"the spectacle is not a collection of images ,but a social relation among people mediated by images ".Guy Debord

Taken fron the " Society of the Spectacle " by French philosopher Guy Debord.

                        "Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness."time" has ceased, "SPACE " has vanished. We live in a global village , a simultaneous happening. We are back in acoustic space.We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling ,the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us "
Marshall McLuhan

" The medium is the messge ". Marshall McLuhan

We are the environment . A must see website not only for Buddhists but everybody.
ecobuddhism

Reading the "Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra " . Came across a very troubling piece of dialogue where Ikeda is talking about how people decide what is the right religion for them. Endo, one of the SGI , leaders in the discussion ,pipes up with the statement that as far as he's concerned Nichiren Buddhism is the only religion.(page 31) Ikeda makes no comment.

One thing , or rather 2 things, that we must be careful of is to not let faith turn into attachment and dogma.I have found myself slipping into this mindset and need to monitor myself constantly;it's easy to see it in others and there are many examples  I can think of in our SGI organisation.So ,lets be very wary.

"...it should be pointed out that the "Law," not the "person," is to
be regarded as the proper standard in all things. Putting the person
first gives you an uncertain standard; it is to let that person's
mind become your master. At some point, relations based on such a
standard will become like those existing between a paternal,
godfather-like figure and those bound to him by personal loyalty.
In contrast, if you establish the Law as your standard, you will
become the master of your mind..."  Daisaku Ikeda