Subject #1: On the present crisis

Ok, let's begin the discussion about the present crisis. Crisis itself is not a new, it has existed here as long as humans have. It has just grown bit more and more in modern world. So what crisis are we talking about? I already listed some roots of crisis when explaining my blog's title.

Why do people live their life the way they do? Typical pattern for life seems to be education, job, marriage, family, growing materiality, retire and die. This pattern creates a huge list of questions but main ones are what's the purpose of all of those things? Note that I'm not condemning that pattern but how many people are really aware why do they do this or that? First five things listed in this pattern most often lead into attachments. And those attachments are not targeted into things itself but into mind's ideas of things.

So many people seek happiness. If you ask someone "are you happy?", you almost never (unless he/she has just experienced something very pleasant) hear straight "yes I am" answer. The most common answer is that "I'm ok" and when you ask more you find out that the person would be (in other words, chooses to be) happy only if that person gets something. Such person always bases hope of happiness to the future, to somewhere distant. And the whole point of happiness is missed.

Responsibility. Usually people understand this word by thinking that one must be responsible for actions which affect other people. The way I understand the word is that responsibility means that you understand that all your problems are created by your mind and blaming someone else is just a missed chance to see the real source of problems.

Humans are getting better in science all the time. They know how to travel in space and how human DNA looks like. Outside world is measured and examined with great effort. Inside world has remained dark and people still battle with same problems than thousands of years ago. Of course there has been some efforts to explore this inside world. Science has tried it with psychology and religions have given tools to cope with it. Neither approach solves the problem.

All my life I have been watching people all around the world and wondering why they live such life. Why so many things are taken for granted? All those little beautiful things missed and all those insignificant things raised to the pedestal. Matrix does not exist only in movies, it’s here as well. Except that here nobody will offer you red or blue pill.