Samurai Soteriology
-- David L. Simmons
With Hollywood still buzzing about the recent 77th Academy Awards ceremony, this is a good time to consider one of the most influential forces shaping our attitudes about religion: the movies. My favorite movie from the past year was ignored at the Oscars: Quentin Tarantino's second "volume" of his epic tale of bloody, inexorable revenge, Kill Bill. Taken together, the Kill Bill movies demonstrate some bona-fide Zen Buddhist doctrine, and can be read as a filmic meditation on the Zen koan that provides the philosophical keynote for the plot: "If you meet the Buddha, kill him."
1. 'A visitor' posted on the Thu 10 Mar 2005, 7:47 pm
ReplyDeleteSee, this is why I get Sightings every week...you can't top stuff like this.
Avraham