As a mindfulness enthusiast, I have been trying to improve my everyday observations. Following traditional and modern teachings. However, as the practice deepens only some of the subtle features come into play. One such concept is attitude. Here I will attempt to describe what I understand about attitude in mindfulness practice. Understanding before attitude. I am a strong believer in the fact that attitude matters in everything we do, if anything better than attitude is the understanding itself. Imagine a surgeon who cut open a human being, to operate a tumor. His intension is to save the patients life. However, that is different from a criminal who dance with a knife in front of the shop owner. If he cut, he is trying to kill. In life, even if you fail, the intension or attitude matters. Even if you have a bad outcome for your actions, that is fine as long as there is correct attitude. This is the common meaning to the life. Just imagine implications of this kind of attitude. Two friends Imagine two friends, trying to be rich. One is trying to get there fast, by brewing every ounce of energy from his employees. And the other one is doing the same, but he genuinely believes he is serving others by getting rich, so along the way, he does a slow progress, by letting his employees also grow under the circumstances. Who would you think will end up rich and stay rich? You might say, the first or the second. But it is unlikely we can tell exactly at this point as, this is just two broad scenarios. There are so many specifics that matter. As an example, the first one happened to hire a good CEO, meantime the second one failed to do that. Obviously things will change then. But we can ask a different question. Having won or failed at the end of 20 years whom you think will be happy? And content? If we consider happiness, a pleasure, obviously the one who got rich would be more happy. But if you consider being content, I can see the second person has more chance to reach peace even if he failed. If the first one failed his endeavor, he would be more dissatisfied as his path did not provide any wins, relative to his values. I can see we can argue that the first person would also have equal chance of being happy as he did not have those, other objective of serving the people in his mind. As long as he had been true to himself, [if he does know what is true and false not by societies norms, but as defined by nature.] Can both of them be wrong? if there is another dimension, that a truth lies outside their journeys to happiness? This is what we try to examine with mindfulness. Should we enjoy this moment, or watch the Joy? Lets get back to attitude in mindfulness practice. Let's get back with our mindfulness discussion. When we do practice mindfulness, we can see it is not just about watching our minds and body. The way I understand it is whenever I experience something my mind creates an automatic reaction to that object, whatever it is. I may be looking at a sunset , and the mind's reaction is something pleasurable. When I look at a plastic bottle on the beach , mind's reaction is some disgust. Similarly for each an every observation, mind creates an automatic reaction. This is kind of System 1 described in the book "Thinking fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. The attitude, that we should be having is neutrality, as non of these observations are inherently good or bad. It is absurd trying to teach the mind that each and every sensation, observation is neutral. So, how can we have the correct attitude of neutrality, when the mind is automatically programmed to judge everything? It is by looking at the current attitude. If you just look at the whatever attitude and notice this long enough, you will see it disappear. And the correct attitude of neutrality will come eventually. It is not by force. But by understanding. As, if we try to force things, soon the effort will exhaust us and we would not be able to do mindfulness as long as we need to. This is my initial understanding, and I wrote it down as soon as I realized it. I am sure you may have different opinion on this. Please comment.

