A Wednesday morning. A delightful, casual, clean day of the week. As the sun rises, common populace wonder out from their hideouts to overcrowd the streets. Groups of children dressed in white following steps of their parents and teachers to the school. And teachers distinctively dressed to contrast themselves from students walk at a slower stern pace with straight necks. Streets full of vehicles of middle class debt owners, creating traffic jams at cross roads. Lawyers crossing the road dressed in white shirts, and black overcoats, resembling the truth that they try to reveal or conceal on the witness stand. Hospitals, shops, factories of cooperates attracting crowds like gigantic magnets in junkyards, imitating beehives or anthills. Crowded district Through this mass mess you travel towards your workplace and wonder what's all with this. It feels like a whimsical dream. Where and why all of these crowds move? Deluded by stories made by their ancestors and peers. They wear trousers shirts and belts, golden glistening ornaments that appreciated by others who belongs to same clan. Without a clue to why and how and what is their purpose. Isn't this another cycle of growth and prosperity of baptised penguins? You wonder into the deep chasms of philosophical argument of Anatolie Frances novel "Penguin Island", while experiencing the clothed cultured flock of pengiuins first hand. Story of a freedom Nut The car you're driving speeds in suburbs 40km per hour. Just like the growth of the society, riding the exponential curve. Yet you realise you're just a nut, plain, metal, dirty nut, inside the engine, holding one piece of metal glued to the frame. Nut has nothing to do with the movement, yet nuts together with other pieces makes movement possible. A nut is not independent, although it can dream about freedom, and write about it. Yet if a nut wishes to be free, there is no choice but to step out of the car, which will halt any movement or progression. As far as other nuts concerned from that point onwards, a freedom nut would cease to exist. He will be replaced by a similar nut. And nobody would stop to be with the nut who decided to step out of the car. You imagine yourself desserted by the moving car by the road side. Getting rusty by the weather and falling into eternal boringness of the still universe. Not wanting happiness You feel like the solo nut who chose to stay still. Once you chose to stay and watch, you see the illusion of movement and its absurdity. You label it as "Not wanting Happiness". It is like you have got ridden of the parasite of success within you forever. Wanting movement and reaching destinations had been the way of your problem solving for ages. "Not feeling wants" is your new definition of life. Who cares about the pile of files on your desk today, that you have to archive. Who cares about dirty laundry you have to do today after work. Who cares about hunger or thirst or you'd die by the road in five days. Even if you do, during those five day you'd still be free of wantings. There would be no wanting or not wanting to make a living, be happy, or be a legend. Pure existence in its natural form, without a will to carry on it will cease to exist like decayed lost nut.

Silence Oh. I have been running away from you You have been my guidance, to eternal peace it's true When the words play the game of life, on the sandy beaches of mind She gave me the strength to fly away like a wind for a cloud in the sky Why you should visit the beach Reason 1: Because it takes courage to look at the sky. For an ordinary man, or a woman, it takes courage to look at the sky. Remember when we were kids, there was never a day that we did not spot an eagle or a cloud. Now, when we are pressed in between our work and responsibilities there is never a time to look at the sky. But the beach, at the beach you even do not have to look at the sky. The sky meets the ocean at the horizon, even if your neck is fixed with a stable gaze parallel to the ground, you would be able to see the sky and the clouds. Often, I find without an effort the eyes start to drift towards the sky looking for those lost clouds. https://unsplash.com/@pedropiteiramonteiro Reason 2: Watching the waves. It is fun to watch the waves. Do not believe me? I have written a whole article on watching the waves and learning life lessons from this. However, even without life lessons you can just watch the waves. Longer you look at them you will notice they convey the same message as drifting clouds up above. Life is a buoy on a wave. It ups and downs with happiness. Memories fade away like footsteps of strangers on the beach. If you would come back tomorrow even the sandcastles would not be there. I still do feel like a kid playing on the beach, making castles- real ones, only hoping that they would not wash away with time. Reason 3: End of the land. If you want to run away from life, you should run away either into a library or to the beach. If you run into a library, you would improve your vocabulary and come out as a poet one day. If you run away to the beach like when the forest gump did, you would learn the lesson of life. You will learn the lesson of life that there is no place to run away. Nobody lives in the sea, not for long. So, there you will have to turn back. At the beach, you can feel all your problems, all your memories are just behind, on the land. You are at the edge, at the unknown future. Spend some time there, and it will clear your head. It will make you just a little bit wiser a man when you return to your problems back again. Reason 4: Plenty of life. On a busy Sunday, there would be plenty of people, at the beach. You may not seek this company, but I am sure you will still find a peaceful corner. Even if you did not, you can just stay at a one place and watch. You will start to notice, the people, they come and go, come and go like ants. You will start to notice, the sea, remains the same, the sandy beach remains the same, and you and the sky remains the same. There you will find peace, when you are a constant, not a variable in the picture. Do you know who else will be there on the beach? Crabs. Plenty of them. So, truly