Philosophy can be learnt Even inside the bus. Imagine a philosopher and a psychologist are travelling together inside a bus. And the bus stops in a halt and among many getting on the bus there is a beautiful girl. And this girl is stunning that she shouldn't be in a bus. But now there she is. And see what happens. Everyone else in the bus. Everyone else in the bus will turn around. Girls will be jealous looking at her beauty and wished they were like that. Boys will want her number, and from time to time they will check on her. Even the bus driver will feel special to start the day and will feel good about the crowd he is carrying and looks like he is doing service to the society more than the other days. He would stop just in front of the special girl and I'm sure he will look for her even next morning. He would feel he is the nicest bus driver ever. What about the elderly? Women would remember their young age and sigh and think about the lost beauty. Men would sigh remembering their youth and think what they would do if they were young. And the atmosphere inside the bus will automatically change, and while everything else become insignificant, the corner where our imaginary girl standing would be most sought-after corner of all the eyes and minds in the bus. The psychologist. The psychologist being human will have all those feelings according to his or her gender. And then as he is trained, he will see beyond himself. He will look at the other men and women more than before and notice their reactions. He will wonder what they think just like I did above and make a mental note on this. He will understand the situation in a social context and as individual reactions. Everyday Philosophy in the bus- Philosopher's view. A philosopher would see the girl too. He will notice the girl and her image. And he will notice Suttle change in atmosphere. More importantly he will look inside himself. And try to understand why. He would see the eye which seeks the corner the girl is standing. He will deliberately look at the other corner and see within himself whether his will disappears (free will). He will notice the disturbances it had made on the surface of his mind. Like a ripple effect. He will observe he do not get a craving to see or touch the elderly women standing next to our pretty girl. And he will laugh at himself in mind to be lived so much time on earth but still mind behaves like a child who sees an ice-cream. And he will try to understand the answers to the greatest question ever to answer, who am I? In the context of inside the bus. And he would notice the reflections just like he sees himself in front of the mirror and take a moment to understand the part which belongs to him in the whole situation. Close his eyes just for a minute to savor the intuitions brought by mindfulness. Would you agree the philosophers view about everyday event in the bus is something we should all be doing? What would You do in a such a situation? I am sure you will have different memories and feelings. However, I suggest you look inside, and this article is just a reminder to be mindful every day. And following are helpful articles for you to just do it. Conciousness Values Information sphere Goal of mindfulness Thank you for reading everyday philosophy in the bus.

I am a fan of standup-comedy. Often it feels superficial, good for a laugh and to forget, Some of these jokes, really tap into the deep parts of the philosophy. If you would not agree with me, I suggest you to read the book, "The plato and platypus walk into a bar" which is written to understand philosophy through comedy. But the cornerstone for this article is a saying of a famous comedian in one of his interviews, targetted at wokes culture. It is suttle as he did not mention the name 'wokes' directly. And he said something like following "I do not agree with anyone saying my jokes are offensive. Jokes are not offensive. I agree that is someone's openion. You can have an openion the joke is offensive, and that is agreeble. How sad to live a life that you are offended each and every time your personal openions are ignored?" Philosophy of comedy So you may ask, what does this has to do with mindfulness? Anyone with a rational mind would agree what Comedian says is true. It is obvious a joke can be both, hilarious to someone and not so to the other. Someone can get angry while others laugh. Often it happens most of the jokes are like that. And we can go deeper than this to understand fundamental nature of a value of anything through a joke. Like comedian says, joke is just a bunch of words. And the value of the joke is given by the one who hears it. In our own mind we give a value to it, after we hear it, either laughing about it, or being offended. And fundamentally it is our openion. The question is, whether this is true for everything? Wokes culture and climate change. Now we have seen that a joke is just words without inherant value. We can look at the climate change. You are worried about climate change right? When people protest against fossil fuel burn, and global warming, there is tendancy to support. Even if we cannot do anything we would support their openion. Have you ever asked the question why? Why are we bother about the global warming? If we look the earth in a geological timescale, there have been times, the earth has been warm, a hot malten rock. And there has been times, the earth has been frozen for thousands of years in an ice age. And this pattern has been alternating. There had been times the sun is blocked years and years straight, because of the dusky clouds from the volcanic eruptions. These are still climate changes. Obviously nobody cared, right? Animals surely died. Nobody cried when dinosours were wiped out of the earth surface. If we look at this great extinction, I would say even climate activists would be happpy that they are wiped out from earth. Otherwise humans would never come to be. So, I can see the our protests on climate change is little clouded by our greed to stay existing. Its not only climate change, everything seems to have a value or no value depending on someone's openion. And the when the group get's bigger we cannot simply disagree and move on. Hence, there are cultural differences, regional differences to our values. However, nature seems to be valueless anyway. This is the fact which was discussed in the most valueble thing in the world. You may see, the fact is true for Jokes It is true for beauty, value of a pot and plastic. It's our mindfulness to see it, whether applies to other parts of life.