I'm a Spring I am a spring. Born In the hearts of a tropical rain forest, which harvest the true spirits of our ancestors. I was born in July.. between two Rocks in a misty mountain. Since the day I came to life I flow. Fed by other springs, Brooks and rain water. Flowing is my way of life. Its natural, its effortless, its a song sung in different tones. But essential to everything is I do not know why I flow like this, never figured out, never had time. In times of rain I flow faster, thicker, fatter, louder. These are the times of abundance. I do not feel the need to spare the bushes, or save the rocks. So I pound them all with all of my might. Until I rip off a Bush and make a muddy mess of myself. Yet o'I do not know why or why not. Its just a reaction within myself to the rain. You can blame the clouds for that, not me. Flow Other times when it's drought, I dry up. Sometimes just completely stop flowing. Just stagnate here and there I revisit old pools along the way. I spend hours and hours just reflecting the cloudless blue sky. Thinking. Watching the fish struggling to survive in the bottom of the pool. Then I am silent. Silent during the night as well as the day. Nobody even notice me whether I live or not. Times to reflect. Times to think about life. Time to think about nature which I am a part of. I'm a Stream Then there are in betweens. Where nothing specific happens. I just flow with moderate amount of water. Not because someone told me to, not because I just want to. Just because that is the life of a stream. Yes I do nourish all the flora and funa. Yes it's true I provide lifeline to all the birds wild deers and schools of colorful fish. But neither I have a choice, nor I have a will in doing so. Now, do not get me wrong, that I am non living. Just like you I can prove I am living. I move, every moment to moment I move. Down the stream, sideways I move just like a real human being. I'm a River Yes I grow, when it rains I grow just like a manhatton man living by McDonald's outlet. At times of drought I shrink. Just like a skeleton of a human being in saharan desert. I shrink. Yes I do die. Eventually, when the forest that feeds me with water becomes a desert In thousand years. Fortunately you will not be there to see me die as you will cry, as that will be the dooms day of many of animals, but I won't shed a tear. Through the rocks Yes I am bounded and limited by the forces of nature. I'm glued to the earth by gravity. Just like you are unable to lift off from earth without a force. I am unable to lift off unless thrown downhill a cliff to splash into a waterfall. Im sure you will also splash into pieces, if thrown 100meters down a cliff. Making a majestic waterfall, and never to be recreated. I'm not happy, or sad, I do not cry. I do not take pride in being a river. I do not feel cold when I freeze in winter, or be warm when I melt in the spring. Its never my intension to be this or that. And do not think it is better in spring than in winter. What is the point. I'm just the nature. Whatever the human values are not guiding complex decision making in my world. I just simply follow the rules of nature. Day in an out. Best thing is I do not have to worry about the past. Or worry about a future that did not come. For me just flowing is enough. How about you? Are you a river?

Hobbies I saw a post recently on twitter of someone who collected colorful rocks. She claimed it served no purpose. Yet there was a picture of a large collection of equally sized rocks ranging colors from greens yellows orange to red. The picture itself served a purpose. And it triggered to write this article. How can she claim it served no purpose, in my mind it did. Maybe it brought some satisfaction and peace to her mind. Hobby As I can see this is not only inherent to such actions. Most of the hobbies serve no purpose other than being inherently satisfying to the person who is doing it. It may be collecting feathers, composing poems or riding bicycle. On a superficial level there is no immediate benifit. Here in this blog we go one step further as always. That is the objective anyway. Think anything thoroughly enough until we find the bottom of it. So we can arrive at the truth one day. Let's ask the question again. Does anything you do today going to serve any purpose? Is there a purpose in doing anything? Yes! There is. You must be insane if you answered no. If you are building a bridge it serves purpose for thousands to cross it. If you are writing a novel it will entertain thousands of people. If you are cooking, it will feed your family. There is apparent purpose for everything we do. Even mediocre tasks like collecting rocks, and digging a tunnel in nowhere serves a purpose. That's why we do it. But here is a thought. Whatever you do serves the purpose only as long as human consciousness is prevalent on earth. Death Imagine after death. Anything which you have done for the purpose of yourself would not have effect on you, after your death. It might still serve some purpose to those who are living. Maybe even 10000 years if you manage to build something which last that long. Definitely it's not build from bread and butter. Perhaps some knowledge written on paper or carved on the walls of your tomb. It's upto you if you would like to make a legened of it. But I can warn you it will only serve any purpose to you only as long as you live. Is there a purpose in anything? Here we can widen our imagination more. Let's stretch our time horizon a billion years into the earth's future. If elon musk did not succeed, or even if we did succeed to make ourselves multiplanatory, most likely there would be no humans at that time. Like dinosaurs. Likely we are long vanished from earth. Relative to that future, which is most likely inevitable, is there any purpose what you are doing today? Even if you build something which lasts a million years, there would be no use for the future. So, this makes us know what is the essential component in anything which serves a purpose. I can summarise this into a one sentence. If something is not immortal, it doesn't serve any purpose in the infinite timescale of the universe. Just some candy Which means, things which decay have no true purpose which lasts. So the real question we should ask ourselves in life is, is there something which never decay? Is it gold? Is it money? Is it relationships? Is it happiness? Is it peace? If you find any of these interesting candidates, weight them against an infinite timescale even beyond yourself. You will arrive at a conclusion if you are wise enough to see. Now here is an interesting thought. Consider the truth that you learned by reading this and weight it against the same infinite timescale. What do you understand?

