Zen Buddhism in cinema

In the sixth century AD, a Ceylon monk, named as BUDHIDHARMA, took the Buddhism religion to china. He was meditating in Shaolin temple or 9 years, and
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Zen Buddhism in cinema
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In the sixth century AD, a Ceylon monk, named as BUDHIDHARMA (1), took the Buddhism religion to china. He was meditating in Shaolin temple or 9 years, and after getting popularity, created a new religion by the name of Zen Buddhism, which was mixture of Buddhism and Taoism. This cult, consider the salvation way and attain the level of illumination, only through human conscience, and mode of action and worship style is possible, only through thinking. In this cult, Kung Fu, Karate and other martial arts have a series of basic movements, and each of them has a mystical symbol (2).
They try to say this issue is the way to reach the truth or to foster the intellectual and spiritual, in their films. the character of the story under the teachings influence of Zen, reaches to some abilities and by this way, deals with personal or public`s problems. in the film of Dragon ball: Evolution (3), a young boy, to struggle with a villain, was trained by a Zen`s master and gets a super human power.
In the film series of Batman, in the beginning of story, confronted with an accident, so the first spark to struggle with evil people was formed. to reach to his goal, he goes to a temple and under supervision of a Zen`s master, soles his own mental problems.
The main character of the story in the film, street fighter: the legend of Chun Li (4), learns the teachings of Zen for many years. When the bad guys kidnap his father, he moves to free him, but he is still weak and can`t cope. An unknown person teaches him other teachings of Zen, and gives him super human strength. After the training, he reaches to full relaxation and rises to combat and eradicate the evil people.
in the animated series of Kung Fu Panda, which 5 parts have been built, a lazy and gluttonous, who has an interest in Kung Fu, gets training under supervision of a master and becomes hero of the story and savior of other creatures. after sometime he explains for his students, the character of important masters of Kung Fu, in short animations of Kung Fu Panda: secrets of five fires, and Kung Fu Panda: secrets of masters. He tries to explain the character of teachers to students to understand the main principle of Kung Fu is excellence of confidence and makes them familiar with the teachings of Zen.
Savior in film of last controller of the wind, is a teenage boy called as Avatar, he can control the four elements of dust, water, fire and the wind and has a duty to establish the peace and order among four tribes. He got Zen training, since his childhood in a Buddhist temple to become ready for combats in the future.
What film wants to show is the propaganda and the promoting of the Zen teachings, weather this cult has eligibility to be promoted? The answer should be found in ideas and teachings of Zen Buddhism. The most important difficulties in this quasi-mystical attitude are:

1- In this ritual, there are no places for sacred tests, belief in God, resurrection, revelation and the prophecy. And also rituals and temple construction is negated. This means that, there is no religion in Zen ideas. What can be seen in this regulation is Tao resources and natural factors and therefore there is no association with mysticism also.
2- Buddhism is the principle of this sect.
3- In this cult, rationality, science and the philosophy are rejected. And there is no place for such things in its teachings.
4- In this ritual, absolute isolation is governing.


/J

 

 



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