Prophecies, status quo and Buddha

     We are living in an extremely interesting time.  Between our failing economy, less than honorable congress, the horrific weather we have been experiencing through much of the country (I still can not rap my brain around the fact that most of  Texas was on fire last summer), and then look at the turmoil through out the world - weather and wars.  The question on every one's mind is, where are we going, meaning physically, materialistically, psychologically, and spirituality and how are we going to get there?   
There is so much room for growth in ways that we never imagined.  There has always been a status quo that we have had to follow.  But now there is a crack, a fundamental crack, and it is the time to make things better for everyone. 
     That is what I believe the Mayan and Hopi prophecies are all about.   That there is only so far that we as a materialist society can function and I believe many people will agree.  So, we go back to the questions: Where are we going and how do we get there?  I throw them back at you.  Where do you want to go and how will you get there?  There is much talk about bringing ourselves back to the earth.  Well if you live in a city, how do you get to the earth, besides maybe if your're lucky you have a garden to sit in or a park to go to.  But what if you don't?  The way our counrty's middle class finances are dwindling more and more people are working in some cases double the amount of hours for maybe the same pay.  At one point in my life my schedule was so busy that I contemplated sticking my hand in the base of one of my house plants just so I can feel earth. 
May I suggest some help from Buddha.  He came up with some great tools to assist us in our human dilemmas.  One of his teachings is called The Noble Eightfold Path.  It needs to be taught in every school and every home world wide.  The beauty of Buddhism is that you don't have to be Buddhist to practice. The Noble Eightfold Path consists of Right View, Right Thinking, Right Mindfulness, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Diligence, Right Concentration, and Right Livelihood.  These teachings give us a simple yet profoundly deep and sagacious way of interacting with others and with ourselves.  It is also a way of going back to the earth, back to the beginning, back to ourselves.  This path deserves more discussion and I will dedicate one of my future blog posts to just this. 

In regards to the prophecy of 2012 I turn to the Bible:
"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father"     Mark 13:32 

Amen