Lately I have been thinking a lot about truth. I have seen read and followed a lot of truth seekers in this life. Naturally as I have been born into a truth seeking religion. Obviously without my choice, but it has shaped me ahead of many others in the world who would not come across this unless they were driven by a natural instinct to know why to the every question they try to solve. But having observed many truth seekers and looking at myself I see there is a monetary value to the truth. But only in specific situations. Seeking truth Inherent value of truth. Truth has no inherent value. Let's say you are a leader of a jungle tribe. And having lived in the jungle, with your ancestors you know some truths about the jungle. You know every stream and spring where water can be found. You know where tigers roam at night, and you know where to find which medicine when someone falls ill. Let's look at one specific truth. Having to know all the water sources is a truth for yourself. It doesn't have an inherent value, as long as there is plenty of rain, everyone in your tribe has easy access to water. But when a drought hits your part of the country, everyone will be looking for water, and your truth will be valued as life. When the need arises you can even monetise your truth. Without giving them directions to the water source, you can start selling water. And even a little bit of marketing would make you popular even among other tribes. Wisdom Inherent value of truth is nill. And only the one who have seen the truth themselves would know this. For everyone else truth can have an enormous value to a negative value. Depending on their own judgement. I can give you some evidence for this. Evidence for the monetary value of truth. If there is no monetary value for truth, there would never be churches so big. In midevial times, in every village there was a church and it was one of the biggest buildings in the town. Mostly built by devotees with their hard earned money as for them truth has an enormous value. They haven't reached it. Did anyone bothered to tell them that truth has no inherent value? Once you achieved it the seeking stops and it loses all the value? What's true about church, is true about temples, kovils and thousands of shrines. I'm not saying being religious is bad and you should stop truth seeking. It's the opposite. I'm trying to tell you that what you are seeking is valuable then it's likely you will end up in some illusion, not the truth. And the opposite is also true. Path Easy path to the truth. The easy way to the truth is to seek the valuelessness of our experience. If you give enough time for your mind to understand the valuelessness of things you will end up in a truth which is unshakable. If I start to describe this truth as a thing, or objectify it as God, nirvana or peace, you will fall into the same trap. The value seeking mind will start to create paths and journeys without investigating the phenomena of mind. In summary. Truth has nill value Monetary value of truth arises when you seek it. Easy path to the truth is in seeking the valuelessness of experience. This blog is valueless to anyone with truth, but for everyone without, opposite is true

Ever since my existance have been modeled by the universe, I wanted. It started with simple things, like wanting to be hunger free, wanting to be warm. Wanting to be felt nice wrapped in warm cloths. And it was hard to figure out wantings at first, as there were no words. Wanting existed in its pure form, just as a wanting. Desires But as a neonate becomes a toddler, wantings started to appear with names. Wanting of mother, and father. As that would create fullfilment of many other unknown wantings. Wanting to walk, not to fall. Wanting to see colorful things. Wanting to taste everything from doorbells to hair. Wanting to pee and poop and play. Evolution of wantings. Gradually wantings started to shape themselves, with labels. Cakes, sweets, mangoes, puddings and pies. Lullabies, songs, melodies music and sermons. Feathers, tickles, smooth moisturised touch. And I could separae tastes of a dozon different types of coffees, and make preferences along with it. While all these weaved tapastries covered the core wanting, it started to be difficult to figure out where everything comes from. Instead of tackling wantings at its origin, The man started to chase after every end game. Wanting to be the first in a class of 30, to excel in the university, to win a field medal in mathematics or an olympic Gold in 100m dash. Wanting to be recognised by a million people on instagram and to become a billionaire. And it did not stop there. When it is too difficult, confusing and complex, the mind started to wonder into finding out peace. Persue meanings, and paths to heaven. Even wanting the death to be pleasent rewarding experience. Chasing views of nature, doubting the experience. I am not sure this is the journey of every human being. I see some stuck in different stages. I see some struggle with tastes, they cannot stop their wantings to eat, until they become diabetics and lose it anyway. Some cannot stop building muscles, until they become covered with wrinkes anyway. Wanting peace I see some struggle with equations, wanting to crack them before the next genious does it without a struggle. Some, want to row a boat. Drive an expensive car, and dine in a five star restaurant. The same man figure out the wantings doesn't stop there, he gives up everything to charity and seek a path to peace, just to be lost in an illusionary mental status in the middle of nowhere. I see that wantings which did not stop in a luxurious bed on a five star hotel would not magically end in a forest monastery, so they start building a kitchen in the jungle, this time with haystacks. Wanting to get rid of wantings. The mind which is wanting is the problem. The problem which should disspear, when identified. Not solved. So, now I just wait looking at my wantings. Right now it wants, the raining to stop and this article to be completed. What do you want right now? Let's do some mindfulness practise on our wantings.

