Friday, 24 January 2020

The game of thrones

There are three kingdoms:
Ducks who are rich as hell, but they are blind. The leader of the Ducks is like the all the ducks in his clan, after all that’s how it is everywhere. And all the ducklings are like the ducks in the clan.
Some poor folks called Jokers can see everything but cant do much other than act.
Ducks only listen to Pegions who can convey the messages from jokers who enact them as charades in the public.
Everyone knows only one kingdom would be left in the end in the globalised world.It won't matter what it's called because everyone in it would be an immigrant.

The kingdom would have 12bn people to sustain forever.
Ducks think their stuff will get over, if they allow people from other kingdoms in their territory. Stuff wont get over but their time will and pretty soon.
Once people have enough beyond a threshold and some empathy they are happy to share so we don't need to worry about stuff getting over.
Its the empty spaces we need to fill with people, otherwise we would have perpetual division and conflict.

People numbers wont grow once they are lifted out of abject poverty. Earth has enough resources for our needs but not our greed. Bubbly swedish experts confirm this in their book.
Too much is being spent on binoculars and sticks when all we need is a magnifying lens.
Together the disabled folks need to be carried to the empty spaces with the help of the ducks, pegions and jokers who can see everything crystal clear in spite of their limitations.

We need to get all on the same page but that needs a lot of empathy.
To learn and see anything clearly there needs to be humility and a quiet mind.
A mind which can see its own reflection on every face.
So we need to teach our children to look and be curious. We cant teach them unless we ourselves are looking at them. Its like a tide going in and out reinforcing our learnings. We keep learning until there is nothing more left to learn, Vedanta ;)
If everyone in the new generation can look and see we wont have to play this game anymore.

So the beginning of the game is its end, all we had to do was really to look.

Thursday, 23 January 2020

The action which is always right

We all act from the desire and will of our selves. Thought solidified as desire and crystalized as will power drives this action.
However because of the limitations of thought even with good intentions the actions are incomplete and fragmentary, they solve one problem and create two more. One may have infinite resources and great intentions but as long as the self exists actions will cause conflict and  dissatisfaction.We need to understand if there is an action which never causes conflict, where there is no choice involved in the acting. This action is spontaneously acted by compassion and love, the self is completely absent. Only such action can solve the world's problems and has the force of supreme intelligence behind it.

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

The joy of timelessness

There is just the now when time stops. Past  and the imagined future are put in their right place. One can be there doing absolutely nothing just enjoying the moment with music, connection with
 nature and insights forever. But their is a living to be made and things to be done so the joy comes to an end and is replaced by a mechanical routine and one then craves for a vacation to escape life.

Monday, 20 January 2020

The etymology of our god names

Hanuman is the ignorant man who follows Ram or Hari to become super human. Har means to strip away i.e loose everything one has accumulated in one’s life. Our thoughts, ideas, stuff that we have. Once we loose attachment to everything we become hanu-man from man.
In the hanuman chalisa there is kuber the god of wealth and yama the god of death gaurding  and guiding our actions. So one needs to look at the message in the hanuman chalisa a 100 times to see what Tulsidas means to say.
Btw har har mahadev also is similar, once we get rid of the past and the accumulations we have elements of shiva within us. We are the creator, sustainer and destroyer of our own worlds which plays out within our brains.

The new world

It's our earth, one earth that's all we have. As long as we have division on it there will be conflict, misery and war. We can go to the Moon or Mars but we will spread the same tribalism there as well.
     So before we get lost in outer space we need to heal and make whole the inner fragments. The new world would be one with dotted porous borders and friendly nations.

Saturday, 18 January 2020

Trikaldarshi or common sense

Many of us have solved high school physics questions where a projectile is launched with a velocity and we calculate its landing spot.
In a way we know its present past and future given some context. Can we call it some sort of superpower or is it just some keen observation of how things work?
I really love the way the knowledge of a field can be applied in another, one needs to be a generalist though and not an expert.

Thursday, 16 January 2020

The Quantum brain

Our brains are filled with thoughts, its like a chain reaction of everything we have seen in our life.
In the sane person the thoughts are ordered, in sequence, comfortable like bottles in a bottle factory assembly line. In a manic person the thoughts race. They take the leap of the energy of the creation. A manic brain is at many places and times at once. Words cant portray that state so the outside world only sees a lot of blabber. Finally when the dust settles some events make sense backward in time leading to a beautiful insight.
This is much like the quantum computers we are trying to build.