mindfulness

If you walk in a forest you are influenced by the trees and the sun and so on... And you will influence the forest too... How you behave to other people and animals will pass over to them and spread in time.... But its probably impossible to hold on to things, people or pets or even to yourself Everything will melt away like snow; It's more easy to accept that everything change  if you sometimes can feel that there are no independent self, and it has never been... When we were very small we could feel this naturally. The body of our mother and our body felt as if it was the same... When we get older we loose that feeling - but try to reach it again through sexuality.... When we get even older we might understand that concepts  like "me" and "you" can fool us. We need them and the names we have, but that doesn't mean that we are closed entities ... We are both individuals and  one with everything.... There are two realities. And I t

Yuval Harari says this in the end of this lecture and explains why....  He even means that when we started to be farmers we lost the ability to be here and now as the hunters had to be. We always crave for more, because the genes want us to go on, we want to achieve, we will never be totally satisfied.  Maybe its time to understand this if we don't want to be ruled by the selfish genes....