Mindful eating This article is about mindful eating. Do not be cross when I talk about cows and eating grass. That is just to make the discussion interesting. If you would want to skip the details, you can go to the discussion. Or if you need to take another approach, I suggest you read about How to eat a mango Mindfully. Let's look at cows. Buffalo eating grass Why do cows eat grass? I used to watch cows graze in the nearby field from top of a tree . Later I learnt that cows could digest grass, but not humans. Cows and for that matter animals who eat grass, or herbivorous have stomach filled with bacteria, which are capable of breaking down cellulose. Hence, the Cow stomach is so called " Sweet Home " to large number of bacteria. And cow absorb carbohydrate. That is easily understood. Yet, if you look at a cow, they not only eat grass. But they build a massive muscle mass. How do they get their protein from? Cows, get their protein by digesting the bacteria. Essentially for the bacteria, the intestinal tract of the cow is the place of the home and place of the doom. When they go down with food into the lower parts of the digestive tract, bacteria themselves become the victim to chemicals and enzymes, being killed after getting used. They become the source of "Protein" for the cow. So, let's leave the science behind and ask the question again. Why do cows eat grass? There are several answers. One simple explanation is that they get hungry, and they have taste for grass. Digestible or not, cows would not eat grass if they do not get hungry and they do not have a taste for the grass. So, if we look carefully both hunger and the taste are essential survival tools for the cow. Being animals, they do not overthink about these things, like we do. They just get hunger, and they eat what tastes them. Why do we not eat grass? mindful eating. That there is a simple wisdom, for our mindful eating. Although we do not think about this we do eat for the same reasons as cows. We eat because we feel hungry, and we do have taste for food. Imagine we do not feel hunger, no ghrelin (hunger hormone) in your system. I am sure we will be so busy that we would die, without any food. Same goes to the taste. But this is something which have evolved for us to better understand what is good for us. Just when humans lived in jungles, they did not have a food hygiene. They relied on their smell and taste to identify what is good to eat. So essentially taste is also a survival tool. Only in modern supermarket era that taste have become a five-star luxury that costs hundreds of dollars. Where is the taste? Is it in the Ice-cream? Mindful eating - Binge eating and obesity. Get to know about hunger and taste is essential to mindful eating. As an example, let's assume you have a habit of binge eating. If you look at your eating pattern, you will understand, that you start eating, because you are hungry. Get to know your hunger. Know exactly where it feels. And if you do not have the hunger, do not eat! And while eating you will know the feeling of hunger goes away. Not suddenly, but gradually. And anything you eat after your hunger is gone is going to add onto your extra weight. And that is better left alone in the plate or even thrown away than eaten. As anything beyond this is a reason to make you sick, diabetes hypertension or MI. As you can see, you cannot do or even think about controlling your eating habits without getting to know your hunger. Same goes to the taste. However, taste is tricky. Taste is something we wrongly attribute to be in the Ice cream. However, it is never in the food. And we can think it is in the tongue. But it is not true either, as dead person's tongue would not feel anything. You can read more on this in eating a mango article. So , the taste we can assume is in the mind. But what is mind? What is mind, is a discussion for another day. Maybe you can have look at the consciousness article or for that matter even a lump of clay to understand the mind. However, what is mind is a deep subject which can only be explained to someone who has been thinking about it for a long time. I would not do that mistake here. After all this is just to explain why we cannot eat grass, and simply it is because we do not feel taste for it. Not by our choice but by nature. As you can understand, we would be eating any dung, if we had taste for it. As pictured in the film Jacky in Women's Kingdom.

On a couch Jacob was happy, after an honest day's work. He was in charge of the presentation today, in front of all the stakeholders. The company he is working is trying to expand their operations. And they needed to capture the progress they have made last year into a half an hour speech, to impress the investors. And as the project manager Jacob felt good about what he has done today. Now it is time to relax, finally when his company makes more fortune, he will be able to move closer to a better apartment in suburbs, than current shaggy one. He needed to better breath. He ordered dinner online and relaxed on to the couch, until midnight sleepozing watching who wants to be a millionaire. A good one. Lake Driving Jacob was driving his car. Beside him was his lovely wife with a big belly of nine months. They just discovered she was in labor when water broke out and started to rush to the hospital. She seems to be in severe pain, crying now, and Jacob in panic. Why and who built those stupid red lights every corner of the block. What if the baby starts to come out even before he reached the hospital? He hit the gas once again and in the corners of his eyes he saw the hospital finally at last! And soon as they arrived at ED his wife was taken away to labor room. He was waiting outside, anxiously waiting to try to keep his calm, taking deep breaths. Is she OK? Is my baby girl, OK? Rowing The evening sky is orange today. Few clouds on the horizon. The sun is nowhere to be found, disappeared behind the tree line and the hill above the lake. Jacob stopped paddling and let the boat float slowly on the water. The fish were not afraid of his boat as there were no fishermen at this part of the jungle. Not lot of hikers come here as well. He had been living in the hut on the bank of the lake for some time now Then he realized something. He wanted to remember how did he start to live in a hut by the lake? His memory was blurred. He remembered he was driving just before he started rowing the boat. He was driving with his wife in his car! Where is she now? How is she doing? Am I dreaming? Jacob remembered how can I be married? I just came back from work, and I live alone. I was doing a presentation just this afternoon, to a half a dozen of people. Where am I exactly? In a boat in the middle of the lake? Or in the hospital? or on a couch? Rowing boat in the lake The dream Jacob remembered watching Inception, movie just the other day on Netflix. A dream within a dream. I must be dreaming but what is the reality? All he can remember was what happened since he started to become conscious about the current dream. What was there before is doubtful. Maybe I am "The guy" in a film. Stuck in a virtual reality. Maybe the lack of coherence in his dreams is the fact that I am dreaming. More than anything Jacob wanted to wake up to the reality. But how? He could not access the reality from inside the dream All he could do is to move to another dream from the current one. And that even was not under his control. But within his dream he was in control. Jacob closed his eyes and started listening to the sounds. Sounds of the birds were real. The move of the wind over the mountain brushing trees was real. He could feel the water on his hands which felt really cold. He relaxed into the fact that everything feels real. But he knew it's all a dream. Just one alternative reality from thousand possibilities. He could not wake himself up from the inside of the dream, as he was part of the dream. It did not matter. Maybe there is no other dream, just this one. He did not know how where and why he felt like he was living. All he knew was he was part of it. Maybe it is the fear of losing the dream and himself, which drives it. He can imagine a reality, but as he is in the dream it would be just a false one. Maybe there is nothing to wake up. As dream about the reality is also part of the dream. End. You can read more about dreams on following articles. Dream vs Reality -> Duality of the nature. Cannot access reality from the dream -> subjective reality. Philosophy of dreams Living in a dream. Its time to dream