Problems of Life Life is an amazing phenomena. When I observe it from a chair, on a Saturday morning I see the way we used to think about life have changed over the years. Throughout my school years and even during Higher education we were taught about problem solving. As an example consider long division. A simple mathematical concept. When we learn how to do in steps, we can apply this over and over again to come at answer to specific problem of division. This is a common way of solving problems. Let the mind sink in life Our whole system of knowlege is build up on these kind of problems. However this pattern is not just specific to mathematics. Imagine you want to change break pads of your car. You look at a youtube video which gives you sequential steps of doing this, even if it is not your model of the car, given enough time and practise you will eventually will be able to change it on your own. After that you can apply this knowledge as long as necessary. Baking a Banana Cake Consider a banana cake. If you want to make a banana cake for your kids, you can download a recipe with a list of steps. If you are not an idiot atleast you will be able to bake a reasonably ok banana cake. As you can see this is how we solve most of our problems. Sometimes these are not easily solvable. Yet most of them need thousands of steps. This brings us to the philospy of Prescriptions. Consider following list. How to become a pilot, or a train operator. How to use a backhoe to dig up a bunker in your backyard. How to scare away a Greasley Bear. How to treat prostate cancer How to write an article for a news paper. How to be a rich person. How to spend all your money in one week How to draw an apple How to solve 3n+1 question How to meditate How to be mindful How to draw an apple Philosophy of prescriptions Some problems in life have no specific answers, nobody can give you sequential steps. Consider the problem of becoming rich. I can write a book about this, starting from human values ending with How to build a skyscraper. Yet when it comes to applying, individual have to figure it out themselves. As we are stuck in different times, different places in different realities. Even if you succeed and then try to give advice to another person, most likely they will not be able to do it themselves, as the world is very dynamic. Big questions Now, there are specific questions that philosophy student is interested in. In my opinion everyone should be interested in these questions as these are at heart of our existance. Questions like "who am I?" "What is my purpose in life?" "What is the meaning of life?" "What is living?" "What happens after death?" If you look at philosophical literature, there are countless people who have written and tackled these questions. And written prescriptions how they arrived at answers. Consider any religious leader, philosopher. When we read and learn their teachings we tend to think that it is true. And we agree with them even before we try their paths. But for these big questions, what we need to do is figure out ourselves. Unless we do that we would never be able to reach eternal happiness and peace. Banana cake Let's go back to our Banana cake. Let's say you want a banana cake. (Eternal peace @ heven) . You download the prescription from God and think. Ah this is true. Banana cake made from this recipe is tasty. But you never even bake a banana cake. Imagine you started making the cake. And find out you cake was too sugary for your taste. Do you blame the recipe? No because the same cake is perfect for some other person. You adjust and learn yourself and understand what is wrong with the recipe. Maybe you are better off with an apple pie. As you can see the problem is not with the prescription. It is coming to conclusions even before you start following it. This is why, if you don't know answers that becomes the correct answer for progress. Anyone who behave like they have arrived are only fooled by their own ego.

