Have you ever noticed that journalists and bloggers tend to post their content on certain days? Indeed, there're days favorable for publication on certain topics, and there're days that are not, and astrology has nothing to do with this. It's the media every day affect and change the public mood so journalists just catch the moment when the mood of their potential readers is most favorable for accepting their ideas, which in turn enhances the effect in question further.
The most interesting thing is that you can feel the public mood even if you're alone sitting in your home and not communicating with anyone - that is, somehow it's catching - in this sense it's justified
to mention telepathy. Naturally this also directly concerns your practice: your mood and thoughts at the moment can be the result of such influence, so to fully understand a situation means to understand the context in which you are at the moment.
Most are unable to notice this effect because they're following the context - it's like you don't notice the earth moving - but in fact, everything is far from harmless, and we're dealing with a real manipulation: mood swings causes a change in priorities. That's why it’s hard to stick to long term goals in such an environment when everything gets blurred. Nevertheless, the right Zen practice gives you the necessary anchor to stay in reality, it's very simple: you just negate the context.* This doesn't mean that you have to go against the stream all the time - it's tiresome - it's enough just to check from time to time what's going on around. So, the basic rule is the same: understanding is achieved through negation. Try to feel the public as an intuitive image and then tear it apart, as I advised here.
It follows in particular from the above that if you practise zazen as I recommend, that is, as a total denial, then there're days when it is very difficult to perform for the same reason why it's difficult to remain in reality during mass insanity. Most Buddhists and mindfulness practitioners will disagree with me at this point due to the fact that they practise differently: they concentrate on breathing too, but they follow the context instead of denying it, which gives comfort but not understanding. Here comes another question: should we have long-term goals (many Buddhists believe that we souldn't)? Here's one koan for you: the very denial naturally gives you a long term goals.
*Of course, instead of denying, you can try to stick to some goal to stay in reality, but in the long term, it can be easily get blurred. However, if you want to keep awareness in some crazy environment, psychologists advise to imagine that you're at work - in the short term, it works great.
The most interesting thing is that you can feel the public mood even if you're alone sitting in your home and not communicating with anyone - that is, somehow it's catching - in this sense it's justified
to mention telepathy. Naturally this also directly concerns your practice: your mood and thoughts at the moment can be the result of such influence, so to fully understand a situation means to understand the context in which you are at the moment.
Most are unable to notice this effect because they're following the context - it's like you don't notice the earth moving - but in fact, everything is far from harmless, and we're dealing with a real manipulation: mood swings causes a change in priorities. That's why it’s hard to stick to long term goals in such an environment when everything gets blurred. Nevertheless, the right Zen practice gives you the necessary anchor to stay in reality, it's very simple: you just negate the context.* This doesn't mean that you have to go against the stream all the time - it's tiresome - it's enough just to check from time to time what's going on around. So, the basic rule is the same: understanding is achieved through negation. Try to feel the public as an intuitive image and then tear it apart, as I advised here.
It follows in particular from the above that if you practise zazen as I recommend, that is, as a total denial, then there're days when it is very difficult to perform for the same reason why it's difficult to remain in reality during mass insanity. Most Buddhists and mindfulness practitioners will disagree with me at this point due to the fact that they practise differently: they concentrate on breathing too, but they follow the context instead of denying it, which gives comfort but not understanding. Here comes another question: should we have long-term goals (many Buddhists believe that we souldn't)? Here's one koan for you: the very denial naturally gives you a long term goals.
*Of course, instead of denying, you can try to stick to some goal to stay in reality, but in the long term, it can be easily get blurred. However, if you want to keep awareness in some crazy environment, psychologists advise to imagine that you're at work - in the short term, it works great.
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