I went to the moon Last night, In a newly built starship When I looked back from its surface towards the sky, I saw the earth The gigantic mesmerizing blue ball in the sky, with all of its clouds All of its Green and brown and All of its blue. I couldn't take my eyes off. Yes, it moved slowly Slower than a speed of a car, slower than the speed of a mobile phone Slower than a ship, a sheep or a bullet out of an AK47 I stared at it a half an hour and That was all I saw! Earth I didn't see my house, in a tiny corner of the street, I did not see the street either. Didn't see my Garden where the tiny bees flew over yellow Dandelions I didn't see my village or my parents' house, where they lived all their lives Neither I could see the church where they went to pray each and every day. I did not see my Neighbours, or the college where I went for thirteen years. The lake was not visible where I visited last summer on vacation, not with the boats I did not see my town, surrounded by the beautiful misty mountains. I did not see Old Mcdonalds farm or his pigs' hens or cows. I could not see the boundaries of our land, where the war was going on for decades I could not see the dust from grenades when they blast or the war cemeteries Where dead bodies were buried in Perfect rows. I did not see roads, backyards, five-star hotels by the beach or the big walls separated them from fishermen's huts. I saw no discrimination. As humanity was very small, microscopic compared to Earth. I was sure they were there, the happiness sadness, wealth and poverty, and the greed of humanity which drives them all If I had a microscope of a cosmic scale I would see the news on TV, of the death of a politician, who was shot dead by a commoner. Milkyway - Cosmic scale But last night, before I woke up today morning, I did not have discrimination, as I was on the moon, in my dream. I said to myself, maybe, maybe the Earth is still a better place, to be If we look at the big picture. Maybe, no need to travel anywhere else As long as we all are able to see the big picture. Epilogue: The indiscriminate earth. It was only couple of days before I saw riots breaking out in parts of Netherlands, against immigrants, legal and illegal. It seems although how much we boast about development, we fear to share our resources with other humans living on the other side of the same rock, which is called earth. If we forget the fact that we are separated by kilometers, instead measured in light years, essentially there is no distance between you and me, when we consider the closest star in the sky. Proxima Centauri. We are living in an isolated corner of the universe. We are lucky to have company of our own and animals around us. As just beyond the sky is eternal darkness and unbreakable silence for light years. So, what are we expecting by fighting with our Neighbours, for whatever the stupid reason, little bit of mineral? Gold? space? Its illogical irrational and stupid. Yet, I do not disagree to the fact that it is unavoidable too. Because we chose to play with each other on these games of life , inevitably we have to choose a side. Often whatever which party feels closer to us. As there is not yet a threat from the sky, from the Gods or Alean's, threatening our existence, we would fight for our resources among ourselves in these arbitrary groups. But today I am lucky, to step away from the play, which ordinary man calls living, and comment as a silent observer, a philosopher inviting you to join me and enjoy the platonic existence of eternal peace in an indiscriminate earth.

Candidates for "connection between everything" Have you ever thought about it? Maybe not, because it never crossed your mind. The answer is pretty simple and I am going to expose it in few sentences. But let's ask more questions just out of curiosity. What is the connection between a banana cake and your grandfather? What is the connection between a piece of plastic and a flying tortoise? What is the connection between water and a mirror? What is the connection between a rock in your garden and a next thought you are going to get? Can you see anything? Did you see any connection? I tried to be as random as possible in selecting two items. Let's look at several possibilities. Banana What is the connection between a banana cake and grandfather? Maybe your grandfather made a banana cake and ate it one day. Maybe you cannot see any connection between these two. But how about language? Banana cake and grandfather are both words made out of English alphabet. It seem a very good connection. But not complete. If you take English language and Egyptian language and ask the same question you may not see any connection. But when we think about everything as a concept made out of words we can see the interconnectedness better. But let's move on. What is the connection between languages? For that matter we can say sounds are the connection. Although words are different each language uses almost same sounds. Although used for different meanings when used in different combinations. But is it true? Is the sound the connection between everything? As it makes up languages possible and every concept is made of language? I know. You have doubts. These arguments are loosely attached. I do not try to find a sound proof argument here for what is the connection between everything. Only because this part of the article is to increase your curiosity. If sounds or vibrations are the connection between everything what is the connection between other fundemental forces like magnetism and nuclear attraction? As you can see we are at the level of four fundemental forces of nature which connect everything. The question is what connects these four forces? I think this is how far