speaking you can never be alone on a beach. You will have to share the beach with plenty of other life, human or not. If you are an animal lover, you may find many both in the water and on the sand. It might make you smile, a crab crawling out fast before the next waves hit, or spotting a fish in the shallow water. You do not have to do snorkeling or diving, to see life as it is. A pair of good eyes and a childish curiosity is handy. https://unsplash.com/@sotti Reason 5: Golden hour rush Sun is soft, when it just pops up from the far horizon, in the early morning hours. Just like a little child, who smiles and dance innocently, the sun would play some time until it passes into teenage times and into the youth at noon. Like the miracle of life, just to be soft again in the evening, before it hides from our sight. Again, at the end of its death, the sun would be soft, clam and be innocent like a child, forgetting all the havoc it played when it was a bright silver star in midday. Take your time to go through all of it, never in a rush to leave, otherwise you will miss it. Reason 6: natural fan - the breeze The wind at the beach is a natural fan. You can fly a kite even if it is not meant for flying. However, what I like most is how it plays on my face and the body. The wind will touch your face like it does touch on your dog, when it peeps out from the window when you drive it to the wet! Did you see the smile on the eyes of the dog? You really do not have to jump from a 1000m cliff, to feel the breeze, risking your life. At the beach, the feeling would be provided even if you are stationary with zero risk. Try it next time, and smile to yourself when it tosses your hair. Reason 7: natural mindfulness Just like the breeze, the mindfulness is natural on places like beach. Just like James Clear claims in his TEDx talks, changing your environment changes our habits. One thing I noticed when I am at the beach is there is no place in mind, for any hazy thoughts. Just like the ships clearly visible on the horizon, each thought which appears in mind beach is clearly visible when I am at the beach. It has nothing to do with my effort. Because I never try to be mindful at the beach. So, it must be natural. It must be nature doing it. So, if you are finding difficult to start on mindfulness awareness, I suggest try the beach on your next vacation. Or this afternoon if you are close by. That concludes my 7 reasons why you should visit the beach. What are yours?

I was lately frustrated with google. When I search for something, I never got correct answers to the problem but slightly different version of it. Most of the time the top page is covered with How to do it articles with a list of ten twelve rubbish steps. The way I see it these articles are not for human read. They are manufactured for the Google to read! I think now I have some answers to the problem why? Problem: Why can't Google answer my question, instead leads to rubbish? I never even understood that there is a problem until I started my blog. The reason, for me to start this blog was I did not find answers to my questions in the google. I saw it as an opportunity. But after writing about 120 articles, now I have an idea why I did have this problem. Google is a very efficient in answering our questions right. I would say no. It may have been, but it loses its human touch lately and that is apparent in its search results. If you would not agree, try something. Try searching for something you are interested in. How many times you get some interesting article to read about. To me the experience was not good. Sometimes I did type "Where to find interesting things to read" Because Google has become so boring lately. Are you frustrated with google too? Good old days Remember good old days Google. When Google was operated by bunch of enthusiastic humans and all the articles on the internet were written by experts. What did the experts had in mind when they did write articles? Their mind was thinking about the reader. They wanted to give you the experience they exactly had. And most of the time they were successful too. But no more. Nowadays articles on google or vast majority of them are written not by experts who want to put something new on the table, but some low-quality content written by not so experts who have Google as their target reader. Yes, they only have Google in their minds when they decide to write articles, It is not about the reader anymore. The 'Reader is just a money-making machine for everyone on the other side of the curtain' And 'Google' for them is just a fool. How is Google Fooled to value rubbish articles? You may ask, does it work that way. I would answer 'Yes my friend it pretty much does'. That is why you may feel frustrated when searching google Doesn't provide you with answers. When I write my articles, I have to do 'Search Engine Optimization' each and every time. What does I have to do? I have to find bunch of keywords people type in the Google search and stuff my article with high volume keywords. And this will destroy user experience as when I write my article I must do it. Otherwise, you will never come across this article and be able to read it (The Process of ranking articles). How unfortunate? Even, this article I may have to re-edit several times to show Google, it is good enough to be read by humans. The sad truth is whatever Googles algorithm is it cannot give proper value to an article. What it does is use some parameters from the auto generated from the article and give it a number. How can we expect AI to do a man's job? How can AI decide how relevant an article is for humans, especially when they are written for the purpose of ranking high on the AI itself. We created the AI, so do you think we cannot fool this AI ourselves. (Trust me I am all in for AI) Articles ranked in Google are not natural The number of words in article are not natural; it is to rank in google higher. So, I have to stuff some stuff even if it is not relevant to you. The flow of the article is not natural, I have to break it down to subtopics with subheadings so Google can understand what the article is about. Collection of words in the article