mindfulness

Yuval Harari tells us about the future. He cannot predict it in detail. But in some ways it's already here; When I look for some sheets to buy on the net, maybe in a store in Stockholm, I soon get suggestions about a lot of sheets to buy all over the world. Google Chrome knows what I'm doing and what I want and sends out advertisements. An everyday I send out information about myself because of the sites I look at. The natural evolution of life may be shifted to the evolution of  intelligent design. Harari shows us the dangers of that scenario. But cannot it also have benefits? I may help us with the environmental problems. But who shall guide us in that world? As Harari point out, many politicians seem to point to romantic view of the past. But we cannot go back and it was not better then. Can the solution be a world regime? And can such a regime be democratic? And what will happen to world championship in soccer ;~}

We are probably living in a narcissistic era. And this influences mindfulness training too... This is a good video  for all mindfulness teachers... Though the message in it can be discussed. Is it like it is said there: most people coming to mindfulness courses are somewhat wounded? In that case Metta - meditation may be good.  A least if it doesn't ends with just love and kindness towards oneself, but goes out  to the surroundings. If you do it in the right way that should lead to a feeling of oneness, even with the whole universe. And the feeling of a separate self disappears. At least under the meditation. That will not occur if you just do physical  exercise  like walking. Walking wont lead to a change of behavior as mindfulness can do.  Of course physical exercise is very good too - but why not do both?

I don't know if i can recommend Dan Harris approach to Mindfulness. But it's anyway entertaining and to make mindfulness known he makes he makes it well; One minute a day may be a start. But you can also make it while you take a shower or when you take a bit of your eco-carrot. And you are in your way in an endless area...

Copernicus learnt that that the Sun is in the center, not the Earth. It was not a popular idea in his time around 500 years ago in Poland. Kant meant that he made another Copernication revolution when he set our representation of the the phenomena in focus, not the phenomena per se. But what have happened after Kant. Do we still understand ourselves? Probably not. What about language, do we understand,  why we speak? It´s suggested that small talk is a continuation of how the apes use to clean each other furs. They do it to creat social bonds. David P Barash suggest that language is a way to impress on each other. Why do anyway use so many different words, make jokes and write theater plays or in blogs;~} We may just use about 500 words to be understandable. But many of us use a lot more. We also use words in ironic tones to make other people feel uncomfortable. But of course there are more reasons for our language, but more than we think of the reason for ...

Another way to say it is that two different parts put together is more than the sum of the parts. Let's take the example of heritage and environment. In us they are so interrelated  that they cannot we cannot say we act in a specific way just because of one of them. Nothing can live just in its own bubble. It seems that nature are both a builder and a destroyer. Just as in Hindu mythology. But the parts from something that are destroyed can be parts of new objects. Atoms that has been in the body of Shakespeare are now in bodies around the world. Nothing can completely vanish. Shiva is the destroyer and transformer. He is dancing the earth together again. So maybe we should not be so scary about destruction. Something must die for some new to come. The metoo campaign may show this. Slowly men's behaviours are questioned. The exquise that nature made us like that is not anymore enough. Power may change people, but that exquise is neither enough. We ...

Immanuel Kant was right; we cannot know the thing in it self, or the noumenon, as he called it. That means, we cannot know nature with our senses and our knowledge. So let's ponder about it; are there things that we cannot understand and cannot see around us. Yes, there may be.... A bat or a bird, a dog or an insect may view the world in another way and with other senses. Some animals don't see colors and we cannot see infrared colors. There may be threads there are spun around us that we cannot see. There may be events out there that just waits for us. But we cannot know.... That is maybe the best start for many questions; I don't know. Maybe you have heard the parable of the Chinese farmer: Once there was a Chinese farmer who worked his poor farm together with his son and their horse. When the horse ran off one day, neighbors came to say, “How unfortunate for you!” The farmer replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.” When the horse returned, followed b...

If you go deep enough deeper than thought deeper than feelings and intuition deeper than you can you will go out of yourself and end up in cosmos and you will see how well ordered the universe is to create life on earth and you will appreciate all life on earth even the mosquitos  and the snakes and when you come home you are more than yourself