Really fantastic!


From my seat in the metro I look out on a grey and rainy landscape. Dark concrete and no leaves on the trees, no colors on the grass.
People in black clothes staring towards their phones or right out to nowhere.

Buddha meant that we are suffering or at least are unsatisfied.
Everything is changing. The things that we own will sooner or later fall apart. The ones we love will one day leave us.
He found that we have to die, that we are going to be sick and we have to see others who suffers.
We worry about everything.
We are lead by desires that we cannot choose...

But the suggested a way out of the suffering; the eightfold path including mindfulness.
Another path is right view; we have no separate I.
If we just focus on our selves we will be unhappy.

It can be explained in another way;  we are more of interacting processes than individuals -
we are small parts of a long long chain...

Our ancestors have been here before us and our children and the ones we have influenced will be here after us. And if we have no separate self, we will continue in the ones coming after us.

Where does the chain end?  Maybe we shouldn't ask because it seems like it's going to end in a disaster. The universe will once be dark and cold and widespread.

The Buddhist view, though, is that it is no end.
There are only causes and effects.
That may be a right, since we are made from particles from an  once exploded supernova.
 So why should it stop...

Maybe there are other universes that in the future will interact with our universe.
The idea of many parallel universes are quite new, and will be hard to proof.
But it can for sure be true..

If everything is changing, even the suffering will go away, even death will go away. As the cold winter soon will .

A  more scientific way is to see it is that we are continuing energy that takes different forms.
The energy that we are or that we create, will never end. But it can be spread out, when we influence another beings our energy are going from us to the other beings.

Therefore we must be careful with what we do and say....

Energy can never be destroyed, as the second law of thermodynamics says

And sometimes the energy occurs as life, and in my hands writing this.

I think the music of Bach is a good example of this.

It's like forever changing stream of life.  The melodies are interacting with another to a new and more complex tune. The tempo changes, and when the music finally stops it has given energy to the listener. Bach becomes a part of us.

Really fantastic!



























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