This is part 2 of Jim Carrey philosophy . This time it comes from the movie "Yes man". Plot Yes man Movie. In the film "Yes Man," Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a man stuck in a rut who often says "no" to new opportunities and experiences. His life takes a turn when he attends a self-help seminar and adopts a new mantra: to say "yes" to everything. This change leads him to unexpected adventures and a new outlook on life, as he embraces new relationships, challenges, and opportunities. However, the constant agreement also brings chaos and complications. Ultimately, Carl learns to balance saying "yes" with making thoughtful decisions, leading to personal growth and a deeper connection with others, especially with a woman named Allison, played by Zooey Deschanel. The film conveys a message about the importance of seizing opportunities and embracing change. Yes man After watching the movie although it felt hilarious, saying yes to opportunities seems to be the way forward. But what is the balance? What is the balance between saying yes and saying no. Should we say yes to every opportunity when it comes to us? And where do you think opportunity is abundant. Imagine you went to las Vagas for a vacation and there you decided to become a yes man. And you entered a casino. And I am sure 😌 if you start saying yes to all the opportunities you will end up in streets with empty hands, losing all your lifetime of savings. And you will learn that becoming a yes man in a casino is impossible. But it would have worked for Jim Carrey if he went to Vagas. This observation leaves us with the question of philosophy of being a yes man. At least I found the mathematical model which can closely linked with the above scenario. Mathematics of becoming a yes man - Prospect theory This discussion is highly theoretical. When you are taking important decisions there are so many variables to consider. Yet, for the purpose of discussion this is good enough. The math of becoming a yes man is the prospect theory. It is a behavioral economics model developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. Here is the explanation on how you can become a yes man. Imagine a coin toss which has 50/50 chance of turning heads or tails. If someone bet you 100 dollars, would you play the game? Most likely you would not. What if someone toss a coin but this time, he offers 101 dollars and if you lost you only have to give 99 dollars? Most likely still you would not. But let's tweak the scenario. Now think about the second option but this time he is going to offer you 100-coin tosses instead of one coin toss. And now you might take the bet. What about 1000-coin tosses in a row? Let's do some math on this. Math of simple coin Toss. If the coin toss is fair, in 1 toss You might lose 99 You might gain 101 In 100 tosses you win 50 he wins 50 You will lose 4950 You will gain 5050 Net gain -> 100 dollars In 1000 tosses you win 500 he wins 500 You will lose 49500 You will gain 50500 Net gain -> 1000 dollars As you can see when the number of coin tosses are increased you are guaranteed you will gain more than you lose as long as it is a fair game. And that is the secret to become a yes man. And as you can see you have to choose which time you are saying yes to, and you have to do this consistently for some time to see the results. I am sure Warren buffet would agree to this as it was what he has done his entire career. Game of life As you can see it is the same strategy used in casinos. But instead giving you 101, they will take 101 if you lose. And in the long term everyone will be scammed although occasionally it appears someone would hit the jackpot. In summary. In summary, in life when opportunity arises, we can become a yes man as long as it is a fair game, and chances of winning is 50% or more. Having said that, life seems to hide more truths than simple math. So, I wouldn't say its total truth, as it is hard to define rules of a real-life game. And comparing stock market to a coin toss is not at all wise. However, knowing this helps me to become a yes man at least for some opportunities. This is not the only application of prospect theory, in fact there are some more interesting facts, which you can read here .

