Inter-Viewed perception

When somebody asked about perception, the stupid, over-ambitious sly-eyed part of me, inside me jumped out of excitement .... 'hurrah'... here is somebody keen to know and we can share what we know.... spiritual aspect of perception..... (This joy did not last more than a few moments! The navigational dexterity, in reaching & looking at the 'details' of the query, acquired over.... over-half-a-decade, took the lead to demolish this joy, when it became clear that it was just about materialistic perception, about which the clarity was sought... and that too.... the seeking was by people who insisted on “inter—view” not just own view, or the view of others which could have a potential of becoming 'my-view'!)...

So, I proceeded to tone down the precept of perception to that extent, hoping that it might eventually 'pave the way' towards this one, which is .... at once my friend and enemy!

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There were other answers, which were perhaps far better, and of wider acceptance, especially the one, quoted out of works from 'father of objectivism' , though it was a lady! (a matter of perception ... you see....!!!)! I am myself a great fan of that theory, and no doubt, its author too!

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precepts persists only due to perception, perhaps.

psn(27^th January, 2013)

quote:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130118125925AAhKsEK

What is perception? Please Kindly explain in detail and with examples.?

(Details of query):

What is perception and how it is related to organizational behavior?

My friends were given this topic in an interview and was asked to write something about it as essay. They told me that they are giving same topic to everyone right now. So am planning to go for interview. If this topic comes up I need to write it and for that I need to understand it....

I have googled but in most of the site incl. wikipedia they have used difficult words and statements so its difficult to understand.. So I want people's views on this topic

Inter-view Answer :

People who have organised the interview,
are aware that candidates are going to 'prepare' well, using google, copy/paste etc...
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They are seriously interested in finding candidates who have deeper levels of perception, and thus, they also "know" perception in-depth... out of experience (experience is not job-experience... such skills are vouched by documents, no need for an 'interview' to test it..)... experience is 'life-experience'... When a human being is recruited, interpersonal skills are of great importance, because they (the hirers/recruiters) are trying to find out how well the candidate is going to be flexible, less resistant to productivity, very good at 'team-spirit', etc... For all this, tutoring on a day-to-day basis, is simply not practical... A resourceful candidate is going to be an asset.... Resourcefulness is directly relative/proportional to "PERCEPTION" capabilities... That is what they like to know... (If they are good at this skill themselves, they can 'smell' genuine, first hand knowledge about perception from the very body language, though the verbally spelt out answer might be a 'copy-paste'!!!
Best wishes.

Attentiveness!

We have lost our attention span, lost it to our ability to outsource almost anything, ... ... our attentiveness even, ultimately!!!
Sleep quota is getting reduced.... so also is qualitative sleep....
Years ago, there was a monitor, who was not even a human being!
He scales walls.... It, the monitor,.... scales walls.... so he was useful, to some extent, in contingent situations, otherwise, a monitor was left alone...
But when I heard of a monitor for the first time, he (a human), wielded a scale, instead of those innocent creatures who merely 'scaled' (I had a tough time, trying not to look at the class monitor of our school, as a lizard in the hands of our teacher who found it easy to keep us 'attentive' thus!)
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For a long time, 'monitor' did not make any appearance in any guise, in my life...
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Then came the gadgets.... Blood-pressure Monitor, sugar-level-monitor... and now this monitor, which keeps my attention riveted most of the time.... yes! This inflexible PC-monitor, is what I mean of course!
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We hardly monitor ourselves now... Back to school days?..... “monitoring” is now heavily outsourced..... so the 'attentiveness' is drained/depleted/squeezed-out/whatever! ....
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Attentiveness, linked in the 'army-way' (Stand, ATTENTION!).. stiff, rigid, but yes alert...
At ease.... (hardly relaxed even..... even during sleep!)
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Attentiveness versus Relaxation... it is okay to outsource it as long as we can fund it.... but very unfortunately, this spirituality (the spirit business, ... so spirited it is...)... is inflexible about that outsourcefullness!
Attentively yours,
psn(18^th January,2013)



references:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_monitor

a popular legend has it that Shivaji's general, Tanaji Malusare, used a monitor with ropes attached for climbing the walls of the Sinhagad fort in the Battle of Sinhagad.

Inflexibility

Why did I not think of it earlier?

These handsets, mobiles are rigid, stiff, fragile, needing that attention, even to 'care'!!!

(Care can be possible without paying attention to something.... that is how ancients used to entrust kids at Gurukul, and ensure that kids become flexible to the situation, retaining the sanctity of the core of the being, and thereby, adhering to the purpose of human life!)...

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Now when the batteries have become (or, are hopefully going to be) flexible.....

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It is not needed to become stiff, handling those stiff mobile-handsets, for most of the waking hours!

The mobiles could henceforth lose their hitherto-inflexibility! (There is an image in that news item's link, web page!.. I suppose it is some hand held gadget, needing a battery.)

Quote:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/korean-scientists-develop-worlds-first-bendable-battery/316270-11.html

“Korean scientists develop world's first bendable battery”

unquote:

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When are we? ...

