Santa Clara Meditation Movie – To Be Together – Coexist
The Station Agent (2003)
Written and Directed by Thomas McCarthy
Santa Clara Meditation Movie – To Be Together – Coexist
Three people who are seemingly so different appear in the heartwarming and quirky 2003 American comedy-drama film, The Station Agent. The movie portrays how three people, who have such different life stories and lifestyles, gradually open their minds to each other to become friends.
The film also depicts that the painful reality each of them faces, such as physical anomaly, death of a son, or sick father cannot be changed nor reversed. They may scream in fury, despising the feelings of isolation and solitude. But in the end, the characters finally come to face their own realities by recognizing each other’s pain, and bearing the pain together.
Like the three people in the film, everyone in this world lives in solitude. Because we are alienated and isolated due to our own pain and stories, we feel lonely even when we are among others and interacting with others. Although we socialize and work hard to attain goals, the fundamental problem that we cannot solve is the sense of solitude and the void that we constantly feel somewhere in our minds.
The film does a fantastic job of portraying everyone’s sense of alienation through these three seemingly-different people who have one thing in common: solitude. Yet the movie ends with the characters finally “being together”, something that everyone dreams about. We smile at the last scene, the warmth of friendship prevailing in the end. But at the same time, it leaves a bitter taste because we realize that this touching scene and warmth ends with the film. After the movie concludes, we find ourselves back to our solitude.
What we earnestly need is to find the solution from ourselves, rather than someone else like movie characters. Perhaps, the reason we feel lonely and empty is because we are unaware of the answers to why we are living, where we came from and where we go?
The solution we long for must be the solid reasoning, the answers to our questions. Rather than seeking relief from material, we want to understand why we were born and why we live in the world and we want to know what our original source, the source where we came from and will return to, is. This might be the end to our solitude and the seemingly endless void. If we knew the original source that always exists as it is and always stays with us, and if we knew the infinite original world that is complete without any solitude or void, wouldn’t it be the first step to the “coexistence” we always dream about?
When we know the original existence that created us, when we know the reason why we are living, and when we know that the original existence has been always existing with us – yesterday, today, right at this moment – and will even exist with us for all the time, the solitude and void will eternally disappear and real coexistence will be waiting for us. When we live with one mind, the mind of the origin, every one of us will truly “coexist” and as we coexist, we will be beautiful and happy.
Let’s read master woo myung’s wisdom writing together.
The Reason Man Is Born into This World
An innumerable number of people have come and gone in this world, but no one knows where they came from or where they went. In any case, they have all disappeared from the world. From the Universe’s point of view, man disappears after a fleeting, meaningless life; there is little difference between a mayfly that passes away after a day and man who passes away after seventy to eighty years. Only man dies holding onto all the events and stories from his life. If he looks back on those stories after time has passed, he would realize that it is all meaningless.
When the Creator created man, he was made to resemble him. However, man made his own self-centered world by copying what is in the Creator’s world. He lost his original nature and began to lead a selfish life, but it enabled civilization to progress; man’s greed enabled the population of the world to multiply rapidly and without it, mankind would have died out naturally. The Creator will come to the world to save mankind at a time in the world when it is populated to capacity. Human life, like the life of a mayfly, is meaningless, yet at the same time it is the will of the Creator to “harvest” man when the human population is at its densest – that is, it is the Creator’s will to save people when there are as many people living in the world as possible. Now is the time of that harvest. We should live forever in the land of God by becoming one with the mind of God instead of dying meaninglessly with resentments and regrets. The reason and purpose man is born into the world is to live forever.
To all people, who disappear like smoke, without meaning: Just once, think deeply about yourself so that we may go together to live in the world that is eternally alive. There is no meaning in human life; nothing remains from it and everything from it disappears. Now is the time, now, when God, Buddha, great compassion and love come to the world and take man who would otherwise disappear to the living land of Truth; when man can have the mind of God and be reborn in the mind of God by cleansing his mind; when man can be saved. Is there anything in the world more important than this? This is the reason man comes into the world.
-Woo Myung-
Source:Wisdomswebzine.com
