Then our Eastern thinking is easy to regard the tree as a symbol of spiritual strength.
The tree symbolizes the "sex" in "life" in our traditional culture.
For example, nature, habits, or vitality, soul, emotions, and desires.
This should be a traditional oriental tactile way of thinking. It cannot really be summed up. "Sex" is a feeling, you, me, me, he, and he can feel it.
(In Western NEW AGE, it is probably called "Origin"?)
We are better at using this perceptual way of thinking.
Westerners have relatively strong logical thinking ability. Only when rational thinking is silent can this special perception be produced. This is to be experienced in a direct way, without conceptual refinement at all. Therefore, it is necessary to use an intuitive sense of falling trees to help him close his rational thinking to feel it.
That's why the director chose a linden tree that was green at first.
From our traditional Chinese thinking, this tree (whether it is Bodhi or not) also has profound meanings.
The saying that wood is in the five elements is: wood is straight and curved.
It is also a symbol.
The saplings are straight lines and the leaves that grow out are curved lines.
The wood god is the god of spring, and his name is Goumang.
The symbol "wood" in Chinese medicine corresponds to the liver. (Before I learned Chinese medicine, I thought liver was made of wood, 囧)
Liver, the officer of a general, has a plan.
The liver regulates qi, and this qi refers to people's emotions.
When it comes to emotions, I think it's right for bingo to stray from the topic...
Leaving aside the plot, if such a tree eventually loses all its leaves, what will happen to people?
will die, right?
This kind of death should refer to the death of "sex" in "life", and "life" will not die.
Again,
the word "life" is not simplified. (Personal experience, when "solving" the word, it is generally interpreted from the traditional Chinese character.) If you take it
apart, it is the password.
What if there is only "life" to live?
He will live in this and that password all day long.
He will no longer know what his original nature wants. He will live in a kind of "I should" every day. When this "I should" is not achieved, he will continue to feel ashamed and continue to hurt the source. . until there is no injury.
At this time, who is the commander?
He is not you, living and speaking is not your origin, he is your "ego".
This kind of person may be very successful as a person, very bright, very elite, and the pillar of the family and country.
But ask him when was the last time he was really happy. What was the last time I had something really delicious.
He may have been unable to answer.
Not too sad or too happy, not particularly emotional, and not too easily hurt.
Hey, it doesn't sound like it's bad...
But, this person, he has lost a feeling that he doesn't know what he wants in a happy life.
He no longer makes choices, just keeps living in "I should".
There is nothing more grief than the death of the heart. When the heart is empty, the body cannot die.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the liver meridian disease of Foot Jueyin is more serious than Shaoyin disease, but it is not easy to die, and it is not easy to die physically.
This may be a very barren feeling.
Doing what should be done, busy, but found that the heart can never be calm. Always vaguely wrong.
Even if we don't fall into that state of no "sex", we often come back suddenly and feel that we are too impetuous. Sighing for a while, I will still take out my mobile phone tablet, brushing the social software I don't know what I'm talking about, numb, I don't know why.
At this time, I think, our leaves must be falling.
How to save the bodhi tree?
The prompt in the movie is: calm down and deal with some emotional relationships.
We are not saying that the physical (material) life is not important, nor that we must deny the value order of the masses, but that we must place the affirmation of the mind in a more important position.
Whenever we make a choice, we have to ask ourselves, am I being numb and doing what "should" be required by my "ego" or do I really want to do it in my heart?
It's important to ask your own heart.
Heart, the official of the monarch.
If there is anything that can "life" on you, let your heart come, whether it's good or not, don't let the ego make numb choices again and again.
Replace the "approval of others" that you value now with the real happiness in your heart.
So sometimes, people live very selfishly.
When I watched Hesse's "Siddhartha" last year, I didn't quite understand, what's so beautiful about a river flowing quietly, and what's so good about it.
At that time, I was very anxious, and every day I felt that I was not doing well enough. Maybe at work, maybe at home, maybe at school.
When I made up my mind to change these lifestyles, I changed myself.
Probably because I dare to fuck them all.
Maybe because I'm really afraid my tree will die and my river won't flow anymore.
This is a bit like the mutual reference that Buddhists say :)
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist's assistant finally turns into the hateful boss who suppressed him before.
People, sometimes, it's not that you don't want to be what you don't want to be, and the environment is very, very important. Never expect spiritual redemption to be 100% effective.
View more about A Thousand Words reviews