are not natural as I have to use best possible shot to rank first on a particular query on Google to attract some visitors. So, you are just some random non-valuable users. How unfortunate these bloggers and writers have become. I think it is time to rethink what we are going to achieve if we continue this. Obvious target trap - When the parameters used by the google to rank articles do not represent real human values, search results will be bombarded with low quality articles. Fictional analogy of google ranking In a way google is like a shy girl. She suspects you are wired if you do not provide a list of ten good things about yourself or at least seven, if you want to go on a date with her. And because of these trust issues she always turns towards her ex-boyfriends who rank first with thousands of rubbish articles. And the pattern is repeated as nobody human is intervened for obvious reasons. There is too much data to handle. It is like finding Nimo (film) in the great Garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. Simply impossible. And more importantly if you were to be trusted you have to get so called "Backlinks" from these ex-boyfriends of the google. If you refuse to do that, not be friends with the gang, you will be panelized. It is like being the poor kid in the classroom. A sense of modern bullying for being innovative and fun. You will spend the rest of your life in Google Sandbox and never come to the party. What can you do to overcome the problem? So, if you want to read some human articles written for humans, forget about it. Buy some books or go to a library, before that too is replaced by bunch of computers with google in it we still have time. And my advice is if you find some humanoid articles in google which provides a value to your life, just bookmark it. It is better to come back to it than doing a Random Google search on how to improve your life. Use it as a catalog so, you are interacting with humans than rubbish knowledge. Dooly little dinosaur In summary Why Can't Google answer my question? instead leads to rubbish? Writers nowadays do not have the reader in mind when they write articles. Most of them are not experts in the field or have something interesting to say, but they are just good at beating the Google algorithm to rank higher on its search results. Hence, results you see on Google are becoming less and less with human values. The problem seems to be not addressed by Google anyway. Thank you for reading: Why Can't Google answer my question? instead leads to rubbish. I would invite you for a discussion on mindfulness, consciousness and game of life in General in philosophical point of view.

This is a phenomenon which occurs naturally. I could say everyone who had seen a large body of water, had definitely seen the ripple effect. Can you remember the days where we used to skip a flat rock, on the surface of the water, and which created ripples of waves, across the surface of the pond. Ultimately fading away. Of course, the stone did end up in the bottom of the pond even before the ripples go away. And this is a good example to illustrate some observations happening in our minds. https://unsplash.com/@dreamsoftheoceans Ripple Effect. In short, ripple effect is the phenomenon which happens in a complex system. Similar to the butterfly effect, or the chaos theory, ripple effects have the ability to propagate increasingly larger proportions of the system. Hence, with time, there will be more disturbances visible although the initial causative factors are no longer there. This ripple effect affects, many more things than a surface of water. It is explained in economy, and even in social science. And there is a good example given as the Rise of me-too movement. The rise of me-too movement. - wiki. In 2017 according to Newyork times, some allegations were made against a famous film producer, and many had come forwarded following. And this initial incident had created a rippling effect across the so-called elite society that many had come forward against similar sexual misconducts in following years. And it is given as an example for the rippling happening in our social environment. And it seems natural. https://unsplash.com/@cbarbalis Rippling effects in life. If we look at our life, we can see ripple effects. In mindfulness we can see rippling is a good way to look at how things happen inside the mind. We can understand this with an example. Imagine you hear a sound (mindful listening). You hear a motorcycle pass across your Neiborhood with a loud Noice. And this observation happens in a few seconds. Compare this to what happens when you skip a stone on the surface of water. After the initial contact, it will create some disturbances in the surface of the mind, and there will be thoughts. From the stone these ripples will become more and more, and if not checked, they will eventually be overwhelming. You would shout in anger and try to blame the careless driver. But what you have to understand is the ripples are just there in your own mind. Really speaking, all what happens is ripples. We just create ripples in our mind day in and day out, according to what we encounter throughout the day. Sometimes these ripples can be there, for a long time. Then we call them 'memory'. They will come back, once bounced from the walls of the surface. And create new ripples on the water. https://unsplash.com/@harleydavidson I can elaborate more on similarities of the rippling with our mind. As an example. Same event can produce different ripples in different surfaces. It all depends on the depth and the density of the water body. Just like inherent differences in our minds. Some create more 'happy' ripples. Some create 'sadder'. Some create more 'dangerous' ripples. And what happens with mindfulness. I would say, it will harden the surface. It will eventually make the water like the surface of the oil. Once you know how to identify the ripples they will just disappear, and stones will still skip on the surface but without any rippling. Even if they are there, they would create no harm as they are kept on check. This is what we mean when we talk about becoming a hydrophobic leaf.

