Kaleidoscope

Boundaries that create principles and personalities.!

2010-09-30T23:19:00.000-07:00

We all have various forms of invisible boundaries within us. These boundaries work as the basic blueprint which governs our interaction within the society and within the personal space.

This same blue print create our life's principles which makes us to like or dislike to certain things.

Makes us to have a political opinion, food, drinks, culture, and anything we do, say, or have opinion about.

Eventually with all of these, there creates a person with a personality.

I recognized that there are 3 main sources makes us to inherit these boundaries

1) Our own genetics makeup and due to this what we feel inside us.

2) Our social up bringing which is mainly inherited from our parents, personal experiences,friends and relatives.

3) Created by our own mind by acquiring the perceptions and observations then personal theories built upon them.

This last factor plays an important role in making a person who stand out of the crowd to have own philosophy and principles. These are the people who are creators, philosophers, people who think out of the box or visionaries etc.

Next time when you don't like that piece gherkin in your cheese burger just think why don't you like it..!

it must be one of above 3 reasons.

What if.....We all are in a dream.?

2010-01-16T11:13:00.000-08:00

What if….

What if we don’t exist at all but our consciousness only exists in absolute reality.!

Yes..! Seriously, there is a strong possibility that it could be that.

Although I mention this here, I am not the first one who thought the possibility of this. There are people in many ages considered this as a real possibility.

If you don’t agree, just think about these facts;

1) Time is a concept! A concept within our mind and brain function. Imagine, if we don’t have a sense of time, how do we know the time is passing? Then, would you be able to determine that if there is a beginning and end to anything?

According to the Einstein’s theory of relativity, time is not an absolute. Therefore, time is a subjective matter.

If a small mouse has two years of lifetime and within this two year period, he grows up, find a partner, breed, raise offspring and see the “grand kids” as well. Finally, die in old age. All of these events happen within this two year period. This period is a lifetime for that little mouse!

How do we know if this seems as a 100 year life for that mouse?
Have you noticed, when you were in a boring lecture, the time moves extremely slow? Is that a problem with the clock? No.!
Our brain plays lime slower and tells you that this torture never ends, so, get out now.!

2) Matter do not exists in absence of our consciousness. If you do not agree, just try to understand some Quantum Physics and the measurement problem, or just watch this link for an easy understanding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

What I am trying say is something like this, your tools and your car do not exist when you close your garage door and no one is inside the garage. The mountains and the ocean do not exist when no one is consciously aware about them. All are illusions within our consciousness.

If above two are correct, there is no past future and present in absolute reality. All exist at the same time. But they all are paralleled processes. Our story of life is already told. But we are in the process of viewing that process unfolding.

It is like we do have a movie on a DVD, the story is already told and whole story exists at once in it. There is no time involved. When we watch it, time passes. If we know how, we should be able to move freely past and future. Also, if we know how we should be able to change our life story by changing our conscious expectations.

If you have a valid contrary to this, please do challenge this concept, or if you see in a different prospect with any valid reasons, please let me know. I like to see things in other dimensions. Why? Because, I know I am not perfect.!

Selfish and Selfless world

2009-12-05T15:49:00.000-08:00

In the wild, selfishness is a strategy of survival. This is an extremely valid policy when the basic necessities are short in supply. Also is a valid mechanism for every living thing which include plants.

After millions of years of evolution, we are who we are today, largely due to the selfishness we had within ourselves throughout our evolutional history.

As this remains a fact of life, which is built in to our natural instincts, we cannot blame ourselves for being selfish.

Now, if this is a part of the very nature we are born with, and therefore we can't help being selfish, then aren't we all just innocent beings?

Well..we cannot escape this question that easy.! As human we have another piece of "jigsaw" built into us, which plays a very important role being a human.

That is our intelligence.! If we can call us human, we can consider us as “intelligent beings”. That is why we have law and order in place, build complicated systems, machines, political and social systems etc.

May be still we can identify us as animals in biological terms. However, in psychological terms we are far and far away from animals. Certainly we are in an exclusive club of “Advanced Beings”. And we are still evolving.

If you carefully noticed the last few thousands of years of human history, we have come very far away from our original point and in a much better position than our ancestors; not only in technological advancements but also in our moral and social makeup. This is a sign of more of a psychological evolution. We have passed a brutal and unforgiving social system to a much more tolerant and generous social system which is still evolving. We can see clearly that this evolution brought us more towards selflessness.

Of course it is not perfect and you can see few of them moving to backward direction. As this backward movement is within a minority, we can see that larger majority is fighting back to turn this around.

