Calm

The silence of the night
gives slowly way
to the silence of the sunrise
From a river of beautiful dreams
to a fountain of inspiration.

The stillness of the dawn
gives slowly way
to the stillness of the day
From a sea of sacred contemplation
to an ocean of energetic verve

The tranquility of noon
gives slowly way
to the calm of the evening
If we keep our calm with us all day
Peace and love will be ours
Forever!

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Fragile

I like to think about greed
as one of the most fragile things on earth:
as snow covering a field, facing the sun of an eternal spring,
as a porcelain vase standing in the middle of a football field,
as a piece of paper, once strong, but now getting awfully wet,
as a once strong leaf, now brown and rusty, ready to release its branch
as a race car going too fast on a winding mountain road
as a house made of cards in the middle of a busy playground
as a nettle standing along the road side, soon to mowed
I like to think about wisdom
as the replacement of greed:
as the field blooming and blossoming in the sun of wisdom
as a strong football bouncing back whenever kicked
as a box of stainless steel overflowing with kindness
as a stem of a 300 year old tree ready to live another 500
as a bullet train getting filled with passengers lovely and kind
as a magnificent house where everyone is always welcome
as a field of evergreen grass surviving no matter how often it is cut

The ice age of greed is about to leave us for the eternal spring of wisdom
Kindness, peace, love, wisdom, caring, helping, inspiring, are the new money :)

A helping hand

Whenever we help someone
we cannot but feel good.

I was a bit upset when during an expensive breakfast in a hotel,
only one of the three coffee machines was working.
When I headed for some orange juice, that seemed to be finished too.
Then a waiter came with a tray full of glasses,
The almost empty tray was still there and I saw him struggling.
I took the empty tray away and it was easy for him  to put the new one in place.
Then I gave the other one to him.

This simple act of kindness made me feel good.
We cannot feel good and upset at the same time.
The lack of orange juice and the faulty coffee machines
did matter suddenly a lot less.
It was the smile of the waiter, his sigh of relief and his warm thank you
that made up how I felt for the next ten minutes at least.

I think there is so much wisdom in loving your neighbors as yourself,
in offering a helping hand whenever we can

Capitalism, Marxism, or wisdom?

The great lie of capitalism lies in the sordid obsession about and inane worship of wealth. Work extremely hard until you die and then leave it all behind, often agonizing in the last years of our lives over the fact that we have just accumulated, accumulated, accumulated, without making a meaningful contribution to the world.

Look deep in your heart and you will find that the most worthy events in our own life, were those moments where we made a true sacrifice to help another human being.

The world was not ready for Marx's ideas two hundred or even a hundred years ago. There will be no new Marxist revolution. Sharing cannot be enforced.

The next revolution is a wisdom revolution, not longer forcing anything on a society, but somehow we will become wise enough to find true happiness which lies in altruism. All of us reach times in our lives when we need help. If we get help, it feels good, but if we can help, it feels so much better.

Using our talents to provide help is giving us peace of mind, a truly enjoyable life. A search for pleasure and luxury gives us short kicks of excitement but almost never peace of mind and lasting happiness. Instead of looking for what brings true happiness and peace of mind, still to many of us keep living at an animal level, looking for a bigger and more kicks of short excitement.

Times are changing, true humanity is growing exponentially, wisdom is growing exponentially. Once the sharp inflection point will be reached, it will go fast and become completely unstoppable. And the discussion will not be any longer capitalism or Marxism; we will all be wise enough to truly enjoy the peace, joy and happiness that lies in wisdom and simple altruism

So let us all look inside for awhile, find our soul, our heart and that sincere source of wisdom. It feels good to be among the pioneers of the upcoming wisdom revolution :)

New physics

When physics moves in this new era of quantum physics, quite a number of physicists start making theories and hypotheses that make no sense. Just yesterday I watched a video about a respected physicist talking about extra dimensions. While the observations discovered in quantum science are exciting and extremely hard to explain, too often, I think, our big internal urge to find quickly explanations for anything, make some of these scientists take really the road of pseudoscience. Perhaps they were looking too much at TV-shows such as the power rangers.

While entertaining all possibilities is a reasonable thing to do, we are extremely far from understanding the universe as it is. The sad thing is that the super-advanced physicists seem not interested in genetics or brain science and vice versa. I could have included in the above sentence so many other branches of science as well. Each is going further and further in their little island and expect to understand how the universe works by becoming experts in one narrow field only.

How many of the visual observations through advanced telescopes are artifacts like the rainbows in our sky are an artifact? Scientists (some of them becoming slowly pseudo-scientists) come up with theories that are sometimes bordering the comical and that are for any sense loving person, much more difficult to accept than the existence of intelligent creative force (called God). An oscillating universe and an intelligent creative force make so much more sense than for example the big bang theory, which is at this moment purely hypothetical (and very non-sensical) but portrayed by many scientists as something proven beyond doubt, which it is ABSOLUTELY NOT! Some scientists believe in trillions of big bangs. I suspect they have banged their own heads a few times too much against the walls of their laboratories :)