Monday 16 June 2014

The obsolete Consciousness XIV

This neanderthal consciousness...but worse, as it is using object that most people could not even design.....

It is still lurking inside all of us...yes, it is still here.....but if I see it is inside me, I want to completely remove it...how?......perhaps the first (and possibly last) step is to be aware of it, not think it is only in the others...out, OUT with almost an animal rage.....

There is a false sense that we have evolved. We use the mobile phone, and because we can send an instant message to the other end of the world, we think we are advanced, sophisticated.....but we are neanderthals...neanderthals with a mobile phone.....

Saturday 15 March 2014

Two principles


A post I liked from my friend Muru:

A traveler through the mountains came upon an elderly gentleman who was busy planting a tiny almond tree. 

Knowing that almond trees take many years to mature, he commented to the man "It seems odd that a man of your advanced age would plant such a slow-growing tree!". 

The man replied "I like to live my life based on two principles. One is that I will live forever. The other is that this is my last day."

Friday 14 February 2014

Education XXV: to be aware of conditioning is the only way out of conditioning

Look at this boy on the right of the picture. He and his family have just survived the bombing of their house in Siria.

He is still suffering the extreme fear produce by extreme violence. This suffering will condition him, possibly to be angry and-or violent.

Is it possible an education that favors an awareness of this conditioning, his homo sapiens conditioning, his genetic conditioning, the conditioning produced by the way his ancestors have lived (epigenetic), his cultural, familiar conditioning.....and the conditioning of suffering produced by the infinite conditioning of his fellow humans.

Is it possible to be completely aware of the WHOLE field of conditioning?

And maybe conditioning need not be something negative. Maybe is a necessary barrier that if we jump over would bring another state of mind, more pure, more fit.

I pray that you have it, little boy.......