Saṃsāra is a type of buddhism that refers to continuous movement also known as the eternal cycle of life such as birth, death and rebirth. Samsara came from Hindu belief of reincarnation. It is good to remember that the founder of buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama. It is mostly known as endless suffering. Budda's opinions and views on Samsara were broad. His opinion was that they were really focus on something so there was no beginning nor end such as a circle. His specific opinion that Samsara was focus on suffering and that all human beings wouldn't stop suffering until they reach of Nirvana. Buddhism viewd Nirvana as "the perfect piece of the state of mind that is free from craving anger and other afflicting states", that besides being thoughts we should observe them and identify them with our thoughts.Samsara is seen as the cycle that needs a effort and is hard to break the suffering of it. There are 3 types of Buddhism amd each one looks at Samsara slightly different. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, sees Samsara as ignorance in terms of the four noble truth such as "ignorance concerning suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering". In Nikāya Buddhism, Buddhism opinion and stresses the point of reincarnation or also known as rebirth it focusses more on the fact of the cycle of birth and rebirth. In the other hand in Tibetan Buddhism is expressing rebirth also but now is known as the wheel of suffering. It is stated that rebirth brings suffering in my opinion.
There are also Cycle of Samsara also known as six paths they are Beings of Hell, Hungry Ghosts, Animals, Asura ,Humans and Deva.
I'm really interested in this topic, but I think it's going to be a bit difficult to connect it to The Matrix. I’m going to research the Six Paths and look for something I can connect to the movie.
ReplyDeleteYou said Samsara is like a circle movement,such as birth, death and rebirth. So I think you can focus on Neo's experience in the Matrix.
ReplyDeleteI think this connects with the Matrix about ignorance and enlightenment. People who live in the matrix are ignorant of what is real, and the characters such as Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity are depicted as enlightened. They are depicted as enlightened because they have risen to a level above the self created suffering that exists in the matrix.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting, and since Buddism focuses on reincarnation it can be similar to what Neo has experienced.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to connect to the matrix with the endless suffering. what seems to be the endless suffering to morpheus and trinity is soon to be over when they reach nirvana or neo. it seems as though the beliefs might connect to the characters and plot of the story.
ReplyDeleteI believe the idea of the endless cycle could tie into "The Matrix" through the idea that all humans are spedning their lives in machines simulating life all for the purpose of creating energy for these other machines. The cycle demonstrated in "The Matrix" is the endless and some what pointless "life" of these humans who never actually live. They are born or created, stored and then destroyed once their life source is used, wthi no hope of acheving freedom, unless an outer source frees them.
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