What is the importance of a grain of sand.? Imagine you have been to the beach. Although it is far away, I have been to the beach many occasions in the past. You can see the waves, bubbles, constant humming noise of the sea, wind and the sand. Truckloads of pure sand dumped and washed by the sea with each wave. You can take a walk on these sandy beaches from one corner to the other, until you meet some rock formation. Imagine you bent down and picked up a handful of sand. Compared to the beach, it is less, but still, something you can look at with your naked eyes, and use to build something on the beach. But now take one grain of sand out of that thousand on your hand. If you drop the handful of sand still there would be plenty left on your hand. Most of them are barely visible. And even barely palpable with your fingers. So, they have lost the significance. As we can comprehend things in life only when they are macroscopic. When it is microscopic We have to find a way to magnify them. So, let's agree to the fact that a grain of sand has no significance in life. Sandy Beach: https://unsplash.com/@zerotake Grain of sand in a building. Let's imagine our grain of sand in a building. If you just remove a grain of sand from the structure of a building, nothing will happen immediately. The building will remain strong. But if you remove a grain of sand every day, still the building would last for few generations. however, will weaken over a millennium. And this is what actually is happening. A real building is losing its grains of sand every day. With a tiny bit of force from its edge, with corrosion, wind and rain, heated by sunlight, crushed by the weight of itself. Tiny atomic bonds loosen and grains of sand just change its composure to become free of bonds. Ultimately the building would weaken and collapse one day. So, Grain of sand is not important, and also, it is utmost important when taken collectively. Now consider this metaphor to the above quote by Emily Dickinson. Forever is composed of Nows - Emily Dickinson. When you consider life, it feels like a beach, a bulding, or a truck load of sand. It seems a lot and it seems important. It makes sense only when you look at life retrospect most of the time. We speculate the future with the amount of sand we see on the beach. However, life does happen with single grains of sand which on minute scale makes no sense. If taken alone, a second in your life doesn't matter. A second of your life during today would not even feel anything, It won't significantly affect the outcome. True? But I have shown you above that all what matters is the seconds. Imagine you stopped existing for a second in your life. I am sure you would disappear and die if that happens. That is how important a second in your life is. But the problem is our minds cannot comprehend a second, only can imagine it. Another example. Imagine a tiny cell in your body. How long does it take one cell to get a mutation and turn into a cancer? It is even less than a second. But if it happens and this tiny cell escapes all the repair mechanisms in your body would develop into full blown cancer in your body and there would be months and years of your life lost! That is how important the second in your life is. So what can we do when the forever is composed of nows? What can we do about seconds of life? There is nothing we can do other than to be aware of the present moment. If we just dwell in the past or even the future, the seconds which create life would be lost. We might not be able to see what happened during those times. Awareness is like the watchman of the Titanic, the ship. If you loose the consciousness to look at Jack And Rose on the deck, you will miss the iceburg and crash the Entire ship. Awareness can cost life! awareness can bult and enrich life. So, there is no time to be aware, as it is just now? The question is what are you aware of? Does it make sense?

