Friday, June 12, 2020

What is the hardest thing about being a human being here on earth?

I would say for me at least it was finding my place in this world or "What was I as a soul doing here?"

So, I worked very hard on answering this question in my 20s and 30s until I had a good answer. Another question I had to answer was: "Why are so many Christians racists and into a power trip that takes away power and identity from other races?"

I was able to solve the 2nd problem by focusing on Compassion like Buddha taught after I realized that Jesus' Forgiveness was specifically designed for a Middle Eastern Mind that had the problem of: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" which is the death through vendettas of middle eastern cultures always. In other words cultures cannot rise without forgiveness and compassion as a part of their philosophy. So, Jesus taught forgiveness based upon Buddhist compassion which is where this idea started 2500 years ago with Buddha who was a prince from the kingdom of Lumbini on the border of India and Nepal.

So, successful cultures like in Russia, Europe and China and the U.S. you have either forgiveness or compassion or both as a hallmark of their cultures. For example, the middle eastern mind also lives some in India and here is how it manifested in the 1980s when I was in India and Nepal then: I would ask someone directions to some place but since they didn't read maps and think like Europeans and americans do regarding a plane looking down from the air they wouldn't know how to get where I was asking so they would make up something so I wouldn't think them ignorant which wasn't good for them or me. An American would say: "I don't know where that is." and be honest about it. But, in India because of insecurity regarding ignorance they would make up a way to get somewhere instead.

This harms them and whoever is asking the question. However, in the U.S. if I asked someone how to get somewhere I could expect to be either given the correct directions or be told they didn't know where that was. But, this wasn't true in India or Nepal in 1985 or 1986.

So, this aspect of Compassion was not a part of the cultures there then especially if someone didn't know how to read in the first place. However, when someone is dressed nice you cannot be sure if they know how to read or not even if they speak English in India or Nepal because at least then there was no public educational system in India in 1985 and 1986. There were ONLY private schools and that's all. So, you had a 60% to 70% chance when you saw someone on the street that they could not read or write  and definitely couldn't read maps.

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