mindfulness

Let's take some help from the Philosopher Ricoeur and the author Auerbach to approach the question. But first; Religions learn that there are some state, probably in the future, that will be a salvation. - or a hell. Even Buddhist texts talks about it in the sense of karma and afterlife. Some modern Buddhists, as Thich Nhat Hanh means that hell is a state of mind, ebut with mindfulness and awareness of every step you can reach some kind of heaven. In here and now you don't regret the past or worry about the future. When I practice mindfulness its really like that... But my tinnitus gets more obvious and maybe hidden feelings will come to the surface. When I practice with my sangha its a bit easier.  Originally Buddha wanted us to see the terrible sides of life, like sickness, changes and other unsatisfactory things in life and of course old age and death. Its better not to be reborn. Its better not to think so much... Its better not to collect things for yourselves, a

I went to a funeral yesterday. It was held in a small chapel near the graveyard. A female priest held the ceremony which was simple and nice. But I couldn't believe in the talk about God and Paradise. For me both paradise and hell can be here on earth or in our own minds. The buried man X , I had helped for some years in a place for slightly handicapped people. He was a bit mentally handicapped. But very kind was he. He stayed with his grandmother as a kid, and as at teenager at a family on Gotland, the big Island in the Baltic sea. His wife had Asperger's syndrome. She could be angry for small things. She shouted to him if he did something wrong. He cold strike back, banging  the table, sometimes he hit her. But when he got weaker he just trembled, while she dominated him. If you have asperger you easily get angry for small things. You cannot understand that other people dint think like you. Everything is black and white. And X got dementia. He was a kind and