The Da Vinci Code is a very good mystery film. I don't know why there is so much opposition in Europe and America. Probably I am Chinese, and I can't fight with Jesus Christ, so I can watch the play easily and without heart.
However, the question discussed in the film is quite interesting, that is: if God is only fabricated by man himself, then what kind of belief does man have to rely on to have the strength to live. Believe in God? God is just a hoax. believe in others? Others are just as erroneous as themselves, so how can you be sure that what he says is right? believe in yourself? So who am I? Believe in that part of yourself? The part of the mind, the part of ideas, or the part of instinct? This is European and American confusion.
But in the atmosphere of Asian culture, what to live by has never been a problem. Buddhism has a cycle of life and death, Taoism has Zhuang Shenghua Butterfly, and Confucianism does not care about the proposition of death at all. Life and death are one, not two. Life, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, so fear is useless. There is no need for a reason to live. As for what will happen after death, who knows what will happen. So people are not very afraid of death, and they are not very obsessed with the meaning of life. Just treat life as a drama and play your role well, you can feel at ease. Although this way of living is not so confusing, it is always unsatisfactory because of its lightness.
Is there a way of living that can combine the profoundness of the West and the peace of the East in one furnace?
I don't know. All I know is that the balance between being yourself and being a good man, a good son, a good lover, a good friend, and a good colleague is never easy. I can only say to myself, since the drama of life must be sung, then act out your own style.
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