mindfulness

Stephen Jenkinson, the Canadian citizen, is often talking about To be an elder. And that includes grief. The grief of losing someone dear to us.  But also grief for a dying culture. I was not good at grieving when my mother died. Partly because she was over nighty, she was demented and sad and she had the right tp be proud of her life.  She actually started dying when my dad and later on my elder brother died, that was doo much for him. May she was, as I am, a bit too sensitive too handle all the troublesome things in this world. Masshunger, war, hard words from people all around, maybe mostly in the media that was quite new for her; radio, tv newspapers...  We had a quite good life in Sweden, but what about the rest of the world.....  I have been aware of the personal death for a long time. The view of live forever has not comfort me at all, In Buddhism and meditation you also learn to be aware of death too. As life is troublesome it's no disaster to die, it's worse to be born

 Penrose has today been awarded with a half Nobel prize in Physics.  He was the first to predict that Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts black holes. (the  other  half of the price goes to the ones who discovered what must be a black hole in the middle of our galaxy).   Penrose describes himself as an atheist but;  In the film  A Brief History of Time , he said, "I think I would say that the universe has a purpose, it's not somehow just there by chance ... some people, I think, take the view that the universe is just there and it runs along – it's a bit like it just sort of computes, and we happen somehow by accident to find ourselves in this thing. But I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it." [  He went on to explain that he believed our universe would end in a  Big Crunch , a scenario cosmology has since found to be unlikely. Penrose's model re