mindfulness

Some says that the universe seems to be self-organizing organism. Well, if it is some kind of huge organism, we cannot know.  But it is for sure self-organizing. The galaxies formed itself into different kind of shapes.  Supernovas have exploded and created the stuff our whole planet are made of, our selves included.  So, anyway some part of the universe is conscious. Some part of the universe write songs and are looking at other galaxies.  Brian Swimme is a supporter of this view;  He gives us the bigger picture of our history, and that is for sure needed.  When I do metta meditations I often end with the universe. I try to imagine the expanding universe and wishing it peace, safety, good health and to live in peace. I now it sound naive and a bit crazy, but try it for yourself for a shirt time. But begin with yourself, and maybe the other people around. A actually did that today at a small vegetarian restaurant with just a few guests.  My view of my

Pollution is here to stay, it seems. Peteris Vasks, the composer, lives by the Baltic sea, as I do. This sea is quite fragile because not so much fresh and salty water reach it from the bigger Atlantic sea. Its a semi-enclosed inland sea. Most fishes and organism as jellyfish are less common and smaller compared to the Atlantic. A lot of fertilizer comes from the countries around the sea and it is, for instance, problems with algal blooms in summer. Vasks knows this and is troubled with it. He anyway wants to give us beautiful music, but its easy to, at least in some of it, see a nature in pain. Some of us who are mindful of this are maybe willing to decrease our living standard for the sake of the environment. But must of us would not do it. vote for a government  which  would like to stop economic growth. According to Yuval Harari, the historian,  no political leader  would stay long on the top if he/she wasn't for economic growth. No matter if it is in a democra