mindfulness

If we have no permanent or separate self, we probably would change quite often. And we do... Our mood swings not just with aging - less testosterone in men and more in women - but also over days or weeks. So the teenager and the old man cannot be really the same... But some things in us seems to remain the same - do you for instance like the same music now as when you were seventeen? Or some of it? Or maybe some music  are timeless... (doesn't matter what genre) ? Anyway - in this guys there are many hormones acting - but there must be something more... I suppose we are not just matter.... For instance - what is music?

We all tell stories, don't we. I do. I suppose we have to.  But we are not always aware of that we do it. Perhaps we think we talk about the Truth or facts. I tell stories around mindfulness, tries to make it meaningful, tries to make fit into a discourse. But I cannot leave the context and language that my clients feel at home with. I try to make my own life meaningful and therefore I tell a story about myself where mindfulness fits in. I'm really not sure if I tell the truth, but I anyway need the story, not at least for my own identity. Even parties need stories; In the Swedish election yesterday. The parties have to tell coherent stories about themselves, that may attract the voters. In politics we all now that the leaders make promises and often exaggerate. But we anyway sometimes are seduced by the stories. What we always don't see is that even such things that courts and judges are influenced by stories. Stories about what is a criminal behavio...

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...