This article starts with some homework. I want you to watch this video: <\/p>\n
If you have been a devoted reader of my Buddhism pieces, you have already seen this, so don't give the punchline away to the rest of the class. <\/p>\n
Most all of you seeing this naively -- not aware of what is going to happen -- will have seen the little basketball exercise, and very few of you will have seen the moonwalking bear. Hell, I know what is happening and without consciously doing the Zen thing I still get sucked in. The point is that perception is altered by our thinking. One of the goals of Buddhist meditation is to make us aware of this -- not stop it, because we can't, that's the way we're built, but to be aware of it. <\/p>\n
The furor about the Trump presidency has gotten to the point that people are literally (and I don't mean figuratively literally, I mean literally literally) seeing and hearing things that aren't there, just as in the video. <\/p>\n
The truly glaring example this week was the succession of articles about Trump \"lying\" about a terrorist attack in Sweden. It's been widely reported, even on the one paragon of truth in American politics, PJ Media. <\/p>\n
There's only one problem. <\/p>\n
It didn't happen. <\/p>\n
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Read more: <\/p>\n
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