mindfulness

 In a comment to one of Anna Thorvaldsdottir´s compositions a listener makes the remark in the headline above.  Maybe it is so. Depends of what we mean with the word "nature".  I guess the writer means that nature is one thing and human another.  But if we say that all is nature, nature is if course not indifferent.  Unfortunately mankind sometimes acts like the most evil creature on Earth;  Uses and exploits the rest of nature but are not indifferent to it.  Other animals does not exploit us, and we are for sure not neutral to our pets.  Often we  also look at wild animals with wonder.  We can interact with them too: I meet two deer in a nearby forest yesterday.  I spoke to them in a friendly voice, as pet owners speaks to their dogs. And the deer stayed just some meters from me and the biggest one started to lick the other in the face. Showing some kind of goodness. Maybe I influenced them a bit - they are quite used to meet people here, in the outskirts of Stockholm.  Of c

 A mix of different personalities on the scene.  Zisek, as usual, a bit controversial. Harari, as usual, very mindful - meditates more than an hour every morning and goes on long retreats.  Please, make a comment if something bothers or upsets you..  Mother nature is a bitch says Zizek and means all the suffering on Earth because  of droughts, floods, climate change and so on.  Well, maybe the Earth can be nasty, but of course also beautiful.  I guess Zizek wants to start a debate. Even so when he condemns Buddhism, or the extreme parts of it.  

 I'm a bit ambiguous desires - are they good or bad? Desire is the opening track on the album Harmony of differences by Kamasi Washington. Kamasi explains that if you want to find truth you have start with a desire for it. This peace is named "Desire": Kamasi says i an interview   “I’m always studying, always searching, always trying to find something new to inspire me.”   He also says that he wants to unite people, even if diversity is needed.  that means not condemn the ones that are not like you.  Desire is also what makes the eagle good to fly and the rabbit good at running from the eagle. But as Kamasi's words explains; Desire will never be satisfied.  Joseph Goldberg, author about and practitioner of meditation write about dreaming of things in the future; "Certain kinds of expectations are so seductive because they masquerade as dharma aspirations. But there’s a big difference between aspiration and expectation. Aspirations can inspire us. We might have an