<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[East  and  West  ( 2&nbsp;)]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>To the people in the East,  the huge scale natural disaster is a part of the  Nature.</p>
<p>Even worse, they are coming every year like Hurricane, Typhoon, Earthquake, Land-slide etc.</p>
<p>So that, there is no possibility to conceive a God whose client is the human fork.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211; As far as the eyes can see,  was  their world.  And see the flood of Yellow River as far as the eyes can see,</p>
<p>must be the act of  Supreme Power above there. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;There is no possibility to imagine</p>
<p>any personally accountable,  human shaped  God.  (Who speaks same language !)</p>
<p>If the God created this world,  what is he doing with this devastation,  not once, not twice, but every year !</p>
<p>What is the purpose of this for ?   What a waste.  Isn&#8217;t he got a brain ?</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211; (Eastern emvilonment is not very good to the Western God )</p>
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<p>Biblical  Grate Flood which story was originated from a legend of a flood happened after the end</p>
<p>of last Ice Age and the rise of sea level,  (So that, such legend / myth exist all over the world.</p>
<p>The Biblical story is the word to word copy of the Gilgamesh Myth of Mesopotamia ) and the earthquake</p>
<p>which was the back ground of the story, demise of Sodom and Gomorrah, such disaster  were not</p>
<p>repeated again and again so, they could be construed as one-off punishment of the angry  God.</p>
<p>So that this God can be imagined as the one who is working together with human &#8212;&#8211; a friendly type,</p>
<p>speak same language,  hence he could answer your call.</p>
<p>Because of such convenient design, there is the free choice of   &#8221; If this God wouldn&#8217;t give me a divorce,</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll go to another&#8221;  was possible.  (<strong> Free choice is a Western Idea</strong>,  which is the basis of so-called</p>
<p>Democracy too,  and that is why a kind of Democracy in the west doesn&#8217;t necessary work in the East.)</p>
<p>(A dubious Leader who happen to be elected by a number game, can not to be respected in the Eastern</p>
<p>psyche, though in reality, a politician who managed to fool the people with false Charisma is in power.</p>
<p>Yet still, originally, the Ruler in East was expected to be able to communicate with Heaven,  that is why</p>
<p>the Emperor  was called as the Son of Heaven  in China and in Japan.)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Therefore,  the<strong> Eastern Belief System goes to the abstractic Order of Universe, the Rules of </strong></p>
<p><strong>the Dharma  or the Heaven</strong> ( note, Heaven  is not an idea of Paradise.  The Sky and the invisible Power</p>
<p>above there ) and  not a humanized God figure.  (Though, Pure Land Buddhists got different view )</p>
<p>In the same time, by observing the intricacy and the cohesion in the Nature gave the insight,  that is</p>
<p>the Order is perfect, beyond the human comprehension, &#8221; If the power and the wisdom is such superior,</p>
<p>there is no competition,  we have to just accept and follow&#8221;.  This the God in the East.   ( The Hindu</p>
<p>idea of the Deity  and  its depiction, might be the Greek influence which came to India after</p>
<p>the Alexander the Grate. &#8212;&#8212; this must be an interesting field to study)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;- <strong>This Eastern God may not even be the religion, but the awareness, where we stand.</strong></p>
<p>Because,even  a non-believer couldn&#8217;t escape from this Order.  When ship sunk under a Hurricane even</p>
<p>a Christian sunk too.  It is the Karma affecting everybody, who took that ship, on that Day.</p>
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