mindfulness

If really believe that we have no, or at least very little, free will - how should we treat other beings? If someone is screaming to you - would you scream back? Is it punishment to scream back, or should it be seen as a consequence of the first screamers act. Our intuition says, scream back or hide away from the screamer. Our intuition may say, that screamer has a free will and chose to scream at me. I chose to scream back, to show my free will. But will our response help the first screamer? Will the thief stop his behavior if he will be set in prison for some years? Does suffering do you good? Okey, sometimes society needs to save itself from murderers and terrorists. But will it maybe be better to use preventive measures, as a basic income for everyone. Or maybe more of social help for children that are abused in their homes? Can we make a space for freedom if we meditate and then learn not to follow our impulses and intuitions? In "Crime and Punishment&

In a conversation with Yuval Harari Thomas Friedman, author and journalist, claims this, Is he right? Before his speaks about Mother Nature as made of chemistry etc, he imagines that he has a dialogue with her. You can hear it 13 minutes into the film. But wait a minute; even of nature isn't a person, it's possible that she is more than materia. She may be conscious., Friedman forgets something; we are a part of nature and we are conscious  ( as other animals are), so at least a part of nature is conscious. And that part is beginning to understand more and more about the whole planet. So it's not  wrong to say that the planet is self-conscious. It may repair itself from the harm it has created to itself; global warming, mass destruction o species and so on. But she is in a hurry = we are in a hurry. Actually more we than she. ;nature will go on. About 40 million years ago, there were rainforests in the north of  Canada. Life was flourishing there. Bit the i