I was having a discussion with my friend the other day about reading, in general. I told him that I no longer enjoy a novel, like I used to do in earlier days. I enjoy reading non fiction, as it creates more value to my life, anything from mindfulness, biology to geology, even little bit of mathematics, help me model a new world. On the other hand my dear old friend still loves reading novels. He deeply thought about what said and agreed that novels bring less value to life. But, that was irrelevent, as values are purely relative to ones own consciousness, novels make no sense only when messured in my yard of messure. So, coming to conclusion that novels are not valueble is totally not helping. We agreed to disagree on our values and that was a correct choice. Books, Why you should read them? Why you should read books? Common answers But have you ever thought about it before? Have you ever thought why you should read a book? Let's list some of the answers we can come across if we put the question in front of 1000 people sample. Why you should read books? 1. **Improves your focus and concentration** Reading trains your brain to stay with one task without distraction. 2. **Expands your knowledge** Every book teaches you something new — ideas, facts, perspectives. 3. **Builds a stronger vocabulary** You naturally learn new words and improve communication. 4. **Boosts creativity** Books spark imagination and help you think in new, original ways. 5. **Reduces stress** Reading slows your mind and gives you a mental escape. 6. **Improves emotional intelligence** Stories help you understand people, feelings, and relationships better. 7. **Strengthens memory** Following plots, characters, and concepts exercises your memory. 8. **Enhances critical thinking** Books make you analyse situations, arguments, and decisions more clearly. 9. **Helps you become a better writer** You subconsciously absorb structure, grammar, and style. 10. **Builds discipline and a growth mindset** Consistent reading develops patience, routine, and self-improvement habits. Of course this is a chatGPT generated list of 10 things. However we can say these are the common reasons why anyone would read a book. Or even read anything for that matter. Think about why you are reading this article now? You are looking for something right? Entertainment? Spark of knowledge? Some understanding about life? But here is what I think about reading.. Why you should read books expecting nothing? Take a little time to think All of the above and thousand others which you can come up are wrong reasons for reading a book. Infact the moment you are expecting something by reading a book you are not going to get it. As no any book is giving you everything you need to know. And remember this is just a metophor. You can still enjoy reading a novel. That is not the point. The point is when you have this pre-determined outcome of your reading, you are going to create a bar-for your own book, and after reading the novel either it will be more and less valueble than you initially thought and this will either create happiness or dissapointment. So if you want to avoid dissapointed reading books, do not expect anything from your reading, before you read. But, here is another thought after you read your book, it doesn't matter it is good or bad as you have already read the book. Expecting nothing from life - mindfulness lesson. Now, lets compare this with our lives. Everything we do in our lives we expect something. But, isn't it the wrong reasons? Just like reading a book expecting something, we go to the school to get good education, but not everyone gets it. We go to a new job expecting happiness and more money -> not everyone gets it. We go to the grocery shop to buy cheap stuff, not everything is cheap. If you want to stop disspointing yourself in life, there is one way to do that and you can do it today. Just now. Stop expecting your life would improve after reading this article. As, even after thousands of these articles you would still feel the same. Just to let you know this is my 531 such article. And the first one that I am quite sure I do not expect anything from it.

I am not sure why I am writing this. Sometimes we don't have to have a reason to do something. Just like trees grow on top of a mountain for no reason. I am sure you came through this article just by random clicking. So, I am going to show you two ways to answer the question. What is wrong with me? What is wrong with me? Approaches to the problem. There are two ways we can approach to this problem. One is personal perspective. If you think you are in control of everything in your life, what is wrong with me Question will lead you to some form of low mood. As always you have to blame yourself. Maybe you messed up your life, marriage, or friends, failing exam, work stress. However, there is another apporach to the same problem, A less obvious one. Universal approach to the question "What is wrong with me?" I came across this in a podcast of Joe Rogan and Naval Ravikant. Yes, the famous one with 12mil views. But they were not answering the above question specifically. But this is an important perspective to remember. When we ask such a question we forget, that we are creatures of the nature. It's the nature who created us. You can call it God, evolution, Souls coming out of depth of the ocean or whatever, but the point is we did not ask for this. If we did not ask for this, we did not come by our choice. We do not chose where we go. So, if we keep on asking the question what is wrong with me, fundementally we are taking responsibility to something we have not done. Inseparable from universe This is where the universal perspective comes in handy. In the universal perspective, there is no right or wrong. Infact, you can take everything as right in the universal perspective. As we are creations of the nature, one thing leading to another thing made you do that, mistake, procrastinate, or be anxious. You are not entirely to be blamed although you feel like it. Major part of it is by the universe. However, if you investigate this phenomena closely you will see that all of it is nature. Imagine the sun did not come up today, instead blown up into pieces. In this alternate universe everything you worried about would not happen, as there is no you and me. So, whatever mistake , or the worring thing for you happens as a reason, sun is still there in the sky. Can you see? It's not you to be always blamed, we can blame the sun. Final thoughts Now, I think you have doubts about my sanity. I am completely sane, and this is just a rational conclusion any mind can make. I see enourmous practical value in this universal approach to personal problems. Whenever we feel like we are missing happiness, it seems like arising because we are too much self centered. Trying to accumilate shiny new things like crabs. Yet, that is the way the universe have cheated on us, making us believe we are not part of it just because we have moving legs and eyes to see. I see no more than a tree when it comes to observing the nature. So, its better to surrender to the nature, as it seems to be the correct thing to do. Always. Trying to separate myself from the universe is like a wave trying to flow without water. For the universe you are just perfect! Nothing wrong.

