Earthquake is an opportunity to think about the future of Japan
As Viktor Frankl didn't lose his hope even in the terrible environment of holocaust. Even as he had to walk and work in freezing place for such a long hours, he still kept his mind into his love for his wife who had already passed away then. No matter how tragic it sounds, he proved that human beings can liberate their spiritual well-beings totally up to how and where they direct ourselves.
Chant and pray for victims and suffered people in New Zealand and Japan.
Since the earthquake hit the two places, a lot of discussion was put on the table again. Issues are such as nuclear plants, real effectiveness of tsunami safety net, credibility of Japanese fancy life and the rightness of whole civilization.
In Japan, it's been almost habitual to criticize the laziness and ineffectiveness of political authority for a very long time, which is fairly common among countries of "democracy."
It's not likely to be that all population have interest in politics. However, in democracy, it's premise that each individual possessed certain extent of interest and vote for politicians to make society better and balanced. Then naturally, there is always discrepancy between the ideal and the reality in terms of the quality of vote. The degree of the discrepancy could be made better if politicians distribute right information based on true conviction which is actually essential for all public workers. Also voters can actively search information and make a right decision. Although ways to improve the quality of vote are obvious, it is also apparent that people and politicians are usually too busy to give and investigate right information. At the time of election, candidates are required to be really flexible and busy to get as many votes as possible. Each vote has almost the same quality no matter what levels of understanding voters have toward candidates. So even if a voter search a lot of information for making right decision, the research doesn't any substantial support before and after the election. S/he would probably get some bit of benefits, but they are generally not tangible and actually felt.
So, it makes more sense to liberate our mind from the expectation toward other people and other external things but ourselves and our own spiritual autonomy? I'm not saying let's be an anarchist, but I'm saying that it's ridiculous to keep hoping something which would never be realized. I'm also not saying let's forget about other people and be simply selfish, but I'm saying that we choose who we want to be together with, we choose who rule us, we choose who we want to trust, we choose what we buy, eat, live and wear. I do not know where the ingredients the cereal which I eat everyday come from. I do not know if it's really healthy to keep observing Youtube clip and doing my business in front of the computer screen for ages. I do not know what the information from TV and other commercial junks benefit for us.
It surely requires us to be independent in spiritual sense - like the words by mother Teresa, spirit affect our thoughts, thoughts affect our behaviour, behaviour affects our words, and our words create our social life with other people, and this social life is our life itself. More responsible for all circumstances of our life, harder it would be, but also be genuinely happier since it makes us capable of creating happiness by ourselves, not anything defined by somebody else.
Chant and pray for victims and suffered people in New Zealand and Japan.
Since the earthquake hit the two places, a lot of discussion was put on the table again. Issues are such as nuclear plants, real effectiveness of tsunami safety net, credibility of Japanese fancy life and the rightness of whole civilization.
In Japan, it's been almost habitual to criticize the laziness and ineffectiveness of political authority for a very long time, which is fairly common among countries of "democracy."
It's not likely to be that all population have interest in politics. However, in democracy, it's premise that each individual possessed certain extent of interest and vote for politicians to make society better and balanced. Then naturally, there is always discrepancy between the ideal and the reality in terms of the quality of vote. The degree of the discrepancy could be made better if politicians distribute right information based on true conviction which is actually essential for all public workers. Also voters can actively search information and make a right decision. Although ways to improve the quality of vote are obvious, it is also apparent that people and politicians are usually too busy to give and investigate right information. At the time of election, candidates are required to be really flexible and busy to get as many votes as possible. Each vote has almost the same quality no matter what levels of understanding voters have toward candidates. So even if a voter search a lot of information for making right decision, the research doesn't any substantial support before and after the election. S/he would probably get some bit of benefits, but they are generally not tangible and actually felt.
So, it makes more sense to liberate our mind from the expectation toward other people and other external things but ourselves and our own spiritual autonomy? I'm not saying let's be an anarchist, but I'm saying that it's ridiculous to keep hoping something which would never be realized. I'm also not saying let's forget about other people and be simply selfish, but I'm saying that we choose who we want to be together with, we choose who rule us, we choose who we want to trust, we choose what we buy, eat, live and wear. I do not know where the ingredients the cereal which I eat everyday come from. I do not know if it's really healthy to keep observing Youtube clip and doing my business in front of the computer screen for ages. I do not know what the information from TV and other commercial junks benefit for us.
It surely requires us to be independent in spiritual sense - like the words by mother Teresa, spirit affect our thoughts, thoughts affect our behaviour, behaviour affects our words, and our words create our social life with other people, and this social life is our life itself. More responsible for all circumstances of our life, harder it would be, but also be genuinely happier since it makes us capable of creating happiness by ourselves, not anything defined by somebody else.
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