A person loses everything in an instant and is left alone. Where nothing can be done, is merely breathing and holding on a helpless survival, or the strength of waiting out the storm?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
Left alone having lost everything, what force is there in simply breathing and waiting for the next day?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
飄風不終朝 驟雨不終日
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
A whirlwind does not blow all morning, nor a cloudburst pour all day.
💡 TL;DR
Laozi said no wind, however fierce, blows all morning, and no cloudburst pours all day.
📝The Classic Answers
Laozi said no wind, however fierce, blows all morning, and no cloudburst pours all day. If even nature cannot sustain extremes for long, this storm too will one day cease. Even when all you can do, having lost everything, is breathe and hold on, that holding is the wisdom of waiting for the storm to pass. When the worst moment seems eternal, I choose to grip the truth that every wind, in the end, dies down.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If a storm-like moment feels endless today, tell yourself, 'even this wind cannot blow all morning.'
📖 Classic Source:
Laozi, Dao De Jing 23.
Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
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