Have you ever taken a random walk in your life? Maybe not. It is most likely every walk you have taken is a conscious decision you made. Random walk is a mathematical concept, where a series of steps are taken randomly from initial state and after a given time the final position will vary depending on the steps taken. Imagine you are flipping a coin, staring 0 you add 1 if it is Heads and subtract 1 if it is tails. You do it for 50 times, and path and number you end up is a random walk with 50 steps. Examples of random walk are found everywhere around us. Brownian motion When we were first introduced to biological sciences at school, we were introduced to microscopes and "Brownian motion". It is essentially a random motion of particles suspended in a medium. If you put an ink, drop into a glass of water no matter how slow you put it in, it will slowly dissolve. While looking through his microscope at pollen of the plant Clarkia pulchella immersed in water, Robert Brown saw this motion and described it random. It was named after him. To put forward how important this is, all our cells in our bodies depend on the random movement of these particles, as our cells are essentially drops of water covered by membranes. https://unsplash.com/@raenstorming Genetic drift. Biologically genetic drift is the name given for accumulation of neutral mutations, which doesn't participate in natural selection. Even if you do not understand the biology behind this, it simply means, Total genetic map of a species evolves over time. It is a random process. There are many other places random walks are described in biology, astronomy and even psychology. More importantly in finance and computer science. Stock market. Consider the stock market. It seems the stock market is ever growing. Usually, it is with random fluctuations. Although individuals try to predict the stock market behavior by various models, it is known to be a true random process. There are too many variables come into play. Imagine that it is not. This person or group who can predict stock market are going to earn and "beat the market", while other players suffer losses. World wide web When the Web expands worldwide, travelling from one place to another through this is going to be difficult. How can you cover a lot of ground? Even algorithms behind these massive web giants use random walking in various parts of their applications, from measuring the size of the web to, providing you a list of recommended followers in twitter. Now, let's get back to our question? A Random walk for life Have you ever taken a random walk? How about since your birth? We were born in a random place. With random parents and random siblings. We played with random friends who went to school because they were also randomly born in your age and neighboring your school. How about walking in the park. Imagine you go to a park daily for a long time now. I can bet the path taken from entering to the park to getting out of it, is random in many ways. Imagine number of footsteps, exact location of each number of footsteps, imagine number of people you have met on your way, number of leaves you have stepped on. You may disagree. If you look at it, you may see patterns. Yet if you take a look at the big picture you will understand, some things in your life cannot be understood other than with randomness. If you would not believe me, you would believe Steve Jobbs, right? He was talking about connecting dots of life at an address to university crowd. This is at peak of his life. And it is truly fascinating to understand the nature of randomness in our lives. If you read the article The Boy, the dog and mathematics , I try to explain this pattern of nature in a story. More insights about thinking in general can be found here in Deterministic world and free will. In summary: Random walk is a mathematical concept of taking random steps from a starting point There are many examples for random walk in nature and science world. Our life seems to be a random walk since birth although we do not feel like it. Reasons for everything is not visible, not all the time hence we call it random. Thank you for reading the article A Random walk for life. Have a nice random day!

What is mindfulness? Previously I have written a great deal on Mindfulness, its definition and main objective of mindfulness which is to observe life, and let wisdom grow in understanding truth. However, more can be said about the same subject. Which can help us in our practice or as I call it just Life. This is another such attempt to answer the question What is mindfulness? Walking south Often we have the wrong Idea, like mindfulness is a stepwise process. Where there is certain amount of steps to achieve something. Like a person climbing a mountain to reach the top. Like a runner in an olympic Marathon Like an engineer build a monumental tower from bottom to top Like a writer write a novel starting with a sketch. And in programming this is called waterfall development. Often, when we want to achieve something either this method or Iterative/ incremental development is used. And our minds are so used to this system we cannot understand reality of mindfulness. As our minds always want to identify meaning, or want to give a value to everything we observe sometimes watching in mindfulness doing nothing feels absurd. In mindfulness our minds try to overcome this by delebarately detaching from things. And although mind does feel like we achieve something by this, this is also is the same process. We cannot detach from anything unless we have valued it as negative. Someone can call this trying to win by Loosing. Another way of saying the same thing is trying to become a minimalist. That also would not reach anywhere as you can never reach some place. Whatever place we try to reach from either of these processes is just temporary. If not trying to reach a target, or not trying to reach something both are not the way, what is the true path to mindfulness? Walking north