film is indeed very beautiful, no matter the plot. , Graphics, and music are excellent. It is said that the title "Samsara" should have been translated into "Reincarnation", but the name "Lust Caution" is indeed better. It is an erotic explanation of religion without any sense of profanity. On the contrary, a pure compassion can be experienced. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche once compared the movie to a modern "Thangka", using the illusory scenes of the image world to correspond to the illusory world of the world, and the process of enlightenment is to get rid of the layers of concealment brought about by delusions. Obstacle, understand the fickleness of cause and condition, and move towards awakening. By this measure, "Lust Caution" is undoubtedly an excellent religious film.
"Satisfying a thousand desires, or restraining one desire?" After all,
the film is just telling a story about a person. Perhaps it is because in a nearly pure environment like the snow-covered plateau, all the possibilities of human heart change will be reflected in the invisible and subtle. Darcy is not a character with a distinctive personality. He has too many commonalities among ordinary people, rather it is a person abstracted from our commonalities. At the beginning of the film, after three years of retreat, he was like a child who was born in the world for the first time. He observes the world with such an innocent eye, that is why he is deeply attracted by the kinship of the world and the erotic desires of men and women. This kind of attraction was originally due to the natural and pure nature, not the ignorance of greed and foolishness, let alone the original sin. Compared with the brothers who have been observing the clear rules and precepts for many years, and the heart is like a dead tree, this little monk who still has the eyes of innocent children and the heart of innocence may be closer to the original mind of Sakyamuni. However, the innocence of Chizi is only due to the simplicity of unexplained personnel, and it is different from the Blessed One's thorough enlightenment of traversing the red dust. No matter how clear and wise the admonition is, it cannot replace the hardships experienced personally. Even if he understands that the beauty and the bones are nothing but impermanence, it cannot stop his desire to swallow the bitter wine of life.
"There are things we must have before we can give up."
Even the temptation to be seen as a karma can be a guide to the path to consummation. On the contrary, even the most perfect creed, if it is just blindly accepted indiscriminately, will become a deception to the heart and deviate from the way of enlightenment. When he left the temple, Darcy must have understood these, so he decided to listen to his inner desires and find enlightenment from the earth.
As a result, he got everything he wanted, a beautiful and virtuous wife, a smart and lovely child, a warm and peaceful family...sunrise and sunset, the years go by, so quiet that people can almost forget their heart. But sometimes just a small stone can completely shatter the calm and watery life.
Just as he dared to abandon the practice precepts and throw himself into the world, his existence also broke the order of life in the village that had been in the village for many years. Conflicted with the merchants who came to collect the grain, and wisely went to the city to trade. After the field was burned, he went to find someone to settle the accounts with anger, but was beaten all over. "Do you think I burned your field? No one here would do such a thing, be mature." The grain merchant's contemptuous words stunned him. What is polluted, the environment or your own heart? Unknowingly, the spiritual light of the original Qingming is so far away from him, he has become more secular than the secular people, and even ruined the simple life of the villagers due to his own suspicion. He vaguely remembered that he didn't belong here.
So an affair that shouldn't have happened is also reasonable. The same passion once made him abandon his robes and hats to experience the beauty of earthly life, but this time, it was just an impulse to simply satisfy his desires. He evaded his wife who had returned from the market in embarrassment. He avoided the Mani pile on the top of the mountain, but saw a black spot coming from a distance, gradually turning into a figure. His heart beat suddenly, and something that was distant and vague and familiar suddenly became clear. Maybe he has been waiting for such a day, a letter, a message. For so many years, regardless of his wife's embrace and a happy and peaceful life, there is always a place in his heart that does not belong here, waiting for that voice to sound, arouse him to go back and remember who he is.
Late at night, he quietly packed his bags, stared at his sleeping wife, touched the child's cheek, straightened the pillow he had slept on, and walked out of the house. Many years ago, in the middle of the night, he peeped at the little lama's sleeping face, bid farewell to his teacher and walked out of the monastery. On this day, he is going home.
