If we consider a snake, over time, it gets a new skin, and its old skin dies. Its not easy for the snake to get rid of the old skin. It has to wriggle through rocks and narrow spaces and put in considerable effort to get rid of the old skin. Its quite uncomfortable – a biological process called molting.
If the snake’s skin is a metaphor for the habit patterns of our mind, a human being may hardly ever molt. (more…)
If we consider a snake, over time, it gets a new skin, and its old skin dies. Its not easy for the snake to get rid of the old skin. It has to wriggle through rocks and narrow spaces and put in considerable effort to get rid of the old skin. Its quite uncomfortable – a biological process called molting.
If the snake’s skin is a metaphor for the habit patterns of our mind, a human being may hardly ever molt. (more…)
Bangalore — Sanjay Mysoremutt, 36, died Thursday, June 2, 2011 at Bangalore. He leaves among others, his almost 4 year old jovial son, his affectionate wife, his caring mother and sister, family around the globe and many wonderful friends. He was, arguably not to an unreasonable extent, a gluttonous, slothful, inconsiderate, indifferent, professionally complacent, hypocritical, self-centered fellow, driven by an incessant need for attention and self-gratification. Finally, the miserable bastard kicked the bucket, good riddance! 😉
On June 3rd, some fellow was born and by a wild coincidence had a striking resemblance to the same late Sanjay. Though somewhat over the hill aged 36 to start with, and still haunted by the ghost of his previous existence. there appeared to be remote possibilities that he’s a somewhat better version with a few bug-fixes. He is (relatively) more deeply committed to living an uncluttered, contributive life true to his own heart, and to the pursuit of happiness defined by the harmony of what one thinks, says and does.
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Ha ha I hope I haven’t sounded too callous about myself – on the contrary I love life and myself – selfishness, slothfulness and all. I more or less consider myself and each person on the planet, as some internet video had said – ‘perfectly imperfect’ 🙂 However I do wish it was so easy to die each day and be born fresh the next day. I’ve found that a minimum of once a year is a very worthwhile, invaluable consideration!
Yesterday evening’s rain was phenomenal – they were the strongest winds I’d ever seen. From our 10th floor the view of the neighbouring building looked like a waterfall, with water flowing horizontally, it was an amazing sight!
I had closed our window because the water usually comes in through it, but I had not known that my wife had opened them later again so that my office gets some fresh air. So later after we were down enjoying the view of the rain and dancing in the balcony with our son, I returned to my office and let out a shout! One of my office laptops (Acer Aspire 5520) was soaked!
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Walkers amidst the greenery
Newton’s Third Law states that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This may be easy to see for simple situations where I apply force on this keyboard and it gets depressed, resulting in the letters appearing on this screen. But in more complex things – what is the exact cause of any particular situation – for example a headache?
Usually this is true for most of us. In school days we had the most fun – because we learnt the most! Not just in the classrooms (of course some classes were pretty boring! 😉 ) but everywhere else as well. We learnt new games like cricket and football and then we learnt how to bat and bowl better, we learnt how to tackle and kick (and also swear 😉 ) better! Learning was always playful… it was continuos learning all the way!
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In 2001, some stranger I had a chance encounter with told me of a 10 day camp residential camp. Out of curiosity I found out more about it eventually – that it has a rigorous daily timetable from morning 4 AM to night 9:30 PM sort of like a prison! After all the procrastination I finally made it in Oct 2001.
In the course of the camp, I realised that I had unknowingly been like a prisoner in the world all along, and now I really felt much more free! 🙂
I’m discovering this more and more out day by day nowadays! Feeling more alive, invigorated, useful, contributive, affectionate, caring – than ever before.
Still a lot more to work on my integrity – which I’m rediscovering is the basic foundation behind everything. Will write in more detail as things settle down.
What if one had a Nexus/iPhone or some hi-tech sophisticated phone…
and only used it to make phone calls…?
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