tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post869537247926831567..comments2023-10-10T01:41:03.350+11:00Comments on Desert: Into Great Silence: a meditationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-6333248944616521032007-05-30T13:31:00.000+10:002007-05-30T13:31:00.000+10:00Miss Eagle,You have written about the documentary ...Miss Eagle,<BR/><BR/>You have written about the documentary "Into Great Silence", Monastic Life, Meditation and "Distractions of Modern Culture".<BR/><BR/>In this context I want to post a part from my article which examines the impact of Speed, Overstimulation, Consumerism and Industrialization on our Minds and environment. Please read.<BR/><BR/><B>Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.</B><BR/><BR/>The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.<BR/><BR/><B>The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.</B><BR/><BR/>Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.<BR/>Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.<BR/>Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.<BR/>Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.<BR/><BR/>Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.<BR/><BR/>If there are no gaps there is no emotion.<BR/><BR/>Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.<BR/><BR/>When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.<BR/><BR/>There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.<BR/><BR/>People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.<BR/><BR/>Emotion ends.<BR/><BR/>Man becomes machine.<BR/><BR/><BR/>A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.<BR/><BR/>A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.<BR/><BR/>A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.<BR/><BR/>Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.<BR/><BR/>A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.<BR/><BR/>A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.<BR/><BR/>To read the complete article please follow any of these links :<BR/><A HREF="http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,75/func,view/id,68/catid,6" REL="nofollow">PlanetSave</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.freeinfosociety.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=3649" REL="nofollow">FreeInfoSociety</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.ephilosopher.com/bb-topic-244.html" REL="nofollow">ePhilosopher</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.corrupt.org/transcendence/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167537083" REL="nofollow">Corrupt</A><BR/><BR/>sushil_yadavAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com