modern science can go. Beyond that it is philosophers land. Are you forgetting something? Waves You as the connection between everything It's you. Your consciousness. Your thoughts. Your observation about the nature is the one which connects even these four fundemental forces of nature. Let's think and appriciate this for a moment. You are the connection between a banana cake and Grandpa. You are the connection between a piece of plastic and a flying tortoise If anything you are also the connection between a mirror and water. A rock in the garden is just a thought which arise in your mind before you move your consciousness to the next. Infact everything in our relative world is connected by us. Like a long string of boolean numbers running on a Turing machine we fluctuate from one thought to the other throughout the day. As you can understand if we are the glue which helds everything together I think it's utmost important to learn about the properties of the glue. As there would be no thing, if there is no glue. So mindfulness or the investigation of self makes the essential fundemental component of my life. How about you? Do you think about yourself often? What have you learned lately from observing the life. I'm curious to know as, it is only by discussion we can shine ourselves more. Join me with this thought journey in Magical Mindful living

I learned recently that the world is 324trillion dollars in debt. The total wealth that it has generated is around 915trillion . It triggered me to write this article. As I can see there is a problem. A time bomb as someone would call it. Let's talk about why. The future The problem of debt. Imagine you do a startup. You find out that your business has a potential, yet you do not have capital to explore these options currently. So you borrow, as debt. If the business flourished as you expected fine. You get profit, while lenders earn their interest and capital sometime in the future, so they will lend it again. But as you can see there is a problem. The problem of what will happen if you were not able to pay back. Definitely the lenders will try and extract every penny out of your pocket. You will get bankrupt. And there would be a negative mark in front of your wealth number. But what exactly is debt? Why would anyone give you money when they know your wealth doesn't promise gurentee in return but with a risk. Borrowing from future Essentially in debt what you as a collector is trading your future. Your future expected earnings, and part of these goes to lenders as interest and installment. Depending on the guarantee you provide lenders may agree to this trading. Yet nobody would be willing to pay you more than your current total wealth, as if you go bankrupt there would be a loss for the lender. Now think about it for a moment. Let's say you own 1 mil dollars and you borrow 0.5 mil more for business. If everything goes fine that's good. Even if you go bankrupt on this new endeavour if you do not borrow more you can come out atleast 0.5mil after paying for the debt from your own pocket. But imagine you get loans from three different people to a total of 1.5 mil. And now if you go bankrupt, either all 3 or one of the lenders will not get total capital. Forget about the interest, they cannot recover their capital. This is the problem of debt. Generating wealth World as a 200 people group. Now consider the world as a group of 200 countries. They all have debts, have borrowed from each other. Governments, companies, public and private. Everyone is in debt to everyone. They use debt to pay debt. Trading their own future. As long as lenders would lend, things can go on. But consider what it means. It really means we are putting pressure on our future generations to earn more returns from the money we borrowed! Ah ha! Of course we are not going to do it as we are happy doing some travelling and writing blogs. But suddenly in 100 more years our children's of children will find out they are billions of dollars in debt. Each one of them and they cannot generate that wealth. And on the other side they will find they cannot recover their lendings. This scenario is inevitable. It will take 100 or 500 years in the future. Faster if a global catastrophe struck as all the wealth generating machines called factories would stop. I wonder what humanity would do in that scenario. Let's look at the positives and possible solutions. I see no point in thinking about this as one of my problem. I am fine doing my 8-5 shift being a part of wealth generating global machine. It is running smoothly today. But I want to prepare our kids fir the future. I would print a million copies of this message and distribute free to the world while papers are still abundant. While Internet is still flourishing and smartphones are everywhere. Hoping one of those copies would survive into the future post apocalypse. Waves in front of me Message for future generation. Forgive us for borrowing from your future to quench our thirst of greed. There are not thousands but few hundreds of us still think about you. But there is hope. The values we traded as your future is not the real value. It is all a mental game where we give a number to the future. Human consciousness have survived through hardships as it is the nature of it. So you as a child of future who lended your ancestors still have capacity to give a value to your observations of life. Just like me standing in front of this lagoon watching the waves giving it a more value than my bank account. Just use the gift of nature as if there is anything valueble to humans its generated there in your own mind. But you have a better chance of understanding valuelessness of experience, as we here are blinded by numbers.

