Puss in boots wisdom - story of success

Who bakes a best cake? Story of success

Reality shows took us in a storm. It started a couple of decades ago, one after the other, and even cooking became a reality show. There was no suprise in that as most of our lives are spend on thinking about food and sex, which is the fundemental genious trap of the mother nature to capture our consciousness in making what she wants. Only some philosophers like you and me wants to challenge this and ask what is the meaning of life? Again and again. Hence I have been writing a lot about nothingness and valuelessness of the nature. And somebody might even think I am against success and growth. If you have doubts, ask yourself, if magical mindful living is against growth why we have built a blog with 300 pages and it keeps growing?

Baking a cake: https://unsplash.com/@cottercrunch

On cooking contests

Let's get back to the question. Imagine a cooking show. Where the contestants are given chance to chose their own ingredients, and utensils. Asked to bake a cake. Whom do you think will cook the best cake? It depends right? But what I can say is it is not always the one with best ingredients. It's not the one with too much sugar. Not the one with too much salt either. It is the one with the best balance and best talent even in making the proper fire matters. Hence there is a saying which goes "It is not the one with best ingredients bakes the best cake" and that is true.

So in the story of success the ingredients  matters less, what matters most is the effort. And this is the puss in boots wisdom.

Puss in boots in a fancy dress

Remember Puss in Boots?

Remember the famous children story we learnt when we were kids. The youngest child only inherited a cat, while elders had a barn a field and a house. A cat worths nothing, you cannot milk a cat, you cannot plough a field. Proud little animal. But what mattered at the end was not where the cat started but creating opportunities. The cat created opportunities along the way. It was even intelligent to use the transformative power of the giant for its advantage. Ended up owning a palace and even more successful than his siblings.

Similarly, when we look at our opportunities we often see they are limited. Yet what is limited is our vision about life. Life is a potential. There are no limits to life. Whatever boundaries were created by ourselves, or our ancestors, only exist in our minds. And moment you understand this you are free to investigate the life the way you prefer.

And it doesn't matter what is the method you use. It can be through music, mathematics or philosophy. It can be boolean, imaginary or nihilistic. As fundamentals of everything is nothingness, nothing will be lost, and nothing will be free. The mind which crave music will still be free as the same mind which craves silence. As both of them harbour peace at its core.

Mangroves with flowers

Mangrove with flowers

As an example, look at that mangrove covered in flowers. Did you see how beautiful it is? Or did you only see the plastic bags scattered around it. If you see only the plastic bags, and gave it a negative value. You will end up in sadness. If you see flowers and the plant instead you can be happy. And if you see nothingness in both, I can assure you you will get wiser and you will keep your mouth shut when an environmentalist start shouting at a capitalist. Neither you will live in a illusionary dream of flowers like a Naturalist. More importantly you would see what is happening in everyone's mind. And opportunity will be there, for you to gain. Just like me who wrote a paragraph on an insignificant mangrove and half a dozen of plastic bags!

It is the same stupid game that we played when we were kids, same imaginary rules. So once you know its imaginary opportunity is everywhere as humans posess the power of creation. Just like me Just like everyone.

What do you waiting for?