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compassionate eyes - "Departures" and "Father comrades" of the two men
stare "Departures" hero Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki Japan actor starred) as a pair of clear sky like Apprehension quiet eyes, a little gentle light which reminds me of another pair of my deep The eye of impression is also a man with a compassionate and holy luster, the priest in "Comrade Priest" (starring by the famous British movie star Linus Roache). What these two men bring to the viewer is a kind of solid and warm brother-like emotions. What's interesting is that the work these two men are engaged in has also reached a kind of wonderful mutual understanding. The job of the latter is to serve God full-time and build a bridge for the world to communicate with the gods; while the former is to escort the world through the last stop of life, cleanse the body and mind of leaving the world and step into another world.
In the eyes of the world, the priest who soothes the human soul is undoubtedly noble and sacred, while the enchanter who handles the filthy remains is dirty and unrefined. Daigo Kobayashi’s wife couldn’t understand why her husband was willing to do a job serving the dead. In her opinion, the job of an enchanter was humble and ridiculed. She asked Kobayashi, why don’t you engage in an ordinary job? Xiaolin answered her, isn't death uncommon? The reality is that I will die and you will die. Everyone will die. Death is happening every day in our lives. The evasive psychology of the enlightenment teacher actually stems from the world's fear and taboo of death. Although everyone knows that there is life and death, and knows that there will be a day of death, the topic of death is still something people avoid. People despise it and avoid it, thinking that in this way, death can be forgotten and escaped.
In the minds of the director of the movie "Encouragement Division", the Encampmentation Division is undoubtedly a solemn and solemn job as a priest who serves God. This reminds me of the attitude of Chinese classical Confucianism towards death. Confucians say that death is rebirth. Only by paying attention to death and treating death can we respect and treat life well. The attitude of the ancient Chinese towards funerals was "cautiously chasing farther away." Carefully and solemnly escort the deceased to complete the last rite of life. These Confucian concepts are fully embodied in The Enemy. Under the lens captured by the movie camera, the enlightenment teacher Kobayashi carefully took care of every part of the deceased's body with a solemn and pious manner and graceful manners. His body movements were like a silent sound of nature, flowing into death and death like a clear spring. In the hearts of the world, I even believe that the gentle and compassionate hands that care for the dead are given to him by the Bodhisattva.
In the world of life, suddenly like a traveler. After experiencing day after day, one after another death, Xiao Lin Daiwu, in his career, really understands the hardship and shortness of life. The old caretaker of the funeral home said that death is a door to bid farewell to this world and step into another world. And the existence of life itself is so cruel, Zhuang Zi said that a person's life is at odds with things, and life-long service does not see its success, but is exhausted without knowing its return. The president who led Kobayashi said that the survival of life depends on the sacrifice of other lives. One kind of life must eat another to survive. Compared with the cruelty of life, death actually shows its gentle and generous side. The so-called life is like a big dream, and it is in the process of becoming a big dream. Perhaps death is the place where our body and soul can be peaceful and peaceful. After the death of his wife, the Chinese Taoist Zhuangzi once left a story of "singing with drums". He said that the birth of a person is the gathering of qi. To gather is to live, and to dissipate is to die. People in the world are always greedy for life and fear of death, but they don't know that life and death are just the result of gathering and dispersing at once. For those who believe in soul and immortality, life or death is nothing but the conversion of the soul journey in different dimensions.
There was a mother who was in distress because of the short-lived death of her son, and she asked the Buddha for enlightenment. She asked the Buddha what the truth was after his death and his death. The Buddha replied that if you want to understand the true meaning of life, you must always reflect like this: There is only one law that never changes in the universe, that is, everything is changing and everything is impermanent. The death of Linglang helps you understand that the world of reincarnation we live in is a sea of unbearable suffering. There is only one way to escape the cycle of life and death, and that is the way of liberation. The pain prepares you to learn. Your heart has also opened the door to the truth, and in this way, you will embark on the path of liberation.
In the course of his work as an enlightenment teacher, Daigo Kobayashi saw the hardship and cruelty of life, the impermanence of life and death, and the insignificance and humbleness of life. Just like the truth opened by the Buddha, visualizing the essence of everything is like a dream bubble. It will never make us feel cold, desperate or painful. On the contrary, it will awaken our warm sense of humor and self-sufficient compassion. After contemplating and seeing all things and our emptiness and interdependence, the world will show a brighter, fresher, brighter light. I believe that Xiaolin saw that light, so he can give each deceased gentle care and love with a compassionate heart. He carefully cleaned, bathed, and dressed the deceased's body, and Xiaolin at work seemed to condense a kind of calming power. The light of compassion gleaming in his eyes, the cherishment from his eyebrows, the solemn and solemn expression in his expression, and the power that he can rely on naturally conveyed in his body language-it is a kind of compassion that bestows him on him. , Comes from the light of one's own soul.
For Kobayashi, the value of the work of the enlightenment is not only to find the position of his own life, but the most important significance is that it makes up for the wounds and the lack of soul in his life all the time-father's belated love. Abandoned his father in childhood, and finally lay quietly beside his son at the moment of death. The emotion of love and hatred that has plagued him throughout his life is embodied in his father. He carefully dressed up, groomed and bathed this incompetent father, and accompanied the man who brought him to life through the last part of his life. An exquisite, translucent and shiny little stone slipped from the palm of his father's grip. He recognized it at a glance. It was the one he gave to his father when he was a child. The son's little stone accompanied his father's life until the end of his life. Also take him with him, holding the little stone, as if holding his father's deep thoughts, silent eternal love.
