DAY 49
The Dhammapada
धम्मपद
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Are my thoughts as still and clear as water, or turbulent like a violent storm?
📝ONGO's Reflection
On nights when my mind was too noisy for sleep, the short verses of the Dhammapada gave me a remarkable stillness. This book is like a collection of poems that, beyond religious doctrine, guides me toward becoming the master of my own mind. The Buddha says that everything we are arises from thought, and conveys a simple yet profound wisdom of setting down attachment and anger. Savoring it slowly, verse by verse, I find my tangled mind gently set in order.
— ONGO · Curator
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."Siddhartha Gautama, The Dhammapada
"우리는 우리가 생각한 결과물이다. 마음이 모든 것을 만들고, 마음이 모든 것을 이끈다."
🌱Apply It Today
When sudden anger or unpleasant feeling rises, don't react at once. Take three deep breaths and quietly observe which attachment within you it sprang from.
📚 Read for Free · Public Domain
✦ 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
Listen
✦ Wisdom that echoes this book
🪷 SONG OF THE SELF
What the Gambler Leaves Behind
Rigveda 10.34.10 →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Wuthering Heights
When love turns into the grip of possession, is it still love, or a fire that burns them both? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Waterloo Bridge
When self-punishment for a past wound pushes away even a love regained, what is one to do? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Truly, Madly, Deeply
How does one release longing for the departed, so as to walk back into the life that remains? →
