Full name: Taihasa Zenyatta, age: 20 years old
Occupation: Wandering monk, adventurer
Base of operations: Nepal, Xiangbali Monastery (former)
Affiliation: (former) Shangbari monk
"self Not limited to form."
Zenyatta is a mechanical monk who wanders the world in search of the way to sublimate the soul. It is said that anyone who is lucky enough to meet him will change his life trajectory.
Many years ago, after the end of the "intelligence crisis", a group of exiled intelligent robots felt the way of sublimation called "soul awakening". They gave up their pre-set lives and built a temple deep in the Himalayas. After meditating on the essence and meaning of their existence for many years, they gradually believe that they are more than artificial intelligence, and like human beings, they also have souls.
After realizing that they are like human beings at the level of their souls, these monks led by the mysterious monk Taihasa Mundatta began to seek to heal the wounds left by the "intelligence crisis" a generation ago, and hoped to make humans and Robots are back to the way they once lived in harmony. They were finally accepted by the world, and their beliefs were supported by millions of people around the world.
But one of the monks, Zenyatta, did not approve of this new path. He believes that in order to solve the deep-rooted problems between humans and robots, one cannot rely on persuasive temptation, but must be through individual contact and interaction.
Finally, Zenyatta embarked on his journey. He chose to leave the temple, travel the world, and help those he meets to get rid of the mundane and truly find inner peace. But if necessary, he will also take up weapons to protect the innocent, whether human or robot.
Zenyatta is Blizzard game designer Chris Mason’s favorite Overwatch character. When Mason was interviewed, he gave birth to the character Zenyatta. At that time, Mason said that they had finished designing the basic characters of shooting games like Soldier: 76 and Widowmaker, and they could start designing some brain-inspired characters, and the sentence that came out of his mind was "Hey, let us Design a crazy mechanical monk!” So there is the prototype of Zenyatta today. Although Zenyatta is written as a monk from Nepal, many elements in him come from the East, especially China and Japan. Let’s take a closer look...
Zenyatta Mendata
Zenyatta and his brother Mundatta are named together, which is the name of an album by the famous jazz rock band Police Band in 1980. Zenyatta Mondatta, like many songs by the police band, the songs on this album also won a Grammy Award. The name of the
album "Zhanyatta Mandata" is actually a set of mixed words. These two words are not in English. According to the police band’s music style at the time and the political elements and artistic conception that they have always inserted, these two words "Zenyatta" in this word is a mixture of "Zen" and Jomo Kenyatta (the first Kenyan president who died a year before the record was released), while "Mundata" is the French word for "world "And their own previous record "Reggatta de Blanc" Reggatta (which is also a compound word, the root is Reggae, which is reggae, is a rock music style).
In addition, Zenyatta is also the name of a horse with a very pure pedigree. Her own record is also very good. She has won 19 matches in 20 races, including 13 first-level championships.
Shaolin monk
referred to the image of Shaolin monk during the development of Zenyatta. There is no doubt about this. In many videos developed by Watchman, we can see that the designers are referring to the picture of Shaolin monk. And in the final Zenyatta movement, you can also see the traces of the monk's movements. Whether it is the push hand movement of the ordinary attack or the close attack movement, you can see Zenyatta's martial arts skills.
During the Summer Olympics, the master's representative event was Taekwondo, but as long as you compare the above picture, you can see that it is actually Shaolin Kungfu, depending on how solid the master Wuyingji is. A famous anchor Xia Tian Ge is also famous for his master’s pigeon legs.
emptiness and Zen
ZenyaThe name of the pagoda has the meaning of Zen, and it sounds similar to the Sanskrit word "Empty" Sunyata. His path of practice, "The true self is not confined to action", refers to the essence of emptiness. There are many emptiness. At that time, Westerners considered it to be the soul, but the actual emptiness is more similar to the concept of "zero". It is Buddhism that avoids the influence of all external conditions on one's life and denies the sublimation of the absolute essence. key.
