Dari: "Monique Natasha Hardono" <deniseloraine@
Yth. Pak Hudoyo,
Apa kabar? Saya Monique, yang kemarin ikut meditasi vipassana di cipanas.
Ada sebuah pertanyaan yang rory (adik saya) pertanyakan ke kami (saya
dan ibu) saat baru pulang. Pada akhirnya pertanyaan ini menjadi
pertanyaan saya juga, setelah saya mencoba meditasi vipassana sendiri
di rumah.
sebagai latar belakang, just in case. ini sedikit banyak yang saya
ketahui tentang LOA. ini bisa bapak cari di internet ada sangat
banyak, begitu juga bukunya.
LOA : Law of attraction (film the secret dan buku LOA oleh Michael J
Lossier), dari quantum phisic. sekarang banyak berkembang, menjadi
quantum iklhas (oleh Erbe Sentanu dan Katahati Institute), quantun
mechanic (film : what the bleep do we know), quantum creation ( oleh
james arthur ray), dan lain-lain
LOA sekarang sedang banyak menyebar dan dibicarakan orang.
LOA bertujuan untuk mendapatkan kesuksesan dalam semua bidang, apapun
itu (harmonic wealth : oleh James arthur ray). mudah dan sulit pada
prakteknya. hanya perlu fokus ke masa depan. "thoght become thing" itu
intinya.
kami tahu kedua pengetahuan ini sangat bagus buat kami "vipassana dan
LOA" tapi ini sangat berlawanan..
vipassana untuk mencapai waktu sekarang, LOA harus fokus dan menjaga
fokus masa depan yang diinginkan..
seharusnya..
Padahal LOA ini disadari atau tidak, percaya atau tidak, bagi manusia
adalah kunci keberhasilan manusia untuk survive dan berkompetisi. LOA
harus dilakukan kapanpun dan dimanapun.. fokus dan mood ini yang harus
dijaga..
terima kasih
--
Monique
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HUDOYO:
Monique yg baik,
LOA, bagi mereka yang percaya--entah percaya
sepenuhnya sebagaimana digambarkan dalam "The
Secret", entah percaya secara prinsipiil saja
sebagai suatu kondisi psikologis yang
baik--memang dipegang sebagai "alat" yang
dipercaya akan memberikan kesejahteraan dalam
hidup di dunia, entah kehidupan material (contoh
dari "The Secret": memperoleh sebuah rumah mewah
hanya dengan memikirkannya saja, tanpa berbuat
sesuatu), entah kehidupan psikologis.
Sebaliknya, MMD/vipassana adalah justru untuk
'berhenti' (seperti nasehat Sang Buddha kepada
Angulimala: "Saya sudah lama berhenti; kamulah
yang masih terus berlari.") Jadi, benar seperti
kata Anda: LOA dan MMD bertolak belakang.
Sekarang, manakah yang memberikan kebahagiaan &
kedamaian sejati bagi Anda? Itulah sebaiknya yang
Anda terapkan. ... Anda masih sangat muda. Tentu
banyak idaman dalam batin Anda, akan suatu
kehidupan yang nyaman & bahagia di masa depan.
Anda berhak untuk mendapatkan semua itu.
Namun, dengan mengikuti retret kemarin, Anda
telah memperoleh pencerahan bahwa pada akhirnya,
cepat atau lambat, setiap orang harus 'berhenti'.
Entah itu 'berhenti' sementara, dan kemudian
'berlari' lagi, dst; entah 'berhenti' sepenuhnya,
selamanya, yang mungkin bagi Anda pada saat ini tidak/belum menarik.
Tetapi jangan lupa akan pengalaman retret kemarin
dalam kehidupan Anda seterusnya di masa depan.
Pada suatu saat di kemudian hari kelak, Anda pasti akan membutuhkannya.