This has come to effect largely due to the development of empathy within us.

Therefore, I can clearly point out that being more generous is a part of our evolution towards being “Advanced” and end of the line is to complete this process to be as much as possible closer to total selflessness; In other words, achieving one important qualification to be an “advanced Civilization”.

What I mean here as selflessness is not the theory inclined to "I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine" idea, which still found in the jungle, but more into "How do I feel if I try your shoes".

Our Fundamental duties as human beings in the planet Earth....

2009-11-15T19:18:00.000-08:00

Regardless of what ever the spiritual belief we may have in the life before or after it, we have a set of duties and responsibilities we need to fulfill for just being a human in this world.
This could be different from person to person depending on their views. However, when we come to the common domain applied to us all, there is five fold duties in front of us.

1) Be with good moral conduct and develop spiritual/moral practices to much higher levels towards as much as possible selflessness.

2) Have strong good relationship with the other beings and the environment and not being a burden to them.

3) Gather wealth in a legal and a reasonable manner while being least harmful to the No. 2

4) Raise, both generous and socially responsible children.

5) Be reasonably generous, considerate and care for less privileged fellow beings.

I believe that many other duties and responsibilities may be included within one or more of the above 5.
If you comply with all above, you will never see yourself as a wasted and useless life in your dying bed.

A Place better than Heaven.!

2009-09-22T23:02:00.000-07:00

If we are given a choice between heaven and hell, I’m sure everyone would pick the Heaven unless anyone is thinking beyond the accepted way of thinking.

Then, how about this? If I say, there is a better place than the best ever imaginable heaven!

Would you agree?
The concept of the "heavenness" or "hellness" is solely depends on the level of positive or negative emotions one gets. As I explained in my earlier post, the root of every emotion is desire.! Nothing else.!
Now, Can the level of emotion be limitless? If this is to be limitless, then the Heaven or Hell would not be able to satisfy the needs of the emotions. In that case, can we call it heaven?
But as we all know the accepted concept is, that the heaven is a place of maximum happiness.! OK.! Let's leave that aside and bring our attention to the place better than the Heaven.

To begin, let's see how a person expected to be being treated in the heaven? Of course, that would be the full of "foods" to fulfill their desire, in order to keep them extremely happy.
Now, let's think for a moment that we know every individual being is so different when we come to consider the amount of needs in order to make them fulfilled. for example, you see the perfect meal is not the same for everyone. The amount of sugar in your tea or coffee for a perfect "cup" is not same for everyone. - Consider the quality & quantity not the variation-
This shows that to be fully satisfied which is in other words to get to the very peak of the happiness or heavenness, the amount required ingredients are varies among people. Which means your heaven is not my heaven and your hell would not be my hell.
Then we can conclude that the level of desire determines the state of heaven.
Now imagine that if we can reduce the level of desire to a zero or to absolutely nothing; we do not care about heaven or hell. Do we?
After all if we do not have a desire, do we need any fulfillment and therefore a heaven?
Ponder this; If a monkey do not have a desire for a bungee jump, does he care for if he has or not the opportunity for it.?
If a person gets a pleasure from someone scraching his litchi rash, does anyone wish to have that same rash in his back in order to enjoy that pleasure?
Therefore the conclusion is, in the state of not being in Heaven nor in the hell is like being out of the box. Isn't that a third place where you can be.?

I wonder if, we can call this Nirvana..?

Happiness is..an ever growing desire Basket.!

2009-09-22T22:01:00.000-07:00

Happiness.! that is the best thing a person (which include Animals) can achieve. No matter how you could try to explain,the sole purpose of life is to pursue happiness.
Happiness is always achieved when a certain desire or desires fulfilled with the desired ingredients.In other words, if desire is an empty container filling that emptiness with the desired ingredients will create happiness.
Full satisfaction or fulfillment is the ultimate happiness which has no happiness beyond.
Now, the problem we have is the fact that we cannot retain that happiness forever, due to two reasons.
1) The effectiveness of the ingredients we provide would not be remained constant due to decay.
2) The "emptiness" of the "container" will grow even bigger soon after we reached the peak of happiness.
Out of those two reasons, the 2nd one is the most powerful and makes a profound effect on our lives.

Every problem and every effect we face, every technology bit we create on this earth is due to the 2nd reason.The mother of all problems we have is the reason number two. Why? because every desire we fulfill will create more and more desires to be fulfilled. Which goes on and on and will never ends.!

