I have great news for you. If you consider yourself, a sad angry or even antisocial, depressed negative person, Or even a cheerful, happy energetic one, it doesn't matter. As all these are temporary states of mind, just like the high and low tides of the sea. However, the good news is the inherent nature of mind is pure peacefulness. Yet, one has to reach this conclusion by themselves by extensive investigation of self. Inherent nature of mind is shining, like a polished diamond. The inherent nature of mind can only be seen when it is content enough and calm enough without external disturbances. As, by definition, mind is a surface which reflects the environment. So, if you live in a chaotic environment, with constant bombardment of unwanted information, the mind cannot calm down and settle itself. You may suspect that the mind is a very bad place, even label yourself, as anxious, angry, destructive human being. However, this is not at all true. Even in these circumstances the mind holds the capability of becoming its true self of being at peace. If you batter a child from the day 1 and deny any love or care, surely that child will grow into a criminal. Or a failure. Just like that if you batter your mind day in and out with stressors and unnecessary cravings, the mind will not show any content, instead it will be distressed all the time. This I think is not a modern-day problem. I am sure, even in the past people had their own problems, it may not have been the rising oil prices due to middle east crisis. Maybe it's just scarlet fever without any cure. Pealing onions How to reach inherent nature of mind? So, pauses are important. I would say very important midst of chaos. As it provides the opportunity for the stressed mind to relax. And reach its own true nature. The good news is that whatever happened prior to that moment in time, that mind choses to be at peace, would have no effect on its current status. Inherently mind, do not want to achieve any target. There is no chase of success. It is inherently content. It is inherently peaceful. Just like the peeling of an onion, will show more and more pure nature of its core. Just like opening of outer petals of a lotus, reveal its brighter and softer and pure inner self, you may find the mind is not the wrong doer. It is just a function which is observing the nature. The interpretation of the observations made by mind is what creates the chaos, unrest and uneasiness. In the heart of practice of mindfulness, we try to understand the core nature of mind. When it is at peace, when it is silent. I would not force oneself into such a state, which otherwise should be natural. Instead, I would plant few good habits. Like being with the nature. Letting silence fill the empty spaces of the day. And by feeding the mind with better information, than Trump News. So, day after day mind would know how to be at peace on its own. How about few breaths? to remind ourselves that we are still living. Polished diamonds

I have been fascinated by math equations for a second time in life. I used to love it as it stretched my brain capacity to the maximum as a teenager. Then the life happened and I had neither time nor the peace to tackle with brain teasing calculus. I never learned the calculus, so as I had a limited free time I thought I would give it a go again. Apart from Robert frost poems, and Ganong physiology I think Stewart's calculus is a best of its craft. Boy, Calculus is hard to self-study. So, I would guess a novel by Shakespear. But, this time around I have a little help called ChatGPT, which gives great explanations which suit my level of understanding. It is perfect getaway when I am stuck, and the other thing came to my mind is MINDFULNESS. calculus I am not going to discuss double integrals or partial derivatives, or any of the math stuff. But obviously I would tell you that calculus is at the heart of the modern understanding of the nature. If you study any subject to a reasonable advanced level, I am sure you will come across some models, and equations of functions, which fundamentally derived and modeled by using calculus. The reason behind this is the calculus is the study of change. If you read my previous article which I wrote about understanding time, in 2023, I wrote about infinite observations of a person can make on a falling leaf, if given enough time to comprehend. What I did not know at that time was calculus. And as calculus puts the framework to understanding such infinite possibilities of the changing world I would say you will come across it whenever there is a change needs to be described. Where do you think these changes occur? In fact, the question we should be asking ourselves is where does not change occur? As I can understand, everything is in motion relative to time, in one way or the other. In massive scale or in tiny fractional scale of particles. So, at the heart of chemistry, social science, engineering, or geography you will find formulas of some derivatives and integrals. But there is one place calculus cannot describe or model. And that is the function of human consciousness. And there is the topic for today's discussion. "CALCULUS OF MIND" Mindfulness - Calculus of mind Mind You cannot understand the mind function by a mathematical formula. As fundamentally you are the formula itself. But we can use principles of calculus to understand this fundamental function of life. The science is tricky here as we are bounded by our subjective understanding. So, we have another method which is called "Mindfulness". Mindfulness is none other than watching the mind function in the infinite timescale to see how the values (and) things change in mind relative to the time. However, just like the models made by mathematical formula is not the reality by itself but just an approximation of it, the conclusions the mind makes about itself by mindfulness process are not correct themselves, or not the reality itself. Maybe we should just call it another "derivative" or "integral". Useful, but limited. My question is, are you willing to make your own formula for the mind function? How is it doing lately? Positive?

I saw this wonderful story about a monk who asked the question in the book about "Paths" by Andras Gulyas. It is open access book about paths in general. As the story is a fascinating one and related to mindfulness, I thought of including it here. It is short however I will tell it in my own words. The origin of the story is in the book Su-La-Se One day a monk came to his teacher and asked. Teacher, I have been a monk for this long years, I have followed the path of ancient monks, to the best of my ability, I have meditated on mountain tops. Survived with one meal per day. I have spoken in soft words, walked in forest paths in silence. But, Who am I? I don't have answer to this. Who am I master? Can you give me an answer? Who am I? The old monk, saw the frustration and eagerness of the young monks' eyes. He was kind, he wanted to help. So, he asked the young monk. Not one but a series of questions. Son, did you wake up before sunrise today? Yes, master I did, I woke up before the sun. Did you groom yourself in cold water, and clean up your cave Yes, I did clean up myself. And cleaned my cave. Did you sweep the forest floor, and water the plants. Yes, I did clean the forest floor, watered the plants. Did you have your breakfast, from the nearby village? Yes, I walked with my bowl and had my breakfast from the village. Did you meditate afterwards, in the peaceful part of the monastery? Yes, I mediated for good half an hour in peace. Did you get confused after doing all that and came rushing to meet me? Yes, master! I did. I was so confused after that I came running to meet you. Did you ask the question "Who am I from Me?" Yes, master! I asked the question, "Who am I?" Can you please tell me who am I? Yes, I can. You are the one who, woke up this morning, before the sun, who groomed yourself in cold water and cleaned up your cave, who, swept the forest floor, watered the plants, who had the breakfast in the nearby village, and who meditated in the peace of the monastery, and who was confused, and asked the question who am I? You are all of that. There is nothing more and nothing less to that. Who is reading? Who am I? An essay type answer. Sometimes obvious answers to our question, is hardest to reach as it is too simple. Having been a student of mindfulness, having observed myself day after day, I would come to the same conclusion as the above young monk. The life, consciousness, or mind seems to be a mechanism which constantly deluding itself by trying to reach a conclusion about life. A definite answer to the question who am I? But it seems, answer to the question Who am I? is not a best response type. Answer to the Question is an essay type answer. Where a single sentence of that essay would not make any meaning, unless it is interpreted in context. Now at this point a real question someone would ask is, how can an essay contain a meaning, which is not there in individual letters by themselves. Isn't it all depending on the interpreter?

What are paths? I am sure you have taken a path, one day as a kid, to become an educated adult. You started on this path of babbling out monosyllables, and now you are reading this article written in sentences. I am sure there was a time that you could not do that. "Learning a language" is just a one path that we take in our lives. But there are numerous examples for paths. Consider following list of items as paths. A hiking trail up a mountain A road trip route from one city to another The trajectory of a thrown ball The orbit of a planet around a star The path of a river flowing to the sea A career progression (student → intern → professional → expert) A learning journey (basic math → algebra → calculus) The path of light through a lens A decision tree in problem-solving The browsing path through folders on a computer A path Anything which includes a movement through a trajectory, can be considered as having a path. In fact, this article seems to have a path of its own. First, I started by explaining a path, then a list of things which can be considered as paths and giving a definition from understanding of the examples. So, you are right at the middle of the way down the line I want you to take, as at the ending of the article I am going to show you what a destination is. Path -> movement What are destinations? Merrium Webster Definition 1 : a place to which one is journeying or to which something is sent when the package has reached its destination kept their destination secret 2 : a place worthy of travel or an extended visit a popular tourist destination —often used before another noun a destination restaurant a destination resort 3 : the purpose for which something is predetermined or destined 4 : an act of appointing, setting aside for a purpose, or predetermining Although above definition of destination came straight out of the Dictionary, I would say it doesn't capture the essentials of a destination. When I think about destinations, I can understand that it is different from paths, by having no paths. All paths can assume lead to destinations; some may point to the eternity. But destinations by definition should not have paths, but only paths leading towards it, or away from it. Destinations are for rest, lack of movement, or stillness. Path -> movement Destination -> stillness Destination - Venice Destination have no paths - What can you do with this knowledge? I would say plenty. Consider a life as a combination of both. When there is less movement, stillness, silence know that you are at a destination and enjoy the silence in mindfulness. On the other hand, when there is lot of movement, know that it is just a path. When you know characteristic of destination, you can even create your own moments of stillness. You do not have to wait until everything falls into the right place to stop the journey. If you are walking in the park, you can just sit on a bench to make it a destination. When there is no movement of the mind the mind itself will become destination. You may stay there as long as you want, as there is no need to take a path unless destination becomes hostile. Which is unlikely to happen in a hurry. When you are on vacation, make sure you bring your mind to the present, and enjoy the destination. Without letting it wonder into the past and future, into unknown paths. Isn't it a wonderful way to look at life?

