Although I had not been following economic much, but occasionally some of the news still let me feel uneasy that we may have economic storm that will lay off many people. Everyone follows the cycle of nature law, what goes up will go down, what goes down will go up. Just as the Yin Yang Symbol indicated, there is an inherent dynamic equilibrium that strive for balance. Change is constant, nothing is absolutely bad, nothing is absolutely good, just as there are spring, there are autumn and the seasons cycle goes on forever. America is now having Pluto return to the place when the country was founded, and Pluto is about creative destruction.
Wise people will take full advantage while they are young and take all opportunity to cultivate perfection of their characters， by making adjustments and expanding their consciousness. Time Waits for No One.
The American Revolutionary War not only determine the future of the American colonies, but it also shaped the future of the Native peoples who lived in and around them. Native Americans played a major role in the Revolutionary War, a role that is often minimized or misunderstood. Including them in the history of the war is crucial to understanding the full story of the founding of the United States. This part of history is another indication of the contradictory hidden in the collective unconsciousness of American experiment.
Even before the outbreak of war, the colonists were angered by the ways that the British government tried to manage the relationship between its colonists and Native Americans. The British were concerned by violence between white settlers and Native peoples on the frontiers and attempted to keep the two groups apart. While most Native communities tried to remain neutral in the fighting between the Crown and its colonists, as the war continued many of them had to make difficult decisions about how and when to support one side or the other. While many Native Americans fought with the British, battles on the frontiers involved very few professional British soldiers. Most of the fighting was between Native warriors, American Loyalists, and rebel militia. This war did not end when General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781. In fact, as the war east of the Appalachians came to an end, the war on the frontiers became more intense; 1782 became known as the “Bloody Year.”
While the Revolutionary War cost Britain the Thirteen Colonies, it cost Native Americans much, much more. In the peace treaty, in addition to recognizing the independence of the United States, the British ceded to the new nation all British territory east of the Mississippi and south of Canada. This decision was made without any input from the Native Americans who lived on those lands, most of whom had chosen to side with the British precisely because they wanted to block further white settlement. When settlers did flood into the newly acquired territory, many of them justified harsh treatment and expulsion of Native Americans with the belief that all Native peoples had supported the British during the war. When Native Americans fought back against the United States, they found very little support from their former British allies.
The Result of American Revolution affected Native Americans by opening up western settlement and creating governments hostile to their territorial claims. Even more broadly, the Revolution ended the mercantilist economy, opening new opportunities in trade and manufacturing. The book Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux , an authentic recollection, taken down in 1930 by a professor/anthropologist, of a Sioux medicine man and warrior’s life, an Indian who was present at both the defeat of General Custer (1876) and the massacre of Sioux women and children at Wounded Knee in 1890. The speaker, Black Elk, tells with great poignancy his early visions as a youth that propelled him to be a healer; of the betrayal of his Sioux people by the whites when gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota territory; of the “rubbing out of Long Hair” ( the defeat of Custer), of Black Elk’s travels in Europe as a performer in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show; and finally of his return to the frontier to witness and fight against US soldiers at Wounded Knee. He also recounts the assassinations of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull by the Reservation police. This is a book that should be on the reading list of every US high school’s American History class. It is a rare insight into the broken treaties and the final betrayal, incarceration and placing on reservations of the proud, independent Sioux nation. It is the end of the frontier and the end of a way of life.
In Buddhism, we learn about cause and effects – the law of karma: that every volitional act brings about a certain result. 因果不虚。 If we act motivated by greed, hatred, or delusion, we are planting the seed of suffering; when our acts are motivated by generosity, love, or wisdom, then we are creating the karmic conditions for abundance and happiness. An analogy from the physical world illustrates this: if we plant an apple seed, the tree that grows will bear apples, not mangoes. And once the apple seed is planted, no amount of manipulation or beseeching or complaining will induce the tree to yield a mango. The only meaningful action that will produce a mango is to plant a mango seed. Karma is just such a law of nature, the law of cause and effect on the psychophysical plane.
