This film tells the story of Lama Tashi, who went through three years, three months, three weeks and three days of retreat and meditation without eating, drinking and seeing the sun.
The story takes place in Tibet, the language of the film is all Tibetan, and the version I watched was translated into English. So the original meaning of the film came to my own understanding of the Chinese language, and after several twists and turns, it was inevitable that there would be a deviation between expression and acceptance. The Buddha's meaning is profound, and I don't know the fur. But after watching the movie, I was still deeply moved. So record my own thoughts as such.
This is a serious spoiler, please stop if you mind.
How to Avoid Drying a Drop of Water
Tashi completed a three-year, three-month, three-week and three-day retreat without eating, drinking, or seeing the sun. This is the right way to the other side of Nirvana in Buddhist practice. On the day of leaving the customs, the master and the brothers opened the small door from outside and whispered in his ear: Tashi, we will take you back. The lamas groomed and trimmed him, and his pale complexion contrasted sharply with the dark complexions of the other lamas. He had just left the customs because he was too weak, so he was carried by other lamas on the way back to the temple. He saw the writing on the stone by the road:
How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up
How to Avoid Drying a Drop of Water
He was puzzled, but he didn't take it to heart.
Returning to the temple, he took over the title of Khenpo conferred by the Living Buddha after three years of cultivation. He looked at the little lama next to him and smiled proudly. This year, he was 25 years old.
All things practice
However, since he saw the light of day again, he has been babbling every night, and his spring dream has traces. When I went to a local village to practice, I suddenly met Pema, a village woman, in a dark and narrow corridor.
The master and the younger brother looked at it with grief and regret. The master finally decided to send Tashi to meet another ascetic master. The master showed him the red and pink erotic pictures of the man and woman acacia, but these joyful pictures were grim skeletons under the light of the fire. He was still puzzled. The master showed him another pair of words:
Everything you contact is a place to practice the way
Everything you touch is practice
You can only give up if you get it
He seemed to understand everything, so he rode his horse back and walked up to the master who was blowing the trumpet at the feet of the Buddha, and said resentfully:
Even he was allowed a worldly existence until he was 29! But since the age of five, I have been disciplined to live like Buddha after he renounced the world. Why? How do we know his Enlightment was not a direct result of his worldly existency , too? Apo, where is the freedom promised to me after a stric monastic discpline? Where is the promised satisfaction from our vow of celibacy? "you should not accept my teachings on heresay unless and until you understand it from your own point of view ," he said once. There are things we must unlearn in order to learn them. And there are things we must own in order to renounce them.
Even he (Buddha) lived in the world until he was 29 years old! But since I was 5 years old, I have been living a pure life after the birth of Buddha. Why? How do we know that the enlightenment of the Buddha was not also an inspiration for mundane life? Apo, what about freedom after retreat? What about the satisfaction after the vow of celibacy? "You can only accept my teachings if you understand from your own personal experience," said the Buddha. The only way to let go is to learn. Only when you get it can you give up.
After saying this, Tashi is still vulgar. He went to work as a handyman at Pema's house, who was already engaged. Pema recognized the lama as soon as they met. Tashi said that it is because of Pema, but also for himself. The two of them sat on the ground, cloudy and rainy.
Not knowing how to choose between her fiancé and Tashi, Pema hired a fortune teller to prepare for fate. But the fiancé asked the fortune teller to calculate the wedding date for Pema and Tashi. The fiancé said to Pema: Even if the fortune teller chose me, you wouldn't marry me, would you?
Tashi and Pema have a son together. Tashi also started a worldly life: he found out that the grain buyers were short of everything and exposed him in public. The buyers were refuted, so they stopped coming to this village to buy.
Pema doesn't care much about the shortfalls when purchasing grain:
Tashi, I feel we are satisfied in what we get.
Tashi, I think I'm very satisfied with what we got.
Tashi took everyone to the town to sell the food, and the price was more than double the purchase price. Pema's father couldn't fit that much money into his small wallet, so he went to town and bought all kinds of gadgets until the rest of the money could fit into the small wallet.
