Is there a reality?
"Reality" - what does it mean?
If you look for the word in a modern dictionary or at Wikipedia, you will probably no longer will be so sure what it means.
Is it more of a dance than something stable?
We can have the view of Markus Gabriel or Yuval Harari; a mountain is a mountain.
It's there wherever we see it or not.
So the Earth.
Science can best describe the mountain, though there are different angles to see it from.
But what abut nations, novels, human rights, kings, music; all the man made things made by concepts.
Lets include mindfulness and Buddhism?
And those things are the most important things for us.
I it reality or not?
Gabriel argues that those things are so different from physics, that they must be seen as different worlds;
The brain creates the reality for us, and can be important to know that if you help people with brain damages.
But, as we now when we are voting for new politicians; even without brain damages we can see or interpret the "reality" in different ways.
And if we include other animals we understand that, for instance a bat, have another view of the surroundings.
So, when we meet an animal or even a person we don´t know it can be best to first try to understand some of their views of the world - they can anyway be very hard to change.
Even about mindfulness we sometimes have a too fixed opinion. We can see it as miracle that cures everything or we can see at as some religious humbug. Or we can see it as something in between and try to renew it so it fits our modern life in a suitable way.
So let not try to find the one and only method to use mindfulness - but use it in a way that seems optimal for each person.
If you look for the word in a modern dictionary or at Wikipedia, you will probably no longer will be so sure what it means.
Is it more of a dance than something stable?
We can have the view of Markus Gabriel or Yuval Harari; a mountain is a mountain.
It's there wherever we see it or not.
So the Earth.
Science can best describe the mountain, though there are different angles to see it from.
But what abut nations, novels, human rights, kings, music; all the man made things made by concepts.
Lets include mindfulness and Buddhism?
And those things are the most important things for us.
I it reality or not?
Gabriel argues that those things are so different from physics, that they must be seen as different worlds;
The brain creates the reality for us, and can be important to know that if you help people with brain damages.
But, as we now when we are voting for new politicians; even without brain damages we can see or interpret the "reality" in different ways.
And if we include other animals we understand that, for instance a bat, have another view of the surroundings.
So, when we meet an animal or even a person we don´t know it can be best to first try to understand some of their views of the world - they can anyway be very hard to change.
Even about mindfulness we sometimes have a too fixed opinion. We can see it as miracle that cures everything or we can see at as some religious humbug. Or we can see it as something in between and try to renew it so it fits our modern life in a suitable way.
So let not try to find the one and only method to use mindfulness - but use it in a way that seems optimal for each person.
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