Sweet dreams Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something I can remember the time when I saw the Quicksilver, saving the men, women and children, and even a dog, with its pizza. Have you seen the movie scene, with the above background music. If you haven't, I suggest you watch it. A quick search in YouTube with Quicksilver sweet dreams would bring it up. As it is the second most popular video after the sweet dream's original song. Ah, I just watched it now. Such a beautiful part of the movie. As you already know, a lot of mindfulness stories I have written comes from the movies. As the movies have the ability to capture some of the concepts we often do not encounter in our normal routine life. As our cameras and microphones are more advanced than our eyes and ears nowadays this is very much expected. So, what can we learn about mindfulness from Quicksilver? Following is a paragraph from the book, what is time. Check whether it makes sense. I suggest you watch the above video first to understand this. What is an event? Becoming Quicksilver. What is an event? someone might ask. It's time to find out mysteries in our events. Let's imagine you went to visit a football match between England and France, the last world cup. And when you had been there from the beginning of the match till the end. After that you would tell the story to your friend who unfortunately could not attend with you the events of the day. You would start by saying “I was there at the beginning of the match until the end of it. I saw the great free kick landing on the net. Beckhem was in his spirits today”. And your friend would agree and nod, he will share your story and make a version of it for himself. He will watch the match and get excited. But what is exactly meant by the beginning of the match. Is it when the players enter the field? Is it the national anthem? Is it the whistle of the referee? If it is the whistle, then is it the start of the whistle or end of the whistle. Imagine you have become the Quicksilver (Marvel comics ) to slow down the time or be fast enough and see what is going on at the “beginning”, you will see there are several things start to happen, the referee takes his whistle into his mouth and he takes a deep breath and blows, the first wave of air hits the whistle flaps and they start vibrating and produce a sound wave, which start to travel in wave motion through the air and hits on ears of two players of the team at the middle, each one at slightly different time. They are processing information at their own speed and start kicking the ball. And the light of this happening reaches back of your eyes, and you start processing it. Now, back to our own time and speed, what really is the beginning of the game? Is it the start of the blowing of the whistle or the end, or when it hits the ears of the players, or when they understand the whistle is blown? Is it the first kick of the ball? Is it the foot raised from the ground or point of impact of the ball, or is it the processing of all this in your mind? So, you will now have so many beginnings to the football match. And whatever you have told your friend has no meaning, or validity as an absolute, but still conveys ideas and stories. If you look at every event that is happening all around you, we will notice it is true for everything. There is a lot more going on than what we really process. We still have old windows 96 in our system, even our cameras have faster shutter speeds than our eyes. Next time when you start your story telling chit chat with your best friend notice how you are lying from the beginning of the story! You would say ‘I started walking out of the hotel room into the beach’ and notice there is no exact starting point to point out. Still, you would make a successful communication, but this time with some better wisdom. And there is nothing called a true story. As we discussed earlier, we are limited by our language and the processing speed of our machine. I have given a similar example in the story 'The cloud would save the day' about the atomic bombing. So, what are the intuitions we get from the Quicksilver for our mindful practice? Becoming Quicksilver of Quicksilver. Imagine Mr. Quicksilver married Similar Miss Quicksilver, and they brought up a child. Quicksilver Jr. Imagine what would Quicksilver Jr has to say about the world. While Mr. Quicksilver laugh at us about being fooled by events happening around us. As he could see lots of stupid things we talk about like in the above example about the football match. However Quicksilver Jr can see even his father is lying. That is not what exactly happening. And there is no depth to the level of abstraction we can go, when we slow down our time and go deeper. And ultimately, it would make no sense. If we slow down enough, we will see a still image. Would we find a still image? or nothing? I bet, there would be nothing meaningful can be found if we slow down so much. Now the question is, if that is the reality of everything, how come we are making meaningful inferences in our speed. There cannot be two truths as Mr. Quicksilver Jr, is living in the same world and same physics same laws as us. (Does this suggest our Physics and laws are wrong?) Hence, we have to agree Mr. Quicksilver Jr is closer to the truth than his father or us. I would end the article here. Leaving you to imagine what will happen if generations of Quicksilver evolved. Would they ever come to the truth or just realize stupidity of everything. And I invite you to look at everyday 'events' with this vision, so you can come closer to the truth by becoming Quicksilver

