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Germany

-GDP ( Gros Domestic Product ) 3.7 % on year terms.

-Inflation 0.9 %

Net growth increase 2.8 %

Spain

-GDP – 0.1 % on year terms.

-Inflation 1.9 %

Net growth increase – 2 %.

Germay’s growth is the result of healthy economic model with low energy and raw materials demand and strong added value.

Spain’s growth is the result of an old primitive and obsolete economic model with high demand of energy and raw materials and very low ( speculative ) economic model.

The spanish figures clearly show an structural deflationary model which needs an inflation always clearly higher than GDP growth .

Brahmason.

Qué espero de la vida a partir de ahora ?

Cada ser humano debería hacerse esta pregunta traspasado el umbral de los sesenta/sesenta y cinco años de edad .

Es un drama ver como una gran mayoría de las gentes menos evolucionadas siguen esperando de la vida lo mismo a esa edad que esperaban cuando tenían 40 años .

En realidad ese más que ningún otro factor , es el causante de la infelicidad de una buena parte de los humanos .

El hinduismo divida la vida en cuatro segmentos básicos :

– El primer cuarto se dedica a configurar el cuerpo.

-El segundo cuarto a formarse intelectual y profesionalmente.

-El tercero a formar una familia y sacar adelante a los hijos .

-El cuarto se dedica a la comprensión de la relación del ser humano con el cosmos .

Comprobar como muchos hombres y mujeres luchan en su tercera edad por obtener las mismas cosas a las que aspiraban cuando eran jóvenes es motivo de profunda compasión .

Brahmason

Que otra cosa puede hacer un chan sino manifestarse espontaneamente desde la ecuanimidad que trasciende las ataduras del ego ?

Ha trascendido la maquinación e incluso la intención , porque en la intención que es buena o mala según la apreciación dualística del ego , se esconde la maquinación o propósito de conseguir algo .

El paso por la mente pura que no es nada de lo que nos han enseñado y está lejos de ser inherente a cualquier enseñanza o religión , es condición indispensable para acceder a una actitud de ecuánime espontaneidad que no busca hacer amigos ni enemigos , ni complacer a nadie ni estar en línea con lo que se lleva o lo politicamente correcto

En la mente pura no caben partidismos de ningún tipo por mucho que en algunos lugares gentes con falsos maestros pretendan compaginar militancias con budismo.

Sólo desde la mente pura se puede acceder a la realidad no distorsionada .

Brahmason

No Mr.Bernanke no . The situation is not uncertain . It is simply dramatic and if we are not carefull we will go beyond the horizon of events into an economic blackhole .

Unfortunately all people sees is the stock exchange and unemployment trends . But before that are the important things cooking .

After a tremendous sigma of bubbles with housing , deficits and debt beyond control the only way out is austerity and recovery of competitivenes with a strong return to "Sillycon" Valley from the Wall Street orgasm of the last many years .

Honestly , do you think that any of the measures adopted recently are in the direction needed ?

The explosion of China’s commercial superavit latest published is not helping but the strengthening of japanese yen may be even more risky than that . What whappens if Japan with the biggest debt in the world deffaults ? They are the second tenants of american debt . Can de japanese go on for ever correcting tensions by a non stop buying of huge amounts of american debt ?

The solution to current world problems deriving from a model of fictious economy cannot be limited to finacial measures and public stimoulus of demand . Austerity and a stronger buying power by work ( because they are a majority and ensure extended demand ) rents is needed without credit as main protagonist .

That certainly will take time because it implies further improvement of added value in production and services but patience is the only recipe for that . Increase of added value per unit of GDP increase is the answer . That , will require direct investment in high technology areas and consequently an intelligent stimulation scheme that will drive money to those areas of investment and refrain it from going into the stock exchange and housing speculation .

Brahmason

Todo lo anticipado por Brahmason se consuma.

Todo está preparado para una fuerte estangflación en economías con PIB’s de bajo valor añadido como España y una burbuja de alto protagonismo que hace desplomarse la demanda real en un 40 o 50 %.

Los costos de energía y materias primas en esa situación de demanda reducida endémica , serán insoportables para el 70 % de las empresas ligadas al protagonismo de la construcción.

