MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

"Essential component of mastery is ability to create new knowledge." What is mastery? Kids had been playing the piano. For few hours per day initially. When I hear the music, it clearly shows the confusion, of a novice. With full of mistakes and no clear pattern. There is a long road ahead for mastery. This brings the question of mastery. And how can anyone achieve that? Domains of knowledge. Playing the piano- Masters and Amateurs Playing the piano is one domain. Which inclu

Lilly white is doing puzzles again, and this time she was doing, the Who is the odd animal ? puzzle from the zoo. It appears; there is always an odd one among ordinary. There is a Whale, a Star fish and a shark sitting next to a rabbit. And the queer rabbit is definitely out of place. And in another place, A lion, is sleeping among a pelican, swan and a bat. Obviously, Lion although brave looked odd, among others who all could fly. But is that all there to the puzzle? A Whale

Economic lessons from the past If you would like to study economics of marriage, I would ask you to start with Jane Austen novels. Her greatest works including classics of "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and sensibility" captures the hardships faced by women caught up in financial struggles. I am not sure, that we can ever get rid of economics out of any marriage. In this part of the world where arranged marriages are common, economics play a huge role. Before even Beauty, and

It was on a Hot, sunny day, when we drove across, dusty towns of west coastland to reach our destination of a remote, beach house. Me and my family were in the Car, the old blue mustang, that I inherited from my Father when he succumbed to respiratory failure after years of agonizing suffering to catch his breath, a direct result of chronic smoking in his youth. The old man is out of misery now, the only thing that remained physically as a memory was his car. So, the Car was

If you're an artist doing paint work,you may have understood this truth intuitively. Maybe you didn't notice its significance out of the scope of your art. No worries, as that is my intension today. My intention is to explain above quote, famously attributed to Mary Kay Ash American founder of Mary kay cosmetics. So what is the meaning of every silver lining has a dark cloud? Silver lining I saw a comparison of wealth, between Weekend and Bruno Mars side by side. Bruno, havin

If you are having trouble with insomnia, this is not the place for answers to your problems. Instead, this is going to be a descriptive way to look at life in a perspective of the sleep and wake. Average adult sleeps 7-8 hours per day, even more. If we consider this a fact, 20 years of your life you'd be sleeping. While rest of the world is functioning, the earth is rotating, while the ships are sailing and aero planes are flying all around the world, quarter of the world pop

Have you considered sticky minds? Minds any, have this remarkable quality of being sticky. Sometimes I wonder that is the key to understanding life. The stickiness of mind. But, you can see this only when you strip the essential obvious and famous qualities of mind. If you do not understand I will list some examples for easy understanding. But try to ask the question, what is the sticky bit of each function of the mind? sticky Let's start with "Love". Some people say love is

In the back seat observing his colleagues, James was in doubt. The questions lingered in his mind throughout the night, made him disgusted at himself. The question which doubted the sanity of so-called human nature. And the question he did not dare to ask the smiling fellow human beings who were sharing seats of the round table with him. Are we not modern monkeys dressed as such for the occasion? He had plenty of doubt. Of course, these doubts did not come from a void, it was

Maisie Brumble is a fictional character, who is the ultimate hero of the movie "The Sea Beast". And this is not the only quote that she happened to utter. She also said the history written in books can be wrong. And for the nature of it large part of historical records are actually wrong. But that is for the discussion on another day. Today, we can see why heroes are not always correct. Why you can be a hero and still be wrong? There is danger in a hero's journey. Every hero

How about middle east crisis affecting you? Middle east is again on fire. More than ever, it has started to overspill into the global economy and even individuals in rural Africa are feeling the heat this time. Rising fuel prices, interrupted international cargo, cancelled commercial flights. Thousands of people stranded in airports. Even if you are living in the opposite corner of the world (If the world had corners in the first place) you will be feeling the pressure and te

This is a topic I will revisit often enough so I remind myself how amazingly I can spend my own life If I was just aware of everything it has to offer in a given instant of time. The way we are going to look at it today is through the eyes of an economist at a budget line principle. I will give you a simple example. What is budget line principle? Imagine you have 1000 dollars which you can spend on anything you like. And you only have this amount for a whole month. Although t

I have great news for you. If you consider yourself, a sad angry or even antisocial, depressed negative person, Or even a cheerful, happy energetic one, it doesn't matter. As all these are temporary states of mind, just like the high and low tides of the sea. However, the good news is the inherent nature of mind is pure peacefulness. Yet, one has to reach this conclusion by themselves by extensive investigation of self. Inherent nature of mind is shining, like a polished diam

I have been fascinated by math equations for a second time in life. I used to love it as it stretched my brain capacity to the maximum as a teenager. Then the life happened and I had neither time nor the peace to tackle with brain teasing calculus. I never learned the calculus, so as I had a limited free time I thought I would give it a go again. Apart from Robert frost poems, and Ganong physiology I think Stewart's calculus is a best of its craft. Boy, Calculus is hard to se

I saw this wonderful story about a monk who asked the question in the book about "Paths" by Andras Gulyas. It is open access book about paths in general. As the story is a fascinating one and related to mindfulness, I thought of including it here. It is short however I will tell it in my own words. The origin of the story is in the book Su-La-Se One day a monk came to his teacher and asked. Teacher, I have been a monk for this long years, I have followed the path of ancient m

What are paths? I am sure you have taken a path, one day as a kid, to become an educated adult. You started on this path of babbling out monosyllables, and now you are reading this article written in sentences. I am sure there was a time that you could not do that. "Learning a language" is just a one path that we take in our lives. But there are numerous examples for paths. Consider following list of items as paths. A hiking trail up a mountain A road trip route from one city