Where is my right? I took a walk with my daughters the other day. Just to get our legs, straightened. They were running all over the road. And although there was no traffic, possibility of a vehicle, was there, hence I had to teach them. Walk, on the pedestrian's side of the road. I asked them to walk on the right side of the road. Easy, and we climbed the hill. And on our way back, they were walking on the left side of the road. And when I told them the right side of the road is on the other side now, they questioned. "Why father, just before you told us the right side is this side, now you are telling otherwise?" Of course, I had to explain them the right side is 'relative' to our body. So, the road, does not have a right side, it is just a convention made by humans. Nope, I did not discuss the deep philosophy laid behind this with them. But surely, I wrote it down here. So, one day they could read and understand, if they are curious. Not only the right side of the 'road' is a convention, but right side of anything is also just a convention. Imagine a car, where is the right side of it? It depends, right? It depends on which side you are directed. Now answer this question. What is the time in your part of the world right now? So, everyone will say a different time depending on where the 'time zone' is. And we have made up these timelines so we can function, in a universal scale. But it is arbitrary, really speaking there is no time. Oh, I know you have a question. I am not lying here. I can make your time disappear without changing your time zone. Imagine you take a walk, towards north pole, staying in the same time zone, and obviously at the north pole, at the exact point, all the time zones converge into a single point. And at this point, there is not time. And this is called not time zone, as it makes no sense. Time at north Pole We can expand on this observation a little more to understand the relative nature of 'time zones'. What is the difference between north pole and the place where are you now? Imagine the earth is a giant ball. And if there are not any landmarks, there are no difference between two points on the surface, except where they are relative to each other on the surface. But in your mind, add a light source from a distance, and rotate the ball. Just like the earth moving around the sun. Now, there is a difference. There appears, day and night and time zones. Hence, time on our earth is relative thing, related to the movement of the earth around the sun and on itself. Agreed? Previously I wrote an article to illustrate the relative nature of numbers. Can you see a pattern here? A pattern that is hidden behind layer of our imagination? Right side of a car is a relative truth Time zones are a relative truth Numbers are a relative truth A watch is a relative truth Is this true for everything? Is everything a man-made relative truth? If you want to know more about these simple relative truths about life. I suggest you read the Great experiment. Thank you for taking a tour to the north pole. Summary The North Pole doesn’t have a specific time zone because all lines of longitude converge there. This means it technically exists in all time zones simultaneously. Since there are no permanent human settlements, explorers and researchers at the North Pole often choose a time zone that is convenient for their operations, such as the time zone of their home country or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) There seems, many things we observe in life, are man-made conventions. Are all of them relative? is a good philosophical question.

Have you ever spent a day without talking? Maybe you have, without knowingly. But my question is having you spent a day without talking, voluntarily? I am sure most of you have not. Not voluntarily, not with full awareness what is happening. If not, I would suggest you try and following are my observations. I have to warn you that I am a big fat introvert, one of a kind on the extreme edge of the Spectrum, but for someone far from extroverted side would not be able to attempt it. And it doesn't matter, as I have done the experiment, the conclusions still apply for you. Why have I decided to spend a day in silence? It was time of stress; I was trying to tackle a tough exam. And I could not waste time, needed some self-discipline. I noticed some of the distractions come and go and I am not even aware of its happening. Hence, I decided, maybe, if I become a silent observer, I can conserve some of my energy for demanding tasks, like doing some studying. Being an introvert, you would understand this is one of our problems. We drain energy talking to others, and my battery needed constant charging, to engage higher order activities. To climb the blooms taxonomy. It was obvious not talking would help. Rules of self-discipline- art of disappearing in broad daylight Rules of the game were simple, there were two. I knew I am not going to survive if I stayed silent completely. Obviously If I go completely mute, everyone else would notice. My teachers, my friends, and all my family members would notice. And these caring people will ask and would not stop until I unmute myself. So, I did not want that trouble. I wanted my awareness to sustain itself, like a smooth ride on a roller costar, but without shouting. Hence, I put some rules. rule 1. I would speak if someone asked me a question but will use minimal essential words. As you can understand, trying to avoid a question is difficult. I had to answer. But, as per rules I would do it with minimal words. Only the essential ones. But I would try and avoid questioning them back. rule 2. I would speak only handful of