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What is the impediment in us... Not the battery (that 'life'... ).... it is the subtle en-casing..... in-case we are interested!!... maybe.

Battered and yet yours,

psn(18^th January, 2013

Proof of re-birth, ill-Located!

Questions related to 'belief-related' concepts seldom evoke convincing answers... It is quite obvious....

But, when a 'clearly avoided-answer' appeals to the asker!

That was the surprise which appealed to me as an answerer!

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(Usually, I do not attempt answering such questions, like those related to 'proof' of intangible, abstract, experiences which are not even available at sensory levels.... But, this time, there seemed to be a 'feel' of the asker's mind which clearly indicated that the seeking was more about the reason for such a question to crop up, rather than the looking-out-for answers! The asker seemed to know already, that those who are going to 'quote' events and instances are not really going to make any 'dent' in the minds of others who simply ask, out of that tickle of curiosity!)...

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I looked at the location of the 'possible' proof ... (in a subtle way, forcing acknowledgment of the possibility that the issue-itself...of/about 're-birth' .... was too popular to be now dismissed as a 'myth'!)...... In those ancient fables, the very location of that rare herb which is going to cure that rare ailment that afflicted the 'princess' used to deter the 'aam-aadmi' from even 'thinking' about attempting to fetch it, and therefore, the wait was for that super-hero, who would benefit from unusual courage, extra-ordinary luck, benediction from destiny and all those things, and the reward was commensurate to the feat!... I felt, that the very mention of location, would deter any possible attention from a casual mind.... But it does not look like a casual mind, when the answer got picked!... The 'picking' of it seemed a reason good enough, to 'relocate' the answer here!...

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It is up to us now to place it where it ought to be-long.... re-birth is a long-term-issue, 'after' all... yes, after-all... that is why perhaps, the longest journey ever, which ought to receive the highest preparation-priority, usually receives scant attention, till it is now-too-late!

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The question, answer, and its link:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130117002318AAuJlh6

Question:

Is there any proof that we will be reborn when we die?

Answer

If there is any proof, where can such a proof be?
Either it is an accurate prediction of the future, already available right now, and can be preserved for some future user to verify with actual happening.... (not of much use for us, for our own sake!)
Or,
Our own perception deepening beyond sensory levels, so that we 'see' (vision etc.)

(unquote:)

So.... 'What next'..... (about it, of course!)?

re-berthed, and therefore, yours,

psn(18^th January, 2013)

What is in it for me?

What is in this question, for me..... that it kept haunting me, every time I had to take a decision... is what intrigued me during a later part of my life! (Till then, my tiny brain wasn't even ripe to conceive of such queries!!)....

It was one of the quizzical ones out of many questions that used to crop up, when that 'watching' or witnessing of the mind got started... It was too early to blurt out the 'experiences', I felt... not that it was not interesting.... in fact, the spice in it, the humour in it got faded out when I now try to express it after so long a time! (The other questions were like,..... why am I like this? Why do some things affect me invariably... why am I not able to get myself to do, what I know as, I ought to be doing.... etc. All these questions 'seemed' to revolve around a common hub... It was not to be so! Each had a tiny and subtle hub underneath it, and just presented an illusion of a common hub, or a common disc/platform!)...

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What is in it for me?.... (That ambitious shopkeeper keenly tries to observe the prospective customer, and tries to guess.... if his merchandise has been able to answer this very question within that customer.... If that customer's eyes happen to widen a little, or if it seems to linger on something for a fraction of a moment longer than that 'logical-scale'... the shopkeeper ought not to miss it, if he means business!)....

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“Good” nurses at mental asylum happen to 'manage' the inmates a little more easily, when they are very familiar with this query and its answers/choices that is within the reach of the inmate out of the data base stored in that inmate's memory!!!

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A 'Win-win situation'... is a phrase, which declares what is in it for both....

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We can thus go on....

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Please see.... there is something within us that decides as to... up to what extent we are going to become receptive.... so as to expand the list of items..... within us..... that would help us to 'tick' with what is available in that something in front of us, about which we are going to decide .... to deal with it or not.... after matching the 'what is in it for me'!... (The ash from burnt coal did not mean anything to anyone, till somebody could conceive that it is a very good raw material for bricks... that fly-ash-bricks... now so popular!... What is going to be there in ash? It is a mere residue of everything that is burnt down... was the popular 'way of looking at' it!).....

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The 'way we look at' things/everything-around.... seemed to matter!

(Oh! It is the same old problem of 'perception'... said my mind... but I got hold of myself... wait... there is a repetition trap.... the mind is repeating a dialogue... it is judging.... not open enough!)...

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What if... what if I try to redefine myself?.... But how?... Changes, that I found people achieved, in their struggle to become amenable to the situation, ended up usually as mere 'cosmetic changes'.... Beyond a point they only added to their burden, of having to bear the superficial changes, and maintain that 'changed appearances'... (the consequences of such cosmetic efforts are of huge magnitude and impact... but not a subject matter of discussion right now, here).

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So, redefining has to be at core level.... Now comes the 'cruel' part of the travel... Travel, getting cruel?.... Yes, perhaps... it is not just a sight seeing... it is about 'sighting-the-seeing' tools.... and so, anything that is hindering has to be simply chopped off... mercilessly!