What is natural mindfulness? I would say true mindfulness is a natural process. It is just like flowing water. A flag in the wind . Mind moves of course, all around the clock throughout the day. Yet, by whom? If we ask the question and understand the process with wisdom, we would see it is nobodies doing. Trying to stop this thought process and trying to force it to go to places where we want it to go are both wrong. Imagine you have been to a place, isolated from your everyday clutter. To a beach, inside a forest or a meditation retreat. Not ordinary place, yet somewhere you can just be. In such places mindfulness comes naturally. You would see your thoughts and without objectifying this. But for such mindfulness to occur naurally throughout a busy working day would not be possible, unless our mind has gained enough wisdom holistically. So what is this wisdom which lets us to fall into a natural mindfulness like a waterfall? I would say it starts with delebrate attepmts of someone trying to find themselves within. I can give you a great analogy here. Mindfulness let us know we are already arrived. Meaning of life Imagine a man starting a journey. He has a destination in his mind and start walking south. And he tire himself doing this, and meets a man who returns from that direction and have a chat to see what is there beyond the horizon. And the other guy says the destination he wish to see is not there beyond the horizon and swear on this. Hence he give up. Return to his starting point and start another journey travelling north. This time he cross the 3000 miles on foot and arives at the shore and the destination he wish to see is not there either. He takes a rest for sometime and someone tells it is in the east his final destination is and he start the journey with hopes this time with plenty of experience. And soon he arrives somewhere in a jungle of nowhere and with great difficulty he returns home. Guess what, he doesnt stop there but tries west on top of a mountain peak. The problem doesn't end there, as if you know little bit of math you would understand that there are countless directions from his starting point, and he will tire himself his entire life following directions that others point out. Unless of course mindfulness awakens itself during this process and critically analyse to see the truth in this sisyphean punishment that itself has given to itself. Such a mind would swim deep inside its hidden corners of past present and future, all the darkness and light to understand that it has already arrived. Since then natural mindfulness would be inevitable.

Why listicles are bad at explaining a topic. I am not a fan of listicles. If you do not know listicles are type of articles which gives you list of things. In Magical Mindful living I have few listicles. Majority are essay type articles. If you do a google search today for any topic, you will come across most likely listicle article. This is because they are good for google crawlers, or the bots which index a site. Now these are technical and I am sure you are not interested in this crap. So the point is listicles are good for machines but not humans. I can explain you why. Google - Article Fundamentals of brain function in learning. For this we have to look at blooms taxonomy. And I am going to explain this with a little analogy. First steps Imagine a kid learning colors, you show him green color and let him repeat "green". You point him a tree and make him repeat "tree". Now he has two isolated facts in his/her brain. And the brain does an amazing thing next. Second step -interconnectedness. The brain puts green and tree together. And identify it as a "green tree". And sometimes you never teach a kid a tree is green. But everyone knows right? That is because our brains have remarkable ability in higher order thinking as blooms taxonomy suggests. Identifying interconnectedness of the words, or observing pattersn is the highest form of any learning. When we were kids this is natural. But when we become adults, things have diverted so much from each other it is hard to see interconnectedness. We just think it is lineir. Infact every expert on their own field has seen this connectivity. Even Einstein (science). Even Thich Nhat Hanh (religion). Even Dr Seuss (art). All religions art and science are branches of the same tree - Albert Einstein. Lessons learned from this. As you can see listicles are bad in that matter to properly show you connectivity in ideas. Infact these are written in the opposite direction. Sometimes obvious¹ connections between the ideas are lost when you try to put them in a listicle. Once they become isolated facts there would be no use. The value of it will be lost. What is the point knowing "green" is green and a "tree" is a tree. Unless you know trees are green. In fact now when we see or hear the word "tree" there are so many things which comes to our mind because the facts are interconnected like a web. The other more significant fact of note is the same as above. Think about what we agrgued but this time in a different angle. "Once things become isolated facts, they lose all their value " If you want me to summarise this entire blog of 340 articles I would say the above. It gives you profound wisdom to everything around you. And that would be fundamental nature of things when you look at it from mindfulness. That is the secret of finding happiness in the world like a kid. For a kid nothing is valueble, he would break your TV and drop your iPhone in water. While you cry about it, he would laugh seeing bubbles in water. If you would let he would do it again. Iphone dropped in water I am not asking you to drop your valuables in the sea, like Rose did in Titanic. In fact you should question me on this now, why we should lose our values. And I would answer. Its because it is the truth. Because it matters to know the truth. As even if we keep our values hidden in our hearts, secretly we are going to lose them anyway when life reach its zero .

