Security World

 People with ships from Southeast Asia, Moken, have very little property. They can carry in their boats only what they need most. They also do not have the word "worries" in their language. When there was a tsunami, they were careful and alert to the water. They noticed that the water was coming to the whole beach and then retreating away. They remembered their stories and myths about what happened to the seas, so they took their boats into the deep water and survived the tsunami. The local fishermen did not stay. Their ships were destroyed. They did not watch. They were not careful. How can we be cautious when our lives are overwhelmed with so many possessions, we are so attached to many material things, we have so many desires? Will we have time to remember the stories, watch and move the little boat into the deep water? Or will we be like local fishermen, oblivious to the current need, sunk by the tsunami of materialism? We live in a culture where we are constantly bombard...