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It is about identifying something within us.... that can get identified with anything outside, but avoiding that 'trying-to-seek anything identical in it (rather, without even 'seeking' to match anything ... no match making... no force matching... no logic... )... In a rather fuzzy expression, it is about becoming 'one-with-it'.... There is an advantage, and which is also a 'check' (a crude check), as to whether we are doing it right.... there is no 'action' warranted ... in the sense... action is not dictated by the mind.... action simply happens... it flows forth.. if needed(by the situation)!...

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The whole idea of trying to look at why we are persuaded to answer the question within us (what is in it for me).... is that ..... as we try and maintain awareness of this.... we would slowly happen to look at ourselves with that 'witnessing aspect' ... through that witnessing aspect, rather... which is considered to be of great significance from spiritual point of view.... it triggers into operation an inward-process, may be initially a bit subtle even to 'feel' or know about it... but in due course, we can clearly see that 'engrooving' of it.... this process is a kind of multi-tasker... it demolishes the mind-blocks, expands the range of perception from within, and does many such things on a 'need-basis', leaving us free on a 'need-to-know-basis'...!!!

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As a sort of 'logical' exercise... please see, there are a few people about whom, we are unable to guess... as to why they like do what they are doing... as to why they are the way they are right now... or.... a very simple question would be ... “what is in it for them?”!!!.. If such people seem to attract our attention towards them (for any reason what-so-ever)... then, this 'process' is in its 'invocable form' right now, within us... for sure.. and it is a question of our sustained effort at it.... no risks what so ever.... no cost-based-efforts even... the benefits are immense.... over a period of time, this question 'what is in it for me' would get dissolved, paving the way for the other kind of dissolution!

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disillusioned-ly yours,

psn(11^th January, 2013)

Thought Verification

I felt like verifying a “thought-of-the-day”....

Not mine...

It belongs to a great being... “Shri Lao Tzu”.....!!!

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Quote:

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

Source:

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/speakingtree/spiritual-thought/lao-tzu-115542#commentlist

How to verify?

There was a problem with the word 'deep'....

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I was sure, I am yet become good at 'deep'.. love, whether it is about offering or receiving... after all, I am one of the 'aam-aadmi' (mango people)... trapped in so many problems, which never allows me to focus only any emotion deep enough...

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Anyway, I was at once reminded of two noble people.... One of them 'lost his head' to others in the process! It was taken by force, as a 'trophy' after brutally mutilating the bodies of both of them...

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I had no doubt that they loved me “deep”.... very deep.... in the process, they offered their lives trying to protect me!... And I can clearly see, they became courageous, in the process of offering love!...

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The other part.... there are many more waiting to offer their lives similarly.... (I heard a rumour in that idiot box that a few of those, waiting to offer their lives, refused to eat, as a protest against the brutal mutilation by the enemies, and..... ).... When I look at the two who offered their lives, and the others who are inspired, instead of becoming scared, I could experience having 'felt' and received strength!!!

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A costly verification indeed!... But, I am fortunate, that I did not miss this chance to look at 'deep' love though it was deep only from those two, and yet others in uniform (I am yet to evolve to that level!.. But I am determined to do my best!)..

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Now,

I wonder how that thought would look, if I tried the same sentence, replacing the word love, with the word, 'Trust'... !

(Oh! Trust is going to make the problem tougher for me... to imbibe, and try offering trust, thus offering strength, and experiencing courage!)

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Deeply yours,

psn(11^th January, 2013)

Entertainment

Entertainment.... or .... perhaps by now.... even the 'seeking of it'... seems to have occupied the quality time of our life so much that.....

Maybe.... it is worth..... maybe it is time, that we should be taking a look .... at how we have come to view it.... and as to how much this 'view' has affected our very well-being!

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A working parent.... seems to be satisfied when that parent provides wholesome entertainment to one's 'own' child/baby...... of having done (fulfilled) one's duty...... After all, it takes a lots of effort to entertain someone... it is about providing 'quality time'!!! Even the meaningless noises that is used to communicate with the baby seems to convey only some sort of cajolery! Utterly needless, but eventually ends up sending across a message that a parent is 'meant' to entertain a kid at all times!

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A guest to our home 'expects' to be well-entertained.... and this expectation is directly proportional to the relativity with the host!... Any lack of it or a deficiency will be deemed as 'neglect of relationship itself!'

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A visiting dignitary is 'provided' with wholesome entertainment, only to keep his time spent with us fully occupied....

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Somewhere the kings used to spend more and more of their time in entertaining themselves, and the noblemen around took it as a cue, to follow suit... Generations of all those who could afford it, took it as a mark of nobility to keep themselves entertained all ways....... & all the ways!

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This entertainment 'value'... has perhaps permeated deep inside us!

(The idiot-box, PCs, i-Pods, ear-plugs, .... the bulk of 'gadgets' find the 'entertainment' quotient to be the real criteria to find good marketability, stable market-share... the manufacturers of it, become the richest corporate in least time!)

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Even a gangrape is good enough to entertain us...