Who is a universal King? A universal king is a ruler of the world. It is a phenomenon which had been there throughout the human history, which were heavily blooded with wars. From time to time, we have seen dictators trying to develop their kingdom so, they can expand their territory. However, these weak dictators somehow fail miserably, again and again, as they try to rule by force. Nobody wants to follow some idiot who is trying to behead all that oppose. Hence, do not think for a moment a universal king is someone, which is even have anything to do with stupid dictatorship. On the other hand, when we develop ourselves from Godlike qualities, of forgiveness, sharing and to thrive helping each other, with our knowledge and modern development, expanding our boundaries never like before, there is a place for humanity to flourish, just like wars. And it seems miracles do happen on earth. After all a mango seed, is a miracle. It is impossible miracle, as it produces a 'tree' which can give rise to thousands of similar mango seeds during its lifetime. So, nobody can argue there is no place for a universal king, who wish only happiness for all the humans on earth, and animals. https://unsplash.com/@themushroomphotographer Why I like a universal King? It seems, we need a universal King more than ever to unite us all. We have mixed up, because of globalization, our cultures are mixed up. Our languages mixed up, and it keeps mixed up mess, day after day. And our DNA consists of all the ancestors of all the continents, and in few generations time, there is a possibility we could all become a single human race. It may be good, or bad for our survival only our future will answer that question. Hence a universal king is needed more than ever. It will put end to our stupid fights. Oh, do not restrict yourselves to word 'king', as it could not only be a person, but even a system which is followed everywhere on earth would be same. (Is united nations universal King?) Just merely 200 years ago, it took, only 80 days to travel around the earth, and now we can do it within a day. Hence, earth is becoming smaller and smaller. A pilot who travels daily on the plane will swear to the fact that it is so. For a pilot, Paris, New York, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur are just some places on the same huge, ball of our earth. There is no boundary in the sky. Hence why do we stick to the ones on our grounds? United nations and universal Kings? Remember the First and second world war? After chaos there is a period of peace and calmness and recovery. First world war was not big enough; hence peace did not last long. But the second world war was destructive, in a massive scale, that still we have casualties due to aftermath of bombing our own planet. Hence, peace this time lasted more, and after the war, there were attempts for universal rules. United nations! More than anything the tragic end to the war by the nuclear bombing , urged all the nations to form such rules as war, will lead to destruction, whatever side you chose. Hence UN was brought forward with collaboration of many of the nations, with following objectives. The United Nations (UN) was founded in 1945 after World War II. Its objectives, as outlined by its charter, include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. Essentially, the UN aims to foster cooperation among nations and address global challenges. 🌍🕊️ (Copilot) https://unsplash.com/@matreding If you read the objectives carefully, you would notice, these are the exact qualities or objectives of a universal king. Although this time we did not have a king because most of the Allied powers were governed and valued by the democracy, an organization was born. But imagine, the Axis powers won. And in this alternate universal, it is inevitable, each axis power would eventually be dictated by a universal ruler. A bad one this time. However, such extreme world wars may have happened in the past. In Indian culture, there is the concept of Chakravarthi King. Who is a ruler of the world. Such rulers who represent the good party, would begin an era of peace and quiet which can last for decades. Fortunate are the kids who would be born in such times, that their lives are inherently taken care of by the good governance. In today's context, we can only imagine how such a peaceful world would be. And in such a world ruled by a universal king, we would be able to truly call our Earth Our home .

