Today’s muse, stillness = mindfulness, motion = change. How do we engage in mindful change. Or, is the human system one in which some are still, providing mindfulness, and others are engaged in motion, providing change. If this is the case, then is there a stasis that occurs in each culture, or in global humanity, with mindfulness balancing change? And do the mindful communicate with those engaged in change? My intuition tells me that there is a complex eco-system operating behind these concepts, one that we are dimly aware of at best.
Would it be possible to quantify mindfulness and change rates, in society, and see how or if they are correlated with other social phenomena? While we as individual’s will assume, perhaps in our ego, that we can hold mindfulness and motion in our individual selves, most culturally violent rapid action has a distinctly unmindful characteristic, and when was the last time meditators were engaged in revolution?
I have to say, the more I reflect on the human condition, the more I see us as operating in a complex web of interrelationships as though the human species is either some sort of super organism itself, or, engaged in creating one. And I will risk a species-centric comment, and say that this collective organic ability seems to be unlike any other species we have on this planet with us.
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