mindfulness

Its' not a foolish question. I have seen two films who one more time send this question to us. As we are animals made to survive as individual and as a specie, we seldom ask this kind of questions. We have no use or them in our strive on earth. We want too feed our selves, make children and look or enemies, to fight or to flee from. We want some status, we want to improve our reputation and so on. One man working in a cool mine i Germany said to some demonstration who wanted to put down the mine; "Why - it's going to and i disaster anyway.." As he meant that it was too late... Maybe evolution is the director of our drama; it´s good for a specie to have some fights, so the strongest ones will survive and have children. But I guess the director hadst calculated with  technology. Now we can destroy most life on Earth very fast. So we have to evolve very fast, and we can evolve through culture and ideas. The way we have behaved have changed a lot because of

Love and freedom. To give of yourself to another person is great thing. When I help mentally retarded people they help me too - and often I feel great love for them. Often I admire their sensibility and innocence. I guess it's an act of agape, but without a god. Just loving one person seems to me very childish or futile. But it may be me that is childish. And love without freedom can be dangerous; to not give the other one space to do her own moves and maybe mistakes. We must try to love other people as they are, even if it can be hard. In Dostoevsky's The Karamasov Brothers, he let's one of them say; it's only possible to love people from a distance... It may be so, but maybe it's also only possible to love oneself from a distant and humble view... To have a look at our feelings and thoughts without judging or condemning them. In meditation its possible to do that... And it may also be possible to understand where the feelings and thoughts co