Knives out (2019). If you are into Mistry, crime drama genres I am sure you have watched the movie knives out. That was a great film. Obviously, my judgements on films are biased as I would see something to learn most of the films. Even the stupid ones give me intuitions about life. However, Rotton tomatoes have rated this film 97% And IMDB 7.9/10. Hence, I have no hesitation to recommend it to you. Here in this article, we will look at knives from rusty old ones to spring loaded, gravity activated automatic ones. https://unsplash.com/@shotgram?utm_source=wix-media-manager&utm_medium=referral Dangerous knives - Gangs of Newyork (2002). There are many stories I can tell you about knives. To illustrate the fact knives are dangerous we can give one to a monkey. I am sure these mischievous and curious animals will surely cut themselves as they do not know how to use them. So, this is something we associate knives with, dangerous objects. Even when you travel through airport security you cannot carry which can be used as a knife. Even a spoon would make suspicious. However, we all can agree knives are not only considered dangerous, in contrast they are useful as well. If you want to eat a mango, like a human being, you will need a knife. If you want to cut some pieces of wood, you will need a blade. Hence, knives were some of the earliest inventions of humankind. Archeologists and historians would vow to this and will show you loads and loads of examples of knives, from prehistoric era. From, those days up to now, knives have helped us to thrive as a human race. I am sure many of us went through successful surgeries, would be grateful to the inventors of Surgeon's knife, to get cure from cancer. Here is another thought, "Words are more powerful than a knife" as a misinformed misguided mind would do more harm than a knife itself. Words as the medium of information, have the ability to store and transfer data about, even knives. Knives out- Valuable knives I saw a man once collapsed in the emergency department following a stab wound to his left lower chest. He was unconscious when he arrived and the great resuscitation team, regained his heart with chest compression. Blood transfused, IC tube in place, with a tube down his through, he was 'ventilated'. Still kept bleeding from his chest tube and within minutes he was rushed to the theater. Due to some unknown reasons, I was there to see the operation. His chest was opened with precision with the 'Surgeon's knife' with an intention to heal. The great surgeon himself opened the rest of layers to the heart and there was a sprouting wound on his left ventricle(chamber) which was closed with great effort. As his heart was still beating inside vigorously. Rest of it went smooth and he went to the ICU. I visited the man next day, who was seated on the bed and talking to the next person on the adjacent bed. The story was back in my mind for so many years, and what a great time to bring it back to memory, to illustrate the point, the knife is harmless. Knife is just an invention of nature, with one a man almost died, and with another he was brought back to life. Life seems to be a Mistry itself. https://unsplash.com/@mundt_nielsen John wick (2014) and Mindfulness. When I look at the concept of knives, apart from its valuelessness , I see anything can be a knife if not used for its intended purpose. Consider electricity, consider a car, consider a hammer, even a pencil. (If you ask Jon wick, he will tell) Hence it is not the object which holds the value, but the person, or the intention of use which matters. So, if we want to have a better and a safe society, we should start to sharpen our intentions, can clean our minds, not just hiding knives. And what better place to start than mindfulness to do that? Thank you for reading, knives out John wick and mindfulness

A criminal Once upon a time there was a criminal. He had conducted a great criminal activity and punished by the Judge. He had to be imprisoned lifetime. Or executed immediately or He could work in the community care entire life, under supervision, but he is free to walk anywhere he likes. A big step for the Little man At this point, I have to give you a clear view about the objective of the article as some of you may not going to like the end results. The objective of the article is to show you a fact which we take for granted and only after reading the complete article you would understand this little truth, and you will obviously forget it when you move to the next page of your scrolling. Yet I want you to understand and remember the message and come back when the waves of your life hit you hard that you break up in tears one day in a matter of years or decades. And read the rest of the articles for meaning of life. Now I want you to think at note what would be your choice, if you were the criminal in this case? Choices are, Imprisoned for life Executed immediately community work under supervision A little man I am sure you are inclined to take the choice 3, as I was. Until I read the second part of the story. After you have chosen the community work, you were taken to an orphanage, and you were given the task of taking care of a little man. Obviously, this man did not have legs, he could not walk, so you should carry him on your back whenever you walk. You should feed this man three times a day and give water as necessary. You have to groom him. However, when he is full stomach and no other needs you are free to do as you wish. You can carry this man to any vacation you wish in any cruise you wanted. You are free to walk. The question is does it feel like a good deal now? At this time what are your choices? Life imprisoned may feel better, and even if you would not agree some of may chose even execution would be a better choice, as daunting as the task is to take care of the little man all your life. Ah, and also if you are gender biased you can imagine this is a little woman. Obviously at this point all the three choices seems equal for someone. As the value of the task three has markedly reduced for some of us selfish like me. A mountain The message. Now the real question is who is this little man you are carrying all your life? That is called your body. I am not telling you to dishearten you. Obviously, you may not understand the weakness of your body until you pay attention to it when it becomes diseased. As long as you keep good care of this little man from morning till night, he will function well and be happy. But the task is hard and can be unbearable for some, who choose the option 1 or 2 even. Some of you may have different views about this, that it is not so. For them I ask to imagine a utopia where you are not needed to eat and drink, and you will fill your stomach with sunlight or a tree. And compare this with all the tasks that you did today from morning till night to keep that hungry belly filled. For the ones who are at end of the life, or enough wisdom to agree to the above fact, I apologize to break the illusion of the life is inherently positive , but do not confuse that it is negative either. There can be silver lining even in the dark cloud, a glimpse of hope. As mindfulness has the potential to lead us to a utopia where there are no problems in our lives by understanding it as its valuelessness with wisdom. Until then let us join together to sleep our camels together. If you ask Socrates , Carl Jung or even Vincent Van Gogh , they will vow to the fact that life is too painful and might even prove you with a severed ear!

