The gentleman's journey is to cultivate oneself quietly, to cultivate virtue with frugality, not to be indifferent to one's ambitions, and to be non-tranquil and far-reaching. —— Zhuge Liang's Book of Commandments
Kung Fu Panda 2 tells the story of a battle to repel bandits to defend the valley, the quiet life of dragon hero Ah Bao is broken by a ring flame symbol related to his own life. As the evil white peacock Prince Shen reoccupied Gongmen City with artillery, Ah Bao and his team embarked on a journey to defend Kung Fu and find the truth of his life. In the end, by cultivating inner peace, Ah Bao defeated Prince Shen and his cannon fire.
The invisible narrative line in the film is: the process of Ah Bao saving Kung Fu, and it is also the process of knowing, finding, learning and finally understanding inner peace.
Master Turtle's "Heart Like Water"
After many years, revisiting this movie, the Chinese style picture is still beautiful, and the storyline is still fascinating.
The master asked Ah Bao to train for inner peace
Unlike in the past, this time I understood the calm behind the fierce fighting: there is a force called the mind is like water; calm the mind, everything is possible.
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Calm: Tranquility, no external harassment, no turmoil; peace and quiet.
Mind like stopping water: It means that the mind is as calm as immovable water. Describe adherence to beliefs and not be influenced by the outside world. ——Source: Baidu Encyclopedia
Master Raccoon shows Ah Bao the power of "the heart is like stopping water"
At the beginning of the movie, Master Raccoon uses a drop of water to show Ah Bao the power of inner calm. He turned his back on his apprentice, closed his eyes and stared, and the rounded rolling water droplets in his hands were the best interpretation of "the heart is like stopping water". Ah Bao's constantly changing gaze following the water droplets can be seen as a kind of confusion and demand for "the heart is like stopping water".
The inner strength of a kung fu master is far greater than the magic of martial arts.
As a harmonious and calm posture, the heart is an indispensable spiritual nourishment, giving people wisdom and strength.
Ah Bao's first contact with "inner peace"
The master described how he practiced calmness from suffering. Looking back on the past, he said that the days when Ah Bao was selected as the Dragon Hero were the most desperate and painful moments of his life. Probably because at that time, the master felt that Ah Bao was not the opponent of the Great Dragon at all, and he could not see the slightest hope for the future.
Most of us have searched for bright light in the gray days, and we have searched for inner peace in the joys and sorrows of thousands of horses.
Master Raccoon realizes that "the heart is like stopping water"
When one day, Master Raccoon realized that the problem was in himself, not in the external Ah Bao, he realized that his heart was like stopping water.
When we attribute our pain and suffering to the outside world, we also give precious focus and strength to others.
Each of us is a grain of sand, a drop of water, in the crowd, vulnerable to external interference.
When we blame others, we subconsciously think that others are the main cause of our own pain, and we invisibly give our emotional control to the other party.
For example, you and a good friend make an appointment to go to the movies together on Friday night, but unexpectedly, the leader arranges for you to work overtime before leaving. If you can realize that this is what you should do, you will be able to achieve inner peace, focus on your work, complete tasks as early as possible, and maybe have the opportunity to go to the movies again.
But if you attribute the reason for not being able to watch the movie to the outside, you will feel to a certain extent that everything is the fault of the boss, why do you have to work overtime, the result is that you are not in a good mood, the work you do is not up to standard, and finally the leader is not satisfied, and the movie is not seen.
To a certain extent, from the moment you start blaming your boss, your mood is controlled by him. Later, if he asks you to leave work on time, you will be happy; if you work overtime, you will be unhappy.
The famous psychologist Jung once said in his autobiography: "There is no need to look for it from the outside, the truth is in this inner man." ”
Only when we look inward and find the peace in our hearts, can we objectively analyze and calmly face the core problems of existence, gather our greatest energy, and let the gray days shine.
Inner peace is the strength on which we can build the world.
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The heart is like stopping water is a pursuit and yearning.
To recede impetuousness, calm is a character; to feel compassionate, to be calm is a kind of wisdom.
We all long for the quiet and good years, not to be happy with things, not to be sad with ourselves.
But life is always sour, sweet, bitter and spicy, full of flavors.
Darkness and trauma are condiments, but also tests.