One night, the food at Tashi's house caught fire. Everyone worked all night. The fire was put out in the early morning. Pema said:
Apa says we saved over half the crop! Everyone came to help us. The whole valle.
Dad said we saved more than half of the food! Everyone came to help us, the whole village.
But Tashi was furious and went to fight with the food supplier who was most likely to set fire, only to be beaten all over and thrown out. After that, either out of anger or shame, Tashi stopped going to town, but Pema went to town to sell food.
Once selling grain outside Pema, a slender female worker who helped during the harvest at home came to get paid. Tashi fell in love with this graceful Indian beauty many years ago, and even proposed to fire all harvesters to save money in order to avoid mistakes and cover up his heart. Pema was very angry: why are you suddenly against us poor workers? So the matter is over, the female workers still come to help during the busy farming season every year, and every year Tashi sees the female workers and asks how old she is.
Tashi went into the house to get the prepared wages, and the female worker followed the house directly. Tashi also took advantage of the trend to push the female worker there. The Indian beauty also made Tashi's posture rise, but before the incident, Pema came back, and Tashi panicked and urged the female worker to leave quickly. The female worker calmly tidied up her clothes and said to him playfully:
Keep calm. Why you are so worried? She told me this would happen.
Calm down. Why are you so nervous? She told me it was going to happen sooner or later.
The shocked Tashi watched the female worker go out, and gradually calmed down in confusion. But when he saw Pema saying goodbye to the female worker from the window, he was terrified again, as if he was afraid of what the female worker would say to Pema. He listened carefully to the conversation between the two, and found that it was only some farewell words that calmed him down.
Is it more important to satisfy 1,000 desires or conquer just one?
After calming down, Tashi fell into boundless regret. Sitting alone on the hillside, he may be thinking about the past, or he may be thinking about the Buddha. At this time, the younger brother, whom he had not seen for many years, came and brought him the news that his master had passed away, as well as the letter that the master left him before he passed away:
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.----Yours Apo.
I realize that the task of this life is unfinished, so I will still fall into samsara. I know we will meet again. Maybe then you can tell me whether it is more important to satisfy 1,000 desires or to conquer just one. ---- your Apo
Tashi packed up that night, and while his wife and children were asleep, he embarked on the road to return to Buddha.
pray to buddha
At the foot of the temple mountain, Tashi saw Pema, who came first on horseback, waiting at the end of the road. Tashi's eyes blushed first. Pema says:
Yashodhara, do you know that name? Prince Siddhartha,Gautama,Sakyamuni,Buddha. Everyboday know these names, but Yashodhara? Yashodhara was married to Siddhartha. She loved him dearly. One night, Siddhartha left her and their son,Rahul, while they were sleeping, to seek Enlightment, to become Buddha. He did not even say a word to her when he left. Yashodhara had shown compassion for the sick and ailing long before Siddhartha ever did, long before Siddhartha was even aware of suffering! Who can say if he owed his Enlightment to her? Perhaps Yashodhara wanted to leave Siddhartha and Rahul. How can we ever know if Yashodhara fell victim to anger, to loneliness or bitterness after Siddhartha left her? Who even thought about her? What must she have said when Rahul, her son, asked the eternal question:where is my father? What must she have told him? How could a mother leave her own child in the middle of the night? It is only possible for a man to do so. Tashi, only for a man. After that, Yashodhara had no choice. She had to lead a life of renunciation. She cut off her hair and lived like an ascetic. Oh Tashi, If your thoughts towards Dharma were of the same intensity as the love and passion you have shown me, you could become a buddha in this very body in this very life.you could become a buddha in this very body in this very life.you could become a buddha in this very body in this very life.
