mindfulness

We cannot stop desires and cravings ans some of them are more skilful: So why not do those activities. Love with tenderness,  meditate, and show compassion - even towards yourself... The last thing is important if you start meditate: If you suddenly start to listen to your thoughts and feelings you may be surprised. So you have to accept everything and understand that this thoughts have a cause. What you can do, is to let them go and go back to the breath. You should be comfortable when you meditate - otherwise you should wait or join a group. Mr Shopenhauer was inspired by the Upanishads and probably by Buddhism. He also saw that we are driven by desires. He called it a blind will to live. He also wanted to stop it all - he thought music was a way, but just temporarily. Probably poor  angry Arthur didn't try mindfulness... Anyway he now is famous as he back in the 1900-hundred century thought he one time would be...

Questions lead to answers which lead to meditation which leads to silence which leads to a smile which leads to body and mind together which lead to craving to be good which leads to no smile which leads to mind and body separated - and so on...  Constant Craving  - K. D Lang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i16deO9QW-M&feature=related

The words are made by a dualistic thinking; You - me. Life -death. Good- bad. My nation-Your nation. My opinion- Your opinion. Mind-Body. And so on... Probably this kind of thinking have been necessary  for us in some way. But perhaps it´s time to use them with less sureness...

When you meditate your thoughts diminish. So also dualism - you will see that east end west, life and death, good and bad etc go together. An example; each day a lot of cells die in you, but also a lot of cells are born. That means; each day you die and each day you are born. In that sense you don´t have to be afraid of death...its already here. Also your parents, even if they no longer physically are with you, they still are present - in your DNA but also as memories and experiences. In that sense, the are still alive...

So Descartes was wrong. He said that he could doubt everything about himself except that he was thinking. That proved that he existed. The word "I" is the central point here. What does it mean? Perhaps we are sure that we know the answer. Is it the thoughts? In that case - where are you when you aren't thinking? Is it your job, your title? In that case - what happens if you loose your job or change job? Is it your house, your nation? Under my course to be a mindfulness instructor, the teacher, Ola Schenström, made us ask to each other; "Who are you?" After each answer the question was repeated by the questioner.We soon discovered that there were no end to the answers - or maybe an adequate end could be; "I don't know."Or maybe; "It seems I have no essence." Other thinkers have come to the same conclusions; Buddha, Sartre and more recently Damasio and Parfit. Sartre, for instance, has said that we are the sum of our actions. We ha...

Sometimes we all become sad and have feelings of emptiness. That´s a part of life. In mindfulness you will learn not to suppress those feelings. If you suppress them you can lose yourself in drugs, consumption or religious fundamentalism. If you really are depressed or sad, it's best to visit a doctor. But pills won't cure the depression, only hide it. In meditation you can learn how to look at the sadness - it's one of many feelings in you and it will fade away. Perhaps it is inherited from your ancestors. A way is to smile to the sadness. This method can be very important ; You don't condemn yourself, you don't feel pity of yourself. You can treat the sadness as a little brother or sister - be with him or her, take him or her out for a walk in nature, watch a funny film. Be active but don't hurry - try to be in the moment, even in everyday life. If you have a time for yourself to meditate everyday, it will spill over in the rest of the day. But do it in a ...

Mindfulness has it's roots in Buddhism. In this radio program in Swedish you can listen to the story of a former monk. You don't have to be a Buddhist to practise mindfulness - but it's good to know where it all started. Björn Lindeblad has even invented a new Swedish word for it ; varsevarande  http://sverigesradio.se/sida/sandningsarkiv.aspx?programid=2071