I often like to use a metaphor. I say that so-and-so does something as pious as a religion.
I have always believed that people must have faith, and people should have a religion to maintain themselves.
This kind of religion has nothing to do with politics, it is just to rely on the love or compassion in the heart. No matter how it evolves, religion always starts with good, and this is good. It is considered to be the cause and process of all love or goodwill. Just as Christians attribute love to Christ, Muslims attribute goodness to Allah, and even the suffering that humans have to suffer is also analogized to the suffering of Christ. Then everyone closed their eyes in the face of suffering, and piously waited for the resurrection of Christ three days later, the carnival of rebirth after catastrophe.
Although I admit that religion is not all of life, just as waiting is not the only way to face disasters, I am willing to equate religion here with faith. People have to have a spiritual support, have the support of faith, and then do it, like Christopher, to believe and to achieve, in order to face the truth of life, and live hard, although I have to admit that it is as strong as John Christopher still has no external faith. He lives alone and claims that he is not oppressed by any beasts in his mind.
But Romain Roland used this way to express his religious ideas: He constructed a dialogue between Christophe and his neighbor, Father Gornay. This paragraph of exposition is full of wisdom and light. In order to express my deep approval and admiration for it, I am willing to quote it in a longer space:
"For Christophe, he also feels that a great pious heart is like beautiful music, which evokes distant and deep echoes in his heart. Anyone who is instinctively resolute must have the ability to continuously improve, that is, the instinct for survival. The instinct of struggling to survive is like rowing a tilted boat, restoring its balance and making it sprint out;-because of this power of self-improvement, Christophe was caused by Parisian sensualism for two years His disgust and suspicion made God resurrected in his heart. It was not that he believed in God. He always denied God, but his heart was filled with the spirit of God. Father Gornay smiled and said to him that he was like his name God ., who lives in God but they do not know
'? I can not see then how does God' Christopher asked.
'are you like thousands of people tired million for the same: every day, saw him and did not expect him; God uses all kinds All kinds of forms are shown to all people:-for some people, it is shown in daily life, as it was for Saint-Bière in Galilee;-for others, for example, to your friend Mr. Walter , Just like St. Thomas’ sorrows and sorrows of human beings;-For you, God is shown in your ideal dignity... You will recognize him sooner or later.'
'I will never Concession, I am spiritually free," Christopher said. "
You are more free when you are with God." The priest replied quietly."
Religion itself is not complicated. I think what it provides is only a possibility to explain the world. And this possibility is precisely love, or I would rather use the word compassion instead. Religion itself is an attempt to express a kind of original respect for life, love all life, contemplate all things with great love, and sympathize with all beings. This may have saturated many Buddhist thoughts, but I believe this is the final theme of all the great formed religions. What complicates religion is the politics of using religion as a banner and the use of religious differences to slaughter the world. This is more ridiculous than tagging Christopher as a Republican musician. So I would rather believe in the so-called civilian religion, or it can be replaced by a personal belief. It may be more real and closer to the truth of the religion when it was born. After all, religion was born in people, and was a purer, lively, and truer person in the juvenile period of human civilization. Just as I am more enthusiastic about the original warmth of Confucius than the later Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Although it is not a difficult thing to put on Confucianism in the new clothes of the emperor who is outside Confucianism and internal law to the outside Confucianism and internal law.
What's more, since Dante knocked on the door of the Renaissance, the sky and the stone are open, the beginning of human liberation has since ended the rule of asceticism in Europe. People breathe their faith and feel extremely happy.
This is just like the extremely contradictory and painful Maria in "the sound of music" after she finally fled back to the monastery because she was struggling with her love for the colonel and her vows to God, and finally fled back to the monastery. dialogue. Here I have to use quotes to conceal the paleness of my personal language:
"This is what makes me depressed. It was God who sent me there. It would be wrong to ask for his love, and I can’t stay. There, I really can’t. At this moment I’m ready to make my vows, please help me."
"Maria, love is also sacred. You have a great tolerance for love, and now you have to understand how the gods do you Contribute your love."
"But I vowed to serve God all my life, and I will devote my life to him."
"Daughter, if you love this person, it doesn't mean that you have less love for God."
This is the fact. As the abbot said later, the walls of the monastery are not used to escape problems. She must learn to face it and learn to live according to her own destiny. This is the meaning of life. In the direction facing the lens, the picture of the crucifixion can always be seen looming under the dim light, but the abbot exudes a white light as she calmly tells Maria. I don't know if this is a suggestion that the abbot became a substitute for Jesus' sermon at this time, lovingly imparting the essentials of life to an ordinary person.
I think this is the ultimate reason for an ordinary person to accept religion or belief. Use it to explain the world, and live by it, take faith as one's most lofty purpose, and spread it until the spirit bred by faith influences another life. This kind of life is undoubtedly beautiful.
Therefore, "the sound of music", as the best interpretation of love in movie history, uses the beauty and goodness of religion as the main thread throughout, and completes the complete expression of faith with a series of stories that are true and beautiful, and beautiful and good. Like the Hollywood classic ending later, the kind-hearted people finally ushered in a difficult miracle. This is the happy ending, the ultimate happiness brought by faith. When the director arranged this ending, he must be looking at these kind people with compassion, and couldn't bear to hurt their kindness before letting the miracle appear. However, I would rather believe that a happy ending is that it makes life full of meaning, and it is because of the support of faith that miracles are possible.
