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Buddhism
has a lot of different principles and teachings in which its followers believed
that these are helpful for their common good and way for them to exercise
Buddhahood.
In
the movie entitled “Nang Nak”, some of these teachings were
shown such as the concept of the marks of existence (trilakshana) in which could also
refer to the first step in the noble eightfold path, the perfect view
(samma-ditti). It connoted here that a human existence was a chain of discontinuous
moments and no any person was constant from one moment. As it was paralleled to
the movie, Nak had not yet realized that she should let go her notion of
permanence of everything which made her to cling for those things that were
already unattainable for her situation as a dead person and which also led her to
pain and dissatisfaction. Before she gave up her mortality, she failed to find
enlightenment for the reason that amidst of her death, she still literally
lived with her husband thinking that everything will still be the same no
matter what. Somehow at the end of the movie, through the help of the High
Dignitary, she tried to detach with those things she craved including Mak and
achieved liberation and peace. The latter could also refer to the second step
of the eightfold path which was the perfect resolve (samma-sankappa). Wherein,
in order for a person not to cause harm with other sentient beings, he or she
should live without any attachment to the physical world and to have good will
and sympathy towards them.
Another teaching could be the perfect speech
(samma-vacha) where it implied that one should say the truth and avoid the
lies, gossips and slander. This could be seen in many parts of the movie
like when Mak tried to let the wife of Pigri know about her husband’s death
during the war though he was stopped by Nak and also when his friend Um and the
High Dignitary tried to convince Mak about the death of his wife despite the
fact that Nak might haunt them for doing that. These would show how they were
so concerned for their fellow beings. In addition, the concept of perfect
effort (samma-vayama) was also portrayed in such a way that this effort must be
“karmically” beneficial and not “karmically” detrimental. Or in other words,
those who do good things could attain good karma and vice versa.
While
on the other hand, suffering is like a twin in people’s lives. It is already a
part of it. But as the life continues, humanity should know how to deal with it
for its own survival. Though it is not that easy to encounter both simple
and tough sufferings, what’s the point here is that how somebody learned on
such situation, and how he/she made him/herself strong in surpassing it and for
the another sufferings that he/she could come across along someday.
***Taken from my AS 311 Philosophy and Religions of Asia essay paper.***
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