And Zen is a way to understand emptiness. The so-called prajna to see the original emptiness of life. Now the concept of Zen that Japan and the Western world recognize is basically from China, this concept combines Buddhism The meditation in the original meaning is combined with the method of sitting and forgetting in the studies of Lao Zhuang and Zhuang, forming Zen.
ring scar?
In the "Overwatch" smart mechanical head, there are small luminous dots on the head, most of the mechanical heads have three dots, and in the black shadow animation, Nuba, who trades with Volskaya Nihei Shang had five on his head, and in the recent Christmas cartoons, the manager of the Kings Avenue gift shop visited by Tracer had six light spots on his head.
But the most exaggerated are the brothers Mengdata and Zenyatta. They have nine light spots on their heads. Although their positions are different, nine of them are the ultimate intelligent machinery in Overwatch today. When we were in Nepal, we could see the symbolic patterns of light dots on the heads of Zenyatta and Mengda towers hanging with a pattern that seemed to be Zhitong. Therefore, these light spots should have their special meaning inside the intelligent machine, but we still don't know what it is.
In reality, the most similar situation is the ring scar on the monk’s head. The ring scar is a vow method left by Chinese monks in their faithful period by burning themselves with incense and leaving scars, similar to the imitation of the holy in Western religions. Ascetic practices of marks. Most of this trace is left on the monk's head, appearing in multiples of 3 (this is already different from Shouwang). In recent years, the practice of spotting scars is considered to be self-harming, and has no other religious significance except in China, so it has been gradually banned. Therefore, whether the light spots on Zenyatta and other intelligent mechanical heads are related to this depends on Blizzard's official explanation.
However, although this cannot be confirmed, Zenyatta and others' use of "nine" as the ultimate is indeed in line with the setting of their Buddhist figures. There are also 9 rosary beads on the master's neck. This should not be accidental.
Ascetic
is clearly an intelligent machine, but chooses to use his body to feel, to meditate, to experience the soul, and finally toss himself only with a small body of 50HP. Zenyatta and other robotic monks are undoubtedly Representative of ascetics. The same is true for Master Dalsi in Street Fighter, so when Zenyatta was launched, some people spoofed it as the allusion of mechanical Dalsi. One of the characteristics of the ascetics is the years of meditation, free from the shackles brought by the body, we can see some of their achievements, except that both can be suspended in the air in the same way, Master Dalsi practiced yoga at the same time You can stretch your hands and feet to amazing angles (the human body can breathe fire and move instantaneously...), and Zenyatta feels it even more by grinding the rosary (yes, the master’s 9 beads are all made by himself) The realm of the unity of nature and man has produced various abilities of its own that should not belong to mechanical energy.
Yin and Yang
Master’s skills in the game are one for gaining one's own side and the other for hurting the other side, which corresponds to the concept of yin and yang. However, the concept of yin and yang comes from Taoism, not Buddhism. Therefore, it can be judged that the concepts of Zenyatta and other mechanical monks in the game are similar to Buddhism, but they are still different from real religions (after all People believe in Zhitong). In addition, there are many links to show that Zenyatta’s practice is beyond the scope of Buddhism. For example, the allusions about Zhuang Zhou’s Mengdie, which will be mentioned later, have entered the realm of philosophy and thinkers.
Ninja and Buddha
In the game, Zenyatta is the teacher who led Genji's practice after becoming a biochemical man. This setting should be in accordance with the actual records of ninjas and the relationship between ninjas and Buddhism.
In Genji’s story, we have already explained that ninjas in reality are not supermen with the ability to fly over the walls, on the contrary they are the hands of the daimyoThe special forces are a group that ranks below the samurai aristocracy. Ninjas often need to spy on intelligence, and when they are close to enemy territory, they need to hide and stay in some hidden places for a long time. Therefore, they need super endurance. The so-called "ninjutsu" practiced by ninjas is used to overcome this situation. And there are a lot of chapters in ninjutsu from Buddhist scriptures, so in many of the origins of ninjas, there are legends that ninjas are Buddhist practitioners.