Let's discuss recipes for success. I am sure you have read atleast one biography of a successful mentor. Maybe its sports, engineering or business studies. Maybe its art. Ones who were successful, once they were successful have given a list of items to do. Stepwise process to success. Often we believe in them, and we make our own stepwise guide. Follow these cycles all our lives and hopes for the best. But after all these same struggles you have been through I now realise there is no recipe for success. And this article is to why. Recipe Literally we are like ping pong balls. We are like ping pong balls in a casino game. Have you seen how random they fall down when released from a same point. Each and every ping pong ball takes a random walk down its obstacle path to ultimately end up in some random place on the board. Yet when we look at all the balls there may be patterns we observe. Our society closely resemble the ping pong ball table. Although there are patterns individuals take apparent random journeys. Just like we cannot predict the path of individual ping pong ball we cannot predict the journey of any individual in the society. Yet we see patterns. Let's look at some patterns. Hardworking pays off Smartwork pays more Habits govern our happiness Success depend on the people we associate Random games Some people live by these so called rules, get successful materialistic or other and they write a biography, falsely thinking rules they followed brought their success. But for a rational mind it may seem otherwise. Non of the rules guarantee the success. Past performance doesn't predict future success. There is inherent luck involved in everything we do. Do not believe me? Consider birth. Everything you do in your life, the success faliure, struggle and happiness depend on the place you were born. And there is no way we can remove the influence of this factor from our life. As everything aroused after this single factor its influence is inherently there. No matter how much I followed someone's success rules, I would be adding my cocktail of personal factors into the pot. Who knows the same rules which made someone successful might even kill me in the process. And this is only one reason I cannot give you a set of success rules. Nobody can know all the factors involved in an apple falling to the ground. Yet alone which affect our thoughts. Similar observation comes from mindfulness. And it's more subjective explanation. Its the will. How much influence we have on our will determines our success ultimately. Imagine you have a complete control of your life. Then success is very easy. You just need to sit down with a mentor and schedule your day filled with quality work that mental happiness will immediately follow and after sometime material success will follow. But this is not the case. No matter how attractive our plan may seem we will find that we cannot stick to it for longer periods of time, without causing suffering. It seem useless even to try these flowcharts. But what is the reason? Nature When you are mindful you will notice how limited, negligent or even absent our control over our will and thoughts. As an example just a moment ago, a crow passed near my window, making crow noise. I am unable to pay attention to anything else. I'm unable to stop thinking about it or think anything else when it happens. Listening to the crow has made a change in my stream of thoughts that it will never take the same path if it was not there. Same will happen when you put any new observation about life. Just like an obstacle in a ping pong game. We take a different turn every moment in life. Recipe for success So if there is a recipe for success I would say it's just being aware of the every move that take in life and hopefully it will add value when you look back one day. That's just like asking to put everything you have in the pot while cooking and hope it will come out as best soup! 👌 it might work if time is right. But happiness is what you are looking for it's easy to achieve.

Yes. I agree. I also have complaints about google maps. I also have ended up in the middle of nowhere, on a dirty road, hitting my bumpers, searching a way out from the mess I have put myself in, trusting google maps. Google maps is improving day after day. Let's forget about the imperfections and, learn how things about how to get directions to anywhere from google maps. How to get directions? What I learned from google maps. Maps When I go somewhere I would just search google maps. Like everyone else first I type the location where I have to go. Then if I say directions it directly sends me to a page where I have to show my current location. I would either have to select my exact GPS location or chose some initial starting point. This has some implications in real life as well. Let's look at some lessons we learn from this activity. Where you start matters in life. Often in life when we want to reach some destination we overwhelmingly think about that place. But more importantly we forget where we are. As much as the destination the starting place matters. We do not identify that the route we have to take totally and mutually depend on where we are starting. And throughout the journey what is accessible for us is only the location where we are. The speed that we travel at this moment would determine the entire journey. It is important to constantly access our current location. Planning matters but not actually what you do. Maps Imagine you see a blocked road ahead. Jammed with traffic, red color. You can plan this to avoid the traffic. Maybe you might take a different road. Maybe you might plan your resting time hoping the traffic would go away in due time when you arrive there. But if you start overwhelmingly panic and think too much about it you might make entire journey about this traffic. You might even forget to enjoy your lunch! And This is exactly what happens to us while we are in office. We are so much panicked about the next task that we forget we have eaten the lunch or not. Most likely you would have swallowed it whole. But it doesn't have to be that way. If you understand the next principle of google maps, which is, Destination has no meaning while you are in the journey. Destination has no meaning while you are on the journey. Imagine your Destination is a beach front hotel. In this hotel you are planning to spend 24 hours before you departure to another place. While you are travelling, it doesn't matter that beach is filled with magnificent sunset. It doesn't matter what you get for lunch. There is no point even thinking about it. It will just make your economy class lunch less tastier while you travel. But if you just chose to be mindful and savour the apple juice you are offered, the difficult journey might even feel enjoyable. You will realise that the happiness is subjective and your mind can generate happiness on its own! And what a wonderful way to look at life that when we can understand its the same wind we feel at home, feels different on the beach. Moment Now if I stopped here, and if you looked closely, and read again, all the three factors above are not three. Infact they are indeed one. What I have learned from google maps can be summarised as, in a journey what matters is only our current location. If we can fully appriciate and be present you may have better chance of living life rarther than dreaming. Yes, with all the flaws, all the troubles, all the disappointments. Still that would be the only thing that matters. Pain, depression, happiness, heartbroken, love and greed. All are part of the same life. Inseparable from the knower, as it all points to yourself in direction. So next time when you search directions of a place let it remind you to focus on your current status of affairs instead.

