To be and not to be 2

The reality is in thought and name...
There are four names called the immeasurables. They are compassion, love, joy and equanimity.
Our understanding - our thoughts - of these words decide our quality of life.
These words can have negative meanings. Compassion might mean charity, where an inflated I throws a few coins to the others, the destitute and inferior ones.
Love can mean self love, or it can be very trivial as love for certain shoes and color shades.
Joy is negative when it is joy over the mistakes and shortcomings of others. Equanimity is negative when it is uncaring.
But the four names can also have very exalted meanings. Compassion can be the will to help all others to get rid of all suffering for ever. Love can include all. Joy can be the joy over success of others. Equanimity can be the coolness we need to see clearly always.
There is no other reality, than the reality in our thoughts when we define these words.

The new Marx 2

Post-industrial society is an old concept. But it is negatively stated. It tells about what we have left - the industrial society - but not about what we have arrived at. So, what have we arrived at? The answer is: the mind based society.
The industrial society was the last era when human beings had their main value as physical production entities. Now the main value is in mind. Mind is creator and consumer in one.
The classical problem is how to distribute wealth and work. Karl Marx answered it for the industrial society. Or rather, he started a struggle that went on for 150 years and sometimes violently.
The problem now is: What is wealth and what is your role, among the seven billion other human beings living now?
The answer is that wealth is not in money, but in the use of our resources. This "use of resources" means living in harmony, love and creativity, from the support of all others and of nature.