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In Praise of Meditative TV
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Ambience offers the increasingly rare possibility of disengagement while still staring at a screen. Ambient television aims to erase thought entirely, smoothing any disruptive texture or dissonance. It provides glossy, comforting oblivion, or, as Matisse once wrote, of his own paintings, “something like a good armchair.”
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
The relief we get from a movie or a theater performance doesn’t come from the activity. It comes from concentration.
Eknath Easwaran • Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)
Television’s greatest minute-by-minute appeal is that it engages without demanding. One can rest while undergoing stimulation. Receive without giving. In this respect, television resembles certain other things one might call Special Treats (e.g. candy, liquor), i.e. treats that are basically fine and fun in small amounts but bad for us in large amo
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