Knowing Your Phone vs Knowing What Your Phone Does To Your Mind | Social Media Addiction | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsShow Notes
Our education system is set up to learn almost exclusively about external processes. But we don't learn about what's going on in our mind internally, we don't understand all these different feelings and emotions, we're not educated how to become aware or them and how to deal with them.
For example, most people have a good knowledge how to use their mobile phone. They know how to use Youtube, how to publish a reel on Insta, how to upload a TikTok video, how to post on facebook, and so on...
But are they aware what is the effect on their mind when they do all of the above? Do they understand their internal feelings and emotions that are caused by their posting & liking & disliking; and being liked & shared & going viral; or being disliked & staying unpopular and obscure?
The quote Ajahn mentions in his talk is from the 'Xin Xin Ming' ('Faith in Mind'), the famous verses attributed to the Third Patriarch of the Chinese Chan (Zen) School, Jianzhi Sengcan . It opens with the well known first two lines:
"The Perfect Way is easy for those who who not pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear..."
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