mindfulness

If really believe that we have no, or at least very little, free will - how should we treat other beings? If someone is screaming to you - would you scream back? Is it punishment to scream back, or should it be seen as a consequence of the first screamers act. Our intuition says, scream back or hide away from the screamer. Our intuition may say, that screamer has a free will and chose to scream at me. I chose to scream back, to show my free will. But will our response help the first screamer? Will the thief stop his behavior if he will be set in prison for some years? Does suffering do you good? Okey, sometimes society needs to save itself from murderers and terrorists. But will it maybe be better to use preventive measures, as a basic income for everyone. Or maybe more of social help for children that are abused in their homes? Can we make a space for freedom if we meditate and then learn not to follow our impulses and intuitions? In "Crime and Punishment...

In a conversation with Yuval Harari Thomas Friedman, author and journalist, claims this, Is he right? Before his speaks about Mother Nature as made of chemistry etc, he imagines that he has a dialogue with her. You can hear it 13 minutes into the film. But wait a minute; even of nature isn't a person, it's possible that she is more than materia. She may be conscious., Friedman forgets something; we are a part of nature and we are conscious  ( as other animals are), so at least a part of nature is conscious. And that part is beginning to understand more and more about the whole planet. So it's not  wrong to say that the planet is self-conscious. It may repair itself from the harm it has created to itself; global warming, mass destruction o species and so on. But she is in a hurry = we are in a hurry. Actually more we than she. ;nature will go on. About 40 million years ago, there were rainforests in the north of  Canada. Life was flourishing there. Bit the...

Presentism in a philosophical view means that only the present moment exists. That's the view in mindfulness too. We should live in the here end now as much as possible. You can argue that there is no permanent now and maybe no now at all, since time is flowing like a stream. But you can also say that we can reach a kind of eternal state in meditqtion, anyway in the space between the different  feelings and thoughts that always will occur. But of course we cannot stop aging. We will always be a part of the conventional world. Even the Gurus, even Buddha was In presentism the past has gone and the future is not yet here. That seems natural. But Einstein pushed that intuitive view a bit. His idea is is the one of block-time. The future is already there somewhere and the past exist too. This can be explained in different ways. Biu as you know it is proven that time passes faster on a mountain that in the valley beneath. Gravitation slows up time and bends space, or...

If we ask what we humans are, we of course have to compare us with something. If we compare us to other animals we can see differences and similarities. If we compare ourselves to rich and beautiful people at the net, we may see our faults. But if we compare us to the cosmos? What are our connection to it? We may think that we are small or nearly nothing. Or we may think that God made us to look like him. Or we may think that the universe  was made to make us, an anthropocentric view. We are made of stardust from an exploding supernova, but put together we are more than the sum of that dust. It seems that the universe was made do create life in some parts of it. In the beginning of the big bang it was really chaos. But after billions of years there more order, at least on our place. Complex lifeforms have evolved here and complex places like big cities There might be that the Universe was made to create intelligent creatures that could help the universe to underst...

There were quite many insects at my land when I visited it in the end of July. Bumblebees, beetles and butterflies. But the swallows where few and flew high up in the air, not over the field as they used to do. There  were not many other kind of birds either. Probably had the hot and dry weather made it hard for them. And not any nearby lakes to drink from. The flowers that were there was thistles and other flowers that could stand the drought. But that was enough, for instance, for many butterflies. But mosciotos, that swallows like, were very few.... Gotland, the island at the east of the mainland in Sweden, is a place that probably will have just a little rain in the future, because of the climate change. But the whole of Sweden has this summer had temperatures like in the countries by the Mediterranean sea. Huge forest fires have started and we have had help from water bombing planes from other European countries. Climate change knows no boarders, There...

Meditation may influence  your career: A group of people working in a call center was given the chance to practise mindfulness to stand the stress at work. What happened was that 80 percent of the people in  the group quit the work. So it can be really helpful to quit something.... I guess the 80% saw the meaningless in disturbing people and wanting them to buy things they don't need. As you know, new things make us happy for a while, than we have to buy something new things, or travel somewhere, or find a new loved one or, or boast with your knowledge about something... Is it really craving that causes suffering? Even craving a permanent self? According, for instance, the German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, we have no self.  We are more interacting processes. Metzinger likes to illustrate this with the "Rubber hand experiment". He wants to combine philosophy with science and experiments that can relate to his thesis. The search for one's own soul...

Is quantum physics the last chance for mystery n our lives? The fact is that no one knows how it works, the only thing we know is that it works. But is it really important for living beings? Is it not only important in the very small world. It seems not so. According to research, birds can navigate, tadpoles can turn to frogs and we can use smell because of quantum physics. Why is that so special? Well that may mean that chance  may play a role in our lives, and that time may be more complicated than we think. It may be that we can influence our brain because of meditation. And by changing our brain, we can even change our past! How? We all know it; there may be different stories about our past. There may be other perspectives. I have written about my memories about my childhood, and after that and after that my siblings have read it, it changed my view about my childhood a bit. A learned to see from my fathers and my mothers point of view of the time I was born,...