The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Why must a radiant being from the celestial world reject earthly desires and return to the heavens?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading the tale of Princess Kaguya, born within a glowing stalk of bamboo, I marveled anew at how sophisticated a fantasy this thousand-year-old classic truly is. There is a strange catharsis in the princess who, as if mocking the vanity of the powerful, sets them impossible tasks. The sight of her at last returning to the moon coolly reminds us that earthly wealth and glory are mere drifting clouds before the measure of the cosmos. It is like clear night air that briefly cools the desires I now scramble after.
"All the riches of this world are but dust before the pure light of the moon."Unknown, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
"세상의 온갖 부귀영화도 하늘의 맑은 달빛 앞에서는 티끌과 같도다."
🌱Apply It Today
Ask yourself whether the worldly things you're clinging to so desperately to grasp right now would really carry any meaning when seen, far in the future, from a cosmic point of view.
