The black and white in us - The Black Swan

I saw the film , the black swan.  I could not finished watching the film as I could see the pain which the actress have gone through and I feel lame and weak at certain scenes. She was a perfect white swan at the start and when she became the main lead, her boss want to see her to perform the role of the black swan as well.  Initially, she could not expressed herself well as a black swan as she has been  a perfect and beautiful white swan.  I believe in the end, she succeeded in perfecting her role as the black swan. This change illustrate a split personality in all of us and it is up to us to search from our within and tap or control the release of the darkness in all of us.

Basically, all of us is like the white swan, beautiful and innosense and believe everything is good and pure. In Buddhism , it is believe that everyone is born with a good character and through the years of guidance , experience and learning, the darkness or the blackness is slowly released in us.  Our internal desires start to grow in the years with the influence from people close to us and the events from the outside world.  Just like the actress in the black swan, she do not know her desires and only focus in improving her dancing skills. Everything was in a routine  and her mind is focus on her dancing. To bring out her blackness, her director asked her  to  touch and feel herself to relax and release her feelings to perfect her role as the black swan. This advise starts the change in her desires and character.

So, in real life , this is what happen to alal of us and often good men become bad men or girls from good family became loose and wild. Some of them are induced by greed, some by pleasure and others through bad and hurtful experience. All of us become harden when we progress in life and we  became softer at the tail end of our life. The good will remain good if they are properly guided and advised by the people closed to them. The gain in wisdom or the search for the good or the bad will also influence the outcome in a person.

Personally, I have seen people changing their basic good characters and taking self-serving actions to improve their personal standings and achievements at the expense of others.  At worst, some people go to the extent of stealing , cheating and killing to achieve their ends. We could see that the blackness have over taken their white self and they drifted into darkness to enpower themselves over others or over their fate.

It is  very easy to detect the blackness in our character as we could sense the temptations and we know what we are doing.  Whether we are fair , bias or evil, we are conscious of our actions. Some of them explained that they are push or pull into such deeds without their consciousness is bullshit as we decide each steps we take and is responsible for the outcome. Just open our eyes and touch our heart and we will be able to feel the white or the blackness in all of us.

Namaste.