What is success? If "A" is success in life, A = X + Y + Z Work is X, Play is Y, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein In this article I am going to critically analyze success according to Albert Einstein's definition. And then look at success in the mindfulness eyes. Why? Because without knowing where to go, you cannot make a complete journey. Albert Einstein is a successful person, right? According to story, he was chased away from his kindergarten class because he was too slow. And I think the reason being, he is a diffuse thinker , that often dream about things he had felt and heard, more often than necessary. Guess what, he has come up with equations, that even less than 0.1% of the population would understand that given a whole life to study. Isn't it a remarkable achievement, and if you would believe that it is, we should clearly dissect his definition of success, to understand how he did it. Albert Einstein https://unsplash.com/@moyse Albert Einstein definition of success A = X + Y + Z X So, to achieve success we need to combine three factors, according to Einstein's equation. First one being A, is work. Working is necessary. And it is obvious factor. If you do nothing, nothing will happen. And there would be no success at all. You can have dreams, but if you keep sleeping on a couch sitting on them, dreams will never come true. Luck is there in universe but for you to attract luck we need to have some forces working toward us, which is the work. Maybe hard work in some cases, maybe smart work in the other. More importantly the relevant work. As you can see there are so many pseudo-works out there which can distract us. In fact, nobody can do nothing. Have you ever tried to do nothing? It is really hard to stay doing nothing. Hence, most of the time we do irrelevant tasks. That is enough for the work. Shake your procrastination and start working is his advice on this. Y Y is play. What is play? Play is being creative in your work. Innovation comes when you are in creative state. Apart from doing old boring routine, even if it is old boring routine you have to start playing. There is no other way. Yes, you can forget play and enjoy 8-5-hour job. But as we all are humans, we will start to get exhausted soon enough and unless there is novelty in your work inherently, you will start to lose your enthusiasm and give up to boredom. More than this to push Forword as a society and individually creativity is a must. This is why I have created some articles in this blog for promoting just this, America is the dream land of creativity and creativity gives you wings. Z Z is keeping your mouth shut. I am sure Albert Einstein meant silence. Why? I have previously written great deal about making friends with silence . This doesn't mean physically not talking. It does mean mentally you are ready to listen. You accept the world as it is and more focus on listening, seeing and feeling things. Guess what, creativity is inherently tied to the silence. When you are silent you will start to notice patterns in the environment and your own mind. These ideas would have never come to your mind unless you are silent. This is why taking a walk matters, relaxing in the silence matters and diffuse thinking matters. Silence https://unsplash.com/@annawangler That concludes Einsteins equation for success. Work + Play + silence. Simple elegant and true. As this blog is about mindfulness, we will look at success from mindful eyes to understand it better. Definition of success from mindfulness. Success is a mental object. Like everything else. When we consider this as a mental object we can notice its properties. Following are few examples to define success. Successful lawyer. Imagine a kid wanted to become a successful lawyer. First, he did not even know about lawyer, as few years back he was a toddler. Then after hearing all the adult stories, and seeing some lawyers, driving near the court, and seeing them in the news in court rooms, he has built a mental object of a "Lawyer" then he adds "Successful lawyer" to his picture. Once this image is fixed in his mind the target is there. Now he has to work and be creative and silent. He goes through everything he has to go through hardships. Work towards the university and become a successful graduate. And join a law firm, and once he become a lawyer, we label him as a successful lawyer. There are many things which have happened during this long process of "successful lawyer" story. His "Successful Lawyer" image also has changed day after day. Sometimes he may never reach this. Although he is successful to the society, in Lawyer society he may be a pretty average lawyer. If his image matches his achievement of course he may be happy too. But most likely he also has some other success images, like healthy relationships, healthy body etc. He may be pretty happy about the path he has taken to become the successful lawyer himself is now. He may have mastered the Einsteins Equation to achieve the Success in his case. But when I look at this scenario from a distance, I also see the absurdity of it. It is all due to information he received when he was young. That of a "Successful Lawyer". If it happened to be a "Successful football player" he would be per-suiting this all his life. And even be successful at this. If he was in a village in Vietnam, he would become a "Successful Monk". It does not mean that we should not pursuit something. It just means that we should be aware of what is happening inside our brains, so we do not get carried away from the imaginary play , which we call life. Rodeo Bull riding - most dangerous 8 seconds of the world. Bull riding https://unsplash.com/@gilleyaguilar In the sports world, Rodeo bull riding considered the most dangerous 8 seconds in the world. These bull riders try to stay on top of the bull holding with one hand and survive 8 seconds. If they do that, they are given marks according to the difficulty and ranked to find the winner. Now, this is not a child's play if you have seen a video. From the moment released to the arena, bulls buck and kick, and most of them would not ride 8 seconds. Some would even never ride again after serious fall, or for even that matter walk. What drives these brave men and women to such a risk? If you look at the process of the "Successful Lawyer". You may understand now, the "Successful Bull rider" philosophy as well. It is all due to the information received by an innocent kid who lived in a ranch. And he saw adults doing this thing called "Bull riding" and became excited about it. Guess what after 15 more years he would become a successful bull rider. We all talk about how he achieved thing, but we never go back the timeline enough to understand what happened in the first place. I think we even might blame him if he seriously injured in the sport. So much so for a mental object. Mindfulness let us observe your own mental objects and understand them. Still, you can be a successful lawyer and be a bull rider. But this time with a great wisdom of how it happened and happening. Let's look back at the Albert Einstein equation to understand what he missed in the first place. Look at the equation again. A = X + Y + Z Can you the error? A, X, Y and Z everything is imaginary. To achieve success, you first have to imagine that there is a thing called "Success" in the first place. I am sure we will get to know this once our wisdom is shining enough in the prison of itself.

