At the beginning of my life, I left some flashes of memory: when I was not in elementary school, one day, my parents were sitting on the edge of the fence in front of my grandmother's house. I got my ears: "You can read books after you go to school." I felt like I was hit by a shock, and I decided to read books. I felt that this was a very promising thing. In the dark, this desire has always driven me to study and grow all the way. Many years later, I recognized, as some educators put it, that this was the "spiritual embryo" that a person was born with, or, as Jung put it, that it made me feel "time flies" and that it was me. In "The sustenance of the earth".
The "spark" mentioned in "Spiritual Journey" is exactly the same thing.
The protagonist Joey is a frustrated middle school piano teacher with a jazz dream—his "spark", but in order to make a living, he faces a group of students who are not interested in music every day. Until one day, he got his middle school program and, at the same time, the chance to perform on the jazz stage he had always dreamed of hit him. Fate played a joke on him, he was thrown to the other side of his life through the manhole, and he missed all the gains and losses on the earth.
He was not reconciled.
The passion for the Jazz has fueled him ever since he was led in by his father, and he has not yet fulfilled his dream, and he must not let his life end in this life now. He ran quickly against the passage until he fell into the seventh heaven and reached the place where he was born. There is a spiritual academy here. All the students have developed their personalities and interests and are waiting to devote themselves to the next life and land on the earth.
Joey, as a spiritual mentor, was introduced to No. 22, who had been in the spiritual academy for thousands of years, a nasty bastard who could not find his own spark. From the heart, since No. 22 is unwilling to live on Earth, as long as he helps him find the spark and obtain a pass, Joey can return to Earth.
Here are some of the most interesting parts of the film. In the memory on the 22nd, Jung, Teresa, the President of the United States, and the Nobel Prize winners all failed in their own ways, which made people laugh. This seems to be a kind and lovely cartoon of the master's thought Irony, it seems to make people reflect, can the master's thought still save contemporary people?
The 22 dilemma does make it easy for everyone to substitute themselves. It is not uncommon to fall into a sense of meaninglessness, to experience the annihilation of xinxing, and to become cynical and aggressive in today's time when the division of labor is refined and the atomized individual is alienated. This is the situation of people in this era, making the vast teachings of the master light as a feather.
The most dramatic part of the whole film is undoubtedly that Joey and 22 threw themselves into the earth from the realm of ecstasy, Joey became a cat, and 22 became Joey, which happened one after another. The conversation with the hairdresser inspired another layer of thinking about sparks: we can also engage in careers that are not our own sparks, and even do it well and have fun.
This also reminds me that in my student days, in order to develop my interests and receive a better humanistic education, I had to accept the shackles of the system of taking exams and go through a discipline without science and wisdom. Yes, the ranking is very high, and I can't say that I didn't have any fun from it, not to mention it really helped me get to where I wanted to go. It can even be said that the spark has become more dazzling because of its existence.
When they are recaptured back to where they came from, 22 finds his spark and gets an Earth pass. This plot conveys a layer of meaning, to find the passion in one's own heart, rather than listening to the admonitions and teachings, it is better to experience it with one's own experience, and this is where the five aggregates are empty (only concepts, no sense of taste and smell). is not possible. A paradox arises in this, how does the being of the students as concepts find the spark that determines the driving force of a lifetime in the School of Mind? If the Buddhist concept is applied, the four elements are empty, and there is no spark; and the many-cited existentialism believes that existence precedes essence, and the spark must be discovered after existence rather than before. This is another level of irony facing itself.
Even though 22 found the passion of life, he still reluctantly gave the pass to Joey. He fell into a state of ecstasy, into a predicament of inferiority and despair, denied because of being judged negatively, including his experience of life, which, in Joey's view, was not as glorious as a pursuit like jazz, and the spark in his heart was extinguished , become the walking dead.
In fact I see myself in him. For a long time in my student days, because I was immersed in dark emotions, my curiosity and judgment were extinguished, and I felt a sense of disgust. Even in the face of subjects I thought I was passionate about, I lacked ideas to enter and could not find the interest in it. . As a result, self-confidence continues to decrease, negative evaluation of everything around them, and corresponding counterattacks. Generally speaking, this state is related to the improper guidance of test-oriented education, which guides students to follow a formula to reach a fixed answer, rather than a polymorphic inner feeling. Personally, this comes from a long-term negative pattern of interacting with external emotions. Once, I was trapped in this rigid solidification.
I'm really pure identification and following my inner spark, at least after the age of 20. Until then, if I had a little more confidence, I might have chosen the more correct or successful life option, like a hairdresser. But after following the path that followed, I gradually became truly free of worries and fears, and there was no room for regrets like "what if, it would be fine".
The plot progressed to the point where Joey returned to Earth with his 22 pass, finished the show, and felt less happy than he had imagined, which he confided. I have always had some doubts in my heart: what exactly is the spark of 22? Will the spark of 22 change Joey? Can he still fulfill his dream? But obviously, the next plot is not a response to this question, but is determined by the feasibility of the plot. Of course, Joey can't ignore 22. The protagonist of 22 also needs follow-up explanations. Sure enough, he was worried about 22, returned to where he came from, and found 22 who was submerged in predicament.
When Joey admits 22's spark and asks him to lead his pass to live on Earth, the plot is sublimated here: what life needs is not necessarily a spark worth a lifetime, it may be, as 22 feels, just a This feeling of nostalgia for the moment is enough to fulfill the meaning of life. This concept also coincides with the "momentary awareness" advocated by Buddhist meditation/mindfulness. Living is already very tiring. If you can enjoy the deliciousness of pizza, the fragrance of petals, and the feeling of the constant flow of traffic and people, why not reach the true meaning of life?
Sparks require people to fill their time with a lifetime of energy, and Buddhist meditation simply leads people to empty their time and focus on the present moment. No matter which of the two is higher or lower, it is actually a cultural construct. When Pixar guides the audience to experience this spiritual journey through the bardo and the human world, it finally transitions from "actively joining the WTO" to "governing by inaction". Apart from catering to the narrative sophistry of the public, how can it be interpreted? This "inaction" also includes a moment of rest for our minds and 101 minutes of immersion in this cartoon. At least, when I choose to spend this time this way, I'm still thinking about how to serve my inner spark and write these uncontributing words.
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