domingo, 25 de mayo de 2014

LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG NOS RECUERDA QUE TODOS ESTAMOS CONECTADOS

Hoy traemos un link a una conferencia TED (Tecnologia, Entretenimiento, Diseño) grabada en San Francisco con el cineasta Louie Schwartzberg. Un artista de la foto que hace de su estilo time-lapse de la naturaleza un obra de arte. Con sus cámaras de alta velocidad une el tiempo y el espacio, revelando conexiones entre las formas de vida y la naturaleza, bellezas que permanecen invisibles a nuestros ojos. 

En la charla Louie quiere compartir con los demás su felicidad por la sorpresa de la naturaleza y la vida, y nos regala con una película que empieza con la reflexión de una niña sobre la imaginación y con la meditación del benedectino David Steindl-Rast sobre lo que debe ser "un buen día", un día vivido sin miedo y agradecidos del continuo milagro de la vida.

Cuando nos sentimos agradecidos, estamos recibiendo, nos damos cuenta de lo que está sucediendo y lo vivimos con intensidad. El agradecimiento es un estado que nace en el corazón. Es como una oración, un canto a la vida. A Louie se le nota que está agradecido con la vida.


La película de Louie es un buen motivo para reflexionar desde Mendaza, Pernanbuco y Sebastopol. Hay que vivir con fe, entendida la fe como confianza en la vida, y vivirla compartida con los demás, en el respeto a los demás, porque todos y todo estamos conectados.





Texto de la meditación de David Steindl-Rast sobre "A Good Day":

You think that this is just another day in your life…
It’s not just another day.
It’s the one day that is given to you – today…
It’s given to you.
It’s a gift.
It’s the only gift that you have right now…
…and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.

If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is…
If you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life
and the very last day
then you will have spent this day very well.

Begin by opening your eyes, and be surprised that you have eyes you can open
That incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enjoyment.

Look at the sky.
We so rarely look at the sky.
We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going.
We just think of the weather, and even with the weather we don’t think of all the many nuances of weather…
We just think of “good weather” and “bad weather.”

This day, right now, with its unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again..
The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now…

Open your eyes. Look at that.

Look at the faces of people whom you meet.
Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom.
Not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors.
We all go back so far…

And in this present moment on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here like a life giving water if you only open your heart and drink.

Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us.
You flip a switch and there is electric light.
You turn a faucet and there is warm water, and cold water, and drinkable water…
a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience.

So these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which you can open your heart.

And so I am wishing you will open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through you.
That everyone you will meet on this day will be blessed by you,
just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch, just by your presence.

Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you.
Then it will REALLY be a good day.



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