This is about big questions in life. Big questions that we try not to answer. Either because we are too busy doing some mediocre things like building bridges or ruling countries. Or because we are afraid of them as there is no accessible knowledge about answers in our databases. Instead we try to build a tiniest robot to use in treating renal stones, or making the biggest ship to send bigger cargo to the moon. But the big questions remained throughout the human history, ever since we developed frontal cortex and imagination. And when a disaster strikes and the shit happens out of nowhere we tend to isolate from this temporary matrix and try to solve the questions, without any help. Often failing as there is lack of information. This blog is just a tiny effort to show you how material success is inherently linked to these big questions of life. And even stupid in front of answers. Big What are the big questions? Why am I here? Who am I? Why should I do what I am doing now? These are just a few. There are many more. Have you ever tried to list them out? If you are getting anxious just by asking these questions how can you ever hope to get answers. Be it meditation, mindfulness exercise or your 8-5 job, if you're unable to reason out why, I think it's just a waste of time. On the other hand if you're able to tell why you are begging from others instead of earning a living, you are not wasting your time on earth. The mind shines only when we ask these big questions. Consider a monk. The difference between a begger and a monk are just answers to these big questions. One is well respected even offered food and basic needs, while others are ignored. It looks beggers make no attempt at answering big questions. They do not realise they are one step away from becoming Nobel. Instead just worry about the problems the society has mounted on them. Like money and shelter. Instead just asking the big questions and attempting to understand yourself can lift you from wherever you are. I look at it like cutting gems. Gems come in different shapes and sizes. Often deep within earth. Only someone with a good eye can identify these as they are covered with mud and dirt. Even after washed they do not show the true interior. But once they are cut by a professional gem cutter, they will reflect light and become a beautiful work of nature. Now consider your mind a gem. It's covered with mud and dirt of the society. Knowledge about material success clouds the beauty of the mind. Be a gem cutter, ask the big questions from time to time. So your mind gem starts to shine day by day. And then people will start to notice and stupidly think that it's wonderful. As they haven't yet discovered themselves yet. Gems In this journey of asking big questions there are few practical things we can do. First Is to create opportunity. Opportunity comes naturally when your mind is curious. Give it a chance. When you hear someone talking about life, make an effort to follow these leads. And you don't have to and shouldn't believe in these teachings. Having the ability to give up ideologies which doesn't make sense is needed, as even our own mind starts to lie when we follow blind believes. Challenge your own thoughts by asking a different question. I know it's scary. People surrounding you might say it's not necessary. It's not necessary to ask big questions to keep your sanity. But here is a thought. It is OK to go insane, asking who am I, than working all life to be dead at the end, without knowing why. Atleast you have made an attempt. Let's do a mindful exercise to cut the gem Who am I? A big question. To be honest looking at a person as a self is just a one way of looking at it. It could also be explained as a chimera, a collection of separately functioning units. It can be considered as a mind and a body. It can also be seen as a tree which evolved to walking. None of these are 100% true. So the question "who am I?" May not be the correct question to ask. If that is not a legitimate question, what is the correct question to ask. As each and every question is build upon just subjective observation. Is there even a correct question? Are we capable of asking a correct question other than observing life?

