Hope - for whom?

 What gives us hope?

It depends of, hope for whom? 

For you or for humankind

Or maybe for the earth

Or maybe for the universe as a whole...

Right now it seems that humankind is in a dangerous situation,

Lauri Anderson puts it this way; " Humankind has not lived on this Earth for ever, so we cannot take for granted that we will in the future. Its not hard to imagine the Earth without humans".

So, if we have a non-anthropocentric view, we can wish for the Earth to have a healthy life, with or without humans. 

This can be seen as sad view if we are a human being, but if we are wolf or a tiger or an elephant it would be an event to celebrate. 

Is it possible to have  non-anthropocentric view? Maybe not totally... But as Laurie Anderson (a Buddhist practitioner) says;  I think its possible to image the Earth without humankind. It has been like that before...

But first of all it would be reasonable to hope for a future where humankind could cooperate with the rest of nature in a balanced way. 

But if we cannot....

Maybe we can hope for some evolutionary jump. Maybe science can help us...

 How does evolution work, is it not by struggle and fight?  To learn how to cope with dangers..

And of course by survival of the fittest.

How can we fit in to the dangers in the world right now?

Many of us are denying the climate change. Let's see how they do in the future.

Many of us involved  in a struggle to satisfy our ego and our own stories of the world. 

Maybe we don't care so much about humanity as a whole. 

We care about our life and our success. 

In mindfulness we learn that there are no totally separate entities. There are only interaction. 

This may be true also scientifically. 

I may be that we all are interconnected. It may be that the whole universe is interconnected. 

In a metta-meditation you can try to invite; the whole earth - "May you be peaceful, may you be safe, may you be healthy, may you live with ease". 

Then you wish the same phrase for  the whole solar system, the whole galaxy, ans last the whole universe. 

Try to image the different entities. 

What happens to you? What do you feel?

This can be a helpful way to come outside the ego or the self. 

Not to see you as indifferent or without value, but to see you in a bigger picture. 

a small part of something much bigger

Maybe we in some way are one with the universe - as everything else is...



That means we will alive as long as the universe are alive, not so much as individuals though. 

But there may be other civilizations out there and maybe  in other universes too. That means there will always be life somewhere..






 








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