Diplomatic Answers

Politicians engage in it (diplomatic answers) most of the time....

To say an 'yes' to this observation, it doesn't need our-own-diplomacy :)

But, try to be 'diplomatic' with an expert attorney who cross examines us as a 'crucial' witness in a case involving an alleged crime of massacre of a huge magnitude! Even the Judge is wary of not-objecting to it (that diplomatic answer...).. Every body is concerned to get to the bottom of 'the' truth!

“Never try to lie to a doctor and a Vakil” ... it just means, diplomacy doesn't save ... (the 'other' side is anyway going to get at you!)....

And yet,
we find quite a lot of us, engaged into such 'diplomacy' most of our waking hours! (Hey, even here I am being a little diplomatic!... Was it 'quite a lot of us'?... or.... ? well ... :) a smiley is the diplomacy !)

A sentence is a group of words that makes a 'complete' sense... (when I took upon myself a spiritual journey, I had to re-examine the nature of sentence, in a 'yet-another-way' ... :)... Every valid sentence is a kind of conclusion, assessment, judgement etc... one way or the other!...
And it is always ... only a 'mind' that would churn out a sentence.. That is verbal thoughts!... When such 'sentence-wala' thoughts are 'conspicuously-absent'... we tend to 'claim' that our mind was 'blank'!... Really?

Really-so, is it ?

When I looked around , just sitting on the chair, comfortably seated.... not a sentence-wala thought.. for a few moments... it did 'seem'... as if I too was 'blank'... a mind that is still... I just glanced around... a 180° turn, with no specific purpose ... there was nothing in it... but then a question occurred “what if, there was one object in that room, which the mind could not 'identify'?”... (like some new alien creature made a small movement at a corner?)... The glance-across would have applied an instant-brake at that object/creature/whatever!...
It simply translates thus: 'the mind 'identified' every single object in that hall/room, and applied a well-known-label... or an algebraic-label (let us call it 'x'..!!) at least...
This labeling... is it not a complete sentence (not exactly published by the mind-yet?)?.... The 'process' of identifying... does it not involve a huge thought-process, involving a vast amount of data exchange?... The data base of memory provides the label... I tried to imagine the 'codes' if it were written down in a design-format, instead of 'low-level-language' which computers use as a default-template of its embedded system!

Oops!... Non-verbal thoughts!!! The size is incomprehensible!

Well, in that case... try with verbal thoughts , as an humble beginning... I felt...

That is when I looked at diplomacy... diplomatic answers... :-))

Diplomacy is a very good tool... to get along with worldly-life... but when it is not really-warranted, a habitual-offender finds the spiritual journey difficult, when this diplomacy works like a spoke in the wheels! (Healthy relationships, obviates any kind of diplomacy in its interactions... The chief-of-armed forces was being undiplomatic, when he said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.".. as the 'result' of attacking the opponent by surprise, and inflicting huge damage to lives and property! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quotation )

Is/are... our 'answers' to questions asked-or-unasked.... (even answers within ourselves... more-so, within-ourselves)... 'the' bare truth?... was my concern (my-own, of course... applies only to-me, and for-me! That's diplomacy again :) ...)

The mind feels 'throttled' initially... 'acceptance' faces a 'genuine' challenge... diplomatic-acceptance collapses!

If we sustain, and manage to cross over that breaking-point... prioritising becomes a little effortless!

When people around (or we ourselves , within), try to ask for 'why-so'... the answers often turn a little diplomatic,... and truth is avoided... if not avoidable, it is camouflaged... if not possible, it is at least sugar-coated... to make it as soft as possible on the listener! It is only when relationships are not relevant, with the other... we are 'blunt'!... Now, when it is our own internal relationships, within ourselves, with ourselves... is it not our-mind that needs the pampering?... Then, that-diplomacy assumes sophistication!... When we decide, diplomacy doesn't work any more within-ourselves... acceptance dawns!.. When acceptance doesn't find any resistance, it deepens!

I leave it to the readers, to try to find out for themselves, their 'areas' and expertise at such superfluous diplomacies... My indicative examples would seem too stupid, primitive and non-enthusing!

Diplomatically yours,

psn (6th November, 2015)