Comments on: Media Matrix: an ancient Tibetan perspective on the evening network news

By: Brandon Doyle

Brandon Doyle — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:19:50 +0000

This reminds me of the episode in “House of Cards” where the Tibetan Monks create a beautiful Mandala out of sand over the course of a week, inside of the white house, and shortly thereafter they mix all the sand back together thus destroying the art they had created. The article Jon has written gives me a totally different perspective on that episode now. The choice to feature this practice of the monks on that show was a deliberate act that symbolizes not only the show “House of Cards” does but also what the illusion of our government in general does through media and television shows propaganda.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:34:53 +0000

Great piece. A while ago I started to notice that right from the start, the delivery of mood and tone is set by the music. Typically something overblown and portentous piece, designed to stimulate and rouse the rabble. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK7nKfZX4HU

I wondered how different it would be if the networks put a nice bit of pan pipes, or some whale song…. or even some silence in there at the beginning.

P.S. Technically the void in Tibetan Buddhism is sunyata, or emptiness. Sunyata is not characterised by a dearth of all existence — rather it refers to an absence of inherent self-existence. But, yes, something we tend to avoid at all costs as you say.

By: farsight3

farsight3 — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:25:52 +0000

😉 A slightly modified German version of your empty nothin’ you can find here: https://farsight3.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/wahnsinn-heute-ist-nichts-geschehen/

https://farsight3.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/cronkite.jpg?w=700

By: bradford99

bradford99 — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:21:41 +0000

Bravo!

By: oramneil

oramneil — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:14:08 +0000

Dear Jon,

Thanks again for everything insightful you give out. (Sometime back you had a look at images of my paintings on www.warp-experience.com Remember?) Any way I thought you would be interested in reading my new book of selected poems (1959–2015) called “The Rain Stands Tall” which is published by Barncott Press and is available through Amazon.

I send you very warm VIBES.

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