Even the news about a gangrape is good enough (when we lack the courage to do “something about it.....” .... that 'something-about-it' can be interpreted to suit our liking.... that is exactly 'the entertainment' about it! )

Sadism.... (if it is not entertainment, if it is not about maintaining a Uniqueness in seeking of entertainment... then what else is it?)....

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Sensational news.... has better appeal .... entertainment quotient in it?

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Brilliant youngsters, well accomplished at academics.... find it too difficult to spend a couple of days at a remote village, where there is 'nothing-to-do'.... (they find it 'full-of-action' holidaying at some posh resorts, sea-beach hotel... etc)... There are some elders at those desolate villages, who are too old , too feeble to take up any productive work... they do not know boredom... yet when we look at them... we blink first... they seem to show infinite patience to just sit comfortably for eternity!

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Whenever our mind asks.... “What is there in it for me?”.... please see, if it is a seeking of some kind of entertainment.... in a subtle way even.... there is something that is taking us away from the main-stream of the 'natural way of our being'... It is just a question of time, when something called boredom would take over, when we are supersaturated with entertainment, and then psychosomatic disorders will be the order-of-the-day!

Entertainingly yours,

psn (9^th January, 2013)

Why do we cry?

Such a simple question.....

Simple looking at least.....

Now, I tend to look at it so.... when we find that the bulk of the people 'become' emotional first, a bit at least, and then they attempt the answer..... In doing so thus, they miss that reasoning.... the reasoning which needs the backing of logic more than emotion, for this question, in the 'present-form'... (“present-form”.... is a politically/diplomatically convenient phrase, to get rid of a 'situation' .... 'for the present'..... thanks to politicians, who taught us this phrase, and more importantly, the 'use of it'... when they deal with all 'quota-related-bills'!!!)..

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The present form of this question is simple....

'why do we cry?'.....

(Now we have a proof even.... about this question being simple, and logical.... That hero of the 'hit' film/movie... The Terminator—Judgement Day... the Robot, asks this question in three 'forms'... to 'show' emphasis on logic....

1)What happened to your eyes?

2)Why do you get tears?

3)Now I know why you cry!....

(the third one is not a question, but a statement, a declaratory statement, the intention being a noble one.... you see... the learning curve is on and on and on, unlike we humans... it is a robot!!! this statement is a seeking, 'just in case'..... Just in case, this robot 'calculates'.... just in case I am wrong... let that kid tell me, 'why else do I cry?' ... Not that this kid is likely to 'volunteer' that additional 'why-else'.... Aah! These humans.... they lack that lustre with logic.... they struggle to give even the primary/priliminary reason of 'why'... are they going to tell me 'why else'...? ...)

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The question can be simplified further, if we ask the other-side-of-the-coin.... “How are a few of us able to control crying?” .... (Due to old age, this control dwindles... debilises... or... whatever...!... the word is 'debility', but “debilises” adorns the 'detached-look-at-own-self' and our physical frame better!)...

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So that was the question.

Psn( 2^nd January, 2013)

The question:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121230192801AAqioZb

Why does a person cry ?

My Answer:

Very specifically,
it is due to the inability to contain the sudden surge of energy, caused due to emotion...
(Many people avoid crying easily, though they too feel sorrow etc...
As a person approaches old age, this person notices that crying happens a bit out of control!...)
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Crying is not related ONLY to sorrow/sadness/etc... (right now, pain/sorrow/hurt is the emotion that we feel deepest, that is why most people connect it to sadness/sorrow/etc... We do have tears of Joy!)

Thank you, Mayan 21st December, 2012

Somebody from the distant past (Mayan), seemed to give me a great gift on this day!

A whole lot of people around are all at once.....

alert,

aware,

focused,

watchful....

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not at all tensed up (seldom do we worry about something so bizzare , unknown, and most importantly ...'said to affect a lot many of us at a time'..... we are worried only about being singled out!)...

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not at all... 'expecting'.... (we really don't know what to expect!)...

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and, a lot many such “elusive” conditions that these spiritual gurus lay down for that 'evolvement'!

Many of them, so easily fulfilled!

“They” say (the 'wise' ones...).... “go about your routine, everyday, with that God, Him, at the back of the mind all the time.....”... Here, it is almost that... we are doing our routine, with that Mayan-21stDec2012, at the back of the mind.... that too, a lot many of us at the same time.... Where as, usually, we 'appear to do the same thing together, simultaneously,' but.... at the back of the mind , it is totally dissimilar.... that is why perhaps even the 'exciting' things of yester years have turned sour even the 'first-time'!

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True, there is a similar occasion, like midnight of 31^st December... each year...

we are all focused on one thing .... the stroke of bell announcing midnight, the dawn of new year...

but at the back of our mind, there are a lot of dissimilar things.... of the past.... about the future... which makes us so different from this unique “21st December, 2012”!!!

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(Maybe, nature too has chosen to celebrate this kind of energy, charge, ambiance created by so many of us so well focused..... that.... it decided to extend the 'lease of our life, our planet..'!!!

Hopefully yours,

psn( 21^st December, 2012)

Timing!

