Is the bear a Rakshasa or a Buddha?

Bert 2022-03-21 09:02:21

Is the bear a Rakshasa or a Buddha? For this "thing" I don't know if it's a movie review or an afterthought, I specifically checked the Baidu Encyclopedia of Rakshasa and Buddha. Rakshasa: In Buddhism, it refers to evil spirits, which refers to evil spirits that eat human flesh. "Hui Lin Meaning" Volume 25 records: "Rakshasa, this cloud is also an evil ghost. It can eat human flesh and blood, or fly in the air or on the ground, and it is swift and daunting." According to the Buddha map, they are all translations of the Buddha. Buddhism was created by Buddha. The ancients called Buddhists Buddhas. Buddhism is Buddha Road. Later, the pagoda was called the Buddha. Later people thought that the word "Buddha" was too troublesome, so it was simplified to one word "Buddha". As for the various connections between this article and Rakshasa and Buddha, I will not mention it for the time being. The first time I saw the documentary "Grizzly Man" originated from the shocking news that a keeper at the Shanghai Wildlife Park was being eaten by a group of bears. A tourist in a bus witnessed the whole process, but there was nothing he could do, watching the breeder being eaten alive. When I saw this news, my strong empathy ability made me feel the heat of the bear exhaling in my ears, the sound of the bear chewing his body, the heart-piercing pain, and the helplessness that accompanied the passing of life. So out of a curiosity, I browsed a series of news about bears attacking people. This saw the protagonist of the "Thing" narrative who almost died as a martyr - "The Grizzly" Timothy. Compared with the breeder who died in the belly of the bear, the ending of Timothy, the protagonist of the "Grizzly Man" documentary, can be called an "inevitable tragedy". Timothy was born into an ordinary American family. According to the accounts of those around him, it seems that Timothy is just an ordinary American boy who loves animals. All in all, the young Timothy suffered a series of "traumas" that made him sluggish after the "traumas" of drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide attempts. According to his own account, his parents and friends, the "trauma" can be summarized as the rejection of his desire to be an actor, rejection of a mate, and unfriendly views of the school and people around him. Such an intuitive and concise summary is only for the convenience of writing and writing. Of course, it is not enough to summarize the actual feelings of Timothy himself. It may be possible to make a little analysis of his personality. Timothy loves animals, but this kind of fanaticism comes to the "Grizzly World", and his close contact with unprotected measures is more like a "rescue" after suffering severe social damage, rather than simply narrated by him. "Hope to protect animals" and "Love animals so much that I am willing to die for them". In fact, Timothy was arrogant and inferior. He keeps boasting about what he knows about the Grizzlies, believing that he can get along with them and get along well. I'd like to believe that he does have a fair amount of experience with the Grizzlies and his habits. I understand that a person who has been with grizzly bears for 13 years, has almost zero-distance contact without any protective equipment, and can be unscathed cannot seem to be simply described as "good luck". He likes to emphasize his sexual abilities, but paradoxically points out that few women want to associate with him; he keeps repeating his own merits, even though he is compelled to point out in disguise that he lives in human society "unhappy, unhappy, unhappy". Perhaps it was this inferiority complex that made him want to prove something, so he began a 13-year journey with the Grizzlies. Timothy behaves like a child in the documentary, and is as simple as a child in life. His somewhat black-and-white outlook on the world may be one of the reasons why he embarked on this somewhat extreme "Grizzly Journey". Young children are ignorant, and their lack of understanding of the outside world makes them "ignorant and fearless." Timothy, an adult, regards human society as a flood and a beast, and takes the initiative to accompany the beast grizzly. This behavior undoubtedly behaves like a child. Perhaps because of the above-mentioned "arrogance and inferiority", he was locked in his own world and took the initiative to "avoid the world". But in fact, it is not that Timothy is completely ignorant of the dangers of this near-indirect suicide. He has made it clear that if other human beings want to repeat this behavior, they will be buried in the belly of the belly, and he " Almost a genius" and lived with them perfectly for 13 years. It is not so much that he acted like a child, reckless and unbelievable, it is better to say that this is a kind of revenge to prove his ability, in order to gain the respect of the world, and put his understanding and recognition that he has not received in human society on the grizzly, hoping Ways to reach emotional resonance with these beasts. The emotional tendencies of the director of the film "Grizzly Man" are very obvious. He did not agree with his behavior, thinking that Timothy had "a problem with his brain" and "naive and simple". These words, expressed through the mouths of others, almost overwhelmingly describe it as a megalomaniac with a problem in his head and avoiding human society. Nonetheless, there is a hazy mystery in the film's narrative, which the director's narration lends to Timothy's demeanor with a religious veil of mystery. Combined with the meanings of Rakshasa and Buddha in Buddhism mentioned above, I think that if people in the world compare Timothy's burial in the belly of a bear to that of Rakshasa, then he himself agrees that the grizzly bear is a Buddha that redeems his soul. In Buddhism, Sakyamuni feeds a tiger with his body just for a meal, so he accumulated good deeds and became a Buddha. Timothy's death seems to be a reasonable and noble explanation in religion. However, the grizzly bear that Timothy always thought of as a "Buddha" seemed to be a Buddha, but in the end it became the executioner "Rakshasa" who killed him, and the girlfriend who always feared the grizzly bear. Amy, although she kept claiming that Timothy's behavior was "dedicated to self-destruction", became a "Buddha" who lived and died with him at the critical moment of life and death. We can't imagine what kind of human torture was recorded on the unturned tape at the last moment, but we can see the solemn expression on the director's face after listening to the tape, and the statement to Pearl who kept the tape - "This tape should be With a general imagination in the narrative of "permanent destruction", coupled with the coroner's narrative, the tragic process of death filled the audience's mind. At the end of the film, the director used Timothy's turn to go away to symbolize his death. The soundtrack coyotes gave the audience enough emotional support at the right time. The lyrics also coincided with the theme: "People like me have nowhere to turn to." Begins to look into the distance, where only he can see, whispers that now all he has left is the old days, and the old goddamn coyotes and me; he disappeared without a word, but When the moon crossed the mountains that night, he was one of the coyotes... The man was gone, and Timothy died of his favorite animal, for which he had stated countless times that he was willing to give his life, but We still can't imagine the tragic scene before his death, and whether there was a flash of remorse in his mind. But perhaps, for Timothy, the grizzly bear is not a Rakshasa, but a Buddha.

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Grizzly Man quotes

  • Timothy Treadwell: I will die for these animals, I will die for these animals, I will die for these animals.

  • Sam Egli: That bear, I think, that day, decided that he had either had enough of Tim Treadwell or that something clicked in that bear's head that he thought 'Hey, you know, he might be good to eat.'

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