DAY 130

The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing

Ecclesiastes 1:8
기원전 3세기경 편집 (히브리 지혜문학)
ORIGINAL
לֹא־תִשְׂבַּע עַיִן לִרְאוֹת וְלֹא־תִמָּלֵא אֹזֶן מִשְּׁמֹעַ
📜 THE VERSE

The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

❓ TODAY'S QUESTION

What did I strain to see and hear more of today — and what remained at the end of it?

📝Reflection

The finger of our age, endlessly scrolling the screen in our palm, was already seen by a Preacher three thousand years ago. The eye and ear are organs that know no satisfaction. See one thing and you want the next; they do not fill but widen. It is precisely the observation the Buddha made saying "there is no fire like greed." The point is not to stop seeing and hearing. Knowing that the eye and ear were made "never to be filled," we learn to stop ourselves with "this is enough," instead of the vain labor of filling them.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

While scrolling today, pause once to ask: "Am I filling right now, or only widening?"

📖 Source: Ecclesiastes 1:8. 히브리어 원전(마소라 본문, PD) + 개역한글판(1961, PD) 참조, ONGO 자체 의역.
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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