This is a "Tibetan film" that cleanses the soul.
It is suitable for a person, for example, when you are overwhelmed by the trivialities of life; when you are walking at a crossroads and are faced with making an important choice; or when you are hurt by love and there is no corner to heal; or when you just feel lonely...
A man, closing the door, lowering the curtains, watching quietly like a retreat.
Slowly, your heart will rise up pure, surprised, painful, and even awaken to all kinds of feelings...
All this is because of the two "simplest and most difficult words" - piety.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" what does Tibetan pilgrimage need to do >? </h1>
The story is simple, it is about a Tibetan pilgrimage.
At the time of the "Sacred Mountain" Kailash Rinpoche's "Honmei Year", a young villager in the Tibetan village of Pula decided to prostrate his head and go on a pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage takes a year, a total of more than 2,000 miles, and it will definitely delay the schooling of the children at home and the service of the grandmother, but why does Nyima Zadui have to go?
Because his uncle Yang Pei's brother, that is, his father, had always wanted to go on pilgrimage to Lhasa before he died, but before he could do it, he fell ill and died.
In order to take care of his brother's children, Yang Pei never married.
In order to repay his uncle and fulfill his late father's last wishes, Nima Zadui decided to take his uncle on a pilgrimage for his faith.
The news spread quickly! Many people in the village want to join them: Slang Drac, a 19-year-old woman who has been married for 3 years and has to take on heavy housework;
There is the 23-year-old pregnant Slang droga's sister Tsering Quzhen (who once wanted to marry Nyima Zedui's son);
There is a door-to-door son-in-law (reluctant), Tsering Quzhen's husband Seba Jangcuo;
There is a car accident that owes 200,000 yuan in "sky-high debt" and a depressed father, Renqing Jigme;
There is Renqing Jigme's 9-year-old daughter Tashi Tsoom...
In all, a total of 11 people went on the pilgrimage together.
2500 miles, walking for a year, no income, no income in kind, wind food and sleep, why are so many people going?
This brings us to the cultural environment of Pula Village, which is about in the film.
I have read an article before about a college graduate who did not immediately go to work after graduation, but decided to prostrate 100,000 long heads to pilgrimage first. On the day he left the village, he was like a hero, worshipping and sending off all the villagers.
Someone asked the college student why he "went on a pilgrimage first, then looked for a job" instead of "first looking for a job, and then had the opportunity to make a pilgrimage, and the college student said:
"If you want to do it, do it." As for working to make money, there is always time to do it. I want to thank the Buddha for giving me health and well-being. ”
Speaking of this, there may be people who do not know what the pilgrimage is going to do, and here is "popular science", which is conducive to understanding the film.
The first is "prostrating the head".
Fold your hands above your head and touch your forehead, lips, and chest in turn (meaning body, speech, and mind merge with the Buddha). Then he knelt on the ground, fell to the ground, touched his forehead, and raised his hands together again to the top of his head.
After lifting it above the head, make a mark at the front of the straightened hand to stand up, walk here and pray again, and so on. circulate.
In fact, it is the "equipment" of "prostrating the head".
Friends who have been to Kailash pilgrimage have felt the pain of one step at a time under the lack of oxygen, the pain of muscle soreness, the pain of grinding hands and feet, the wind blowing so hard that you can't open your eyes, and the storm jacket can also blow through.
2500 miles are all on foot, but also "five bodies thrown to the ground", no hard equipment is not enough.
So, Nima Zadui first prepared clogs for hand and wholesaled sturdy shoes.
The butcher then sewed a "leather apron" (perhaps yak leather) from the chest and ankles to counteract the friction on the whole body.
In the film, the 11-person pilgrimage team also helped an old man from his village plant crops.
In order to repay everyone, the old man saw that the child did not have an apron, so he found a piece of skin for her, which should be the best gift for the pilgrim.
Finally, there was a "guide" prayer wheel at the front of the line, followed by a tractor loaded with supplies.
The carriage was loaded with all the items they had set up camped in and chanted and made pilgrimages: bedding, candles, lunch boxes, barley, ghee, etc.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > 4 touching places in the film, but also 4 "never expected"</h1>
It is said that ordinary people (referring to people who have not been trained to prostrate their heads at home on a daily basis) prostrate their heads in the wild, and the limit is 200 per day. It is very difficult, it requires the coordination of the muscles of the whole body, and every movement must be sincere.
The physical movements are similar to continuously moving forward while doing Bobby Jump + Yoga.
The old man who was helped grow crops "commented" on the young man in the pilgrimage: there were too many steps taken, his head did not touch the ground when he prostrated, and he could not take so many steps after standing up...
Maybe in the city, young people will white their eyes and reply "standing and talking without waist pain"!
But in the film, 9-year-old Tashi Tsomu and 20-year-old Seba Jang tso have silently received it.
When planting crops, the old man looked at the young man of the other family, ploughing the field too quickly, tired of the cattle, and dissatisfied:
"Today's young people don't know why they are in such a hurry."
Because they believe in Buddha, samsara, and cause and effect, not only do they not want to do things against their wishes, but they also have enough respect for animals that are "equal to all beings."
You may think that the old man is "old-fashioned and backward in his thinking", but if you listen to the old man tell stories at night, you will be surprised by the advanced thinking and "Zen ability" of his thinking.
The old man said that there was a hunter who hunted a deer every day to send to the lama, and one day the hunter flew to the other side of the mountain to hunt. The lama thought, even such a person can fly, I should be able to. As a result, the lama fell into the water!
The story of the old man should be called "should not live in the heart".
Lamas are trapped in their "hue", considering themselves great people, and hunters who benefit themselves are humble people.