No hay salida sin austeridad y sin la recuperación de la demanda real mediante la recuperación del poder adquisitivo ( mucho tiempo para ello ).Mucho paro es ya inevitable.

La demanda incentivada artificialmente sin cambio de modelo , nos llevará a una situación mucho peor tras incluso una período transitorio de alta inflación que introducirá procesos de alta volatilidad .

Nadie desgraciadamente sabe gran cosa de la teoría de burbujas ni en España ni en muchos otros países y el que sabe está empezando a callar porque la situación es verdaderamente próxima a la antesala del abismo.

Brahmason

If you think meditation is pleasant you are probably needing to change your master or methods.

If you think meditation is unpleasant you are probably needing to change your master or methods.

One of the signals confirming that you are progressing as a buddhist is that you no longer feel proud on anything and that what you do is not pursuing any objective .

You may be postrating a million times to a million statues but as long as you pursue something you are simply out of the path.

Rituals are created to remind or help plain people in certain aspects of a philosophy or discipline , but most of the time rituals derive into some kind of folkloric tradition with no bearing whatsoever in what is essential.

As long as you stick to what you have learned and forget to develop a real pure mind free from tradtions , attachement , obssesions and hate , you will never be able to see through the wall.

Don’t plot anything , just behave consciously and spontaneously witout fears or interests .

The seeds are plenty but the harvest is limited , said a galilean with more than just an apparent buddhist vocation. People tend to accept what pleases them , not what is real .

Past is past and future is a function of present . So put away nostalgies and expectations and do the best you can at every second of your life.

Are you sure that past experiences really help better present experiences ? How do you know that past actions wre wrong or correct ? That , you will only know if perceiving things from an attitude of absolute equanimity .

You are no just your body . You are not just a name. You are not just an engineeer , scientist ,economist ,politician or a prostitute.

You are a manifestation of totallity with an unlimited potential that you will only discover if complementing routine with a pure intuitive mind in full conciousness.

Routine is not to be disregarded . But will be better understood from a higher level of conciousness accessible from a free non conditioned mind.

Meditate, yes. But meditation in a dark corner is just a training. Real meditation is performed as you develop a real morality and experience everything in full conciousness throughout your daily routine .

Brahmason .

The spanish economic model is simply primitive , exhausted and dead.

It is the sort of economic model that requires exceptional quantities of energy-raw material and low qualified labour force to produce small GDP increases.

In consequence high growth rates cause inflation figures above GDP values during expansion cycles.

During contraction cycles the model tends to generate high fixed costs with low growth rates , or in other words stangflation.

The model is specially awqward in Europe because in order to allow the model to provide a similar quality of life in Spain as the north europeans enjoy , it requires a tremendous level of borrowing and indebtedness .

The situation has become dramatic with the clumsy government’s handling of economy during the last years , as no regulations of any kind were imposed on easy credit ( up to 10 times the EBIT ) to companies with no economic future for a mad housing development that sent prices above any other market in the world.

The situation is that Spain has created a housing bubble of bigger proportions than anywhere else in this planet , with middle salaries half those in west Europe , prices much higher and with housing representing a basic huge percentage of GDP.

Yet the government with the support of every media and political parties on both sides of the spectrum , has conveyed to people the idea that the banks stress tests whether real or distorted , is all that the economy needs to recover the old balloon growth .

In reality of course the spanish economy has an impossible problem to solve , with the housing bubble and the inevitable exigence of having to shift from the old construction model to a new model with industries producing services and products of a much more added value with much less raw material and energy inputs while replacing construction workers ( millions imported from different countries who now have become a problem with different implications ) by new technologies engineers and biotechnologists … etc.

That inevitable change will require a different set of polititians than those presently available , who simply ignore the real problems of the country ‘s economy.

The stock exchange has gone temporarily up by the take over of foreign speculators of stocks released by banks to improve their liquidity , who expect medium not informed investors to enter the market , at which stage the proffessionals will simply escape and average investor will again be trapped.

When a big bubble occurs and model has to be changed , the amount of financing needed is three times that used in the creation of the bubble and austerity has to be adopted by many years with the stock exchange strongly dropping and staying in side trading till sound growth is achieved .

Any alternative adopted for a fictious apparent recovery , will only cause total collapse of the economy.

Of course much of what is said here could be applied to some other countries , but the problems in USA , Japan and Britain though having a strong bubble in common , are not exactly the same .

