Samsara Reincarnation

Tremaine 2022-04-19 09:02:45

After several setbacks, the subtitles were still wrong, so I found the subtitles and watched it again.

The film was completed after 7 years of shooting. It is based on the theme of erotic desire, the largest human desire. It has a profound meaning and has many, many echoes. As a lama who entered Buddhism at the age of 5, Dashi was 20 years old after three years, three months, three weeks and three days of meditation. There was some ruffian in his speech and behavior. Before he met Pima, he had a lustful reaction at night. For us "mortals", we can fully understand him, and we don't think there is anything wrong with this, but we are deeply sorry for Dash. Wandering between desire and Buddhist precepts, Da Shi said to Daxiu before returning to secular life, that he should break the precepts and explore his own desires.

Dashi walked into the river, washed his precepts with the water, and returned to the secular world. When he walked to the river bank, his dog did not recognize him and left him.

In the film, the people in the village have a lot of respect for the lama. This is a rare piece of pure land.
Later, he experienced the lust and troubles of "mortals", had a son, and even later had an "affair". He sold food from their village to him. His attitude shows his integrity and bravery, and his guilt after the "affair" shows that people's choice between desire and commandment tortures people's hearts. Until I learned that Daxiu passed away, Daxiu’s letter generally means: My karma has not been completed, so I will be reborn and reincarnated. At that time, you can tell me, which is more important to satisfy a thousand desires or overcome one desire?

After returning to the secular world, Dashi became enlightened, left his wife and son at night, washed away all worldly desires with river water, went to search for the true meaning, and finally found the answer behind the stone?

---How to keep a drop of water from drying up?
---Let it flow into the sea

The understanding of this sentence varies from person to person. I think that people's pain and troubles all come from desire. In desire, a drop of water will dry up sooner or later. Only by recognizing the true meaning of life and understanding the world's samsara will you be fully enlightened and gain true freedom, which will never be extinguished. .

The film begins and ends with eagles, but at the end, the eagle finally knows what free soaring is; Dashi leaves the border with a green leaf, fresh and tender life, and after the epiphany at the end of the article is a fallen mature yellow leaf.

The title of this film is translated as "Lust and Caution", and I don't know who gave it such a name, and it makes many people think it is a vulgar erotic film, and even a banned film now, it is bolder than Ang Lee's "Lust and Caution" Is it fragrant? Humans increasingly want to be straightforward rather than enjoy a slow-paced film with few lines and deep meaning. But I think that the director, Indian-French director Bing Naren, who was able to make such a film for seven years, with such a result, will not be angry and annoyed, but will feel a kind of sadness and forgiveness.

I have the predestined relationship to contact Buddhism through my family, but it is only a superficial contact. I don’t understand eroticism very much. Since I clearly know that lust is a skeleton and a desire to harm people, why do humans have lust in the beginning? Animals still have a fixed estrus period. Is it really intentional? Trouble for human beings, so that they can achieve fruition in their desires?

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Samsara quotes

  • Apo: [his last letter to Tashi] I realize now that my task is not over, and so I will be returning to Samsara. I know that we shall meet again. Perhaps when we do you will be able to tell me what is more important: satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one.

  • Written on Stone: How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up?

    Written on Stone: By throwing it into the sea...