The World Used To Be Crazy …

The world used to be crazy… now, it’s scary.

In the past, mass behaviours were slow to develop, but nowadays, the process of mimicking others is changing fast, and causing great confusion. As long as people are confused, they will readily accept anything as the enemy. People react, and that reaction is then being censored. Even those with seemingly the same view are censoring themselves.

Conspiracies, misinformation, news-entertainment, UFOs, the second coming when the anointed one will set up his kingdom, judge his enemies, and reward the faithful, living and dead …

Hold on a moment! What if these were all illusions? Why would God judge? Wouldn’t God understand? Why would he reward believers? Doesn’t this all sound like the creation and maintenance of hope and fear?

Isn’t this what religions, politics and science do? They give us hope for a better future through fear of what we have now. But now is the future of those in the past. Nothing changes. We mimic hope and fear, that’s all.

Before realising our true nature, everything was just charmingly crazy. Then, we go through inner investigation and realise why and how it’s going wrong. The scary thing is that, through their elaborations, religions, politics and science create an elitist hierarchy that we hope to join, and fear that we will be left out.

This is no way to live. Who can we trust? To be honest, I do trust the Buddha’s simple teaching but don’t trust Buddhists, precisely because the Buddha said, “Do not take my word for the truth …”

Truth didn’t start with the Buddha.
Truth starts with us realising what any Buddha says.
Truth is direct, first-hand experience.

No, you’re not crazy, but thinking you aren’t crazy is scary.
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