Background . I was talking with one of my relatives the other day. And He was in his latter part of life, in retirement. Having saved some money, living a comfortable life, now he is keen on travel. He wanted to visit America, for the second time. To see everything that he had not seen. And we were comparing two perspectives to life. As for myself, being middle aged, I am more focused on not travel, but in saving, as well as understanding what is going in our lives and the purpose of everything. That there was the heart of our problems. You may not understand it but I will elaborate more. As that is truly a million dollar question. Which I think nobody have ever answered with a reliable accuracy, and would change a lives of all eight billion lives of humans on earth if they know the answer. So what is the question? Money : https://unsplash.com/@giorgiotrovato A million Dollar question. Compare two kids were born on the same day at same time, but two different places on earth. Obviously, they has to be two places, as if it is one place, there will be no two humans but one. One, in a well to do, the wealthiest nation on the planet, America, the nation of dreamers. The other one in an average family in India. The American inherited a fortune from his parents and had a good education, became the CEO of his family company and he is at his pinnacle of his career. The Indian, worked hard for a scholarship, Got his degree from university and started his own business, built an emperor himself. Hard work but, now he is as wealthy as the American. Obviously now they are at the same age. Now, let's discuss what are the ambitions of these two people. As we cannot look at every aspect of life, we will look at their travel ambitions. American, wants to travel all around the world. He has been to several countries on business and on vacation. But his ambition on his retirement is to travel every nook and corner of the world where he has not been, and he has a plan laid out by his personal assistant just for this purpose. Indian, wants to travel all around the world, and he is keener to travel to America. Likewise, he has been there on few occasions, and he thinks that he had not seen it all. There seems to be plenty of places which he did not visit. So, that is his ambition. But the American would not even dream of spending most of his retirement in America. It is his country where he has all been. He knows all the news from past few decades. Nothing is there to see. Let's stop there, to find out the million-dollar question. I think I have done a fair job comparing two minds of different people from two different countries. As you can see their status are similar. But their travel ambitions are different. If we look at all the reasons which shaped their travel ambitions, we can point out to some. As an example, the American, one major reason is he is in America, so he wants to travel to the rest of the world. Amount of money he has saved, will decide whether he can travel in a jet, or have to take commercial airliner. And many more. Even magazines he read when he was a child, previous places he had been, advertisements, his personal assistants likes and dislikes. All these have played their part in his future travel plans. Similarly, we can put forward some reasons for Indian's travel plans. Great destination for a vacation: https://unsplash.com/@sotti But what is the common to all of these reasons. It's about their timing. All the reasons which made their current state of affairs in travel ambitions, happened after they were born! that there is the million-dollar question. Their birth has determined the trajectory of their lives. Not in slight, but in great margins this had a bearing on their lives. The question now is "What are the factors which determine their birth?" Million-dollar question - What factors determine circumstances of our birth? This question applies to everything. As every thought which comes to our minds are shaped by our experiences which occurred after our birth. It is important to recognize what determines our place of birth. No matter how much our modern science is advanced, we currently do not have the experimental methods to determine this. This is where philosophy and religion matters . Both of these disciplines try to answer these million-dollar questions with imagination. Which is far from truth. I think this is the hardest question to answer from all the difficult philosophical questions. Even mindfulness cannot answer such questions. But more and more we are mindful in everyday we would be more and more aware such simple unanswered questions exists even in a world where everything is automated. We have never taken a leap from nature, not for a second, we are detached from it. What we think is artificial, is truly born from the natural. Hence, no matter how many stars are replaced by satellites in the night sky, a million-dollar question would remain. And on the day such questions are answered humanity will reach to its true potential pinnacle. Maybe we already knew the answers, but they are hidden among the lies of our own stupidity and greed.

I was walking in the garden When I stumbled upon a rock. Shouting in pain and anger I Picked the rock in a shock Before throwing it away, I took Another closer look. This is what it had to say, In silence I could hear I was mocked. Little boy, little boy I'm sorry to hurt your pinky toe But watch where you are going, let this be a lesson for you although I have seen you watch and grow, since ever I know I can't imagine why you are angry with me, you are same as the people before. You are same as who came before, you are same as before. I have seen your uncles, parents and more I have seen your fathers of fathers ages ago I have seen your ancestors and knocked them also Once you are gone, I will live on to knock your pinky toe of generations to come. Story of a rock. Let's Imagine a small rock, you picked up in your garden. How long do you think it had been here on earth? If you are a geologist, you would know that it is in thousands of years. If you are not, let me explain it to you. If it is not a sedimented rock freshly from the bottom of the sea, or your house is on a volcanic site, it is most likely the rock you picked up is at least 500 million years old. (correct me if I am wrong, geologists are welcome :)) So, it means, the rock you just picked up have seen things, that you can't even imagine, if it had eyes! (Read about rock cycle - wiki link) Things a rock in your garden have probably seen and gone through. (geological time scale of a rock backwards) All your family tree, even untraceable ones Ice age. Birth of mammals Age of dinosaurs, roaming freely in your garden All five great extinctions (" Big five ") Earth with no animals but with only microbes Earth before microbes. So, as one of my friends' words it. "We are just a blip in geological time." It is time for us to think seriously about our existence. We are just in no position to be proud of ourselves. Even when we look at our garden, we can see, nature which outlives our lives. Even as a human race we cannot be proud of ourselves, if we could speak to a simple rock, who would know better than us. I am quite aware that this is an exaggeration mixed with a sense of dramatic, poetic argument. Yet, it is quite a thought. Imagine yourself a hundred years into the future. The rocks in your garden will still be there. And your grandkids will be there to witness it. Or will they be? How sure are you there is no extended killer variant of covid is not there between you and 100 years into the future. Maybe next time some humans see a rock in your garden maybe it's beyond another billion years. So, let's be humble and pay the respect to nature, as we are just children, no more valued than a rock. Let's pay respect to rocks like they deserve it. Thank you for reading: Mocked by a rock - geological time. You may also like to read Story of a gentle giant What will happen if I am immortal?

