Kung Fu Panda 3

I am a big fan of animated movies. Not just becasue I like the animations and story and the fantacy that the movies offer which we cannot otherwise live, but also becasue of the writing. One such movie is 'Kung Fu Panda 3'. What intrigues me the most in this movie, are its dialogues...

Oogway, one of the characters in the movie, pleads to Kai- "Oh Kai, When will you realize? The more you take, the less you have!"

This got me thinking. The more you take the less you have. True about almost everything. I always want more. More than what I have right now. More happiness, more money, more gadgets, more love, more ease of life.. more of everything. You get some of these things, by keep doing what you do. A few, though, you need to take. Make special efforts to get them. Wish for them. Struggle for them. Long for them. The more you take, the less you have. The less I want, the more I have! This is counterintuitive! 

Interestingly, I tend to belittle what I have, in light of what more I want. May be, just maybe, I don't value what I have. From the moment I want and till I have, it is super important; as soon as I have what I want, may be it is ok, fine. Now I have it. Now... something else. Is that how is it? Oh, if yes, then, I am worse than Kai!

One more character, Shifu says in one of the scenes, "Time is just an illusion, there is only the 'now'."

In one of my earlier articles, I have talked about how there is no 'Now'. It’s just a thin line between past and future. Something so silverishly illusive, that one cannot perceive it. Here, Shifu says there is only the 'now'. He, so effortlessly inverses the understanding of time, as just an illusion, a construct built around you, to perceive existence. All you have, is 'now'. 

Troubling, but worth thinking about!