SHACK 38 ADDICTIVE

Transcultural  Buddhism 

Those that rely on possessions from a material world of commercial supply including medicines as a possession can become addictive to these.  Whereas having to hunt and forage does not hold one so tightly.  One becomes more adaptive as a sustainable hunter, one lives more on one's wits.  It maybe that the hunter gatherer is addicted to their natural way of Life, yet they are more reliant on their innate skills and prowess. 

It is an interesting 'battle' the mining, oil and precious metal corporations and those who live in suburbia and need more land to build as the population expands see the natural indigenous people as simple and why not join modern western culture?

The indigenous people see the corporation western way as taking away their culture, raping nature, causing waste lands and causing their food chain to erode forcing them out of their homes and culture.

They believe that nature will eventually rebel. A native American saying ' Annoy the Mother too much, one cough and your off'.

The Western Life Style live mainly by technology and have guns, bombs, computers, weapons and machinery to clear vast tracts of land and forest, build in the most inhospitable places versus the bow and arrow and spear.

If the population expands then perhaps the elite may decide to really kill off many they consider not able to contribute to their predilection.  Or the world maybe become a living desert where the technology may take others off world, and those space brothers watching who do not want a dust bowl made of their home.  

Perhaps the world will become a place where chemical food feeds mutated chemical bodies, either way it will be down too------mind set.

It may seem cruel that in nature there are no medical doctors, there are herbs and medicine men and women yet they accept that life is sometimes a matter of survival and death inevitable by destiny such as weakness, animal attack, illness birth deformity and host of other occurrence. It also breeds the survival of the fittest and they rely on cooperation, and all the tribe as a family.  Nature then becomes the Life Giver and Taker.  Their mentality is such as 'Let Life be Free and gratefulness to the day thereof'.

The Western Life is to seek immortality and youthfulness for ever enjoying cosmetic and prosthetic enhancements at the expense of depleting the natural resources and pleasure and hedonistic experiences at all costs. Their anxiety is survival at all costs and the Grim Reaper ---death is the enemy-----so defense against aging and illness is a disease and to be eradicated at all costs.  This may not breed the survival of the fittest, the gene pool of longevity and well being, kept alive by drugs and medical procedures----an old Inuit tradition, the grandma and and women chewed the blubber to soften it----when their teeth wore out in old age they went out into the cold, let the ice and cold take them into a deep coma and pass out to the all and all----I do not know whether they do that now?

Whether one sees death as a harbinger of a Life elsewhere or death a bloody nuisance and to be avoided at all costs and feared is the quest---one to let life ebb from the form and trust in the larger unknown----or fight to the last breath and if one has lived well and wealthy 'so what I go reluctantly and after all there is only oblivion and this is the only life---------or is it?

SHACK