Covid

 The whole word is fighting an invisible enemy - the Covid 19. 

The world suffered several pandemics before: Black death, Spanish flu, Influenza, and many others. Now, we are fighting against this virus that infects the lungs and takes over the organism.

Virus are not very smart, once they take the organism and kill their host, they will die too.  

It's very unfortunate for people that lost their jobs, that feel suffocated in their homes, that have children to support, relatives that died, and the panic they are feeling of not knowing how to deal with this.

I feel their pain, but, for me, honestly, the world became a better place to live.

- People cannot sit next to each other anywhere: supermarket lines, bus, hospital, cinema, restaurants. It should be always like this, not having a stranger right next to me, in my personal space.

- Lockdown. Please have to stay home just going out for necessary things. It is so nice to experience the city not crowded and silent. 

I guess I should live in my own island..

Travelling and Hotels - Society' weird practices - part IV

 

Traveling is a current very popular leisure activity. To change environment, relax and discover another culture and foods.

When people go on vacations to another city or another country, they book an hotel.

And hotels can be very expensive depending on how trendy is that country for tourists.

I wonder how people never realised how non-hygienic is to sleep in a hotel's bed..sleeping in a mattresses were hundreds or thousands of people slept there before...sweating there, having sex there...urg!.. and paying expensive for that...not even talking about the pillows..

I want to believe that in the future, people will realise how non-hygenic that is and hotels will change their cleaning methods.

The non-hygienic celebration of birthday - Society' weird practices - part III

 When someone celebrates their birthday is normal to invite the closest family and friends to sing the happy birthday song that will end with the birthday person blowing candles from a birthday cake and sharing slices of that cake with everyone!

Well, I wonder how people never noticed how non-hygienic this practice is!

Eating a cake that was spread with microbes from the blow of the candles on the cake? Hopefully the birthday person is not ill and wont have a flu, cold, Covid 19 and others!

As people say " what doesn't kill you, makes you strong!"

When Being Spiritual is a Trend

 

Meditation, Yoga, Gratefulness, Mindfulness.. are trendy practices in Western countries, these days.

And because of that many western followers want to visit India, but Buddhism came from Nepal. 

The majority of people doesn't know nothing about India. And they get really surprised when they visit India. Is one of the countries with more population of the world, with a high rate of poverty, poor food hygiene, dirty and smelly streets, with high crime rate, specially girl and woman group rape.

But its is also one of the most ancient civilisations in the world, with an unique culture, food and religion. 

The main religion of India is Hinduism. While the rest of the world moved from a religion worshiping several gods to just one god, India kept its ancient religion of worship several gods and a new god is created, once in a while.

Buddhism is also very ancient but more recent than Hinduism. In fact, Buddhism  isn't really a religion because there is no god. But more of a way of life.

Westerns found Buddhism in a time when western societies want to be more free from the rigid christian church. Western don't want to  feel guilty  anymore to "sin". Because western mentally changed and marriage is no longer the main goal of their lives, but careers, the pursuit of love and  the pleasures of life.

But Buddhism is more than yoga and meditation and working in oneself  to achieve a state of well being and mind peace - the Nirvana.

The Buddhism is a spiritual philosophy. An analysis of the society and their reason of suffering. According to Buddhism, people suffer because of the desire of owning things that cannot have. So Buddhism came with the solution by training the mind to repress those desires and feeling happy with what one already have. Using the daily repetition of sentences to change the mind set (meditation).

In order to not suffer, a person should not have desires or expectations and consequently won't feel frustrated and won't suffer. Learning to control the mind and feel in peace.

Westerns just use Buddhism to work in their self esteem and to feel good about themselves. But there is much more about Buddhism:

• a daily fasting, 

• the refrain from alcohol and drugs;

• the refrain from lying, stealing, immorality and sexual misconduct; 

• not killing any living being- including mosquitos!;

• the karma - what people do with bad intentions will come back to them;

• the reincarnation. Buddhist believe in many lives till reaching the Nirvana; 

• Women should reborn as a man before they can reach Nirvana. Being born a woman is result of bad karma. And as a wife, women are expected to be obedient and submissive to their husbands. 
• And more.

Westerns feel more free, now, to do whatever they want because in Buddhism there is no god watching all their moves everywhere and judging them anymore. And they keep being the villains in some people´s lives, free of punishment.

In the end, for westerns is just a pretending  of being spiritual.