mindfulness

There's an organisation I have joined that has this vision... It's called Deep Adaptation.... The view is that we have to adapt to the new climate. Here in Scandinavia the temperature already has raised more than two degrees celsius since pre-industrial times. All serious reports tell that we haven't done enough to stop climate change yet. And the atmosphere is already filled with so much greenhouse gases, that we have to go 3 million years back to see the same level - and then the sea level were more than 15 meters higher than today. (some say 800 000 years ago, though) That and millions of refugees is what we have to adapt too. So that will probably happen. It's too late.... If we don't go on living  that we do now because of the covid-19. Less traveling buy car and plane. Less production in fabrics and so on. Less people employed (will anyway happen because of new technology). Less consumption. Less far away produced food. Less meat Les...

There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so, Hamlet says i the play. We are made of the universe, but also of stories. If many people will believe in a story it will be true for them. Even if it will mean that you kill other people or animals. But to work the stories must be corresponding to feelings. To make soldiers fight they have to demonize the enemies. Someone has to tell them that the enemies are bad. That its best to kill them. And there must be a reason for it; they are bad because.... What if we understand that it's just stories? Then, is Shakespeare right? Let' s see - if something is good there must be a bad behavior to compare it too. God and bad are interdependent. Let's say that we call it skilful or unskilful. Of course also interdependent. But also interdependent of the culture around and what century. What is good and bad changes. Buddha is said to have eaten meet, Today in most Buddhist monasteries that is unskilful. Nowa...

Cora Diamond is a new name for me, even if she has worked as a professor in Philosophy in the states for a long time and is still  teaching at the university of Virginia, even she is over 80 years old. She has written a lot about Wittgenstein and that has helped her to express her view of the topic. Although she, like Wittgenstein,  has lived in a hut in Norway - and actually brought Tractatus with hes - she seems to be different and for sure more glad than W. Anyways, its W: s writings that interests her and especially his critics of metaphysics and ethics in philosophy. As it is said in Tractacus  : " Whereof one  cannot speak , thereof one must be silent." And of ethics philosophy should not speak - why? Is it like in Buddhism - its better to sit in silence and let know yourself, than to speculate about what will happen when we die? But for sure there ethical guidelines in Buddhism,  but the behaviors is often named skilful, not good (or ba...

It seems that the cosmos is very special and fine tuned for life. Stephen Hawking; The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life. You can learn more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe There seem to be at least two answer why it is so; the anthropic one, otherwise wouldn't we humans be here. Another answer may be, if there are an infinite numbers of universes out there some will be fine tuned for life to exist. A third third view can be: yes, some universes  would be fine tuned for life, but maybe why for humans, is it not a lucky (or unlucky) chance that we are here? We may never have the right answer, but for me it may be many universes out there, m...

We are the eco-terrorists of the world. - what if look us in the mirror with that in mind.  Here you can read about what it means today and about our time; anthropocene; http://humanorigins.si.edu/research/age-humans-evolutionary-perspectives-anthropocene But not every human society has lived like this, and some still live in balance with the rest of nature, like the Kogi indians in Colombia: Maybe we in the lack a mythology that sees our connection with Gaia or Mother Earth. the mythology we live in now, late capitalism, sees her just like raw material. The Buddhas words about cooling desires, with meditation and and compassion seem to be relevant, but not many Buddhist lives like that, even not in the monasteries. Or may Brian Swimme's view of Evolution, even in a cosmic sense, as a big sacred story a new mythology to grasp? At least it seems that we need a new story or mythology to survive.... But first, when we have to look ourselves in the mirror wit...

I'm studying an online course at Yale - Story of the universe. Its based on a book by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker and video films with Swimme as a host and some kind of storyteller. He means that we are facing the end of our last story, the one of men as kings and rulers on the earth. An egocentric and anthropocentric story. We have seen nature and the rest of the animals as resources. We have lost our sense of awe over the Earth and cosmos. And it doesn't seem that we understand that we all are made from dust from an exploding supernova, a very big star. Swimme means that the universe seem to be a self organizing entity. New stars are born in the arms of galaxies and after a long while they will die, as our sun will. As in Buddhist philosophy everything is changing and there is no essence in the universe, in fact everything is in its center! You and me and a fish in the sea and a sone at Mars and so on. So maybe everything is related - we are for sure r...

Ever heard of these Ladies? Maybe not. Joanna is ninety years old now but still going strong. She is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher. But mostly she's known for being an environmentalist activist. And she still is: She's a great speaker and has written many books. She combines spiritualism with environmentalism. She doesn't call her selves a Buddhist but someone that is inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Another inspiring women is Valerie June a singer and composer that have had a long and winding road to her music life. She had diabetes but didn't know it and after that diagnose she dedicates her life to music. Many of us are glad for us. Her voice and music have many sources, and doesn't want  to label her style . You can hear echoes from Africa in her voice and a tone of spirituality there too.  As if  many old voices  has guided here. She have had som astral travelling and here she sings about it. Enjoy: