Hello everyone,
Is watching TV shows or movies too much bad kamma? I feel like it’s easy to be heedless if I watch TV shows/movies too much because it makes me neglect my duties.
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You said it yourself, that it neglects your duties. So try to minimize it. If the load of your duties and getting absorbed in watching bothers you, it might cause you some suffering over time. As you are an Upāsaka, I don’t think there’s any bad Kamma here. You can consume these shows with some caution regarding the content broadcasted and the profane language.
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its bad kamma in the same sense that eating sugar is bad kamma. it does not cause bad kamma that will follow you into a future life, but it is a waste of time, especially if you do it too much, will result in bad things happening to you in the future (in this life), just as eating too much sugar is bad for your future results.
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It is called TV “programming” for a reason. I remember this from an activist tshirt company called northern sun. This was the pretty much the reference I could find with google :
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(follow link… in case it is copyright, I don’t post here).
What are you getting programmed with?
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