The other day we had a discussion about life. Religion, Atheism and Cults. On the round table with some educated intelligent group of people. And the believes of this group were markedly varied. Everyone had their own expectations about life. However I noticed there are two sub groups. One group believed in searching the meaning of life despite all the chaos. The other group were not interested in searching anything other than what is pleasurable. Leaving everything for the universe. So let's look at it more closely. Big picture What did you do since you work up today. I am sure you were busy with scheduled and unscheduled tasks. Which may or may not be pleasurable. But obviously some of them were to avoid pain rather than pleasure itself. Consider brushing your teeth. You do this because you know the consequences of not brushing will lead you to pain in future with dental caries. Infact in the heart of brushing the teeth there is hedonism. As we expect a better experience in future, although the act itself is not hedonistic. Let's say you are a math professor. And you are entangled in solving a millennial mathematical question. It's hard and painful process. But you are willing to endure the lengthy process of thinking this problem you will have a reward. You might get it as financial benefit or as a social recognition. The same things a natural hedonist would look for in life. As subtle it may seem everything we do from morning till we are sleep are to avoid physical and mental pain and maximise the pleasure. Infact these are not two different things. The latter is just another way of avoiding the pain of boredom. Imagine you decided to go to a party. What you expect from here is to entertain yourself with a novel experience of music food and socialising. So you follow the path of a hedonist for the night. It doesn't matter when you come back home you feel like a hollow. But consider the opposite. You decide to not to go to the party. Write a poem, meditate or even spend time with family. I see no fundemental difference in these two choices. As experience Is subjective you have chosen what is better experience for you at that time. Driven by same selfish reasons of a hedonist. But the subtle nature of the latter might even hide the selfish reasons behind your choices and make you feel like you are better at self control than a party animal. Is it true? Party Animals The big picture of life So do we have another definition for life, When we look at the big picture? Life is a constant struggle to do things to avoid the pain of not doing it. Just name anything you do. I can show you the component of pain of not doing in it. Money, relationships, medicine wine, anything and everything you search today will serve this purpose. Everything you try to avoid will serve the same purpose too. So we have fundamentally two ways to solve this problem, or attempt at solving. One is to get material success. You can do it just by following the rules of the society without chasing any meaning of life. It is like treating a disease symptomatically. Yet as the root cause is the diseased mind you will never be able to come out of medicine. Have you seen such people? A billion dollars is not enough for them. A one good vacation is not enough. Winning a one football game is not enough. A happy meal is not enough. Being able to walk is not enough. So what is the opposite? Being content with what you have? Being Content Being content is good enough as long as you understand the true reasons behind this. If it is to avoid the pain of working hard towards a goal I think it's a wrong reason as still your mind is in hedonist framework. But if you understand life and your mind chose to be content as you see no meaning after a thorough search that would be a good reason to be content. More than a choice it looks like the natural conclusion of mind when it understands life. And this is why the searching for the meaning of life matters. As coming to a conclusion and giving up too early might close the door for you to achieve peace before natural death.

If you are not into computer science, running a blog or working as an engineer it is unlikely you used this term often. Generally it is a preserved word for systems. Like an internet server which has to be operational all around the clock. 24/7/365. Uptime is the percentage of time the system is up and running. Gear System My experience on Uptime Like the other day suddenly the magical mindful living blog was not working. I was upset that I made a critical error during editing the blog. I even reseted the blog to previous version. Yet it didn't resolve the problem. Hence I checked the hosting site, when I knew there was a major malfunction in servers and the team were busy running the tests to fixed it. So I had digged a bit about this process of uptime. Apparently these system crashes are not something rare. It happens several times per year. Mostly minor ones which affects part of the system. Major  downtimes occur making entire system malfunctions. Yet these are uncommon. But more catastrophic and worrisome. Infact uptime is a good indicator of functions of such a system. Let's dig a little more deep into this concept. Amazon servers Uptime Imagine Amazon servers stopped for 24 hours. With millions of parcels moving around the world will be halted and it would be a disastrous. Even everything moved perfectly after the crash the cost of operational losses would be in billions. So the uptime for such a system is utmost important. Now, let's move away from computer science and find out what we can do with the principle of uptime. Amazon servers Uptime of society Let's look at the society. What is uptime for a society? We can say a normal day in any country is uptime. Things move in shipyards, on roads, in offices. Factories run and retail shops are open. Once in a while there would be crashes in the system. A flood, a landslide or  a storm would make the part of the system dysfunctional, like a minor crash. But rarely something major would happen. A war, a riot or a political instability will make everything go crashing. This happened during covid. We were forced to take risks in getting covid as systems were about to crash, as longer we kept them shut down. However, as there were plenty of stored values we survived. Somebody was aware of the downtime! Personnal uptime Just like the society, we can consider an uptime of a person, over a period of time. You may wake up in the morning and go to bed at night. That can be considered uptime for an individual. Yet humans do not function like computers. The quality of the uptime depends on the quality of the consciousness, and thoughts. More importantly the awareness. For a person the time that he or she was is aware during a period of time is a good candidate for the uptime. This is why there is a saying "if you're aware you're not there, no point of being there". Natural awareness It's rarther OK to sleep if you're too tired to be awake and be aware. On the other hand even during painful unpleasant experiences if your system is up and running, being aware of the experience, it is good. As these so called negative experiences can really change the way you look at the world. Even depression can be a blessing for your future endeavours once you recover if you were aware of what was going on. Here, I do not discuss how to improve awareness. There are not  a lot of ways, other than letting yourself be in positions where awareness is at its best. Early morning, after a rest and when you are in the nature taking a walk or just observing. If they are not possible sitting on a chair doing nothing would bring back your awareness from wherever its hiding. Because in life it seem no destination. Its just a journey. So the happiness you seek if not coming from current experience there is no use in searching it tomorrow!

