virtual spiritual Delmundo
Monday, June 16, 2008
Very Thick White Discharge
BRAZIL
virtual world to the spiritual
Frei Betto * virtual world to the spiritual
Adital - When traveling in the East had no contact with monks in Tibet, Mongolia, Japan and China.
men were quiet, restrained, wrapped in peace in their saffron robes.
One day I observed the movement of the Sao Paulo airport, the waiting room full of executives with cell phones, worried, anxious, usually eat more than they should. Insurance
already taken morning coffee at home, but as the airline offered another coffee, everyone ate voraciously. That made me think:
"Which of the two models produce happiness?"
found Daniel, aged ten, in the elevator at nine o'clock and asked
"Have you come to class?" She replied:
"No, I have class in the afternoon." Add
: "Good, then you can play morning and sleep late."
"No," she said, I have much to do in the morning. "
"What things?" I asked.
"English classes, ballet, painting, swimming pool," and continued to list his girl robot program.
I was thinking
"What a shame that Daniel did not say: I have kind of meditation!
." Supermen and superwomen We are building, fully equipped but emotionally immature. Therefore, companies now consider more important than the QI is EI, Emotional Intelligence.
not much use to be a failure to achieve superejecutivo relate to people. So how important would include meditation classes in school curricula!
A progressive city in the interior of Sao Paulo in 1960 had six libraries and a fitness center and gym now has sixty three libraries.
I have nothing against body care, but I worry about the imbalance in relation to the care of the spirit. It is good that we all die slim:
"How was the deceased?", "Made a wonder, had not a wrinkle." But how is the question of subjectivity? Does spirituality? Idleness does love?
Before spoke of the reality: analysis of reality, inserted in reality, know the reality. Today the word is virtual. Everything is virtual. You can have virtual sex online: AIDS is not spread, there is no emotional involvement, everything is controlled with the mouse.
Locked in his room in Brasilia a man can have a close friend in Tokyo, without any concern to know your neighbor or apartment block.
Everything is virtual. We entered the potentiality of all values, there is no compromise with reality. It is very serious that process of abstraction of language, feelings are virtual mystical, religious virtual, virtual citizens.
For this, the reality is on the other hand, since we are also ethically virtual ...
Culture begins where nature ends.
Culture is the refinement of spirit. Television in Brazil with rare and honorable exceptions, is a problem: each passing week we feel we're a little less educated.
The word today is "entertainment", so Sunday is the day imbecilización national collective.
presenter Moron, imbecile that goes and sits on the couch, stupid loser afternoon at the screen.
As advertising can not sell happiness, we have the illusion that happiness is the result of the sum of pleasures: "If you take this drink, these tennis shoes, use this shirt, buy this car, you get to it !
The problem is that, in general, is not reached. Who consents to develop so desire, you just need an analyst.
Or drugs. Who resist, increases neurosis.Los psychoanalysts try to discover how to do with the desire of their patients.
Where them? I'm not from that area, I can give me the right to make a suggestion. I think that there is only one solution: change the inward desire, like themselves, begin to see how good it is to be free of that conditioning globalizing, neoliberal, consumerist.
This could live better. In addition, for good mental health are essential three requirements: friendships, self-esteem, lack of religious logic estrés.Hay in modern consumerism.
If someone goes to Europe and visit a small city with a cathedral should seek to know the history of that city, the cathedral is the signal she has a history ..
In the Middle Ages the city acquired status by building a cathedral in Brazil today is building a mall.
is curious that most malls have the sleek architectural lines of cathedrals; to them can not go anyway, you have to wear clothing of Sunday mass. And in there you feel a sense paradise: no beggars, street children, dirt ... You go into these cloisters to the sound of Gregorian postmodern, this little music in the dentist waiting room.
several niches are seen, all these chapels with the venerable consumer goods, acolytes with beautiful priestesses. Who can buy felt in the kingdom of heaven. If you have to give a postdated check, pay by credit or overdraft, you will feel in purgatory.
But if you can not buy, certainly you will feel in hell ... Luckily, they all end in the Eucharist postmodern attracted to the same table with the same juice and the same McDonald's hamburger ... Soil tell employees I invite you to come into the stores: "I'm just taking a walk Socratic."
And before his startled eyes explained: "Socrates, Greek philosopher, also clear my head like touring the commercial center of Athens. When sellers besieged as you would answer: "I'm just looking at how many things need to be happy."
[Author of "The ethical challenge", with Luis Fernando Verissimo and others, including libros.Traducción of JLBurguet]
* Dominican friar. Writer.
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