mindfulness

Is  something happening that we are involved in without to understand it? Some say that human consciousness should be a part of science and of the development of the world. Consciousness have led us to go to the moon, has helped us make UN och to build bombs. It has given us internet that are connecting the world. Let's say that art, science and  infrastructure  is a part of the earth and therefore a part of the universe. It's a kind of nature made by the human mind. And the mind is made by life on earth. Ants and beavers also build places to stay and birds sing and dance. But they don't write books and direct films. We enrich the earth with these human phenomena and hopefully enrich ourselves too. As somebody said; Hamlet and other fictional characters exist, in a special area that are not connected at all to for instance, science and astronomy. So  to say something holistic about the universe is really impossible, as it contains so many different areas or level

Maybe a question we don't use so often. Of course I'm the ruler of me! Well after some years of meditation training you may anyway want to look for what is the "king" or ruler in me. And the answer may be; nothing in particular.  Different parts of me rules in different times. The environment wakes up different parts of the brain. If we are scared probably the fight area or the flight  area will react. And they react before we are aware of it. Of course inheritance and environment may influence what part of the brain will react. But neither inheritance or the environment i come from is the king. We can train to not follow our impulses. A swedish monk in California have cancer, and in a talk he empathies the benefits the Buddhist training has given him. It has learned him to let go. To not be overwhelmed by feeling and so on. He led a retreat i visited some years ago, but then he had so much energy. In this talk he is another, but still a sympathetic man.