Sometimes you need to back up to move forward, sometimes you need to slow down. - (From the movie "Happy feet") Can you remember you started to write, or walk or cycle? We were slow, right? But quickly we caught up and fast enough, there was no need to be slow anymore. Nowadays we are so much used to the fast speeds we never think about doing something slow, only faster! We need faster and faster trains, and airplanes, which breaks the barrier of sound. We need seven habits of successful people to be faster in success, we need gigabytes of data to be downloaded in seconds. And we need an umbrella of starlight satellites to do just that. We need that package delivered Now! not tomorrow, Now, just when I think about buying that it should appear on my hand and will file a complaint to Amazon Prime Now. Faster speeds- Tour de France Slow is new fast examples How ridicules to ride a bicycle slowly? You will off balance and fall. Have you ever tried to drive a car slowly? Mind you, it is more difficult than you think, going slow is more difficult than going fast. How about walking? What is the slowest can you run in the park? What is the slowest can you walk? If you haven't tried that trick before I suggest you try today. Select something you often do. Something fast, something monotonous and try slowing down. Try slowing down and you will see things you have not noticed before. The most fascinating thing about slowing down by choice is you start to notice things. If you are walking in the park you will start to see, nice shadows on the path laid there by the sun. Swaying leaves and twigs here and there. You will notice ferns, with dew on them, even the grass will look nice. You will start to notice small flowers in them, tiny ones and even you will stop to bend down to investigate tiny flying insects attracted to them. Grass flowers Do you think that will happen if you were running? Mindful eating example Try eating slowly. 0.5 x speed you do normally. You will smell, and crunch. Your salivary glands will be angry, they will flood the mouth. Tongue will ask you to hurry up and swallow, but do not let in. And you will feel it taste better, or awful. Either way, it is interesting. And I think this will even let you answers to your binge eating habit which made you overweight in the first place. You will find out where the taste is , that it is not in the mouthful in your hand or in the heap on your plate, but only in the mouthful on your tongue Rabbit and tortoise race I am sure there are many more examples. It is unfortunate that we forgot the Rabbit and the Tortoise race. Which otherwise would have been example of real success. But more wonderful would be if the rabbit could also take a journey like a tortoise to see the insights it provides. If you would not believe me, I can add some more credibility to the quote slow is new fast by adding following quote from Confucius. "It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop" I will stop there. Try reading the article slower this time. Find out more meanings you did not understand or skimmed through the first time. Make a list of things you would try do slowly. Make a comment on your new insights on ordinary things. Thank you for reading - slow is the new fast, a mindfulness trick. You may also like reading: What is mindfulness - a simple complete definition For all the birds who can't fly (poem)

Following is a paragraph from the book what is time. Game of life. Three men played a game, on the canvas of time. Rules were set, the audience was there to witness it all. Good and evil were winning. While wisdom played in silence. For a long time, until it becomes a duet. And they shot at each other, stabbed at each other While the audience shook in horror The wisdom disappeared with the prize Into the thin air. https://unsplash.com/@amandagraphc Conway's Game of life. The British mathematician John Horton Conway created the game ‘Life’ in 1970, which is a zero-player game, which depends on its initial state and evolution without further inputs. The game is played on an infinite canvas with cells which have two states either live or dead. The cells interact with neighboring cells by a set of simple rules. Any live cell with two or three live neighbors survives. Any dead cell with three live neighbors becomes a live cell. All other live cells die in the next generation. Similarly, all other dead cells stay dead. By applying these rules over generations, various patterns were observed, like still life, oscillators and spaceships (which moves forward), and in 2013 the first, self replicator was discovered. It is fascinating to see how such simple rules can develop complex architectures which mimic biology in nature. To understand our game of life, we need to understand our rules of the game. How are we going to do that if ever, when all we can do is process information and give an output ( programming to life ). Are we giving enough good information for our machine to understand its own outputs? What is the language these rules are written in? Do you think it's English, Spanish or mathematics? https://unsplash.com/@avkshift Simplicity and complexity- philosophy for life. This is something, which we should be more focused. I can give you loads and loads of examples apart from John Conway's game of life. Think about the English language . It has only 27 letters. However, with these 27 letters I am passing a massage of complex ideas about life and death, in this blog. Every novel ever written in English uses only these 27 letters. Not only fiction, even science and new discoveries, new knowledge build upon 27 letters. Isn't that fascinating to think about? Think about the computer science. In any programming language there are only few words. But these words are used in different combinations to bring out 'Windows' and functioning programs. Even Artificial intelligence, which has the ability to generate new knowledge depends on these few words. Think about our DNA. These microscopic molecules, which are still destroyed with a little heat and pressure, carry information necessary to carry out thousands and thousands of complex biochemical reactions inside our body, to build us from a single cell. Isn't it amazing, just few atoms determine who we are? https://unsplash.com/@nci Think about how a bird fly? Here in this article ( Into the wild blue yonder ) I discuss about how the same question answered by different people. And here, I give the answer given by Richard Fenman. And he will explain complexity that we see is formed by simple rules of nature. I asked Richard Feynman why do birds fly? He was kind. He thought about it and spoke. "Well, I can give you easy answer or I can give you a longer version of it. Easy answer is the force generated by the flapping of wings of the bird is enough to lift its weight against gravity and the forward thrust generated is more than the resistance. So, they fly, my boy that is how an airplane fly. That is how we build our airplanes to mimic the nature. But, if you truly want to know how birds fly, I will say fundamentally it is due to interactions of four forces of nature, Gravity: The force of attraction between masses. Electromagnetism: The force between charged particles. Weak Nuclear Force: Responsible for radioactive decay and neutrino interactions. Strong Nuclear Force: Holds the nuclei of atoms together. That is all there. Anything you see happening is happening due to these interactions. Not only this, but you also ask this question and I answer the question because of these forces. You and I live and die due to same reasons. But as you would understand whatever explanations given to the questions of deep philosophical value, we try to understand them with our current words and language (Even Richard Feynman answer). From 27 letters. But What if there are more simpler rules that nature has. And everything else is manmade? What is a good philosophy for life? Have you ever thought about the rules of the game of life? Or You just play without knowing the rules. Imagine two people argue over an ownership of a piece of land. We argue with our words, those 27 letters. Get angry and kill each other over this. But those were just manmade rules. And you can read about who owns anything , here in this article. Rules of the game of life are simple. And only with the mindfulness we would be able to see them. And they are written everywhere without words, if you look with mindful eye. Let's practice this today .

