Khali karon to aawan roko. Bharo to jawan ko
Yahi howe hai sahi pehchan , asli syano ko
(To empty, stops the inflow and to fill the outflow
This is the mark of a truly wise person)
I cam upon this thought and tried to capture it in a verse. Seems so apt when you think deeply about the dynamics
-Ajay
As your consciousness exits within the confines of a particular Universe, certain laws bind your capabilities and imagination.
Humans are on the verse of adding a tremendous potential to their imagination and thus the achievements- Metaverse is here!
Was talking to a colleague and the discussion went into the philosophical realm of how passion and wisdom, which seem to be in relative abundance in comparison of one over the other, in different stages of one’s life, can be balanced. Passion seems to be predominant at younger ages and wisdom a privilege of the older.
So how do the passionate ones acquire wisdom and the wise ones remain passionate?
After several deliberations, here is what seems to be a direction of thought. The passionate young need experience to drive wisdom. So how do you get wisdom faster than you are progressing towards it in the river of time? One way is to pack 3-4 lives every single day. So practically one is living not only his or her day but the day of those 3-4 people who one relates to. This means be genuinely interested and be a part of some 3-4 people’s lives and live their situations through empathy. Be it family members, friends, parents, colleagues. This will accelerate the number of situations one has gone through and add to the experience and wisdom
So what shall the wise do to get passion?
Passion is cultivated over a lifetime. Having a hobby or getting absorbed completely in one’s work seems to be the direction of the answer in this case. Cultivate your passionate interest early in life. The momentum generated will continue for a long time as the years pass by and keep one in good stead of passion.
Is Time is a function of pace
When we look at two different processes involving a change within them, keeping the frame of time the same, we find these processes changing at different pace. While one process appears slower the other faster, as they are relatively changing at different pace with respect to time.
If we change the situation upside down and say that the two changes are actually identical and observe time from the reference of the changes, then the time reference for one change is different from the other. For one the time unit appears to be slower and for the other faster.
Doe this reveals a very important aspect – Time also needs something to change in order to exist. It establishes its reference to a periodic regular change in order to exist. As the change goes through the periodic cycles, time starts getting produced, like the periodic motion of earth around SUN offers the base for the time to exist. If earth was to periodically rotate at a slower speed around Sun, time will become elongated or slower too because we mark 24 hours against the same position where earth was 24 hours ago. Similarly if we keep the time taken for moon around sun to be 24 only then for moon the same time unit would be slower or faster than the time unit of earth. Essentially time needs a periodic repetitive motion on which it basis itself.
The secret to change the pace of time is therefore to change the pace of the periodic motion on which time basis itself. This is where the great secret revealed. We need to look at the periodic motion within us and change its pace to change the unit of time for us. Looking deep inside we find that our breadth and heart beat are the periodic motions and this is what time for us, basis itself on. Understandably the mammals which breathe at a slower rate and have a slower heartbeat rate live longer as the unit of time for them is elongated as compared to those whose breathing and heart rate is faster.
We cannot directly control the heartbeat. Meditative techniques teach us the secret to link the three elements of breadth, heartbeat and concentration. Through the practice of such techniques, we can slow down the breathing rate and heartbeat thus slow the time unit for us. Thus the same second, minute, hours, days and years are slower for us! If we go breathless and without heartbeat at meditation, can we make the time stop, with reference to us?
It’s the desire that drives one to act. As the desire becomes stronger, do we get the focus and impact. In one of the Zen stories i read, the message was clear. Unless you desire God like a man gasping for breadth when drowning in water, you will not get HIM.
There are two challenges here. The first being the direction for this desire. What do we desire? Our beliefs, values and totality of our self defines that. We become what we have been doing for years and the mind then starts desiring things that lie within the ecosystem of the thoughts we have created.
The second challenge is how to invoke the desire. We remain in a state of inertia unless jolted by the circumstances. Read a very good story of a frog in boiling water. As the temperature rises, it battles to adjust, by the time the water is too hot for him to survive, he does not have enough energy to jump, having spent most of the energy in adjusting. Don’t we do that. We do not act and soon our ability to act vanishes even if we desire . Then no matter how strong our desire be, we cannot act and the inertia of non action takes over and we give in.
It’s the every minute battle between keeping the desire on and inertia of non activity that one has to focus on perhaps!
Politics without Principles
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Knowledge without Character
Commerce without Morality
Science without Humanity
Worship without Sacrifice
-Quoted by Mahatama Gandhi in Young India in 1925
Success is in the going, not the getting – in the trying, not the truimph. Success is a personal standard- becoming all that we can be with what we have.
(Copied from a New Year Diary that someome gifted me around 2002 and i kept it with me for years. It carried definitions like this one.)
Just like we do not have a minus Zero (-0) or a positive Zero (+0), they are actually the same, there cannot be a negative infiinity or a positive infinity, as we represent in a mathematical line. Essentially the negative and positive infinity converge, making the line or linearity, circular, repetitive, infinite and yet nothing mathematically.
One way to have something infinite is to make it cyclic. Make it go round and round seemlessely repeating the cycles. Zero is also represented by a ‘circle’ or a cycle ! It is coincidence or an intelligence marking the shape of zero, cyclic, infine and yet nothing?
Genius has a problem ! He has no reference set !
Let us see how. If you are a learned man and you are better than some individuals in a skill or knowledge you naturally disregard or challenge them and expose them to a deeper aspect of that skill or knowledge.
That group then considers you leaned and places you in a higher league of ‘ learned’. So now you have another group of reference. You challenge them as well and then you are considered in yet another evolved league of learned. You go on doing this till you are considered one amongst the best.
So now you are amongst the best few. Now you get to be the best amongst the best. This sequence looks good because each group of people could understand that you are slightly better than them and therefore consider you in a better league.
But what happens when you are a genius! You demonstrate a view or a knowledge or an aspect that is miles ahead to the various groups and nobody can understand because you are not just a shade higher but have a huge gap between what the groups can comprehend and what you are.
Thought Book 