This is why television lends itself to manipulation of "public opinion", as you know politicians, groups with special interests, those who do the advertising, which pay millions to catch you in that state of unawareness accommodation. They want their thoughts become your own, and generally succeed. So when you watch TV your tendency is to go below, and not to rise above thought.
Television has this in common with alcohol and certain drugs. While there is offering a certain freedom from the mind of the other You pay dear: you pay with the loss of consciousness. Like drugs, also has a quality of strong dependence. Extend your hand to turn off and instead you find yourself zapping to change. Half an hour or an hour later, you're still looking at them, to change the channel. The shutdown button is the only one who seems incapable of having your finger press. Are you still looking, almost always because something interesting has caught your attention, but because there is nothing interesting to watch.
Once you have been caught, the program is more superficial, more lacking in meaning, and more addictive. If it were interesting, if provoked thought, would stimulate la vostra mente a ricominciare a pensare di nuovo, il che sarebbe uno stato più cosciente e per questo preferibile a una trance indotta dalla TV. E in quel caso la vostra attenzione non sarebbe catturata dalle immagini sullo schermo. Il contenuto del programma, quando ha una certa qualità, può contrastare e qualche volta persino interrompere quell’effetto che la TV di annullare la mente. Vi sono programmi che sono stati di grande aiuto a molte persone; hanno cambiato la loro vita in meglio, hanno aperto il loro cuore, li hanno resi più consapevoli. Anche alcune commedie possono, anche senza essere niente di speciale e anche se non intenzionalmente spirituali, mostrare una versione caricaturale dell’umana follia e dell’ego. They teach us not to take anything too seriously, to face life with a light heart and, above all, teaches us making us laugh.
Laughter is also incredibly liberating and healing. But almost all the television stations are controlled by people in turn controlled by the ego, and that is the secret goal is to control putting to sleep, that is to make you unconscious.
In television there is an incredible, untapped potential. Do not watch programs and commercials that bombard you with a rapid succession of images that change every two or three seconds or less. Watching TV, especially watching these programs has the guise the decrease in attention span, and mental disorders now affect many children around the world. A short attention span makes it all the time in your perceptions, and all your relationships superficial and unsatisfactory. Stare front of the television too often and too long makes you are not unconscious, but also leads to passivity and takes away energy. Instead of looking at random, choose the program you want to see. And as you look when you remember, bring attention to the vitality within your body. Or, from time to time, bring attention to your breathing. At regular intervals, taking his eyes from the screen, so that does not take possession of your visual sense.
do not turn the volume higher than necessary because television does not overlap with you at the hearing. Press the mute button during commercials. And try not to go to sleep as soon as the switch off, or worse, fall asleep while it is still on.
From the book A New World by Eckhart Tolle Share
The most obvious in life seems to be the most difficult; the most simple seems to be the most difficult; the most simple seems to be the most complicated.
The reason why it happens so, is because the mind is not interested in the obvious.
It wants the challenge of the impossible; only with the challenge of the impossible can the mind fulfil its ego. With the obvious, there is no space for the ego to grow or even to exist.
The obvious is the grave of the ego. The simple we take for granted, because it is so simple. Only the far away, the distant, catches our eye, invites us for a journey.
Nobody bothers to enter into himself, and to see the most miraculous, mysterious The Most, The Most Fundamental Principle of life, the very source of life - it is so close, so Obvious, I know simple.
Osho Share
crossed in the classic lotus position .. After about one year from the beginning of meditation one of the three looks to the sky and says,
- What a lovely evening! and lowers his gaze.
After another year, the second is:
- You're right, it's a nice evening ... But there's a bit 'windy! - Oh no, guys, if we came here to make some noise we go!
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and that, therefore, we must be better than what we are: we must try to compete with masters or heroes. 
This is instead the only indisputable reality, the only source of beauty, the only key to development and happiness. 
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