Bad... Very bad it is.... we feel bad... things go bad... when.....

When that 'timing' does not rhyme with the need of the situation and our actions....!

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Some people even struggle about 'sense of time'... and only then,..... to think of that 'timing'..... and get caught asking an “English-man” ... thus, : Sir, what is time? (instead of what is “the” time...)... 'Time keepers' are a humble lot .... please... spare them of the 'response-ability' to vouch for anything here....

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There are a few... my geography teacher at school, for instance... who is at once into timelessness, when that teacher starts 'delivering' geography in our class... We all share the 'pain' and time stands still for 40 minutes! I even used to wonder if that teacher would render all the 'lullaby-singers' to be jobless... babies of any kind, on an as-is-where-is condition can be guaranteed to be put to sleep with one 10-minute lecture of this teacher!... There was no 'recording' device within our reach, in those days.... or else, this tone, this inimitable style, etc... would have been a much sought-after-software by many people... like our politicians who want no disruptions in parliament...!

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Some movies have unexpected success (run-away hit/success!)... just because of the 'timing'... A great movie would have failed to meet the expectations of a large audience, who suddenly find this small, low-budget mediocre movie to be a great relief/solace to come back to their normalcy after that depression due to disappointment!

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I had early taste of it, when as a kid, under the 'supervision' of my dad, we set about to hunt the rat that used to tear apart almost anything around the house.... clothes, books, bedding .... anything!.. we were armed with sticks, and that broom stick's handle end to be used to smother it... I could never land a hit on that swift tiny creature with whatever weapon I was weilding! So effortlessly it was able to dodge my blows!... The elders managed to hit it, while we were only able to support in diverting its runway backwards... Much later, I learnt that it is better to 'sweep' sideways, so that the sync is better than my ability of 'timing' the hit at 90-degree-angle while it is on a run!... A sweep in an opposite direction renders it senseless for a fraction of a moment, when it is swept along with the handle end of that broom towards a wall or so..... and then very soon, and very swiftly, make a brief hit not losing too much time in lifting the weapon too high... the third hit can be severe, if we have the patience to later on swipe spills of its bleeding nose etc!... Feeling very much 'humiliated' by this tiny creature, I made it a point to 'master' the skills to match the take-off speed of that house-fly!... I managed to catch the house-fly with bare hands (now, the agility is worn off, of course!)... The point is, sense of timing is indispensible with almost anything and everything that we do in our lives..... except... except.... the walk on the pathless path... spirituality! Here it is not the 'timing' that matters... it is not even matter that matters... nothing matters!.... nothingness, literally!

With ills of ill-timings,

yours untimely,

Psn(17^th December, 2012)

Silencer

When I was attempting to practice at being silent, and attempting to explain silence,

and yet attempting to maintain silence while explaining about silence, the following

types of silence occurred to me....

Please see if some of these seem 'amusing' to you too !

1. Deafening Silence

2. confusing Silence

3. awesome Silence

4. Frightening Silence

5. eeric Silence

6. mysterious Silence

7. deceptive Silence

8. peaceful Silence

9. serene Silence

10. blissful Silence

11. deep Silence

(From an old email, that I sent to a few friends...  (10th october, 2006)...   Even now, it has amusement value...  so I thought why not 'blog' it!)

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Silently yours,

psn(30th November, 2012)

Surrender or Acceptance!

We talk of complete surrender....  (in that spiritual sense!)...

We talk of dynamic-acceptance....   (in that spiritual sense!)...

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How to distinguish from the "hands-up" threatened and helpless type of surrender?



To whom...  do we surrender?
The "why" is ....  let us presume that we know...  for that 'freedom".... of course...    
And then, that becoming non-choosy.....    moving towards that 'choice-less-ness'...!!!



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How?...



The question has to be alive!


(image source: http://safe4work.org/put-your-hands-up/ )

How do you self motivate

The catch is... the 'how' is about automation, not about knowing the mechanics! A person who is really keen to know how to find it 'within' simply looks within.... and finds it.... (how do you know what is within me?..)....

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Several problems(of life) find answer in this one query of 'motivation'....

That is the problem.... that is the problem why motivation haunts some people!.... (as a kid, I found it very difficult to find the relevance of that 'moral-science-class' in our 3rd/4th standard... it was a 'problem' that I could not solve .... not the understanding of it... the 'why at all'.... whatever was 'prescribed' in those 'morals' was already well covered under the 'law governing kids'!!! Those days, almost any elder around seemed to have had an 'equal-unquestionable-right' to admonish any kid around! That was when I found this 'motivation' to be also a 'need'!!! I needed the motivation to get the 'wheels-of-learning' to move towards understanding 'moral-science'.... there was a test on it... another problem!)...

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Other wise, this motivation really never bothered me.... Nor did others try to remind me... It was already an abstract concept... vague too... Somebody trying to prescribe it to me was almost like inviting trouble for oneself (!!)... And, not even that spiritual teacher!.... it was the other way... when it got too much into me, this teacher was 'prevailed upon' by the balancing half to 'de-motivate' me, at least enough to pay some attention to the family! Now, I got the clue... what that automation is all about!

