If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? -- Albert Einstein
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
a crazy bird
about the mocking bird singing all night.
find a buddha quote to match
lost it's mate looking for it
realized this on seeing a bird calling and flying toward another bird when he calls.
support with info on birds mating for life.
find a buddha quote to match
lost it's mate looking for it
realized this on seeing a bird calling and flying toward another bird when he calls.
support with info on birds mating for life.
Need to respect sanctity of life
Gandhi was very much disturbed by the lack of respect for the sanctity of life in Buddhist countries as well as India where Buddha lived and preached.
Buddha's greatest attribute was the "exacting regard" he gave to all forms life, including the lowliest, he said. The Buddha considered the lives of even the smallest creature on earth to be as precious as his own.
"It is an arrogant assumption to say that human beings are lords and masters of the lower creations. On the contrary, being endowed with the greater things in life, they are trustees of the lower animal kingdom."
"And the greatest sage lived that truth in his own life," Gandhi said as he went on to relate how the Buddha clutched a lamb and would not give it to a set of "arrogant and ignorant Brahmins" who were planning to perform a sacrifice with it.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A BUDDHA SAID:
THOUGHTS ON BUDDHA, TARGET STORE COMMERCIALS, CLEVER ADVERTISING, AND MATERIALISM IN OVERDRIVE!
By Shaun Stanert
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The words of the 7th Dalai Lama remind me of the "Target" commercials.
You know the ones where a woman is singing or more aptly moaning in a somewhat bewildered, anxious, anguished, seductively throaty voice the whimsically captivating words: I don't know what it is but I gotta' have it and I want more. ....or something very close.
I really admire those commercials from a marketing prospective.
They really conjure thoughts of shopping and likely touch the soul of quintessential consumers, where ever or when ever it is aired. The message is mesmerizing by inference, and in its blatant truth. It simultaneously, albeit subtly, mocks viewers while managing to catch them and wrap them tightly within a ubiquitous projection of their digitized plasmarized, LCDed, air-waved web of common human desires...., A web that ensures that we, me, us, you, I ... ..will all soon turn into loyal customers. ....A web whose televised waves may bounce around the universe endlessly, perhaps embarrassingly, extolling the essence of our humanity.
Wouldn't it be better if we had commercials bouncing around the universe singing in an bewildered anguished, anxious, seductively throaty voice about the horrors of war. The wasted billions spent on a war and the pitiful waste of young vibrant lives.
Nevertheless, those clever commercials always stop me. I always pay attention, much to my chagrin.
It must be the fanciful rapid-fire, syncopated scenes that seem to enterprisingly highlight each product in surreal multiples, as if infinitely reflected in a fun-house mirror.
Still, the message, and its delivery method as ingenious as it may be, always makes me feel a momentary twinge of hollow melancholy in the pit of my abdomen right at the solar plexus.
The solar plexus chakra BTW, according to some beleifs, is the vortex of mental functioning, power, control, freedom to be oneself, career. Its known as manipūra, it's color is yellow, it's element fire.
Hmmm.............It's interesting that it hits me there. Wonder what that means?
Maybe I resent being manipulated in such a pleasantly entertaining way. Would I ban the commercial if I had the power?
No. In fact, if I were giving out a Madison Avenue advertising award this resourceful production would certainly get one. Why? Well, it does exactly what an advertisement is supposed to do, and it does it in a low key but nudging memorable way.
As far as advertisements go, It works!
In any case, so much for the blah blah blah.....When it comes to consumerism......I'm GUILTY!
As a fellow human conspicuous consumption both repulses and fascinates me. The good thing about it is that it confirms that I am a human.
That also indicates, however, that I am not a Buddha.....not yet an enlightened one.
END
https://newhopetoday.blogspot.com/2007/02/buddha-said.html
https://newhopetoday.blogspot.com/2007/02/buddha-said.html
By Shaun Stanert
-----Quote from: The 7th Dalai Lama"Hundreds of stupid flies gather on a piece of rotten meat, enjoying, they think, a delicious feast. This image fits with the song of the myriads of foolish living beings who seek happiness in superficial pleasures; In countless ways they try, yet I have never seen them satisfied."
***********************************
The words of the 7th Dalai Lama remind me of the "Target" commercials.
You know the ones where a woman is singing or more aptly moaning in a somewhat bewildered, anxious, anguished, seductively throaty voice the whimsically captivating words: I don't know what it is but I gotta' have it and I want more. ....or something very close.
I really admire those commercials from a marketing prospective.
They really conjure thoughts of shopping and likely touch the soul of quintessential consumers, where ever or when ever it is aired. The message is mesmerizing by inference, and in its blatant truth. It simultaneously, albeit subtly, mocks viewers while managing to catch them and wrap them tightly within a ubiquitous projection of their digitized plasmarized, LCDed, air-waved web of common human desires...., A web that ensures that we, me, us, you, I ... ..will all soon turn into loyal customers. ....A web whose televised waves may bounce around the universe endlessly, perhaps embarrassingly, extolling the essence of our humanity.
Wouldn't it be better if we had commercials bouncing around the universe singing in an bewildered anguished, anxious, seductively throaty voice about the horrors of war. The wasted billions spent on a war and the pitiful waste of young vibrant lives.
Nevertheless, those clever commercials always stop me. I always pay attention, much to my chagrin.
It must be the fanciful rapid-fire, syncopated scenes that seem to enterprisingly highlight each product in surreal multiples, as if infinitely reflected in a fun-house mirror.
Still, the message, and its delivery method as ingenious as it may be, always makes me feel a momentary twinge of hollow melancholy in the pit of my abdomen right at the solar plexus.
The solar plexus chakra BTW, according to some beleifs, is the vortex of mental functioning, power, control, freedom to be oneself, career. Its known as manipūra, it's color is yellow, it's element fire.
Hmmm.............It's interesting that it hits me there. Wonder what that means?
Maybe I resent being manipulated in such a pleasantly entertaining way. Would I ban the commercial if I had the power?
No. In fact, if I were giving out a Madison Avenue advertising award this resourceful production would certainly get one. Why? Well, it does exactly what an advertisement is supposed to do, and it does it in a low key but nudging memorable way.
As far as advertisements go, It works!
In any case, so much for the blah blah blah.....When it comes to consumerism......I'm GUILTY!
As a fellow human conspicuous consumption both repulses and fascinates me. The good thing about it is that it confirms that I am a human.
That also indicates, however, that I am not a Buddha.....not yet an enlightened one.
END
https://newhopetoday.blogspot.com/2007/02/buddha-said.html
https://newhopetoday.blogspot.com/2007/02/buddha-said.html
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