So, as I said at the beginning, I treat faith as piously as I perform a religion. People have to have faith, like Christopher, to survive, to sprint, to fulfill the responsibility of life, to look up to faith without humbleness, to live by this; but never to prostrate, to face the truth of life like Maria, Have hope and yearning, accept life and enjoy life, fear life because of the existence of faith, spread love, and remember to wait for the dawn of miracles in difficult times.
Only in this way can life be both humble and full of compassion.
What impressed me deeply in "The Sound of Music" was that when the Lord closed the door, he would open a window. When Lord closes the door, somewhere he opens the window.
Also impressed me is the chorus of nuns approaching heaven. Their voices are covered with a clean and holy light because of love and being loved.
This reminds me of faith. How happy people with pure and complete faith are, just like a cloud floating over the dome of a church. It moves when the wind moves, it stops when the wind is calm, quietly fulfilling its obligations as a cloud, and living happily, looking down at the world; not too close to the dome of the church, nor too far away, you can always I can hear the bells, and I can often hear the singing and prayers of the nuns and priests leading to heaven, and I can often float away and enjoy freedom. How happy this is.
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Postscript:
For a long time, I have been excited by John Christophe described by Romain Rowland. Like fire, it belongs to young struggles and beliefs. It is "thesound of music" that has moved me for a long time. I watched this movie over and over again, first of all, I was fascinated by its music. This is undoubtedly, as Romain Roland once quoted, if I were alone , After listening to the beautiful chords of the instrument, or listening to the gentle singing, but don’t know how to appreciate, don’t know how to move, don’t know how to tremble from the beginning to the end, will not be relaxed and happy, will not detach yourself, then this person’s heart is not righteous Ugly, depraved. Later, it was for the pure and beautiful kindness and love between people. As I have shown, I am a person who is easily moved by love, especially deep love, and this love of course includes the plot. Colonel Trepp has a deep love for Austria. Then unconsciously, I began to try to think about this film, trying to find out the same reason that this great man described by Romain Rolland thrilled me.
I hope that what I have written can accurately express my thinking process and results. The beliefs spawned by religious beliefs, the kindness and love generated by beliefs, are the center of my attempt to express, and they are also the reasons why I have found them to have a profound impact on me.
I hope my search is correct. Of course, I hope that when I look back at what I wrote down some time later, I think it is absurd and superficial. Because that means my thoughts are moving forward, and I have not stopped thinking.
This is more important. We are thinking reeds, we must think carefully.
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John" Christopher, I haven't read it. From your quotation you can see that he is very religious but he doesn't want to belong to any kind of religion. Agree with you: a person There must be a beacon of faith to sail in the waves of life. This beacon is not necessarily Christ, Allah, Confucius, or Buddha, but I clearly feel that these giants who have navigated countless people have extraordinary power. I used to—and still do a little bit—believe that a person can be guided by one's faith outside of religion. But more and more I feel that another voice is gradually rising in my heart: Religion is the home of faith. I guess, Gornyi The priest said that when he is with God, the spirit will be more free. Moreover, I clearly feel that the spirits of all major religions are interlinked. They are all manifestations of love and compassion in the deepest part of the human heart. The only difference is expression. The way.
"Sound of Music" is also one of my favorite movies. The few fragments that impressed you the most, it is precisely that I also have the deepest impression. The patriotism of Captain, the innocence of Maria, the wisdom of the abbot, and the music, pictures and dialogue throughout the film all lift and purify the soul, but'God is here to close a door, and it will be Open a window elsewhere','The high walls of the monastery are not for escape','If you love this person, it doesn't mean you love God less' and other dialogues are particularly shocking. Indeed, in the film about "love", it can be said that "Sound of Music" is about agape (Latin, meaning of God's love), and most of the others are talking about eros (Latin, meaning of human love, sex) ). Confucius said that "The Book of Songs" is'happy but not lust, sorrow but not hurt.' This may be the spirit of the same body and great compassion. In daily life, this kind of deep inner voice is easily covered up by various affairs, so the ancients'cautious about what they don't know, fearing what they don't hear, like walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss. 'So if you still can't wake up, you need movies like "Sound of Music", churches, Buddha statues, etc. to remind people from time to time: listen to the voice of your heart!
"Forrest Gump" is also my favorite movie. I have read it several times. Compared with "The Sound of Music", its religious meaning is slightly lighter and closer to daily life. Of course, "The Sound of Music" is also very close to life, but the form of the musical makes it have to be more romantic. If there is a cloud floating above the dome of the church, then "The Sound of Music" is the singing of angels in the clouds, and "Forrest Gump" is the story of ordinary people on the ground. Angels sing about the future, the direction to be pursued throughout their lives; ordinary people are talking about the present, which is something to be done right now.
In adversity, "you have to look up as a cloud";
in good times, "the road is under your feet."
The so-called pros and cons, after all, depends on whether the voice of the soul can be heard. In the singing of angels, we should do what we should do; when we are lost in business, we should listen to the voice of angels more. Let the floating clouds on the dome of the church be with all beings. "That's
it. I'm not too happy yet.
What do you believe in? When a person stands before God as a believer, he feels not only joy, freedom, and love, but also grief, helplessness, and help. Most of the beliefs that people endure before liberation are painful.
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