One Heart Zen

More Pepe Mujica former President of Uruguay:

You have said in the past that you don’t believe in God. What is your view of God in this moment of your life?

Sixty percent of humanity believes in something, and that must be respected. There are questions without answers. What is the meaning of life? Where do we come from? Where are we going?
We don’t easily accept the fact that we are an ant in the infinity of the universe. We need the hope of God because we would like to live.
“With all its ups and downs, I love life,” Mr. Mujica said. “And I’m losing it because it’s my time to leave.”

Do you have some kind of God?

No. I greatly respect people who believe. It’s like a consolation when faced with the idea of ​​death.
Because the contradiction of life is that it is a biological program designed to struggle to live. But from the moment the program starts, you are condemned to die.

It seems biology is an important part of your worldview.

We are interdependent. We couldn’t live without the prokaryotes we have in our intestine. We depend on a number of bugs that we don’t even see. Life is a chain and it is still full of mysteries.
I hope human life will be prolonged, but I’m worried. There are many crazy people with atomic weapons. A lot of fanaticism. We should be building windmills. Yet we spend on weapons.
What a complicated animal man is. He’s both smart and stupid.

Pepe Mujica, former President of Uruguay amongst other "identities" in an interiew:

PM: I think that humanity, as it’s going, is doomed.

Interviewer: Why do you say that?

PM: We waste a lot of time uselessly. We can live more peacefully. Take Uruguay. Uruguay has 3.5 million people. It imports 27 million pairs of shoes. We make garbage and work in pain. For what?

You’re free when you escape the law of necessity — when you spend the time of your life on what you desire. If your needs multiply, you spend your life covering those needs.

Humans can create infinite needs. The market dominates us, and it robs us of our lives.

Humanity needs to work less, have more free time and be more grounded. Why so much garbage? Why do you have to change your car? Change the refrigerator?

There is only one life and it ends. You have to give meaning to it. Fight for happiness, not just for wealth.

I: Do you believe that humanity can change?

It could change. But the market is very strong. It has generated a subliminal culture that dominates our instinct. It’s subjective. It’s unconscious. It has made us voracious buyers. We live to buy. We work to buy. And we live to pay. Credit is a religion. So we’re kind of screwed up.

And it continues... amazing...