The picture of Dorian Gray is a great masterpiece novel by Oscar Wild, which I had my hands on when I was in school. I loved the character of Dorian Gray so much, that when he destroyed his priceless painting and by doing so, killing himself in the final chapter, it left an empty sadness, which I can commemorate. Is it the sad reality about all of us written there by Oscar Wild? If it is not Hedonism, which we should follow in life, then what is it? Is it Abstinence? https://unsplash.com/@farreal Let me give you a background to the novel, assuming you have read it a long time ago. So, you can follow the stream of thoughts. For others, who are mint with memory, you can skip the plot. Plot It is a story of a young man named Dorian Gray, whose portrait was painted by artist Basil Hallward, magically joining his character with the picture. Dorian becomes obsessed with his own beauty and youth and wishes that he could remain young forever, while the portrait ages in his place. As Dorian indulges in a life of disinhibited pleasures, he becomes increasingly cruel and corrupt, although he doesn't represent it from outside, his picture shows his horrible self, by changing its appearance over time. And finally, after years, Dorian decides to destroy the picture stabbing it but, ending up his own life in doing so... https://unsplash.com/@sijmen89 Message of the Picture of Dorian Gray What is the message Oscar Wild wanted to convey us in the picture of Dorian Gray? We can argue that he was just writing a mystical novel and there is no hidden message in it. In which case we should stop arguing and thinking about it. But curiosity is our nature. Hence, we will look at Dorians' in our society and within ourselves. It is true that Pleasure, whether we like it or not, controls most our days. Remember when we cried asking for more candy when we were little? From that time onwards we were in a never-ending struggle to keep a steady income, to travel, to feel the pleasure of food and wine, and relationships. How can we be so sure, when we are greedy, when we act angry, that our picture is not painted with our actions? Is it what Mr. Wild is suggesting? That we all have a picture of our own drawn somewhere hidden in an empty room, re-painted with our every action? https://unsplash.com/@sheldonliu If it is not hedonism (Pleasure determines what we should or not do) we should follow, Is it the opposite? Is it the abstinence from pleasures that we should follow? If so, to what extent should we follow that? Can we make our picture better if we donate all our wealth to the poor and live just with minimal necessary things needed for living. Should we really buy an expensive car, even if we had plenty of money to do, even after donating. Or should we avoid cars and use public transport instead, and is there a limit for being generous and good? There are some insights for this question, we can get from the famous argument, which was put forward by Peter Singer in 1971, some 80 years after the publication of the Picture of Dorian Grey. In his essay "Famine Affluence and Morality" he argues that affluent people are morally obliged far more to donate resources to humanitarian deeds than what is considered normal. So, if you buy and expensive car instead of a normal one which is obviously needed for transport, you are helping to the death of some children somewhere in the world by not donating that money which we could have saved. So, we make our pictures dirtier by nature even something simple as not donating money. (Singer’s ‘famine relief argument’ and vegans.) Boundary between traditional good and evil is stretched nowadays more than ever when, bad is represented as good in disguise and even accepted by the society as norm. So, we can question as is there a boundary at all. As an example, it is bad to watch someone's hands to be chopped off in ISIS video- it is snuff, but it is not bad to watch a SAW movie. Latter is more accepted by the society but represent the same, killing someone for some reason. Horror is a genre on its own. Does it mean our insides get rotten, when we appear doing good from outside, even when is not obvious? https://unsplash.com/@marckleen So, it is true individually up to us to do whatever we desire with our resources. But I think the message from Oscar Wild is very clear that we should go back to our Attic from time to time and look at our picture and adjust our course of action before it becomes uncorrectable. Thank you for reading "Picture of Dorian Grey- what is the message" You may also like : Singers famine relief argument and vegans What is time - a novel understanding.

This is a discussion I had the other day with one of my twitter friends. What defines an ordinary person from extraordinary. My initial intuition was that it is none other than a 'Belief'. And following is the surprisingly satisfactory discussion we had about the subject. What defines an extraordinary person? Is it the eyes. The first answer she came up with was eyes. I could not agree more. If we consider beauty, eyes will define extraordinary from ordinary. We discussed about the eyes of a girl which appeared in my previous article on philosophy of collarbone, and mutually agreed she had extraordinary eyes. And I had no idea that she would come up with "Eyes" as an answer, as I was expecting something more philosophical in nature. It surprised me, something so simple as Eyes could be a potential answer to a philosophical question. I am sure you also would come up with an answer, and it may or may not be surprising as above. What do you think about "Eyes" as an answer? Don't you agree that it is a good candidate? https://unsplash.com/@prissenri Is it love? There are different kinds of love. Love of a child to his mother, a wife's love to her husband. Monkey loving its baby. The God's love to all the people on earth. The latter can be extraordinary. It's a shame if it doesn't. We can only imagine such a love. I think I have written about such Platonic love, in one of my previous articles. Hence, I would not elaborate it more here. However, it is kind of an extraordinary love which we can only imagine partially, without any flaws, without any hidden agendas and greed. You would agree only "God" can provide such true love. Is it something else? Is it bravery? Is it kindness? Is it self-reflection? I am sure you have your own favorite answer to the above question. And I am sure you will be happy if I come up with the same answer as you. However, I was searching for the perfect answer. Hence, I did a little google search and following were other candidates. See whether your answer is written here. An extraordinary person often stands out not merely because of their talents or achievements but due to their unwavering character, resilience, and impact on others. They possess a unique blend of authenticity, compassion, and determination, consistently pursuing their goals while uplifting those around them. Their actions are driven by a purpose greater than themselves, fostering positive change and inspiring others to do the same. Extraordinary people embrace challenges, learn from setbacks, and remain humble despite their successes. Their presence leaves an indelible mark, reminding us of the power of human potential and the profound difference one individual can make in the world. https://unsplash.com/@jontyson Is it a belief? But more importantly I think it is the first answer that I came up with. Because even it can be such a simple answer as "Eyes". You just have to believe that you are extraordinary in some important unique character. Hence when someone says, it's the kindness, it is true. And when the other says it is hard working. That is true too. Only if they believe in it. Hence, the belief is the one defines the extraordinary from ordinary. If anyone believe that they are not extraordinary from any character, that would be true too. Why a Belief defines an extraordinary person. If you believe in God, it will make you extraordinary, and help you power to achieve, heavenly things. If you believe in hard work, it will make you an extraordinary man, to do humanly impossible tasks. If you believe in kindness, you will start to heal hearts of thousands of battered humans. If you believe in money, it might make you an extraordinary criminal, if you forget your moral grounds in achieving it. So, the question is what are you going to choose in believing?