Mindless driving I almost knocked down a Cycle rider just the other day. Well, It wasn't like I was travelling 100kmph. It was just about 40kmph. And I got distracted only for a few seconds, and Bam. There was a Motorcycle on the middle of the road and I barely managed to break. And my heart only started to race after the incident as there was no time for it to happen before. Luckily the car behind me did not hit me either. So, I had to write this article on mindful driving. Mindful Driving Nope, I am not going to give you a list of benifits of mindful driving, or give you tips on how to use breath to focus on the road. I am sure you are a better driver than I am. And any mindfulness other than on the road, and vehilcles is going to increase the risk of accidents anyway. Instead I am going to show you a Subtle feature of any journey which can applied to life. Mindfulness on driving and elephants. For that matter I have to explain my journey. I travel 186km every week in my car. Four hours on the road. Travelling same route, with a Picturesque land, partly mountains, plains, through forests, and even waterfalls. However, as it is work, It is not like vacation. It is not stress free travel. As I am driving through areas there are wild elephants, I always wanted to see one. And I did not had luck, or unluck for that matter until one day. While travelling 80kmph on a little bend, for a fraction of a second I looked to my left and I saw two wild elephants fully grown ones, similar heights, looked like siblings, grey in color like two majestic rocks, coming towards the road. And I did not have time to slow down. It was just before dark, and I did not want to turn back as, the elephants looked like real wild ones. There were no other vehicles on the road, or even anyone. Elephants on Road Facts that matters But the interesting facts are not the elephants. Although I noticed everything just a half a second (maybe it is not even half) travelling fast, I can describe it to you taking a full minute. So, even I am suprised how much detail is in this half a second. Secondly, although I can exactly remember things about a half a second of my entire 4hour travel, when I try to remember anything else happened on that journey I cannot. I do not remember anything else happened during that entire 4 hours and for that matter. I do not know anything about entire day. Maybe I do remember some other incidents (which are isolated in memory) but nothing is linked to that day at the moment. Was I not been mindful driving? Are we photographers of the film called life? I think that happens to every one of us. We just drift through the time and our mind just picks up snapshots of some interesting facts about the journey. And we make our own album of things what happened. However even from our point of view this is wrong, as that doesn't describe everything which happened . Only when we look at driving, for that matter life, we understand this fact. We call ourselves, intelligent, experienced selves, carrying this false information, which only is a relative truth to ourselves. The problem I have discussed in detail in the previous article about time . It is not very difficult to understand and I suggest you to have a look. More importantly what are you going to do with this information? For me it has following effects. It let's me humble myself, as I even do not know what I have been through yesterday. According to socrates, Only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing. It makes me realise limits of my own existance, and limited control or non at all which I have over the so called past, even as a memory. It makes me question, what is living? Just taking snapshots of a film which is continously rolling otherwise, and call it a life? What are your thoughts on this drama of life?

