Rain

Might we absolve ourselves, to renounce and let it go all
When sunrise lights the soul and illusion just dissolves,
Countless bitter tears are forever lost after fresh rainfall



The desire of a thoughtlessly living man grows like a creeper,
drifts from one life to another, like a monkey looking for fruit in the forest.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world,
one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome,
then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water...
_______________________________________________Buddha

The Size of the Univers

Or counting the number of galaxies to be found just within a little pitch black point of night sky.


Hubble View - 6min.

Forgotten Places

Unlike it happens in the wild nature, when time passes by over the human imprint, often something intriguing inhabits these abandoned places.


By Zac Boyet

Thought it might be the observer, whom while gazing at the emptiness of such an awful shadow, tends to look for some meaning out of its shape.
Maybe because the senseless becomes so unbearable, a past reality asks to be created. Like an instinctive reaction, attempting to calm the lament of the soul.

Beyond Words

Watts says; if we think is because we're manipulating with symbols... then, the ghosts in our languages are in fact the limit of our reason.


More from Alan Watts - Samsara, Dharma, Moksha.

Also aims that fortunately we might not be completely lost after that, because as the Dutch philosopher Aart van der Leeuw wisely said; the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Upside Down World

Everything is upside down in today's world. Michael Ellner wrote it in this way; doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information and religions destroy spirituality.

Night Beat

Night at Alba, Italy.

By Chad Richard & Gavin Hardkiss

Waves

In New Zealand

Video by Andrei Nica, music by Nouvelle Vague.

Wisdom & Process

A Barry Schwartz´s 20 min. speech on wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy.

He ties in together ethics and wisdom, quoting Aristoteles who once upon a time defined practical wisdom as the combination between moral will and moral skill.

Schwartz brilliantly relates how today´s extended practice of just over ruling and giving incentives, when trying to solve several issues, keeps people away from thinking, away from the real development of their potential.

As the professor says, it might be very confortable, even often brings a kind of short term safety, but at the end of the day... also assures our long term mediocracy.


The Real Crisis? We Stopped Being Wise

Llach

Lluis Llach - Laura


In English + subtitles here

The Clearings

The clearing of the woods is a centre into which it is not always possible to enter.. It is another kingdom that a soul inhabits and guards.. since it seems that the nothing and the void -or the nothing or the void- have to be present or latent continuously in human life. And as to not be devoured by the nothing or by the void you may have to create them in yourself .. I also center the heart because it is the only thing that from within our self gives away sound.. And only because of it, the privileged organisms that have it hear themselves. Only the faraway stars, pures, while they are inaccessible to their colonization, will provide the real image of an identical being to its life; innocent, as if it had only been created without having to be born.. It becomes deaf and mute in times, circunstancially, the heart.. It leaves then all place to the operations of the mind that move that way, without any assistance, abandoned to themselves.

Smell of Desire

Enigma


5min.

Was George Bernard Shaw who said that there are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Design Responsibility

Buckminster Fuller was who said that you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.

Seventy-five years later, the Buckminster Fuller Institute keeps promoting this idea, organizing a design challenge and awarding comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.


6min.

Green Communities

This video explores the viability and necessity of a green economy and methods to kick-start one through "green community-centers" in every major city.

Kevin Danaher is an anti-globalization activist, and the co-founder of Global Exchange, and the executive producer of Green Festivals, that happen annually to promote several environmentally friendly ideas and products.


6min.

Courage

You block your dreams when you allow your fears to grow bigger than your faith. Never fear shadows, they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. Because each time we face our fears, we gain strength, courage, and confidence.


1½min.

If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is, or how dark the moment might be...

If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too...

Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear.
For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear...

Swimming

Émilie Simon


I was swimming across the sky
Clouds and angels by my side
Then I realized that I was lonely
And it wasn't such a good thing

I was flying in paradise
In that ocean of dead lights
I was looking for your smile in the wind
But there was nobody there this morning

I believe in your smile everyday
But I know that you're far from my way
When I talk to the moon I can hear you
In the dark I can see, I can feel your light

Volcano

1min.

The elder from this land in Vanuatu says; we live with the volcanoes and we must respect them. If you do so, they´ll bring you good. But if you do evil, then they´ll be coleric. We live with the nature, for sure we can´t be surpised for what we have, because she gives to us. It´s during our youth when we learnt good and evil.



The Stromboli, also known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean, has been erupting nearly continuously for over 2000 years. The island of Stromboli is the tip of a massive underwater volcano, growing as the eruptions continue to pump out fresh lava.

Aurora Borealis

Knott - Northern Lights

Music: Blackmore's Night - The Messenger - 3min.

Creativity

Our fundamental challenge is to give birth to a new society, a new way of being a human and a new planet. That's something never done in our entire history. Earth for sure has manifested this level of creativity, but humans have never been called upon to produce such alternative ideas.

The critical first step is to understand our primary community. That's something beyond our nation state, beyond any culture, any corporation. World does not end up in the industrial society or in our actual economic system.

We fail to appreciate that we are one economy more amongst many, birds have an economy, plants, rivers, oceans have an economy. There are a lot of different ways of making a living.

To step into this new era, we have to re-invent economic activity in a way that is an enhancement to all other economies too. This requires considering humankind as a whole, to consider us a self-aware part of the cosmos, together with the entire earth.

Brian Swimme

4min.

Permission to Hope

Because nature builds in previous achieved levels of complexity, and each advance in complexity proceeds more quickly than the stage that preceded it.

By Terence McKenna

10min.

What's so progressive about media? It's just the spreading of darkness at the speed of light.

Political Systems

This outstanding video reviews the bipolar division of political systems, concerning not just the states, but the whole globe. Wondering about the origins of capitalism, interventionism, free markets. It brings very interesting thoughts about the different conveniences between oligarchy, democracy and republic.

Overview of America

30min.