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These abstract concepts.... each has one's own opinion... It is like those traffic laws... we comply with a generally-acceptable-rule only for the sake of uniformity....

Unless,

it does affect us ... our perception of it.... etc...

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Something like this must have happened... otherwise, even I was a bit sceptical about my own answer !!!

psn(27^th November, 2012)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121124124859AAEp98s

Q:

How do you self motivate yourself?

Ans:

If a tiger is chasing us, we do not look for any 'motivation' factor to decide whether to run for our life! The response is faster perhaps than the reaction.... Even on a hungry stomach, the body is 'ready' to run (no laziness problems, no lethargy.... even that minor headache takes a back-bench!)...
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The problem is the absence of fear/threat/security-need/etc... When the nature pampers the people, the whole society lacks that motivating factor... Secure government-job, assured pension... no motivation to work sincerely!
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The only way is to deepen the perception.... A person with wider and deeper perception has an expanded vision, and finds the priorities getting realigned by themselves deep within... The evolvement happens by itself... That is why the ancient people tried to prescribe a structured pattern of life-style... The present day generation simply threw those values to winds, in the name of 'modernity'!.. Now we keep searching for tools to reinvent the wheel!

Adamancy

The meaning is not so difficult as the problem of identifying it right within us, especially at its subtle levels....

A sophisticated name given is 'Karma'... (Example, somebody cannot arise before 6 am... it is a karma of that person.... some day, that person wakes a bit earlier, and yet remains cheerful, amenable .... not irritable due to waking 10 minutes earlier.... has really broken a karma... or has broken that 'adamancy' within...)...

The bulk of the people were adamant that earth is flat.... Also about Sun going around earth... About God 'existing' (even the proposal to ask, whether God “Exists” is perhaps irrelavent... Exist is relevant only for perishables/vanishables... ).... The athiests are lesser adamant perhaps, when we look at the 'blind-belief' of security-seeking devotees who foreclose the possibility to experience something and 'knowing' it instead of just 'believing' it! Not all athiests... only those who insist that “let me see, and then agree,... I am open ..... ever open.... infinitely open... to keep looking if it is true..... when so many since so long... have been saying He is ....”....

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The teacher was adamant.... kids MUST do some good deed, as a part of class-project.... she had to fill up the report to be submitted to the 'princi'.... The kids 'got-it' right about the teacher.... they reported... “Miss, we did it... Both the three of us together helped the old lady to cross the road!!!”.... “Good,” said the 'Miss'... she 'missed' to see it instantly, but having noted the 'report', she asked again the three kids... “But... why did it take all-the-3 of you to help that old lady cross the street?”... That was too easy for those innocent kids to explain, “Miss (again, a miss!)... that is because she never wanted to go to the other side, but.... we HAD to do some good deed!”... (Like... the transfer of 'insurable-interest' into others, ..... transfer of teacher's adamancy into kids...!!!)... Kids “just” pick up the traits from adults around... The mother doesn't know how to cook that lady's finger without making it sticky/messy/drooling..... so conveniently says “My kids don't like lady's finger.... what to do!... I am unable to do anything about it...”... The kids 'assume'... “if our mom says so.... it must be true... I don't like it...”.... and till somebody does it superbly at some star-hotel, and they are forced to eat it, and then discover “Oh! Have I been missing THIS... all along?”... and now it is the mom's turn to miss the affection,.... to the extent..... of a small fraction of a percentage... (I am omitting father-examples.... too many would get badly hurt!)...

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Spirituality insists adamantly that seekers should drop their adamency about perception ONLY through sensory levels..... Take a look at those 'intense' practices, processes prescribed... and good teachers consciously 'plug' any incidental benefits, especially those super-powers, to ensure that it is not going to shift the problem from one leg to another.... (leg/problem?.... yessss! There was a mad-saint... the 'madman of Narayanath'... he slept under a 'possesed' tree... the giant of that tree tried in vain to scare our saint... frustrated, now the giant insisted on giving/granting some boon... the saint brushed it aside, the proposal... the giant saw that there is no point in being 'adamant' with this saint, so pleaded/implored/begged.... 'please sir... if I do not do 'something' about/to/for/concerning you, it affects my image and my 'presence' at this huge tree...'... “Okay...” said our generous saint.. “If you insist.. then please shift the ailment of my right leg to my left leg...” (he was afflicted by that elephant-leg-disease.... one leg was very thick, heavy and had to be dragged... not walked with...!!!)... that was the shifting of problem from one leg to another... Those Asthmatics who also happen to be a little open-minded may happen to agree, when the wheezing is better, there is some other ailment in the 'offing'... (traditionally, it is believed that this astma is nothing but stubbornness manifested/translated into a dis-ease... and that strictly speaking, it is not an ailment at all!.... just psycho...)... Then what about those 'stress', 'tensions'... etc.. the very name hints at some kind of adamancy/stubbornness.... the result may add a few pressure-benefits like bp etc!...

