mindfulness

You don´t own your face. But you borrow it for a while Your face and your body changes, time is a sculptor  with skilful hands. So your face is in the hands of the web of time... And in your face hides your mother and your father and your ancestors - perhaps a neanderthaler and even older ancestors. In your face you can also see traces of your experiences, some use to say that so show or faces really is to be naked. But you can for sure help the sculptor time if you try to be less stressful and more skilful with yourself, for instance with the help of mindfulness. Mystics, but also scientists, use to say, that deeply we all are connected to everything else. So to see your face is, in that view, to see all the rest of the world. We are all not living just in the web of time - but also in the web of the whole word. Take a look behind the faces at Facebook. Then you see their interests, perhaps their parents and their ancestors... some of the things that a face is made of.

         Made of love we try to spread it like wings                  wings to small to stand the wind and we fall                   fall and fall in each others arms                     trying not to harm the sacred feelings we share the longing for joy and security              the scariness for death so take my hand in simple kindness                           to not loose our  splendid solitude We all share some suffering; feelings of loneliness and unsatisfactory,  but without those feelings no joy and feelings of sameness either . The beggar on the street, the sick man in the hospital but also the comedian on the TV-screen, the clown in the circus - they all are quite like we. Some of then have deep wounds and behave in strange ways- you cannot help them all - but you can honor them if you meet them... not behave as they not exist. In some way you and they are they the same,  you share the same oxygen, the same longing for happiness and security. May yo

We do not just need diversity in nature, but even among human cultures. I think the sami people in the northern of Scandinavia can learn us a lot. Here is one of them, the singer Sofia Jannok, speaking in Mumbai...

Are there any differences between humans and animals, or are we all just animals? If we stop eating meat, are we then on the slopery slip? Or perhaps vice verse - cows, for instance, produce a lot of methane, which speeds up the climate change.... Listen to this conversation with Peter Singer and Richard Dawkins. What is their views, what is yours? Perhaps the two philosophers are missing something...? The background is not so enjoyable - can it be they are missing joy and humor? Decide yourself...

It never ends to amaze me that small things make us upset. But we  do not care about about the most important things if a fork happens to be among the knives in the cutlery drawer an inner fire can for a moment lit as if the whole world have crumbled but when the whole world really is changing and very fast, in the earth's perspective, we show no concern maybe the issue it's too big maybe we need photos from the future... but already right now species extinct at least in the same scale as hat during the great mass extictions there must be something in the our psychology that makes us blind we cherish our family, our nation, our friends and perhaps our pets and I suppose it´s god to do that but most of us realize that the  whole world is connected   when a disaster, as the one in The Philippines, occurs  we are all more or less concerned and something in our selves are shaking and with warmer seas the storms will be stronger but climate warming and a

What is a home? Perhaps the word is misleading. Perhaps it's not a place. Rather more of a state of being. A way to be or a way to move from one place to another. Perhaps to meet another person Perhaps an action, as to give a helping hand to someone far away, perhaps just giving some money to the needing people in the Philippines just now... Perhaps an act of worthiness that can inspire other people. Anyway you need a shelter and some people around you. Much of it can change, but some will remain the same for a while, at least if we care for it. As for the houses on the photo, built before our modern time, and now they are some kind of treasures. Nowadays in company with the new subway trains, that for a while meet the sky....

He sat on a carpet at the entrance of the library. A little bend, one leg under the other. In his hand a leash and in front of him a big dog, probably a leonberger. Suddenly he raised and took some steps towards the books. A man rushed to him and told him to sit down, he did that but the dog kept on standing.  In some minutes the man was back, probably a keeper that helped the boy. He told one of the librarians that the boy had chosen the dog.  When they had visited a kennel, the boy was suddenly gone but was found beside the dog in a cage. They must have bought the dog and now, the man said, the boy is the only one that the dog listens to. "He protects him", he went on. The man said to the boy to stand up, the boy hesitated but then slowly stood up. The dog just watched the scene. The boy said nothing, probably mute. He must communicate with the dog in another way.  I have seen the boy another time, a teenager, but quite small - walking like he was lame - one

To admit that you don't know is to be humble. Most of us, or all of us, don't even know who we are...... We can tell a story about our life, our upbringing our background, our nationality, our memories, our first love, our suffering and so on - but it may not be true or just partly true - for instance; our memories are often false. In many ways, we will be a riddle to our self. We are not like an equation which has a "solution". So what can we know about the world, if we cannot know ourselves? First we have to accept that our senses and our brain are interacting with the world; we are dependent and limited by these "filters". They are helping us to survive - at least in the short run. But to survive in the long run, we should have to take a step backwards.... where are we going if we continue to live in this way. We like to buy things to impress on others. And we make then jealous and they want to buy the same thing. And that is probably somethin