This is a great story of subjectivity. I have included it as a final message in the book " What is time? " However, as it is a concise book on time, I did not include any explanation. Here, I will narrate the story and we can then look into the message of it. Saving Seashells. Once upon a time there were two friends. One of them lived in the cost. And the second one lived in the mainland visited his friend one day. As it occured previous day there had been a storm and rough sea had brought lot of sea animals washed ashore. And hundreds of seashells were lying across the shore. When the boy visited his friend, he was on the beach. Noticed him far away getting down to pick up something and throw at the sea. After watching sometime and approaching him he noticed that the friend was picking up seashells to return them to the sea. And it looked absurd, there were thousands of them. He spoke, "Hello friend, what are you doing? this fine morning?" I am saving seashells. He replied. Do you think you can save all of them? There are thousands of them! nomatter how fast you do it doesn't matter, you would never save them all. That is true, he answered and yet again bent down, picked another shell and threw it at the sea and said, "It mattered to that one though!" Seashells: https://unsplash.com/@erin1592 Morals of the story -On changing the world. In Act of charity Obvious moral of the story is, we do not have to worry about end results when we start doing something in changing the world. As long as our intentionas and attitudes are pure, the action how big or small would not matter. And obviously the gates of the heven is not opening to anyone depending on how many seashells we would save. So, when we talk about charity, one seashell matters. One dollar of donation matters. One act of kindness matters. In Action in general We can also, derive some better rules for anything that we do. Again, it doesn't have to be charity. "One step at a time" is a good rule to follow in anything that we do. And I have wrtten about this in Mike Posner article, how he took one step at a time, when he walked across america. Anything that looks monumental, mega scale, is started with one step. It may be a single idea in a isolated peaceful mind, most of the time. Winter : https://unsplash.com/@drosie Subjectivity of the world We can also derive another meaning from the story, and it is to look at the world from the subjective aspect of it. Imagine you are a shell, waiting to be saved by these higher powers of the God, called humans. And it doesn't matter thousands of similar ones who are waiting on the shore. The God's would not even have time to reach you. Yet what matters for you is your liberation. Not your neighbours, not your daughters, not your parents. And this can be labelled as selfishness. But I like to label this as a will, a will for survival . And this is the most likely source of the driving force for the life itself. What is more important to understand is, the world obviously is not something created and persist outside individual seashell consciousness. As for individual seashell, the existance would cease to exist when they are dead. We are just like individual seashells waiting to be saved on the shore. Have you ever thought about this?

500 miles. If you miss the train I'm on.. You would know that I am gone You can hear the whistle blow, a  Hundred miles... This is a song first I heard in the film by the name Inside Llewin Davis. I cannot be sure of the plot exactly. You are welcome to comment if you remember, as I am too lazy to check it out and write here, not because I cannot but because I have plenty of interesting things to write about. Let's focus on the core message instead. How about mindfulness and philosophy for a change? Rail Roads: https://unsplash.com/@profwicks All the roads lead home.  I have spent significant amount of time travelling. Not on world tours, taking same road again and again to the school, University and now to work. And I do not think it will change. We cannot avoid travelling as it is essential for our survival. In Fact if you stop you might even get sick fat and die. And in these significantly boring travelling I have thought about many things. And obviously one is about roads. Have you ever imagined all the roads are connected? Maybe it was not the case 100 years ago. But it's true the moment you step out to the street you are connected to this vast network of transportation called roads. In Fact this is a good analogy to understand life. Imagine you travel 500 miles away from home from your folks. But do not worry do not fear or feel isolated, as when you step on the road you know it leads to your home. That there is the connection to the place where you want to be if you prefer that. Isn't that dreamy? Interconnectedness in Generic roads. There are many ways to look at this phenomenon. Although the above is true when we look at roads as specific, we often forget it is the case. As we have separated roads as highways and country ways, bridges underground. And naming every street. It has made it easier for us to locate exactly where our house is. But if we limit our vision to this narrow space we will miss the big picture. I am sure there are engineers who look at our road systems in a more generic view of this network. And if you went to visit the chief engineer of transportation In your estate he would have a map on his wall with this generic form. And everything is connected to everything ! Just like the interconnectedness of mindfulness which Thich Nhat Hanna talks about. Interconnectedness is not the only wisdom we can gain from these roads. In Fact there is no limit. As you can see everything  is connected to everything. I could talk about materials used to build roads. Or the machines. Biggest and most difficult roads. But that is not our focus in Magical Mindful living. We will look at the mindfulness example. Home: https://unsplash.com/@scottwebb Returning home. Imagine you are far away from home. This time the home represents something that you seek. It may be eternal happiness or connecting with God. It may mean self discovery of yourself. But you have travelled far into the wild of the concrete jungle and you haven't found the answer. Now you are feeling lost and stranded without anyone for you to show you the way home. But guess what. Every road is connected to home. As long as you are willing to accept, you are stranded and willing to turn back. Like a true seeker, navigate back to the place where it all started, travel back even up to the mothers womb . There is risk going backwards. But if you understand the analogy you know there is still hope as no road is isolated. Even roads which lead apparently to nowhere, you can turn back and return. Learning the lesson. Just like a funa reaching for sunlight, you can slowly progress to the eternal peace that you seek. Obviously I am being a little dramatic here and making another illusion out of nothingness . But most of you would not understand as likely you haven't observed what your mind does day after day.  In summary I can say that if you look at the world in mindfulness you would see the connections and links that everything  and everyone has, with the self. And you might even capture this idea in a universal function like I just did the other day !

