Processes and relations with others and nature

XX teaches us not to think about the world as a place of  `things` which are in this or that state but in terms of `processes` instead. A process is the passage from on interaction to another. The properties of  `things` manifest themselves i granular manner only in the moment of interaction.... 

What's that? Some famous  Buddhist talking about the world? And what is XX.

Well the author is Carlo Rovelli, a famous theoretical physicist and XX stands for "Quantum mechanics".

 So in the tiniest part of the world, there is really nothing before the interaction. Everything is relations.

What about in our world?

Well, a guess no one of us would have been here it it not have been for  mother and probably  father.
so without that interaction, no you and no me.
And without food and water?  So it seems that  neither in this world we are nothing without interaction.

Before that we are just propabilities....
And when we are born, the best way to describe us is maybe by the word; "processes".
The I is a changing process, from child, to teenager, to adult, to....
And in some way we will go on in the people that we have influenced, even after out death.The process will not stop....

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If you have a favorite team in, for instance soccer, you will now that everything changes in that team too. Maybe the name will be the same, but the players, the leaders and of course the results will change.

Maybe is the same with you; the name will be the same for the whole of a lifetime, but all other things will change....

That's a reason not to stick into things, persons, leaders and things.
To live is to change, to lose some and to gain other things and relations.

Even ideas, and stories we really believe in may be old one day, and we better drop them.

With the help of mindfulness, we can pause the stories and ideas, look at the and maybe leave them if they make our life heavy. It can be things like; I cannot do that, I will always be stuck in this condition or place, my life if not worth living, no one will ever love me and so on.

It can even be people who we used to admire. You can see that they have can wrong too, that they make mistakes too. Even things like mindfulness may have dark side if you use it in the wrong way
There are no Gods in this world to worship, we are all just humans....

There is no paradise here on earth, maybe just as a state of mind....

If you try to be compassionate and understanding its possible to reach that state, at least for some moments. Just meditation is not enough.

Try to be compassionate towards nature to; in our days that means; do nit fly more than necessary, eat at least mostly vegetarian or vegan food, recycle and go by car as little as possible.
And be sure to walk the talk if you, like me, give advice like this ;~}

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