Constant change 2

Renunciation, emptiness and bodhicitta are the basis for Buddhist philosophy and practice, and these values are quite strange compared to traditional western ways of thinking.
On the material level, the western attitude has been to endorse progress almost at any cost. To claim that human happiness is different from material progress has been considered strange.
On the political level, many experiments have been made. By those in power the will to remain so has been strong. The opposite attitude, to see the political system as an example of emptiness, which means to be transparent and open to constant analysis and improvement, has not been popular.
Bodhicitta or the will to help others has at best been discussed. Many has seen self-interest as the main incentive for progress.
However, thanks to the material progress it should be possible to analyse the relations between material factors and human happiness in a more relaxed way.
The advantage with the Buddhist model is that it focus on human happiness and see material factors and political organisation as means to this end.

Creation 2

The things we experience as real and important - in relations, at work, in health, in economy and so on - make us think and dream, and these thoughts give seeds which are projected as the things we experience as real and important - in relations, at work, in health, in economy and so on - make us think and dream, and these thoughts give seeds which are projected as the things we experience as real and important - in relations, at work, in health, in economy and so on...

so it is...our projections give rise to new projections which support the impression that the projections we had yesterday were not projections but had some solid reality of their own...

To break this circle we should know the power of our own contribution to these projections. We see what we want to see. Often we want to see the most horrible, the most disgusting. Why do we want that? Well, there are dark undercurrents in many minds.

But we can leave these undercurrents. There is an alternative. It is called bodhicitta or active compassion.