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Re: it's not the spoon that bends [Re: cube talk]
    #7696604 - 11/29/07 07:57 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8557550751784239423

Boy: "Do not try and bend the spoon--that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth."

Neo: "What truth?"

Boy: "There is no spoon."

Neo: "There is no spoon?"

Boy: "Then you will see, that it is not the spoon that bends. It is only your self."

I think this scene is key, because it sums up a philosophy which plays a very large role in the movie/series. That being, the illusion presented by reality.

I take this as a metaphor, for our own reality, and a direct statement about its nature.

Mystics have long believed that our physical world is illusory. That we are actors willingly playing a part, and that we can, like Neo, manipulate our physical reality through the power of our will.

This manipulation of reality by act of will is also a central concept of the occult, and behind the notion of prayer in some religions.

The Buddha said: "We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all."

And also: "A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering."

In the gospels (Matt 17:20) Christ is quoted as saying: "for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."

I am not sure that was meant as a metaphor. Considering that the man called the Christ was alleged to have performed miracles... I believe he was trying to tell us that WE can manipulate physical reality, ourselves, by act of Will.

To me, the Matrix is a kind of parable put into modern terms, in a way that we can relate to. There is a LOT of wisdom in those films, if you just open your ears to hear it.


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