Seeing What Is Piled Up Is Fleeting, Seek a Teacher
The seeker examines the worlds piled up by action and grows weary of them — for what is made cannot reach the unmade. To know it, he goes, humbly bearing an offering, to a true teacher.
Do I believe endless piling will fill me someday, without ever asking whether there is another way?
📝Reflection
This verse throws a cool question to one who has diligently climbed the ladder of achievement: what is piled up cannot reach the unpiled eternal. It seems that achieving more will fill us, but achievement always calls for further achievement, and the thirst remains. Here the wise change direction — not to pile more, but to humbly seek a teacher to learn a different way of seeing. It is like Ecclesiastes seeking wisdom after saying all under the sun is vanity. If you have felt the fatigue of piling, that is not failure but the beginning of a new question.
🌱Apply It Today
When 'achieving more will fill me' arises today, turn the question once: 'Is there a different way of seeing?'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