The term "ninja" actually comes from the Buddhist scriptures. The forty-two chapters say, "Which is more powerful? Tolerance is the strongest. Ninjas have no complaints and must be respected." There are legends that people came to Japan from China since the Han Dynasty. Buddhism practitioners avoided the mortal dust, hiding in deep mountains and old forests. These people became the ancestors of ninjas. Due to the environment in deep mountains and old forests, they and their descendants mastered various special abilities for survival in the wild. For each daimyo, he became the original ninja group.
Pure Land Buddhism and Zen
are the same as all religions in the world. Buddhism is not made of a single piece of iron. There are also many sects formed because of different understandings of doctrines or different methods of practice. Yes, there is a different understanding of the two sentences before and after "sexual illusion," which is enough to distinguish different sects. In China and the world, the difference between Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism should have the greatest impact on the world. In the story of
, although Mengdatta and Zenyatta are brothers, they also have differences in their practice. Mendata believes that as long as humans and intelligent machines can live in harmony, a harmonious world can be created. Through the yearning for a paradise that does not exist, a pure land in reality is established. This kind of behavior that can be succeeded by shouting slogans is simply a shortcut, and because of this, Mendata has been supported by thousands of people all over the world once it was born, but it soon became a target of criticism because of his influence.
Zenyatta’s idea is different from that of his brother. His practice method pays more attention to personal cultivation. He believes that only by understanding himself and his soul to a certain level can he break the relationship between humans or humans and robots. The estrangement. Later, he got to know Genji, and it was by letting Genji realize his essence that he calmed Genji's soul. In the practice of the two brothers
, the practice of Mengdat Pagoda is similar to the Pure Land Buddhism idea of chanting "Amitabha" in Buddhism in hopes of reincarnation in the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss. This concept of being close at hand can easily be recognized by the world. The political and religious behaviors of later generations such as the White Lotus Sect were all influenced by the Pure Land Sect.
and Zenyatta’s approach is more similar to the Zen concept, emphasizing personal cultivation and mysterious experience, focusing on enlightenment and insight, putting practice after enlightenment, and using personal cultivation to reach the realm of harmony between heaven and man. The idea of Zen is very effective in improving personal practice, so it is highly respected in modern society. It was spread from China to Japan and then to Europe and America. Nowadays, most of the Buddhism in Europe and America is Zen.
Eight-arm Avalokitesvara
Although Chinese people will think of Nezha more when they see Zenyatta’s openness and the eight-arm shape in the expression, he does not have three heads (and in fact, this image is not unique to Nezha, Buddhism There are similar shapes in the Demon God and Shintoism). This image is more thought to come from Guanshiyin Bodhisattva’s thousand-hand and thousand-eye shape, including the eight-arm shape. Many Bodhisattvas and King Kong have similar images, which were originally thought There are so many hands because there are many people in need of help in the world. Later on, these hands often hold magical artifacts, and the treasures are solemn. Skin part of
: The general skin of master
is named after the element. The Halloween skin makes him look like a sitting monk. The origin of the Christmas skin has been mentioned in the previous article.
The name of this suit is Djinnyatta, which is the skin based on the Djinnyatta in Arabic mythology (that is, the kind of elves that appear in Aladdin). The elves in Arabic legends are created by fire, so they are mostly around the fire. They appeared, although their magical powers are vast, but good and evil are uncertain. Therefore, many evil spirits were later sealed in various containers by powerful wizards. When the world is destroyed, just like humans, the spirits will be because of what they did before death. Is sent to heaven or hell. Although because of oneFor some special reasons, we have repeatedly downplayed the religious significance of elves, but in fact, they are actually mentioned in the Koran along with angels and demons.
Ifrit is one of the elves mentioned above. It embodies the more obvious fire element. It can basically be regarded as a flame elves. Although the overall power can only be ranked in the middle among the elves, it is undoubtedly all It belongs to the existence of evil, close to demons, physical attacks have no effect on them, but the wizard can easily kill them.
ra, the sun god of ancient Egypt, is also the main god, on his road to the gods, he merged many beliefs and gods, and eventually became the highest god of Egypt-we can find that Zenyatta's skin is basically all Linked to other religious mythological figures, it demonstrates the relationship between his personal image status and religion.
