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I thought then that one needed only the right historical information in order to see both forwards and backwards in time. But there are places on which history has worked for too long, and neither the future nor the past can be seen clearly in their ruins or emptiness.
I had read enough about Buddhism by then to realize that it was not easily practised in the modern world where almost everything was predicated on the growth and multiplication of desire, exactly the thing that the Buddha had warned against.
Nice expression of the modern world
It seemed to me that my travels had exposed my naivety. I had seen a complex world which demanded an experienced mind to understand it.
To the more frustrated among them modernity already appeared as a tall mountain where a few people occupied the summit, watching others inch up the steep slopes, occasionally throwing down a tattered rope but, more often, giant boulders. They knew that there remained no unknown lands and peoples for them to conquer, control and exploit. They could only cut down their own forests, pollute their own rivers and lakes, and seek to control and thereby oppress their own people, their women and minorities.
