Unraveling Reality: A Journey through The Matrix

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The Matrix is a 1999 action film, noted for its science fiction and special effects, about the life of an individual who has been chosen to discover the truth of the world he lived in and eventually save all humanity from the enslavement of their minds in the Matrix. The story begins with an average computer programmer, named Thomas Anderson, who begins to notice strange occurrences as he dabbles in deeper into the secretive life of computer hacking and illegal software encryption through the nickname ‘Neo’. He is tracked down by another hacker, Trinity, and warns him of the dangers that would occur if he chose to remain in his current life. After Thomas realizes that he was being hunted down by sinister agents, he agrees to follow the path …show more content…

The key behind understanding the Matrix is the ability to search for the answer, as it encompasses everything. Morpheus says to Neo, “You are a slave Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind,” when describing the truth that humanity has been blinded from. The Matrix is what would symbolize the concept of samsara in Buddhism. Neo is given two choices once he is exposed to the enslavement of human minds: to go back to his life oblivious to the Matrix or to see the Matrix in its true form, which would be like finding the Four Noble …show more content…

The program is a method of control built to continue a cycle, like samsara, where suffering continues endlessly through human lives. The Matrix has blinded humanity with an entire way of living, where society and responsibilities will continue to distract and control people from leaving out of the cycle. Once he undergoes the journey to tap out of the Matrix, he sees the world as dark, where everyone is connected and chained to one component. The Matrix and samsara are interchangeable concepts in terms of their core philosophy, while the differences appear in the details, such as, the film describes it as a program run by machines that seek to use the liquefied remnants of the dead to power their existence while samsara is the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth of all beings where each life contains suffering and loss of happiness as caused by time, all of which is determined by one’s karmic actions in life and onto the

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