Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by petew on October 11, 1999 at 13:16:16:

In Reply to: "Three Kings" : Comments? posted by AudioHead on October 11, 1999 at 08:12:03:

"Whatever joy there is in this world all comes from desiring others to be happy, And whatever suffering there is in this world all comes from desiring myself to be happy."

--Shantideva

on the other hand...

"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."

--William Blake

therefore...

"Out beyond fields of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

--Jelaluddin Rumi

or to put it in Boomer Language:

"Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real. And nothing to get hung about." "Ob - la - de , ob - la - da..."

--John Lennon

I heard something this weekend. That the old Greek definition of "Sin" is "unfulfilment". It is walking away from your god-given gift. I haven't seen the film, but it seems that if those men were given the opportunity to use their "gift", their skill in warmaking, for whatever reason (for "good" or "evil") then it would be a "sin" for them to walk away from it. They had no choice but to act. It is the way of the warrior to be impeccable (from the Latin, "not liable to sin"). This is the Buddha nature in all things. The enlightened being walks upright and directly, even into the path of destruction "and yea, I will fear no evil".

This is how Jeremiah Johnson gains his final freedom --his path takes him on to forbidden ground, he loses everything he loves in life, he stops caring about his fellow humans, and becomes pure spirit.