To illustrate the great quote by Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese sword warrior, here we give two stories. One from ancient world, one from modern world. As you will see the wisdom provided by this is timeless as illustrated by these examples. Two stories on transcending retardation - Case of Mr. Demis Hassabis A beautiful game of chess In a documentary about DeepMind and AI, Nobel price winner Demis Hassabis, the British mathematician and scientist describes his inspiration for studying AI. Apparently he was an intellectual with a promising career in chess when he was young. And one day he was playing with an opponent in a room filled with hundreds of other players playing in parallel to him. And after a mini battle in his own mind he lost the game, to the other guy, who for a brief moment was able to mock his career as a chess player. In his own words, it had made him feel like what a waste of human consciousness. In an imaginary game of chess. Not only his, but all the other chess geniuses in the same room, battling individually with their thought power to win an artificial mind game with endless possibilities. What If he could somehow connect all these powerful minds so they can work together for a goal. That is a motivation to research on AI. However the fact I would like to point out is that, he did not realise playing chess would be a waste of time until he lost and accepted he sucked at chess, will never reach the top to be the best chess player ever. So, this is a practical example from the modern world which shows, we shouldn't be afraid to embrace our foolishness of understanding so we can be free to chose wisely what actions we should take. In case of Demis, he won the Nobel price in chemistry, 2004 for his works on protein folding problem, using AI. If you do not know structure of a complex protein is all that matters to save millions of lives, as they are building blocks, drivers and motors of human physiology. By embracing his foolishness in chess, Mr. Demis had transcended retardation. Case of the man who walked into the mud. The second example comes from one of my friends. I'm not sure the origin of the story, but can be related to Eastern philosophy. Imagine a man walking into a pit of mud. And as he walks he progressively gets buried in mud, at one point he is almost buried up to his nose. Somehow, at this point he realizes that he is going to get drowned and perish if he continued forward. And he turns back. But that moment, the flash of time he had embraced his retardation, that he had been a fool. Is the moment paradoxically change the trajectory of life towards transcend. Sounds familiar? This is exactly what is mentioned by Socrates In different words. Unexamined life is not worth living. A man who walked into the mud In this sense I would say, human world is a balanced situation. Where we are equally exposed to both good and bad. If we were exposed to either one of these continuously the knowledge will not improve as there is less chance of knowing the other side of the equation. So, when I feel like a fool I would embrace this feeling. And accept so I can start a mini journey to transcend myself to a knower. More you know, more you realize, you don't know - Aristotle

Some truths are really simple. So, that we never meet them in a relaxed mind. Just like in the fish story of famous Wallace speech. Just like a young fish who is not aware of the water which surrounds him all day, we are not aware but act blindly. But there are moments in life, that someone, or something makes us wonder, and we get our Aha moments, and we forget about it when we immerse ourselves with comfortable lies that we chose to believe out of convenience. I had such a thought today, and I just write it down for my own future reference. A simple bed A simple truth. Imagine you are on your last day on earth. Let's forget about the conditions and factors that lead you there on your days of doom. Let's forget that you are in pain, or any other physical disability. And let's hope that you are in good mental health, when this happens, good 80 years spent on earth, perfectly as you wished you spent. I am just introducing some controlled variables to this hypothetical scenario so, my mind cannot ask stupid questions and deviate from what matters. You for a fact knows, that you are going to die tomorrow. Peacefully and quietly, you are going to go. And you ask yourself, what does it matter what I have done in my life? (All those 80 years of ambitions, achievements, failures, goods and bads) My logical mind, have a clear answer on this. The answer is it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter you are a lawyer, a good doctor, a cunning doctor, or a pig farmer. In that moment on that hour of your last breath on earth, it doesn't matter how many children you are having. It doesn't matter how many vacations you have been on, or how many novels you have written, how many Instagram followers you have. The lies of the society disappear at the dusk, when