Ring Flame: A sign of the destruction of Abao's calm
The destruction of Ah Bao's calm is portrayed in detail in the film.
Calm First Destruction:
During a battle to defend the mountain, Ah Bao accidentally saw the ring flame icon on the arm of the enemy wolf.
A unique sign in the depths of Ah Bao's childhood memories
So, for the first time, his inner peace was broken by the red icon in the depths of his memory, and he hurried back to Daddy Goose's noodle restaurant to ask about his past.
Calm first destruction
Because Prince Shen occupied Gongmen City with gunpowder, Kung Fu was in jeopardy. Ah Bao and the team were assigned by the master to protect Kung Fu.
Ah Bao dreamed that the radish had pierced his calm belly
On the boat on the way, he had a nightmare that his parents had sold themselves for a turnip, on the grounds that the radish was more obedient than him and his kung fu was better than him.
This can be seen as a portrayal of Ah Bao's inner negative emotions and heavy pressure, Ah Bao's deep fear of gunpowder, reflected in the dream is that he dreamed that the radish transformed into a cannon, shot at himself, and finally plunged into his stomach that he thought was calm.
The third disruption of calm
Ah Bao was in the palace gate city and accidentally saw the fiery red circle on the peacock's wings.
Peacock Shen Wangye stimulated Ah Bao
He realized that Prince Shen knew what had happened in the depths of his memory, because he was present at the time, which laid the groundwork for Prince Shen to deceive Ah Bao later. Because of this calm break, he and his team ignored the potential danger, and Prince Shen took advantage of Ah Bao's distraction to launch an attack to blow up the palace.
The fourth destruction of calm
Ah Bao asks King Shen about his past, and Prince Shen deceives Ah Bao that his parents do not love him.
Peacock Shen Wang Ye deceived Ah Bao
This was exactly the same as he had dreamed, Ah Bao fell into this negative blow of inability to fight back, and the opponent took the opportunity to aim the gun at him, resulting in the rest of the team being captured, and the seriously injured Ah Bao was fortunate to be rescued by the Sheep Fairy.
The sheep fairy aunt comforted Ah Bao
In life, we are inadvertently hit by our own weaknesses.
Just like Ah Bao, the tragic experience of his childhood was his weakness. For example, you just lost love, just saw your ex-girlfriend in the circle of friends to show her new boyfriend, even more sad; many parents regardless of the cost, at all costs, at all costs to their children to report expensive summer camps, because the biggest weakness of parents, is the child; many elderly people buy health care products are deceived, it is because the scammers hit the vast majority of the elderly want to be healthy this weakness .......
What can hurt us is what we care about deep down.
Correspondingly, the destruction of Prince Shen's calm was also portrayed accordingly.
Brilliant fireworks: The fuse of Shen Wangye's irritability
Prince Shen discovered the power of fireworks
When Prince Shen discovered the great power behind the brilliant fireworks, his inner peace was broken for the first time.
Yang Xian Gu's prophecy about Prince Shen
When he overhears his prediction that he will be defeated by a black and white warrior in the future, his heart can no longer be at peace.
Shen Wangye purged the pandas
In order to get rid of the future scourge, Prince Shen launched a panda purge plan and was driven out of the palace by his parents.
Prince Shen was expelled from the palace by his parents
He shouted that one day he would come back for revenge, and hatred had taken over his heart.
The Peacock Shen Emperor reoccupied the palace gate
When he reoccupied the palace and throne of Gongmen Castle, and was full of ambition for the future, he found that the prophecy of the sheep fairy had not expired, and a panda warrior appeared, who was full of pain and anger about fate and life.
Just like Shen Wangye, in life, there are always some people around us who blame others for their dissatisfaction. I can't find a good job, blame my parents for not having a background, complain about the school and the profession is not good; the work is not done well, all because colleagues have dragged their feet; they have been hurt by love, so they are unhappy now.......
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There is a lyric that sings like this: "Only by winning yourself can you win the jianghu."
Ah Bao accepts the past and forgives the enemy
Ah Bao once thought that the peace of his stomach was the peace of mind, and in order to cultivate inner peace, he once said as he walked, "Inner peace, inner peace..."
