mindfulness

  Arvo Pärt STATEMENT: Dear friends in Ukraine, dear colleagues, dear all fighting for your home at the price of your life, We bow before your bravery, bravery in the face of nearly unbearable suffering. We are with you as much as we are able to. All that is left to us is a lump in our throats and tears and prayers. Words have begun to lose their meaning. Forgive us! Forgive us for failing to protect you from a disaster unimaginable in our time. Long live Ukraine! Слава Україні! Pärt’s statement was shared in Estonian, English, Ukrainian and Russian. He was born in Estonia what then the Soviet Union. He was not allowed to set up his religious music, so he mowed to Berlin and is now again living in Estonia. As a mirror to another mirror the war in Ukraine is very living here.  Not just because many refugees from there is here now. Also because we are so near, both Russia and Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries. We are so interconnected. I used to play table tennis against a ...

Cancer is like a small fire in tn body. It will burn until nothing is there for the fire to eat. What starts the fire? It may be complicated,  may have many causes. Of course fires have always existed in forests. And it will be in the future.  If the temperature rises and rain doesn't come the fire will be worse. It may be the same with cancer, may father had it too, but it didn't kill him.  my cancer may be inherited, but the way I have lived my life may also have reflections in my body. And my first years, and my problems trying to live with women.  Now much is too late, by mindfulness is not, it can be practiced the whole life and it includes to listen to child in oneself.  My father had that kind of child in himself too. But he found ways to hide the child. Like the golfers in this photo seem to forget about the fire.        Photo ; Kristi McCluer/Reuters we have to distract our selves so we don't see the fire. I understood that something...

Carlos Rovelli  is a theoretical physicist that is supporter of a solution of the Quantum paradox that has much in common with Buddhist philosophy. Namely that there are no essence in things including humans.  Light waves becomes photons when they interacts with something or someone. Before that they are probabilities. And when the photons interact with a human eye and brain, we see some shapes end colors. Though another animal or an insect may see other colors.  So both in Rovelli's theory and i Buddhism all is relations, as Einstein showed it is in velocity, everything moves in a special speed relative to something else,  Characteristics describes how something is interacting with something else, so things have properties relative to something else with witch it is interacting. This is the relational interpretation of quantum theory Nothing is fundamental, everything is in relations We are often longing for something fundamental. A God, special laws, the absolute t...

 Thich Nath Hanh is dead, Though in his view nothing can die. No coming - no going. As we have no essence, no intrinsic I, we are all interacting beings.  The German sociologist Hartmut Rosa is not a Buddhist but uses the word  resonance  to describe the interaction   not just with other human beings but with nature and the society around us.  In an interview he says;  Resonance means becoming  vulnerable  and losing control.  That's what happened to Thich Nhat Hanh the last years. He lost control and was for sure vulnerable as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage.  But he was well treated by his students, nuns and monks and the burial was attended by so many people in Vietnam where he lived his last years, His view is that he will live on in the people who met him and was influenced by him and his book or talks in Youtube. Rosa is an atheist and thinks capitalism and the forever increasing economic system is the biggest obstacle for u...

Quote from Wikipedia: In  philosophy ,  systems theory ,  science , and  art ,  emergence  occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergence plays a central role in theories of  integrative levels  and of  complex systems . For instance, the phenomenon of  life  as studied in  biology  is an emergent property of  chemistry , and many  psychological  phenomena are known to emerge from underlying  neurobiological  processes. The fractal patterns in a  snowflake can be an example in physical system.                                                     Photo by Nathan-Myhrvold How about consciousness? Well philosophers doesn't agree, a...

 David Hume, the 18-century Philosopher and historian from Scotland, is admired by many.  He was an agnostic or maybe an atheist (depends on the readers view).  Anyway he believed that people could be warmhearted and good to each other. And that was because of feelings of empathy.  The importance of feelings was in the foreground for him He meant that reason is dependent on feelings.  Hume himself, is said to be a friendly man and nice to have a conversation with because of his humor and wit.  why? Maybe because he didn't spend so much time to ponder about metaphysical things: He wrote that if he did that to long he had to go to the inn, drink some wine and have a chat with people there and then the pondering was gone.  Instead he liked to study human minds.  He was one first in the west to say that we have no self. What we have is series of impressions that the brain tries to interpret.   This is also what modern philosophy and Buddhism...

 Is there ambiguity in science? Yes there is.  especially in quantum physics. We don't now how it works, but it works. Some say that's enough - we don't exactly have to know what happens  (Niels Bohr was one of them).  In Einsteins theory time goes faster for one person in a valley than for another person on a mountain  (because of gravitation).  Quantum physics looks in a way like art or human relations. In these areas we we for sure know that there are ambiguity included.  In relation we often are not sure of how much we Love each other or how long the relation will last. The question "are we really together now" may put the relation in a more clear light (or maybe ens it). That is ecactly what happens when someone makes a mesaurment in quantum physics. The mesaurment ends the ambiguity.  In modern art different spectators can, or should have, different interpretations.   The spectator interact with the art. Of course the artist has hi...