Tuesday, April 1, 2008

We are still stuck!


People talk about chicken & egg, which one comes first ? 

I would like to see this as a "right brain" or "left brain" story. It can also mean we can re-look at it from a logical perspective or from our heart. I am not sure if Buddha care about this argument of who is right and who is wrong. I am sure a monk would lead us to understand more on who we are and why we are here. I am sure the passage to enlightenment is the truth no matter we are stone or an ant;-)

There are left brain answers which are very satisfactory. However, there are right brain answers which make sense. So, since they are both accepted by communities of left brainers and right brainers- why the arguments still goes on until today and continue into the future to search for the "right" or "left"answers by our grand children. I can only accept this as an evolving change at this consciousness level.

In school we learn about science and it helped us to understand the fundamental block of how things work true from the past, today and will be in tomorrow. Things that which are soft, hard, round, up & down. Things that is living and things that created by human. So, only through science, they become facts and building blocks for what is possible to go on to build machines, electronics, cars, trains, enhance our crops genetically, create drugs which cure sickness and so on. We are becoming so single minded that passion drive us to create "things" which will make us self actualized and fulfill our dream. 

On the other hand, we forgot to teach our children to feel and recognize who we are and why we are here. We acknowledged those who are smart and doing well in school and left out those who are emotionally sensitive and who do not do so well in school. Do we care that we are still not able to resolve this increasingly complex psychological profiling how to make ourselves lovingly happy and yet deserve to raise children and teach our children in schools ? I do agree that we have to try our best anyway. Do we still using the same mindset and thinking of century old to teach and treat our kids today ? My phd friend explain what "insanity" means- doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We want to think that we have done differently with science, technology, psychology, innovation in education. There are little success except for a very small communities in developing nation. The trick is that we have to design new ways again and again in each cycle caused of changing factors around us. We accept that technology change us few days to weeks now a days; however, we just cannot accept that we need to change that often. 

There are still some small groups of native civilization living in a stone age;but, they are doing very well. We denounced them and call them poor and uncivilized society. The truth is that we can learn from them how to live without money, stress, compassion, co-exist with the environment and mother earth. Technology is not necessary helpful when coming to raising kids. Some city kids don't  ever see a live chicken, cow or lamb before. How would they appreciate the nature if they are not expose to life, other than their own kind ? Today, silicon based electronics products will be their main focus of fun when coming to daily life. When money is the primary energy to success in life, we will have no chance to break into a new paradigm and making this earth, mother nature to spin in a normal way. Thus, it effected the planetary and thus the Universe.

We will come back and talk about some gurus and the truth of life. Have a great week ahead.


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