mindfulness

In a talk with Robert Wright at bloggingheads.tv Miri Albhari (from The University of Western Australia) suggests that something seems to be permanent. http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/30344?in=13%3A12&out=20%3A20    Does i matter?  Well, when we meditate we are aware of our thoughts and feelings and our body.  So what is it then that is aware?  Some kind of witness consciousness? Is it the part of the brain called the reptile brain? But it seems to be so calm, it have some kind of warm distance or humbleness. Witnessing a play without judging.  As we all are actors on an global stage... Is it a part of consciousness that every creature have?  Really interesting questions - better not hurry up with the answers...  It seems that everything else really is impermanent. To see this is to accept death and for instance global warming. If we accept death we may will take care of our s...

Bill Bryson (from his book "A short story of nearly everything" - my poor translation from Swedish): " without the the moon's stabilizing impact, the Earth would swing like a sinking ship. The moon´s gravitation makes the Earth rotate with the right speed and the right angle that is needed for the Earth to develop life. This will not go on for ever. The moon is going away from us with  four centimeters a year. In about two billion years it will be so far away that we have to find another solution to have the right speed and angle. Before that I think you can think about the moon as a good fellow in the night sky." We are often very anthropocentric not thinking about all the circumstances that make it possible for us to be here. For instance, the bacterias that in the beginning fixed the right level of oxygen on Earth, When the level was right they suddenly stopped the process. No one knows why.... If we meditate or stop thinking for a while we ca...

Same place - another kind o light To get a grip of the saying; "all is one", it´s adequate to say that all is energy, I guess. As Einstein showed, even matter and light can be seen as energi... Of course, in the daily life we have to líve in the conventional reality. But perhaps we can be aware of that in another and parallel reality we are all equal. Even stones and cliffs seem to enjoy the sunshine..

To build a career or a new consciousness? If you start being mindful, it may change your way of thinking. You will have some distance your thoughts and our tendency to think i dualistic terms: friend-enemy, human- animal, right wing-left wing, me-the world and so on.... We are often caught in old patterns or in patterns supported by the society... If you have moment when you stop thinking, you will make some space for new thought and new patterns or maybe some ability without a pattern or tendency... Remember that it's best to start meditate in a group and maybe just for five minutes, to see if it's something for you. It can be too much of everything - for some of us it's enough to just be alone in nature... Here is where I spent my evening yesterday - no noises from cars and so on. Very refreshing and a kind of love- affair with nature - the cooling wind, the surrounding water when you take a swim, the warm cliffs under your feets - we all know about it...

The film comes from a place where I use to meditate or just stroll around. If you are quiet, the animals will accept you and even be curious. This little watersnake came quite near... When we let our thoughts go, we can easily  feel that we share some kind of consciousness, with the rest of the animals:With a snake, a fish, or a bumblebee that you saves from drowning... We share feelings of scariness, satisfaction, concentration and probably of pleasure. You will not see a snake meditate. But you can see a concentrated snake like this, smelling for pray with it's tongue. The snakes probably don't think much, probably not worry for the future or for death. So they don't have to meditate to be calmer. Planning for the future is necessary,  but we don't have to do it all the time... We try to make our life safe. But we all now that bad things can happen anyway. If we all the time are afraid for something we will miss a lot of things. To care for a pet o...

If you become peaceful, you will help other people with just your appearance. Like a beautiful tree. So try to take care of your self, have some time for yourself each day to nourish yourself. We all have feelings of loneliness and emptiness, even if we are around a lot of people. Some of us are so afraid of loneliness, that we have to be connected to others all the time, by phone or the net. But sooner or later we have to cope with ourselves.... Perhaps it's not possible to be peace all the time. And it's important to not condemn yourself if you not are peaceful all the time. But it's for sure something to strive for....

Many of us feel like as we are stuck in a hole. It can be a trauma from the childhood,  or maybe we been hurt as adults. A common way is to distract our selves so we don't have to be reminded of it. It can be shopping, alcohol, destructive sex, it can be looking for fame. The trouble is that it can be addictive. We can be caught in a bahviour. Often it is better to have a look at the feelings, it can be loneliness, sadness, anger,despair.... (if it is even deeper feelings it's better to first go a a doctor) It's okay t have those feeling,  just breath with the feeling and let them be there, if you not are too tired or stressed you can take care of them. If you now what will trigger the feeling try to stay away from it.... there are so many thing out here that will trigger feelings as scariness - on the net, on the TV, in certain newspapers. I have no TV and  read serious newspapers. The net is more difficult. It can be addictive too. maybe he five mkindf...