The river is as clear as ever. Many years ago, this river gave him a new life when he had just finished retreat; it was the same river that allowed him to take off his monk robe and become a son and daughter of the world; another day, he returned to the riverside after having tasted the warmth of the world. , The uproar Heshui laughed at his foolishness, laughed at him having a big dream, like a mother welcoming the returning child. After years of reincarnation, he has returned to the state of solitude again, as if he was the boy with unsullied eyes back then. Waking up from a big dream.
Like a newborn child, he rediscovered the world with curious eyes. Snow mountain and green pond, red maple and gold leaves, everything is just like first encounter, and they are so familiar. He thought that he was dead in the past, so he raised his head sharply, but bumped into his own karmic body.
The one who should have come, can't avoid it. He dared not face those scorching eyes.
"Darcy, if you yearn for Dharma, as strong as your desire for me, you can become a Buddha. In this life, this body!"
Compared to Darcy, Pima is undoubtedly a nearly perfect character. She grew up in nature, although she has never been exposed to any discipline practice, but she has greater wisdom than those who practice. Did Pima love Darcy? In any case, it is definitely not the passion of the world, what I saw is a resolute embrace of fate. Maybe she understood too early, so she can accept everything, including pain. She didn't accept it with a detached and clear attitude, but gave herself to destiny and turned herself into destiny. Her ego is indeed as wide as the sea, so she is not obsessed with what she gets. She is not a negative acceptor of fate, as smart as she is willing to commit herself to fate, to bear instead of evading, rather to say it is out of compassion. Her Minghui might have been closer to the Buddha earlier than him. In fact, the Buddha is not in your magnificent palace, but only in the human heart, in the breath of nature. I often think that maybe only the people of the world can understand the Buddha, and as the Pure Land School said, the Buddha is more in the hearts of those sinners, and the Buddha is more willing to reach out to save those sinners. Those monks who only see the ready-made precepts and practice paths are farther away from the Buddha. So Hesse, who does not belong to the East, can write a more authentic Siddhartha than any Oriental or Buddhist. Similarly, perhaps a mundane director can make a truly religious movie.
At the end of the film, Pima appears at the end of the Manidui wind flag, but Darcy dressed as a lama does not dare to look up at her as if a child who made a mistake was found by his mother. Originally, he didn't really realize that he left, but because he made a mistake and couldn't get rid of it, he chose to escape. It is not only to avoid evil, but also to avoid karma, to avoid being bored with the self. The half of his soul that belonged to the world did not die. Even if he changed into the clothes of a born person, his heart was still just a mortal who had not been relieved of his troubles. But Pima’s last words made him realize what he was doing. It was not like he thought he had tasted the taste of the world and fully awakened, but just escaped superficially, and only used it in vain for the people who loved him deeply. Come painful. At this time, he was only mundane, so he would cry bitterly and say that he wanted to go back with her, saying that he still belongs there. Pima's phantom disappeared in front of him, leaving only the pots and rosary that belonged to him. After being at a loss, he fell to the ground, tearing his lungs and crying like a baby. It turned out that he was as small as he was in the world and was only as humble as an ant, thinking that all the sacred things he knew were only illusions. It turned out that the Buddha had already appeared before him, but he didn't know it. She completed his enlightenment, so he couldn't turn his head back. The earthly man who was crying bitterly died, returned to his innocence, and was born for the second time in the throes of rebirth. Perhaps he was reborn as a real person.
How can a drop of water not dry up? Only put it into the sea. At the end of the cycle, he saw the answer. There is a goshawk spreading its wings soaring in the sky, and the real freedom is to get rid of all the restraints. It turns out that everything is necessary, so everything has been forgiven. The ocean may be a life that encompasses everything, it may be the great light at the beginning and the end of life, or the Buddha-nature that resides in everything. In any case, the end of this road can only be reached by one person, how lonely it should be.
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