Why become mentor of yourself? If you compare  50 years before to today, we can see information is available freely more than ever. The second world war had left a huge gap, that nations were forced to appriciate peace and development more than stupid wars (except Zelenskyy). Which had revolutionised the human history with new scientific discoveries. Not only science even art and social and financial sciences have advanced that we are able to create gigantic dams which would even slow down earth's rotation. In this modern world and fast developing information system it is essential that we update ourselves with new knowledge hence becoming mentor for yourself is the best option. And I can give you more than hundred examples of such individuals from tip of my tongue who climb the ladder on their own. And adult learning is all about that right? On the other hand consider what it means. You know about yourself best. More than your father, more than your mother, more than your teachers. So once you know how to read and write you can use any source, mainly world wide Web to Access to free materials to expand this basic knowledge base. Or you can plough a field instead if you prefer. But I suggest it is a shame not to use your spare time to enjoy expanding boundaries of human knowledge and hypothesise about things nobody has ever thought before to return the favour, as it will make you feel good just as farming. Microscopic world of information Highway: https://unsplash.com/@polarmermaid Self learning is easy. Self learning is getting easier and easier. I can see more and more self learners and free youtube videos teaching life skills. I can see some rubbish knowledge as well. But it doesn't matter, as the values we give is relative it is relevent for you it is relevent. It is not difficult like Sirinivasa Ramanujan often considered a great mathematician ever lived in the begining of the last century. He was a self learner. And had only one summary book on mathematics (Elementary results in pure and Applied mathematics), for him to work out his own mathematics. I am sure you and me do not posess IQ enough to read and understand such advanced deep subjects. But I would not say we cannot either. As human mind is just a potential and creating things is its fundemental function. So any information you feed into this amazing machine can come out as a new theory from the other side of it as output. It is natural. And I can prove this to you just now. Fishing from ideas from the universe in mindfulness For a moment, for few seconds I invite you to go to a peaceful corner of wherever you are living and close your eyes. And try the doing nothing trick . I am sure from the morning of today, you have been trying to feed your machine with new information. Even if you did not know it yet. But now when you close your eyes and breath in relaxed manner and focusing on nothing you will start to witness the thoughts start to dance in the arena of your mind. They creep in one by one like a group of young ballet dancers to a serene music of the environment and if you do not disturb, you will be able to enjoy and witness the workings of your mind. In this crude from you can often grab one thought or two which have the ability to sparkle and ignite your life for a brighter future. If that is not the law of attraction you are seeking I am not sure what else qualifies as such.  Or becoming an annoying orange Annoying orange I prefer the mindfulness way. Listening to it feels more natural and effortless. However if you do not mind the trouble and exhaustion. You can also try becoming an annoying orange. Not exactly the orange but the baby orange which cannot stop asking the question why? I am sure you have atleast come across some picture or a video of annoying orange as this is one of the most viewed video series on YouTube, which goes back to late 2000 era. Exactly ! the show is two decades old and still running. In this movie baby orange is just annoying as the father that it could not help asking the question why? I do not have to elaborate more on here as I have written entire article on why we should start with why in the first place . And like all the roads leads home if you do this consistantly everytime when you see a knot in your life, you will start to see patterns. Patterns that end up to the roots of all your problems which is called self. And then only you will realise the plato was true when he said " first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. " And at this point we can use same tools of mindfulness to investigate the phenomenon of life and this blog will help you with pieces of wisdom to kick start engine of your clogged up old Bentley which is called mind !