Ah Bao searches for "heart like water"
He also once woke up from a nightmare and hit the ship's mast with his bare hands, trying to force himself to remain calm. It turns out that these are all diagrams in form, not real meditation.
The American social psychologist Feistinger has a famous theory known as "Feistinger's law":
10% of your life is made up of what happens to you, while the other 90% is determined by how you react to what happens. That is to say, 10% of the things in life are beyond our control, while the other 90% are within our control.
Ah Bao has been hunted down since birth, his mother died to protect him, and the tragic beginning of his life is the 10% of his life.
Ah Bao recalls his childhood
As the sheep fairy said, this beginning does not determine your life, and your other life experiences can determine who you are and what kind of person you become.
Faced with the remaining 90%, Ah Bao thought that he had entered the Emerald Palace through hard work, defeated the Great Dragon, defended the valley, and was a Dragon Hero, who had the mission to save Kung Fu.
Ah Bao practiced inner peace
For the past, he chose to accept and forgive, and chose to live in the present.
Quiet and quiet, peace of mind, then also quiet. Therefore, he practiced "the heart is like stopping water."
There is only one thing in the world that can help us withstand the storms of life: inner peace.
Prince Shen was obsessed
In contrast, the peacock Shen Wangye, in the face of fireworks, had evil thoughts and conducted artillery experiments, which led to his parents asking the sheep fairy to calculate the fortune, and his reaction to the prophecy led to his slaughter of pandas, and his cruel act led to his parents expelling him from the palace, and his reaction to the expulsion led to his later return to take revenge.
Shen Wangye's heart was full of hostility
He had the opportunity to reform and start over, but there was only hostility and resentment in his eyes, his behavior was full of irritability and coldness, and his rejection of Ah Bao's advice led to his later ashes.
He can't let go of the hatred of the past, can't learn to accept the imperfections of the past, and eventually can only lead to self-destruction.
Accept the cruelty and ruthlessness of fate
The real heroes are those who see the truth of life but still love it. --Romain Rolland
Three years after the Wutai poetry case, Su Dongpo wrote "DingfengBo", in which "a smoke and rain let you live a peaceful life" and "return, there is no wind and rain and no sunshine" are the power of inner peace, which is how calm and self-assured, open and transcendent!
Helen Keller was a blind, deaf and mute disabled person who lived in darkness for 87 years of her life, but she found inner peace under the cruel and merciless fate, and eventually entered Harvard University and became a famous female writer.
Only by being as calm as water can we look at things more objectively, clarify our thinking, analyze problems, and then grasp the key points to solve problems.
Life is like a tide, it is inevitable to rise and fall, winning or losing is just our mentality.
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The so-called good state of mind is a relaxed concentration, a conscious unconscious, that is, the mind is like a full concentration under the water and the unity of body and mind.
So how do you get to this state?
Relax your body
As the saying goes, only when the mind is quiet can the body be relaxed, and the body is also convenient for the mind to be quiet, and the two interact and affect each other.
Ah Bao understands that "the heart is like stopping water"
In the movie, Ah Bao enlightened Master's teachings, adjusted his breath like a master, took the heart as the axis, circled with one arm and one foot, combined dynamic and static, combined virtual and real, introduced the falling water droplets into his own aura, and learned inner peace.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training
American physiologist Edmund Jack Burson founded progressive muscle relaxation training in the 1930s:
Refers to the indirect relaxation of emotions through conscious control of the activity of random muscles, and the establishment and maintenance of relaxed and pleasant emotional states.
You can download relevant music through the Internet, find a quiet place that will not distract you, practice on an empty stomach, choose a comfortable posture, take off your watch, glasses and other body burdens, focus on the moment, focus on the muscles, and release the feeling of enjoying the sudden relaxation of the muscles.
Abdominal and calm breathing methods
Abdominal breathing is the inhalation of breath into the abdomen. It is to put your hand on your abdomen, raise your abdomen when you inhale, and slowly exhale from your abdomen when you exhale. Calm breathing is the use of abdominal breathing, counting five numbers, counting from one to five, then holding the breath, counting five numbers; then slowly spitting out, counting five numbers.
Insist on practicing abdominal breathing or calm breathing twice a day for five minutes each time, at least two weeks, can effectively relax the body.
