Siddhartha's Awakening in

“Little Buddha”

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Story: Bernardo Bertolucci

Screenplay: Rudy Wurlitzer and Mark Peploe

(1993)

Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Chris Isaak, Ying Ruocheng

Mara – You who will go where no one else will dare.  Will you be my god?

Siddhartha – Architect. Finally I have met you. You will not rebuild your house again.

Mara – But I am your house and you live in me.

Siddhartha – Oh Lord of my own Ego, you are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness.

Lama Norbu – Siddhartha won the battle against an army of demons, just through the force of his love, and the great compassion he had found. And he achieved a great calm that precedes detachment from illusions. He had reached beyond himself. He was beyond joy or pain, separate from judgment, able to remember that he had been a girl, a dolphin, a tree, a monkey.  He remembered his first birth, and the minute after that, he could see beyond the universe.  Siddhartha had seen the ultimate reality of all things. He had understood that every movement in the universe is an effect provoked by a cause. He knew there was no salvation without compassion for every other being.  From that moment on, Siddhartha was called the Buddha, the Awakened One.