Recently there were a few activities on rebalancing the resources.

One of them was raising peoples awareness of not eating shark fin. Share different viewpoint here, since the affinity is available to view things differently: In Iceland & Greenland (& probably other places as well), people even eat shark meat. Should we ask them to stop killing sharks since the population of sharks has reduced dramatically? In some other places, cannibalism is accepted until some other stronger cultures enforced civilised thinking into their lifestyles. Different people have different ways of life, but the most important thing is that we should stop when we have enough. The so called savages all over the world stopped searching for food when they have enough, they do not think getting more wealth, fame etc. Civilised people are overly greedy, & that has caused imbalance in the ecosystem. Is it right or good to protect a dying species? Simple circle: Tigers eat deers, deers eat grass, grass gets nourishment when tigers die, & the cycle repeats daily. When there is any imbalance, nature will rebalance it. Just like the Sahara: Lions were hunted excessively, herbivores thrived. When herbivores thrived, plants are reduced. Now the desert is growing larger, so the population of herbivores was reduced again. What's next? Lion population will increase again or will it be another species that thrives? Perhaps different people have different thoughts; & some people believe Sahara growing has nothing to do with excessive killing of lions since human beings chopped all the trees, destroying animal homes & kill most of animals. Or it can be lots of other factors combined. That brings to the next point: Nothing that we have here is permanent. Species population will increase, rise to the max, then shrink & repeat the cycle. Those that cannot repeat the cycle will go extinct. Maybe another new species will be born & undergo the cycle. Human beings will be gone as well, maybe in 1000years or 1million years from now. That's evolution. Humans upset the nature by killing too many things; not only sharks. Even if you become a vegetarian you will still kill the plant. Just observe nature; all animals/plants stop when enough. Things in excess may not be good, there will be a shortage of other things. Everything is zero sum, gathering excessively in one thing & will result in insufficiency in others. That's the discriminating mind. Note that all these are only changes. In a bigger picture, we are just a speck in this world, our world is just a tiny dot in the universe. Whatever we do, there is no right & wrong. Right & wrong exists in the discriminating mind. If your mind does not have any prejudice, you will understand. A lot of people think that since there is no right or wrong, it is not wrong to commit any sins or offences. If people can see things from an outsiders point of view, they will not do such thing. Once we act with purpose, we are already having a discriminating mind. By writing this article is already, the mind has already discriminated against awareness & delusions. Just view things as part of changes; we encounter changes everyday. Life & death are part of changes. Even our own body cells are dying everyday, replaced by new cells. Perhaps the attraction in this world is too strong, humans are now overly attached to this world. Most people are fighting to resist changes, or fighting for a change. Why not flow with the change without attachment to anything? This is not evil; neither is it good. Go beyond duality views, right & wrong, etc, & we'll understand.

Continuation of thoughts: Attachment is the main cause of the problems we face now. It leads to greed: greed for wealth, longevity, fame (ego), etc. In general, humans will try to accumulate as much as possible; materials or fame, even though they know that they will die & those cannot be brought along with them. Is there God to judge us for what we did? I doubt so, & I wont worship a God who created me & judge me by my performance. Doing so will make God human. If youve noticed, humans beings created things, but when things do not perform up to their expectations, theyll blame the creations, not themselves. Nobody created anything, human beings think that they are creating or destroying, but they are just changing things. And human beings are part of the changes as well. Even rocks will undergo changes, & they have their own lives as well that were not aware of. Perhaps from the rocks point of view, our lifespan is just as short as what we see as flashes of lightning.

Human beings have created money & became slaves to it. If God has created us, is there a possibility that He will become a slave to us? To add on, people are social animal. By being together, they can fight much bigger species. How often do you see a solitary hunter? Only the stronger ones can face solidarity, & not many species are. Even though human beings are social animal, they are not entirely cooperative for humankind survival. Perhaps the population has grown too dense for cooperation to exist, or perhaps it is just a cycle of life & death of a species. Religions are based on fear. Why would the saints teach people to be good? Is it because people are overly attached to this world, they are trying to get them to view from another angle? The ultimate aim is to free people from attachment & greed; there is no right & wrong, no cause & effect, no karma & retribution. People who think the since there is no right or wrong, they can do anything without facing any consequences. By mere thinking of this is already an attachment. And by acting with objectives, people are already drawn back to attachment & greed. Even writing this article is also an attachment; being attached to informing others on different viewpoints. Even religious leaders are striking fear in the hearts of people: fear of suffering in hell, etc. People will fall into this because they are already suffering; in fact; they are living in hell every day. The more attached we are, the worse kind of hell were in. If we reduce the attachments in this world, we are already moving towards heaven. But if we dont think about it, we are beyond hell & heaven. We have to see within ourselves in order to understand this. Lawmakers & law enforcers usually think themselves as above the law, so the perception of God is infallible is because of this as well. Or is it the other way round? If hell is reserved to those who did nothing to stop the works of evil doers, are all our forefathers in hell now? They did not prevent us from coming to this world, & we are now doing great evil by destroying the earth. Is heaven reserved to those who helped the kind actors? If we destroy the earth just to feed the greed & ego of current generation, we are already performing evil deeds to the future generations. Since none of us stopped it, will all of us go to hell? We are killing lots of other species because of attachment. We kill one, we provide nourishment to other. E.g. We kill trees, bacteria can eat the tree we fell. From the trees point of view (if any), we are evil to kill them. From the bacterias point of view, we are kind to feed them & their offspring. Hitler, MaoZeDong & many other tyrants had caused the deaths of lots of people; but they have slowed the growth of human population. Will they go to heaven since they have reduced the number of people that use up the worlds resources? Are human beings the chosen species to be the master of the earth? If we are the master in one area, we are also slaves in another. Duality view is contradicting itself, but most people accept only the views they wanted. Some may say human beings have souls. What is it & where is it? How can we judge other animals/objects do not have souls? Just because we think they cant understand us? If we go to a different country, the people there will have difficulty understanding us. Does that make them soul-less? Human beings are overly attached. People will think their own efforts/products are expensive, other peoples efforts/products are worthless. From natures point of view, nothing is expensive, nothing is worthless. Final note; throw away everything that was mentioned earlier. Forget the words & observe the essence. Just observe within ourselves, well know our mind is free, & we can flow with changes without any attachment. As in Bodhidharmas teachings, Truth is free from words. In Tao Te Ching: Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. Bible mentioned: Behold, the kingdom of God is within you (yourself) - Luke 17:21. Buddha did not write Buddhist scriptures, Jesus did not write the Bible, Muhamad did not write the Quran. Those are written by the followers, words are interpreted differently by different people.

Walk your path. Return to emptiness