the reality hits the individual. Individual alone would face this battle against the silent killer of time. A second simple truth. Values are creations of Human beings. We can derive a second simple truth from the above. Like a mathematician would give a second order derivative of a function. If the things do not matter at the end of the life on the day it all ends, what is the true value of things now? How come they are valuable today, but not at the end. If something has an intrinsic value, should it not survive the death of the individual? However logical reasoning lets me understand that enormous pile of emeralds doesn't matter the day I die. So, how come it is valuable today. Either I am lying to myself in believing that everything has a value, or everything doesn't have a value, but my mind just tricks me till I die and still not realize that as a fact. I'm not trying to make you afraid, saying that everything is valueless. But playing with this idea would only make you stronger, as every human with a significant brain capacity that ever lived somehow knew this either by experience, or by intelligent investigation of themselves. I suggest you do the same without postponing this experiment to do on your deathbed.

George Box George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a famous British statistician who made major contributions to statistics, quality control, and experimental design. He is known for above quote which caught my attention as it harbours some truth which I cannot deny. All models are wrong (forged), but some are useful. Consider the wording, in the quote. It claims that "All" models are wrong. Forget the usefulness of some models, which are wrong. I would rarther ask the question what is a model. A model by definition is just an interpretation of some process or some natural phenomena. Consider a model of the water cycle. Simply we can teach a five year old kid about how the water gets vaporised from the surface of the sea, and form clouds, to rain down on earth, and flow back to the sea. This is accurate model to explain some phenomena. But this doesn't account for glaciers. The water evaporate from trees and exhaled air. Not even water boiled in the kettle this morning, when you made a cup of coffee. Truth is we cannot ever make a complete model of the water cycle. That would need to track every water molecule that ever exist in this instance of time. Including the ones freshly arriving to the earth's atmosphere in commets. Only the real water cycle itself would mount to such a model. Then we can just call it a reality, not a model. But we don't have do that. We don't need to make perfect model which describe every variable. We can create a wrong model of the water cycle and still use this to explain some phenomena. Draw it on a board and be amazed ourselves. Water as a model Let's get back to the quote. Mind you, this is said by a statistician. If you do not know they tend to be good and obsessed with numbers, which are considered accurate. The models they make help us to determine amount of active compound which an 80 kg man with a stomach cancer needs, in his chemotherapy regimen. Which can mean the life and death if not done correctly. Similarly models are the first to be built upon, before any skyscraper reach its future glory in any modern city. If someone told me that these complex models are wrong, and by all means if that is an statistician, I would consider him insane. How can that be possible. After all I have never heard failure of any skyscraper. (Chemotherapy, a different story) Why all models are wrong? Truth is only the skyscraper itself knows how it's going to respond to the enviornment over time. It is true non of them have ended catastrophically. Thanks to modern mathematical and architectural models are being accurate enough, to persist during short span of human life. Skyscraper Model Here we can take a rest and ask, what else is a model in your understanding about life. How about your finance? A tree is a model. A family is a model. Society is a model. A country is a model. Philosophy mathematics, language and science itself are models. How about weired things that we cannot see or touch. How about dreams, soul, religion? If every model is wrong then all of the above models harbour some error in them. It is not obvious to someone who is blinded by their own believes. But if we look at ourselves throughout the life, we can see our models change over time when we gather more knowledge. Yet we can never reach a fundamental truth in any of the models. It is like riding an asymptote towards the eternity. Never reaching there. Understanding above quote does two things to oneself. First is it let's identify the idiot within ourselves who wants to believe in a perfect model, and even such exists. Second is it let's you identify other idiots who are fooled by their own models of the world as they haven't even considered that there can be a flaw in their model. And its better to keep the mouth shut, in such arenas of egos.