Compared with the pulling shape, the Zenyatta shape of this sun god is more straightforward. His appearance is more like the coffin shape of the pharaoh mummies we see on TV and museums. This shape is taken from the Buta god, which is Wearing a Nemes toque and an Ankh necklace symbolizing life on the chest, we can even find the scarab coat of arms on their bodies.
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Death Is Whimsical Today
The impermanence of life and death: Literal translation is today's death (death of death) is really unpredictable, often used to complain when you want to kill a person, but you are caught by fate and cannot be achieved. In "This Killer Is Not So Cold", the villain police wanted to kill Matilda who broke into the police station, but he used this line when he discovered various accidents.
Do I Think?
Do I Think? Can a submarine swim? This sentence comes from the Dutch computer scientist Azge Dijkstra. When this great computer algorithm designer was asked whether the machine would think, he used this example to question the doubter.
Free Your Mind
Free Your Mind
This is the first step to enter Zen, and it is also the prerequisite that we have mentioned before to reach the state of emptiness.
Hello, World!
Hello, World! Basically, if a programmer will know this stalk, this sentence is the simplest test instruction for newcomers to use new tools and new language applications when programming, and it is also the first sentence written by the world's first computer program. .
I Dreamt I Was A Butterfly
I dreamed that I was transformed into a butterfly. This is the so-called Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. This view has gone beyond the scope of religion and entered the field of philosophy. Zhuang Zhou Mengdie is the basis of skepticism. Since our perception is all The electrical signals the brain receives, how do we judge reality and the environment? Both "The Matrix" and "Inception" have put forward similar views. As a robot Zenyatta, how can he judge that the information sent to him by his electronic brain is correct, rather than being tampered with by someone The result?
I Think, Therefore I Am
Am
is proposed by Descartes, conceptually following the philosophical question of the previous one, when all the feelings provided by the body are not true, how do we judge that our existence is not nothingness? dream? He found that only his state of thinking can prove his existence. These are very heavy philosophical topics, which shows that Zenyatta's thinking has transcended religion.
I Will Not Juggle
I don’t know how to do acrobatics. This should refer to Zenyatta playing ball scenes, or being regarded as a yoga master in a circus.
Ones And Zeroes
Life is not just a series of 1s and 0s. The translation of this national service is incorrect. It implies that the mechanical language in programming has only binary 1s and 0s. It also refers to the dualism of yes or no in reality. Ones And Zeroes is also the name of two English rock music.
Peace And Blessings
May the world have peace of mind. It originated from Hebrew, and later appeared frequently in Arab regions and Christian blessings, meaning to wish you peace.
The Iris Embraces You
Zhitong accepted you. Interestingly, until now, we have not analyzed what Iris in Overwatch is? This thing is called Zhitong in Mainland China, but Taiwan is called Hongguang, and Japan directly refers to the light of the rainbow. What is the highest realm that was realized by a group of robotic monks such as Mengdata and Zenyatta? The original meaning of Iris is probably rainbow. The Hongqiao in Norse mythology refers to her. At the same time, she can be translated into iris, but it is also the name of a flower, and can be extended to the precious metal iridium, and in performance, it resembles It is the "Buddhist Kingdom" that was launched during Zenyatta's big move. So we don’t know whether it has an entity.
But through the story of Sombra we know that there is indeed an "eye" staring at everyone behind this world. Combining the meaning of Zhitong's eyes, it seems a bit eyebrow, and the name can also be interpreted as the Greek goddess Yi Lisi, although this goddess is not well-known, her identity is very important. She is the messenger of the god king and only obeys Zeus and Hera. In this regard, and other intelligent centers in Overwatch such as Athena and Anu Bis seemed to be able to hook up again. Coincidentally, in reality, there is a supercomputer in Taiwan whose name is Iris, so everything is still unknown...
We Are In Harmony
We are in the same pace. The episode in the Disney animation "The Fox and the Hound 2" is a description of the team. Spiritual song. Above
is everyone’s little master...
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