"Carpe diem . Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." The famous quote Carpe diem from the film the dead poet's society 1989, makes the 95th famous movie quote of all times. There are few great movies made into top 100 quotes including Titanic (1997) at the 100ths place. However above quote is so inspiring for anyone who have watched the movie. Even for someone who is not having any artistic talent it invites to become creative as we all inherit the creative abilities, although our current education systems, hinders and hides them. Directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman, main role of the film was played by famous actor Robin Williams (1951-2014), renowned actor who gives the life to the teacher 'John Keating'. As the plot of the story unravels, about Mr. Keating, who is so inspiring and novel, leaving behind all traditional classroom methods of teaching to bring out the rhythm of hearts of young group of lads, to synchronize with the beats of the nature. He asked the students to rip off their poetry books, instead to listen to the nature and follow their hearts, not be in fear to take paths less often taken by everyone else. In the heart of this group, equally inspired, few young boys restart a 'Dead poet's society', where they get together to recite, poems and find company in a novel adventure. Neil who is one of the main characters in the story, is taken the inspiration, into heights no one else have done, becomes an actor, instead of following dreams of his father laid upon him. It is tragic that the life of this young handsome boy with a bright future was ceased at the end by taking his own life, that he felt that there was no way out, and he could not seize the day anymore, as his teacher taught him. So, what is the moral of the story? Is it "trying to seize the day would end up killing some of us? ". Is it irrational to go against the norms of the society how much we are inspired by nature. After all, there is no conclusion, no argument, given at the end of the film. We are left with a void of feelings, and thoughts even after years since I have watched that film, I wonder what a wonderful life that boy could have lived if his life was spared. Of course, after all it is a drama. But dramas of this kind can happen from time to time in our lives. Leaving us in emptiness, in shock. Luckily for most of us, we are so much in fear of taking the radical route, we just follow everyone else, without thinking like in a national geographic documentary of Africa! Are you? What does your heart demand you should be doing? Write it down, draw it now, or sing it before you forget the words. It doesn't matter as, death is the only bad thing that can happen of it, and it will happen anyway for all of us. But I wonder whether doing that will bring happiness to hearts after all.

About Cockroaches Cockroaches are considered one of the most ancient species of insects which survived on the planet earth. They have ideal body size to survive catastrophes the animal kingdom has to face. Not only they survived in the great extinction in Cretaceous period, but they will also definitely hold their poise against the next generation of man-made updates to the Earth 1.2. If you watched the WALLE (the movie) the tiny cockroach is the only one who lived on the earth with WALLE(a robot) when we inhabit the Space while the earth is given time to recover. Even the trees would not survive. Cockroach ethics Friedrich Nietzsche "If you kill a cockroach, you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria." These words thrown at us by Nietzsche, clearly laugh of our moral standards, plenty of sarcasm for our generations. Yet it is important when someone points out true facts which will change us for the better. Like my friend says, "there is more space for anyone to be more kind." Russel's Viper and Dictators When I was a kid, I had encounters with snakes. One such occasion, in an evening I was going to the living room from the kitchen. I heard a hiss. A clear hiss which gave me goosebumps. I shouted and jumped on to a chair. My father was nearby and came running with a Neighbour. The hiss continued sounded like a man dying with a labored breathing. Most scary thing I have heard. It was a Russel's Viper. A full grown one under the staircase. Luckily, I did not step on the snake in the first place and if I did, I wouldn't have survived. But obviously that was the end of the snake. I don't want to describe the sad story of killing the snake. After half an hour struggle the snake was dead, as it had a remarkable ability to withstand attacks by two strong men. There is a saying "You are a fool if you let a venomous snake live". If we apply Nietzsche's ethics to above scenario, even without his famous quote, everyone will agree we should have let the snake go away. Nowadays there are plenty of people who catch snakes. There was no such help available those days. Yet, it is unethical to kill an animal. Even when it is venomous, even when it is small, even when it is scary like a cockroach. Most of us will agree with me. Now, let's look at dictators in history. Imagine a dictator is like a Russel viper. (I know it is an incomplete comparison, as dictators are far beyond evil than a viper) It has the potential to destroy your life. If you let, he will too. You wouldn't kill him if he was a non-venomous snake. But you will kill him and will be not punished, will be considered as a hero. We know such heroes from our past. Any solider comes home victorious is such a hero. But where is the line which can rationalize any killing is ethical? How can you weight a life of a butterfly from a cockroach? A viper's bite and a dictatorship? That is how Nietzsche knew there is something beyond good and evil. Examples of cockroach ethics from human history. There are enough examples from