Sometimes… 1

When you read a lot of Buddhist philosophy and teachings you are sure at some point to be led to contemplate humanity.

For a long time, I considered the animals and birds to be superior to my own kind - after all, they do no create plastic and metal junk and call it essential and co crazy-obsessive about owning as much of this rubbish as they can - they just live in peace without trying to re-shape nature into rubbish to become greedy about.

It took a while to convince me that humanity was superior. I still have my doubts, but am willing to accept that POTENTIALLY humankind is superior, if not ACTUALLY/CURRENTLY. I feel that somewhere humanity has gone down the wrong track and turned toward the incorrect direction.

I take a look around at my friends and family, at the local community, and at the world as a whole - and it sometimes scares me how people are living. The majority of things that the modern population considers to be a necessity are manmade rather than nature given, dangerous and pollutive to the environment, stealing the resources of the planet, and - basically, a waste of money and time.