Death as we see it The other day, I went to visit some mesmerising place in Northwest province. There was a big tank , with a great view and nice atmosphere. The evening was cloudy, about to rain, windy across the surface of water. The tank was full and people were happily bathing in the stream. Everything looked perfect. A great hideout for anyone looking for some rest. So I took a walk along the bund, in the Bush, and I saw a dog. A dead dog. The dog did not match with the vibe, I was looking for. It was partially decayed, hence smelly and full of flies. Looked even unhygienic, surely with maggots although I did not investigate that. The dog was dead as a dog. Although the incident happened a long time ago, only I wrote about it now. Thinking about the life and death I realised there is another definition. But first let's look at the problem. Beach What is death? The death is subjective. Like any other experience. We have seen dead, people and dogs. But nobody who has gone through this experience come out alive to tell us about about it. Hence death is always totally subjective. The near death experience do not come closer to actual death. As, near death means they are different from actual dead people. Then how can we really answer the question What is death? The process of dying we see where a body becomes immobile after the last breath is only the perspective of the "living" about death. What is the actual experience of "death" to the dead person is the real question. But the problem doesn't end there. Although this is a simple observation, that there cannot be any living expert about death, I see a lot of experts now day preaching about death, like they really know. Any religion Is built upon the idea of death. There is no way of proving all these ideologies. Let's stick to the facts and look at death in another angle. Let's think about the dead dog by the lake. Why the dog is dead? Compared to a living one some functions are missing. Movements are absent. Speech and will is absent. Body is not growing. There seems that the driving power of the body is no longer there. Death Can you see anything common to all these observations? All these talk about what is not there in the dead dog. If I summarise death in a one sentence I would say. "Death is what is not there, in the living, after becoming dead". Obviously there is something missing in this definition. The subjective perspective! Let's insert that too. " Death is what is not there in the living, after becoming dead, as perceived by living" As you can see now it is clear. The death is a concept of the living. There is nothing to be afraid of this. I can tell you what else are concepts for the living. Consider following list. An apple is a concept. So is the Apple juice. Money is a concept So is the poverty and wealth Anger is a concept So is the war and peace. Living is a concept So is the death and afterlife Apple A concept The benefits of this conceptualising is easy to understand. First Is you can see the similarity between an apple and death. So, can we eat it? Maybe we can. It reduces the fear associated with it. Next is you can identify all the people who try to scam you promising heaven after death. You just have to know whether they are living. If so, 😁 they are just 🤥 lying about it. Lastly you might start to play with it. If what is not there is death, it surely mean except for the ones in front of you others are dead, in the relative world of yours. As they cannot speak move or create an image in your consciousness. Let's stop there. If you understand anything out of this please comment. Following is just a Poem. The moon The moon was perfectly crescent Although appeared dancing on the waves It'll was just a reflection Like the illusion of life appear on the surface of mind With fluctuations of daily troubles Maybe its perfect at its core Question is who disturbed the water?

