Ancient Chinese used to said human is govern by the seven emotions and six desires. That was thousands years ago. In today's world, it could be seventy emotions and sixty desires, or more. What I would like to emphasise here is to explain why over last few thousand years, human beings becomes very much more materialistic as compared with the ancient people, who are more god fearing and believe in spirituality.
Let us explore the statement made by Buddha Sakyamuni that 500 years after his passing, humankind will be facing its Dharma Ending Period. Dharma is referring to the teachings of Buddha. Dharma Ending Period generally means that the Dharma that is taught no longer is effective to the modern society like today.
Some of the factors that we are entering the Dharma Ending Period is because over the last few thousand years, the Dharma has been misinterpreted, omitted, misunderstood, evolved to suit the latest culture. Another factor is the establishment of empirical science has further distance humankind towards the materialistic development instead of towards the spiritual sides. Modern science believes that anything that cannot be proven exist physically phenomena is deemed as superstitious, or something that is not proven yet by science, is deemed superstition. Of course, over the course of thousand of years, involvement of politics in religions also has corrupted the origin of religion and used it as a tool to manipulate the people. On top of that, communism also has destroy the ancient culture of Chinese who is god fearing into what the communist's main tenet of people struggle and turn 1 billion people into atheists, and brain washed the people into believing the Chinese Communist Party is more important than their parents, spouses, siblings or children. Of course, over the many years, through development of science has made human being reliance more towards comforts, and increase many new inventions that made people shun away from spirituality.
As we can see, there are many factors that caused the downfall of spirituality, which directly linked to the deterioration of morality of humankind. Hence, these factors have caused, what Buddha Sakyamuni in predicting that his teachings is no longer effective to the modern people.
Look at the drugs, casual relationship, homosexuality, prostitutions and many other crimes, which are countless as compared with far more fewer in the past. Why? Ancient people live more happily due to their simple living and lest materialistic.
To be continue………………………..
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