Two Birds in One Tree
Two fair-winged birds, bound in friendship, nest in the same tree. One eats the sweet fruit; the other, not eating, only watches.
Do I only chase and eat the fruit, or do I know the other self that quietly watches me do so?
📝Reflection
Two birds live in one tree — one busy eating the fruit, one not eating, only watching. With this the poet draws the two seats within us: the self that lives tasting joy and sorrow, and the self that watches it all from one step back. In the moment of rising anger, when I notice 'ah, I am angry now,' the watching bird wakes. To live fully, eating of life, yet knowing how to move sometimes to the watching bird's seat — there is freedom in that.
🌱Apply It Today
In a moment of strong emotion today, once, name it with the watching bird's eye: 'right now I am ___.'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
