Mankind and trees

I'm back outside of a little house at the countryside at Gotland, a big Island in the Baltic sea.
It's nighttime and the sky is clear.
I can see a lot of stars and some planets as Jupiter and Venus.

I can hear the sea nearby and a nightingale's intense song.

But what most struck me is the small and moving things up in the sky, so fast and so steady; satellites.

We are everywhere, we dominate the Earth and now we are exploring new planets too.

The satellites help us too see the beauty of the Earth, and also the complexity and interacting side of our planet. For instance, the cool streams from Antarctica helps the whole sea system to be balanced an to have the same average temperature.

More and more often the Earth is called "a living organism", even by scientists.

But nowadays it's an organism that is threatened by mankind.


In the Chauvet caves in southern France, there are paintings on the walls that are more than 30 000 years old.
Mostly it's lions, cave bears, mammoths and other animals that the Cro-Magnon people hunted.

They hunted them so well that they disappeared from Europe.



To be mindful is to see that we all are connected and that we are living on a beautiful but fragile planet.

When astronomers have studied planets round other stars they have often found them very strange and with very different orbiting patters than our Earth. They can even move towards their suns and create chaos in the solar system. Or orbit around their sun in 24 hours.

Ir seems it's not so easy to create life so rich as on our planet.

We ought to to be thankful to live on such a great planet, and have opportunities to grow and learn,..



I just arrived from a walking meditation with sangha friends in a nearby forest. Its much more easy to meditate if you have other meditators and trees around you;

















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