Today I would like to recommend to you a warm fantasy movie "Kamakura Monogatari", the story is about the mystery writer Ichise Masakazu with his new wife Akiko back to his hometown of Kamakura to settle down, in the magical place of Kamakura, there will be a lot of monsters at night, forming a strange scene of yin and yang double heaven. Suddenly, one day, an accident occurs in Akiko, her soul is captured by the great demon of the underworld, and her husband, who is a human, rushes to Huangquan to rescue his wife's soul.
I usually don't watch the ratings first when I watch movies, so I just finish watching it and think, "Wow, it's really good!" When I was ready to write a film review, I looked at the douban and found that its rating was so low, and I didn't sigh: it's really radish and greens that each has its own love."
So why did this movie attract me?
Because it makes me, who has been so caught up in the law of the social jungle that I am about to forget my true self, I can recall my original innocence.
One of the things that touched me the most in the whole film was that when they found out that the poor god was in their house, the husband was in a state of confusion and wanted to drive away this obscure god, because the arrival of the poor god meant that the family might suffer property losses, or there was always bad luck in life. But Akiko said that the poor god had nowhere to go now, and that he was dressed badly and pitifully, and that he could stay and live together if he did not abandon him.
Even the poor god was startled by her words and repeatedly asked: Is it true? I'm a poor god.
Yes, he is a poor god. In our consciousness, having a set of established and conventional judgment criteria for things will regard the things that are beneficial to us in the present as good, but it will be bad. It may seem like nothing is wrong, but it is a very flawed cognition, because our life is not just one fragment, our life is made up of many fragments.
Jobs once said, "You can't predictly string together the bits and pieces of your life." Only when you look back will you notice the connection between these bits and pieces. ”
Seemingly accidental events in life, from a more macroscopic point of view, will actually find that there are many connections between them, and the familiar story of "The Lost Horse of Saion" also illustrates this point.
So, if we judge whether something is good or bad just by looking at what it is in the moment, then we may miss the opportunity that life gives. This "stupid" act of taking in the poor god and treating him like a friend later saved her and her husband's lives at a critical moment.
It is actually very difficult for people in the current situation to foresee the future. Because we are limited by linear time in three-dimensional space, we can only feel everything that is happening at that time in the present moment. So how do we avoid missed opportunities because of our "misjudgment"?
That is to maintain an equal heart for all things, not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself.
In the book Buddhism: How to Be a Happy Person, it is mentioned that "one of the reasons people are troubled is the mind of over-judgment." The reason why people are keen to judge is based on the psychology of "feeling that they know everything" and "feeling that they must be right".
But in such a binary judgment, we see only our own subjective consciousness, not the whole picture of things.
It is mentioned in the book that in the Buddha's teachings, an awakened person is a person who can "understand things correctly," that is, to observe things as they are, without judgment. Perhaps some things seem difficult to accept at the moment, but if you can look at yourself and others with a simple equanimity, it is possible to perceive the law of the operation of things and harvest the opportunities that life gives you.
Everything was the best arranged.
When Akiko's soul is captured by the Great Demon King, Ichisei Masakazu follows the Yellow Spring Train to the Yellow Spring Kingdom to rescue his wife, and meets his deceased parents, who tell him that imagination is the key to creating everything here. Under the guidance of his father, he successfully created physical objects with his imagination.
With confidence in himself, he came to the demon king's place and fought him fiercely. He was bare-handed, relying only on his confidence in his imagination, which repeatedly frustrated the Demon King, although at the last moment, the Powerful Attack of the Great Demon King made him shake his self-confidence and almost lose his life.
This process is actually very similar to the process of our growth. When we were young, we believed that we were the center of the world and that we would become the people we wanted to be, but after we really entered society, the difficulties created by the great demon king of reality shook that innocent confidence. Start believing in fatalism, believing in yourself, that's all there is to it.
We even make excuses for the ideas that bind us, thinking that they are right, and that simple self-confidence has become a stupid gas.
Jobs's life was full of legends, and what he said became an inspirational motto for many people. "Have the courage to follow your heart, listen to your intuition, they know in some way what you want to be," he said. ”
In his opinion, the world was created by "crazy fools". Because only a fool will not care about the words of the outside world, only a fool will have stubborn confidence in seemingly absurd ideas.
Nowadays, the real survival pressure, competitive psychology, and self-interest make people forget their true selves, but the warm movie "Kamakura Story" can let us regain that innocent heart. So it's a high score in my heart!