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Not a new concept at all.... Just that very few 'Masters' really tampered with the nomenclature... for obvious reasons.... Perhaps, an ancient exception is, that “maiyaa mori..... mai NAHI... maakhan khayo...”... when the adamant mom yielded under emotional stress of being reminded that she was after all a step-mother, and therefore adamant.... she melted... and now the song is... “Mayaa mori... mai NE HI maakhan khayo...” mom has conceded.... what is the point in hanging on to falsehood?

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If only we are not adamant about not peeping into our selves, to look, and see, if we have some subtle adamancy dorment within us.... while there is still some time left.... ! (Anyways, if we 'remain' ...... to be too old... this adamancy is going to catch up with us, leaving behind our cohesive thinking, ..... the hither-to-cleverness of clandestinely suppressing our adamant tendencies cleverly... and would reveal it all to all around... till we get disposed to some nearby old-age-home!)...

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(and now,... a teaser perhaps... ) Those who are adamant about their 'flexibility'... needlessly if needed, at any time... can try out to distinguish the subtle difference between 'Hatred and Resistance' on one hand, and “Jealousy and intolerance” on the other... it is now upto them to try and fit-in this adamancy into these two pairs, or else, treat it as a 'brain-child' of these two pairs of couples!

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I do not insist about any response of any 'kind'.... it can be unkind too! Not necessarily in-kind!

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adamantly yours,

psn(25^th November, 2012)

Through betrayal, deceit, disappointment etc...

What?...... Through these.....what???

The other side of the coin..... (this phrase would 'warrant' a scrutiny too... 'others-side, same coin? Not another coin?'... so please do take a note).....   

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Corporate level HR people too, are grappled with the problem of making their employees aware of the distinction between abstract terms like trust, belief, expectation and the likes... It is not possible to codify the rules to demarcate the distinction, even less possible to 'expect' adherence by enforcement! 'Team spirit' abounds in these, and also ensures minor rivalries to remain contained at tolerable levels!

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Spiritual pursuit throws up abrupt hurdles at most 'unlikely' places, demanding greater precision while sifting through the known yardsticks to be used for measuring the ever-new-looking situations (these situations are deep within... not that tangible, material, manage-to-face-it ones that we see on the outside world of ours!)...

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As the clarity between Trust, Expectation, belief etc dawns.... the relevance of the 'opposites' being looked at ... also as 'other-side-of-the-coin' would become obvious (those terse texts from ancient scriptures substantiate it, but referringto those is 'frying-pan-to-fire' leap!)...

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Back to perception!

Back to intuitive aspect of mind....

Back to basics of 'life'!

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Or... keep compounding the mis-understandings, keep struggling to even sustain inter-personal-skills, and enjoy the incidental by-products which affect only the 'ease' of life in an acute and chronic manner!

'Sincerely-sinned'.... and yet, yours,

psn(14thNovember, 2012)

p.s.:

(The brief attention span constitutes the best of deterrents to my erstwhile tendency to elongate a blog!.... Lack of response is an incidental benefit, of course!)

Language Languish!

I know of a 'wonder-full', amazing person.... who never fails to amaze me, never fails to make me wonder....!

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All he does, is ridiculously simple.... He just quotes somebody else!

'Sounds' so simple!....

But please see,

quoting from.... our-own-within.... (your own inner voice, or still worse, the non-verbal thought...!!!),

is itself .... “a job”... (we realise only when we struggle to erase it at times, having said something “in an utterly stupid way!”...)

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Picking the words of so many varieties of minds....

matching it with the concepts within us, to enhance the ideas within, already struggling for apt words, .... matching it with better words, to enhance the very same ideas, embellishing it unto perfection... something that words do not seem to adequately 'appreciate'!

I dedicate this blog to that quote-wizard... 'ETBA'

That which impressed me, I quote below, and leave it to readers to decide ....

whether I “quoted” a wrong price for something too precious!...

For,.... this time it is merely about.... the...... 'quotable-quotes'.....!!!

psn(27^th October., 2012)

quote: http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/science-of-spirituality/are-you-busy

(One of the responses, by 'ETBA'.... that mystic-well-wisher!)

“Instead of saying 

“I don’t have time” 

try saying “ it’s not a priority,” 

and see how that feels. 

Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation.

I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. 

But other things are harder. 

Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.”

“I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” 

If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. 

Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. 

If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, 

we can choose differently.” 


― Wall Street Journal

Joke: Not always a laughing matter!

When a joke happens, how well or how badly to laugh?

That was the query!

Psn(22nd October, 2012)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121021091424AAIVjjo

For a nice joke,do you smile,grin,laugh or burst into laughter?

My 'lost' laugh at it:

Oh! It has to depend upon the situation around!
some jokes happen..... they are not narrated.... and if it is a serene condolence meeting, we have to even suppress our laugh biting the tongue quietly within!
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the other way, when the boss is telling a joke, listen to it as if we are hearing it for the first time, and plead to him intensely not to be so cruel, leaving us to laugh so uncontrollably! (it pays!)..
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When a spiritual master narrates a joke,
merge into it.... or miss a golden chance of enlightenment... (zen stories!)

Presidential debate at USA

I liked to look at the spiritual aspect of it....