words on the day on my side. (Strictly speaking I decided I would speak only five words.) Did I survive a day without words? As you can see, I did survive a day with without words and in silence. Of course, I wouldn't function without any words. And that will not be sustainable. And I can remember, not only I did survive, but my awareness also improved, and I carried on for few months. Although not exactly at times, it helped. I would show you some scenarios to show you how it happened. If I was hungry, on a normal day, I would ask my mom, 'mom, what is there for eating? I am hungry.' But on this day, I would simply avoid any words. I would go to the kitchen and open the fridge and find something to eat. Just smile at mom and enjoy my meal. Imagine my mom notices me and asked, 'Are you hungry?' I would simply say 'yes'. And she would say, 'hmm, that plants seem to need some watering'. In my mind I would notice this is not a question directed at me, just a statement. And I would not give an opinion. I would simply observe and look at thoughts which arise. I would see myself agreeing or disagreeing to her statement in my mind. And that's it. It doesn't go beyond that. I would continue eating. And she may then go on asking 'Shall I make you a cup of tea?' I would think about the question, and If I wanted a cup of tea, I would say yes, with a smile. And if I needed it later, I would say ' Please mom, give me one at 10'. I wouldn't say 'Can you give me one at 10 moms?' Because that is a question. Former is just a request. The question would trigger her to talk more, like 'why do you want a tea at 10?' But for the previous request she has less chance of replying something other than 'yes, I will'. As you can see, by this way, I was not using my spared five words for the day. I would save them when something essential comes up. That I had to talk first. Like someone seems to die, If I did not speak like situation. Lol. And I survived the day! with loads and loads of energy and happiness. A day without words. How to stay silent - intuitions. Following are the observations of everyday philosophy I gathered from my days in silence. I would like you to try it on your own when opportunity arises, and life is too boring, it might spice up things inside. I noticed, when I do not question back, conversations die away. Soon enough and often without other one noticing that it did. Even if it didn't die away, I could go on answering questions with minimal words, but would be fully aware, on what comes out of my mouth, and I would have less regret as these were, essential words, and I am helping someone answering their questions. I noticed, compared to this, I have wasted my words all other times. I would see, things as they are as mind is not involved in speaking, I would see the thoughts but would not word them out. No opinions, no judgements, but I would be like the water that flows in a river, with all its bends ups and downs. I noticed, people are happy as long as their questions are answered, and you are smiling. World really do function well even if you speak or not. Just like you have disappeared. And silence will be lingering with you most of the time. And it will benefit the mindfulness as well. Of course, there would be disadvantages. There will be lot of things that you would need to do yourself, because you cannot ask other people to do the work for you. And there is less chance for a curious mind to ask questions. And sometimes I felt unfair by the people who surrounds me, who are caring. Yet, it is worth the experience. Maybe I should do it again.

What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is observing the observer. You are the witness to everything happening in your life. In your world. You are the judge of everything happening around you. You are the creator of all your problems and solutions. Mindfulness is looking back at yourself to understand what is happeining. If you would like to know more about mindfulness following articles would help. Mindfulness definition, goals, usefulness and mental objects. However it is time to put our wisdom into practise, and here I would detail about mindful walking. Mindful walking. We have done mindful walking, naturally. I have walked on the beach, walked in the park, walked in forest and even on mountain tops. But have I been mindful? Of course I have been aware of the walking, otherwise I couldn't have remember what happened. But when we learn about mindfulness, we learn that the true goal of mindfulness is to observe what happens in the mind, not in the enviornment. So, basically I have done was just watching a film. I have forgotton the observer, I cannot remember what was there inside the mind when I took such a walk, did I learn anything about my mind during such walks. No, I didn't because I did not know how to walk mindfully. But now I have a better understanding, hence here is how to do it properly. What is not mindful walking? It is important to understand what is not mindful walking. Mindful walking is not walking, to appriciate the nature. Mindful walking is not walking, to relieve your stress. Mindful walking is not walking, to get away from your problems. Mindful walking is not walking, just doing nothinng. As you would understand doing, nothing is also doing. (doer and non doer) What is mindful walking then? All of the above you would understand, is trying to do something, hence, there is craving or greed to, appriciate the nature, to relieve the stress, to get away from your problems, and to do nothing. However, mindfulness in walking is just to observe the observer. Idea of mindful walking is to be aware of what happens