I was reading Plato and allegory of the cave for the second time. And wonder what went through the mind of Plato when he realized, the simple method of arriving at a truth. So, here I will summaries the method, but this does not claim that I am giving you any truth, or even evidence of such truth exists. It is just a method, a road that you may or may not have seen before or taken. Acorns and Oaks The question starts by looking at an Acorn. Which has the potential to become an Oak. Provided water, earth, sunlight and numerous other factors, the Acorn will become an Oak. Let's Imagine this happened. Yet, the Acorn, is not an Oak. On the other hand, if Acorn did not have an Oak in it, how did it become one? Surely an Oak is not an Acorn either. So, it seems a good point of view is to take is, that Acorn, is not completely Acorn. Neither Oak is nor completely an Oak. If we take this as a truth, we will miss the part where Acorn becomes an Oak. What does this mean at a fundamental level? Acorn is not an absolute truth At a fundamental level, we can summaries this as, " Anything which changes cannot be taken as an absolute truth ". It seems, this is the Origin of the Platonic Forms. As, according to Plato, the fundamental forms of things are concepts which doesn't seem change. As an example, a perfect circle is a platonic form which is permanent. However, if we consider, these "forms" as thoughts in a human mind, we can conclude that it is changing, just like a wave in the ocean. But the intuition and the method Plato Provides us here is powerful. And practical. In other words, above conclusion, we can summaries, in a more practical way in following form. " If we are looking for truth, what we should be looking for is permanence. If something is permanent, that must be true. " I find it's fascinating when I realize this is the fundamental question we are trying to solve by living. Consider, following. Oak is not an absolute truth either We look for permanence of life when we reproduce. We look for a continuous state of happiness. We look for Stable income, or return. We look for longevity of life We look for peace, to be born in heaven, an eternal being How to arrive at truth? - asking the question "What is permanent?" As you can see, and you have guessed, none of these would be successful in life. As, permanence was not even there even in imaginary things like platonic forms. I would rather say, the bench you are sitting on is truer than the happiness you seek. At least that will last a century, if taken good care of it. So, here I will end the article. Letting you to think. What have you found permanent in your life? If you have found something, please comment about it, as I am still looking for truth.

Coal Miners I was thinking about this statement today. And it seems a paradoxical statement at first glance. If money cannot buy happiness why an average human spend a lifetime doing some work for wages. It reminds me a coal miner in the era of industrial revolution. With dirty ragged clothes and faces covered with coal dust, I have seen many of those nameless individuals who sacrificed their short time on earth for nothing but to dig up a tunnel in deep underground. I have seen their innocent smiles when their photos were taken. I am sure the little bit of money they earned from mining coal was enough for them to provide a wife and three children who were dependent. And they could buy some happiness from this money at the end of the day, just to cover up for the lost minutes. Coal miner Happiness is not for sale Let's forget the sad struggle of commoners. Really? If money cannot buy happiness why struggle to make pennies. Why rich wants to become richer and poor march to increase the taxes. Why collect money for charity if we cannot bring happiness to the lives of who need it. Obviously the statement seems to false. Money can buy something. It is not happiness directly. As you can see happiness is not for sale in any supermarket or any market for that matter. What is for sale in any market is an experience. And that surely money can buy. But there is a little bit of logic we need to understand when we buy experiences from markets. So we do not waste precious pennies we earned mining coal. Money cannot buy happiness It can buy an experience When you buy a Discovery, a television or a bunch of roses for your girlfriend essentially you are buying an experience. An experience has two parts. Obviously there is our object of concern. Your purchase, and the usage of it. Then there is the person who is experiencing the object in the context, through his six senses. The objects themselves are just part of the equation. The experience itself is not merely the object. But it includes the reaction of the observer to the interaction of the object with the senses. It is simple. Let's do an example for the clarity. Roses and visit to ED Roses Imagine you buy a bunch of roses, as it would look pretty in your living room. For a moment, moved by its fragrance you take a sniff on it, and a with the breath you accidently inhale and insect into your nostril. Now you pay a visit to ED, sitting there on a bench, Sunday afternoon, and with the help of a ENT doctor who kindly end your experience with roses. This is just an unlikely scenario with your freshly bought roses. Nonetheless the future is unpredictable, even a good experience can turn out bad. We can look at another alternate scenario. Imagine the insect did not happen and you just decorated your living room with it. And you left the room to visit your friend and forget about the roses. Just to see them withered away in two days. Compare this to the scenario where you happened to notice your roses multiple times throughout the day and you could sit and appriciate its beauty for half an hour while you were having a coffee. As you can see all these alternate scenarios are possible. And all of these seem to be present in alternate universes. Unfortunately only one of them will happen and whatever that experience will decide whether it will end up a happy or a sad experience for you. Fortunately, if we consider the word non deterministic, for the sake of living we have the ability to tweak our reaction to the experience and buy happiness with money. Even if you do not have money, certainly you can have experience, as that is fundemental state of living. You just have to see the positive aspect of the experience. So that even the afternoon spent at the ED with a swollen nostrils doesn't end up in waste basket of your life.

