Once I was playing in a sports club in Shanghai. There were many foreigners. I spoke Chinese to them. At first, a few were good. Even if I didn't know how to speak, I would try my best to communicate with me in Chinese. Then an English teacher who had lived in Shanghai for many years came over. I greeted him in Chinese. He asked questions in English and I answered in Chinese. He may not understand well. I could see that he was very angry, and said, "Are you going to find an interpreter for you." This is in Shanghai, why don't you speak Chinese? I will return to him: "I speak English, but don't you speak Chinese?" If you just come to Shanghai to play, there is no need to learn Chinese, but you have lived here for so many years (at least 5 years), you have no reason Don't learn Chinese.
The ideal world should be that everyone has an open mind, recognizes that this world is different, and then appreciates this diversity.
Samsara is a film that people from all over the world can understand even if they are deaf and mute. There is no dialogue in the whole film. But your life experience will produce different tasks for the understanding of this film. For example, the Thai ladyboys photographed in it are mostly due to poor families. When they were children, they were sent to schools specializing in cultivating ladyboys because they couldn’t afford them at home. People passed away less than 40 years old. There are also those Chinese workers. Most of them leave their hometowns to work in a place that is completely mechanized and has no relationship with human nature, but they are human beings who should have rich emotions. I’m thinking that many of them may be because the college entrance examination is only 2 points away and they did not go to college, or the people who can’t afford it at home after being admitted to the university, and can only work in these places, their lives may be destined to rubbing away with them. The college students who have passed by are not the same. After 20 years, their children may repeat their destiny.
There are so many places, you would never have thought that there is such a place in the world! From the birthplace of European civilization to the majestic Temple of Bagan, from the famous rooftop antenna group in Egypt, to the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the luxury apartments beside them-why do the rich choose to live in dangerous slums? ? When you are playing golf on this side of the earth, hunting and farming may be the "sports" of people on the other side of the earth. When you run home with mass-market products in the supermarket, there is a group of people on the other side of the earth chasing garbage trucks in the garbage dump to find their next lunch. People on the other side of the earth are holding ipads and watching their favorite movies. Someone on the other side of the earth is recycling your 486. The toxic heavy metals may cause them or their family members to get tumors.
Yes, most of us can't even manage ourselves. How can we manage others when we have time? After watching Samsara taking the red line to return, there was a blind person begging in the carriage. Only two people in the carriage put money into his cup. One is a black girl who may only be 12 or 3 years old, and the other is a young black girl wearing a KFC employee uniform. Men, from the outside, both of them are from low-income groups in the United States. The other people in the carriage didn't even glance at the blind man. The two might not have much money themselves, but they were willing to share it with others. Two professors from the University of Chicago conducted an experiment. They found that the poor, compared to the rich, are more willing to help those in need, and the rich who live in relatively less affluent communities are more likely to donate to public welfare. .
What shocked my heart in Samsara was the moment when Tibetan lamas finally erased their Mandala carefully laid out with grains of sand, and this is the essence of Buddhism. Everything no matter how beautiful (or no matter how ugly) will disappear, this kind of free and natural attitude is constrained by the world. We all think that beautiful things should be pursued and protected. This is not wrong, but from another perspective, all these will disappear, and then more beautiful things will be replaced. Even if you protect it well, you may only see it well within the scope of your life. Or do you want posterity to see? Our earth and solar system in 5 billion years may not be what it is now, and these 5 billion years, for the universe, is just a flick of a finger—just like a Tibetan lama on a sand painting.
Our world is Nasha painting.
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