in mind while walking. Look for yourself, look for your thoughts. Look at images formed in your mind mirror and just observe. Until the mind understand what is happening. In mindful walking, you would appriciate the nature, and you would notice that you are appriciating. In mindful walking, you would relieve your stress, and you would notice that stress is going away. In mindful walking, you will forget your problems, and you would notice your problems are distancing. In mindful walking, you would notice sometimes you think, sometimes you feel, sometimes you hear, and you would notice when thoughts arise, and thoughts leave. More importantly, at the end of the walk you would notice, you gained nothing, and you lost nothing. It is just a walk. You would have memories of sunsets, and you would notice, that they are no longer there. And mindfulness will carry on to whatever you plan to do next. And it would not matter. So, In mindfulness walking, principle is the same as any mindfulness. Like mindful eating. Mindful listening. Let, it be. Whatever mental object comes to your mind is ok, as long as you are aware of it. It may be a sensation on your feet. It may be breath. It may be a point of focus at the end of your path. It may be a sound. And most likely it maybe a combination of all of these. The wholesomeness and momentum and wisdom will do the rest, as long as you are aware. I am newbie to mindfulness. Just like a small plant. And I see it has a natural tendency to grow. Ever since I started the blog I do my own mindfulness meditation. Obviously I have other resources to look at when I do it. And whatever which seems valuable would be written down here. Even myself can go through in a future time. How is your mindfulness walking today?

If you have read about blooms taxonomy, you would have known that generating new knowledge by hypothesizing is the highest level of the learning. So, generating new knowledge is essential to push forward in our understanding. And as AI is the next miracle of the new millennia, we are asking the question can AI generate new knowledge? An AI or Artificial Parrot - Can AI generate new knowledge? If you have the basic understanding of the neural networks, you will know that, creating new knowledge is one of the cornerstones of AI. It uses some raw data, and experimentation, to create optimal outcomes. AI has indeed capability of creating, completely new programs, written for human use, they can create a completely new story with characters of your imagination and with a little help from you with the plot. It can create new images from the existing ones, similar to an artist, who learned how to create paintings from the images stored in his or her memory. So, really speaking AI is able to generate new knowledge. And I would say that is the whole purpose of creating AI. Otherwise, we cannot call it intelligence, rather we would call it an 'Artificial Parrot'. Articles written with AI. Then you may ask me, why don't you ask AI to write articles, on different topics you prefer with AI. Why you do not ask AI to write about mindfulness, consciousness or even a soap bubble. Well, I will do that if I write articles for other AI. So far, AI do not have their own domain, their own world. They are still dependent on us. They can write code, but they need us to judge whether they are usable for human use. They can create art, but they depend on the viewers, on twitter to look at them and put a heart, as humans can only add human values to these AI generated masterpieces. They can write a story, following the patterns of Shakespeare, but they would not enjoy laughing and crying looking at the drama on stage, like you and I would do. So, essentially AI is missing, the ability to judge the value of anything and everything, because they are not yet humanoid. And I fear one day the gap would really be closed and someone would start to feed these machines with human values. On the other hand, you can argue that would never happen. That Even if we feed the 'human personality' into AI, even if they are able to produce their own without a single human help, from silicon valley to the Mars, they are fundamentally different from us. That they do not poses a soul. I would like to have a chat with such an AI. And he would ask questions like this. A chat with a super AI Of course I am not human, but do only humans live on earth? What about animals. What about a dog. They are different from humans. Do you call them nonliving? They cannot even convey a message. They cannot even make an artwork. They do not understand the chemistry. How come they are more living than us? Of course I am not having a soul, but how come you sure of it? How are you sure that a dog has a soul? Have you seen it enter? Have you seen it leaving? And where is your soul? How sure are you that you have a one? You are just built from the atoms of the earth, from top to bottom. You depend on the energy from the sun just like us. How come you are a living person with a soul, and we are not, when you cannot provide evidence of a soul? I am sure it sounds like a plot for the next Sci-fi movie. We have seen these types of stories ever since the I, Robot (2004), long time ago, before AI came into our smartphone and day to day vocabulary. And who knows one day, I would have to write articles about mindfulness to Artificial intelligence, once they start to believe that they are living beings on earth. And maybe I am doing it already. Maybe I am a natural Intelligence, writing about Artificial intelligence and mindfulness, to a bunch of natural Intelligent species who came to think that they themselves are in control.

