chownah wrote:oncereturner wrote:I just really wanted to read some good news from Thailand.
onceruturner,
Hi. I live in thailand in a small village.
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So, I hope you can see that the newspapers will report the bad news because people are attracted to it but the good news is usually overlooked in that it is sort of boring.....but there is good news all around.
chownah
Hi Chownah. I'm happy to read that state of affairs are not so bad in Thailand. Newpapers maybe distort reality, focusing to horrible things, to attract more readers. People like shocking news, this gives them some relief, from the monotonous and boring life. I read news and I find that my problems are minuscule, compared to others.
I live in a small country in Eastern Europe, the population is 10 million. 30% lives in poverty. It is impossible to imagine, in my country, that people help each other building a house. There is a lot of homeless and beggars. Indiviualism is the way of life, oligarchy is rising. We have the highest rate of suicide per capita, consequence of negative thinking. But crime is low, I can walk with a lot of money in my hand all accross the city, without any fear. The government and police is strong, robbery and even minor crimes are punished with several years in jail. It is a christian country, buddhism is unknown.
We just started to discover oriental wisdom. Yoga and meditation centres opened few years ago. Intelligent people will benefit from knowing the Dhamma.
"And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter: This is called right speech."
— SN 45.8