Matrix

Recently I am sooo into Matrix. The storyline is really interesting, and I wouldn't know the bunch of meanings behind some seemingly plain scene if not I search it online. So, it happened that I spend my whole night exploring the meanings of the fabulous matrix in the movie and it is really interesting!Some say that it is related to christianity's genesis; Some said the directors, Brothers Warswoski, relate it to the Buddhism and Mathematics concept. But then for me, it is still cannot be considered as a Buddhist film; Although the main characters in the movie claim that they're awake from the matrix, what they really mean is mainly for their physical circumstances but not for the minds. Although they talked about the freedom of mind, they still believe that there is a thing called soul which should be freed from matrix. This is contradictory to the concept in Buddhism.

However,there is some scenes in the movie which makes the audience feels the same ( 有共鸣）。 Just like sometimes in life we will question: Is it that kind of life we can only have? Is it another path we can go? And in deeper sense we'll try to find out what life really means. Why are we here. what is the truth behind life? We are searching for answer we can be satisfied with. Just like neo. His searching for ever leads him to the answer　：The matrix. My searching leads me to Buddhism.

And in Matrix one there is another scene, a kid who bends the spoon. When Neo is amazed by what he did, he said, " You must know, there is no spoon." This complies to What buddhism text has told us, how the world is formed and it keeps changing by merely combining and parting. There is no spoon, and everytime we take the things around us so real.

And then Neo finds out the truth that even the city of Zion where he believes the humans gain the real freedom, is also another form of matrix created by the machines. The architect told him, the failure of the matrix is because a lack of choice. However, he said, 99% of them will choose to live in the virtual world of matrix and only a minority will question their existence and reject matrix. This is so true oh. People are so cling to and indulged in their pursuing of desire and five senses that even though they are shown the noble path which can lead to nirvana, they may not want to accept the truth and still wish to live in a comfortable life ahead, experiencing life and death again and again.

Of course we're not as said in the movie, controlled by the sentient machines living in a world of matrix. Haha. However pathetically we stay in more or less the same matrix created by ourselves. We are lucky, as in the end of our searching we found Buddhism. This is all dependent on our own effort, whether we really want to wake up from the illusions we are living in. When Buddha said it is possible, by one's own effort, one is possible to attain nirvana. No one can help me to do this unless by myself.