I knew of this video from a friend’s blog. To my utmost surprise, it totally moved me to tears. Later, I read in the papers that it moved many others to tears too! Not because it’s depressing but because it was simply BRILLIANT! It touched me so that genuine appreciative joy just surfaced and overflowed! How often are we not so ready to laugh, ready instead to roll our eyes when we see ‘quirky’ or less appealing folks in talent shows, even before hearing them out? In our narrow minds, have we not already presumed them to be yet another William Hung? (Even Hung’s performance was moving in another way!) As Amanda Holden mentioned on the performance (in the video), it’s truly (one of the) ‘biggest wake-up call’ ever – on TV at least! If you still think talent must be coupled with looks, this 7-minute video will change your perception of that. In Buddhism, our perception shape the world we see. It’s time to purify our perception.
Also pricelessly entertaining about in the video are the expressions of utter shock on faces of the judges and audience, especially Simon Cowell’s. At a point, he was totally mesmerised. Well, that is something you hardly will see on TV for sure, on the music man who has auditioned many ‘talents’. Susan Boyle, an ordinary, single and unemployed 47 year old Scottish woman stunned the whole world with “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables. A dream that she finally has fulfilled. All the best to her and more of Susan Boyle alikes to come. ^_^
Original version from Les Misérables cast:
Great sharing…never give up hope to dream 🙂
LMAO! At first, I thought from the look of those two guys backstage and everyone else’s cynicism that they had just put on a recording and I was going to have to be embarrassed for her.
This reminds me of the ending of “Babe,” the movie about the piglet, when everyone’s cracking up and then suddenly goes silent when the sheep start walking.
Brilliant! Thank you… that made my day, it did! 😀
Link to the ending of Babe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Tp7xGbwxc
namaste
I’ve watched les miserables twice and I feel Susan Boyle’s performance is kind of over-rated.
‘If you still think talent must be coupled with looks, this 7-minute video will change your perception of that. In Buddhism, our perception shape the world we see. It’s time to purify our perception.’
Well, the good thing is she has the talent. How do or should we perceive those who have neither talents nor looks?
Hi stage,
The cast from Les Misérables is of course much better, maybe because they are better trained professionally? As for Susan Boyle, she is just a village woman who had no professional training before. 😉
Hi jilexin,
No looks no talent? No worry, one still have Buddha-nature to work with… which will unleash all true talents! That doesn’t mean those with looks or talent need not work on their Buddha-nature though!
‘just a village woman’ is not a very nice description… 8/
But i dun see anything wrong with being a village woman, as in not a professional singer… unless u see something wrong? She really is from a village.
How do or should we perceive those who have neither talents nor looks?
That is a real good question! In this world, there are many of them. Gifted take up top 1-5%, very talented take up next maybe top 5-10%, the rest are normal and few percentage intellectually disabled.
I think we should be kind to them (neither talents nor looks) and help them find their ‘talent’ (it might not be big to world but something that they can feel good) or ‘help’ them to be happy as what they are.
If the world views in this way, We will not see lots of people trying very hard to go up via all means but unfortunately the things that they go for is a hat too big for their head! At the end, they are even more miserable and worst off. Or be very miserable because they don’t have talents nor looks …
If the society accepts them as they are or they can be happy with themselves then the world will have more happiness less misery and conflicts …
I like to tell my boy, the bus driver, cleaner etc we should not be neglected or look down, we should see the beauty in them. Another reason is, if we shun these people or these jobs, one day when we have no choice but to do this type of job, we will not be able to shallow it. But, if we see the beauty in that, it will be easily for us to take it up happily.
We should stop competing but start excelling… find out our very own talent (need not be very big or super) which is useful for this world or work on the Buddha nature…
Just hope, the world be compassionate to Susan Boyle, don’t make the bubble too big or too beautiful and later on ‘pop’ it . She looks like a strong lady …
Methinks talent searches are overrated. What’s more important is to have compassion and wisdom :angel: A kind and wise person beats any talented person without compassion and wisdom hands down. But of course, being kind, wise AND talented person is even better – if the talent helps to make the world a better place. For Susan Boyle’s case, her singing inspired the world, and taught the world some valuable lessons.
is a good thing for some people to see beautiful things, hear beautiful singing, ……anything beautiful to our senses as it cultivates the mind to be beautiful.
likewise, it is a good thing too to see ugly things,…anything not pleasant to our senses as it awakens our minds.
now that we see both in Susan, is a double awakening!!