In the film, Jung said: What's worse, it's not that I'm worried that I can't persuade him, but that I'm afraid that I will be persuaded by him. In the end, Jung, no matter what was Otta's persuasion or his own inner voice, or knocked on Sabina's door, what should we choose between ethics and the pursuit of our own happiness, freedom and liberation.
After reading it, I was also asking, was I also persuaded by him? Is my moral claim to myself, which I have always been proud of, more of a joke? On the one hand, he desperately desires freedom, on the other hand, he is so self-repressed. Freud said: Many people's diseases are caused by suppressing their sexual desires. Is that how many people's depressions come from?
I remembered that I was reading a book "My Independence Disappeared in the Mist" written by Xia Yu, and I was very longing for the platonic spiritual love of Lu You and Thangka. Because I cherish this love, I don't want to do the mundane things that destroy this love, I don't want to listen to each other's gasps and screams, I don't want to exchange each other's body fluids, just love each other, not make love, what a perfect love.
But after listening to Otta's remarks, my heart was a little shaken. We are all lay people who have been bound by morality for too long. Why can't we liberate ourselves, life is too short, why can't we make ourselves happy and free according to our own nature? I admit that the word "freedom" has a magical charm because of its scarcity. Most of us ask ourselves, "What do we want?" The answer is basically freedom. Like the thangka in the story, she is free, has time, money, and is traveling the world, but she is such a woman who is free and beautiful in the eyes of ordinary people, but she is the least free, her life is passive. , insecure, longing to be loved, wherever she goes, it's just a cage in a different location. Lu You, he is not free, pressure and unwillingness make his life very embarrassing. But it is such an unfree person who is willing to pay the price of his life for his ideals. He knows the truth of this world, but he will not abandon his principles, fight for it, and try to expose the truth, knowing that his end is a fiasco, he can quietly pack up and leave. He is a relatively free person in his own world. But he is such an ideal warrior, and now after listening to otta's remarks, I think he is a coward in love. The soul is trembling, why should I bind my body? Is it because of that little bit of fear in my heart, afraid of destroying the beauty of love in my imagination, that I have to be so restrained? Is this still the essence of love?
I believe I was bewitched, and the tower of my belief seemed to collapse. The big villain Otta, is he trying to push the moral order in my heart in the name of freedom? I even thought in my heart that I am not free in this regard because I do not have enough control over the world. When I have enough control over the world, I will be able to choose freely, follow my own heart, and who I want to love. To fall in love, you don't have to go to great lengths to restrain your instinctive needs, and you don't dare to stop after passing the oasis.
But it reminds me of what another master said: love is the proof of loneliness. There is no explanation, but I can understand. If you want to use love to get rid of loneliness, either the effect is short-lived, or it is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. Profound people are lonely, lonely, like their own shadow, it is difficult to get rid of. Since love has proved to be useless, do you have to return to your own castle and not do that deviant thing? This time, not because of moral constraints, but because of the insight into the truth, that didn't bring me real happiness.
The real happiness comes from self-restraint and perfection. This is a transcendent life, the life I want. I am reminded of the "Autobiography of Franklin" I have read. He has spent his life restraining his diet, sexual desire, and keeping his life in a state of diligence and vitality. He is always fighting with himself, and then he has also defeated fate. Because logically, he came from a poor family and had no education, so he should be a printer or something. The social psychologist I just read, Elliot Aronson's autobiography, also records this self-transcendence life. I think that's what brings true mental peace and joy.
I'm glad I'm back on the road I want to go back to.
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