How Do You Watch Tv Mindfully?

[Orange]

How does buddha watch tv guyzzz

 

[Echoes]

the tv is watching itself 

Edited March 21, 2017 by Echoes

[Prabhaker]

A spectator is one whose eyes are on others.

And the observer is one whose eyes are on himself.

When the eyes are on the object you are a spectator, when the eyes are on the seer you are an observer. It is a revolutionary distinction, very fundamental. When your eyes stop on the object and you forget yourself, then you are a spectator. When all objects of vision have departed, when you, and only you, are there – only awakening remains, only alertness remains – then you are an observer.

When you are a spectator, you become completely oblivious. You forget yourself completely; your attention gets stuck there. You watch TV for hours you forget yourself, you don’t even remember who you are. You forget all worries and anxieties. There is so much worry, anxiety, trouble in living – a method of forgetting is needed. People become completely one pointed. Only at the TV is their total attention is focused. They see… actually there is nothing on the screen, just shadows go on flickering, but people are all attention. They forget their illness, their anxieties, their old age, and even if death comes they will forget that.

But remember, you have not become an observer before TV; you have become a spectator.

You have forgotten yourself; you have no memory of who you are. You have lost all memory of the energy of seeing which is within you. You have stopped at the object in front of you, you are totally drowned in it.

To be a spectator is a kind of self-forgetting. And to be an observer means now all objects of observation have disappeared. The screen is empty, now no film moves on it. No thoughts remain, no words remain; the screen becomes absolutely empty, blank and shining, white. Nothing left to see, only the seer remains. And now you take a plunge into the seer. You become the observer.

@Orange What will you get by seeing? You have seen so much. What did you get? 

Watch what you allow into your mind. People are unaware; they go on reading everything and anything, watching any silly thing on the TV, passing on any stupid gossip and pouring rubbish into each other´s heads.

Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much. You need to be unburdened!

Talk and listen only to the essential and slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise.

[Nahm]

The Leftovers was ok.

[Loreena]

Buddhas don't need tv. 

[Orange]

1 hour ago, Nahm said:

The Leftovers was ok.

What do you mean here? 

 

And ok, I think I saw it coming..Im not asking whether I should watch tv or not, Im just asking if there is a way to watch tv in the best way possible? 

In situations where for example you want to be in the presence of your family or friends who enjoy to watch a tv show or something.  

 

[Nahm]

@Orange The Leftovers tv show. Check it out.

 

imo, the idea is to always be mindful of what you're putting in front of you. Like food, tv becomes us in ways. It's also time that could have been spent productively. 

 

[pluto]

He chooses what he feeds thy subconscious thus he prefers youtube over tv hahahaha

[Michael569]

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