Today, before I started work, I clicked on an episode of Steelmaking FA on station B. Once again, I felt that this animation was a masterpiece. This is a cartoon that talks about people's spiritual growth, and even the taboos of studying metaphysics are mentioned.
The so-called victory over the ego and obsession is not to remove various weaknesses in human nature through some extraordinary means and make oneself "perfect", but to accept these imperfections and admit that one is only a mortal. Only by letting go of the obsession of becoming perfect and letting go of the idea of making oneself free by possessing things in the external world can one truly make progress and gain freedom in the heart. Because no matter it is metaphysics, religion, or mystical ability, it is only a means of understanding the world, and it cannot allow us to truly go to our hearts in essence. Therefore, under the wrong understanding, these extraordinary experiences may also make us arrogant and delusional to use these external forces to make our side more "higher". This indirectly means not acknowledging the preciousness of one's own life itself, nor the preciousness of others' lives.
In order to get more and become stronger, the villain in the bottle attempts to strip out the "seven deadly sins" of human nature, thinking that it can be higher than human beings, but this just loses the qualification to become a real human being, because it does not as human emotion. This can also be seen from the relationship of the "Seven Deadly Sins" family, the uncontrollable children will be rebuilt (GREED). Therefore, although they have more powerful abilities than humans, they are still unable to defeat humans and can only rely on the Stone of Sages. They are both disdainful and jealous of humans (ENVY) in their hearts. In fact, if he can give up the "truth" he pursues in his heart like Aide, maybe he has already become a real person and feels the satisfaction of survival, so he doesn't need to chase "truth".
The villain in the bottle destroys the balance of the world in order to make himself more perfect, but instead falls into a vicious circle. As human beings, we cannot disobey the big rules of the world. In order to grow, we must first surrender to the rules of the world and life cycle, let go of what we think is "faster, higher, stronger" and return to the real In real life, acknowledging our good and bad parts. That is where the human soul really exists, not those illusory castles in the air. Only by returning to life itself and living life down-to-earth is the way to dissolve the arrogant ego.
The villain in the bottle is actually an ego. It wants to become a human being and to get all the truth, but it has never acknowledged the nobility of human life from beginning to end, so in fact it has not acknowledged the value of its own existence. So in the end, its "truth" says: You haven't grown up at all, isn't it what you want to be back there? sent it back to the world of truth and deprived it of the chance to become human. So the reason why the villain in the bottle can't become a human even if he gets a lot of life is that he is an empty shell with only ego and has not recognized his own soul. Therefore, it has been seeking outward, gratifying itself by enslaving others, thinking that this is what it means to be free. By stripping off the seven deadly sins, committing the seven deadly sins again, beat yourself back to the cage step by step.
Every time I watch FA, there are many new discoveries, and I often watch new masterpieces.
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