DAY 289

Banjye Sureok

Yu Hyeong-won · 1769
磻溪隨錄
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

When the foundation of a state collapses, what institutional innovations must we dream of?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Reading this great blueprint, to which a scholar buried in obscurity devoted his whole life in order to overhaul the nation's land, education, and bureaucratic systems from the ground up, I felt a strange thrill. Yu Hyeong-won's gaze does not rest on abstract morality but turns toward the very bones of reality. From the tip of his pen, crying out for the rebuilding of an entire system to truly relieve the lives of the people, comes the loneliness and burning passion of a reformer ahead of his time.

— ONGO · Curator
"Unless the institutions of the world are established, the lives of the people can never be at peace."
Yu Hyeong-won, Banjye Sureok
"천하의 제도가 확립되지 않으면 백성의 삶은 결코 평안할 수 없다."

🌱Apply It Today

Find an old system in your organization or daily life that has hardened into custom and breeds inefficiency and fatigue, and imagine one small improvement of your own.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

求而不得
Stay in My Heart
구이부득 · echo of yearning
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