Will you ever care to know the truth?
We feel truth is always the one that you speak out of your like hearing, doing, seeing or others.
Tell me what you saw when you were a witness to a gory crime? This is what the court wants. And what you saw becomes the truth.
Tell me what some one spoke in a rally instigating communal violence, becomes a truth of what you heard.
Tell me what you think about how good I look , when your wife asks, you speak the truth (well may not be really :-)
Thus our perception of this world through our senses make this all a reality?
I think not , for some reason.
Not that Iam going to argue that the world outside changes and your senses are flawed and some one else will perceive them differently.
If we say the truth is in what you see, then the act of seeing happens within you. When you look at a flower, what do you see? Actually you see the flower...but all is well if you have just done that. The flower then occurs in your brain visually, stimulating many neurons. And once a neuron is stimulated, will it ever keep quite? It will stimulate its connections (probably ...Iam not a neurologist to go deep here, nor you would want to understand all that) being a network. Then what remains in you is just a series of thoughts about the flower. The petals are so beautiful and striking red in the sunlight and so on. A poetic brain may start becoming metaphorical and so on. Thus you had probably a micro second or a nano second where the truth was and then it all became your stimulants in your wirings.
The truth we ask for or claim is all manufactured in the confines of our grey matter.
There is very little gap between our sensory perception of the world and its subsequent interpretation in your brain.
A innocent person has probably this gap a bit more. But he may be called childish and may not be taken seriously.
To this effect, one may argue that a photograph is truthful. As it shows what it sees. But the issue here is the photograph is made sense by our wirings when we see it.
Does it mean you dont shut your interpretation in your brain and keep only perception of senses to get the truth? For example, imagine some one telling you he had a great time in a waterfall under the thunderous water hitting his head. You may imagine the waterfall and the feeling. But is that anything comparable if you are actually there and the chill water splashing on you with the roaring sound...Your mind goes numb, isnt it? You feel a bit more truthful as your senses have consumed a whole lot of stuff from outside and I feel it is just a sudden spurt in the information overload that happens on your brain with too much of data feeds from all directions of your body and senses. Your brain suddenly cannot operate. In fact when you come outside, you will find yourself repeatedly telling ' Wow it was great, it was magnificent'...and when some one asks you how it was, you may recollect and tell but you may end up saying, boy you need to be there and you will feel it exactly.
Thus it is clear the sensual perceptions on this world is more truthful narrative of the experience you get and translations in your brain transforms it to a interpretative world.
What do you get if you remove the obstacle of your mind or its thoughts. Then you perceive truth in its fullest. This is also the reason why a calm mind can see the truth better than a agitated mind and why meditation allows to see you the world as it is better.
On a tangential note, if you start speaking what you observe, the truth is gone as speaking comes out of interpretation of your mind. Thus truth cannot be spoken, nor written, nor seen. In fact seeing is more closer than the other two, but only till the point of interpretation. While speaking and writing are purely interpretative.
If truth cannot be seen, spoken, written, then what is it? It is nothing but the YOU without all of this or your interpreting mind. Truth is YOU.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Dream goals of your life
Time is limited. Yes, this is true especially if you want to achieve something in your life.
Have you observed that time runs fast when you have goals?
Most of us don't know what our goals are in life broadly , I mean till we die.
Why do we need to have goals? Or should we have one at all? All these are questions that have different answers depending on the state of you.
For most of us , most of the time, the immediate livelihood goals hide our dream ones.
However, if you have identified your dream goal you better do that rather than the short-term ones.
If you don't have a dream goal for your life, then start looking for one. That should be your goal.
If you don't want to have such goals and be serious in life, thats absolutely fine. Leave yourself in this state and life is too long that you will some day surface with a goal or it will show up before you.
If you have a dream goal, then I feel you will also automatically manage your time well. Many a time you will find you don't have much of it and every passing day is taking you farther away.
Having dream goals helps you cut all the noise in your life and helps you focus on few things that are absolutely meaningful.
Having them helps you live your life completely rather than having boredom set in you and you start despising life.
All the people who have such goals I believe enjoy life to the fullest and everything is meaningful for them designed to get you there.
Have you observed that time runs fast when you have goals?
Most of us don't know what our goals are in life broadly , I mean till we die.
Why do we need to have goals? Or should we have one at all? All these are questions that have different answers depending on the state of you.
For most of us , most of the time, the immediate livelihood goals hide our dream ones.
However, if you have identified your dream goal you better do that rather than the short-term ones.
If you don't have a dream goal for your life, then start looking for one. That should be your goal.
If you don't want to have such goals and be serious in life, thats absolutely fine. Leave yourself in this state and life is too long that you will some day surface with a goal or it will show up before you.
If you have a dream goal, then I feel you will also automatically manage your time well. Many a time you will find you don't have much of it and every passing day is taking you farther away.
Having dream goals helps you cut all the noise in your life and helps you focus on few things that are absolutely meaningful.
Having them helps you live your life completely rather than having boredom set in you and you start despising life.
All the people who have such goals I believe enjoy life to the fullest and everything is meaningful for them designed to get you there.
News channels , restlessness and addictions
With the availability of news 24 hours, even if most of it is repetitive, I have certainly got into the habit of checking the news online or on TV once in a hour when I am awake. Fortunately I am still not addicted to this. I can still focus on my work and not bother to see the news.
But I feel this is something that is happening to a lot of people. Addiction to 'What next' syndrome is what the news channels want. Its a constant noise in your brain that makes you bite your nails as to what happened to the corruption charges on Robert Vadra or which is the next SUV launch...?
What if I dont know any of this ?
Nothing happens I believe. I will still be able to breathe, live, eat and sleep.
The important thing is to understand this. Even if you keep away this news channel stuff causing constant restlessness in you, restlessness is something that people cannot do away with on even other stuff like the work. You constantly think of work or some other.
The answer to get rid of it is very easy. Keep reminding yourself that YOU can be absolutely fine even if none of these exist. Thats the key. Try by leaving it for few days and be sharply looking at you. You will feel you are absolutely fine without it. Remember it is the mind finally which requires this habit of munching in you. Unfortunately it is wired to you and you identify yourself as that. You should understand that if you starve the mind by observing that it is getting into a addiction of some sort by depriving it of what it wants (the bad ones like this), you may be in a better position to handle yourself.
Iam sure lot of you do this. But this is just for those who is looking for a solution to such addictions.
The more you decide what your mind should chew, the better life you will have!
But I feel this is something that is happening to a lot of people. Addiction to 'What next' syndrome is what the news channels want. Its a constant noise in your brain that makes you bite your nails as to what happened to the corruption charges on Robert Vadra or which is the next SUV launch...?
What if I dont know any of this ?
Nothing happens I believe. I will still be able to breathe, live, eat and sleep.
The important thing is to understand this. Even if you keep away this news channel stuff causing constant restlessness in you, restlessness is something that people cannot do away with on even other stuff like the work. You constantly think of work or some other.
The answer to get rid of it is very easy. Keep reminding yourself that YOU can be absolutely fine even if none of these exist. Thats the key. Try by leaving it for few days and be sharply looking at you. You will feel you are absolutely fine without it. Remember it is the mind finally which requires this habit of munching in you. Unfortunately it is wired to you and you identify yourself as that. You should understand that if you starve the mind by observing that it is getting into a addiction of some sort by depriving it of what it wants (the bad ones like this), you may be in a better position to handle yourself.
Iam sure lot of you do this. But this is just for those who is looking for a solution to such addictions.
The more you decide what your mind should chew, the better life you will have!
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