It seems that as man becomes more and more
intelligent, hiscrimes also become more and more intelligent. His criminal mind is farahead of his effort to become enlightened. The New Dawn, Chapter 32I stood in front of the
Atomic Dome at Hiroshima and tears came fromnowhere. I noticed Bhuti, my Japanese friend
standing next to me, wasalso crying. Perhaps it was the strong contrast to the wonderfulmeditation event we’d just had the day before; or our lively dinnerwith the participants afterwards? All I know is, standing at GroundZero for the first time, seeing with my own eyes the enormousdestructive power humanity is capable of using against itself, was adeeply moving experience.The Atomic Dome is one of the few buildings to remain standing, more orless intact, in the wake of the biggest weapon of mass destruction everused by one country against another. Motionless, I stood in front ofthe memorial plaque and read the account of what
happened in 1945: How,as both Japanese and American politicians split hairs over how to wordJapan’s surrender terms, America went ahead and decided to drop atomicweapons on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It was a decision thateffectively erased a quarter of a million innocent lives in a singlemoment, and will forever remain a black spot on the history of mankind.in front of Atomic Dome with Naropa(l) and BhutiAmerica'swhole approach is: everything should be made
better They are obsessedwith the idea of bettering things. You have to have more speed, bettermachines, better technology, better railroads, better roads -- bettereverything! And you can see what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki:America really did it better than anybody else has ever done it.