Well it sounds silly if you haven't you should as "Did you read the question?" is an excellent advice I have twice heard from two different teachers in my life decades apart. And I am going to talk about both, and at the end of the essay, you will also gain the wisdom it provides. First exposure In mathematics. Maybe I was eleven or twelve years old when I first heard my late Math teacher, used to chant the above mantra. Whenever he gives a math problem he reminds students to read the question. I am not sure whether everyone in the class payed attention to what he said, but Me being a listener, I always remember what he told us to do. Read the damn Question! Mathematics is all about answers right? -> Wrong! Mathematics is always about the question. If you start jump into soving the problem I am sure you will end up with some answer, yet it may not be the correct answer, as you haven't read the question. Read it once, read it twice, read it as many times as necessary till you understand the every word of it. Every puzzle of it. Sometimes starting with the answer helps, yet atleast at the middle of it you should read the question again. Even after answering the question correctly you should read the question again. Sometimes I used to do that. When I got the answer which seems to be correct I would plug in the answer to the question again to see whether I can come to conclusion that it is the answer, and the Question is correct! Maths : https://unsplash.com/@gmalhotra It may be hillarious to think, but a profund wisdom, if you have not got the correct answer to your math problem, maybe you have read the question wrong in the first place. After all in math if you follow the rules you are gurenteed you will end up with correct answer 100% of the time. You just have to master the art, just like an artist. What about life? What about the problem of life? Have we read the question correctly? Second exposure In mindfulness Second exposure to understanding, or reading the question, came from a Monk. As you guessed it, as the blog is about mindfulness , this time, after so many years I couldn't help but notice the similarity to the solving math. So, many answers to the life I have got wrong, and I have kept piling up wrong answer after wrong answer, to problems of life. And during this time, and in between mindfulness, a teacher asked me to read the question again. And it is same wisdom from mathematics. Let's look at how we can understand the problem of life. Remember not to focus too much on answers, as we will get it wrong, if we do not know what question we are trying to answer. I want you to remind yourself a problem you face. Something you are trying to solve, and try to understand the question at the end, following examples. Did you read the question? Example Imagine you are trying to do some creative work, while there is a lot of noice. That damn construction is going on in the next apartment is all you have is feeling of irritaion. That is a problem right? Traditionally we will start looking for answers. We either try to stop the sound, block it with a headset, or we will run away. We might even get angry and blame the noise. All we want is to stop it. But mindfulness is all about the question. Observation and answers doesn't matter, we have to investigate the question. cat on the wall I hear a disturbing noise. I want it to go away. Who is hearing the noise? Who is this person who wants this thing anyway? It seems, every time when we try to answer the questions of life, we will end up asking the question who we are in the first place. And that is a good way to look at life. Then we can understand, it is the being that creates the problems of life. It is not you, living in a world full of problems, and you are getting stressed. It is more like you are the creator of these problems. If you are the creator of all your problems, answers are there in the problem itself. Within yourself. No matter how much we try to change the enviornment, we would not try to solve the root cause of all problems, unless we look at the question each and every time. And that is how mindfulness can gain momentum. Like any other skill, this method will help us to be at peace with the chaotic universe. Then you will understand, it is not about solving mathematics problems. It is asking about who is this guy who wants to solve mathematics and why? Otherwise maths problems will keep comming back. How are you going to solve problems in your life? What is the latest question you have got? Have you read the question correctly?

As a great admirer of silence, I have only gratitude towards it. This is yet another discussion on power of silence . If you admire the silence just like me, following articles would help. Lately I find that it does not matter what Noise is out there, a mind at peace is just a mind at peace when you understand the fundamental nature of sound. Hence in this article we will focus on understanding sound. Because of the duality of the nature, silence exists only because there is sound. https://unsplash.com/@othentikisra After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley Music is not Noise. If you know something about spectrums of nature , you will understand the sounds we hear also come in spectrum. We can reorder them in pitch, and loudness or even according to our preference to hear them. Obviously, the spectrum of sounds with our values in it is more important. If I ask you the question What is the most preferable sound you want to hear, immediately something would come to your mind. Maybe a song which you heard a long time ago, within a specific context and personally affected you. Or it may be a sound of a someone dearest to you, who is no longer there. We do have preference to sounds. For someone like me, the silence also takes some important preference over the music or Noise. Of course, nobody would want to hear the sound of a metal crusher, or pigs in a farm. But the idea of this thought experiment is to look at the full spectrum at a glance. So that we get the big picture. (This intuition comes from Charlie Chaplin who said, life is a tragedy when close up, but a comedy in a long shot ) Once you know the spectrum of sound, at one end silence, and at the other end loud, Noise, everything else is in between. And you can see, the sounds are sounds, the values are a separate spectrum. Which is unique for yourself. Hence, when you hear a sound, it is wrong to attribute