In addition, practicing yoga can also relax the body. All of the above methods can be learned through health clubs, yoga workshops or online videos.
RAIN bystander negative emotions
Ah Bao learned to "stop the water"
In the film, the water droplets slide down the blade appear three times: the first time is when the master demonstrates to Ah Bao what is "heart like stopping water"; the second time is when Ah Bao learns to be quiet in his village when he was a child; and the third time is when he finally fights with Prince Shen.
Ah Bao understood that "the heart is like stopping water"
The calm Ah Bao saw the shells fired by the enemy as water droplets, and the water beads were foreground and placed above Ah Bao's head, which was highlighted, and the side showed the importance of the heart as if it stopped water, showing the true strength of Ah Bao's heart.
In the movie, both water droplets and tai chi kung fu embody the Taoist idea of going with the flow, going with nature, being rigid and soft, and using softness to overcome gang.
Just as water droplets flow along the leaves, we should also learn to let emotions flow in the same direction.
Sharon Shazberg, a well-known Meditation Teacher in the United States, once mentioned the RAIN method of bystanding negative emotions in his book "One Square Meter of Meditation":
Using the four steps of RAIN to become an "eyewitness", you can use mindfulness to process an emotion.
RAIN refers to recognition, acceptance, investigation, and nonidentificaition, respectively.
First, identify it. "Oh, I'm suffering from a lost love again, it's unwillingness, it's not love, it's knocking on my door again."
Then, accept it. "Come on, stop fighting, let it flow freely."
Next, explore it. "It turns out that it has always appeared because I feel that the breakup has no face." If you compound now, can many problems that were not solved before be solved? It seems that you can't, so why do you want to compound it? Is it true love? Or is it just unwilling? As if unwillingly. ”
Finally, express disapproval of it. "You can come to my house once in a while and sit for a while, but I'm the master here." I'm going to let you go now, please forgive me..."
Just like Shen Wangye in the film, we are prone to fall into the strange circle of self-denial and then anger, because of a small thing or the lack of a certain aspect of ourselves, we are excessively denied by others, we feel that our self-esteem is damaged because of denial, and we feel angry because of damaged self-esteem.
Rain's four steps can help us peel away layers of additional reactions, identify it, let it go, go back to the starting point, and enable rationality.
Practice meditation
It allows people to completely calm down and focus on the here and now.
When practicing meditation, you need to pay attention to the following guiding principles: find a quiet environment, relax your muscles, develop habits, avoid meditating when you are full or tired, focus on one goal at a time, let thoughts come and go, do not evaluate whether you are doing well or badly, do not mind the results, and focus on feeling the comings and goings of thoughts.
Compassion and tolerance
When we have mindfulness, empathy, and kindness, we are no longer blindly blamed, but we are more able to accept and transform the disasters and misfortunes that occur in life.
Ah Bao calmly faced the past
In the movie, after understanding his tragic life, Ah Bao endured a huge mental torment, bravely faced the pain of the past, and once again tasted the power of love, transcended the pain, and truly gained inner peace.
Inner peace allows us to see the vastness and deep meaning of life.
Peacock Shen Wangye did not believe that Ah Bao could achieve "heart like stopping water"
At the end of the movie, The Peacock Shen Wangye asks Ah Bao how to achieve peace of mind, but he is the sinner who killed their panda clan! He didn't believe that Ah Bao would choose to forgive himself. Ah Bao replied that it was his own choice.
He was tolerant and persuaded by the peacock Shen Wangye, and he advised the other party to turn back now and be himself again.
Ah Bao admonished the peacock Shen Wangye
Helplessly, Prince Shen's heart has long been occupied by layers of resentment and hostility, it is difficult for him to accept the kindness and love released by others, and his thinking logic only has the robber belief that "happiness is stolen".
Even Ah Bao's careful and kind reminders and exhortations were regarded as great insults and attacks by him, and he rejected and fought back more resolutely until he committed suicide.
Everyone is imperfect and makes mistakes, but we can learn to start over.
Learning to cultivate inner peace will allow us to appreciate the richness and freedom in the depths of life.
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We have all searched for bright light in the gray days, and we have all sought inner peace in the joys and sorrows of thousands of horses.
The mind is like stopping water is a kind of power, calm the mind, everything is possible.
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