[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Joy Vriens]

Hi Chan Fu,

>>The world is a bit mad and paranoid at the moment.

> "At the moment"...? Well, perhaps if you take "the moment"
> to be the last 3 or 4 millennia. Paranoia seens to be encoded
> directly in DNA - ref: "fear of snakes, etc.". It' is, and has been
> for quite a while, "mad as a box of frogs".

Sure, with the difference that it has been largely de-spiritualised, 
which I initially thought to be a good thing, but I seem to be changing 
ideas on that point. Being de-spiritualised (and I am not including New 
Age products in spirituality, which is only another form of consumerism 
or religion as an expression of identity-angst), it is like it's being 
locked in in a closed circle. Looking around instead of looking up. And 
madness and paranoia with no issue is thousand times worse. There seems 
to be a new thirst for spiritual things, but I am afraid it will be 
market and media controlled. I am quite pessismistic about people and 
their ability to give expression to genuin freedom in the present 
situation. Our present world is also one that believes in activity and 
abhors passivity. Its hyperactivity exacerbates the madness and paranoia.


> Hello, Joy!  Fancy meeting you in a place where I was only
> intending to read!  Now, if I can just find Jonathan and
> a few cows...

How is Jonathan, I miss him. You on the other hand don't give me enough 
time to miss you, but I miss you too, especially your songs. ;-)