The movie "The Matrix", was about humans living in a computer generated based world. It takes place in the future where some sort of aliens are able to make and groom humans. Humans no longer have power during this time period. There are a few remaining "real" humans, they form a group to stop this madness. Morpheus, their leader is in search in finding one, which later reveals that Neo becomes the one who is able to see and control the Matrix with his ability. This connects to Buddhism in a way. Neo becomes one when he is able to realize the truth of his own life and find some what peace during his moments with agent Smith. In Buddhism, enlightenment is when a Buddhist discovers the truth of life, which is similar to how Neo was able to become the "One" and save his group. He realized that he did not have to follow what the oracle had told him, he could make his future and change it however he would like to.
Neo was able to achieve enlightenment because he did not give up even when Agent Smith was beating him to a pulp and he felt like he already lost, but at the very end he was able to believe in himself and Morpheus. Doing so he was able to see the truth of life and was able to achieve a new power to see and control the Matrix which ultimately saves him and his friends.
It only took most of them to die for Neo to realize haha XD
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you mentioned that he achieved a new power because that was when Neo finally escaped his old ways and sufferings.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about the same thing. It's pretty obvious, I guess. The Chosen One, The Enlightened One, it's pretty much the same thing.
ReplyDeleteIf you rearrange Neo, it says "One." Pretty cool huh?
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