the values are inherently in the sound. Of course this goes with the silence as well. A world with people, liking music and some others liking, silence makes a total sense. Some, loving Jazz while others loving folk music, when another just want to admire a painting, in silence in a museum, makes a total sense too. There is no argument over the other, as sounds are a different spectrum than the spectrum of values of sounds. Hence, If I say silence is better than music, that is wrong. For mindfulness and meditation, it does not matter. And it should not matter. https://unsplash.com/@jasonrosewell Mindful listening It is a so unique piece of wisdom to see the sounds as a mental object . It made me realize; I have been wrong in wanting silence. It did make me uneasy when there is no silence, which is most of the time of the day. Constant chatter of people haunted me until I knew, silence is just the other side of the Noise, but it is just a same spectrum. Hence, it doesn't matter at all to the mindful listening as long as you are aware of it. Just like what you see is not what it is but who you are , what you hear is not what it is but who you are. Why should I be angry or upset over same thing which makes me aware of my being? If you can see, my previous articles, I have written about the value of silence and importance of how to embrace it. But, now in this article I am writing about losing the value of the same silence. You may ask why? Answer is it is relative. Yes, in my spectrum of values silence is above everything, which gives me intuitions about life and living, hence, previous articles. But as you would also know the most valuable thing in the world is to know the valuelessness of things . Which will stop the rat race of wanting more. And silence is also a thing which I crave for. I will end the article with the following quote. “ It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ” -Seneca

Well, there was a Rubik's cube in some corner in our house, and like everyone else I used to turn it and see whether I can solve. Boy! it was hard. All I could do was to mix it some more and maybe just a one side of it. Maybe you have the same experience. Now and again, I have seen Rubik's cube come to my life again and again and this is about my Rubik's cube journey. First time I saw it when my Late mathematics teacher who brought a Rubik's cube to our class. He said something about it and maybe about complexity. I never understood and I just forgot the fact for some time. Then in the movie, the "The pursuit of happiness" it came back again. When Will Smith tried to solve it. And by solving the Rubik's cube in front of his future employer he declared the fact that he was smart than he looked. If you haven't watched the movie I greatly recommend as it is a great story of struggle of a man. https://unsplash.com/@fletcher_pride During same time, you tube randomly recommended me to speed cubing videos. I saw young men and women old over the world in competitions on fast solving, using one hand using a single hand and even juggling. Nowadays often we see Rubik's cube come out in X factor. Do you know why you cannot avoid Rubik's cube? It's because that is the most sold toy in the world. So far about two billion toys were sold. And there seems a boom of Rubik's cube back again thanks to internet and various organizations. So, because it is unavoidable I decided I should learn to solve Rubik's cube and I did it in two days. My Rubik's cube journey. First to solve Rubik's cube in our house was my father. And he used his own methods combined with some help from the you tube. He knew only a couple of algorithms. So, I knew struggling to solve it myself is time consuming. And after watching speed cubers day after day, it seemed better to learn some algorithms. It took only memorization of six algorithms, and I can solve the Rubik's cube now. And often I can do it within three to four minutes. I know it is nothing to brag about at all. As anyone can do it if they know what they are doing. Following is the link to the site from which I learned the Rubik's cube . And once that is learned the mystery goes away. I know if I put some more effort to learn more algorithms, I would be able to solve it faster and easier. As I am not expecting to make a carrier out of it this is good enough to impress some who are lot lazy to learn to solve it. https://unsplash.com/@linusmimietz Few facts I learned from my Rubik's cube journey are as follows. It is never necessary to reinvent the wheel. When we have some problem, it is likely that someone else had a same problem and there may be plenty of guidelines and rules out there to help us with. Like my teacher said, this little toy in my hand holds 43 quintillion possible combinations of the Rubiks Cube (43,252,003,274,489) with only one solution. If just a simple toy with 54 colored faces have this much complexity, imagine how much complexity is there inside our brains, inside our bodies, inside our houses and in this universe. How can we make sense of such a vast complexity? Can we ever even think about solving our problem of life? What manual is ever going to work. It seems every guru who claims themselves that they know the answer to life are just stranded on their own. As there cannot be a single solution to complexity the life holds. Maybe that is the massage my teacher wanted to give us holding a Rubik's cube in front of our class, which was not in the syllabus at all. https://unsplash.com/@barkiple Fun facts about Rubik's cube Original Name : It was first known as the “Magic Cube” or “Bűvös Kocka” in Hungarian . Inventor’s Challenge : Ernő Rubik, the inventor, took about a month to solve the Cube after creating it . Speed Cubing Competitions : The first-ever World Championship was held in 1982, and the winner was Minh Thai from the USA with a time of 22.95 seconds . Most Expensive Cube : The “Masterpiece Cube,” worth US $2.5 million, was created for the 15th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube . Young Author : The first guide to solving the Cube was written by a 13-year-old, Patrick Bossert, in 1981 . Robot Record : A robot named Sub1 solved the Cube in just 0.887 seconds . Best-Selling Toy : In 2015, the Rubik’s Cube was the best-selling toy in Walmart with over $111 million in retail sales . Cultural Icon : The Cube has become an icon of intelligence and has influenced pop culture, including street art and tattoos .