When the moon shined above the lagoon, and the starlight was diminished by its aura, the old man stepped out of his hut to have a quite time in the middle of the night. He was the only security guard to the isolated establishment on the edge of the lagoon. Yet, his bones were quite weak that even a teenager would overcome by brute force if he was in a fight. What was he guarding anyway? But he on the other hand should have been on the retirement yet could not as he was pushed against the wall by the society. He could not survive without the few dollars of salary he was given for his duty of guarding nothing. Starry night The hotel was little busy today as customers poured in after sun went down. All of a sudden he became an important person, from guarding of nothing to Car park assistant. Yet he did not like the feel of lot of people. Once they went in it was quite solitary again. Looking at the darkness of mangrove hideouts, he was lost in a world of thoughts separated and isolated from what's happening outside. He loved the boredom. He was even proud of his boredom. He wasnt afraid of it. Occationally he wished some company. And nature did grant his wishes by providing some movement. In water, a solitary dog or a cry of an owl made him stop his stream of thoughts and come back to present. There was no specific thing that he thought about. The life he had experienced was behind, now just a memory. He was too old to be bothered about the past, and future seemed a little short. Hence he valued the empty solitude of present. It was the gift of nature for the tiring past of his former younger enthusiastic self. Jelly fish While he was at his peak of alertness he was bothered by the group of young visitors. Half drunk half sleepy half stressed, they seemed the exact representation of his past. The opportunity to observe them made him smile. The boys did not like the silence. Infact they seemed to be afraid of it, making noise, whistling and talking aloud like they are the only ones alive. Like they are the center of the universe tonight. But the old man knew that wasn't the case. The center of the universe doesn't revolve around any individual. Only a lifelong observer like himself would know this. But telling it to these man kids is not something he dared to do. As he exactly knew how idiotic these young minds with huge expectations work. He couldn't afford any fight, verbal or other. Hence he maintained his silence within the noise. Yet he couldn't stop overhearing what they were saying. And he could summarise it in three words "money women work" maybe not exactly but occasionally about food and travel as well. He listened for a while and for the 1000th time he was hearing the same discussion, he himself had in the past. Ah, they should figure it out themselves. The trap of the life would not allow them to leave the comfort of their circle. They would not dare isolate themselves in the dark like he does. So, the deep lessons are yet to learn for these young men. And they would just leave when it's too sleepy, and he would embrace the silence again, although now temporarily hidden, he knew its still there. By the lagoon Instead he took a walk, towards the lagoon. Maybe he will meet a crocodile or some fish. The water is fresh even he could see tiny fish. He saw a jellyfish with his torch, struggling with its hundred paws. Just like him, maybe its spending last few moments of its jelly fish life. Maybe it doesn't need to explore the lagoon anymore as there are nothing interesting. Maybe it is also looking for an eternal rest in the chaotic noise of the highway of sealife. He did not know. Its not like that anything is true as jellyfish consciousness is not so advanced. Old man figured out that the universe has come to its baseline level. Silence is back there, and its just passed the midnight. The moon is still shining. Man kids are nowhere now. He went back to his plastic chair to be isolated with his heartbeat in the colder part of the night. Maybe get some sleep. Who is the fool going to rob this night anyway?

There are two kinds of richness. If you do not know by the end of this article you would know. Let's start with one and easy one first. There is slogan which goes like this. "There were two buffaloes on the field. One with a tail and other without. One with the tail chased away the flies, the other one suffered through it Poverty is like the buffalo without a tail." This is the first kind of richness. And everyone knows about it. But there is still something we need to understand. When you have a million or billion dollars in the bank and you are free to spend it. It essentially gives you the potential to do anything you wish. You can travel to places you have never been before. Taste foods you have never tasted before. 😋 Even you can do a little bit of charity to ease out the guilt of spending at the expense of others who paid with their sweat to earn that billon dollars for you. Or save some kids in rural Africa with few dollars which you did not expend on shoes. Or you might choose to invest and grow richer. But the fact is we fail to examine the broad picture about the life. We forget that we are buffaloes trying to grow more and more fat tails, to chase away the constant threat of files. Buffaloe Let's examine flies. Flies are numerous. They come in different forms. And we call them different names. But essential thing about these flies is that they do not let us be . They will make us itch scratch or roll over. If you do not have the tail of richness you're indeed have to suffer. I think flies deserve more explanation. Let's look at that. Flies can be, Hunger Thirst Pain from a cut Loneliness Need to grow Greediness They can be named as needs, or problems of life that constantly keep coming back no matter how many times you chase them away. The best example for this process is trying to make a group of camels asleep . Problem with the problems of life is they keep coming back. But with a good bushy tail someone can chase away the flies better. And feel satisfied 😌 just for a brief moment before they come back again. So, this wagging the tail at the flies is just like being rich and spending money on your needs. Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong in it, wag your tail as much as you need. Infact I am also trying to grow a big fat tail despite knowing that's all temporary. But let's look at the second type of richness. The man with a wound. - Other Kind of richness Rich Imagine you wake up tomorrow. And you see a big wound on your leg. You start treatment immediately. Meet your GP who refer you to a vascular surgeon and following detailed work up you end up having a bypass surgery. Your wound gets better in few months, and you feel better, happy and alive! I am sure you will be triumphed. Let's compare this with an alternate universe where you wake up and see no wound. You carry on your ordinary work. And nothing happens. In this universe you are not triumphed at all in 3 months. Because you never had the wound in the first place, no challenge, no problem, no risk. But you are not happy also, not to the level where you did have a wound and came out of that. There were no flies biting you to wag the tail. But you never understood this as a 🙂 happiness. As we are so used to flies and wagging our tails at them, we have forgotten that there is an alternate universe where all these troubles or flies are not there. Since the day we were born, we had a wound called hunger, thirst and pain. We are trying to constantly satisfy ourselves like Sisyphus without knowing it would never end. So, the second type of richness is finding the solution to the problem of problems of life. And in this aspect the growth is the path of a true seeker. Hope you are brave enough to do that.

