These days we follow in the media the swine flu virus spreading over the planet. It is fantastic that we have the technical means to identify and follow the virus. It can not be seen with the eye, and if you saw it it would probably look much the same as all the other viruses.
The virus causes some problems, obviously. People get the flu and stay at home and rest for a few days. Some people even die. So it is a nuisance.
However, if we would compare this nuisance, to the constant nuisance and suffering made by human beings, the swine flue problems are very small.
So if we were rational, we would follow the spread of human evil over the globe with the same interest as we follow the swine flu virus. But we do no. One reason is that we can not see human evil.
But human evil has a physical reality, as it rests as bagchags in the minds of people. Bagchags are active memories and thus potential thoughts.
If we have difficult experiences - from torture, threat of death and destruction and the like - bagchags are formed. If they are not attended to they will mature into evil actions later. These evil actions - torture, threat of death and the like - will create new bagchags in new generations.
These bagchags can not be seen and measured by science, but they are all important. A few decades ago, science could not see and measure virus, but they were all important nevertheless.
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