Guest guest Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 advaitajnana , " Tony OClery " <aoclery> wrote: > > Namaste, > > First of all let me say I am compassionate to the survivors. > > Our blockbuster movies are usually mindless violence. > > Now we have the tragedy of people suffering from the effects of the > Tsunami. People and tv keep going on about the body count etc etc > etc. > > However the quiet deaths aren't noticed. The literally tens > thousands of children that starve to death every week, where is the > attention of the media? It it not dramatic so doesn't feed the > media, and people's minds. Namaste, I will answer my own question; It is due to the rajasic and tamasic state of people's minds. The dying children is not exciting or rajasic enough, even though consistently more numerous, so the mind ,like the monkey it is looks around. The tv talks of thousands then that becomes boring so to keep the interest up they talk of situations and people and then finally celebrities and how many Westerners were killed or are missing etc. There is the feeling of 'for whom does the bell toll' also for we imagine if it was us, and eventually we also must die. There is no acceptance of it, even though it is karmic. So there is the fear generated also. The Ego likes the drama and experience, vicarious or not. It helps it convince itself of its own reality, which of course is an illusion. It is all part of the monkey mind craving excitement, rajasic in the main but tamasic also. No going within here...........ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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