A Bittersweet Life

(in the beginning of the movie)

One fine spring day

a disciple looked at some branches

blowing in the wind

He asked his master

“Master, are the branches moving

or is it the wind?”

Not even glancing to where his pupil was pointing

the master smiled and said

“That which moves is neither

the branches nor the wind.”

“It’s your heart and mind’

(at the end of the movie before his death)

 

One late autumn night,

The disciple woke up crying.

So the master asked the disciple,

“Did you have a nightmare?”

“No”

“Did you have a sad dream?”

“No,” said the disciple, 

“I had a sweet dream.”

“Then why are you crying so sadly?”

The disciple answered quietly while wiping his tears.

“Because the dream I had cannot come true.”