Witnessing and Exploring North Korea

As a further development of the Global Witnessing Project, which 5 Minutes a Day is part of, we will be focussing on one particular global event during the next weeks. As the tensions between North Korea and the United States increase, Thomas Hübl and (some of) his students will be looking into the conflict from a contemplative perspective. As with previous examples of global events we will be practising to witness and thereby host the conflict in us.

Contemplating news headlines about North Korea and its relations to the rest of the world is not about meddling in world affairs in a presumptuous way. No, sitting on your meditation pillow focusing on Pyongyang for 5 Minutes a Day will not disarm the nuclear arsenal. Our intention is rather an open exploration: Am I able to focus my consciousness on the topic or do I dissociate after a few seconds and then need a while to get back to the contemplation? If we manage to tune in energetically, is there something we can learn about the conflict?

We’ll be posting headlines about the conflict on a weekly basis to help anyone interested in the topic to focus on it. In between, we’ll be sharing our own and Thomas insights into the practice and are also looking forward to hearing from you.

For those of you with little prior knowledge about North Korea, here are 2 videos which explain the North Korea conflict, the first in English, the second in German: