346-Horror makes us cruel- Buddhism in daily life

Horror makes us cruel


Many events in this world are horrible to behold, horror and
terror accompany the "Homo Mediales", modern man living in a
multimedia and virtual world permanent presence.


Misery and violence around us, on TV, on the Internet, in the
media, in computer games; everywhere blood, dead, injured,
viruses, diseases, dictators, civil wars, riots, lies, cheating,
bullying, murder, manslaughter, alcohol, drugs, drug abuse,
rapes, catastrophes; humanity has arrived at the edge of evil,
the demons that were summoned are now our new reality. The
infection is spreading rapidly, soon we will be completely
penetrated by the forces of darkness.


We need help, because our society is seriously ill, humanity has
become the accomplice of darkness. How can we drive out these
demons again, push back the evil? Where is the "good" energy, the
"positive" vibrations that could bring about some form of
normality?


The constant horror dulls us, CONSTANTLY we are confronted with
fears, we brutalize inwardly.


And if we understand such conditions then in the consequence as
new normality, then our value conception will adapt to it, we
ourselves become cruel, compassion, attentiveness and human
values disappear in the nothing. It seems to be so, we see it
everywhere, obviously horror and horror, coupled with cruelty, is
now the life of us all.


But the "healing" from these conditions is also somewhere here,
is already on this world, waits for us!


You may not believe in what I do, "Buddhism" is not everyone's
cup of tea! But I know that an improvement can arise only from
us. We, the members of society, must leave this unwholesome path,
turn back to the "good".


In our new normality, everything around us is in motion, what
used to be a certainty is now already lost in the fog of the
past. But the words of Buddha are being heard again, society is
longing for normality, consistency and peace. Whoever wants to
make the Buddha's teachings his own must first find peace and
silence.


Don't be distracted, go your way, mindfulness is the new "sexy",
not "misery and violence".


Cruelty is one of the oldest festive pleasures of mankind.
Consequently, the gods are also thought to be refreshed and in a
festive mood when they are offered the sight of cruelty. And thus
the idea creeps into the world that voluntary sufferings, the
self-chosen torture have a good sense and value.


- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - German philosopher - 1844 to 1900


The unimaginable eludes our memory, and that is just as well, but
once, I believe, the horror must reach us, or there is no further


- Max Frisch - Swiss writer - 1911 to 1991


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