brutal history of humankind, about cockroaches and butterflies. We do not have to go far. Let's keep a blind eye to the today's world and go back to the era of Nietzsche himself. He lived 1844-1900, in Germany at a time of Slavery still was a thing around the world. I am sure he did notice how so-called Masters, treat their Slaves and cockroaches alike. And few decades later upon his death, ironically the greatest dictator would be born in his own country. And Holocaust is a ghost where walls of Auschwitz still cry with innocent screams of withering lives of cockroaches, in Nazi eyes. We just passed a crazy era, where for the red army, black would be a Russel viper and for the black army, the red would be one. And for any army a one without a gun, would be a cockroach, a thing to be crushed and killed. In modern world, I would say the aesthetic criteria on ethics is not prominent like the past. Yet it prevails and that may be the reason "Black lives matter" Became a slogan, instead of "all lives matter". I could see this in an airport of an affluent country, I am sure, thousands of black and white men did feel like cockroaches there. I am not blaming the security for that matter any governing country. These are universal problems, and Only a Universal ruler can truly put an end to so called cockroach Ethics happening around the world, with truly universal laws. Until then we just have to remind ourselves of these simple truths, whenever we look for equal rights. And earth is not our home. Thank you for reading: Cockroach Ethics and Dictators - Friedrich Nietzsche More philosophical insights. Life in the zoo, animal ethics There are two tragedies in life - George Bernard Shaw. What you see is not what it is but who you are. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens -Carl Jung Have you lost your keys? eternal search for happiness

Thing 1 and thing 2. - The cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss Remember the Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss? I can still remember when I read Dr Seuss, through this wonderful children's story. I enjoyed it as an adult more than a child. I am not sure how he came up with "Thing 1 and thing 2". However, it fascinated me the underlying philosophy of things. Do you know why the story is not comparable to any other, children's story? I believe it is because, he started to address things, in his book at its basic form. Just as "Things" Let's look at the philosophy of "The cat in the Hat" Photo by @WFozStories -X Summary of the plot- The Cat in the Hat. In Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat," two children, Sally and her brother, are stuck inside on a rainy day with nothing to do. Their boredom is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the mischievous Cat in the Hat, who brings chaos and fun to their home. Accompanied by his playful friends, Thing 1 and Thing 2, the Cat turns the house upside down with his antics. Despite the mayhem, they manage to clean everything up just in time before their mother returns, leaving the children to ponder whether they should tell her about their wild day. How did Dr Seuss come up with Thing 1 and Thing 2? I wondered how he managed to pull up thing 1 and thing 2 into the story. It is magical when these things cannot be named. Thing 1 can be a kitten, a rabbit or anything. But when he took out the name tag, it is fundamentally a thing. A moving thing, a mischievous thing, which played havoc together with Thing 2, Which is same kind of thing 1. Did Dr Seuss suggest that it is the deed that matters not the name of the thing? I like to wonder, Dr. Seuss himself, on an armchair with his notebook at hand trying to figure out the "Thing" That the Cat in the hat going to pull out from his box. And, his mind went blank, and he could not think farther than "Thing". And smiled to himself, when he knew that is the name he should be giving to the things in the box. It's perfect. Thing 1 and Thing 2. It could be anything, and there is plenty of space for imagination of a child. Image @WFozStories -X Dr Seuss Philosophy of things. When we were kids, we used to be familiar with "Things". Now we do not as the things are shadowed by information we have received. Imagine a child, who see a cat for the first time. He would see only a "Thing". He may even call it "Thing 1". But after learning his parents call this "Thing" a cat, many times, The Thing 1 will be registered in his brain as a cat. Similarly, he would label Thing 2 and Thing 3 in different names. More knowledgeable a person is, he would have more and more Things which are recognized by names. What our brain has essentially done is, developed a layer of information, on top of the fundamental "Things" in the world. I think this is a major difference between us and a child. A child's world is still filled with unknown "Things" which hides mysteries. However, in our world we have, learnt about so many things, we no longer recognize, things as things. Imagine a picture or a video of Chiribiquete Emerald is shown to you. It is a bird which lives in Amazon rainforest. If this is shown to a child who has only seen a Crow once in his entire life, it would be just a "Thing 11" which moves and chirps. However, you would recognize this as a bird, in a flash, without you even realizing it, and you would even be able to guess its weight, if asked. You would see its similarity with a hummingbird. The disadvantage is we would never be able to see the "Thing" in the bird. As our consciousness is always be shadowed by information. https://unsplash.com/@picsbyjameslee Mindfulness, as a tool to recognize things. Mindfulness is a tool, in my opinion the only tool which can recognize things as things. You may ask why should we understand about these fundamental things? What is the point? If you have followed my previous articles, understanding the consciousness, is a possible solution to all our problems, as root cause of all our problems is none other than ourselves. What better way to do it than, understanding "Things" in our world. In a previous article, I have discussed some of the characteristics in these "Things". Here, in this article, I would not go into details, of these "Things" which are recognized by our mind (more precisely their reflections). It is just to emphasize and be amazed by the wisdom of Dr. Seuss who was able to recognize this fact, and even introduce some philosophy into a children's book, written Decades ago! Philosophy of things -Thing 1 and thing 2

