Know How the World is Run

We all turn a blind eye, and have lost our integrity when it comes to maintaining a comfy life at the expense of others.

This video reveals the awful truth about the world in which we live. John Pilger went to Indonesia – just one of many countries where profit happens as a result of cheap labour – to find out how the products we buy are made and under what conditions.

Slavery is created by the International Monetary Fund (the IMF)/World Bank by giving aid to a country, and thereby controlling it. A greedy despot is put in charge of a poor country so that corruption can be maintained for many years, until those who put him in charge decide to get rid of him! We can see this pattern in every poor country in the world (actually we are all slaves, in debt to mortgage companies and banks, spending our whole lives stressed until we pay off the debt – plus the interest).

In Indonesia, a million of people who did not conform to slavery were murdered. Western governments know this, as do the large corporations: mass murder is collateral damage.

The “Rulers of the World” meet in secret, and carve up the planet between them under the guise of “globalisation”. And you will not read about this in the mainstream press, precisely because the media is owned. The news we receive is usually trivial, sanitised and never the complete story.

The Rulers of the World have zero empathy. The class system exists so that people feel that they working for something better, but all of us turn a blind eye to the suffering of others in pursuit of our own pleasure. The gap between the rich and poor is huge…and increasing. We pay taxes; they don’t. This is not conspiracy – this is evil corruption.

Be aware that you are part of it, but you can wake up.

THIS VIDEO WAS MADE IN 2001.
JUST LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE WORLD
SINCE THEN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uW1qJoWYPg

So. What has this have to do with my spiritual practice?

Unfortunately, many Buddhists dismiss such information is merely conspiracy theory and nothing to do with them: I’ve spoken to many about such matters, and they just feel uncomfortable, and that feeling of being uncomfortable is mara activity, not fearless, spiritual activity.

Compassion is the activity of love.
Liberation is resting in whatever arises.

Precisely because of a liberated mind,
through compassion and skilful means
we can address these obscenities
in our own unique way.

We can start by being open minded
to others’ suffering.
If we hate, or feel uncomfortable,
we merely harm ourselves, and others in the process.

Recognition of truth
– both conventional and ultimate –
is the key.

Recognition makes us wiser.

…Unfortunately there are many distraction in life created by social engineering – we can be made to believe anything. If we rant and rave, this reaction is part of the distraction, as we have lost ourselves in emotions. Our reactions are carefully planned.