Pattern recognition. This is a topic I would come again and again to talk about. As it is such an important phenomenon. The importance of observation was initially taught by my father. He used to say, "Watch and learn boys, watch and learn." He used to tell how just by observation how someone can learn something. I know we are more focused on practice, when it comes to learning new skill. However, I still believe there is a lot to be learned just by observation. Even when you are practicing, if you do not observe your mistakes, you would not learn anything new at the end of the day. So, in any learning environment i just focussed on keeping my eyes and ears open, learning could be that simple. Even if I did not understand anything It helped to connect the dots later on. https://unsplash.com/@birminghammuseumstrust I have seen this phenomena talked by many over the years. In fact I have written about this here in my own blog. Steve Jobbs talk about connecting the dots in life , charlie chapling talked about the same, looking at the long shot of life to see its commedy . Justing sung talks about blooms taxanomy and importance of higher order thinking and guess what, he ask us to think about connectivity or relationship of concepts to learn better. Barbara oakly talks about how diffuse mode of thinking leads us to develop dèep learning by just doing the same. It cannot be random that these people talk about the same thing at the same time. And when I was in grade eight my late maths teacher said "Maths, is all about pattern recognition" with a little rubik's cube in his hand. Now almost at his age I can only agree and reprase that, "life is all about pattern recognition" In mindfulness we recognise these patterns. And they leave us with a better understanding of our own lives. And you will start to notice the similarity of a spider stuck in a web and a man stuck in his web of lies all his life. You will appriciate there is a lot more common facts are there with a dung beetle rolling a dung ball agin and again in the field, and a farmer rolling hay after crops were harvested. And appriciate although we try to seperate ourselves from the environment it seems we are inherently part of it. Although we name the buildings and cities we build are artififial they are not. Even a plastic bottle is a natural phenomenon when we take out the element of our judgement from it. I am sure you have doubts at this time. How come someone argue a plastic bottle is natural and do not cause environmental pollution. I am not. I am just showing it is not absolute truth. Because when we start to choose a one side over the other there wil be clash. The mind will choose one over the other and buildup an eternal argument over it. This is another pattern i have observed in many aspect. Peace or war, happiness and sadness. Rich vs poor . These seems to be positive and negative values we give to otherwise neutral environment. And that is why at some point I have argued the peace is the highest form of happiness that we can achieve. Interconnectedness . This is not an argument which is true, only partially true. As anyone who needs to see the truth should see it for themselves in their own lives. There are many more patterns in nature that we can observe. I am sure ones you have observerd are unique to yourself. The more you observe the nature with mindfulness, more you will understand the interconnectedness of it. Interconnectedness of the nature is a topic by itself. The trem is used in Thich nhat hanh's book on mindfulness. I have seen this same observation discussed in different trems by different teachers. Some say its oneness, some say it is change , some even talk about God being living in everything . More importantly when you look at this from a distance I see the pattern. They all talk about the same thing . Obviously it seem they talk about some truth they have seen in the nature and within themselves . It is same as saying someone to be the mountain when you see a mountain. It is a joke, like asking a monkey to be a concious banana. But the truth is, everything we see and taste and hear are what there is and not, yet connected and presented to us in an understandable way by our own conciousness . In the form of sensations . https://unsplash.com/@borisworkshop So when you say you are angry the mindfulness will let you see the truth as well as the lie in it. Unlike many articles I have written before I am sure you would not understand any of this unless you have dots on your own to connect. I am sure I can help with that as this would be one of the most linked articles I have written so far. After all this is about interconnectedness. Hence, I invite you to follow the dots provided and see where it leads you to.

Story of boy and dog There was a boy, who reared a dog. Imagine your favorite kind of dog. One day he lost the dog. The dog was the dearest to him, so he was very upset as any pet lover would be, and he cried and cried for days, searched everywhere, after school. Even put-up flyers in the town. Eventually after few weeks he gave up. https://unsplash.com/@castillcc Then out of nowhere a girl appeared in his doorstep with his dog. It was found injured by the road and was rescued by the girl. They got to know each other and became friendly. She was very attractive and kind that they fell in love. And he was happy. Years went by and the boy was selected to a university as he excellence in his studies. He had to leave his hometown, but the girl broke up with him, instead of following him into the future, she chose otherwise. The boy became depressed for some time. But he was determined that he would become the best student in his university and boy! he did become. https://unsplash.com/@napr0tiv Story of Mathematics and pattern recognition The story goes on, you can write the rest of your own, but let's deviate from our story into a math