02-26-2008, 03:35 PM
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Originally posted by Anagami
Wow, if you guys think it is better in Puna then most places on the mainland you need to travel a bit more. Yes, I would take Hawaii over Berkeley and SF in a heartbeat. That is another pace that was infested with drugs and deluded people look what it turned into. I worked there for a year. Was nearly killed in an attempted car jacking in Richmond.
Oh, I forgot to mention the lack of health care here. []
Do not follow a life of evil; do not live heedlessly; do not have false views; do not value worldly things. In this way one can get rid of suffering. - The Dhammapada
So you arrived here with some expectations and they were not fulfilled. That says as much about you and your expectations as it does about Puna. It also says a lot about your friends who obviously painted some kind of picture to get you here that was (by your account) less than accurate.
Maybe you need to move to Southern California and regain your sense of balance and rightness.I can't tell you what the buddha might have done, but I doubt he'd whine about it on an internet message board in an effort to shame Puna's inhabitants into agreeing that they are (by your account) somehow wrong.