DAY 301

Every Life Holds the Same Seed

Nirvana Sutra — "All living beings alike hold the seed of awakening"
대승 결집기(서기 5세기 한역)
ORIGINAL
悉有佛性
一切衆生 悉有佛性
📜 THE VERSE

Every living being, without exception, holds within the seed of awakening.

❓ TODAY'S QUESTION

Have I shut someone's possibility, saying "that's just how he is"?

📝Reflection

This verse sounds like a religious assertion, but at its core it is one declaration of equality: no one is hopeless from the start, and everyone alike holds a seed of becoming better. We judge people too easily — "that's just how he is." With that one phrase we shut another's possibility and, at the same time, quietly doubt our own. To say there is a seed means that no flower blooming now does not prove there is no flower within; only the soil, water, and time were lacking. The eye that sees another, and oneself, as a seed is an eye that does not give up carelessly.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

In someone you wrote off as "just like that" today, deliberately look for one unbloomed seed. Your way of seeing people grows kinder.

📖 Source: Nirvana Sutra — "All living beings alike hold the seed of awakening". 대승 경전 고대 한역 — 완전 Public Domain. 번역·해석 100% ONGO 오리지널..
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.

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