When did you look up at the sky ? Seriously when? Today? Yesterday? Now? or months ago? Or did you forget the sky already. I am going to tell you a little narrative of a man who looked up at the sky. And It is a mindful journey. Join in. Once upon a time there lived a man. In a little town, who used to be a kid. He loved looking at the sky, either from a top of a tree or while lying on his back on a playground. He used to look at the sky for hours. And without thinking too much he watched the clouds drift. Cloudy sky As a kid... One day he saw the clouds, slowly drifting in the sky. From east to west, slowly. And only when he gazed for so long, he noticed them moving. White puffy clouds like cotton candy, in the backgroud of sky blue. Next day he saw the sky, this time naked no clouds at all. Like a endless paint of a lazy artist. There were nothing to see. Occational bird was dare to fly across. An aeroplane or two. Following day, it was windy. The sky was full of clouds. And it moves, from west to east, like ships on sail. A convoy of ships in the blue pacific sea. One after the other like a parade, and he could not take his eyes away. As expected, or unexpected, next was a rainy day. Dark clouds from the bottom to top. No blue and its all grey and black. Growling clouds making noice like it had a somachache from the yesterday meals. He waited until it started to rain. He had gazed at the sky, day after day. Night after night. Some were starry some were decorated with moon and stars. Some were scary, others were boring. And he grew up. He grew up and started doing a job. Forgot all about the sky after some time. Rainy day And one day when he was walking to his work. He forgot to bring his umbrella. It started to rain. A heavy rain, he got all wet. He was already late for work. He was already upset. And just then he got angry. He cursed the rain. Cursed the sky. ------------------- Why you should look at the sky? Mindfully. Let's stop our thought process here and think about what happened to this hypothetical man. Maybe It is not hypothetical at all. Maybe it is me, maybe it is you. Maybe it is a women. Initially as a child he saw the sky. Obviously sky changes, from clear skies to cloudy ones to the dark scary ones, from starry nights to dark nights. Yet, if we observe this as a child without giving it a value, It would just be nature. There is no inherent good, or badness of one kind of sky over the other, and it is inevitable one gradually would change to the other. And It is natural. But how did the man in our case senario changed to a one who is angry? Dynamic sky This happened over the years, when the person blinded his mindful vision with the clouds of information . No longer, he could see the sky as sky, and rain as rain. He would project his values over everything he sees or hears giving it a number. Hence, rain on a working day is now Negative for this man. And that is how, he would become sad and angry just when it rains. However nothing changed form the sky point of view. The sky is ever changing dynamic thing, like everything else in our lives. In fact I am not the one who saw this truth. It came from a wise monk. However this intution is not unique, as I heard Mike posner singing about it just the other day. And More importantly he had the solution in his song, and that is.. "Be as you are.." That is exactly we should be doing. And mindfulness is the way to rediscover the child within ourselves.

Boys would not be boys forever They will become men Men would not stay men forever They will be fathers and Be gone. We spend a day on earth and call it a lifetime Like a butterfly which flaps wings for a day and call it Happy times- Butterfly wings On a rainday like tonight nowhere to hide For butterflies happy times ends in demise I wonder why wonder how life could be happy and free Like a frozen montaineer on a cold day on eighthousand Meters height. Butterfly flaps I lost the faith in the lies of the past When I realised its just Letters and numbers in piles I wish to escape and see the truth in a drop of tear And feel sweet or sour, what it taste like Here I am building a puzzle a trap for a naieve mind And trigger them to ask what how and why or wow in a genuine suprise Looking for nectar ----------------------------------- Most people say they were born lonely And die lonely But the fact is we are f---- lonely even in between these two. Its just our own lump of clay that we see Everyday ------------------------------------ On loneliness. I like to stay alone. But not lonely. Sometimes I just wonder there is any difference between the two at all. As an introvert , I am inherently associated, being alone. I am sure, each and every life on earth, was born alone, and will be perished alone. And for advanced consciousness beyond the level of a mamal, loneliness is a general negative emotion. We call ourselves social animals. And try to work in groups and hunt in packs. And when we are surrounded by similar hearts, we call ourselves, and feel ourselves not lonely. Only when we are depressed we would not feel the presence of others. Yet, when In mindfulness, I see it everyday. I see everyday how lonely a mind is, locked in this eternal argument with itself on success, growth, plotting plans avoiding pain and fear. From the moment it wakes up in the morning, till I put it to sleep. The mind sways like a flag in the wind . I am not afraid, I do not fear the loneliness I would embrace without a remorse.

