{"id":7157,"date":"2010-08-24T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2010-08-24T03:28:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:28:45","slug":"its-never-just-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/08\/its-never-just-something\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Never Just Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A friend’s experience… While shortlisting films for a Buddhist short film festival, I spoke firmly against the choice of one, listing more than 20 reasons why it should not be selected. To my shock, despite this, someone exclaims that ‘It’s just a movie’. Disturbing… because aren’t Buddhist film festivals for sharing the Dharma; and not warped Dharma?<\/p>\n

If warped Dharma is going to be presented, doesn’t it become an anti-Buddhism film festival? And wouldn’t any other movie do too, without needing any special selection? Thankfully, the film was not chosen at the end, despite some further short-lived contentions. I realised too, that any single thing is not ‘just something’ – there are always wider consequences, because that thing can influence other things, even if the scope of this influence might vary<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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