Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring

I just added this movie to my profile, though I saw it when I was living in Tacoma.

I've wondered since watching the film if my life would have been a little better growing up with these principals, rather than the ideals I was taught through Christianity. I just felt the perspectives of the old man lined up better with my perceptive reality.

I remember when I was living in Japan and was talking with my Singaporean co-worker about Christianity and Buddhism. Having been exposed to Western and Eastern thought, I imagine she had made an informed decision. She said, “I prefer Buddhism.”

I’ve considered, though, that Christianity (as well as other religions, I imagine) do give some perspective of the way things are in the natural world and ourselves, even if we don’t like to hear it. I wonder if the problem is the canonization of principals…that makes people blindly accept and follow what others have told them rather than understand for themselves through their own experience.

That was the thing about this movie. The boy was taught his lessons after his experiences, not before.

I prefer to stay on the outside of religion so I can understand first-hand why the principals came into being in the first place.