lesson I learnt from our grade Eight math teacher. We had a very good math teacher who once said "mathematics, is all about pattern recognition". I did not understand, I knew it was something important, as I believed him. But we were so, involved in solving the problems faster than others, it was a just an utter for most of us. But I believed him. Mathemetics is all about patterns, and now after years later, when I understand that is the most important lesson, he had taught me. It's not only mathematics, "life is all about patterns." https://unsplash.com/@i__prabir Pattern recognition Now it's time to go back to our story with the wisdom gained from my Late teacher (Sadly, he died in the school while at work of a heart Attack!) Is there a pattern to the story of the boy and dog? Let's analyze. First the boy was happy -> he had a dog. Then the boy was sad -> he lost the dog Next, he was happy -> he met a girl. After that he was sad -> he lost the girl Later he was happy again -> he became the best in the lot. https://unsplash.com/@savvas_kalimeris Now the question is he was immediately sad after he lost the dog, but it started a happy sad never-ending cycle for him. If taken in isolation, the event of losing the dog is a sad occurrence. But if looked at it with wisdom, from our mathematics teacher, we see the pattern of life, which is like a wave with peaks and troughs. It is inevitable, nobody would remain permanently at one end of it. After all it is futile to hang on to either end as we move forward, and that would be the best prediction of the future, its going to change . I will end the story there and invite you to recognize patterns next time in your life, in the nature and in abstract paintings, and even thoughts. Have you seen the waves crash on the beach? Have you seen sunflowers follow the sun rays? Have you seen weddings and funerals on the same street? Have you seen kingdoms rise and fall over decades? Isn't it inevitable there is a fall, after we rise so tall? https://unsplash.com/@pawel_czerwinski It makes me feel like a kid rocked on natures cradle. You may also like to read: Once upon a time story - a scarecrow

Metamorphosis example Just the other day, I drew metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly. By definition it means dramatic transition of morphology of an animal more than twice during its life cycle. So, eggs becoming chicken is not, but a larve becoming a butterfly is metamorphosis. There are many examples for these kind of transitions in animal Kingdom. And the most common other example being tadpoles becoming frogs. We used to catch them in streams, and fields, tadpoles without legs were just like fish. But when they have developed legs they looked scary and disgusting. I would not dare touch them. So, what does really happen? How can we understand anything from this phenomenon? I am going to show why metamorphosis is not exactly what we think it is. We can start by looking at it in different angles.  Monarch Caterpillar Story of the embryo. Maybe you have heard. Maybe you have not. In the begining of our lives in mothers woumb we all were embryos. Just like a microscopic tadpole, a sperm joined with an egg to form a single cell. Progrssively devided into forming a morulla and then an embryo. If you compared this small organism to ourselves now, I can say it is just metamorphosis. We were just like some larve when inside the mother. If you do not believe me, in the begining, we had tails, and had a circulating arch system like a fish. Everything was flat at the begining like a stingray and was like a pancake before it was rolled and fused in the midline, to form a continous tube from mouth to back passage! That there is our embryology lesson! In summary I can say we were all pancakes which developed into human form by progressively breaking down old systems with new ones by enzymes in a giant chemical reaction, which is called metamorphosis. We were caterpillars for nine months before being free butterflies. Cocoon But what is the philosophy in it? In summary a caterpillar did not become a butterfly overnight. It is easy to understand. If you were given photographs of caterpillars changing from a larve to a butterfly every minute it would be slow transition. Just like what is happening to a human embryo. Although there are distinct steps like a butterfly coming out of the cocoon. Yet this is a continous process. But humans are not capable of understanding continous change, as they doesn't make any sense, we make them discrete by saying a caterpillar became a butterfly overnight. Forgetting everything in between this slow transition process. This simple fact has profound implications in many observations in life.  Examples of continous life. Consider getting old, we say Mr. M got old just by looking at two pictures of him forgetting the fact that it is slow transition from childhood to adulthood. Even changing occurred when he was sleeping. Consider falling of an apple. We call it fell from a tree forgetting all the seconds which it fell through the air. We can say you read the article forgetting everything happened in between start to the finish. Did you even know how you got a meaning out of syllables which individually do not even have a meaning? Is it a magic or what? Monarch Butterfly Mindfulness is looking at the process, of how we create abstractions on these continous ever changing function. For someone with a mathematical background I have created a formula collecting all the functions of the world. If you understand you would be amazed how so called things in our brains that we interact with are just like caterpillars and butterflies of the continous function of an animal, and neither do exist nor non existing either. And what is true for a butterfly seems true for ourselves as well. Which can be arrived by logic but applied only by mindful examination of self.

