"Summer" is agitation, and "autumn" is Nirvana. "Spring" is the awakening of life and ignorance. "Winter" is the awakening of the soul, the ascension. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are the course of life and impermanence. The coming of winter and the coming of spring is the cycle of life, a correction. "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring", directed by Kim Ki-duk, tells the truth of Zen. I really like it.
One of the passages in the movie that moved me in particular was: the little monk fell in love with a woman in the world, and decided to leave in the middle of the night while the master was asleep. At this time, the movie gave the old monk a shot, and he opened and closed his eyes slightly. He could try to stop it, but choose to let it happen naturally.
Because he understands that preaching can never replace "full experience." The experience of others is, after all, the experience of others. How can we overcome this desire if we have not plunged into it with all our strength, lost in the ocean of desire, and experienced all kinds of trials.
Many years later, the little monk killed his wife at the foot of the mountain because of her infidelity. He went back to the temple to find the old monk. The old monk asked the people who came to arrest him to leave after he had written the Heart Sutra on the ground. You might say that if the old monk had prevented him from going down the mountain, nothing would have happened.
But in my opinion, there is no choice in life, what you experience is the only possibility for your life.
Perhaps, the most important thing for him (and for everyone) is not to follow the rules of being a monk (the role that society assigns you to play), but to follow the obsession in your heart, complete it, and see it clearly . Don't try to hide from your heart's desire, because you can never hide it. You thought you escaped once, but that desire will reappear in your life in a different form.
until you really beat it.
I've always had a feeling that things won't turn around until things get to the point where they can't be broken, and a new world will open up to you. As if you were falling from the top of a high mountain, descending endlessly, you thought you were going to die. Open your eyes, there is a paradise in front of you. No one else has seen this place, and your fall is the only way to it.
Do you have that kind of courage? Or did you decide to run away halfway and keep the surface peace?
Many times, the young monk became an old monk, and he returned to the temple after serving his sentence. This time, the desire in his heart was extinguished. You saw his compassion and wisdom.
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