Unbelievers do not speak before

Jackie 2022-04-23 07:03:49

I saw this movie many years ago. It was a tepid and controversial movie, but it seemed to hit a certain point in my heart. It was planted like a seed, and it was hidden for a long time, without reviewing or forgetting it. However, it seems to be just waiting for the opportunity to mature.
Today I occasionally heard Andy Lau sang the theme song "Enlightenment", and I couldn't help being a little excited. Looking back, I didn’t strongly recommend it to the people around me, and I didn’t discuss the deep meaning of this film with anyone at that time, because I didn’t know anything about the teachings of Buddhism at that time. My concept is still so far away from me. As someone who studied screenwriting, I know that writing a movie like this is not enough to attract huge box office, because the main body of the market are all ignorant beings floating up and down in the sea of ​​red dust. If you show them impermanence, they will fear and resist. , escaping, disliking, you tell them to let it go, and they cling to the desire to make themselves extremely painful and scold you for not seeking progress and having no interest in life. The compassion of Buddhism comes from understanding the suffering of all living beings in greed, hatred, ignorance and compassion. When I saw someone scolding this film for no EQ and no IQ, I suddenly understood the phrase "the unbelievers don't talk before, don't ask, don't tell their own experience", when people are not about to die, how can they stop running and look at themselves What is there in the hands that can't hold anything, when people have everything, people stop thinking. In today's society, we do not lack anything, but why do people keep saying that we don't have this, we want this, we want that? Blessings for the Year of the Horse, it is no longer about family happiness and success, but everything at once. What is this everything, do you want everything because you have nothing? On the contrary, if you have something but want more, all this is just desire, and only desire is a starving ghost who will never be satisfied. Thanks to the writers and directors, I did not bring down the wisdom because of investors' expectations for the box office of this action film. Their courage is already admirable, even if we have only glimpsed a corner of the profound teachings through this film, and thus planted a seed of exploration.

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Shaolin quotes

  • Abbot: A piece of gold or pile of mud, which is more useful?

    Cook: The gold, of course.

    Abbot: But to a seed? Never underestimate yourself. Everyone has a purpose.

  • Cook: [to Huo Jie] I don't know an of this, all i know is it's worthless to train just the moves without the spirit.