Today, we are overdoing. Everybody agrees on it. The species, the human species, is having
an activity ratio never reached before in its long history. We, as a species, we are stressed.
Some argue that at the current speed of vegetable mass destruction we will induce catastrophic
climate changes in less than 30 years. Pessimists contribute saying that is too late already.
We can not do anything no more babe. We crossed the line long ago and are doomed.
Military groups are investigating the possibility of mass destruction, others focus on
survival and disaster mitigation. Cultural Survival has emerged from anthropologists and
scouts and is scoped now as a primary level teaching for kids.
Security is now THE big business, security and information, as they were in Alexander times.
Nothing changes in the essential, yet everything is changing continuously.
Humans have been overdoing from the beginning of the times.
Do not be confused by these kind of things.
The practice is individual.
Of course, if we get some billions to meditate lets say half hour twice daily, we reduce
the activity level . It is not enough reducing the growth rate, we have to reduce activity.
Slowly, as a species, we have to take a deep breath and calm down.
Meditation, under the name Contemplation is acceptable to even the more Orthodox
Catholic group, but also by Mohammedans, Buddhists or even Jainists . So we have a global
instrument that can be implemented with little cost and means. Two mandatory periods of
half hour sitting silently doing nothing.
Giving more attention to ourselves as a species is going to be necessary if we have to survive.
Detachment is needed. Concentration is needed. Social meditation or meditacion social is
needed.
Humans, masses, have no more access to tranquility. As a result, the species is stressed. If
we give them two silent quiet periods every day this stress level is going to lower.
The Council of the Churches could initiate the movement with a Manifesto, The UN back it
immediately and the governments to give example by giving the civil servants and military
two half hour period silence and inactivity.
But is popular perception that meditation is good to calm the mind that induces me to think that its inception would be fast. So we have here an application for meditation, a way to induce social change to decrease general overdoing. We do have to decrease production, being voluntarily or forced by nature.
I think the first choice is better.
The theoretical loss in life quality that is argued if we reduce productivity is a tiger paper,
because can be compensated by the increase in social satisfaction trought the benefits of the
social practice of meditation.
A human can feel much more symbiotic with a society that gives him a little rest and time to connect to the spiritual realms that with one that sees him as a machine.