For a science-loving liberal arts and science student who has no science brain, mathematics and physics have always been my major weakness, and philosophy has basically not been involved, but recently I have stepped up to study theology. And it just so happens that the shadow of Buddhism was found everywhere in this film.
In the film, AIs soaked us humans in a big bathtub one by one in order to absorb energy, without self-consciousness, living like maggots, and then creating a virtual reality matrix. This is like a huge dream-making machine, all matter is just data, nothing, but gives all the truth that human beings do. Human beings live in this illusion day after day, laughing in the illusion, crying in the illusion, praying in the illusion, and decadent in the illusion. . And this is exactly the "ignorance" expounded in Buddhism. We are obsessed with the pleasure and pain of food, money, status, and interpersonal relationships. We immerse ourselves in masochistic play in a sea of greed, anger, and ignorance, but we don't realize it. In fact, all of this comes from nothingness and nothingness.
In the movie, before helping Neo to awaken, Morpheus gave him two pills, one red and the other blue. After eating blue, you will go back to live your life as usual, and after eating red you will see the truth for yourself. It also means that you have given up everything in the illusory world. This coincides with the practice of Buddhism once again. Only by cutting off all greed for material can you truly realize enlightenment, although doing so will make you very painful at first.
When the male protagonist Neo went to see the prophet, a little monk who spoke English spoke out the truth as stated in Buddhism: "Don't try to bend the spoon. This is impossible. On the contrary, try your best to find out. The truth. The spoon does not exist at all. What you see is not the spoon, but yourself."
After hearing these words, Neo had an epiphany and became a Buddha instantly. In the subsequent fight with the bad guys, he seemed to have gained super powers. Because he saw another form of the world, everything is data. Just like four-dimensional creatures see three-dimensionality, we three-dimensional creatures see two-dimensionality, everything is clear. The momentary wisdom and skill of some masters recorded in Buddhist books have almost the same meaning. And what Buddhism’s epiphany means is just the realization of emptiness, as stated in the Diamond Sutra: “All forms are false. If you see all forms, you will see the Tathagata.”
When it comes to why I am not . Buddhism is interested, because as far as I can see, Buddhism studies the origin of life, where we come from and where we want to go. The practice of Buddhism allows us to find our origin. Incorporating into the movie is to find our original body that is soaked in the bathtub. We are like Neo, we don't even believe that there is a truth before we know the truth, because some truths are always outside of logic. Sometimes we just vaguely think that there should be an answer to explain all of this, but we don't know what the problem is.
In addition, there is another interesting aspect of Buddhism, which is its subtle connection with quantum physics. The Buddha pointed out more than two thousand years ago that the world is made up of particles: "Subhuti. The motes. For example, non-dust. Named motes. For example, the world. Not the world, is the name world." (King Kong After the thirteenth article). The dust in Buddhism is divided into outer color dust and inner color dust. What is the outer color dust? More than two thousand years later, physicists gave the answer: just those molecular, atomic electrons. And the inner color dust is a very amazing thing. If a person studying Buddhism reads Buddhism with a single mind and a unity of mind and matter, he can become another person, another kind of creature. This is the creation of all idealism, and this is the power of inner color and dust. Modern physics seems to have discovered what the inner color dust is: quantum. Quantum is an ideal particle. Without consciousness interacting with it, these particles have no meaning and do not exist. Their nature is empty. The discovery of quantum directly pushes the extreme of science to idealism, and it also coincides with the emptiness taught by Buddhism.
I accidentally pulled it a little too far, and the subject evaporated. In any case, The Matrix is definitely not a mere movie, it surpasses a movie, but it is just a movie. It made me think a lot, and made me write a bunch of things based on my current shallow knowledge. Many of my friends to quantum physics Buddhist ah ah ah still very dismissive of idealism, I just want to borrow the movie in the sentence:
"If you never wake up from a dream, your dream is how can I know that he is awake?"
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