8-year-old billionaire heiress leaves royalty for monkhood..Why isn’t the mainstream media sharing this story?
One way to escape the rat race is, not to race at all. The finish will keep moving each time you feel you get closer to it. But once you realize that marketing and media only add to the dramatic theater of your unstable mind. Who told you that debt and slaving for a job were the most essential things in life? If God is supposed to be first why is everyone killing themselves to provide a living? This coming super bowl Sunday weekend marks the peak of t.v. commercial ads. Yet the holidays were only a few months ago. Consumerism will never stop, but you can stop consumerism with a spiritual practice. 8-year-old billionaire heiress leaves royalty for monkhood. Why isn’t the mainstream media sharing this story?
am I going crazy, or is consumerism and aspirational media making us all very insecure? How do you get past that?
I’m 29 and I realized that I’ve never really been confident in my lifetime. I told my mom this and she freaked out, thinking she raised me wrong or something. But I’ve decided to work on loving myself and having more confidence.
I have noticed that the media seems more pervasive than even 5 years ago, and just recently I have been beginning to feel like I can’t even get away from it. It’s frustrating. All of a sudden I feel more insecure than before. I hate my body, fear aging, and second guess myself at work. I walk thought the mall and get frustrated because fashion for women changes SO fast that I always feel behind on the trends. Some of my friends are fashionists and that’s fine for them, but I just wanna put on a pair of jeans and be done with it. I like looking well put together but fashion isn’t very exciting for me, and I resent that the fashions change every season so quickly. I feel like we have gotten to the point where ‘they’ change the fashions just for the hell of it – not because it’s an organic, changing process, but just to get us to buy more crap. Even makeup trends change by the season, so at least 4 times per year. IT sometimes feels like I am valued for my appearance above all else.
I sometimes wonder if that’s because of the advertising industry being so pervasive and trying to sell us crap we dont need for problems we dont have, by making us insecure and making it seem like there’s’ a very narrow normative ideal? Also the corporate world is so pervasive. Those two things combined as caused us to think of ourselves as commodities on a market – it objectifies people and dehumanizes them. People spend a lot of time trying to become more employable and more fuckable. I think it’s making people have less self esteem
I don’t often talk about this because then people just call me a hippie or something.
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Consumerism is a religion within itself. It’s ritualistic in how it’s practiced (black Friday, valentines days, etc). For instance, celebrate lent a few weeks after being bombarded with super bowl ads, valentines day gifts, etc. But it’s not that consumerism is good or bad, the question is how attached are you to consumption? Do you feel you die when your phone battery dies? Do you feel isolated from social circles unless you have the latest fashion? Or do you feel inadequate in your community unless you can financially compete with your neighbors?
All of these are internal questions and not external questions, in other words, things within your control. However, mainstream media and social media even isn’t anything without excessive consumption. If you consume more than you produce you’re living in debt, at least 77% of Americans live in some type of debt. And despite record low church attendance across the country, religion has always had the answer on how to tame our consumerism. But if we can hardly contain our consumerism on a five-figure salary, how could an 8-year-old do it with a multi-million dollar salary…Religion.
“[She] has never watched television, movies or gone to malls and restaurants,” they said, adding that the girl had been a regular presence at temple ceremonies.
The child is one of the youngest people to have taken the “diksha” ceremony to abandon their material possessions and enter the Jain monkhood.
Her parents said she had been eager to become a nun, according to local media. Jain families are sometimes said to encourage their children to enter the monkhood to enhance their relatives’ social standing.
Her family’s business, founded in 1981, has a net worth of 5 billion rupees ($61m) according to ICRA, an Indian credit rating agency
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In conclusion, despite all of this, it’s not being aired on mainstream and social media. Everyone loves to show how philanthropic they are but what could make the world a more better place than people beginning to embrace monkhood? We have given this illusionary world so much of our heart, and attachment that the last thing we would want to hear or even believe is that we could give it all up and find peace…