MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

A Book about gravity. I was reading a book about gravity out of curiosity. And it was heavy with assumptions, axioms, theorems and laws. I could feel the book being heavier each passing page that I attempted reading it. Maybe gravity has hidden pull on the book! So, I decided to skim and tackle the book differently by going through the index and finding what is interesting to my humanly brain. And to my surprise there were lot of things which made the book an example to illus

Routines are dangerous. But you must not fear them as a knife. As knife, although dangerous to a monkey, can be handy, when it's uses and limitations are known. Similarly, when routines are known for what good and evil they possess, they can be tools not weapons. Routines are dangerous when they are made by your boss One such sign Routines are dangerous is if they are made by someone else for you. Generally, as inevitably every non-Saint human being is possessed by their own

We were having a discussion on spiritual aspects of life in a 'WhatsApp Fun group'. And Someone wanted to know the definition of fun. There were no options other than turning to dictionaries at this point, due to the seriousness of the question, we couldn’t afford to miss anything. So, we did and following is one such taken straight from the DIC :). What is Fun, a Dictionary definition. Fun is the experience of enjoyment or pleasure that comes from doing something you fin

Resilience of happiness of slum dogs This is one of the superpowers of a human brain. The resilience, to find peace and happiness admist of chaos. I consider this a heavenly trait, a gift from nature rarther than a conscious decision of an individual. After all this is one quality which gives a hope, for a human inside places like Autzwhitz or Gaza strip or even Wall Street. If we consider the income gap between any society, there is a marked variation. It is a well known fac

I am a friend of books more than anything else. Ever since I touched the magical, fairy tales of Russian storytellers accidently as a toddler, I had the fascination to make myself be absorbed into pages of a book. The remarkable nature of a book being silent makes it resonate with my mind. Reason 1. Books are dynamic Books do not ask themselves to be read. I cannot see a moving thing inside its pages unless I turn the pages deliberately. Words remain at exact places as put Fo

What is rare on earth...? It seems we live in abundance more now than ever. Since new millennia, everything has reached everyone super-fast, thanks to modern economic machines. In this social and cultural revolution still, I can see some rare things on earth. Some are materialistic, like gold and emeralds. Still not found in abundance, so we cannot use it to build our plates with. But what I am more interested in are non-materialistic, rather conceptual things. Following is

If you are planning to make a family, married, unmarried, divorced single parent, or even adopt. I have both good news and bad news. The good news is you can make a family, when you choose just to do that. That's the easy part. And the bad news I already broke to you. And this family is not going to be a happy family. Why you shouldn't try Trying to make a happy family is the worst thing you can try to do. It is like trying to walk in the meadows in a spring morning without g

I didn't read beyond the first page of the novel The Great-Gatsby by Fitzgerald, when I came across, I think most fascinating idea presented in the book. The character of Mr. Carraway describing himself. Why, he had been reserving his judgement on everyone he meets, following his father's advice. And he summarizes the advice in following form. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages t

I have heard different versions of above quotes over many years. "Give yourself permission to be human" or "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness -Dostoevsky." Have I given a serious thought about this prior. I do not think so. Yet intuitively I have come to the same conclusion and would agree with the above Quote, by Ekart Tolle. In a life, no matter how much wealth, or utopian it may seem, we cannot achieve a continuous level of happiness. Such a life

Ask from gears. Engineers have used gears massively since the mechanical revolution. Although they have been there for centuries. Today, you will find gears, in every machine with significant motion, as a rule. If you have dissembled a toy car as a kid, you would have noticed, some gears. Maybe it was your grandfathers watch you undid, just to see how many interesting gears they possess. One fact about fitting gears, is that they are never meant to be 100% snug fit. The reaso

Hunting for aliens The man woke up in the morning. With a dream. He wanted to reach the stars and hunt for aliens in unearthly planets that orbit trillions of light years away. So, he built a Rocketship, that travel beyond the gravitational field of the earth, into the dark abysses of the space. And for years, and years he listened to the feedback, some electromagnetic signals, which were reflected back from his genius invention, travelling at snail speeds in cosmic scale. An

You are the creator of your own competitions. Life is a big competition. And it is not. These are two contrasting views about life. If you look at the life in an outwardly view you will see it as a competition. An individual struggles in the society to be successful. Fortunately, nowadays there are many parameters of these "Successes". Which are suitable for each and every individual ethnicity, intellectuality, and gender. So, we are given a choice, a collection of games, for

Why AI was wrong I was having a chat the other day, with AI, and asked it what the positive and negative aspects of this blog are. Among many suggestions, one was that it suggested that the blog, seems to be focused on the self. Instead of the audience. And it is not representing the search queries of popular search engines like google. And I thought to myself. That is exactly what I wanted. And exactly what I was doing this entire time. I know it is hard to understand for an

If I were to give a speech on limits of life to a bunch of professional listeners who are keen on the subject and asked the open question, What are the limits of life, I would surely get answers, like we are unable to adjust our death, or for that matter our birth circumstances by our free will. I agree to this statement, in other words, life itself is a rotten banana, rotten on both ends. Obviously smelling with rottenness, but we somehow have become the happy consumers of t

I haven't written about mindfulness lately. That doesn't mean it has become a less significant part of my existence. In-fact, as I see, mindfulness cannot be separated from life itself. If I am not mindful, my existence is just a dream, during that period of time. If I cannot account every second of my life, it must be just a matrix that I have spent time in, a discontinuity of the function of life. Part of mindfulness is not just watching yourself. But deliberate effort for

I didn't until recently started to learn some mathematics. And I find these interesting examples from other domains of knowledge, as apparently at the heart of any subject there are models, built on mathematical principles. And one such was learning curves. I have been a learner myself all my life, yet never seriously thought about how it happens in terms of a mathematical function. Basic understanding of learning curves I assume you are not a professor of education, and just

The Oil prices are souring, as the straight of Hormuz is still choked by Iran since the US attacked on 28th. I am unable to decide who is the bigger IDIOT. Either It is the guy who wants to make weapons of massive destruction or the Guy who wants to destroy them before Even they are made. The guy Who wants to prioritize making nuclear weapons over hunger, Or the guy who is boasting about everything, from busts in the oval office to grass in the garden. But, as it happened to

Is it true? Is life really what happens, while we are making some other plans? Just look at yourself and ask the question, what you interpret what life is? And It appears to me this is one of the best ways to say it, so we never forget. You can be a child, or a teenager, or an adult even elderly person. When we look at life as this one-way journey from birth to death, we tend to focus more on future, than anything else. When you were a child, you dream of becoming a teenager,

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." This perhaps is the most well-known quote of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famous American author. He is famous for his fiction, The Great Gatsby novel. Above quote appeared in one of his biographical essays, and it seems

Being able to enjoy the ordinary is a remarkable ability. I would say more important than learning any advanced science or a growth trick. It is true that we can find fulfillment in being extraordinary. Here is an article if you are keen on following that path in life. However, enjoying the ordinary is one ability anyone can master no matter what situation their life is currently in. Ordinary building What does it mean to being able to enjoy the ordinary? When I was at prim