Background: Brian O'Driscoll is a former Rugby player. In an interview, back in 2009 when asked to give his view on former Lions teammate and current England manager, Martin Johnson ahead of Ireland's Six Nations Championship match against England on 28 February he quoted "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad" https://unsplash.com/@devaldas As you can see this is an example to illustrate the fact that wisdom is superior to knowledge. And it seems wisdom comes with some experience. And for wisdom, to occur multiple sources of knowledge, needs to appear together. As the above example, although tomato is a fruit, it doesn't taste like some fruit. Hence, putting it in a fruit salad is a disaster. But this also can be a relative truth as there can be sweet tomatoes genetically engineered, which obviously can go in a fruit salad. So, we can assume, more knowledgeable a person or a system is, more wisdom it will have. Similarly, we can see this in our AIs nowadays. More and more time experimented with an idea, and more raw data it has, AI can come up with surprisingly new answers nowadays . So, the question remains what is wisdom exactly, and how can we improve this? I can remember the time when I wrote How to program ourselves , I did not know exactly where this fits into the broad topic of mindfulness, wisdom and philosophy. Hence if you read the article now, there would be no links to any of the mentioned above. Now after so many articles, when the lattice of knowledge improves within myself, I can see where exactly it fits in. In the article I discuss why we cannot program our brain, simply because we do not know how the brain works, or the programming language of brain. However, we can assume it functions, same as an artificial neural network in current AI software, as we can see, as the time goes by and new knowledge accumulates, outputs it produces seems to be advanced in nature. Hence, as a conclusion I mentioned that only thing we can do is put in better and better inputs (or pieces of knowledge) hoping that somehow, the AI within us will improve. Now, imagine where to put the wisdom in here. We can put the wisdom as a upgrade in the software, which happens automatically when we put more and more data into the system. And this will generate even better outcomes over time. Just like AI over time. https://unsplash.com/@sajadnori What is wisdom? I would say wisdom is a change in ourselves which alters way we look at the world. Which itself is dependent on correct knowledge that we put into our brain program. When considering mindfulness practice wisdom is the ability to identify errors in our normal routine perceptions. As mindfulness feeds the brain with correct data, and wisdom helps to correct errors in our perception, these are helping each other to shine over time. Let me give an example. Let us look at the fruit salad again. mindfulness <==> wisdom (helping each other) Making a fruit salad. Thats easy, you get some ripe fruit, different kinds of them, cut them into small pieces and put them into a bowel. Imagine you used two mangoes, oranges, apple, banana, pineapple and some other fruit. After making the fruit salad, If I asked you where the apple in it is, you may say, well, I can't show you the whole apple, it is in pieces now. If I ask you where the banana is the answer would be same. But even just before mixing them up. there was not fruit salad, but only pieces of fruit in different bowls. After mixing, suddenly it became the fruit salad. So, the fruit salad is not something which is really there, and it is just a name for the presentation of 'Mixed up pieces of fruit'. If you look carefully at the fact, you will see, everything which is there can be presented as a combination of the others. Hence, this is a fundamental error in our perception, a relative truth. And wisdom is the one which helps us to apply this in different scenarios. https://unsplash.com/@jarritos What is wisdom? -in a fruit salad Not only the fruit salad is a combination. If you have read the article how to eat a mango mindfully. You would see that the taste of the fruit salad is also not something in a fruit salad itself. It is a combination of the tongue and the perception mechanism. Similarly, color of the fruit salad is not something in the fruit salad inherently. This fact is obvious, as if we change an artificial light instead of sunlight, a fruit salad will appear either purple or green. If you close your eyes, or for a blind person , fruit salad is just a smell a feel and a taste. And everything which we earlier thought about a fruit salad seems to be disappearing, when we analyze them in our wisdom mind. So, once proper information given wisdom can start analyzing many more. And it will even analyze even itself. Hence, have the ability to generate new knowledge, by breaking illusion. These are not the only ways, you can see the truths in a fruit salad, really speaking, there is no depth to these relative truths. As each truth we observe can be broken with another argument. How many have you seen today? So, after all, Brian O'Driscoll is true, there is wisdom is really there in a fruit salad. But that is also a relative truth, relative to this mind. How far will you go in wisdom path? Let's start our journey today.

I would say you are lucky. Even if you are happy, sad or euthymic at this point of time, you are lucky and you should smile about it. Do you know how lucky you are? I invite you to read seven reasons. These are not only ones yet, but I am also sure you would appreciate your luckiness once you know them, as there are so many dumb ways to die! Sunflower https://unsplash.com/@weburus Do you know How lucky you are? Between the Nukes We are the generation after the nukes. Although loss of human lives due to nukes became essentially negligible levels after Hiroshima and Nagasaki , rumors of nuclear war kept on until mid 70s, as America and USSR were progressively increasing their nuclear weapons. It started to decline when systems were built to monitor each other's activities through blast wave analysis. Now after good half a century silence we are yet again at a verge of a nuclear war. Which may or may not happen in our lifetime. If it does happen, we would be an unfortunate generation, so let's pray 🙏 not. Even in the past there had been occasions there were tensions high about a nuclear war. Consider the case of Vasili Arkhipov the second in command of nuclear submarine B29 during Cuban missile crisis. In 1962 while they were in depths of the Cuban sea, the submarine was detected by US navy. And they launched depth charges to warn them. However unaware of the situation happening above, the captain of the ship and the political officer thought that the nuclear war has begun and decided they should deploy their nuclear weapons to join in. To launch such without instructions from the front was possible if agreed by all three major officers of the ship by law. And Vasil Arkhipov decided against the launch of nuclear weapons and simply surrendered. They were sent back to Russia and were received humiliation due to their action of surrender. Yet only after 40 years of the incident the truth about what happened at the depths of the Cuban sea revealed to the world and guess what, today Arkhipov is considered a hero. His family was awarded with the first of future of life award in 2017 and in 2002 Thomas S Blanton then director of the US National security Archive commented him as "the man who saved the world." This was not the first or the last time we were on a verge of a nuclear war. As long as countries possess these weapons such fears will be there. Yet we are the lucky generation to live in between the nukes. Luky https://unsplash.com/@mdehevia Era of Antibiotics and drug resistance If you did not know people used to die from infections more than the war in the beginning of the last century. With discovery of benzylpenicillin accidently from the petri dish by Sir Alexandre Fleming the game has markedly changed from a game of death to a game of survival. Some would say if he didn't someone would fifty years later. But imagine what would have happened if it was the case. Even you and me might not be there to work out why we are the luckiest ones on planet as our parents would not survive an attack of pneumonia or appendicitis. So, antibiotics play a huge role in modern medicine. That is not the complete story of antibiotic era. You may or may not have come across the drug resistance. And this is becoming a huge problem globally as the microorganisms develop mechanisms to avoid harmful effects of antibiotics we are running out of options. Luckily it is not the dooms day yet and we are lucky that the great barrier against tiny monsters still holds on. So, the miracle of antibiotics is the second reason to why we are lucky. Information highway This is inevitable consequence of modern development. More than anything information is free and accessible for everyone. You do not have to step into a library ever, when consider Wikipedia. Smartphones and laptops have revolutionized how we trade and work. And we have gone paperless a decade ago. The bad effect is the addiction . We are addicted to unnecessary information more than ever and struggle to keep the dream world out of the reality as they are blended together. But we are the lucky ones, our children not so much. We were born and raised in an era of no screens. So, our childhood is packed with memories of nature. We used to enjoy the clouds or the grass without taking a photo and making it a virtual reality. We used to climb trees do not photograph them. However, our kids are stuck in the confinements of a 3x4 inch screen. I find it hard to watch when they struggle to see the beauty of a bird or a butterfly. Their creativity is killed the moment they come out of the labor room. So, you are lucky to see the best of both worlds and adapt. Democracy We talk about kings and queens of the past and proudly stand to back up the stories. Yet when thought about it rationally I am glad to be born in the era of democracy. Stories were written about kings and queens, but what about all the stories of lives which lived