Furuya Sensei posted this to his Daily Message on December 16, 2004.
I have been thinking and it seems to me that when humans developed this sense of “self,” that is when they finally became a human. When they developed the need to live and work with others, they became “civilized.” It is when humans began to think of others and realized the needed to work with others that they finally developed civilization and culture along with ideas of loyalty, commitment, courage, piety, duty, humanity, compassion, and love…. I think this is where we are now, we still haven't mastered this process in our evolutionary path. I am hopeful that eventually, humans will materialize wisdom in their entire lives with others. Just my thoughts today…