All of these are supporting the meaning of the continuation of life. If you are looking for these, then you must achieve it through faith. But if you are looking for the problems of nothingness and death, like what Hei is looking for in the film, these are things outside of life, which cannot be solved by religion and belief. Neither religion nor belief supports nothingness and death.
But the ultimate state of Buddhism is to jump out, life, death, nothingness, meaning, that is, the ultimate nothingness. beyond these binary oppositions. That is, there is no life, no death. There is no nothingness, where is the meaning. Buddhism eventually jumps out of these and goes above them.
Life itself is meaningless. Who knows outside of life, and what is the ultimate non-existence?
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