Good morning!
We have now spring in full swing with green air and bird’s singing.
Meanwhile, we are told that the nuclear disaster in Japan was raised to the worst level, 7, the worst paralleled by only that of Chernobyl. Though the government says that the radiation released was one tenth of that disaster, we do not know how six reactors will react to human and natural situations such as earthquakes of m-7, 6, and 5 still coming continually.
Now the people in the more radiation-contaminated areas within a 30km radius are being told to leave within one month. People living on land with more radioactive fallout cannot start sowing seeds or planting vegetables, and they have to leave their homes.
Nuclear power and bombs typically express human attachment and aversion. Buddhism teaches that delusion and action lead to suffering (sando: three steps: ?? = delusion-action-suffering:???). We with modern sciences and technologies have become over-confident (delusive), over-attached, and over-averted, and we have been creating suffering, the magnitude of which we don’t know.
The Buddha stayed in peace and truth after awakening, reluctant to go out into the world. Brahma besought him to go out into the world lest it should be destroyed. We are now in this situation, going to man made mass extinction. Unless we become awakened and liberated from delusions and actions, we are doomed to destruction and demise.
4/12/11