Tough decisions going to be taken, for the growth of the economy, needs an emotionally strong nation, an emotionally stable society, which can sustain cheerfully austere measures, with a deep trust in the administration! They are 'obliged' to trust the administration, simply because they have elected it!

From this view point, I was listening to the debate between the two candidates for presidentship of the most powerful democracy of the world, USA!

I was impressed by the ability of the speakers as well as the audience to stay riveted on the finer details of the economy! Something that cannot happen for years in India, given the level of awareness we have about economic figures, and the 'head' for it!

And yet, I found that......

Emotional stability is not a subject, or a priority as important as economy! (They have every fourth doctor making money.... and a sizeable amount of it..... as a psychiatrist!)

If the most powerful nation does not find 'space' for discussing how the human qualities is going to evolve/grow during the electoral term of the competing candidates, how are they going to 'enjoy' the benefits of the material growth that they might reap out of prudent policies (giving the benefit of doubt that things do work!)...

Something that we have got for free..... here.... by sheer reason of being born on this soil! But yes, grossly under-utilized as yet, more so, over the recent decades(an entirely different matter!)!

We have a spiritual forum here, which actively discusses the potential of human-spirit, on an on-going basis, and here we have representatives from almost all walks of life!

Good going!

psn(17^th October, 2012)

Trapping Intuition!

There are two ways of answering questions that seek to know an abstract concept...

To point at instances, examples, and sayings of great ones,.... and from where, one can try to arrive at a surmised meaning.... a derived explanation.... and then try to grasp the concept....

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There is another way also.... to just try to put it as best as possible into words, from which a person can work one's way out, trying to use the idea as a workable experience on oneself!

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The efficacy of these is highly subjective..... and if so the choice too has to be individualistic too!

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I did like to take a look at a very general question from a 'practical' point of view!

The question seemed about 'trapping intuition' rather than 'tapping' intuition!

(Somebody else had also given an answer which was 'technically' wonderful, and full of valuable quotes and details from great men.... I was tempted to even copy it down here... but was not quite sure of the 'permission' of its author..... I tried an answer that an 'aam aadmi' can perhaps 'attempt' to ..... “do-it-yourself” ...!!! And, understandably, I try to turn every query as a reference to some kind of spiritual persuasion !)

psn(16^th October, 2012)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121013071923AARbAzA

Question:

People say trust your instinct & listen to intuition - but how do I know what my instinct & intuition say?

People says do what your heart says
People says trust your instinct and follow your instinct
People also says that listen to your intuition

But how do I know what my heart want, what my instinct says and what is my intuition

How to get over that confusion

My answer:

If we know what logic is... very clearly.... then, half the problem is solved!
Intuitiveness transcends logic often....
It requires reasoning (not logic alone) to even 'consider' looking at intuitive 'feelings'!
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There is no logic when we like a painting... when we like to keep looking at a rainbow for a while...
There is no logic when we get tears, looking at somebody 'else' in great pain or grief...
But, what we feel here is the manifest form of intuition... called emotion... That intuition is something that we have to allow to surface in its 'original' form (may be even as a non-verbal-thought)... not quite easy.... that is why we have fewer of intuitive people... most of those who do have such gut-feelings, are not able to have it 'at will' or consciously.... it just happens!
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(Now, please try to find out if it is a sheer coincidence that spiritual people are 'befriended' by this intuitive instinct too often, or rather in an unfailing manner?)

Relationship of Mysticism with Woman

Woman has been a 'mystery' to men and even man-kind since times immemorial!

So a query/question/inquisitiveness/curiosity/etc... about the relation between mysticism and woman is logically obvious!

There is also a spiritual angle to it. That is our interest here...

A gift from mother nature.... that often lies dormant due to lack of awareness about the value of maintaining self-awareness, this gift of intuitive aspect of mind often goes untapped. Yet, more than often, it gets tapped by situation, in a contextual fashion, leaving it to 'chance' as to how it gets evolved. It is here that the rituals and traditions had sought to enrich the life of a woman as also gently initiating her into spirituality. Now such 'value-additions' to life has withered away with stormy invasion by modernity!

Is it the upsurge of this aspect, when unawares, makes a woman look like a mystery? Is it not different to counsel a person, the very approach, technique and tools differing from that of psychiatric 'treatment'?

A very generalised answer is unlikely to appeal to the 'urgent' mind of present day!

So, I contend with just a passing reference, and quietly reproducing the answer I attempted to give for this wonderful question!

Regards,

psn(14^th October, 2012)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121013143429AAclQw2

What is the relationship between women and mysticism?

Can anyone explain? Any special relationship?

My answer:

Yes!
Women are 'naturally' gifted with more of intuitive aspect, most of which gets converted/utilized/manifested into emotional form.... Now, whether they are conscious of it is a subjective question.... Mysticism is to do a lot with intuitive aspect of the mind...
Emotions have never obeyed logic... so the manifest form... that is emotion.... which defies logic, looks mystic too... and therefore the seeming relationship!
If a woman gains awareness over this emotional aspect, it deepens the 'reach' into the intuitive aspect, and then, the reasonable-ness enables her to demystify herself from herself, not necessarily from others :)