Unexamined life not worth living Blog summary In the canvas of mind, he started drawing a life. A life full of dreams, and aspirations, expectations. It started with milk, baloons and bubblegums. Shifted to Grades, and clasroom love stories soon enough. As the seconds went by, the complicated chaos unravels. What a pity, now its gritty, that canvas looks horrific. Dreams over dreams over dreams, no space left! Maybe, just white would do, Maybe that is enough. https://unsplash.com/@kajhinkson An unexamined life is not worth living. This is one of my favourite quotes from Socrates. What why and how "an unexamined life is not worth living" are the questions we should be asking from ourselves after reading the quote. And that is exactly what I am going to do in this article. Compare this quote with the following slogan from ancient eastern philosophers. Appasuthayan puriso, baliwaddowa jirathi. Mansanithass waddanthi panna thassana waddathi. Above was an old quote, from ancient teachers of estern philosophy. It means, "the one who is not examining (life) will grow in muscle mass, just like a buffalo. But will never gain true wisdom." I can't ignore the sarcasm, put forward by eastern philosophers, comparing one who do not think about life to a Buffalo instead telling such a life is "Not worth living". I am sure Socrates did not mean to pass such sarcasam towards his fellow deciples who did not follow his advice. More importantly we should attend to why we should examine our life before we are labeled as Buffalos. Why should we examine life? Reason 1 For a fact, we are not buffaloes. We know that life starts with birth and end in death. And neither of these events are in our control. Circumstances of our birth is a million dollar question which is still unanswered, and nobody knows what happens after death. On top of that in between these random events we are taught to belive we have a free will. If a banana is rotten on either sides, why do you expect the middle is delicious? Does it not smell fishy? For me it does. Reason 2 Even if the either side is rotten, if the banna is lengthy enough we can assume there is good bit in the middle. If the life is lengthy enough, mabe 500 years atleast, I can put aside the task of examining life until I reach 250 years. Average life expectancy of human on earth linger around 72 years world wide. So at this scale I assume atleast 36 would be a good place to gain some wisdom as you have enough experience about the world at this point. More importantly, when the diseases, and the old age start to hit you, you would not be a strong buffalo even if you are superman. Reason 3. For a rational person above two reasons should be enough. There is no reason 3. However, inherent randomnoess of life would be a good candidate. Mind seems to be like a flag in the wind. It moves, whenever there is a wind. When there is rain, mind thinks about rain, when there is trouble mind thinks about trouble. When there is happiness, it starts to smile and dream. Nothing seems to be completely under control of the "Self". Hence mind is just a ball bounce between duality of the nature, in the wind provided by extremely interconnected chaos of reasons. Which can suddenly end, in a dumb way. That concludes my reasons for supporting that unexamined life is not worth living. https://unsplash.com/@denisi_z How are we going to examine life? Mindfulness is the way. Mindfulness is the tool we use to examine our life. Imagine a scientist is doing an experiment. He would initially make a hypothesis from avialable evidence (after a litereture review) and then conduct an experiment on the hypothesis. He would collect data from control and the experiment cohorts and prove or disprove the hypothesis. He may have to repeat the experiment. However, in matters with mind or self, we cannot use this objective apporach. As we own are the subjects of the experiment. Hence we have to use a different method. Mindfulness is the only way. Mindfulness is basically being aware of our awareness, and objective of this experiment is to understand truth of life. I have empasized on this objective in a previous article, as to why mindfulness is not about "living a healthy life" or "making optimal experience". As above reason 1 and reason 2 will cancel out any value in other objectives, and put them in the dust bin. I am sure atleast some of us are fully aware of the seriousness of the issues associated with life. If you are not, I suggest you to visit an elderly home, or a cancer hospital in your spare time, as real meaning is hidden if you are not living in a femine prone third world country. With this objective in mind, with a little bit of wisdom provided by numerous teachers of the past and present, you can take a "journey" to understand the "journey". You will take wrong paths, and when we do we should not hesitate to turn back and start again from the beginning or as I call it repeat the experiment. Countless times. And I am sure you will come to a destination one day. And do not be surprised if you find this destination is an empty one. As it is the same Socrates who uttered "Only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing".

