Human beings are so hard to comprehend yet so easy to understand. It is like you know money is not everything yet it is everything. It is also like when one gets his dreams but loses everything (yes.. some people call it sacrifice or the price to pay). There’s food that tastes great but bad for your body, needless to say when they taste so-so, it is suppose to be good for your health! (=P)
With China joining the world economy years ago, consumer goods prices decreases yet the consumer debt sky rocketed. The great technology that help connect people far & wide but there seems less communication at home - most too busy checking out their e-mails. Today’s youth now are so much smarter compared with those 20 years ago (go check the books they now use in school!) but they seem to have less compassion & empathy.
Notice how we have all the faster (& faster) transportation, e-gadgets to help us travel & work yet we still do not have enough time to spend with our love ones.
The list goes on & on, everything seems to have a upside -downside, good -bad or more - less.
Are all these needed for the balance of this human realm? Buddha always remind to take the middle path, not too much of this or the other. Looks like he is right afterall…
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Very well written indeed !
Posted by deetee at December 28, 2005, 11:09 pmMay be it is a question of what do we wish to focus on, the bad effects of we do now or the good that may bring later. We are lucky to have that choice to choose which aspects we wish to look at, others may not.