under their rules. They are not written anywhere and why? I'm sure it is due to suppression oppression and dictatorship. Giving one man or a woman a power over life is stupid as it is like shaking hand with the devil. Human consciousness is a potential, I would say rather a dangerous one even. It will start to spoil itself with power and soon any innocent rabbits will start to skin wolves in no time. So, democracy is a blessing. I can freely write, educate myself. And travel anywhere in the world except to the places where democracy is replaced by dictatorship . Wolf https://unsplash.com/@marcojodoin Creativity and innovation Maslow's hierarchy of needs Creativity and innovation flourish today in the world more than any other era. It is encouraged by democracy and empowered by economy and information highway. There are many lands of creativity. People are becoming more and more aware of importance of it. We just have to look at the SpaceX if we need some examples. This has created atmosphere that you should start building a rocket and every country has responded with their own creativity. It is easier than ever to build a team of multinational enthusiasts of the same objective. Not only in rocket science, in mindfulness, philosophy, biology or geology this is true. Do you know why? Why we build more and more new gadgets? If we consider science, we can say this is an indirect measure that the world is becoming a better place to live with all the basic needs are met. Imagine our parents. They stared dreaming about a future when they are relaxed on their couch in the afternoon, away from their work, away from burden of responsibilities and with a full stomach. That there is what the Maslow's hierarchy suggests. People seek creativity and wisdom and love ❤️ only when they are fulfilled their basic needs. This is obvious when I see my articles are read by many from the affluent countries while everyone else in third world countries is struggling to seek some cash. So, we are lucky to have creative opportunities and innovative minds. But with mindfulness we can see that is not the full story of innovation. Innovation is backed by our greed for the better future, hence someone's suffering . This is why patents are in place that it is the suffering that you are paid for later. Optimal Environment I know you have complaints on this. Maybe you just recovered from couple of hurricanes if you are in Florida. For that matter in south Asia. Maybe your igloo is getting melted down due to global warming. And sea erosion due to sea level rising is washing away your Neighbours house. Yet I would say climate had never been better. We didn't have mega scale eruptions or asteroids which potentially wipe us all from the map. We had been doing our tiny humanoid things, battles and monument building since the roman era. So yes, even with the global warming I would say the weather had never been better globally. Even global warming can be a saint in disguise. As creative minds are looking for ways to send a rocket using sunlight, or renewable energy, we might just do that in the future. And we might restore optimal weather with artificial rains on African deserts. There can be improvement, which can restore the great barrier reef. But as of today, weather had been good. There is no flooding rain. You can still go out with an umbrella. Plenty of puddles for kids to jump around. Afternoon might be sunny, and you may see fresh blossoms of buttercups in the park. It has been good weather not only today but for thousands of years which had essentially let us evolve peacefully from monkeys to neanderthals. So yes, it still shitty rains but I have no complaints. Weather https://unsplash.com/@sixstreetunder Consciousness. Not only we have disappeared our tails, but our collective consciousness has also evolved too. You may say no, I am a single entity. But I would say no you are a part of a bigger scheme. Part of collective human consciousness, individually trying to push a boundary. Elon musk would second the statement as he is trying to make it multiplanetary. Because of all the above lucky reasons human consciousness have more time and opportunity to climb the ladder to the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and look for a meaning of life. Our religions have evolved due to repeated questioning even priests start to think about the sanity of what they preach and look inside. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens -Carl Jung. So, everyone starts to think about looking inside to look for answers. Hence philosophy and mindfulness flourish. And if we keep everything at this rate half of human race would become seekers in near future. And I consider this as lucky. If everything which did not happen, I would have never heard about mindfulness and philosophy and mechanisms of suffering and possible solution of peace . And I think you too are lucky. As you are reading now. So, let's be thankful to our lucky reasons and start looking inside for answers, or the questions.

Telos of life. (meaning) This is the third article on meaning of life or less commonly called Telos. In the first two articles we explored meaning of life from the Kung Fu panda and story of camels . As introduction to this article, we should think about why a person looks for a meaning of life in the first place. I started searching a meaning of life, because of problems of life. So far it seems life is just trading problems . For an old set of problems, we just trade new set of problems, and we feel happy about our trades. Sometimes we value set of problems over other set of problems. As an example, people generally value an "Engineers" set of problems more than a "Teachers" set of problems. If you are a spiritual person, you might value a "Priest's" set of problems over a "Marine's" set of problems. But when we look at life from a distance, we do understand the life is a tragedy in close up but comedy in long shot . Knots https://unsplash.com/@kristianstrand Who needs Knots. Generally, everyone. You will need a knot for your tie. And a girl would braid her hair and put a knot. A surgeon would use a handful of them reef knot, Aberdeen knot, or a roaders knot. A sailor on the other hand would know a great deal of knots. If you are a scout, you may have received a badge for knotting. You can list many more, but you get the point. We cannot get away from knots. And more than anyone mathematicians would know about knots. They have their own Knot theory, which represents all the knots we have seen in life and many more types. And applications of knot theory are vast, from fluid dynamics to best way to keep your headphones so they do not get knotted. If you google knot theory, the Wikipedia introductory article would be more than 5000 words! that is how big the knot subject is. But that is not the focus in our article. As you already know it is about application of simple wisdom to our lives. no Knots. In knot theory there is something called "No Knot" simply this is a circle. But if you get a lengthy thread and put one part over the other again and again, you could make a something like a knot. Although simply this is not a true knot. So, it is still a "no Knot". If you have been to a magic show you may have seen magician doing tricks with knots. One such appeared to tie a knot around someone's neck and later pulled out as it was a "no Knot". Sometimes we do tricks with our friends using a rubber band and use this principle of "no Knot". That's a lot to take in about knots and no Knots. But let's move onto life instead. Knots of life - Problems - mindfulness. In life we see lot of problems. If we imagine these are like knots, there are many of them every day. We try to solve them day in and day out even in our dreams. However, if you understand knots and no knots, the first thing, we have to figure out solutions is to identify whether there is any knot at all. How are you going to figure out knots from no knots? The key is the mindfulness. When you start observing your life events, problems and yourself (The observer) you may figure out some of the knots in life are no knots at all. As an example, let's imagine you worry about your future exam. You panic and cannot even concentrate. Then you take a walk. Maybe in a park and after being mindful about your breath, your walk and your environment you have clarity on what to do. When a blank space is created in your mind ideas would come. And you will realize, exam is never the problem, your constant worrying thoughts about it is the problem. Hence, no Knot. This is why it is said that "Biggest mountains are created in the mind" The horse tied to a plastic chair. Horse tied https://unsplash.com/@rsanchescarvalho Have you seen the grown horse tied to a plastic chair. It seems amazing the majestic beast who could easily take down a grown human when tied to a plastic chair stays still. Without moving and trying to run away. There is no knot, no problem, yet from the mind's eyes of the horse it is tied to his chair, which is a huge problem for the horse. One other way to look at these kind of pseudo problems is by imagining life five years after today. Imagine five years before. Surely you may have had lot of problems back then. Now where are they? Can you write down ten of your problems that you had back then? They are gone, even memories of these problems. You may think they are gone because you have solved them. But I would tell otherwise, not all of them were problems. You may have solved a few. But others have disappeared. And I am sure in five years to the future, current problems will disappear, and I would have new set of problems to worry about and solve. Mindfulness does not let us stay there. It let us observe every problem in our lives and shows the true nature of life. True nature of life is just like Statue of David hidden in a marble. Perfect in every sense and without any problems. Evident by the kids who plays in the ground. The problems are the Knots we have created on our own using a No Knot. Let's observe life more and more to gain enough wisdom so the natural peace is unearthed. Telos (meaning) of life is to understand the No Knot in your Knot.

