I was listening to 'Dust In The Wind' by Kansas earlier (trying to hear the chord changes and fingering patterns so I can try and play it)....and I was struck at how Buddhist-y the lyrics are.
'I close my eyes
only for a moment then the moment's gone....
...All we do
crumbles to the gound though we refuse to see.....
....dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind'
It's true. We humans have patted ourselves on the back and congratulated ourselves at being masters of our domains...yet we cannot control the weather, or earthquakes or volcanoes, we can't find cures for diseases that ravage our bodies, kill our young and make our elders not know even themselves.....
....we refuse to see that everything is impermanent. Everything. We are fragile, we are disposable, and we try to lull ourselves into thinking that we're not by subscribing to the 'bigger better faster more' culture that we've created. Eventually though, our bodies will age and fail, our buildings will fall, our resources will be depleted....and we will be done.
We are mortal.
We're just being blown around like dust in the wind.