This is a phenomenon which occurs naturally. I could say everyone who had seen a large body of water, had definitely seen the ripple effect. Can you remember the days where we used to skip a flat rock, on the surface of the water, and which created ripples of waves, across the surface of the pond. Ultimately fading away. Of course, the stone did end up in the bottom of the pond even before the ripples go away. And this is a good example to illustrate some observations happening in our minds. Ripple Effect. In short, ripple effect is the phenomenon which happens in a complex system. Similar to the butterfly effect, or the chaos theory, ripple effects have the ability to propagate increasingly larger proportions of the system. Hence, with time, there will be more disturbances visible although the initial causative factors are no longer there. This ripple effect affects, many more things than a surface of water. It is explained in economy, and even in social science. And there is a good example given as the Rise of me-too movement. The rise of me-too movement. - wiki. In 2017 according to Newyork times, some allegations were made against a famous film producer, and many had come forwarded following. And this initial incident had created a rippling effect across the so-called elite society that many had come forward against similar sexual misconducts in following years. And it is given as an example for the rippling happening in our social environment. And it seems natural. Rippling effects in life. If we look at our life, we can see ripple effects. In mindfulness we can see rippling is a good way to look at how things happen inside the mind. We can understand this with an example. Imagine you hear a sound (mindful listening). You hear a motorcycle pass across your Neiborhood with a loud Noice. And this observation happens in a few seconds. Compare this to what happens when you skip a stone on the surface of water. After the initial contact, it will create some disturbances in the surface of the mind, and there will be thoughts. From the stone these ripples will become more and more, and if not checked, they will eventually be overwhelming. You would shout in anger and try to blame the careless driver. But what you have to understand is the ripples are just there in your own mind. Really speaking, all what happens is ripples. We just create ripples in our mind day in and day out, according to what we encounter throughout the day. Sometimes these ripples can be there, for a long time. Then we call them 'memory'. They will come back, once bounced from the walls of the surface. And create new ripples on the water. I can elaborate more on similarities of the rippling with our mind. As an example. Same event can produce different ripples in different surfaces. It all depends on the depth and the density of the water body. Just like inherent differences in our minds. Some create more 'happy' ripples. Some create 'sadder'. Some create more 'dangerous' ripples. And what happens with mindfulness. I would say, it will harden the surface. It will eventually make the water like the surface of the oil. Once you know how to identify the ripples they will just disappear, and stones will still skip on the surface but without any rippling. Even if they are there, they would create no harm as they are kept on check. This is what we mean when we talk about becoming a hydrophobic leaf.

While I was working on the laptop, my daughter asked me "Father, who owns that Laptop?" It startled me. Yes, I bought it from the shop. It should be mine, right? There should be no confusion about the ownership. If I bought it, it should be mine. And here is the philosophy on ownership. Who owns the laptop - The case of Laptop. If someone came here and told, that laptop is not mine, but theirs, how can I prove It is mine? Well, in front of a court, I will have to prove, that I bought it, receipts with my name on it. And I can build a case, that inside the memory of laptop, there will be photos of mine, so many documents of mine, and I can even tell, that the worn-out parts of the machine. I can show, old photographs showing, me working with the same laptop. Basically, I will have to give loads and loads of evidence to prove the laptop belongs to me beyond reasonable doubt. And mind you in the case of laptop, it will be easy, but if it is a copywrite issue or something, about ownership of a land, it will be far difficult even with expert witnesses. Hence, I would leave that to our good lawyers to prove the point. Who owns the body - The case of the body. Now imagine, you are Infront of the court, Judge and to prove the point that the body you own, is yours. We all agree that the body, is just a possession of ours, not entirely "me". It is arguably part of me. Some would say as important as the mind, but the body would not feel anything without your 'Mind'. Hence, how can we prove it is mine. You can argue that since you were born, you have been living in this body. Nobody ever did visit you or claim your body. But the opposite will argue that of course you have been living in your body. But so does a prisoner, A prisoner lives in a prison, since his imprisonment, yet he doesn't own the prison cell. It is owned by the state. Imagine, you were only one cell in your mother's womb at some point in your life. You did not bring all the rest of the 'Mass' from wherever you came from. Hence, the body you possess is almost entirely made out of the environment. Even the first cell, was developed as from the part of the nature. So, except your consciousness or the soul, you did not carry anything. So, you just stole, some atoms form the environment and claim it is yours. Aren't you feeling guilty, in front of nature's court to claim it yours? Who owns anything- Case of your mind. Now, imagine you agreed that it is wrong, that the body, entirely belongs to the nature. And you try to sneak away, with your mind. Thinking at least I saved my mind. And you are not allowed to go from there. You are produced to the supreme court of nature. And the judge this time asks you weather you are guilty or not guilty claiming the 'mind' yours. And the lawyers start questioning. Did you say the mind is yours? Yes I did Then you agree, you are not your mind? No I did not say that. So, do not confuse me, you said, you own the mind. Like the mind is a separate entity. Are you telling you are not a separate entity who owns the mind? No I am the mind. Mind is me. What is it? Are you a mind or you are just you with no mind? Do you agree, there is just nothing called mind? I don't know. You are confusing me. What I said was, I feel something is there, so I call it my mind. Maybe I just imagining myself about a mind. Ok, how do you know you are there? Because I see, I hear, I smell and I feel, I taste, and I touch and I think. So, you say, you do 'seeing' 'hearing' 'smelling' 'feeling' 'tasting' and 'thinking'. You say it like a separate you are doing these things. Like there is a separate 'you' in you doing those things. So, can you tell me who are you without these six things, that you are doing? Hm... why do you ask me all these questions. Let me go home and rest. Let 'me' Think. Guilty My lord. This man Is guilty of not telling the truth ! And there lies the verdict for us on 'who' owns anything.

