Not a Cambodian temple or a gardening exercise or a painful surgery. Rather the phonetic representation of an activity practised by some learned sage (not herbal but ascetic kind) for many a years.
Something to be said about that. What Mown Wrat translates to is literally the 'art of shutting up'. As in taking a vow of silence. Yeah - that is hard.
Could we use that in modern society? You bet. Once you open the trap and let it fly it is very hard often times to the detriment of the one espousing chosen epithets et al to retract what was said. From politicos to CEOs to colleagues at work to the grocery store and beyond we hear people yam about whole bunch of things with their points of view and other opinions.
Most of the time what is coming out of their respective orifices is utter nonsense and exhibits traces of arrogance that we as a species have come to typify.
As an example when a motivated speaker is talking about being green and taking care of our earth so that we can leave a better planet for our offspring etc shows the lack of awareness about the EARTH. The earth could care less what humans think and would like to or could do to it. It has been here before civilization of any kind existed and will continue to do so long after the current moronic tribes have vanished. So to talk about us taking care of it sounds insignificant to put it mildly.
Take the other examples of debating how best to run a country or any form of organized entity and you will have diverging views to make the nogging spin - as a specific case in point - if people spend more they drive the GDP upward and therefore create more business activity that creates more jobs. All is well. But then it also leads to people going broke because they never paid attention to how much they could afford and never learned to balance the checkbook. (As an aside what the heck is a checkbook and what balancing are they doing?) One files for bankruptcy and then another one and pretty soon you have a bail out coming and hell breaks loose.
BTW has the planet in its thirst for all things plastic not migrated to plastic payments (or perhaps cash in some part of the globe) therefore nullifying the use of checks?
On the flip side if they do not spend and spend (as we stateside were conditioned to do for many years) then we slow the growth engines down and that leads to no or zero hiring and therefore creates more unemployment. Again the country is a basket case.
Then the pundits aptly titled Poor Standards (or is it the other way round) come out with some jackass commentary on what the latest rating is - I will tell you what the rating should be - it should be V for VIOLENT and G for GRUESOME.
Any way to the matter at hand what I am yamming is that there is no clear understanding of what people should be doing with their money (if they have any) and yet there are Nobel laureates and economists trying to advocate solutions.
Religion is another loose cannon - there are more opinions here than there were saints or divine entities to begin with - even for those that apparently believe in such things.
So the point is this - keep quiet and listen more - ideally there will not be much talking going on to listen to!
Something to be said about that. What Mown Wrat translates to is literally the 'art of shutting up'. As in taking a vow of silence. Yeah - that is hard.
Could we use that in modern society? You bet. Once you open the trap and let it fly it is very hard often times to the detriment of the one espousing chosen epithets et al to retract what was said. From politicos to CEOs to colleagues at work to the grocery store and beyond we hear people yam about whole bunch of things with their points of view and other opinions.
Most of the time what is coming out of their respective orifices is utter nonsense and exhibits traces of arrogance that we as a species have come to typify.
As an example when a motivated speaker is talking about being green and taking care of our earth so that we can leave a better planet for our offspring etc shows the lack of awareness about the EARTH. The earth could care less what humans think and would like to or could do to it. It has been here before civilization of any kind existed and will continue to do so long after the current moronic tribes have vanished. So to talk about us taking care of it sounds insignificant to put it mildly.
Take the other examples of debating how best to run a country or any form of organized entity and you will have diverging views to make the nogging spin - as a specific case in point - if people spend more they drive the GDP upward and therefore create more business activity that creates more jobs. All is well. But then it also leads to people going broke because they never paid attention to how much they could afford and never learned to balance the checkbook. (As an aside what the heck is a checkbook and what balancing are they doing?) One files for bankruptcy and then another one and pretty soon you have a bail out coming and hell breaks loose.
BTW has the planet in its thirst for all things plastic not migrated to plastic payments (or perhaps cash in some part of the globe) therefore nullifying the use of checks?
On the flip side if they do not spend and spend (as we stateside were conditioned to do for many years) then we slow the growth engines down and that leads to no or zero hiring and therefore creates more unemployment. Again the country is a basket case.
Then the pundits aptly titled Poor Standards (or is it the other way round) come out with some jackass commentary on what the latest rating is - I will tell you what the rating should be - it should be V for VIOLENT and G for GRUESOME.
Any way to the matter at hand what I am yamming is that there is no clear understanding of what people should be doing with their money (if they have any) and yet there are Nobel laureates and economists trying to advocate solutions.
Religion is another loose cannon - there are more opinions here than there were saints or divine entities to begin with - even for those that apparently believe in such things.
So the point is this - keep quiet and listen more - ideally there will not be much talking going on to listen to!
Vipassana, supposedly a derivative of Buddhism, advocates silence for really long periods... Great idea, I say.
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