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What should one try to do when one meditates with your music at
the Playground?

This music aims at awakening certain profound feelings.
To hear it one should make oneself as silent and passive as
possible. And if, in the mental silence, a part of the being can take
the attitude of the witness who observes without reacting or
participating, then one can take account of the effect which the
music produces on the feelings and emotions; and if it produces
a state of deep calm and of semi-trance, then that is quite good.
CWM 12: 239-40 The Mother

Cinema
We would like to be able to show the children pictures of
life as it should be, but we have not reached that point, far from
it. These films have yet to be made. And at present, most of the
time, the cinema shows life as it should not be, so strikingly that it
makes you disgusted with life.
This too is useful as a preparation.
Films are permitted in the Ashram not as an amusement but
as part of education. So we are faced with the problem of educa-
tion.
If we consider that the child should learn and know only what
can keep him pure of every low, crude, violent and degrading
movement, we would have to eliminate at a stroke all contact
with the rest of humanity, beginning with all these stories of war
and murder, of conflict and deception which go under the name
of history; we would have to eliminate all present contact with
family, relatives and friends; we would have to exercise control
over all the vital impulses of their being.
This was the idea behind the enclosed monastic life of con-
vents, or the ascetic life in caves and forests.
This remedy proved to be quite ineffectual and failed to pull

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