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CNN Pandering to HRC -- Causes me to reflect on what's important

Posted on Jan 11th, 2008 by dragpa gyaltsen : Interpreter of Emptiness dragpa gyaltsen
Thursday night (01/10/08), seeking news of Campaign, and how Barack Obama was being covered, I turned on CNN to have look. I listened to Anderson Cooper lob up 'balls' for the 'CNN Consultants' to 'hit'. I saw Donna Brazil and some other talking heads whose meaningless names I can't recall, spew the most condescending, pathetically disguised, put down of Barack Obama and Glorification of Hilliary Rodham Clinton (HRC) that I've seen yet.

Where was that 'Darling' of the media, in Obama, from before the NH Primary and after Iowa?

They make me sick!

I am boycotting TV News. Maybe I'll try MSNBC at times, but mostly I'll just watch CSPAN to get news... 

----o----

Sigh... <deep breath>

I am a Buddhist. I have worked hard to take hold of my mind, to remember throughout the day that waking life is like a dream and only exists as a collection of objects of manifestation, which only exist as each relates to an other, in boundless combinations, and arise from the ground of timeless, boundless, luminous emptiness/fullness and infinite compassion. That though I operate within this world of form, within the context of this incarnation, that I remember not to become attached to it and its poisons. I remind myself to be a constant gardner; a gardner of the fields of my mind, such that love and compassion, wisdom and grace, grow ever deeper that I might continue grow to become an ever more effective conduit of spirit, for the sake of sentient beings....

I must tell you all that I have been challenged....

That anger arises in me, as they lie and cheat, and misrepresent our candidate, with their smug smarmy faces... And anger flares in me like lighter fluid sprayed onto a lit BBQ, and I have to work hard to see it for what it is, and let it go, that it float away no longer nourished by my attention. And then sadness, and fear, and depression comes to visit in turn, and I apply the same antidote, and let such objects of mind float away like clouds racing across a pristine, luminous blue sky leaving no trace of their passing.


For If I let those emotions settle upon the fertile fields of my mind they will wreak havock with that carefully tended garden, and distract this being which carries the label Chuck Tellechea from its support for this other magnificent brother and conduit of spirit; this uniter of men and women; this restorer of integrity and real compassion; this Leader, this Barack Obama.

I must redouble my efforts to not succumb to distraction. Tomorrow (Saturday) I am going to 'knock on doors' in Leesburg, VA with other volunteers, all else is noise...

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