Stagenames are not uncommon When you start to act, sometimes you will need a stagename. When you start to write I use a stagename. Most often this is because the stagename has something to offer. I heard that when asked why he used Eminem, he said, it is because he cannot use M&M the famous brand. And if you spell M&M it will just sound Eminem. Words do not mean anything: https://unsplash.com/@henniestander Often we are involved in these roles of fictional characters, when we create or act. And the roles these actors take doesn't always tally with their character. Sometimes it is exaggeration of reality. Sometimes it is not the person you really are. Maybe it is a vilian you are playing. Imagine Anton Chigurh from no country for old men. When Javiar Bardem, did play the role, he had to become the brutal fictional charactor that I would not even dare to perform at any point in my life. Not even for a film. I would not even write such a charactor in even a novel, if I wrote one one day. Totally totally off the population norms. So, it is Good that everyone knows Javiar Bardem that he is not a villian when he is walking alone in the Red carpet. I am sure he would like to keep the Anton Chigurh out of his normal live at any cost, and that is the role of a stage name. Seekers of truth But Still there is a reason I use a stage name. And that is because I talk about truth. Truth is ugly and sometimes even offensive. This is why most of the time we avoid truth and chose to live in a dream. We chose to live in a dream about future and we used to dream about past. We even chose to dream about a dream about present. We like to see a beautiful flower or a serine sunset , and appriciate all the good things about it. We share more if we write about how to achieve happiness in one two or seven steps. Or if I told you how mindfulness makes you wiser and prospect in our job, I could sell more copies of my book. Nobody would even touch that download button if I start speaking the truth. If I say reality is just a dream, nobody would dare to read beyond. And Only few brave seekers of the truth will dare to test deep waters, even if they risk getting drowned and dead. The question is are you that seeker? If you are this blog is all about you. I do not mind writing things for one person in a billion population. One like mind is enough, one heart battered by all the knots of life is enough. If I can talk about truth disguised in my stage name, One listener is good enough for Magical Mindful Living to keep pushing. As I know I am as selfish as any other being on the planet, which is another ugly truth. What lies beneath? : https://unsplash.com/@tdederichs Why I use a stagename? Behind my stagename, I do not have to hide my selfishness. I can take a risk of offending you, the reader, to seek the truth. I can push mine and your imagination so we, can discuss things like jelousy anger and demons in our thoughts, who had been haunting me, like any other. We can empathise about a man who was forgotten by the society and hung himself twenty years ago. So, Like Eminum did sing about one shot and one opportunity, I risk everything behind the stagename so I could change the course of some atoms in this floating universe, as in a millania, there would be plenty of souls saved by those ripples I create today like a butterfly creates a hurricanes a dacade later, by flapping its wings. I am doing it while appearing a normal, middle class, working being. It is not a big risk like a surgeon would take while cutting onto tissues of an unconsciouss man. It is not a big risk like Captain Sull y took when he landed his plane in Hudson river. Nonetheless it is a risk. It is a risk than all the years of silence in my past. I just obeserved life until I understood enough, until I am sure of what I am talking about, until I am wise enough to talk without being offended too much from the currupted illusive society. And for seekers of truth like Jordan Peterson, it is a risk. Talking truth is a necessary risk. So, I do not mind you chosing the same. I do not mind you reading this article and carry its message in silence and work as normal human being from tomorrow. I do not mind you sending annonymous message offending me. As my stagename "Magical Mindful Living" is the firewall for my operating system.

This article discuss philosophy of death, from a point of view of mindfulness. I was at a funeral. While formal grieving process was going on, with adults, kids were at play. I could not help notice of them, running around in joy. I am sure while the older kids, were aware of the grieving process of death, younger ones and toddlers, did not know that at all. Death is not a concept on their minds. And I am sure if you keep a todder under his mothers dead body, would still smile and play, but a teenager who has lost their mother would be devastated. And it made me wondering what death really is? Previously I have written about death, in philosophical point of view and a poetic manner . However here I would take a mindful apporach, for that matter to give you a new perspective to look at death like a kid! Funeral: https://unsplash.com/@m4yron Formal Definition of death. "a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life" "the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism" Above are the two formal definitions of death given in Merrium Webster and Oxford dictionaries respectively. And it made me think, death is not only affecting us, humans. But all the living organisms, for microbes trees animals viruses etc. Even a cell without any sign of a consciousness would live and die in a petri dish. Hence "Death" goes beyond just funerals. We know this, yet do we even think about it while at a funeral? Or we just cry? But the purpose of this article is to look at death from mindfulness eye. And get that wisdom into our practice so we can be better at understanding nature. Well, that is good enough a purpose. And for the first time I feel like I am going to talk about something to improve value rarther than reducing it. Practical on death. Let's do a practical example. Imagine someone who knows and is dead. I am sure this person, when was living, you would go and meet them even daily, if they were dearest to you. And you are afraid to meet them today, as this just means that they are a ghost, not the person you did know. However, fundamentally what has changed, is that the collection of atoms, and the "Soul" is no longer there in the human form that you knew. As it has changed markedly, and returned to the nature, nolonger your eyes can make pictures of the same person. No longer your ears can identify their voice, from thousands of sounds in the nature. And you loved this picture, and the sound. Yet you cannot recreate it now. And that is one of the mindfulness