TrZon Came out of the Congo Jungle in 2008, Straight from Egypt, he flew in a GulfAir boing 787 to London, in first class. He was familier with the rules of the jungle. Hence he was not suprised when the pretty stewerdress came up to him with a bottle of champaigne 5 minutes into the flight. While a thin curtain separated him from the peasents from back of the aeroplane, he wasn't bothered. He was the King of the jungle. It is true the context have changed. He no longer had to ride unsafe vines and shout out loud thumping his chest to show everyone that he is the ruler of the wild. Here, he noticed everyone plays by different rules. With little bit of adaptation he could easily rule this modern jungle as well. Boing 787 dreamliner Trzon In the first class He acted, as if he was the king. He walked with his chin high up in the air, with a little grin on his face, half shaved. More importantly he made sure that he wore the biggest sapphires from the depths of the Nile, which was given to him by the pigmies. He wasn't convinced that when they told the foreigners respect not the man but shiny things. But now he knew, as everyones eyes started to shimmer when they saw the big bloody Gem that he wore. He saw the pupils widen, and faces of females turn red like they were having an orgasm just by looking at it. Mixed with his enormous profile, there was no need to advertise who was the most important person on the flight. Even the Captain came to visit him during mid flight giving his regards, and thanking for chosing his aeroplane for the prestegious travel. Shiny things TrZon being the vigilant, silent observer, learned a lot about the modern world. Just a few hours through the flight. He ignored the noice from the back, observed. Being in the jungle all his life his eyes and ears were built to observe, not entertain. That's what made him a king. Here, in the 248 seat passenger airplane he observed what separates peasants from their Owners. He saw while the peasants were focussed on entertaining themselves scrolling through movies and music in their two feet wide seats, their Owners were busy. They were working, while drinking champaign, on their laptops. Typing, looking at charts, making things for the peasants to pay and consume. Some were resting, stretched out, gaining energy to do the same when they wake up. TrZon smiled to himself. He knew what he would do to. He would jiggle with numbers in his laptop, if that is the one which separates him into the first class. Trzon in the concrete Jungle Fast forward few hours, Tarzon was walking on the streets of London. He was looking at tall towers either side of the Thames River, and 🤔 thinking, who would build such magnificent structures? Who owns them anyway? Even though twice the size of an average man, it would take thousand years for him to build a column of one of the tall towers. But he knew, what he could do with a thousand Gorillas who share same intention and strength. Given the tools he would do that in a couple of years. He just needed to make a group of Gorillas and feed them with a dream. He stepped into one of the buildings to see the internal structure. There were peasants lined up to get services, and some peasants providing services behind glass windows separating them. He saw the money being exchanged. He was sure someone watching all this process from upstairs. He could feel the presence of the owners, but he could see them nowhere. They must be travelling on first class to a remote island while these half brain dead peasants were working for them. He could see the eyes of the owners put up in every corner of the building, secretly turning 360 degrees, observing every move, and thickness of everyone's pocket. Accumulating data to plot the next big plan to empty them in thousands. In London By the time he came out he knew what to do. There is no hurry. There is no secret. He could either become an owner or be owned in this jungle. Someone's loss is the otherone's gain. Its a concrete jungle but rules haven't changed. He would be a hunter, not be hunted in broad day. He would hide his tracks, to confuse everyone who tries to revenge. He would make a pack of Gorillas to guard him when he venture during the day. He knew he was the king, so without fear he climbed to the top of the London Bridge to catch the last few rays of the dissapearing sun. And shouted, like he used to do in the jungle, making everyone shake in fear within a half a mile range.

