mindfulness

Not only Shakespear's  Prospero, but also Rich Kelley claims this. It may be that was he says is false, but he has the right to have his perspective. And in this perspective meditation shows up in a new light. Buddha spoke about the five skandhas; material form, feelings, perception, mental formations and sensory consciousness. In Kelley's view the senses brings us the experience on Earth. But they also bind us to the Earth. That means, we think that the stage and the play is for real. But we are only here to have experiences that we have wished and  be entertained  and in that way learn new things. And therefore we have to live in an illusory world. It's looks like the Buddhist talk about of conventional and fundamental truth's. We have to deal with one truth at a time. But we can be aware of the other. The fundamental truth that Kelley experienced may be just imagination but is anyway interesting. And the idea that meditation can give us a tem...

Its all about angles. If we use another perspective we can see everything in another light; Anat Fort speaks about that in this video The tunes  can be listened to in different ways. Dependent, for instance, on the mood we are in that day... But what about silence, is it possibly to listen to silence in different ways? or is the silence a reduction of all angles. To stop the interpretations and just leave things as "they are"... To accept that you fully can't understand the world. To leave concepts an ideas.... and anyway be alive.... as dog and cats are alive It's clear that language  isn't enough when we look at the stars on a clear night... Its impossible to really describe what we see Someone have said that we would go crazy if we really understood our insignificance in the universe... To meditate is in way to be smaller as the ego disappears when we empty ourselves. For a while the words  and all angles disappear. But inste...

Maybe art is the best describer of life. As for instance dance. We are complex organisms. Its hard for us be guided by principles or rules. And if we do we often want to brake them, as we want freedom too. Evolution works in us and lights up our brain with desires like power, sex, food and so on....                                          But we may have have other and more subtle desires too Words speak in us.  The body moves in strange ways of itself, like cranes dancing.  We loose control, and we love it. suddenly life dances in us in new ways If we are in despair we have to remember;  everything changes and ends even bad times  we can all resurrect  from the dead and start to dance in joy                           ...

The paintings of Turner is often recognized as representations of the sublime. The terrifying  powers outside of us, that we are drawn to and rejects. Schopenhauer divides the sublime in four different parts; The fullest feeling of the sublime is for him, "immensity of universes extent or duration (Pleasure from knowledge of observers nothingness end oneness with nature)." Wikipedia Note that it's about pleasure  even here. But it's not a pleasure that we desire, because we don't  fully know it, it comes sudden and unexpected, beyond all possibility and calculation. It can also include some horror or greatness that is hard to perceive. So its nor about beauty, though beauty can be a part of it.... Its more of sudden greatness... Nowadays we may relate to an indifference cosmos                                           Two galaxies colliding forming...

It's Easter Listening to the Johannes Passion The powerful beginning is a foreboding of the crucifixion. Mythology is so important. Christianity has meant a lot, even if its just ideas. Before resurrection it must be suffering Buddha suffered too when he saw the handicapped, the sick and the old people. And when he tried too hard with fastening and mediation. Both Jesus and Buddha meant that there is a way from suffering. Follow me, they say.  But suffering seems to always be there. Why? Perhaps because everything is impermanent. And deep inside we know it, even though commercials often stops when everything is perfect.... And often we want to believe in a perfect world, at least for ourselves.  Even religions, as Buddhism, want the perfect luck. they have "commercialism" about Nirvana and so on. Mindfulness can for sure make it easier for us, but it cannot take away the suffering, but its a tool to handle it. But we also need companionsh...

"Reality" - what does it mean? If you look for the word in a modern dictionary or at Wikipedia, you will probably no longer will be so sure what it means. Is it more of a dance than something stable? We can have the view of Markus Gabriel or Yuval Harari; a mountain is a mountain. It's there wherever we see it or not. So the Earth. Science can best describe the mountain, though there are different angles to see it from. But what abut nations, novels, human rights, kings, music; all the man made things made by concepts. Lets include mindfulness and Buddhism? And those things are the most important things for us. I it reality or not? Gabriel argues that those things are so different from physics, that they must be seen as different worlds; The brain creates the reality for us, and can be important to know that if you help people with brain damages. But, as we now when we are voting for new politicians;  even without brain damages we can see or ...

Immanuel Kant took long walks in Königsberg (nowadays Kaliningrad). He didn't want to "work" when he walked, so he didn't think of his philosophy. I'm sure he sometimes just walked without thinking at all. Then he was mindful. When he wrote about the thing in itself  he for sure was near the Buddhist view of no concept. The iaitv maker Hilary Lawson writes in his book about how we close our view of the world when we label a thing and narrow the interpretation of it. His book is called Closure - a story of everything. I haven't heard him relating to Kant, though often to Wittgenstein. But Kant and Wittgenstein plays in the same football team, so to say. Maybe they would argue about the tactics and what the world ball means ;~} We can only now the thing for me, according to Kant and for me includes categories of understanding as  for instance time and space (we have to see, for instance, a chair in special place and in a special space, may...