The Eastern philosophy that put billions of people into poverty, living in hovels, by accepting it as inevitable, karma, really appeals to Americans.


What is so attractive about Eastern philosophy and karma? My guess is that

Eastern Philosophy advocates being in the present moment. If you sit down, close your eyes, and withdraw your attention from past and future, and manage, for a moment, to be in the now, you will find that in the now moment there is never anything wrong.Mind and time came to be at the same time, and they are inseparable, like the front of the hand and the back of the hand.When I say mind, I do not mean your brain. I mean the activity of the brain that does sorting, filing, retrieving, comparing, and trying to make sense of the data, without using any other tools, but sorting, filing, etc..

The mind is like a filing clerk, busy 24 hours a day, even when you sleep. It spends all its time in the past or in the future, has no interest in the present moment. Its job, just like any low-level clerk’s is to justify its own existence, not anything else. It doesn’t care about you and your life.

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