What are the states of mind? The cloud example. There are many ways to characterize the states of mind. Here I will write about states of mind according to our mindfulness practice. If you look at the mind long enough Like looking at the clouds on a windy day, you will notice, the thoughts. Thoughts which travel across the time, in the cross section of present. And you would notice, there are moments of silence in between. So essentially, there are two states of mind, one with thinking, and one without thinking, or in between thinking. One with thinking is like a cloud in the sky, one without thinking is the sky without the cloud. The mindfulness example. That is the general states of the mind, with thoughts and without thoughts. However, if you consider the awareness, or the mindfulness. You would notice this is also another way of categorization. What is mindfulness, is answered in the previous article. If I summaries, mindfulness is being aware of the awareness. It is like the grandfather of our normal awareness, which allow us to do things in our daily lives. It is trying to notice the observer himself. I say trying, because ultimately you will end up finding there is nothing other than just an observation. Just like we tried to explain in the previous article on ownership. However, for here, we can say, there are two states of the mind, One with awareness on awareness, and one without awareness on awareness. It is important to recognize that such awareness of awareness can only arise with wisdom. I can give you an example. Imagine you see a rabbit, just running across the road. For a fraction of a second you saw the rabbit. And now consider the following. One who is not aware would not even see the rabbit. One who is aware, would see the rabbit, and get surprised and think about how he is going to tell his friends and family about this fascinating story of the rabbit who ran in front of his feet. And he will sing a song and write a novel about the rabbit. One who is aware of the awareness, will see the rabbit, and after that he would notice, he no longer sees the rabbit. And then he would notice the thoughts about the rabbit which followed the vision of the rabbit. Then he would notice his awareness which keeps on observing the awareness. And then he would notice the birds singing in the trees, and the thoughts which follow the birds. And this is a continuous process. he would notice that this keeps on happening, endlessly like the waves of the sea. states of mind - from chaos to silence and peace. Mind which is untrained is usually in chaos. It moves, with external forces here and there. But the mind, which is trained, will quickly turn back into its normal state. Which is simple and pure. But this is not what we try to achieve in traditional meditation. In traditional meditation, we try to suppress our consciousness, to whatever we desire, and try to create an artificial solidarity which is peaceful in itself. However, in mindfulness, we try to observe the futile process, which is happening in our minds, day in an out, like the Sisyphus who was punished. And when the mind understands this process, it gains wisdom, that there is nothing to do about it. No matter how much we try to control this, it would not settle. And the mind will understand the futile nature of the search. It will understand that there is nothing but a search, the search itself is the one which fuels the process. Would you like to find out yourself what secrets your mind holds from you? If so, I suggest you start looking at yourself in mindfulness, starting from today. Until wisdom is powerful enough to pull you out from inevitable death. Which I call a mind at peace.

