I was exploring the concept of universal truth statements vs conditionally true ones in discrete mathematics. And even before going through the first chapter I thought of putting this concept into practice by asking myself what is universal about a thought? Have you ever thought about it? Let's explore together. My first intuition is the knower. Every thought has a knower. There is no thought of a tree without someone who knows about it. And everything we observe can be funneled into a thought. These mental objects all has a knower. But there are some more candidates. Think about the following. Thought Candidates for what is universal about a thought. Every thought is unique. There are no two thoughts alike. Every thought is subjective, there are no two thoughts which converge into a one in two minds. Every thought eventually destroys, vanish completely from existence, no matter how hard you try. There can be many more. But I will only discuss about the first, here in this article. What are the consequences of every thought having a knower? This closely resemblance the duality of nature. If there is a knower for every thought, and it seem both of them arise at exact same time, then can we assume these are two different things? It's like asking weather a reflection is separate from the mirror. But there is a problem in this too, as a mirror would have nothing to do with what it reflects. If the circumstances are aligned it will reflect anyway. So, then there is the question of free will. If we are having a free will we should be able to create thoughts. But it appears, we can know only about a thought only at the time it appears. Technically speaking we are not the real reason that the thought is there. I know, we cannot function in the society if we are firm to believe in this as a theory. But if we examine ourselves and come into realisation about thoughts this way, our minds will have an opportunity to be liberated from the constant clatter of the universe. Knower Another way to explore the same phenomena is to ask the question is there a thought without a knower? I cannot point out to any. Book is just a valueless thing unless it has the ability to generate thoughts in a person. So, the value of the book is not in its pages, but in the thought of a person who reads it. Similarly, a thought which is not raised in a knowers mind neither does exist, nor does it has an inherent value. Knowing is the thoughts, thoughts are the knowing. So, living is thinking. Thinking is living. If you want to stop thinking we have to stop knowing, which is impossible and out of the question. On the other hand if we can observe and identify there is only knowing, that can liberate us from underlying value system. As value is a secondary phenomena unique to the knower. But most of our problems if not all of them are there is not due to knowing. But due to valuing what was known. Let's take a break. I do not expect 1 in a million to understand exactly what I wrote. That is not the objective. Thoughts are generated, because of everything which came before tracing upto the origin of the universe. Yet I have nothing to do with this. Let's observe life and note down our observations. Just because that is.

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love, will lead to the good life." - Bertrand Russell I was thinking about life? Following are generally how people think about life. Just have a look at the list and note whether what you describe is there. Life can be. A good life. A successful life. A rich life A complete life. An exiting life. An adventurous life. A full life. A disastrous life. A poor life A pathetic life. A criminal life A Saint life. A spiritual life A peaceful life. An academic life. A simple life. A minimalist life. ... the list goes on. Life. Now look at the quote by Mr. Bertrand Russell. Without agreeing or disagreeing to his statement. I like to look at the statement objectively. We can argue all day, whether he was right or wrong about knowledge and love. To me it feels like a jumble of words, we can derive any meaning. Most importantly I like to ask the question "What is life?" If I ask you the question What is life? You wouldn't have a direct answer. Most likely you wouldn't even be able to comprehend what you feel the life is. Yet, whenever we talk about being successful, rich or spiritual, we embark on pathways thinking that these will lead us to somewhere. You can chose one item from the list given above and write a book about how to be that one and get there. Infact most of the books in our libraries are filled with thousands of those books. Yet, we miss the fundemental question. The good life Fundemental question being, "what is life?" Without satisfactory answer to this question. There is no point even thinking about " successful, rich or peaceful " as these are just adjectives. Not even worth focusing on. So, for a wise man or a women, the only thing which matters is finding out answer to the question, "who am I? What is life?". Rest is irrelevant. Don't get me wrong. I'm not asking you to stop working and be poor. But let it be, if that is what it takes to find answers to the fundemental question about life. Good life So, for me, a good life, is a life which is used to find the answers to the question, what is life? Even if we do not arrive there before death, that is a good life. As that is there to it. We are not animals, just to chase food and sex all our lives. We are intellectual pinnacle of nature. Let's not focus on mediocre tasks too much in our lives, that we have no time to examine our own lives. We can do them to survive just enough so that we get there. You should exercise, to be healthy, so you have few more years to answer the question about life. You eat and work for that same reason. Then my friend is a life worth living. I think Socrates is spot on this. "An unexamined life is not worth living"

Lately I had this problem of feeling guilty about my screentime. Although I did not understand there was some deep philosophy in it and I am going to uncover in this article. First of all, lets analyse the problem, without trying to search answers. Why do we feel guilty about screentime? Screentime Ever since, televisions were developped humans find themselves glued to these amazing machines most of their afternoons. Instead of spending some quality time with people. And, we even watch them in groups. We feel pleasure during the time we watch the movies or news, or anything on the TV. Yet, lately I have been feeling guilty of my screentime. When I look at my past I tend to think all those hours could have spent in some productive activity, Like, reading a textbook, solving mathematical problem to feel good about it, or even write a blog article. This feeling has escalated to a level, that when I open netflix I even feel the subtle guilt, that I am going to waste rest of my day. If you do not have this problem, there is no point reading the rest of this article, Hence, you should leave. But, the philosophy I am going to apply to anything, you think is a waste of time. So, you may still keep reading if it is interesting enough. Let's get back to the question and analyse deeper. While watching the televesion I am really feeling plesure. But, why do I feel guilty? It is only because my mind compares this activity with 1000 other so called "Good habits". Which were conditioned by the society into my brain to thinking as good. Consider reading a textbook. I can choose to follow some documentry on "Power law" and learn about it in real life so I can apply this into my everyday life, to make better decisions. Like I did the other day. That is productive right? How to watch television without feeling guilty? Television Wrong!. We must investigate further, asking then what? Until we reach some internal understanding of what is happening. What matters is the truth. Remember, we are just trying to understand, why we feel guilt when we watch television. Or should we feel guilt? And you can do the same about any guilt that you felt latelty. Now let's think, our initital intution was reading a textbook is better than watching a tv series. Because it makes, me do better dicision making. So I can end up in a bigger pile of money, ethically earned. And with a fame, and a label that goes "Mr.A, the knowlegeble, wise, successful person". And then what? This label I aquire will last, till I get dementia, or till I die. It can last for others, Till all about my existance vanishes from earth. Remember, I am just an ordinary person. Hence, it will vanish during lifetime of an Oak tree. As you can see, the so called success that I am going to achieve by reading a textbook, has no clear benifit, in the so called "Cosmic scale" timeframe. This fundemental understanding helps me to rationalise my mind, that watching TV is not inherently bad. Watching tv is not good either. It is just a neutral phenoma of the mind. My worry in this instance is both excessive and unnecessary. After all, the mind would not be watching something, if it is not the TV. I shouldn't feel guilty, watching the television as the success is an illusion of mind. Life is a strange affair. Isn't it nice to feel loosing yourself in the moment watching TV? Like there is nothing else you'd be doing to improve the experience? And that my friend is the secret to watch television without feeling guilty.