is a story about causal reincarnation.
The story begins in spring. The old monk and the young monk lived together in a temple on the water, and they went in and out by a small boat. The little monk looked like he was six or seven years old. He was playful. He tied stones to fish, frogs, and snakes. He laughed when he saw them walking with the stones on their backs. He also tied a stone to him, and he felt very hard. When he ran to untie the stone for the fish, frog, and snake, he found that the fish and the snake were dead.
Then the picture enters summer, and the little monk grows up and enters adolescence. A mother and daughter came to the temple. The girl was sick, and the mother sent the child to recuperate in the temple. When picking up the girl on the boat on the first day, the little monk touched the girl's body, and desire was born. The little monk broke his precepts and fell in love with this girl. After the old monk sent the girl home, the young monk left the old monk and secretly returned to the secular world to find the girl.
In autumn, the leaves beside the temple turn yellow, and the old monk still lives, but the young monk who returned the vulgarity has now become a fugitive who murdered his wife. The little monk who returned to the temple talked about his love and hatred for his wife's cheating, until it aroused the anger of his murder, and experienced all kinds of pain for the little monk. After the master beat the little monk, he copied down the full text of the Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita and asked the little monk to carve it out with a knife. The master said that the Heart Sutra can calm people down. After the little monk carved the scriptures, he looked at the colorful scriptures on the ground, and was taken away by the police calmly.
In winter, it is frozen, so you can walk directly on the ice without relying on a boat to access the temple. The old monk has passed away, and the young monk has reached middle age at this time. After returning to the temple, he tied a stone and continued to practice. What appears in the picture is a fish tied to a stone swimming with difficulty, a frog tied with a stone swimming with difficulty, a snake tied with a stone swimming with difficulty, and a little monk also tied with a stone and holding a Buddha statue to move forward with difficulty. The picture finally stopped at the top of the mountain, looking down from the top of the mountain, the camera gave a long-range view, and then switched to a close-up of the Buddha statue. In the eyes of the Buddha, all living beings in heaven and earth are probably so insignificant.
Another spring came, and a masked woman came to the temple with a child in her arms. During the night, the woman slipped away and fell into an ice cave dug to death. The little monk became the old monk, and the left child became the little monk. The only play space for this little monk is the landscape in front of him. His way of playing is to put fish, frogs, and snakes in the mouths of stones, then put them back, and laugh to himself...
The story is over, and the seasons of the year turn around, and the experience becomes a bad emptiness. The whole story is told by the lens of director Kim Ki-duk, and it has always been very quiet, which is more suitable for quiet people like me to watch. When I saw the last little monk laugh, I knew that the pain was actually added to him. Sometimes he laughs, sometimes he weeps, and the cause he sowed today is the fruit he will bear in the future. Everything has its own set. At the same time, I also understand that the "Amitabha Buddha" that people in Buddhism often say when they see each other is actually a kind of profound compassion after keen insight.
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