Salam,
Hudoyo
PS: DVD "The Secret" saya punya dan sudah
menontonnya. Menurut saya, film itu tidak lebih
daripada vulgarisasi dari LOA. Berikut ini saya
kutipkan kritik terhadap LOA & kritik terhadap
film "The Secret", saya ambilkan dari Wikipedia:
dari: http://en.wikipedia
Law of Attraction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Criticism
The Law of Attraction, especially in its less
religious contexts, has been criticized for
Implying the law has a scientific foundation when no such basis exists,
Not defining its methodology correctly according
to denominational New Thought practitioners,
Criticism of the Law of Attraction comes from other directions as well.
In the mainstream media, talk show hosts such as
Larry King have pointed at the sufferings in the
world and asked, if the Universe manifests
abundance at a mere thought why is there so much poverty, starvation and death?
It has also been pointed out that most of the
people discussed in recent books on the subject
live in a culture that has paths to allow people
to overcome adversity and that the same is not
true for much of the world. The same cannot be
said of earlier proponents of the Law of
Attraction, however, especially those who, like
Wallace Wattles (1860 – 1911), claimed in his
book The Science of Getting Rich (1910) to have
used the principle to rise from a life of
grinding poverty to one of merely comfortable industry.
Scientists are critical of the lack of
falsifiability and testability of the claims. All
of the evidence is both anecdotal and, because of
the self-selecting nature of positive reports as
well as the subjective nature of any results,
highly susceptible to misinterpretations like
confirmation bias and selection bias.
The few claims by proponents that seem to
reference modern scientific theory remain under
question. While brainwaves do have an electrical
signal, it is unclear what principles of quantum
physics behave the way proponents of the Law of
Attraction claim. Opponents claim that the use of
the term "Law" and the vague references to
quantum physics to bridge any unexplained or
seemingly implausible effects are hallmark traits
of modern pseudoscience ideas.
Within spiritual circles, the Law of Attraction
has been criticized for conflating ego with the
higher self, and promoting narcissism. The
concept is also criticized by members of various
predestinarian and fundamentalist Christian
denominations, due to its deviance from their teachings.
***
dari: http://en.wikipedia
The Secret (2006 film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Criticism
Editorial coverage
Catherine Bennett, of the London based Guardian
compares the behavior of the leader of the UK
Conservative Party to the principles espoused in
the film. Touching on themes of greed and
blaming-the-
"moronic hymn to greed and selfishness" and that
it "nastily suggests that victims of catastrophe
are the authors of their misfortunes"
Slate Human Guinea Pig, Emily Yoffe, experimented
with living according to The Secret's precepts
for two months, concluding that the film/book's
message was "pernicious drivel." Yoffe found it
particularly "repulsive" for its tendency to
blame the victim and its suggestion to "not just
blame people for their illness, but to shun them,
lest you start being affected by their bummer thoughts, too."
Journalist Jeffrey Ressner, reporting in Time,
writes that some critics are concerned with the
film's attitude toward "using ancient wisdom to
acquire material goods." In one example in the
film, "a kid who wants a red bicycle cuts out a
picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and
is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler.
Jerry Adler of Newsweek notes that despite the
film's allusions to conspiratorially suppressed
ancient wisdom, the notions presented by the
motivational speakers who make up the film's cast
have been commonplace for decades. Adler notes
that the film is ethically "deplorable,
on "a narrow range of middle-class concerns
houses, cars, vacations, followed by health and
relationships, with the rest of humanity a very
distant sixth." Noting that the scientific
foundations of the movie are clearly dubious, the
Newsweek article quotes psychologist John
Norcross, characterizing it as "pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble."
In an article for the Chicago Reader, Julia
Rickert questions the validity and authenticity
of certain quotations attributed by the film to
"past secret teachers". The article[54] describes
the extensive, unsuccessful efforts by Rickert to
verify a quote claimed to be by "secret teacher"
Ralph Waldo Emerson "The secret is the answer
to all that has been, all that is, and all that
will ever be". Rickert also examines a quotation
in the film by Winston Churchill. She claims
Byrne has taken it out of context in order to
suggest Churchill held beliefs in accord with The
Law of Attraction "You create your own universe
as you go along". Rickert points out that the
full context shows that Churchill found such ideas "perfectly useless".
Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles
Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the
very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of
Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale
(1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'."
The editorial, in one of its strongest
criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the
well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus,
customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and]
gave them a veneer of mysticism...
Tony Riazzi, columnist for the Dayton Daily News,
also questions the merits of The Secret, calling
Byrne's background as a reality TV producer a
"red flag." He also said that "The Secret's"
ideas are nothing more than "common sense. Take
out the buzzwords and pseudo religious nonsense
about what you 'manifest' for yourself, ignore
the vague prose and you get the message that
thinking positively serves you better than thinking negatively."
Martin J. Bernard, Fellow of Philosophy at "New
York University", describes Byrne's The Secret as
"a brilliant marketing ploy created from the
sludge of common sense and well-worn literary
ideals. Naturally, positive thinking will trump
negative in terms of attracting desires, but the
shaky foundation for presentment in [her book]
leaves little doubt that Ms. Byrne's teachings
are Barnum-esque re-writes of hackneyed pseudo-religious sales pitches."
Criticism of health claims
ABC news referred to claims that the mind has
power over our health as "perhaps the most
controversial" in The Secret. They quote Rev.
Michael Beckwith, founder of Agape International
Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, and
one of The Secret "teachers" as saying: "I've
seen kidneys regenerated. I've seen cancer
dissolved." The film features one man who was
paralyzed, mute, and on a ventilator after his
spine and diaphragm were crushed in an airplane
accident. He credits his full recovery to the
power of his mind. A similar story is told by
another interviewee whose breast cancer went into
spontaneous remission without medical intervention.
Several critics have expressed concern about
detrimental effects the film may have on the
health and well-being of individuals. Dr. Richard
Wender, president of the American Cancer Society,
worries that guidelines in the film will prompt
others to "reject helpful therapies in favor of
positive thinking", even though the film verbally
asserts that traditional medicine should be
pursued for serious illness. Julia Mckinnell of
Canada's Maclean's Magazine in a commentary about
the film and book titled, "Some people are
finding the self-help phenomenon is actually
screwing them up", cited several real-life cases
of alleged detrimental effects. She closed with a
line Oprah used when urging a guest to seek
medical attention for cancer: "The Secret is
merely a tool; it's not treatment." On the
spiritual side, Valerie Reiss, in a review for
BeliefNet, expressed concerns that others might
get into "head-tripping" on negative thoughts as she did when younger:
"I would realize I was thinking negative
thoughts, which would trigger more thoughts about
how awful I was for thinking negative thoughts
and how I was ruining my life with those
thoughts, and so on and so on, until my head was
ready to explode with all the bad juju. The only
thing that freed me from that loop was something
else I also learned that summer at the ashram, meditation."
Religious criticism
Mark Earleypresident of Prison Fellowship, a
group of ministries founded by Charles Colson
in a commentary titled "New Book, Old Lie",
claims "Byrne's hot new trend" repeats "the
oldest lie there is 'You shall be like God'."
Earley asserts this is a prescription for "misery".
USA Today reported on the impact The Secret has
had on New Thought churches, such as First Unity
Church of St. Petersburg, Florida, led by Rev.
Temple Hayes. The church uses the film and book
as a teaching tool. James Trapp, CEO of the
Association of Unity Churches, calls 'The Secret'
"superficial" and Mr. Hayes amends The Secrets
promise of everything-is-
"...you may face some pain along the way. Nothing comes easy."
Prof. John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Professor of
Theology and Culture at Regent College in
Vancover, Canada, in a commentary at his blog,
calls the film "the newest packaging for
gnosticism". He portrays the film's message as
just another choice among many religions to
choose from, not the "Lowest Common Denominator of all religions". And notes:
"[The film] is wishful thinking that does not
correspond to the way things are. Some of it
does, yes, which is why people can honestly
testify to good things resulting from it. But some of it does not... "
Stackhouse finds the good in the film "genuinely
nourishing" and the bad "genuinely toxic". He
makes it clear he is "...all for proper positive
thinking" the alleged good aspect of the film
and finds fault with Christian culture for not being better at it:
"By God's grace to us, we know better, we know
Christ and his Gospel of new life, and yet often
we have failed to speak to the spiritual
realities so skillfully addressed by proponents of The Secret."
