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Talk: 19970309-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-daily_life_some_guidelines_to_practice-42353 Leandra Tejedor.json Start_time: 00:26:10 Display_question: How practical, is it, for example, say you're home reading the newspaper, to really try to be aware that you're reading the newspaper? Keyword_search: reading, awareness, thinking, Anagarika Munindra-Indian teacher, movies, World War II, illusion Question_content: Questioner: How practical, is it, for example, say you're home reading the newspaper, to really try to be aware, that you're reading the newspaper. Larry: No, just read. Just read. Yeah. When it's time to fill out your income tax, just fill out your income tax. That means you have to use thinking. Then really use thinking. But people will do income tax, and they don't like to do it, let's say. So, part of their mind is on what they're going to do, after they finish filling out the form. I'm thinking of myself. I hate it. Questioner: How to tell the difference between reading fully and being aware that you’re reading. Larry: There is a subtle difference, sure. But what I'm getting at is, as long as the particular let's say, if it's reading that you're doing, that you're right there with the reading, and you're not distracted. It's a very good question you're asking. It's quite tricky. For example, Anagarika Munindra, who's an Indian teacher who's taught many of us here. When he first came from India, he had never been to a movie. And I had both the joy, and hilarity, of going with him to his first movie, myself, and a few other people. And he went in. It was the first time he'd ever seen it. And he came out, and he was confused. He was saying, like, what's all the fuss? Why do people like this? We said, what do you mean? He said, well, all it was for him was sitting in a dark room, with something flashed on the screen. He was totally aware that he was in a chair. In other words, he was so following this practice that the illusion, that film is designed to create, didn't work. There's more to it. There's more to it. About six months or so later, we went to another movie together. This was a war film, okay, and we were watching this war film, something about World War II. We came out, and Munindra was very sad, and we said, what's wrong? And he said, like, oh, those poor people, they all got killed, and all that suffering and all. I said, Munindra it was just a movie. He had finally… the culture had succeeded in sucking him in. So, I think you do need a certain amount of illusion to enjoy a movie. Yeah. That's why I go a lot. End_time: 00:28:42
