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21) Unbalancing the Equation
Oracle: (rolls her eyes) Please. You and I may not be able to see beyond our own choices, but that "man" can't see past any choices. Neo: Why not? Oracle: He doesn't understand them. He can't. To him they are variables in an equation. One at a time each variable must be solved then countered. That's his purpose. To balance an equation. Neo: What's your purpose? Oracle: To unbalance it.
If one lives life without wanting to break free from the matrix of delusions that one is trapped in, and complacently lett things be, one is not "disturbing" the equation of Samsara. Conversely, to unbalance this equation is to break free of Samsara, to become enlightened.
22) Faith in One(self)
Niobe says she does not believe in Neo being the One who will save them all, but that she believes in Neo himself. It is interesting that she played a pivotal role in saving Zion herself. She believed in herself too, not just placing hopes in Neo alone. In this sense, there were many "Ones" who functioned as self-reliant and mutually-cooperative Bodhisattvas in saving one and all.
23) Give Only What One Needs
Morpheus: You went to see her (Oracle)? Niobe: Just before the Sentinels rammed us. Morpheus: Why, what did she tell you? Niobe: The same thing she always does: Exactly what I needed to hear.
A good teacher of the Dharma knows the capacity of his or her students well, and tells only what his or her student needs to hear- nothing more or less.
24) See the Enemy Beyond Flesh
Bane: Mr. Anderson... Neo: Who are you? Bane: Look past the flesh and see your enemy. Neo: (Recognises Bane as Smith.) It's impossible. Bane: Not impossible- inevitable.
When we see past the flesh, at our enemies within and without us, we realise that it is never the person per se who is the enemy, but the immaterial three poisons of greed, hatred and ignorance. That is to say, the enemy is the greed, hatred and ignorance; not the greedy, hateful and ignorant.
25) Confidence Over Choicelessness
Trinity: If you tell me we make it, I believe you. Neo: We'll make it. We have to.
If we have no choice over our choicelessness, but to choose a hard path to trod, let us be confident about it and bravely face the obstacles in our way. It's the only thing to do there and then to advance spiritually.
26) The God Out of the Machine
Neo tells the collective machines (the Architect?), also called the "Deus Ex Machina (Greek for "the god out of the machine)", that the viral-like program "Smith" has grown beyond the Matrix's control, and strikes a mutual peace bargain with them. The collective consciousness of the machines is like a "god out of the machine" or "ghost in the shell". Likewise, we individually have a "god" within the machine that is our body. It is our consciousness, our will which (re)creates our "self", our sum of wisdom and delusion- only as almighty as we are enlightened.
27) Fighting One's One Demon
Agent Smith fights Neo empty-handed and alone in a showdown, while his cloned minions stand aside and watch. This is reminiscent of us needing to fight only essentially one demon- our innermost one. After it is defeated, all outer demons are rendered powerless over us.
28) Purpose of Life
Agent Smith tells Neo, "The purpose of life, Mr. Anderson, is death." Smith has a classically cold existential outlook on life, seeing only where it leads to, instead of the worthiness of the journey that leads to the final destination. Out of hatred and seeing the apparent "pointless" proceeding of all life towards death, he has no other worthy goal than to accelerate all lifeforms to their inevitable destiny. But what he does is unnecessary, for nature will take its own course. In Buddhism, the noblest purpose of life is transcend life and death, and to help others do the same, gaining liberation in Enlightenment.
29) Pointless to Fight?
Smith: (When Neo collapses) Why, Mr. Anderson (Neo)? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying to deperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?! Neo: (Stands up) Because I choose to.
Agent Smith once again states his heartless unsentient and spiritually hollow existential view of human life. He fails to understand that sentient beings seek meaningfulness in existence, and even death and beyond, inevitably leading to the struggle for love, freedom, truth and peace. Human strife in the right direction will inevitably lead to the peak of spiritual evolution in Enlightenment. These are concepts that Smith, as an "evil" program, cannot understand, as opposed to Rama.
30) Smith's Existential Crisis
Ironically, in Smith's attempt to point out what he supposes to be Neo's existential crisis while fighting him, he was in fact stating his own existential crisis, which he does not see. If it is as he assumes, pointless for Neo to fight back, it is just as pointless for him to keep Neo down. Smith's multiplying hatred is, by his own logic, just as existentially pointless, in that it has no basis and useful purpose.
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