Brahmason

The world economy has a real problem which is the bubbles .

A bubble is the total rupture between prices and incomes as a result of intense especulation in a certain sector of economy.

The current bubble affecting world economy is that of housing . The prices have burst in several countries to levels which are not only impossible for average income potential buyers but also for most qualified proffessional investors who see no prospects of making money out of reselling housing at their current prices , with prices being pressed for deflation till buying power will be restored by strong price reduction or strong income increase .

The economic cycle being interrupted by the bubbles have left banks as main actors of the process in a situation of blockade with huge amount of unpaid bills and debt levels up to their necks.

But is not only banks . Companies and consumers have been left with tremendous levels of debt .

If we do not restore buying power through a period of austerity , with costs reduction process and strong increase of added value in our GDP ‘ s and instead we try to recover activity by further credit and debt increase , the world economy will collapse.

The stress tests in Europe is just an attempt to relax fears of bankruptcy but do not mean that the economy is now on the road to recovery .

Take Spain for example . Even if banks are fully healthy and ready to help activity , the economy canot recover because it has first to replace housing as growth engine by a more advanced production net that will provide bigger added value GDP. The old model inherited from the sixties with salaries half those of nord european countries and housing clearly more expensive , is saturated .

That should take no less than twelve years as it did in previous examples as that of Finland not so long ago.

Not to mention the inertia caused by the spanish housing bubble which has a much more significant impact in the economy that the japanese bubble had in its economy which is still suffering from it after fifteen years .

With banks into fitness the only countries able to grow are those not handicapped by housing bubbles and enjoying GDP ‘s with a strong added value .

Of course stock exchanges are showing gains because speculators know that the stress tests may confuse most of non proffessional investors who may think this is the beginning of another buoyant economic cycle and put their money back in the stocks .

They are bound to loose even their inner garments.

The economy is far from recovery specially in countries with bubbles , low salaries and heavy debts and deficits.

Brahnason

How do you think ants may perceive your footing on their nest ?

I can assure you that their version of such event has nothing to do with your own version .

Their conclusions whatever they are , will surely be in line with their level of consciousness or in plain words , with their particular common sense and their routine logics.They are unable to identify the happening with the existence of " human beings " whose nature they simply ignore .

Do you really believe that this is only applying to ants ?

No matter the level of consciousness of any set of beings , they will be referring what they perceive " to the usual standard logics in what they evolve , conditioned by the limitations of their senses.

They are all conditioned by their ordinary mind in their perceptions and ordinary mind does not allow " local beings " to perceive reality of the global " environment ".

Too be able to perceive reality as "it is" a human being must be able to trascend de influrnce of its senses , logics and culture ( mental objects ) .

Untill very recenly humans thaught that beyond horizon there was simply the bottomless abyss where you would helpessly fall if careless enough to step beyond it.

Currently it is difficult for the majority of humans to understand why it is simply impossible to accelerate an object up to the speed of light or the fact that totality has no physical boundaries with no possibility of anything existing "out of it " because there is simply no out of it.

To be able to perceive reality " as it is " you simply have to give up your ordinary mind and jump into a non conditioned perception of facts through the " subtle mind ".

The subtle mind is free from the influence of our " taken for granted attitudes " resulting from a routine of logics obediently accepted for a very human without taken the trouble to " investigate the truth of such logics ".

As you gain access to a subtle mind who perceives reality as it is , singularities of every kind such as death and birth as well as universe behaviour , cease to be a burden in your perception and the idea of happiness changes to prevent you from easy suffering.

Buddhist meditation is probably the best instrument to allow access into a subtle mind level.

Brahmason

The visit to levels of 1 € = 1.20 $ and 1 $ = 89 yens has freed lots of captive dollars and increased liquidity in dollars to never so high peaks .

Now the already cosmic liquidity in dollars does not know where to go and may cause real quakes.

With the american economy captive in a depth of deficits and low competitiveness , the dollar may descend to the infernos and swept world economy with it unless global measures a taken of a different and more realistic nature than those so far displayed to keep the fictious world model running.

China’s discipline will not help the expected relief of liquidity through investments in real state in that country and the return tsunami may cause west economies to get out of hand with bubbles and stangflation.

Brahmason