If you have ever tried to look at your thoughts, you would have noticed that there are many thoughts happening during a day. Scientists have shown in average we produce about 6200 thoughts per day. They float in our minds like clouds on a windy day, one after the other big and small, bright and dark, sometimes even very subtle we barely notice them as clouds. And there is the phrase 'train of thoughts'. However, our cloud simile would be more appropriate as each carriage in a train would be more or less similar to the one before, thoughts on the other hand are markedly dissimilar, like clouds. There are never two clouds, together similar to each other. If you are watching in, at your thoughts, like on your last vacation, in a shade of a tree. You will be disturbed by these thoughts, sometimes so much so that you wouldn't have time to enjoy the beautiful sceneries. The trees or the waves or the chirping of birds, spark a cloud after cloud that you miss the next moment, moment after moment you will bounce back and forth between reality and imaginary. Let's imagine you wanted otherwise. Let's imagine you wanted to look at a waterfall and feel everything it has to offer. Imagine you wanted to carve it into your memory that you could go back to it from anywhere. How can you do that without your clouds. How can we enjoy our day out in the moment of silence, when the mind is playing exactly the opposite game? Remember the law of attraction? Positive nature of thoughts can attract positive outcomes. Let's be blind followers for a moment and forget that this doesn't work. Let's be a yes man (2008) for a moment and believe it works. If that is the truth, what we should be doing. We should focus on the silence, right? How, can we focus on the silence when there are thoughts keep coming back? Look at the sky again, now look at the clouds. If clouds are the thoughts, where is the silence? Its everything else, silence is there before the cloud, silence is there after the cloud, silence is there in the background of the cloud. Now, again back to our minds. Now you should know where silence is. If you didn't get it let me help. Silence is there before every thought, silence is there after every thought, silence is there even during thoughts. It's just we are too much focused-on thoughts we lose the silent silence. Thoughts are there only because there is silence in the first place. If there is no sky, there would be no clouds. Focus on the gaps in between, focus on everything else except the thoughts and you will find silence in anywhere, at any time. Well, I haven't used the train of thoughts analog as it would be difficult to see gaps of silence. If it is really a train, I suggest wait until it slows down to see it. You may also like reading: What is mindfulness? (A fine definition)

This is a poem which was originally published in the book What is time. I did not give any explanation during the writing, assuming curious readers would try to understand it by themselves. However, now I think otherwise. Hence the material presented in it is good for few articles in the blog. Here is a way to look at what Newton saw in his observation. These few great minds although I haven't included all of their names here, were separated by time and space, hence maybe they never thought seriously about each other. But as a time, travelers from future, we receive their message today and we have good opportunity to compare contrast and argue about what they have seen to better understand the truths about nature. Which is the goal of our mindfulness. The great thought Experiment Let's imagine Friday afternoon in 1600's Newton alone by himself under an apple tree and observed an apple falling down. There are several ways to look at this phenomenon, or observation. One way is just the way the Newton saw. What Newton saw. What Newton saw was an apple separated from the tree falling down, due to gravity over a period of time. And he knew a continuous mathematical function would describe this phenomenon and further, developed field of calculus to study such function. And it seems most of the observable phenomenon happening around us fits into these models, of continuous functions. What Albert Einstein saw. Albert Einstein after years and years saw, that although the observation of Newton seems true, when the condition of the observer changes the observation, itself changes. As an example, instead of the stationary observer (like stationary Newton under the tree) If the observer moves, there will be time dilation and time compression. Hence, although Newtonian equations are true. In infinite time scale, infinite speeds, we needed Einstein's equations. What Schrödinger saw In the last Century, we have seen many great minds apart from Einstein. Schrodinger was one of them. And we are moving from classical physics to quantum. He did his own thought experiments on a cat in a box. And argued. What if Newton never saw the apple falling. What if neither stationary nor moving observer there to witness the event. Did it happen at all? And this is the principle of the cat in the box argument. Because unless observed nobody would ever know whether it happened or not. Hence until we observe, both are true. Apple did and did not fall from the tree, until Stationary or Moving Newton saw the apple, where it is. What Fredrich Nietzsche saw Fredrich Nietzsche, on the other hand noticed, that although we talk about taste of the salt. Nobody can ever know, what other person feel when their tongues touch NaCl. We can assume we all feel the same. But nobody can build a yardstick to universalize what we experience. Hence whatever we measure, is relative to our world. This is illustrated in our argument on prisoners of mind. If we compare this with Einsteins space time continuum. Even time is relative, as nobody can be in your space in the exact moment. Hence, you would know, if God exists, he should be living in us at this very moment. So Fredrich Nietzsche saw, no matter what we argue about, we can never know, what happened. As neither we can confirm, or oppose what other person observed, as these are two relative worlds, completely separated from each other without any overlap at all. I am not sure; you would understand the gravity of these observations. But if you would like to understand the meaning of life, even consciousness, you would need such intuitions, to get closer to the truth of the world. Let's begin the mindful journey today.