mindfulness

  Now is the time for artists like Arlo parks. It's just a question of time, as art is in progress, maybe like all things.  Phenomena like Donald Trump is in decay.  That's a way of life we cannot afford us to ask for anymore.  We just to keep our eyes open for the new things and they will open up like flowers in front of us.  What it means? Maybe listen to the young girls and what they have to say, what they have to give to the world.  There may be no agenda, no revolution, just the decay of the old.  And what is the old - maybe the white man as conquer of the world.  Maybe another to look at Mother Nature, maybe another to look at love and gender, maybe a more mindful way to live.  But you better ask people like Arlo Parks.  Here - live at KEXP at Home;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHmIt9OVGU An here in another video

  Heidegger emphasizes  the knowledge of death  of the individual.   That awareness can give meaning to our life - it leads us to do thing that are meaningful for us - not following the crowd.  Not only death but also being is something we have in common with every living being.  And that means being in a specific place - Dasein.  As in Buddhist philosophy Heidegger mean that we interact with the surroundings.  Being comes before thinking, but Heidegger is not into meditation.  He is not either into scientific progress.  It seems that he wants to fins ground for being - maybe that's why he was into Nazis, - at least for a while (not so much antisemitic as thoughts about "blut und boten" - blood and soil ) As David Deutsch means philosophy may not aim to find a common ground, or common truth, but more of criticizing old philosophy and therefore move forward in an never ending progress.  Im sure Heidegger was interested in Buddhi...

 If there is a subject, must therefore be an object?  Well if you study grammar it seems to be so.  I give you a banana, I'm  the doer, the subject. But lets say that we are interrelated.  Lets, for instance say that we are  nature.  Is that a good way to protect nature?  Maybe, but we now live in Anthropocene.  We have influenced the the whole surface of the earth.  We are the strong part now, but that may make us sad too. We cannot longer count on nature as something immense  that will always be there for us to use. We have to care for nature as an old mother. We have been her naughty child and now she is in danger.  Without her we will be lost too.  So maybe each one of us can be a guardian for birds, insects and fish. But some insects shall have a value even if they not are good for us.  We have  knowledges that a tree or a bird have not.  We are in a way superior - anyway if we really starts to behave s...

 Optimism is the name of a chapter in  David Deutsch latest book, The Beginning of Infinity. Can we be optimistic in this dark age?  Why not. As long as creativity rules.  As long as democracy more or less works in many countries.  The film The White Tiger (Netflix) shows a very corrupt India.  But the author of the book that the film is based on, Aravinda Adiga, has said that he wanted the book to be an eye opener about what is going on in his home country. He beliefs that it could work better in the future, so he can be seen as an optimist.  Deutsch thinks that technological solutions can help to solve the climate crises. We also be more optimistic as the US now is on the Paris train again.  If we can slow the heating down we have more time to find solutions.  We are made by nature to see the problems, that has made us survive.   In mindfulness we can label worrying  just as "worries" and let them pass,  After meditation...

 Sam Harris, the atheist that started to meditate,  has said in an interview in "The guardian";  "We are sleepwalking, and when you learn how to meditate, you recognize that there is another possibility, which is to be vividly aware of your experience in each moment in a way that frees you from routine misery. Meditation is simply the practice of learning to break the spell and wake up." He has even started a meditation app and it seems he's up to some kind of spiritualty (not religion) if I understand it in the right way.  Well, he have a podcast too, and there he has been speaking to David Deutsch.  https://samharris.org/search/David%20Deutsch  You better look at Wikipedia to have a clue of who David is.  The conversation may not be so easy to follow, but A man called Sam Hall makes an interpretation of it here:  About 44 minutes into the video Hall speaks about meditation and  Deutsch's look at it:  Harris says that meditation hi...

 It's nice to now and then come back to the writings of Camus.  He wrote about out absurd world - and i may have became even more absurd nowadays.  the world absurd comes from the Greek world surdus with means deaf.  Lets see what it can mean - one way is what Camus wrote about the experience to see someone talking in telephone inside a telephone box- we just see someone moving his or hers lips, and we may hear some fragments of a dialog, but we don't understand what is going on. Nowadays we have the same experience when we here someone talking in a mobile phone.  We are not literary deaf, but we cannot make us clear about what is going on,  we are also bombarded with information all the time, knowledge comes more seldom. But if the world is absurd, what about ourselves, are we too? Camus had some answers to that - we have to go on even if the world is absurd and even meaningless.  in the essay " the Myth of Sisyphus" Camus describes how Sisyphus pull...

My wife helps a family where one of the members have corona and stays in one room.  its a tough situation and even tougher it is that the father of the sick man also have the virus and is dying of it, because he is old and fragile.  Of course Im now afraid to get the virus too, but I think I will survive it.  Mostly elderly or sick people die of it. But the next pandemic can be worse The good thing is ; we now learn to fight back the next virus. And that one can be dangerous even for young people.  About Trump it is harder to say what is good.  Well, democracy seems to stand strong in the US and so the free press.  In Turkey, China and even in Poland the free press is suppressed.  Sometimes it seems that different people lives in different worlds and goes to information sources that fit their opinions.  Qbism, an interpretation of quantum physics, is into this.  Qbism. answer to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment is that if you think th...