No idea where humanity is heading to these days but a recent report about a commissioner from Idaho, USA shot and killed several animals as part of his pleasure trip in Namibia and doesn’t have any regret for killing all these animals at a short range. This guy is mentally sick who is boasting about his killings as prized trophies. Who in the world would be so insane to kill animals in their habitat? If at all if animals had power to challenge humans, we wouldn’t be boasting as superintelligent species.

Read the article in detail here:

https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/hunting/article219758365.html

https://www.rt.com/usa/441234-fischer-hunter-baboons-idaho/

On the other side: USA is a strange place. It’s the world’s biggest economy. Also a country with biggest debt. It has provisions to print endless dollars to escape being default whereas other countries which have pegged their currencies to dollar get screwed royally. It is also a strange country for talking about being open to others and but in fact closed to everyone except select few. It feels its right to bomb cities and wipe out countries out of maps whereas any threat to a its citizen ends in sanctions. Strange thing being how the gun culture is making people sick with shootings every day irrespective of whether it is a child or anyone. There is some mental issue with the american society who have different perception of life. They do not see anything beyond america and the world doesnt exist for them.

Remember, USA is a country of migrants which hardly had any population except natives (most of the natives were hunted and killed who opposed oppressive laws). Animal culture is widely marketed by some americans. Hope i am no authority to advise the people managing the country but as a fellow human being, i would only expect them to be sensible enough to understand that there is life outside USA sick culture.

America is not great, never ever it will be. A bad example of a country one shouldn’t become.

Gist of the video: 

• Humans keep a lot of animals for food. Around 23 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, 1 billion pigs and 1 billion sheep every year.
• On a global scale, our meaty diet is literally eating up the planet.
• 83% of farmland is used for animal food production.
• That’s 26% of earth’s total land area.
• Livestock accounts for 27% of global freshwater consumption.
• Only a fraction of the nutrients from fodder end up in the meat.
• One kilogram of steak needs up to 25 kilos of grain and 15,000 liters of water.
• Meat just makes up 18% of our calories humans eat.
• We could nourish an additional 3.5 billion people if we can redirect the resources.
• 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are created by the meat industry.
• Globally, we kill about 200 million animals every day.
• The majority of antibiotics we use are for livestock – up to 80% in the US.
• An average American throws out nearly a pound of food per day.
• Imagine, if animals were to think of humans, they would consider us killers of the planet.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas Edison

“In emptiness there is good but no evil. Wisdom exists, logic exists, the Way exists, mind is empty.”

– Miyamoto Musashi , May 12th, 1645.

Question: After listening to your talk about memory, I have completely lost mine, and I find I cannot remember my huge debts. I feel blissful. Is this liberation?

Krishnamurti: Ask the person to whom you owe the money. I am afraid that there is some confusion with regard to what I have been trying to say concerning memory. If you rely on memory as a guide to conduct, as a means of activity in life, then that memory must impede your action, your conduct, because then that action or conduct is merely the result of calculation, and therefore it has no spontaneity, no richness, no fullness of life. It does not mean that you must forget your debts. You cannot forget the past. You cannot blot it out of your mind. That is an impossibility. Subconsciously it will exist, but if that subconscious, dormant memory is influencing you unconsciously, is moulding your action, your conduct, your whole outlook on life, then that influence must ever be creating further limitations, imposing further burdens on the functioning of intelligence.

For example, I have recently come from India; I have been to Australia and New Zealand where I met various people, had many ideas and saw many sights. I can’t forget these, though the memory of them may fade. But the reaction to the past may impede my full comprehension in the present, it may hinder the intelligent functioning of my mind. That is, if my experiences and remembrances of the past are becoming hindrances in the present through their reaction, then I cannot comprehend or live fully, intensely, in the present.

You react to the past because the present has lost its significance, or because you want to avoid the present; so you go back to the past and live in that emotional thrill, in that reaction of surging memory, because the present has little value. So when you say, “I have completely lost my memory”, I am afraid you are fit for only one place. You cannot lose memory, but by living completely in the present, in the fullness of the moment, you become conscious of all the subconscious entanglements of memory, the dormant hopes and longings which surge forward and prevent you from functioning intelligently in the present. If you are aware of that, if you are aware of that hindrance, aware of it at its depth, not superficially, then the dormant subconscious memory, which is but the lack of understanding and incompleteness of living, disappears, and therefore you meet each movement of environment, each swiftness of thought anew.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ojai, California | 10th Public Talk 29th June, 1934

“Be Yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

– Oscar Wilde