In a foreign city, a diner opens its door quietly, without straining to draw customers. Is that unstraining an incompetent idleness, or does not-grasping make a warmth where people stay of their own accord?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
To a quiet life that grasps at nothing, do people gather on their own?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
爲無爲 事無事 味無味
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
Act by non-forcing, work at non-doing, taste the tasteless.
💡 TL;DR
Laozi urged doing the non-forced and tasting the plain.
📝The Classic Answers
Laozi urged doing the non-forced and tasting the plain. To one who opens a clean, quiet place without straining to draw customers, people come of their own accord, unsummoned. Not only loud effort accomplishes things. A life that quietly keeps its place and tends small things with care makes, precisely because it does not grasp, a warmth that lingers long. Before I strain to pull something toward me, I choose to learn the way of calmly opening my own place.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If you're straining to pull something toward you today, ease off and choose instead to calmly open your own place.
📖 Classic Source:
Laozi, Dao De Jing 63.
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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