Right.! Are you with me so far.? Now, As I mentioned above, the root to the all happiness or unhappiness is nothing else but desire.! Now, one can ask, where do we get this desire from and why? The answer is they all are within us.! They are coming from our sensory system and the brain. We are the "toys" of that system.!

Can we escape from that and be happy forever? Yes.! Theoretically we should be able to do that.
Then How?
There are two ways,
1) Keep providing those "ingredients" to fulfill the desire as long as it needs them.
2) Stop the growing "empty space" by controlling the desire or cheating it.

we know that we all are day and night trying harder to achieve the number one. that is why you are at work, that is why you are running a business, invention, almost anything you do. Are we successful ? you decide.!
How about No. 2 ? Can we try that? In my openion, that is not going to be that easy. We can try to hold or hide our desire but not very long.
Certainly we can cheat temporarily with the help of drugs alcohol etc. But for how long? when we are back to reality, you will find things are even worst.

In any case, if we are to achieve total happiness by implementing one of the above 2 methods, only the 2nd method is the most practical and achievable if we have the right technique in our hands.

Can a religion provide this technique? I dont know.!

According to my understanding, Buddhism provides a method. But I have not practiced enough or achieved enough yet.! It makes lot of sense, but I cannot speak for that.

Pleasure is best enjoyed, when mixed with another.!

2009-09-18T11:01:00.000-07:00

Pleasure is something we get or experienced by one of our 5 senses, plus the brain.!

If one wants to enjoy a certain sense to get a higher level of pleasure, it is best obtained by getting another sense's help to compliment it, or variation of the same sense.

Examples: Food is best enjoyed when you are in a beautiful surroundings and very nice music. Also it is a fact that the taste of the food is improved when mixed with different tastes.

For some people, watching Sport is best enjoyed when you have a beer for brain stimulation.

Sex is best enjoyed, when you are in strong love with the other person, Clean and smells good, surrounding is romantic etc.

Movie is best enjoyed when picture quality, the sound quality and surroundings are better. and also having pop corns too.

Music is better enjoyed when it is performed.

The Big bang and Small Bangs.!

2009-09-15T00:03:00.000-07:00

If the universe happened due to the big bang, then everything inside it happens due to the results of that first bang.! therefore, all the other "bangs", even our thoughts should happens due to that first bang.!

Do we get thoughts spontaniously.? without any cause to occour that??

When you have a "Good Idea" did you think about it where did that come from?? May be it is due to a result of another, another and another thought....or seeing something triggered some other thought etc.

Can you predict what would you think next.? I guess no one can do that.!

If it is so, Are we just being animated by someother unseen force..?

I think all are it happening due to the "Big Bang".!

Aren't we bit like a computer and the software running inside it.?

If that is so, do we have a free will at all..?

One may think that there is a higher power controlling us. But saying that can we escape the question.??? Who or what controls that higher power..??

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After writing above blog, I wanted to think more about this. And I went to Beryessa library park.

The idea I got is a concept from the Buddhist texts,

Which is basically saying that, all everything around us is conditioned by other stuffs around us, then they works according to the collective force of those conditions. Example: the trees grows according to their genetic makeups but that is not the only factor, the earth conditions, weather, gravity, amount and direction of light ect. contributes to it's overall outcome. In similar manner we may get our thoughts and decisions due to the conditions surrounded us, which include our level of desire and past experiences.

You can get some idea about the Buddhist concept here, http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm

Why do people want to share their Religion and Politics, but not their bread and butter.?

2009-09-14T22:49:00.000-07:00

If you see everywhere in any country, people are very keen to recruit more people to their religion or their party politics. No matter how harder they guard those ideology, still they want more recruits.

However, when it comes to share other resources; no matter how abundant they are, many are reluctant to share it.

Why..?

This is not due to their generocity that they give us a true religion or more fairer politics. But instead due to their own selfish thinking.

They are afraid that one day their ideology would disappear and then they wont be able to keep it for generations to come, and therefore to gain the number power to gain more desired outcomes.

Simply, people wish to live in their world filled with certain ideology and they like to see those ideology remain stronger even after their death. Many have desire running beyond their graves and they keep forgetting that the death is the end of all that.

Good and Bad is nothing but creation of our own Emotions.!

2009-09-10T14:50:00.000-07:00

In this whole universe, there is no good or bad things or events. It is something like, If there is a stone on the ground, and can you determine if it is a good or bad? For most of us; who cares? donsent matter.! That means it doesn't matter in this question it is not relevant.

Also, the breeze move some leaves in a tree. Does it matter to determine it to be good or bad? No.!