Buffalo Wisdom. Once upon a time there was a buffalo. As all the buffalos in stories, this buffalo also could speak! He used to drag carts, like they do in ancient India. This buffalo was very good at it. And he made a fortune for his owner. His owner was an intelligent, wise fellow. He paid the buffalo well, and took care of him well. They lived happily helping each other until one day the buffalo stopped working hard. Owner thought about it, and the buffalo seems to be distracted for few days. He used to sit in the field day dreaming about something. And the owner thought maybe he was sick. And asked the buffalo if that is the case, he did not speak. It seem he did not want to speak. The owner followed him next day from morning and saw that there was a good looking cow, grazing in the neighboring land. The Buffalo is having a Crush! Owner smiled to himself and next day decided to speak with the Buffalo. https://unsplash.com/@ajeetpanesarphotography Owner : I saw a Cow yesterday in the other field did you see that? Buffalo : O... Yes I did. Owner : It seemed a nice cow. For a buffalo Like you. Buffalo : Do you think so? Do you think she would like me? Owner : Yes, why not. You are the biggest and richest buffalo in the district. Why do you think she wouldn't like you. She would be a foolish cow if she didn't Buffalo : I hope so. Owner : Listen my friend, If you want I could ask her owner, and get you married to the cow. Buffalo : Oh that is wonderful. Would you do that? Owner : Of course I would, anything for a friend. Buffalo : Great, thank you. You are the best. Owner : So, after you married you will have lot of calves I am sure of it. Buffalo : Will I? Owner : Yes that is how it happens. It happened to me. Look at me with three children! Buffalo : Hmmmm.. Owner : But you know. I cannot pay you more. Cause you are doing your maximum work now. You cannot work extra. So you will have to split your salary for your cow and calves expenses. Buffalo : I did not think that far. Owner : Nobody thinks that far. Buffalo : So, you mean when I have a family I would be less well fed for the same amount of work. Owner : That is how the world works my friend. Buffalo : In that case, I think I will stick to my current lifestyle for some time more. Owner : It's your choice friend. I just gave you the facts! Buffalo wisdom summary That is the story. At the first glance it seems the owner in this case is cunning. He seemed to change the mind of the buffalo for his gain. But sometimes he may have said everything from his heart. Anyway, he was the married one. So, he should know more about married life than the buffalo. Let's leave the facts there and discuss some important philosophy, about how we solve our problems. https://unsplash.com/@withluke How do we solve problems -Trading problems. Trading problems was the buffalo's method of problem solving. For the boredom and the feeling of love, without thinking the buffalo wanted to solve this by marrying a cow. However, only when he sees the problems of marriage life he decided to do otherwise. Of course, the buffalo has no choice, other than either having married problems or having unmarried problems. Either way he himself would know which set of problems is better. The real problem is trading his unmarried problems to the married problems is irreversible. Often would end up in disaster, and divorce with broken hearts and deserted calves. Have you thought about how do we solve problems? More often what we are doing is trading our problems. Imagine you are poor. And you live eating one meal per day and working hard to meet the ends of your responsibilities. And you are determined to be successful. You save little bit of money each day and then start a small business, and later in few years of time you become a big businessman ( like the fisherman ). Now you have enough to eat, and you get obese. Become a diabetic, due to lack of physical activity. You have taxes to pay. And you have worries that your employees are stealing from you. You do not have time to look at your kids and your young beautiful wife started an affair and filing for a divorce, with claiming half of your life earnings! In an alternate universe, we can imagine this time you do nothing to overcome your poverty. You remain poor. Yet you work hard to teach your kids. You try to make them better human beings. You educate them. You be with them and teach them values of the world. And guess what they become successful instead of you. They marry equally successful partners and leave the country. Now you are all alone at home. Although they send you money for your treatment and everything, they have no time to visit you. Not as often as you want. After considering all the possibilities, in another universe you decide to be selfish this time. Like a buffalo. You decide, I am not going to help with kids. I am going to let them rotten and do my work instead. I am going to have fun, doing everything fun. From drugs to prison. Guess what, your kids follow your path and they also become criminals. And you meet your son in the prison, and even bigger criminal than you. At this point you can stop me and ask. Well, that's not true. Can anyone be both successful and happy? There can be better outcome. I cannot agree more. As above is just to illustrate the fact that how we solve our problems, it is like trying to sleep the camels . About 99% of the time this is what we do. This is what I have done. Look at your life and mentally comment about your own life. It doesn't matter. If at one point you feel great about your life, those are momentary. Only immediately after when we trade one set of problems with another, we feel great about it and soon we start solving new problems. If you ask any successful entrepreneur, it is hard work. It is hard work to be successful. And even more to stay on top. https://unsplash.com/@willythewizard More ways to solve problems - Mindfulness wisdom. There is one more way to solve problems. That is to get to the root cause . Or question the problem itself. This is the mindfulness way. For this to happen just being mindful about your day-to-day function is not enough. You have to learn how the mind works and see where real problems come from. You have to understand the world, the duality of nature and time . Once you have gained enough wisdom you can go back to the question and find out what really went wrong in the first place. And only brave men and women would be able to seek this truth. I will give you example. Easy one. Instead of thinking about the future, what the buffalo in our story could have done was to ask the question why he was feeling unhappy. He should have noticed that there is love. He should have asked the question what is love ? Why did he get it. In his case he felt it only because he saw the cow. He saw the cow only because he had eyes to see that and a mind to contemplate it. It is not the cow's fault. It is not his fault either. Could he have not felt love when he saw the cow? No, he could not, it was not by choice. So, why should he bother about something he had nothing to do with? He should have asked the question why my friend the Owner is not in love with the cow? Why he is a human and I am a buffalo? Why should I work for a salary? Instead of one future, he should have thought about hundreds of different possible futures and see the absurdity of it. I am sure the buffalos would never ask such questions. I do not blame them. But we on the other hand have no excuses.

