DAY 287
Chaegeundam (Vegetable Roots Discourse)
菜根譚
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Why does preserving a simple daily life require deeper cultivation than glamorous success?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Just as its title evokes the plain heart of one who chews on vegetable roots, the passages of this book are unadorned yet linger long. Reading these brief aphorisms, I felt I was recovering the center of life I had been losing amid clamorous desire. An aesthetic of equanimity—neither intoxicated by worldly glory nor despairing in failure, leaning to neither side—offers quiet comfort to us in these noisy days.
— ONGO · Curator
"One who can chew the roots of vegetables will be able to accomplish anything."Hong Zicheng, Chaegeundam (Vegetable Roots Discourse)
"풀뿌리를 씹어 먹을 수 있는 사람이라면 어떤 일이라도 해낼 수 있다."
🌱Apply It Today
Today, instead of chasing flashy, stimulating pleasures, find one small thing in the quiet repetition of ordinary life that you can simply be grateful for.
📚 Read for Free · Public Domain
✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
白日夢
Daylight Dream
백일몽 · a brief flight from now
Listen
✦ Wisdom that echoes this book
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Cheerful Heart Has a Continual Feast
Proverbs 15:15 →
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
How Good Is a Word in Season
Proverbs 15:23 →
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Cheerful Heart Is Good Medicine
Proverbs 17:22 →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
The Verdict
Have I already sentenced myself a failure, erasing in advance any reason to rise again? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Dead Man Walking
When I judge someone, do I push him entirely outside the place of the human? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Schindler's List
Saying 'one of me is of no use,' do I erase in advance the small good I could do right now? →
