Good morning and a happy new year!
We have a bright sunny Sunday morning of the new year. We hope all have a happy new year. We have, however, rather ominous news from the past continuing – global warming, extreme weather, disasters, wars, terrorism, social disorder (poverty, hunger, crimes), refugees (millions from wars, more than a hundred thousand from Fukushima, etc.).
Yesterday I watched two National Geographic Channel movies, titled Mankind from Space and 2210: The Collapse? The former surveys the brief development of human civilization, mapping historical geographic points and networks, and the latter discusses the possible collapse of modern civilization, as dug and seen in 2210, referring to the Pueblo, Mayan, and Roman civilizations.
The former showed the dramatic technological development into globalization, with mass mobilization and communication. The latter showed the maladjustment to nature and mismanagement of society, saying that how we manage technology and globalization will lead to either to collapse or survival. We cannot simply promote them for more division, disorder, and devastation.
We must stop the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, which make materialism, militarism, and me-ism, manifested in a pyramidal (金：money-shaped) civilization (= urbanization). We need a paradigm shift from the artificial pyramidal civilization (of matter & power) to a natural Indra-net culture (of heart & life), from karma to dharma, from ego to eco.
We must add profound prognosis in pure peace to glocal (=global-local), thinking and acting to promote holiness (wholly wholesomeness), harmony, and happiness. We must share all resources for this purpose and cultivate the threefold learning (sīla, samādhi, prajňā: morality, concentration, prognosis), not the triple poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion.
1/3/16
