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คำถาม : คนลืมบุญคุณคน จะทำอย่างไรให้เขาสำนึกดีครับ?
พระอาจารย์ :
ประการแรกเลย คื่อ เราอย่าคิดไปทวงบุญคุณใคร พระบรมโพธิสัตว์
พระสัมมาสัมพุทธเจ้า พระองค์โปรดชาวโลกทั้งหลาย
พระองค์ไม่ได้ต้องการให้ชาวโลกมาสำนึกบุญคุณพระองค์เลยนะ
ไม่คิดจะทวงบุญทวงคุณเลย แต่ว่าทำให้ด้วยมหากรุณาในใจจริงๆ
เราเดินตามแบบอย่างของพระสัมมาสัมพุทธเจ้าดีกว่า ได้ช่วยเขา
เราก็ได้บุญแล้ว เราสบายใจ ชื่นใจแล้ว ส่วนถ้าเกิดเขารู้บุญคุณเรา
ตอบแทนคุณ อันนั้นก็ยิ่งดีใหญ่ ถึงแม้เขาไม่รู้บุญคุณเลย
เราอย่าไปเศร้าหมองใจว่า อุตส่าห์ช่วยทำไมไม่รู้บุญคุณของเรา
อย่าไปคิดอย่างนั้น แล้วต่อไปเราเองก็ต้องฉลาดขึ้นด้วย
ถ้าจะให้เราทำใจไม่ให้คิดเลย ก็ยาก
ต่อไปให้เราสังเกตดูว่าคนไหนมีนิสัยเป็นยังไง ถ้าเป็นคนมีความกตัญญูรู้คุณ
เราก็ช่วยให้เต็มที่ยิ่งขึ้น เพราะนั่นเป็นเครื่องหมายของคนดี
คนไหนช่วยแล้วไม่รู้จักบุญคุณ เราก็ไม่ไปหงุดหงิดด้วย
แต่ว่าทีหลังมีอะไรให้ช่วย ครั้งหน้าก็ดูให้ดีก่อนว่าจะช่วยหรือไม่ อย่างไร
 


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“These blind slaves are told they are “free” and “highly educated” even as they march behind signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, ‘This way to your death and enslavement,’ to the understanding of the traditional peasant of antiquity.”

– Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.”

– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

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“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes. The creation of the United Nations was a Council project, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.”

– Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

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Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.

— Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

— Marina Abramovic

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The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.

— Marina Abramovic

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“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”

Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962

Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.
               

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We are everything and nothing at the same time. You chose which one you want to focus on the most.

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From US Marine to Zen Monk [Documentary] 米海兵隊から禅僧へ [ドキュメンタリー]
 

     
   
 

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I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

— Jimi Hendrix

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The Standardization of Human Thought

These facts were flagged as dangers to human freedom in the 1930’s by thinkers of the school of Frankfurt such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. They identified three main problems with the cultural industry. The industry can:

1. reduce human beings to the state of mass by hindering the development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making rational decisions;

2. replace the legitimate drive for autonomy and self-awareness by the safe laziness of conformism and passivity; and

3. validate the idea that men actually seek to escape the absurd and cruel world in which they live by losing themselves in a hypnotic state self-satisfaction.