Like Kobayashi, the enchanter, the priest in "Comrade Priest" is also the kind of man who can bring compassion and glory. There was a kind of firm confidence in Xiaolin's eyes, a kind of love for mortal life. The eyes of comrade priests are like lakes shining with crystal luster under the autumn sun, accumulating a deep worries and concerns about the world. When looking at the priest, you can also see a kind of unpolluted Pure and clear light as a newborn baby.
Comparing the experience of Kobayashi and the priest, Kobayashi's inner worry is because he is engaged in a job that is abhorrent to the world, and the inner melancholy of the priest comes from the struggle of lust for men of the same sex, and he is deeply sorry for violating the dogma. s pain. The reason why Kobayashi's work is rejected by people is because people hate death, and comrade priests are finally rejected by the masses and moralists because people do not accept homosexual love. Like death, homosexuality is a taboo topic that this heterosexual society avoids. People fear it and avoid it, thinking that as long as they pretend not to know it, it will not exist.
It is not easy for gays and lesbians who have to carefully hide themselves in a heterosexual society, not to mention the priests living in churches under the sacred cloak of religion. In the public mind, how can men who are engaged in priesthood work like priests and pastors fall in love with men? Comrade priest lives in this world that suppresses his eros. Like the enchanter Kobayashi, he deeply respects, loves and respects his work. He placed all his thoughts and love on the service to God and the enlightenment and teaching of the public mind. He wanted to gain inner peace by dedicating himself to God. There is no doubt that in the eyes of the public, he is brilliant around God. But one day, when the homosexuality of gay priests is ruthlessly exposed by the media, the work he had done diligently in the past and the love he dedicated to the public will no longer have the sacred aura of his compassion. The dazzling brilliance, the public who believes in God on weekdays, the power that destroys beauty and goodness in them is far greater than the kindness that God expects them to have. The public dominated by evil thoughts mercilessly pushed this pure man off the stage, with one exception--
It was a girl who had been sheltered by a comrade priest, a girl who was sexually assaulted and abused by a stepfather at home. When the priest learned this fact from the girl’s father, he fell into a sharp conflict in his heart. On the one hand, he wanted to save this The weak girl, on the other hand, according to the rules and regulations, he can't reveal any secrets of the girl's father. Comrade priests struggled between the act of salvation and the shackles of the canon. This is the painful cry of a kind man when he faces cruel and inhuman dogma. Until his painstaking prayers and complaints had a magical induction-his powerful mind and thoughts finally moved God, and recalled the girl's mother, and the girl was finally saved.
Two equally clean, handsome, compassionate and warm men, one had to struggle between religious belief and self-soul because of homosexual desire, but at the moment when the prohibition was broken, the faith of God and the salvation of the soul were magically unified; A person who sticks to himself under the ridicule of the world, discovers the meaning of the work of the enchanter from the initial fear of death to the calm face of life and death. Kobayashi didn’t accept this job from the very beginning. The hardship and bitterness of the job as an enchanter is beyond people’s imagination. Even his wife couldn’t stand this dirty job and left him unfeelingly. To all kinds of unspeakable mockery and misunderstanding, Xiao Lin still persisted with his calm and firm mind. He has never compromised. I think this thought comes from his heartfelt compassion for the world. He found the meaning of life in his work and fell in love with it, just like falling in love with a new life. When Xiaolin Daigo stood on the grassy hill and played his beloved violin, the whole world, the clouds in the sky, the mud and grass under his feet, and the rivers around him were so smooth and tactful, thinking of the dead who were taken away by him personally, the violin The melody became more and more vigorous, and every sound was telling the sincere respect and sigh for the hard life. At that moment, the handsome man standing on the hillside showed the temperament and demeanor of a talented artist. The emotional melody is like the burning of the soul. Listening to him, watching him, as if seeing the phoenix brilliance blooming on him quietly .
In an era without words, people convey their moods by giving each other stones. Smooth stones represent inner peace and tranquility. This is what Kobayashi said when he gave the stone to his wife. When the wife received this stone, she also received a kind of confidence and strength. She finally understood the meaning of this job for her husband's life, and at the same time, she felt her husband's courage in her kind and honest smile, a kind of steady, steady, safe, and solid strength. With this kind of power as support, what else cannot be defeated, and what is unacceptable. The wife finally accepted her husband’s job and her husband’s life.
Similarly, when the kind and pure priest was abandoned by the world, only the weak girl walked towards him piously. At that moment, the inviolable dignity of the priest was strengthened by the dedication to God’s faith. Finally defeated, he hugged her, and the two people who had been insulted and hurt couldn't make a sound. The pain that had been suppressed in the heart was finally released at that moment. Although the man’s cry was restrained, he could hear every sound from the heart, and every sound was a kind heart to this hypocritical and merciless world. Accusations and shouts.
I am reminded of a song about the Tao of Tibetan Buddhism: The
current enlightenment is the true Buddha. In openness and contentment, I find that the guru is in my heart. When we understand that the endless natural mind is the nature of the guru, attachments, climbing, crying prayers, or artificial complaints are useless. As long as we rest in this innocent, open and natural state, we can obtain a natural self-liberation.
When the priest comrade realized that, compared with the rigid dogma, the disposition of the disobedience of God can possess such wonderful power, even if he has stepped down from the priest's platform, he will never be separated from the God in his heart. Because his xinxing and divinity have actually merged into one. Eros is not a sin. Only when you face yourself calmly, and only when you return to the pure and natural world, can your soul get the true redemption of the love you believe in. This kind of salvation is a kind of human awakening, tranquility as quiet as a clear sky. Who are we, why are we here, why we suffer, what should we do, etc... The answers to all questions will be self-evident, and the final result will be a new life, a new birth.
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