Emotions and Inner Life
Why was YOYO moved to tears by the water dragon leaping through clouds and rain?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
If a film suddenly moves you deeply, first consider which image touched you. YOYO shared that in Raya and the Last Dragon, she cried when the water dragon regained the energy of rain and leapt freely through clouds and rainfall. To her, these felt like spiritual tears and brought to mind a sense of the spirit’s original freedom and ease, at one with nature.
She also connected finding the dragon gem’s fragments and restoring it with group practice and life: going through different experiences, gradually finding yourself and moving toward the original source. The film had five fragments, and she said what she needed to recover might be more than five. She was using the story to express her own understanding of practice, not saying every soul is divided into exactly five pieces.
The feeling itself is worth cherishing. It may reveal a longing within or lead to an understanding of spiritual practice. But people are touched by different things. Crying during a film does not automatically prove a spiritual connection or a particular result of spirit communication. Understanding the person’s feelings first helps us avoid forcing another person’s experience onto ourselves.