Mindfulness Here and Now

  WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT IN A (COSMIC) NUTSHELL   Maybe the single most basic question any of us can ask is not ‘Is there a God?’ It’s not even ‘Why are we here?’ To me it seems there’s something even more basic than this. Something more like …     … Why is there anything at all?   And that’s where we’re coming from here. Both my books on this subject - Mindfulness, Now and Zen: The Sceptics Guide to Ultimate Reality (2017) and Mindfulness Here and Now: How to Wake Up (2023) - have dealt with our attempts to answer this ‘Why is there anything at all?’ question. But while they have taken note of the scientific, religious and philosophical arguments made over the centuries, the position taken in the books has been to look more speculatively into the nature of reality. In the next few paragraphs I’m going to give you some answers to the ‘Why is there anything at all?’ question. And these don’t rely on faith, wishful thinking or what someone els...