About Discoveries - The SUV One of our older collogues at work had bought a land rover - A discovery. It was expensive to ride such a vehicle in this part of the country, as the vehicle itself had to travel miles and miles in the sea, just to see the tropical beach. But fact that he bought it made it clear to everyone that he is a big shot in the gang. I am sure he was moved by an enormous urge to buy that vehicle and made him happy. I am not going to spoil his fun by saying there is no fun in riding an expensive Luxury vehicle. But I realized I would never be able to do that, even if I wanted to. So, far I did not have the urge. Otherwise, I would be running here and there exerting myself, the mind and the body to earn more money. Without writing articles, reading Jack London, and learning partial derivatives, for no reason. The SUV Two kinds of people - two kinds of games of life I see two kinds of people playing two kinds of games of life. One kind of people, play the external game. They are the collectors, creators, and value generators. They build wealth, and success, promotions and tours. Other kind of people play the internal game. They try to separate themselves from the games of the external and try to learn about themselves. But this distinction is arbitrary, like anything else in life. As a matter of fact, we all do play both games. If you are doing a job, I would say that is an external game. If you are thinking about your own death while at a funeral, I would say that is the internal game. I wouldn't make the mistake of arguing that one game is superior to the other, as sometimes, I can see the difficulties, and hardships of the external game gives me lessons about my internal game. Ants Sometimes, I find myself looking at ants on the floor. Crawling tiny creatures, with an invisible brain which only operate on instincts. They do not realize that there is a giant looking at them, who is so powerful that would hold the fate of their future. They are not worried about the Emeralds , Gold , or the Stock price . Driven by hunger, it just walks to find any crumbs left scattered in the corners of the room. If I could summaries my life, I would point out to the ant and say, that is life. Stripped out all the non-essential emotional baggage, and the prejudices, and the expectations, build upon lattice of information. Life is essentially driven by cravings. Like the ant, searching for crumbs. Again, I wouldn't say this is a bad thing, or a good thing, or the thing that we should do, or thing that we shouldn't do. If I do, try to move from understanding, I will make the mistake of creating another craving. And there would be a pursue, like the ant. A simple form of life Conclusion I am not sure how, when and why the craving ant, got complicated with the passage of time and evolved into a human, craving a SUV. It doesn't seem correct. Was I not an ant, once craved breadcrumbs?