Being present is hardest thing in life. But the only thing that matters. In life being present is something we often take for granted. As it is hard to define what present means things get even worse. How can we live in present if we can't define present. You may think that is wrong. The present means what you are feeling just now. These letters. But I would say otherwise. I can show you that present which you feel now is the imprint of the past. And about predictions of the future. Not once or twice, but all the day around. Let's dive into some examples. On being Present Consider what you are seeing now. A table a vass  a plant. Whatever directly in front of you. You know that right? Or atleast you think you know it. Consider a phone. Infront of your table. Turned off and laying there. When we see this we can assume it is a phone and the way to use it. We might even judge this on its color and weight. You know you can turn it on and use it to surf the Internet and read this article. But where did all this knowledge came from? Did not it come from the past?  Phone on Table Andromedian Perspective Let's make it a little less complicated now. Lets imagine you are an Andromedian. With your starship that is so advanced you came to visit earth. And now you are infront of this turned off phone. In your world there were no phones. There were no TVs. Nobody figured out electricity. Don't ask me why. Let's say your starship purely function from chemical energy. Now for this new perspective what you will see is a just heavy object. A black shiny thing with some mobile tiny buttons. You press the button hard but nothing happens. You might assume this is a some kind of a device but would not know how to turn it on. You might see the charger on the table and plug socket on the wall but still might not be able to figure out what's this supposed to do. It's just like unpacking a new gadget from Amazon. You are clueless without the Manuel of the past. Let's say in this hypothetical scenario your earthly friend came for help. You both do not know english. But he pinned the phone to the charger and turned it on. And showed you how to see pictures in it. And as an andromedian consciousness this is going to fundamentally change the way you look at phones in the future. Not only phone. Next day if you see a laptop and a charger you are going to do the same and will most likely figure out how it works. So really speaking you cannot even stop this process of carrying things of the past to the present. Does it sound familier? We all have been andromedians in our lives. Since the day we started this process of consciousness we have accumulated a vast amount of experience. That we carry day after day to figure out the present moment. Initially it may have been fundemental things like warmth and stiffness and softness. But later even complex things like mathematics and calculus. Andromeda Now imagine this process is wrong at the begining. Because we are using yesterday things to figure out today, and we have been using this process of iterations all our lives, imagine what was assumed to be true at the mother's woumb has a bearing on what you are seeing as a phone in front of you now. It feels absurd . As when we were born we had barely any ability to figure out anything complex. However it is also fascinating to know, that what we believe to be true today can be a totally erroneous as it all depended on what a toddler thought about the world. Can you see how far we are carrying our past and poison our present with it? I might not go into details about future here but point out few articles to you. Now with this knowlege, look at the world. The big buildings, Congo tribes, pyramids of  Egypt and starships that we help to built. All these knowledge came up from consciousness which figured out something out from whatever in front of it, using knowledge of the past. How past? I am not sure. Maybe from a monkey if we take into account the evolution. At this point you might say. Stop. What is the fact you are trying to say by confusing me with all these nonsense. Then I can say something like this. Consciousness from the past Being present is the only thing which matters as it lets you figure out life. Look my friend. You are afraid of taking a risk in life. Only because you value certain things over others. But in just few hundred words by talking about being present which is the only thing that matters in life, I have shown you the fundemental valuelessness of life. So what you can do with this is duel. Either use it against others who do not know it by taking some risks and make a heap of falsely valued heap of something that you only know valuelessness. Or just simply give up. As both these would not achieve anything other than more human consciousness built upon a toddler.