Albert Einstein once famously told that compounding interest is the eighth wonder of the world. When someone such genius tells something we should listen and ask the question why? According to records he completed it saying " He who understands it, earns it, and he who doesn't pays it." As compunding interest works in both ways, someone will pay while the others gain. Often leading to a poverty cycle if let it happen long enough. This is what I have described in the previous article on capitalism and pyramid scheme. Now, let's learn more about compounding. Compounded stones Compounding, the eighth wonder of the world Compounding interest is an exponential function. If we go back to our graphing calculator, and type similar exponential function, to 1×1.1^20 you will see it has a J shaped curve. Given enough value to the exponential, the function will start to grow rapidly, as there will be interest for interest. Exponential in this case is time. Which is why the time is the most crucial factor for an investor. But as you can see, real world compounding has some issues. Although it's claimed to be eighth wonder of the world, let's see why it is not the eighth wonder of the world. Why compounding is not the eighth wonder? Imagine you start compounding your work. You start writing one minute today. Two minutes tomorrow. (100% return) four minutes day after tomorrow. On day ten you will be working for 17 hours approx. And day 11, you will run out of hours per day to work! Similarly when compounding works, the major problem is running out of resources. This is what happens with capitalism. Once there are billions in someone's pocket, he will run out of options where he can get a decent return. We don't have to look at complex problems to understand the nature of compounding. Imagine what would happen bees started to grow exponentially. They would completely swarm the earth in a few months and there will be no flowers for them to dine. If a tree start to grow exponentially over the years it will become massive and will collapse under its own pressure when it reaches the moon. This is exactly what happens to planets which are so big, ultimately becoming black holes. Now, you wonder what will happen to human growth right? As we have accumilated in numbers, exponentially over the years eventually, humans either destroy themselves by fighting for limited resources, or starve in peace, halting the growth either way. Population In principle compounding creates complex systems. And once a system is complex enough and large enough, the same forces which help them compound will no longer stay true, and it is bound to collapse at some point. A systems engineer might argue with this as safety checks are also advancing over iterations of new versions. However, there is only one crack needed to break the illusion of compounding. As you can see, compounding is, and is not the eighth wonder of the world, at the same time. I wonder Einstein saw these problems when he claimed its the ultimate eighth. But atleast one other person did, and its non other than Buddha, the ancient philosopher of India. Last words of Buddha In his last words to his deciples he said the following. "Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All compunded things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation." Buddha statue The compounding, in this context is not the compounding that Einstein quoted. But inclusive of that too. As compounding here has broader meaning of, "something created from combining other things". As some point in time those components separate, there would be no necessity to collect anything, as the outcome is inevitable of any compunding. So what is your experience in compunding? I am curious to know. 😁

Although I haven't talked about models of the world separately, this is a topic I would frequently visit. Hence, I thought about writing about it in a separate article. I will give you an overview first, uses and relevance to mindfulness in sequential order. Overview of models of the world Models of the world are, our mental imagery of how the universe function. Basically your model differs from mine. A child's model differs from an adult. A man's one differs from a women. Not only that, your yesterday model of the world differs from today, as more knowlege and experience have accumilated. You may think, why learn about models of the world, if they keep changing. Before answering that question, I will show you few other models of the world. A world can be modeled as a mathematical function. A financial model of the world will depend on the debt equity currency and growth. A biological model of the world is about biosphere. Then there are philosophical models of the world, Atheism theism deterministic and free will. As you can see each model of the world is good at answering specific questions. But when we try to answer a question from a different domain, it would be impossible or fundamentally fail. This is why a holistic approach to these models of the world is necessary. A model tree A holistic model of the world But is there a holistic model of the world? Is there a model of the world which can answer any question about anything? If your so called model of the world is unable to answer these questions, I invite to look more, read more and learn more about other models of the world. Until you find a uniform model. If you cannot and when you cannot find these answers turn into yourself. And that is the mindfulness experiment. How models are created with pattern recognition Let's look at a simple example. If you look at alphabet, you will see 26 letters. When we