Yashodhara, do you know the name? Prince Siddhartha, Gautama, Sakyamuni, Buddha. Everyone knows these names. But what about Yashodhara? Yashodhara married Siddhartha. She loves him deeply. One night, while she and their son, Rahul, were asleep, Siddhartha left them to pursue enlightenment, to become a Buddha. He didn't even say a word to her when he left. Long before Siddhartha, when Siddhartha didn't even know what suffering was, Yashodhara showed deep sympathy for the sick. Who can say that his enlightenment cannot be attributed to her? Maybe Yashodhara also thought about leaving Siddhartha and Rahul. How can we know the anger, loneliness and resentment that Yashodhara endured after Siddhartha left? Who ever thought of her? When Rahul, her son, asked the eternal question, where did my father go? What should she say? What can she tell him? How can a mother leave her child in the middle of the night? Only men can! Tashi, only men. After that, Yashodhara had no choice but to live a life of abandonment. She cut her long hair and lived an ascetic life. oh, Tashi, if your thoughts for Master Bodhidharma are as deep as your passion and love for me, you can become a Buddha in this life in this body.
Tashi burst into tears, knelt down in front of Pema, and said that he would go back with Pema, go back to his place. But Pema just left him with rosary beads and steamed dumplings to bless him on the road, and disappeared into the smoke and sand on a horse.
With scars all over his body, Tashi cried in the desert, his heart piercing, and those who heard it were heartbroken. After being tired and suffering, Tashi stood up, as if he didn't remember why he was crying, he was reborn into Nirvana and got the other side. He noticed again the stone that said "How to avoid a drop of water from drying up." He walked over and turned the stone over, which read:
By throwing it into the sea
throw it into the sea
At this time, a big eagle croaked in the sky, and Tashi blinked his eyes, which were still covered with tears, and looked up at the sky. The sky was clear, and the white clouds formed a piece.
Not asking, but willing
After watching the entire video, I feel that except for Tashi, who has been practicing for three years, the lama who is the least like the Tibetans, and the lama who is very similar to us normal people, every other Tibetan is very Buddha-nature. Tashi will be proud of his title, and will have lust when he sees beauty, but lust is not limited to his dreams. He moved out of the Buddha to serve as a reason for his return to secular life. He pursues more money, and he is angry at injustice and destruction. He wants revenge because of his anger, and he wants to cover up his cheating with shame.
He can't control his own desires, but he is unwilling to hurt his lover. Therefore, in the short-lived secret pleasure with the Indian female worker, it is neither pleasant nor full of burden. On the way to return to Buddha again, he was speechless when asked by Pema, full of remorse, wanting to be a Buddha is really ashamed of his wife and children, wanting to accompany his wife and children but he has something to do with it. The Tathagata lives up to the Lord."
In just a few years of experience in the world, he did gain something, so he gave up. But this journey of willingness not only really left scars on his body and face, but also made him go through resentment meetings, love partings, unrequitedness, and five yin blazing, leaving a heavy heart and a piercing heart.
The other people in the film, Pema's fiancé, knew that Pema liked Tashi, and did not force Pema to marry him, but handed it over to Tashi. Pema saw through Tashi's desire to seek Buddhahood, and got Tashi's "I'll go back with you", He didn't say anything anymore, left alone, and finished Tashi.
The people in the village don't care about how much food can be sold for, and they are already very satisfied that they can get so much.
Isn't this kind of not asking, or more precisely, not asking for it, a kind of willingness that is not so heavy? Wouldn't it be so hard if Tashi hadn't gone to the world to practice so much, meditated in a temple, and abandoned the path of lust?
blind man touching elephant
The scriptures say that practicing Buddhism is like a blind man touching an elephant. The Buddhadharma is so vast that everyone can only touch part of it, but everyone thinks they have realized the truth. Tashi wanted to return to the secular world, but what he saw was that the Buddha lived happily in the world for 29 years. Abandoned by her husband in the middle of the night, Pema saw the grief of Buddha's wife. And I, full of desires in the world, I want to eat, I want to play, I want to shine, and I want to look down on the world. I have seen all kinds of give and take from this movie.
But the Buddha said again: All appearances are false. If you see appearances that are not appearances, you will see the Tathagata. Without him and without me, there is nothing here, so what is the need for cultivation?
Dharma is like a puzzle, a riddle. Fortunately, I have no obsession with Buddhism, and I am not afraid of the suffering of reincarnation.
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