thepea wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:03 pm
I remember in school grade 9 or 10 I had a teacher and he was teaching population positives and negatives and predicting oil shortages/longevity as well as other resources based on population and exponential growth.
Now... not to start a discussion on current social theories floating around. Eg: buildinerg group/who/Georgia guides tones and the theory of a culling of the herd of 90%.
But did buddha give any sutta/prediction or indication of this time period of anything like this occurring.
A great attack from mara, etc...?
urocentrum wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:57 pm
In my original post the teacher I mention spoke of population positives and negatives.
Drs and medicine are population positives they caused longevity, and were bad for population growth.
The theories of medical castration and infertility and death may change my teachers POV on Drs.
Maybe the Cakkavatti-Sihanada Sutta is what
thepea is looking for. On the other hand
eurocentrum not "Drs and medicine" are the source of the human lifespan longevity. It is morality and not doctors and drugs, this may be the answer for
thepea's quest to get what the Buddha predicted. I think the currently ongoing medical tyranny is part of the agenda of mara to avoid more beings escaping from samsara.
We started from 80 000 years:
"...and from the increase in the taking of life, people's life-span decreased, their beauty decreased, and as a result of this decrease of life-span and beauty, the children of those whose life-span had been eighty thousand years lived for only forty thousand"
and we are heading to 10 years of lifespan:
"...sexual misconduct increased, and in consequence people's life-span decreased, their beauty decreased, and as a result, the children of those whose life-span had been ten thousand years lived for only five thousand."
"'Monks, a time will come when the children of these people will have a life-span of ten years. And with them, girls will be marriageable at five years old.
And with them, these flavours will disappear: ghee, butter, sesame-oil, molasses and salt. Among them, kudrūsa-grain will be the chief food, just as rice and curry are today."
And they will be grain eaters and they will respect the immoral people:
"And with them, the ten courses of moral conduct will completely disappear, and the ten courses of evil will prevail exceedingly: for those of a ten-year lifespan there will be no word for "moral", so how can there be anyone who acts in a moral way?
Those people who have no respect for mother or father, for ascetics and Brahmins, for the head of the clan, will be the ones who enjoy honour and prestige."
And a time will come in the future when the morality will increase and lifespan as well:
"... And so they will abstain from the taking of life, and, having undertaken this good thing, will practise it.
And through having undertaken such wholesome things, they will increase in life-span and beauty. And the children of those whose life-span was ten years will live for twenty years."
And we will go beck to 80 000 years when morality will be developed again:
"Let us refrain from taking what is not given, from sexual misconduct, from lying speech, from slander, from harsh speech, from idle chatter, from covetousness, from ill-will, from wrong views; ..."
"... The children of those whose life-span is twenty thousand years will live to be forty thousand, and their children will attain to eighty thousand years."