Similarly, all events happen and things existed in this universe is just unimportant as long as we don't bring our emotions into the picture.

As soon as we bring our emotion get attached to it, it becomes one of the two.

For an example, someone is hit by another, then it becomes bad for the person being hit and it could be good for the hitter. Also it could be (depends on the reason being hit) bad for many other third parties as long as they try their emotions in the hurt persons viewpoint. It could be other way around too.

Therefore, every policy and every law we make, every religion we follow makes absolutely useless and no requirement if we don't have emotions.

All beings running on their emotions without it they would be like mountains, snow and etc.

Also, we can make a conclusion the soul or conciseness, where ever it existed it is definitely based on emotion.

What is the Purpose of Life?

2008-08-16T21:13:00.000-07:00

The "purpose" very word itself mean nothing if the subject do not have the thinking ability. For example, can a stone ask another stone what is the purpose of being a stone? No! Then to have a purpose it has to be a person or a life. Otherwise, there will never be a word purpose. ( I hope you understand what I mean) Because the purpose will be validated only with the association with the pursuer.

Therefore, a purpose can be there when a thinker is there. then there will be a forward flowing path but there never can be a final goal. If there be a final goal, then we will be back in the square one! what is the purpose of the purpose of achieving the goal?
Therefore, the "purpose" only can be, a never ending flow of events to validate the purpose. Otherwise the purpose of the purpose is no purpose.

Then, when you apply the above concept to the life, there is no finite purpose in life. There only can be reoccurring or never ending flow of events.

So, what is this never ending flow or reoccurring events? That is nothing but fulfilling the desire of our sensory organs! As the desire could never be fulfilled permenantly, the purpose will be there forever.
That means, we are living because we need to fulfil our desire of our sensory system and that urge has become the very purpose of life.
One can also present this as to be happy. But the fundamental source for the desire to be happy is our sensory organs.

The sensory system included, five senses plus the Brain.

Just imagine that if we do not have any of the above six senses, do we care if we are in heaven or hell? and there is no purpose of anything at all. it is just like being a stone. Nothing else!

Brain Switches

2008-07-26T15:43:00.000-07:00

Brain and its functions are equally mysterious and it is unimaginably complex.

However, we all know that every person is an individual and their talents and capabilities are completely unique in each and every way you look at it.
It is these features finally decide the personality of the person and mostly decide the outcome of the person's life and future.
If you take few individuals to do a same task or same type of studies, you will notice that not only that they do it in their own unique way but also some have special talent or interest on any particular subject or skills than the others.

Now, if you take any human brain out of many you will see they all are same almost same weight and same anatomy.
If that is the case how this could happen?
well.. my answer for this is that each individual brain is preconfigured when a person is born, to give certain characteristics to each person. This makes us who we are as each individual person.

Therefore, some may be talented in philosophy, music and other could be talented to be great mathematicians so on.

Also I believe that every brain is capable of every talent but there some particular talents or capabilities are turned on or off by default.

Also I believe that in rare cases, some of these brains have “malfuncions” due to some reasons. You can find these examples as autistic people. These malfunctions could sometimes represented by missing some important social skills, learning difficulties etc. And also we can find them as extraordinary people such as autistic savants who are extremely talented in special skills like music, mathematics etc.

These malfunctions means they are missing important social and other compulsory switches switched off but instead some of the capabilities are not only switched on but also their process power settings are turned to an optimized level.

N.B. Please be aware that these ideas are not made through any scientific discoveries or observations nor copied from any one else’s ideas. These are results of some of my thought experiments and analysis.

How does astrology work?

2008-07-15T02:18:00.000-07:00

Well..! I have had a thought about the same question. but I think that we are in a constantly moving and inter connected system since the big bang. if the big bang is similar to a lottery ball container with a force to move the balls inside, then if we have reliable techniques to calculate every single ball's movements and subsequent hits and linear / non linear movement with other balls. we should be able to precisely tell what ball hit where at a given instant so that we should be able to accurately predict the outcome of the winning numbers.
in the same way this whole universe is a box of lottery balls, which each and every action and even our thought is happening due to linear and non-linear chain reactions till the end of chain reaction. eventually one day stop all everything.
we can apply chaos theory and butterfly effect to this. same way as we can calculate and predict the exact spot where a linear projectile will fall, we should be able to predict the nonlinear actions and therefore predict the future.
if we be smart we can predict the future by using just one or two attributes which related to any given incident.
for an example as we can predict an engine malfunction by listening to a engine's noise. The noise dose not control the malfunction but it is an attribute to the process.
In the same way, wouldn't the astrology's planetary positions be an indirect indication to a future outcome?

