
When a hard feeling rises today, name it 'a guest that comes and goes,' and stay with it for just one more breath.
📖 Source:
Bhagavad Gītā 2:14.
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
