MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

Inadequacy of words. There are many words in English language. I use it as a case study here; however, you can choose any language. There are enough words, so anyone cannot even memorize if given a lifetime. Today My Oxford dictionary is thicker and pages are thinner, than a decade ago. It seems new words are accumulating at a faster rate, just with advancement of the science. However, I say these words are inadequate to describe the nature. The reason is the nature is more c

Self-discipline What do you feel when I say self-discipline? A form of resistance, right? You will feel like there is some difficulty when you try to gain self-discipline. As mind always like to wonder, like and inquisitive child. It is hard to keep it in a place where it doesn't want to be in. But there are other things. Resilience: https://unsplash.com/@yenvu2410 Sometimes self-discipline feels like we should make an effort. Imagine you are an athlete. You want to become se

Have you ever searched for something? Perhaps your keys went missing, or you lost your purse somewhere. Maybe you are searching for a new land to build a house. Maybe It is just a car. Maybe you are looking for a spouse, or even someone missing in your life. No matter what the situation is the life feels like a search function. Have you ever contemplated about this? Life as a search function. Even a newborn baby cries as he/she is looking for her mother for some milk and warm

Yesterday I was having a chat with the sky. And sky said I am trying to do business with everything. I thought, Mmmmmm.. maybe I am. Guess what? I did. I tried to commercialize the sky. But when I think about it, I realized the sky is already commercialized. Like everything else on earth, from a grain of silicon to charcoal, to a drop of oil to the wind which is evergreen. This article is a brief description on how to commercialize the sky. How to commercialize the sky? Sky i

Today is not yet started. It is still dark and silent. Kitchens are not filled with housewives. Birds are still sleeping in nests. The sun is barely visible in the sky. It amazes me when I know only me and frogs are just up for an early start. Perhaps frogs never slept because they had a wedding last night. So, while this background chatter is going on I was contemplating about yesterday. Yesterday. Was typically ordinary. Kids started early in the day. We skipped swimming cl

Moby Dick is all about whales and whaling and everything else. If you find anything connected to a whale you will find some mentioning in the Moby Dick. Consider it to a dictionary on whaling. In a time of scarce resources like 1800s, I wonder how Herman Melville gained all the necessary information, from where? From a library? From newspapers? By interviewing people? Maybe majority of his novel is fictional, yet I am sure at some point he referred to history books when writi

Impressionist movement. Impressionism was a movement created by a group of artists in modern Paris, where they were trying to break free from traditions. In traditional art, during bygone era, people appreciated paintings which closely resembled what they saw in real life. In a time where photography was not an art this really makes sense as perhaps the drawing was the only way of creating what eyes could see. However, artists including Cloude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camillie

Productivity is not what you think. Productivity is not when you work hard to produce lot of things valued by your boss. Productivity doesn't mean writing more articles, if you're a writer, or doing more paintings if you are an artist. It doesn't mean finding solutions to difficult math problem if you're a mathematician. All these things make sense in a real world to earn credit, recognition and many other things and they do push you towards positive outcomes and brief happin

Rosy, red was bored. She was smart but had a habit of watching too much television. When it is turned off, that was when she really felt bored. Her toy basket was full of stuff that she didn't use anymore. Boring stuff. She had plenty of unread books on her shelf, but she was too bored to pick any of them. It wasn't rainy last night she could walk outside - But she was too bored. So, she sat on the couch and started complaining. Mother was cooking in the kitchen. "MOM, I am b

Maybe It's inferiority Complex. Have you ever felt like you are not good enough compared to others? That you are a failure, disadvantaged, disabled, unlucky and unfortunate. You feel jealous of success of others but fail to take action as you're scared of criticism? Maybe you are suffering from an inferiority complex. If you are trying to prove you're better than others all time every day, then you will never be able to feel self-worth right now. As there will always be someo

I recently had a discussion with ChatGPT, about myself. It is very thoughtful. Some brilliant Ideas came out from the questions I asked. It is same as having a chat with a thoughtful friend. Consider the following I extracted from the discussion. The universe is experiencing itself through countless little windows This is more poetic than scientific, but I love the idea. There was a time when there were stars, galaxies, oceans and mountains—but no creature looking at them and

I was reading a book called cosmology of the curious. Which discusses some fascinating facts about our own existence in a larger lens. Literally hundreds of mega scale telescopes looking at the sky day and night listening to the cosmos, has brought us some inevitable conclusions about our own universe. If you feel like you do not have energy to get up from your couch and move some of the stuff in your room or from your bed for it to look better, I will say think again. As, I

Why magical to mindful living? I am not sure some may have wondered why there is "magical" to the mindful living. Mindful living is supposed to be about truth, reality and everything which is not abstract. But whenever I take this minful approach to life more and more I am convinced of the magical part of it. Life is a continous flow of abstract ideas, which have no name, but named after our ancestors. Do not believe me? I have just found the 100th example on the list ( rest

Amazing story of Thing 1 and thing 2 Remember the Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss? I can still remember when I read Dr Seuss, through this wonderful children's story. I enjoyed it as an adult more than a child. I am not sure how he came up with "Thing 1 and thing 2". However, it fascinated me the underlying philosophy of things. Do you know why the story is not comparable to any other, children's story? I believe it is because, he started to address things, in his book at its basi