Well, This is a post which I hope can inspire and motivate you to find your own way in life, to think differently, because it is a rare quality. It is rare because it’s so hard to say no to our desires, our desires for sex, food, money, love, vanity, and the countless others humans are prone to suffering from. Desires, or thoughts occupy our minds so much, that we can’t see through the busyness. When here we want to be over there. When eating we want to entertain ourselves with music, television, the internet. When with someone we get bored and want to be with and do other things. Our minds are likened to Monkeys. The monkey is restless, jumping here, hanging and swinging there, fighting, screaming, looking for trouble.
We can say we are dissatisfied, we lack nothing but think we do. We believe we’re unhappy, because of ignorance when in fact we are blissful, enlightened all the time! Isn’t that strange? Yes!
We buy a new cell phone and already we’re searching for the next upgrade. We want More features, we want the best plan, we want to add cases, different colors, make it even more beautiful! We are hungry. Hungry, for more of everything. That’s what it means when people call themselves consumers! We want to consume! We do ALL the time. We consume our own time! We waste it! We throw away the priceless in exchange for the petty. The priceless is boring, it takes too long to earn and even harder to maintain and keep. We find waiting boring, we have no patience, we want things fast.
Easy come easy go. Nothing that comes quickly satisfies, So, WE ARE NEVER SATISFIED! Rich, poor, Presidents, Businessmen, Artists, Legends, famous, infamous, jailed, and free. The unsatisfied Come from ALL walks of life! Whether on television, singing on the radio, billionaires, , male or female, young or old, We all suffer from Consumerism. Some Buddhist teachings say we live in a Desire Realm.
We want to Free ourselves from wanting! Ahh! How can a person make it out of this fate? I’ve already given you MANY TOOLS to work with. To summarize here are the ingredients: Study Self-Cultivation teachings from Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, even Vedanta, Sufism, Christian Contemplation traditions, Kabbalah! The main one you must study is Buddhism, zen in particular, but the Mahayana school of thought in general. Study those Big time. Read the Diamond Sutra (Red Pine), the Lotus Sutra (Burton Watson), Vimalakirti Sutra (Charles Luk), A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra (Garma C.C. Chang), Lankavatara Sutra (Red Pine), Platform Sutra (Red Pine), Surangama Sutra (Han Shan), and check out Translations by Numata Center. These are NOT Buddhist Books! These are books about the Human world! Please get this! They don’t care if they’re called Buddhist, or Zen, or whatever! This is knowledge about life, please understand this!
Those 7 Books, along with stuff you may find interesting from the NUMATA Center are very rare to encounter! The Buddha, said to encounter teachings such as those is akin to a blind sea turtle in a vast ocean sticking it’s head through a HOLE in a wooden plank. Can you imagine this happening!? It’s very rare to come across teachings which are so detailed! This is what you should be studying NOT commentaries about these books! Popular books are just commentaries in some way shape or form! Most people are ok with that! And that’s a good thing! People can’t ALL READ and benefit directly from these deep books so we need others to write about them in a way Regular people can understand!
But can you see how little by little WE go from an Oral tradition, to Sutras and Deep written teachings, to commentaries?!! Can you see how What I WROTE in the Last blogs about Truth Getting WATERED DOWN occurs? People get lazier! People will no longer be able to grasp commentaries so THEY will NEED commentaries for commentaries and on and on!!!
If you have patience you will UNDERSTAND. That is the purpose of this Blog! Great things take time. Most people get bored, the blind sea turtle sticking its head through a tiny hole in a wooden plank floating in the VAST OCEAN is RARE INDEED! A renaissance man or woman is rare indeed! The kind which studies these teachings and meditates and continues to evolve in their own creative way is even MORE RARE!
500 of Shakyamuni Buddha’s disciples WALKED AWAY from him when he said there was more to his teachings than Bliss, and arhatship, or enlightenment for oneself! They didn’t have the capacity to GET this! These were Arhats! These guys meditated LIKE Olympians! Only about 10 stayed to listen to his deeper message, that message was the Mahayana Vehicle, and that’s where the BOOKS I recommend UP top come in! Those are CREAM of the crop teachings, the ones Olympic class meditators WALKED away from! They weren’t having any of it!
You see how very rare all this information IS?!
Now for a bit on my BLOG Title! What is my prediction? It’s a warning to you, an advanced tip on what may be the RESULT of world internet Usage increasing over time and the world educating itself in the English language!
The danger I see is WORLD THINK. A herd that is as big as the whole population of the GLOBE! It’s herd mentality on STERIODS! People already all love Facebook, Youtube, Google, all these social Media sites! They all basically visit the same pages and the pages their friends visit and write about the SAME THINGS! When the Entire globe is visiting the same sites, THEY ARE ALL sinking into WORLD THINK without even knowing it!
Group think, or herd mentality is HUMAN! This is why history repeats itself; It’s rare for individuals to escape the DESIRE realm! We get bored of those people like the 500 Arhats, We just can’t grasp Mahayana teachings! We like being comfortable, things given to us! We are trained this way from the start! Everything feels FREE when we’re young! No Bills, free food, free shelter, toys! Then all that Good Karma runs out and We go crazy because we thought It would last Forever! (Why heaven nor Hell is forever! Karma burns itself out, and something new shows up which YOU yourself created through past actions GOOD or BAD!).
I pray this blog really helps you to understand Life so that you can live your dreams. This is tough truth to understand, but it is very important for your survival and your prosperity.
Read the recommended Sutras and Books up top along with Numata Center translations you find interesting. Keep reading this blog. Practice Good deeds every day to increase your Good karma. You will always need to do this because you don’t know when a whole HEAP of negative karma from YOUR Millionth Millionth prior life will come to VISIT YOU! So you always need to CREATE good karma for yourself! ALWAYS! ALWAYS! ALWAYS! But how you do that will be up to you!
I will write more on Creating good karma and easing the effects of Negative Karma WHICH WILL show up one day! My tips are Three: Study, Meditate, and create good karma through expression of your True Nature!
More details later.