A bird sang that she too could try being an emperor. First she would hire a liar, and Lo! they would all sit in a circle listening to Nagashila of the Buddhist Center of Helsinki tell about Dharma i.e. of the theory of Buddhism.
I have had 50 years more time than the today's bird but the bird won clearly during the first few minutes, and as time passes the difference becomes even more clear : the bird really is a much better emperor.
I do not remember so well what the Buddhist Nagashila told when I took part in some meditation evening with discussion too, but those were fine stories, dry in style familiar Buddhist ideas but well told. One story I remember : Buddhism teaches that by increasing awareness and good will in our daily life we grow in wisdom and lufe starts going better and better, in an ever widening spiral toward happier more aware more succesful more wise life, so that even the lowest points are hogher than what we earlier used to be. And that after some level of wisdom there is no longer danger of things getting ruined to miserable and unwise. And that the same can happen to a society : after some level of civiliced wisdom things start going better and better.
28th of May 2022 The bird said that the empire is formed naturally around the emperor, and so it does around the bird, yesterday evening birds singing in chorus. I too have always thought so, since otherwise the emperor isn't fit enough for the task. And that is why I do not have an empire, but am just a writer instead.
29th of May 2022 The bird continued too long in the task and so the quality got lower, other birds got too much obligations and advices and so the chour no longer sang so beautifully but more like humans studying.