were kids we were introduced to phonics which were associated with them. And our brains magically started to recognise patters. As an example once we learn "t r e e" is tree, we could figure out "b e e" is a bee. Over time even complex abstract concepts. So fundemental to building a model of the world is our ability to do pattern recognition. In the chaotic world. Previously I wrote why mathematics is pattern recognition. But when we look carefully, we can see every model of the world is created from this same process of pattern recognition. We have done this for ages, since civilization started to flourish, we call it knowledge. But fundermentally these are just patterns we see. Patterned carpet Mindfulness model of the world It's raining outside my window. The mountain breeze is cold. This observation I made just now may look like reality for you when i write abiut it. But the rain, window, breeze and cold are just some patterns which I observed in the past. As the current experience closely resembles the pattern in my memory I tell that it is. But it's not the same rain, same window and same breeze. Just a new cross section in an eternal universal function. I'm not sure about you, but for me understanding this gives me a profound insight. Although I struggle through my life and understand this for myself, I see countless others came to same conclusions about life after their observations. I can name a couple, just to give some validity to this article. You cannot step into the same river twice - Heraclitus All compounded things are to vanish. - last words of Lord Buddha

I consider myself a gen z even if I'm just a millennial. Yet, I had hard time adapting to crypto as I did not understand the basics of money. Few months ago I cracked the code of money and argued myself "money is just a shared belief of value, in a inherently valueless item". You can read the article here . Consider Gold , which nobody eats, yet considered valuable, not only as a conductor, but as a useless collectable item. You will find them stacked in underground's of most of modern banks. Similarly printed papers with green numbers are considered valueble by humans. So, money is just a shared delusion of millions of people. Let's look at some characteristics of currency in general. Bitcoin Fundamental characteristics of currency For something to be considered as currency, it should have following characteristics. It should be difficult to make, or harvest. [Otherwise people will start harvesting more creating an inflation - Gold is inherently difficult to find in large quantities, so are dollars but what about crypto?] Large group of people should agree on its value. And agree to use it in trade. [ So Gold is not a real currency, yet people believe its value hence can be used as currency if needed. But can be cumbersome to carry everywhere in your wallet. Again what about crypto?] Everything right about crypto As you can understand not all, but some crypto have these two characteristics. Consider bitcoin. There are only limited number of bitcoins there will ever be in circulation. As numbers are limited, when everyone needs it it increases in value over time. But most importantly there would be no inflation! No government can print out more bitcoin even if they wanted. The price of bitcoin only will depend on its demand and limited supply, which is fair. And also because of the block chain technology, everyone would know who owns how much bitcoin they own and where they move over time. I can see with this regard that bitcoin as a more people oriented, futuristic currency than gold or even dollars. I am sure any government would agree where people trade without their influence unless its a universal government. But if all the people in the world wants just that, that will be an unavoidable future. Crypto currency seems to be increasing more than ever against all odds because of these reasons. Future More than ever we are seeking freedom from artificial boundaries the wealthy people have created with the help of ruling partes. And crypto seems to be a one step forwards taken by people. It looks more like a global movement against corruption than promoting just that. But I see some loopholes. Consider crypto with unlimited supply. If someone stepped in and decided to put out more Ethurum in the future, it will reduce the value of what you already have. So, I would be very careful if I ever put my hands on a crypto with unlimited supply. So far I have written positively about crypto. But why I had hard time understanding the value of it? It had to do with the generation gap. The gen z or the crypto lovers generation were born In a digital screen era. So digital screens are something persistent in their world. But we on the other hand have seen a world without them. We have seen how fragile hardware and software can be. Systems although so robust, can be wiped out entirely just by a global energy crisis. A threat of a computer virus might shake the belief of people in crypto. But I see benefits of a global currency outweighs above risks. Global trade will be free of manipulation by rulers. Boundaries of countries which are artificially made would nolonger will mean anything. Crypto might create a platform for a universal ruler and an ethical framework for everyone to function and be treated equally. It's just a dream, a good dream, a futuristic dream. Maybe in 50 years humans will come to these consensus when they understand co-operation will move development faster than artificial boundaries they created. What do you think about future of crypto? Are you fascinated by the concept like me?