"It's autumn, my friends it's time to say goodbye to you. It's been a wonderful summer, all the way through. My color has changed, and I look very old, hanging on a thread. The thread of life, counting seconds to leave." https://unsplash.com/@autumnmott And the leaf left the tree blown in the wind. Red and brown and golden in color together with his friends, Made the carpet of the forest floor covered at the end. Before the winter, Autumn well spent. With memories of green leaves To join what left behind of them on the ground. Who left in the middle of the summer, In times of hailstorms! https://unsplash.com/@dtolokonov (Falling leaves in Autumn, hailstorms in summer - poem - magicalmindfulliving ) The Story: Insights were provided by a wise man who once walked in a forest path deep inside. He had walked many times on the same path. Listening to the nature and its stories over and over again. One day he happened to walk on the same path after a storm had hit the forest hard previous night. Most of the forest floor covered still with brown and discolored old leaves. However, there were some green leaves as well. And among them even very new leaves few days old, they were not even acquired the deep dark green color of the adult leaves. Alas! nature, teaches us the lessons, and the truths about death visible in front of our eyes all the time. Are we wise enough to recognize? Are we listening to natures stories?

Playing with values. I was thinking about death the other day. And I wrote a poem about it. Maybe death is not something bad after all, is my conclusion from the thinking. No, I am not talking any self-harm. Infact I would advise anyone to get help from a professional medical practice if things of that sort are what lead you here. This article is for the others who are serious about philosophy. Death with a flower Infact foundations of philosophy, religion and for that matter life, is death. Although we label death as something bad, maybe it is not true. If life is a thing, it is the same process which makes us understand the death is a thing too. Life and death can be two ways to look at the same thing, although one is bad over the other maybe it's just valueless like everything else. Now that is difficult to grasp. And just feel like a jumble of words, right? And that is exactly my point! It's just a jumble of words. At least there is one person who has understood this fact and made it a living. And that is none other than Mark Manson. The famous writer, philosopher the best-selling author of the several publications including, the subtle art of not giving a f***. If you ask him what he thinks about death, I am sure he will say he doesn't not give a f***. And yet I am sure he knows about it better than you and me. That's why he doesn't give it a value. Even a negative one, as he has understood inherent valuelessness of things. That is his secret. Once you know this as a fact you can start playing with ideas like a magician. And make everyone around you say wow! You can just start talking about your dirty room and give it a positive value instead a negative one. Just like that! I can explain to you how. Value of a dirty room. Well, what I observe now is my room is dirty at the moment. Why? Because I am lazy! And as I can remember I have never worried my room tidy, or dirty. Infact that is something I am working on my entire life (Oh one day I will be there). Now although a dirty room is considered something negative in anywhere on earth, I can turn this into a positive one. I can combine my creative nature with the dirty room. I can say, well my dirty room is a sign that I am a creative person. Look at a painting room of an artist. Does it look so tidy? But his brilliant art comes from a dirty room of chaos and colors. Look at a Garage. Does it look tidy? Maybe not all the time. Things get messy when you start working. And only when we have spare time we can turn back and tidy things up. Mabe not for the Japanese. Do you get my point? And it is just like how Mike Posner's hair and beard evolved over the years. An Artist I can add some more value to the dirty room by giving you a little Zen story. But that is for another day. I do not want to exhaust you with words. As I know you got my point now. It is with this wisdom I played with the death the other day. Playing with death. Not just death. What death really is an idea in your head. A mental object. It is just like other mental objects. Created by information we have learnt over the years and upgrades with each iteration of our existence. What "real objective death" is nobody has seen and nobody ever will. So, what we have done to our dirty room we can do the same with death. We can argue death is inherently good instead of bad, in front of a crowd. I can give you several positives about death. Maybe I will just list them out, as you are into listicles. 1. Death allows space for new generation; it is recycling at its best. 2. Because of death life has a value, otherwise it will be eternally boring to see universe after universe being born and die while we are immortal. We might just kill ourselves with boredom anyway. 3. Recently NHS is buzzed with bills of Euthanasia. A dignified assisted death for suffering terminally ill adults. Death is good for some. 4. It helps us to get away from the little man . Nope this is not to promote death. This is just to show you that, what our mind sees is not what really there is. Even something extreme like death can be played with, if mind chooses to do just that. With this wisdom in mind, I would invite you to play with your mind objects and see where it leads you? What is the latest project you have been up to? 😉