The hunter, on the other hand, has attained "emptiness" when he gives his daily income to others.
So, in the story, the lama's practice is no longer as good as that of the hunter...
Although the 11 people in the film prostrate their heads, camp, chant the sutra every day (every night after prostrating their heads, they also have to chant the sutra and do their homework, this perseverance is amazing), eating, sleeping, and repeating the straight story.
But the above "inspiration" is one after another, here is to share 4 touching and "never expected" places.
First, give birth on the pilgrimage.
Tsering Quzhen was about to give birth on the way to prostrate her head, and her husband drove her to the hospital in a tractor. (The film "records" 80 percent of the process in the delivery room, and also exposes part of the body, but there is no sense of blasphemy.) ）
After giving birth to the baby, Tsering Quzhen actually came back to continue prostrating! The dolls are placed on the supply of the tractor compartment!
Everyone believes that dolls born on the pilgrimage must have a good fate.
Second, his uncle Yang Pei died on the way to the mountain.
When he arrived at the Sacred Mountain, Yang Pei's body could no longer do the "five bodies to the ground", and could only bend his knees and kneel, and after coughing a few times, Yang Pei left silently.
Nimaza pushed the lama to overdo it for Yang Pei.
The life and death in the film are so simple and plain, like one reincarnation after another in the world.
Third, the tractor broke down on the road, and the crowd pulled the tail of the car forward
There was a car accident on the road, and in order to avoid the big car, the other party knocked their car over to the side of the road, fortunately, there were no serious injuries.
The 11 people were completely immersed in the mentality of praying for each other's blessings, let go of the perpetrator, pulled their car out of the ditch, and found that the front of the car was no longer usable.
What they did not expect was that instead of calling back for help to change a car, they did not give up the pilgrimage because of the problem of making up for it, but decided to "throw the front of the car and pull the carriage away." ”
In this way, pull in front, push behind, go all the way to Lhasa, and walk up the sacred mountain!
Fourth, laugh and pray in the puddle
The road encounters puddles, not deep, the area may not be large, and the passing cars splash and splash their legs. Ben thought they would go around, but no.
They fell into the water and prostrated their heads!
I confess that my throat choked when the little brother in front of me fell into the water.
Why choke? For faith! For the sake of fellow human beings, I have never had a belief.
This moment understood the sentence: "To have the simplest life and the most distant dreams, even if tomorrow is cold and the road is far away." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > what was harvested during the pilgrimage</h1>
In the first two years of this movie, there were more bad reviews and scolding reviews than middle reviews and praise.
Some people say that it is "the self-touching of the abandoned children of the times", and some people call for "when to sweep away ignorance - what is needed for poverty alleviation and development in central and western China in addition to government subsidies?" ”
However, time has passed, and there are still more people who love and cherish it than those who detract from it, and the points are not low.
What does people's judgment and attitude towards this film illustrate? Perhaps, the answer to this question is the same as "what was harvested by the pilgrimage".
First of all, do you respect the faith?
Some film critics call them ignorant, and I don't see where they are ignorant, they can get out of the real life of poverty (in a way, we who live in the city are equally poor), this is wisdom.
How many people, toiling all their lives, can't laugh innocently at the end of their lives. All his life, have you not felt pure joy under sober awareness?
However, Yang Pei felt it, the 9-year-old female doll felt it, and the people who saw the female doll also felt it... They do not rise and fall because of the external situation, but only because of their inner feelings, awareness, and sublimation.
Second, what exactly is gained and lost?
On the way, they sang the song "We are all the same mother, but our fate is different, the fate is good to become a lama, my fate is not good to go to a distant place", this lyric has a metaphor - "going to a distant place" may mean that people have to go through another reincarnation to become enlightened.
That's their worldview.
We have also noticed that in their eyes, the judgment of "high and low" and "gain and loss" is also different from the world.
They will think that it is a pity not to have a "pilgrimage" in their lives.
But in secular urban society, before lying in that little box, people may regret that they have not reached their desires (such as not making less than 100 million).
They believe that the elevation of the spiritual realm (referred to as cultivation) is a kind of nobility, while the insensitivity with worldly life is humble.
In urban society, those who rank among the masses and pull out the top are the most noble, and those who do not enter the "stream", live in isolation, and have torn clothes are the most lowly.
To put it bluntly:
One seeks the spirit, the other seeks the material. To seek the spirit is to get rid of troubles, and to seek material things is fame and fortune.
However, after the family wealth is full of children and grandchildren, is it not necessary to stop the troubles?
Can "breaking troubles" be bought with money? Can happiness be exchanged for money? Or is it that the endless desire for money has devoured the root of your happiness – health?
Is the road 2500 miles long? Don't most people spend a longer life and take a longer detour, until the end they understand: Live out the true self in vain?
The same is true of societies with the crazy development of science and technology and the extreme development of material civilization, as a brief history of the future says:
"Every day, millions of people decide to give more control of their lives to their smartphones, or try some new, more effective antidepressant. In the quest for power, human traits change one after another until humans are no longer human.
Right now, when someone mentions "genetically modified babies," or "brain-computer coexistence" in the future, or robots dominate the industry, we think: Maybe I'll be dead by then.
Maybe! However, thinking about this, do you still think that these pilgrims who insist on "human morality", with their hands tied to clogs and their faith, step by step worship to the gods and to those who are aware of their own hearts, are backward? Ignorance?
They are just guarding the last bottom line of humanity!
Faith is always the most precious thing for human beings. It is because of people of faith that human beings will always step on the earth and will always be human beings.
What makes our scalps tingle is not how far away Kailash is from us, but how far away we are from the piety in Kailash.