The Matrix Buddhism

The Matrix, Directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski is a fast paced (yet slightly cheesy) Science Fiction film that was made in 1999. Thomas Anderson is living a double life, during the day he is simply a computer programmer but by night, he goes by a different name. Neo comes alive in the nighttime as an accomplished internet hacker. Neo begins his journey down the rabbit hole by asking one simple question, “What is the Matrix?”. Police begin to target him after he is contacted by Trinity and Morpheus, who is a computer hacker that the government considers to be a terrorist. Morpheus shows Neo the real world. The real world is full of corruption, material desire, stress and so much suffering. The world is now a wasteland where machines have taken over the human race by using their body heat as energy. Neo is given the choice to take a blue pill and forget the suffering, or the red pill which will help him understand what the matrix really is. He chooses the red pill and is considered the chosen one to return to the matrix to confront the machines that have taken over the Earth as well as the humans in it. …show more content…
Neo most closely resembles Siddhartha himself, the “chosen one” that the God’s have decided to use to enlighten the rest of the world on how to remove the suffering from their life. In the case of The Matrix, The God’s are Morpheus and Trinity and the suffering refers to the oppression that is being caused by these evil machines. Because Neo has taken the red pill, he can delve further into the matrix and achieve the knowledge to help end the suffering of the real