The little Match Girl. 1845 My childhood was full of happy memories. Of course I did cry just like any other child. Yet I can remember times I was happy was more than times I cried. And for some tears, and laughs the responsible person was Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). Yes, this famous Danish Auther who lived a century ago even before I was born was the reason for my tears as a child. And who first really taught me, that the world is not what it seems like in a child's dream, and there are exceptions. There are things which are irriversible, and there are pains, which are never gonna go away. I still have a pain in my heart for "The little Match Girl" who died by the window. Hans Christian Andersen has about 156 stories to his name, written in his nine volumes of fairy tales. I am sure, more than half of the children in the world are going to hear his stories, as these were translated to thousands and thousands of books, written in more than hundred languages, and cartoons and films. There is no house without a little book of "Ugly duckling", "Thumbelina" or "The princess and the Pea". His stories were so popular that they reached us kids in far corners of the world, in cartoons in early 90's even before youtube and internet became a sensation. Story of little match girl, was about a small poor girl who was trying to sell maches on a Freezing new years eve. She was going everywhere, to sell some matches, pleading everyone to buy with her feable voice. Bearheaded and on barefoot, she sees the well warmed rooms of affluent children, and their cristmas eve through windows. Except for the first few mintues of the cartoon, I was literally crying till it ended. Even a preschool child would understand it is not going to end well for the little match girl. " Death " for a child is not even a concept, as they would even happily play under a coffin. But the process which lead to the Death of the little match girl was hard to bear. That was something preventable. I was angry with everyone who did not listen to her cries when she was alive. After her failing attempts of selling matches, she ends up under a window, burning match after match, and with the little warmth it provides, she desperately tries to connect with her dead mother. And finally with the last match ends up in ash, she joins her, leaving the cruel world behind. As of writing this, I cannot do it with tears. Why did he do that? Did he enjoy making children cry? But from a corner of my heart, I am writing this with gratitude as Hans Christian Andersen did open up the door of empathy in my heart as a child. I would never be able to close that door until I forget the little match girl. The Emperor's new cloths. 1837 by Hans Christian Andersen My little ones have found, "The Emperor's new cloths". They asked me to read the story, and this brought back all the memories, as I knew it was written by my famous childhood auther. Now, the plot of the story is so hilarious that they were giggling throughout. I am sure you have heard the story before. Because it has a significant bearing on what I am going to talk about next on philosophy, I will just remind the story in case if you have forgot about it. The Emperor, who loved wearing new cloths was fooled by two men. They had promised to weave the best gramourous costume, and told the emperor that, this cloth will only be seen by true intelligent people. Not the fools. And after just bogous acting that they were making a new cloth, they just fooled the Emperor to wear "Nothing". Nobody wanted to agree that emperor wears nothing, as nobody wanted to agree that they were not intelligent. Apperently the weavers had hacked the natural weakness of humans, which is called their Ego. King had even taken a parade, naked, in front of men and women of whole kingdom, yet nobody spoke. Guess what, it was only a child atlast who shouted the King is naked. And the weavers by that time was nowhere to find. As a child I never understood the full potential of the story. Only half of it. What is the true moral of the story? We can just say, that we should not be fooled by such stupidity. We should speak truth about what we see. It is not clear what is the moral of the story at a glance. But, I am sure one person who would tell the answer and that is non other than great Dr. Seuss with Thing 1 and Thing2 , who is the Other great storyteller, compared to Hans Christian Andersen. Philosophy of Emperor's New Cloths. If you asked the question, why only the child who was able to see the naked King. Someone would say not. Everyone saw the naked king but only the child spoke about it. This is parital truth. Imagine yourself in the situation as an adult and as the child. If you see your king on a big parade naked, and everyone else is agreeing that he is wearing a glamorous costume, I am sure you also would keep silent. You see more than a "naked Man". For you he is the "King". He has the power to destroy your life, not only for you but all your family members and even ancestors. More than your ego, it is the fear that would make you not speak. So we can assume you saw more than what your child did. Compare this to the child. He only saw, a "naked Man". Barely a king. Even if he recognised the man as a king, he would not know this "King" is gonna kill your family because of what you say. So, this is why children behave as children. They do not see additional information that an adult see. But the problem here is both the child and the adult see the same thing. So, we can assume, what we see is altered by the information we have recieved previously. In this case, everyone was being "rational" but the child's vision was more closer to the truth than the adult, as it is not clouded by thoughts. I have discussed about this phenomena in the famous quote by Harper Lee. " People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for " There is a little more depth I would like to take you from here and take you to Socrates. Let's get our principle correct. We argued that Adult's vision is more distorted as he has more information to consider. However, child is more closer to the truth atleast in the above case of Emperors cloths. But, if a child is more closer to the truth, can you guess who is even more closer to the truth? That would be a toddler. What a toddler see is even more closer to the truth than a child, because he even not see a "Naked man". He would see a "Human (man or women)" or even a "moving thing". If we go back step further, a neonate would see a "thing". What about a child who was born one day ago? That child would see Nothing. As there is no prior information stored to compare He would see nothing. If our logic is true in this case which is "When we go back on the timeline of consiousness , we are more closer to truth". A day old baby is more closer to the truth. Yet, we understand that a day old child would see nothing in this world. What does this tell you about philosophy of truth? Only conclusion I can come is a child would see nothing on the day one on earth is because "Actually there is nothing". That is the true nature of the world. Every "thing" that we think is there is some creation of our own mind. And guess what who understood this truth. Great Socrates. " Only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing " Most difficult journey of someones life is, breaking their own illusion to see, what the child saw on the day one of their life. That is the true meaning of being mindful .