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  • Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce

    The author Malcolm Gladwell tell a wonderful story of new science.

    Malcolm Gladwell books

  • Flock Instinct

    Links
    Iain Couzin at Princeton icouzin.princeton.edu
    Steven Strogatz on sync tedtalk

  • I am like the clear blue sky

    I am like the clear blue sky
    Standing on the earth
    I look up into the sky

    Suspended in mid air
    Time is of no importance
    My mother is always near

    Resting in the clear blue sky
    How can I loose heaven
    When we never depart.

  • All truths wait in all things

    All truths wait in all things,
    They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
    They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
    The insignificant is as big to me as any,
    What is less or more than a touch?

    Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1855.

  • A riddle for your fiddle

    Here is a litte riddle for your imagination. What is the image representing?

    riddle

  • The world according to me

    Me, me, me.. and puff I am gone!

  • Suchness

    In Buddhism,the word “suchness” is used to mean “the essence or particular characteristics of a thing or a person, its true nature.” Each person has his or her suchness. If we want to live in peace and happiness with a person, we have to see the suchness of that person. Once we see it, we understand him or her, and there will be no trouble. We can live peacefully and happily together.

    When webring natural gas into our homes for heating and we know the suchness of gas. We know that gas is dangerous – it can kill us if we are not mindful. But we also know that we need the gas in order to cook, so we do not hesitate to bring it in to our homes.The same is true of electricity. We could get electrocuted by it, but when we are mindful, it can help us, and there is no problem, because we know something about the suchness of electricity. A person is the same. If we do n o t know enough about the suchness of that person‘, we may get ourselves into trouble. But if we know,then we can enjoy each other very much and benefit a lot from one another. The key is knowing a person’s suchness. We do not expect a person always to be a flower. We have to understand his or her garbage as well.

    Reference: Peace Is Every Step p. 68-69 by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Our Life Is a Work of Art

    After a retreat in southern California, an artist asked me,“What is the way to look at a flower so that I can make the most of it for my art?” I said, “If you look in that way, you cannot be in touch with the flower. Abandon all your projects so you can be with the flower with no intention of exploiting it or getting something from it.” The same artist told me, “When I am with a friend, I want to profit from him or her.” Of course we can profit from a friend, but a friend is more than a source of profit. Just to be with a friend, without thinking to ask for his or her support, help, or advice, is an art.

    It has become a kind of habit to look at things with the intention of getting something. We call it “pragmatism,” and we say that the truth is something that pays. If we meditate in order to get to the truth, it seems we will be well paid. In meditation, we stop, and we look deeply. We stop just to be there, to be with ourselves and with the world. When we are capable of stopping, we begin to see and, if we can see, we understand. Peace and happiness are the fruit of this process. We should master the art of stopping, in order to really be with our friend and with the flower.

    How can we bring elements of peace to a society that is very used to making profit? How can our smile be the source of joy and not just a diplomatic maneuver? When we smile to our- selves, that smile isnot diplomacy; it isthe proofthat we areour- selves, that we have full sovereignty over ourselves. Can we write a poem on stopping, aimlessness, or just being? Can we paint something about it? Everything we do is an act of poetry or a paintingifwe do it with mindfulness. Growing lettuce is poetry. Walking to the supermarket can be a painting.

    When we do not trouble ourselves about whether or not something is a work of art, if we just act in each moment with composure and mindfulness, each minuteofour life is a work of art. Even when weare not paintingor writing, we are still creating. We are pregnant with beauty, joy, and peace, and we are making life more beautiful for many people. Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art.” If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at all. When we know how to be peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness. Artistic expression will take place in one way or another, but the being is essential.So we must go back to ourselves, and when we have joy and peace in our selves, our creations of art will be quite natural, and they will serve the world in a positive way.

    Reference: Peace Is Every Step p. 39-40 by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Meditation and Wisdom

    Fellow students of the Way, be careful. Don’t think that meditation comes first and then gives rise to wisdom or that wisdom comes first and then gives rise to meditation or that meditation and wisdom is separate.

    The Platform Sutra
    by Hui-Neng translated by Red Pine

  • Realising our full potential

    Realising our full pontential

    Realising our full potential – Saturday 18th May – Day Course Retreat

    To achieve true happiness, we must understand what is holding us back and learn to develop the mind to achieve its full potential. In this day course retreat we will look into our life purpose and learn practical methods to overcome obstacles and to achieve our deepest wishes. Kelsang Tubchen will teach and Kelsang Lobon will guide the meditations.

    Please book in advance – Thank you!

    The Clear Light Kadampa Buddhist Centre
    St. Kongensgade 40H, st. tv.
    København K
    Denmark

    Details, price and booking:
    Realising our full potential meditateincopenhagen.org

    NB! Guest teacher Kelsang Tubchen who is the principal teacher in Oslo will also be in Copenhagen on the 17th. of May for the evening event “Food for Thought” which includes a meditation and meal in a peaceful and open environment!

  • Revival of Kings Gambit

    The romantics of chess has reason to rejoice. There has been a revival of the Kings Gambit in modern chess. GM’s like Hector, Short and Nakamura plays the Kings Gambit from time to time.

    Here is a wonderful example of the Kings Gambit from Reykjavik Open 2013 were white, S. Jensen, with a mere 1909 in rating, plays IM Urkedal, with a rating of 2474. S. Jensen demolishes IM Urkedal in 21 moves! The rating difference is 564 rating points.

    Links:
    Kings Gambit Accepted chessgames.com

  • Who was he? Shakespeare!

    Michael Wood explores the world of William Shakespeare. Title: In Search of Shakespeare

  • Short demolished in Bangkok

    GM Nigel Short was thoroughly outplayed by the young leading indian IM Roy Saptarshi in Bangkok Chess Club Open 2013.

    Bangkok Chess Club bangkokchess.com

  • The great Way has no gate

    The great Way has no gate;
    There are a thousand different roads.
    If you pass through this barrier once,
    You will walk independently in the Universe.

    The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
    by Yamada Koun

  • The Heat of Movement The Coldness of Stillness

    Generally speaking, when people are active, this gives rise to heat; when people sit quietly, this gives rise to cold. When one is cold, if one moves about this will again produce heat. When one is hot, if one sits still this will again produce coldness. In other words, cold and heat do not depend on the weather but on the person.

    What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of taking over the creativity of yin and yang. That which is strong is associated with yang, that which is yielding is associated with yin. If one is strong but not aggressive, humbly lowering oneself, then one will not be irritable but will be peaceful, and equanimous. If one is yielding but not weak, deliberate in action, then one will not be ineffective but will ascend to high illumination.

    Able to be strong, able to yield, according with truth and with the time, knowing when to advance and when to withdraw, able to be great and able to be small, able to stop and able to step down, able to be passive and able to be active, one can thereby take over Creation, turn around life and death, reverse the mechanism of energy, leave death and go to life. This is like activity producing heat and quiet sitting producing cold; human power can reverse nature.

    Awakening to the Tao Liu I-Ming translated by Thomas Cleary