mindfulness

"Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream" (Heraclitus according to Plato)  But even the foot changes, since new cells die and are born continuously..... So you cannot even step twice in a river with the same foot. Change seems permanent...  Even sorrow and depression will pass.  Though early wounds from childhood can be hard to get rid of, it is possible to be aware of them and to take care of them...  Like you would treat an inner child. But don't let sorrow and fear guide you and don't project it on the surroundings. Then you will end up with more trouble.... Metta meditation is a way to handle deep wounds... (though there may be other ways)

silence makes your thoughts more visible  so you can listen to them they are children of your ancestors , your upbringing and your environment and only partly yours just listen to them without condemning you cant get rid of them but you can embrace them  and make them calmer can you hear your mother and father? (music by Peteris Vasks from Lithuania, you can see him at the end)

What does that mean? In a postmodern time, with no solid values - religion seems to be old fashioned, belongs to an older society, at least the rituals and the religions that take away our own responsibility. God is taken down to earth, or is something to believe when we are in real crises. We  now know that we can make a disaster on earth and that we , as long as we have been on earth, have chased the big animals to extinction. We know that we no longer are in the center of the solar system. And that the solar system is in the outskirts of the galaxy and so on....                                           Freud and other after him, has shown that we even cant control ourselves. Dawkins with friends mean that the genes control us. Religion is just superstition. What is left? What to believe in? Is it really just to believe in oneself? Can it be as Wittgen...

The young professor of philosophy from Germany, Markus Gabriel, explains that our  personality's is a kind of art. And this a theme in modern painting and theater: We are also our own painters and actors. Men is a living creativity. Creativity, fantasies and originality show the personality of man and they can to be thought away from humankind. So unicorns exist, at least in fiction and songs. His answer to the question; "Who am I?" is;  What ever holds my mental life together. But there are much less unity of my mental life then I will think it is. there is not a unity my mental life that is "me".Most of us are not schizophrenic and we can separate from other people and from our fantasies, at least to some extend. But as I have claimed; what holds us together is our stories about ourselves, our story about history and so on. And as we have a quite bad memory the stories will never be completely true. We also tend to emphasize our good moments, a...

If you walk in a forest you are influenced by the trees and the sun and so on... And you will influence the forest too... How you behave to other people and animals will pass over to them and spread in time.... But its probably impossible to hold on to things, people or pets or even to yourself Everything will melt away like snow; It's more easy to accept that everything change  if you sometimes can feel that there are no independent self, and it has never been... When we were very small we could feel this naturally. The body of our mother and our body felt as if it was the same... When we get older we loose that feeling - but try to reach it again through sexuality.... When we get even older we might understand that concepts  like "me" and "you" can fool us. We need them and the names we have, but that doesn't mean that we are closed entities ... We are both individuals and  one with everything.... There are two realities. And I t...

Yuval Harari says this in the end of this lecture and explains why....  He even means that when we started to be farmers we lost the ability to be here and now as the hunters had to be. We always crave for more, because the genes want us to go on, we want to achieve, we will never be totally satisfied.  Maybe its time to understand this if we don't want to be ruled by the selfish genes....

If you do some planting you soon understand the middle way. The plants need water, but not too much. They need sunshine but not too much. The need fertilizer, but not too much. They need the insects, but not too much of them. To plant and see it grow means that we see that the soil is needed. Some see this as a metaphor; we need the suffering to be happy... The lotus need the mud to grow. But for me the mud is not dirty, I'm more afraid or too clean areas as shopping gallerias Today I made some planting. Its actually wonderful to feel the soil in your hands and to see the worms helping the soil to be watered. Today I saw some black aphids on one of my plants. And there were some ants too. I first thought that the ants were feeding on the aphids. But soon I understood that the ants were "milking" the black aphids;  A nts feed on the sugary honeydew left behind by aphids. But they can also tickle them with their antennas to get the honeydew. In ...