ways of looking at death. "Death is a change, which makes the pictures of someone, and the voice of someone nolonger appears "live" in our minds. Now, this is a simple fact. It is not a new wisdom. We kind of already know this. Yet, this fact hides some truths about death. Now, imagine someone who is not here with you. I am sure you are reading this in a corner in your room. In a train, or in a bus. Or in your office, and very rarely even when you are in a boat. Imagine someone you know, and no longer there and is assumed still living. And put your newly formed wisdom on death to this scenario. Are they dead? I am sure you will blame me at this point. And might even call me stupid. If 100 started reading this post, I am sure 90% of the audiance is lost at this time, as we are moving into some bizzare phenomena happening in our minds. And it is not occationally. It happens daily and it happens now. So if you are in that 10% who is not afraid you can read next para. What is living? : https://unsplash.com/@rivercat Its just physics. The person who are not with you, or not in front of your consciousness is living and non living. It is not me who is saying this. It is quantum physics, applied with mindfulness. They are living because you do not know they are dead. Life is so fragile that nobody can predict when it happens as there are so many dumb ways to die . They are not living as you do not know they are living, unless they are in front of you. We have no way of proving that anyone is living unless they are infront of us. For that matter, anything. What exist in your relative world in this moment is what is there in your consciousness. It is just this scentence in this article not the previous one you've just read. Not even your feet! exist until I mention it. Not even your cloths exist Until I talk about it. Similarly Death exists only for the living consciousness. So, mindfulness is so simple. You just watch what comes to your turing machine which is called consciousness and more importantly understand what is not there as well, and know that simple fact. So, you may ask, what is the ultimate trick for this kind of practice. What is the gain? And I can say we are not aiming for anything. It is just a investigation of self. To understand a continous process called life. And identify the key, actor which is called self. To identify its building blocks. To improve the wisdom, until it identify itself. Surely it doesn't end up in a heap of dollars for that matter. It is just to identify how A dollar would create happiness in the self, in the first place. Don't you want to know that? Don't you want to know who you are ? Isn't it worth more than a heated compacted glistening carbon atoms mined from the core of the earth? And I think it should be the aim of all the 8 billion intelligent consciousness, not only creating new gadgets or neuclear wepons to expand imaginary boundries. What do you think?

Who bakes a best cake? Story of success Reality shows took us in a storm. It started a couple of decades ago, one after the other, and even cooking became a reality show. There was no suprise in that as most of our lives are spend on thinking about food and sex, which is the fundemental genious trap of the mother nature to capture our consciousness in making what she wants. Only some philosophers like you and me wants to challenge this and ask what is the meaning of life? Again and again. Hence I have been writing a lot about nothingness and valuelessness of the nature. And somebody might even think I am against success and growth. If you have doubts, ask yourself, if magical mindful living is against growth why we have built a blog with 300 pages and it keeps growing? Baking a cake: https://unsplash.com/@cottercrunch On cooking contests Let's get back to the question. Imagine a cooking show. Where the contestants are given chance to chose their own ingredients, and utensils. Asked to bake a cake. Whom do you think will cook the best cake? It depends right? But what I can say is it is not always the one with best ingredients. It's not the one with too much sugar. Not the one with too much salt either. It is the one with the best balance and best talent even in making the proper fire matters. Hence there is a saying which goes "It is not the one with best ingredients bakes the best cake" and that is true. So in the story of success the ingredients  matters less, what matters most is the effort. And this is the puss in boots wisdom. Puss in boots in a fancy dress Remember Puss in Boots? Remember the famous children story we learnt when we were kids. The youngest child only inherited a cat, while elders had a barn a field and a house. A cat worths nothing, you cannot milk a cat, you cannot plough a field. Proud little animal. But what mattered at the end was not where the cat started but creating opportunities. The cat created opportunities along the way. It was even intelligent to use the transformative power of the giant for its advantage. Ended up owning a palace and even more successful than his siblings. Similarly, when we look at our opportunities we often see they are limited. Yet what is limited is our vision about life. Life is a potential. There are no limits to life. Whatever boundaries were created by ourselves, or our ancestors, only exist in our minds. And moment you understand this you are free to investigate the life the way you prefer. And it doesn't matter what is the method you use. It can be through music, mathematics or philosophy. It can be boolean, imaginary or nihilistic. As fundamentals of everything is nothingness , nothing will be lost, and nothing will be free. The mind which crave music will still be free as the same mind which craves silence. As both of them harbour peace at its core. Mangroves with flowers Mangrove with flowers As an example, look at that mangrove covered in flowers. Did you see how beautiful it is? Or did you only see the plastic bags scattered around it. If you see only the plastic bags, and gave it a negative value. You will end up in sadness. If you see flowers and the plant instead you can be happy. And if you see nothingness in both, I can assure you you will get wiser and you will keep your mouth shut when an environmentalist start shouting at a capitalist. Neither you will live in a illusionary dream of flowers like a Naturalist. More importantly you would see what is happening in everyone's mind. And opportunity will be there, for you to gain. Just like me who wrote a paragraph on an insignificant mangrove and half a dozen of plastic bags! It is the same stupid game that we played when we were kids, same imaginary rules . So once you know its imaginary opportunity is everywhere as humans posess the power of creation . Just like me Just like everyone. What do you waiting for?