Hmm..! Whad do you think about it?

Who has the right?

2006-12-28T16:29:00.000-08:00

We human are most privileged to use this planet in our own rights and we tend to believe that all we have in this earth to be consumed by humans and therefore we could exploit it. But in fact we have the same and equal right with tiny ants, termites and all the other creatures and they also have the same right as we are.
Maybe we might call ourselves most advanced and compassionate species on earth. But in fact we are the most lethal and cruellest animal living on this planet.
Because we have larger brains and so called intelligent, we tend to brutally dominate this world, taken way other creature’s right to exist and gradually destroying this beautiful planet.
We have false belief that we are trying to support the existence of other species in this planet by conserving them, but in reality we are trying to protect it from our own distraction.
Just because we are the most advanced creatures in this planet, do we have more right to do anything? Can we kill other creatures and use them for our own benefit?
How about if there is another even more advanced and intelligent creatures suddenly came in to existence and decide that they will take us to end up in their dinner plate?

Punishment or Revenge..!

2006-06-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

We all in almost every society accept the fact that punishment is a must for any criminal.
But if you try to search the root of this, can’t you see that the punishment is a way of revenge? Ideally the punishment should be a way of preventing the crime happening again. The death penalty should only apply to people who cannot be corrected. In other words, who cannot be rescued or salvaged.
If you see the analogy for the society as an electronic or mechanical system, criminals could be represented as bad or malfunctioning parts. Then, when a part is malfunctioning, what do you do? Try to repair it. If it doesn’t work or if it is beyond repair, we remove it or destroy it.
Similarly, punishment should be a way of repairing or destroying if it is to be in total efficiency.
OK! Now we know what the punishment should be!
Therefore, the best punishment for any crime is a way of rectifying the problematic or malfunctioning mind.
Accordingly, in absolute sense, the criminal should be clearly convinced that it is a crime and shouldn’t do. That means the criminals mid should be brought up to the level of a law-abiding citizen’s mind. Or if it cannot be done, destroy the criminal. In other words we must repair the circuit component or destroy the useless component. Or may be it can be used for other suitable areas useful.

Conclusion: Best punishment is making the offender purely convinced that the crime is wrong and when this is beyond repair, use him for other useful purposes or destroy him if it’s not worth even in that level.

I know the reality doesn’t work this way as long as we have feelings play a major role in making the society.

What is Good?

2006-05-07T04:19:00.000-07:00

Well..There is not exact or “right” way to decide good or bad. If we take this question beyond all the attachments and dependencies, there is no such a thing as good or bad.
This “good” concept is purely subjective. Good depends on the point of observation. The beneficiary from an action can accept the outcome as good.
A man eating tiger can accept the killing a human as good. We cannot prove it otherwise, unless we take the human’s point of view or compassionate view. If you take these two out, killing a human could feel no different from feeling like falling a fruit from a tree.
In the absolute sense, everything is part of the nature. But neither good nor bad!

But, as a society or as a human we can generally categorize “good” in to the four below,

1. Universal good - Save someones life
2. Personal good – personal preferences
3. Conventional good – Agreed according to Law etc. in common interests.
4. Cultural good – depends on background beliefs etc.

World is Everything..!

2006-05-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

World is everything! In a time it is funny and beautiful, and another time it is weird crazy and cruel or any word you could use to explain it. Always that is true! That is why I see “The world is everything!”

What is Beauty? A Function of Mind..?

2006-05-02T02:37:00.000-07:00

Why a flower is beautiful? A woman is attractive to a man, animals attract to opposite sex etc, we all know, this is not a new concept. These all down to the default configuration of our brain! Functions of mind!!

Well.. if so, can we imagine why few others love some strange things and habits? Are hey having wrongly configured programs in their brains?
But you know, who is right? We majority programmed to work similarly therefore, can we call we are right and others are wrong?
Funny! Isn’t it?

This That and the Other..

2006-04-30T15:44:00.000-07:00

Never ending this that and the other things to do in an average persons life. We do start all those things since the time we barely started to walk as a toddler and keep doing things in our lives until we get very old and ready to die!
But all those things we do, what's for? Just for nothing at all!
We come empty handed and do things, this that and the others and we go empty handed. Perhaps you might say, "That's life!".
But is that all? and is that enough? can we truly be satisfied with that?

This, That and the other all but Nothing...! Useless and Empty...!!