mindfulness

When your in a period of depression thoughts of self hatred can occur as  living beings inside of you. That's not much to do about them, they may come from some trauma in the past. Often the feelings are projected on other beings, "you are awful, ugly and fat. Your life is not worth anything" And so on.  Hopefully you don't say those words out load. If you have meditated you can study the thoughts, accept them and and bit later on understand what their source are. We have to remember that the thoughts are our identity - they change and are just a part of us.  Another tactic is too see the sorrow and darkness in other people. Some are trying to get rid of their feelings of loneliness or worries by surfing on the net. Some are talking for hours to not let the dark feelings through.  One trick can be to talk with strangers, maybe just some seconds. Lately I made some complements to colored  bus drivers - just "god music you play" or to a Muslim girl with her ...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Islandic composer now living in London. She cares for nature and fears the destroying of it... She shows this in her music. Her way if writing it down is special and I guess she needs a long chat with the conductor before a concert. She belongs to a new generation of composers with some distance to the human dance on the Earth. On Island nature still are on the move. Volcanos, hot springs and earthquakes forms the landscape. But the glaciers are melting and one of the is now  declared "dead". When we use a word like "nature" we look at at something outside of us. But that is a wrong view.  We interact with nature - or rather - we are nature. A thinking nature - but not so different from other primates.  Thorvaldsdottir  may help us to see this. You can hear her late music here ;

  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...