mindfulness

To be by yourself in nature is a gift from the Earth to you. Enjoy it and maybe you can hold the moment in yourself like a hidden flower for a long time. You don't have to speak about the beauty with someone. But you may be grateful for it and in your turn give it to someone else in the form of a hug or a smile. So the great gift will pass on and on from person to person in different forms. And may come back to you, even if you don't recognize it.

Andrej Tarkovskij is a legend in film  history. Though that history is quite short. In a short video by the philosopher Zizek there is an interesting view of Tarkovsky's film Stalker. '   If T has a special view of time it must be something like this. T often let work of famous painters, like da Vinci or the icon painter Rublev, be seen for some seconds, just a glimpse. Or the characters seem to be in an arcaic landscape. According to T it's because his will to connect his media to the rest of the history of art. Film is a young media and needs to connect to older art. But T also had an eye for the complexity time, nearly as Einstein had; the room or space cannot be separated from time.   T didn't do films for the masses and just made a few films and had problems with censors in the Soviet union. He wanted to live there but couldn't make the films he wanted to there, so the last film he made in Sweden. He had a great longing for Russia but also fo...

We believe that there is an up an on down. The floor in my apartment is a ceiling  for the people in the place below. For me up is in the sky, but for the people in Australia the same direction is means down. Einstein discovered that time and space is one thing, space-time. This is not our gut feeling or intuition want to understand. we have no use for it in our daily life. Therefore our thinking is not used to it. Instead our thinking is more or less useful for a life in the savanna, looking for snakes, enemies in the bush or people with another kind of looking; they may be dangerous. So we have a tendency for racism or for film with much violence and with "bad" persons in it. And so we will be even more afraid for the unknown. Scientist invent more and more things and our frightened brains use many of them as weapons. Fabrics produce a lot of things, as cars and cloth as we use to impress each other as we are looking for love. If we have time for it we can...