Definition of a second. One second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine energy levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom. If you need to understand the world. You need to understand the change. Time is just another word for change. I posted this online and received with variable responses from the philosophical community. Some argued it is not. Some agreed it is giving evidence. After all It appears only one group of these individuals is correct by default. Unless we are living in a quantum universe where both of them be correct with a variable probability. If we exclude that as an answer, there are ample evidence for me to say time is just another word for change. And roots of this idea, actually extend both into western and eastern philosophy. Fish. Time and change - historical references Aristotle “Time is the number of motion with respect to before and after.” (Physics, Book IV) Buddha The first noble truth is, Annichcha, which is another name for change or impermanence. Buddha taught: All conditioned things arise and pass away. Nothing stays fixed — bodies, feelings, thoughts, even identities. Instead of asking “What is time?”, Buddhism asks: What happens when we see that everything changes? You do not have to go somewhere to see the evidence of time is just a change. Every time we talk about time, we have to talk about a change of something. From the time you sleep to the time you wake up, you know time exist only when you realize there have been changes. If the sun did not rise in the morning (change), and if you did not feel hunger (change), if the rivers did not flow (change) butterflies flap their wings (change) or the earth did not rotate (change) Your body did not decay (change) and you did not have ability to move (change) and the consciousness remained like a rock, with the same thought into the eternity (change). If all that happened there would be no way we can say time exist. It is merely a feeling in one's consciousness which arise due to Side effect of observed change in the environment, or in the state of mind. In the one second definition above agreed by scientists, is just another "Change" which happens in the environment. But, when we adhere to these objective definitions, frequent question which comes to my mind is what if? What if the universe is within another universe and this outer universe somehow caused our universe to expand. If so, everything in our universe would expand, including all the observations. So, called objective time would change, but ever not showing subjective evidence of it. rain Eastern philosophical approach. Somehow, I like the eastern philosophical approach to the time. Once we have enough understanding, time is not what we see on the clock, but some feeling due to observed change. "Change" becomes fundamental "thing" to be observed in the universe. If "change" is the fundamental nature of the universe, the life, becomes part of this. I can see where this leads to. If life is fundamentally change, the permanent happiness, the success, the peace that we are seeking needs a second consideration. Are we going to achieve anything? I am not here to shatter your dreams of future and to push you into nihilistic absurdism. But, if you learned the lesson, just observing the change in the nature might teach you something, that only wise people might be able to see. Let's be vigilant, and observe how, A raindrop becomes ice crystal in the winter A leaf changes its color in the Autum Kids grow into adults Adults end up in graveyards Perfectly healthy cells become cancerous Global temperature rises Days become nights again and again Parties end Rich becomes poor and poor becomes rich. Winners become losers Status of mind changes throughout the day. The real question is can you look at the change in a non-judgmental way? A thing that is neither good nor bad?

Yesterday. Yesterday I spent whole day inside, reading books, watching films. Dancing around with kids. There were no big fancy restaurants that we visited. No big events that we participated. We did not go deep into the serene senescent Forest, to be connected with nature. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, pretty ordinary stuff. Yet, at the end of the day I felt fulfilled. I am sure kids, although they went through several cry and laugh cycles, they might have felt accomplished too. Winding down to sleep felt natural and easy. So, I am fresh to write about it today. If I had to go back in time, 24 hours before and start the day over, I would change nothing. Past About time (film 2013) This is the exact advice James (father), gave to his son Tim Lake, in the film About time. The Duo had the ability to time travel, with limited use. I am not here to argue about the "Plot holes about time travel" presented in the film. That is the critics and pessimistic cohort of the film watchers. My argument is that the advice itself may give some insight to how we should spend our days. Without anxiety, pressure, or anticipation about the outcomes. "Tim, spend the day ordinary way, doing ordinary stuff, the way you would do it like every day with all the worries and anxieties and emotions. But at night, before going to sleep, spend the exact day again. This time focusing on the sweetness of all those same experiences." There was no need to change anything, just the perspective, so he would not have the pressure to do anything. Adaptation of the It's About time life advice. You may think it is pretty easy to live a life, without worries, anxieties and whole lot of emotions. It is not! that is why antidepressants and anxiolytics with sleeping pills are created in billions in the world each and every day. It would have been easier, if we all possessed the ability to travel in time, and live the same day twice. But simply we cannot. So, how are we going to adapt the above advice so we can use it practically in our lives. Anxiolytics If you looked at it carefully you would see the change from the first time to second time living the same day is not at all, about what happens. It is about our attitude about life. Afterall, if we adapt that the attitude of Gratitude more into our lives, we could spend the day, to the fullest of our ability, and satisfaction the first time. There is no need to relive a day. To be honest, I think reliving the same day again, seems little boring. If we did put little effort in mindfulness and notice the positive aspect about things happening around us. To do that, you will need to understand the actions are not bounded by consequences . In other words, the so-called control one has about life is limited, except at the exact moment something happens, we cannot relive the past or the future.