The connection between suffering and passion is no coincidence. Think about the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. The arrested believers were often imprisoned, tortured, and finally brutalized when the Roman authorities were unable to convert them. , a process no less than a repeat of the crucifixion of Jesus. However, the details of the stories of the martyrs are often like this: they enjoyed themselves in captivity and persecution, and even discovered the beauty of suffering, before leaving, either praying, singing hymns, smiling and dying... ..Look
at the stories of the Buddha's life scriptures: cut meat trade pigeons, feed tigers, endure the humiliation of immortals... In the story of meat trade pigeons, the king cut off the pigeons from the eagle's mouth in order to save them. The same weight of meat as the pigeon is fed to the eagle, but the meat on the breast and the arm is exhausted, and it still cannot be the same weight as the pigeon. So the king lifted the balance. In an instant, the earth shook, the gates of heaven opened, and the king finally attained the path of Bodhisattva...
Similarly, ascetic monks of various religions tortured themselves through fasting, whipping, and gained some kind of mysterious religious experience... Suffering has become a joy here, a way of sanctification .
In the midst of extreme physical pain and spiritual humiliation, religious believers feel incomparably close to that Tao, God, God and Buddha.
After reading The Passion of the Christ, I finally understand what it means to be "scarred and bruised". Some people criticize Mel Gibson for being too bloody, but only in this way can the hidden religious emotion of "passion" be fully expressed. Shortly at the beginning of the film, Jesus Christ After being captured, the torture journey began. First, the soldiers beat him, punched him, and spit. The climax of the crucifixion was the whipping section. He thought that his suffering could stop for a while, and then he was carrying a cross and carrying a heavy cross, but he was constantly urged to be whipped by the soldiers. Seeing this, the audience probably said, let this person go. Finally, After being tortured and crucified, Jesus said in the first sentence: "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they do". How good and humble this man should be, like a lamb being led to the slaughter And how much pain in his own heart at that time, he alone bears the sins of the world.
Paul said: I rejoice in weakness, in reproach, in distress, in persecution, in distress, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, I am strong.
In fact, the process of religious practice is to give up the self, like the king who cut the meat and trade pigeons, cut off the "I" little by little. Jesus was bruised and humiliated, made a sinner and died on the cross. But after his death, he will be resurrected, his skin will be as clean as ever, and he will ascend to heaven as "King of kings and Lord of lords". The same is true for cultivators. They cut off and kill the me who was full of selfishness and shame, and finally became the self, and shared the destiny with all people in the world. They are no longer bound by sin and gain true freedom.
Whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
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