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Wednesday, September 1, 2021,

One can nearly be brought to tears with the beauty and craftsmanship of contemporary advertisements.....in 30 seconds or less, you're shown a family growing together....struggling together.....learning, failing, succeeding, and just getting through the same trials that you, and everyone else around you, is going through.  Your heart swells......your eyes water up........you reminisce about similar emotional periods in your own life...........and then the advertisement shows you how the family were able to do it all with the help of their new fully loaded SUV with power steering and finance options of 0% interest for 12 months with same-as-cash rebates, (void where prohibited).  The company making that SUV cares about you....trust. 

Don't be fooled by advertisements that attempt to show you that they, and their company, is with you in the struggles of life; they're not.  

They're trying to sell you something to make money.....don't forget that. 

98% (if not 100%) of the garbage that comes to us through our screens is simply trying to sell us something.  Once you keep that awareness about you at all times, you can more easily ignore the garbage as its flung at your head. 

Obtaining mental peace and clarity in our world seems difficult but, if you understand that most of what your phone/TV/laptop is showing you as nothing more than a money-making-advertisement, you can begin to ignore it more easily.  Unfortunately, the "news" is little more than an advertisement as well.  It doesn't necessarily advertise a physical product, but it does advertise a thought......an idea.....an ideology that may, or may not, be accurate and truthful.  

Maintain a practice, maintain a meditation routine, and you'll be able to better discern between the garbage/advertisements and reality.  

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