Paradise in the eyes of the elephant horton

Chaz 2021-11-19 08:01:29

I admit that I can't help but rush to watch cartoons. Although my young bird shows a materialistic trend of letting tigers go back to mountains, meat buns and beating dogs, never to return to human will, but the pretending mind has always been very affectionate and stubbornly resisting.
This time it is "Horton Hears a Who" (Horton Hears a Who). The story is about Horton, an elephant living in the jungle. He is happy and short-sighted. He is a typical honest and good person in our lives. Suddenly one day, because of the big elephant ears, he heard a scream from the dust flying in front of him, and discovered the tiny microscopic world living on the dust. He put this precious dust on a red flower. In order to fulfill his promise to the little people of the dust kingdom, he avoided encirclement and suppression by the eagles and monkeys in the jungle, and finally placed this small world in the jungle. A safe place-in a quiet little cave on the highest peak.
In the movie, Horton’s famous saying is: a person is a person, no matter how small it is. When the eagle mischievously threw this precious little flower into the sea of ​​flowers, Halton's eyes were full of despair. For the rest of the day, he looked for flower by flower in the vast sea of ​​flowers, and asked each flower: Is it you?

When all the animals in the jungle did not believe in the dust world of Holden and wanted to destroy this flower, the little people in the dust kingdom gathered together, banging and trumpeting and making all sounds and shouting, I am here, I am here.

Yes, at that moment I couldn't help being moved by the little people's desire to survive. No matter how humble a person is, he has the value of his existence and the meaning that he is worthy of being saved.

One flower, one world, one leaf, one Tathagata. The flower held by Holden's hand is a miniature paradise, which carries the destination he wants to achieve, and is the object he needs to carefully protect.

The Buddha said that everything has Buddha nature, no matter who it is, no matter who it is, whether it is noble or full of evil, there is a Buddha living in his heart. Everyone's existence needs to be affirmed, and there is also the possibility of his self-realization. We cannot ignore them because we cannot see them, nor can we deny their future because of their origin and past. This is the so-called human rights/droit de l'homme, which includes tolerance and respect. In this sensitive period, the vocabulary associated with a movie is indeed mixed.

After all, cartoons are cartoons. The human rights in them are simple and honest, and they are tender. At the end of the story, the disagreement between the two parties can be wiped out because of a cookie. But in the real world, how many misunderstandings and interests are there, and how many different political demands are carried on the term human rights? The reason is simple, but the road is not.

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
naive indicate (English) William Blake
the To See A world in A Grain of Sand,
And A Heaven in A Wild Flower,
the Hold Infinity in at The Palm of your Hand,
And Eternity in AN hour.
Grain of sand Seeing a world,
there is a heaven hidden in a flower,
put the infinity in your hand, and
eternally collect it in an instant.

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Horton Hears a Who! quotes

  • Horton: All right, I gotta get this speck up to the top of Mount Nool A.S.A.P, whatever that means, probably 'act swiftly, awesome pachyderm'! I mean, how hard can that be?

  • Horton: This looks kinda... precarious. Well nothing to worry, obviously when they build a bridge like this they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.