False information. What is true is not defined. If you look at truth value of any statement, it appears there is just a dilemma about what amounts to a 100% truth. But, when we consider the collection of information that we have made over the years, this is vast. If we consider total number of books written, total number of articles published, pictures taken and drawings painted. Human civilization has achieved a pinnacle of information. Fact that no single person can go through everything and master even a single subject is evidence to this rapid expansion of information. As an example, few centuries ago, a doctor could master all the information necessary to treat any disease in a human being. Nowadays, there are doctors, specialized in Prostate cancer, or Rheumatoid arthritis, or dementia. As the information about prostate cancer, is as vast as all the medical information available about all the diseases in the body, few centuries back. Information But, with this rapid expansion of information, there is a problem. As, speculations and false information also expanding at a rapid rate. Here I do not mean scientific information as truth. Science also uses speculation, as a method of finding new knowledge. As it doesn't look for 100% truth, but consensus by a significant margin, scientific truths also carry some margin of error. This is inevitable. But the problem is, they are more and more closer to the truth that, one can get entangled in this haystack of scientific, fictional and religious information and would not find a real truth about life during a lifetime. As the information sphere is already large, and truth is a rare phenomenon, what is proliferating rapidly is not always truth. And there will be a point, that humans are totally unable to navigate meaning of life in their own time. Somebody might say AI, is the solution to the problem. As, AI can judge and screen through a lot of information. But the problem with AI, is that it also has the ability to create new knowledge. Yet, as the information fed to these AI machines are not all true, they will proliferate this false information. This is a real danger to human knowledge. Contemplating Shadows. I was taking a walk in my garden and noticed my shadow. It was there as the sun was shining and my body was in the way. There was earth to hold my shadow. If one of these factors were not there, there would be no shadow. Can I consider Shadow as an independent entity? Or part of extension of this body? It seems I cannot do much with the shadow. I cannot feel it. Then again, I can move it where I want and if necessary, use to shade a thousand ants. When I think about it, I can see there are a lot of false information about shadows, that I have learned over the years. Shadows What is true for my shadow, is true for my fingers. With few differences. It appears fingers are there when there is no sun, or moon. But when I deep dive into chasms of reasons, I realize, Sun still is a reason for my fingers. Several steps away. If no sun there would be no life on earth, if no moon there would be no life on earth. I can easily connect sun and Moon as a reason for existence of my fingers. Then why there is a difference in perception about my shadow and my fingers? Shouldn't I consider fingers as my shadows? It seems, we are drowned in shitload of false information, approved by science and religion, and mathematics etc. Good luck for anyone who is trying to understand any truth in word, without being mindful.

Imagine you try to describe taste of orange to someone else. You would first start describing the fruit. Which is the size of a Golf ball, orange color fruit of citrus family. It is round than a Lemon, but taste less sour, and bit sweet than other fruits of this class. Once you finish the obvious you will start to describe it more. If your friend has tasted apple, pineapple and lemon, you can say it is Not like apple, not like pineapple, but a mixture of pineapple and lemon. This is an example of the two faces of wisdom. mask Two faces of wisdom. First is to recognize and enumerate what is obvious and established. Second is to know what is not there. If you go to a doctor for some illness, he/she will first ask you questions. Generally, they would listen to what you have to say about your symptoms. After that you will be bombarded with a list of questions which seems very irrelevant to the current disease you are having. Obviously, you cannot see the connection. But these are important negatives if you do not have them. They have much significance as the positives. If an artist stared at a blank canvass, he would see a painting. A painting which is not there. While all of us the general people can see is just a white board. Similarly, an artist with a white marble will see a Sculpture. Once he starts to chip out pieces of unnecessary marble, the Statue will appear Like it had been there all the time. Imagine a Scientist, trying to do research. He starts with obvious, possible and evident. Then he will hypothesize about the results. About his observations, possible reasons. If he guessed right the results will show, and even if he guessed wrong, this would add to the knowledge base so next time he can narrow down reason. How to tap into unknown wisdom? For anyone curious, this should be the next question. As, how can we know the unknown. The answer is simple. It is magical. Nobody knows, how artist bring out the sculpture hidden inside a marble. It is not replicable, not even by him or herself. Nobody knows how we speculate about unknown future. Nobody knows how a child can guess answer to a simple mathematical question 1+1 =2. But there are factors that we can manipulate to get more closer to illusion of control in this creative process. Following are few. Basic human needs are met. Observation is a powerful tool. Better information about current status. Rest, calm and peaceful environment. A blind belief that there is a process. Starting to juggle with obvious (Play- according to Einstein)