Good evening!
We have all kinds of flowers blooming. We call this “haru ranman: ???” spring at its best, full of flower, brimful of spring atmosphere, with warm sun and compassionate rain. All plants and animals spring up.
Ryokan made a poem:
Flowers with no mind invite butterflies.
Butterflies with no mind visit flowers.
When flowers bloom, butterflies come.
When butterflies come, flowers bloom.
People also do not know me.
Not knowing is due to the supreme law.
This is the result of billions of years’ work by all – coexistence and cooperation.
But, unfortunately, on the opposite side of the globe, Japan is now having perhaps the worst time in its history, with the nuclear disaster. Some scholars consider it the beginning of a critical state.
Now the whole world is watching how this nuclear disaster develops. We don’t know what will happen next; it could be worse than Cherynobyl.
The Nobel Economic prizer, Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, recently said that the nuclear power industry doesn’t pay for itself if paying for liabilities, nuclear waste, etc. Nuclear power companies are subsidized by the government; they are actually paid for by people who are now paying with their lives.
Stiglitz said that this is a country “of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.” Just 1% of the population possesses 25% of the wealth and is gaining, while all the rest are losing. This cannot continue, as the nuclear industry cannot.
The Earth Policy Institute has published a summary of recommendations for renewable energy in Japan. It says that Japan must change its nuclear policy to renewable energy – solar, wind, geothermal, and other renewable resources. It says that Japan can achieve this through preference, policy, and program change.
We must learn from nature, which has been systemic, sustainable, safe, simple, and saving all. When we sit down, we can stop our human karma and go back to the original, natural way. Humankind must settle in and see nature’s truth, peace, harmony, and true happiness.
4/7/11