The toxins are, in Stackhouse's eyes, a
spiritually lethal concoction. The identified "poisons" include:
* "blaming the victim"
* "refusal to admit" that life has worthwhile
"trade-offs ... [and] sacrifices"
* "It's all about me and it's all up to me"
Criticism of the Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is the essence of the
film's message. The film's presentation of the
law has been criticized for claiming "quantum
physics is a part of the Law", for not getting it
right according to New Thought practitioners, and
for mistakenly usurping the role of God.
Criticism of society
A number of critics wrote hard hitting satirical
comments about society's relationship to the film.
* Karin Klein, of the Los Angeles Times, on greed:
"Americans are never too jaded for another
get-rich-quick chimera... My sister says I'm
over-intellectualiz
manifested a fine leather satchel. And I have to
admit, if there were designer leather goods to be
had out of this, I was interested."
* Emily Yoffe, writing for Slate, ran with a
quote by one of the "past secret teachers" a
quote from Einstein that never made it into the film:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and
human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
* Catherine Bennett, writing for the The Guardian
describes adherence to The Secret's "law of attraction" as:
"[a] creed so transparently ugly and stupid that
it seems impossible that anyone could take it seriously."
Societal benefit
Some critics find much to fault in the film and
nevertheless see it as providing positive
opportunities or benefits for society.
* Greg Beato of Reason Magazine, described
previous "A-list hucksters" as "...infectious,
helping to create a national mood of high-octane optimism." He closes with:
"... If there's anything our current bleak era
needs, it's a little irrational exuberance.
Perhaps The Secret is the Grand Genie of the Universe's answer to our prayers."
* Jefrey Ressner, at Timein his final
remarksfinds parallels between Madonna and Bob
Rainone, Byrne's U.S. business partner:
"The Da Vinci Code was entertaining, but this
film is a personal tool for people who want to
change their lives," says Rainone. "It's a gift
to the world, to help humanity." Or, as another
empowerment teacher, Madonna, sang in her own
1994 hit Secret: "Happiness lies in your own hand."
* Jerry Adler of Newsweek, writing about the producer, Rhonda Bryne:
"...Irene Izon, [mother to Rhonda Byrne] did
offer this assessment to NEWSWEEK: "The thing is
that Rhonda just wants to bring happiness to
everybody. That's the reason it all began. She
just wants everybody to be happy."
And to give her her due, she might actually be
achieving some of that. There is nothing, in
principle, wrong with thinking about what makes you happy."
Legal controversies
The Australian Nine Network's A Current Affairan
Australian TV tabloid showon 14 May 2007 segment
titled, "The Secret Stoush", interviews
Australian author Vanessa J. Bonnette. In the
interview, Bonnettewhen referring to the book
version of The Secretasserts, "that is my work
and Rhonda Byrne has stolen it". Bonnette and a
reporter compare her book to Byrne's on the use
of the "TV transmission" analogy. Bonnette's
book, Empowered for the New Era (2003 Empowered
For Life) will be released in 2007 as a second
edition. Bonnette, at her website, claims 100
instances of plagiarism. Byrne's marketing
company, TS Production LLC, has responded with a
lawsuit to restrain Bonnette. From the statement of claim:
"Analogy between frequency transmissions,
including a television station transmission via a
frequency, and humans and human thought is used
by many persons in the field of self-help and motivation."
David Schirmer, the "investment guru"and only
Australianin the film, has his business
activities under investigation by the Australian
Securities Investment Commission (ASIC). This was
reported on 1 June 2007 by A Current Affair in a
segment titled "The Secret Con" with those words
and The Secret logo appearing in the background
behind the newscaster. The show initially
confronted Schirmer in a segment titled "The
Secret Exposed", aired on 28 May 2007, with
complaints from people who say Schirmer owed them money.
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