Self-discipline What do you feel when I say self-discipline? A form of resistance, right? You will feel like there is some difficulty when you try to gain self-discipline. As mind always like to wonder, like and inquisitive child. It is hard to keep it in a place where it doesn't want to be in. But there are other things. Resilience: https://unsplash.com/@yenvu2410 Sometimes self-discipline feels like we should make an effort. Imagine you are an athlete. You want to become self-disciplined in your routine. You feel like you need to wake up before everyone else and run around. You feel like you need to control what you are eating and drinking. You feel you need to run the same route every day. You need to improve your technique and build your muscles so you can try winning the next race. But what if I told you there are some other aspects of self-discipline that we often neglect and overlook? One such aspect is that self-discipline starts with mindfulness. To be honest, everything starts with mindfulness. For a brief moment, we are aware of our feelings. Consider when you were angry the last time. How did you remember the incident if you were not aware? Before you lost your self-control and made a huge, shameful mess, there was awareness. But it was too brief and not enough to stop your reaction. But what if you were aware that discipline is all about reaction, not the feeling? mindfulness comes before self-discipline Let's consider the case of the athlete. Imagine he woke up early in the morning, as he planned. He walked for 15 minutes and ran for half an hour. The first day was fine. After a week, he would lose his self-discipline and fall off his routine. Unless he was aware of what was happening, he would revert back to his old self. He can be mindful and say he does not like watching Netflix until late at night. That doesn't work. He needs to be aware that there are barriers to his routine. It may be laziness, perhaps tiredness, or sometimes it may be family problems. If mindfulness is there, he can recognize each and every specific problem that might lead to failure and change the variables of his life so there are fewer problems likely to arise, and choose the response in advance using an if-then routine. It is all about making a comprehensive plan, or a system, considering all the failures. How can someone improve mindfulness? As you can see, mindfulness is very advantageous, or we can call it the first domino that falls when something falls apart. When mindfulness falls, there would be no recovery until it is too late and the end of the day. But each and every time, there are brief moments where you can take a pause and bring back mindful awareness. Mindfulness meditation practice is nothing but an exercise that we do to bring awareness to the present. It is difficult in real life when you are faced with real problems, when you are chasing illusions of life thinking it is reality. It is easier to practice mindfulness when you are free, alone, and calm. So, close your eyes and set aside time every day to feel what it is like to be you. This will help to increase the gap between your feelings and actions even when you are "not meditating."

I am not a politician. Even if I benefit from a clean and uncorrupted legal system, I would not be a policymaker. Or run for presidency. You can ask me all you want, I would not even run for local election, or even a leader in the Saturday book club. You would not find me talking about politics, in a forum, a gathering or here in the blog, except as a concept to illustrate a fact. And I wasn't all like this. Corrupted monitors Perhaps, in the past, once or twice I might have wanted that. Furthest I have gone is to become the "MONITOR of my class" Which was given to me by default. The power it gave me was enormous. I could ask the kids in the class to be silent. My mates would listen to me. I could write their names on the black board if they speak too loudly or disturb the peace. As I always loved the peace, I would write their names. If a teacher comes, he will find all the kids on the board and punish them. And only one who would get credit for this action would be me. That gave me the power. I am not sure whose name I wrote, if ever anyone got punished from my action. I would always erase the names. Perhaps it was a tit-for-tat game like described in the game theory. When they were co-operative, I would erase the name. Best game for the perfect outcome. However, I could see myself abusing power. In subtle ways. I know I could never play a drum. I am not capable of singing. When some kids start to play drums, I would write their names on the board. Part of me made me irritated I did not play the drum. Of course, their beats were great, and all I wanted to do was dance, like a monkey. Join them in the beat and make it a mini party inside the classroom. But instead, I wrote their names and erased them later. I am not sure, what I thought during that time. The power of "Keeping 50 students in life" means I have to use drastic measures. Presidency: https://unsplash.com/@claybanks Abuse of power Forget about the classroom. Consider our society there are so many people with so many thought patterns. Doing so many stuff guided by their selfish greed. A politician has to be strong. He has to take rough decisions to keep everyone in line. Send someone to prison and release them to the society when it is time. Just like they like to dance to the beat of the drum. Politicians would be the criminals if they were given the opportunity and the mindset. It's just a matter of human nature to follow selfish patterns. With this corrupt self, nobody in the power of a politician would not abuse it. Unless they are fully aware of it and have a strong enough will to overcome that. I haven't met many men or women who can just do that in real life. Maybe, I have once or twice seen a humble monk, who would not listen or follow their thoughts. To reach that goal, there is a long path of self-discipline. I am pretty sure; politicians are the ones who would avoid such tedious routes in life. So, I can see a politician is someone who is already corrupted and with hidden desire to abuse power, just when you chose to run for Presidency! For this reason, I would not consider myself running for presidency. As the job itself demands corruption.

Step number 1- 1% principle. Be the 1. There is a rule on the internet called 90-9-1 also called 1% principle. Which states that most of the people who surf the internet are just wanderers. They scroll, peep and swipe, they do not stay to comment or keep a like. They just come and go and that is 90% the Majority. Then there are some like, comment and share, they ask questions, they do engage, and that is minority which is 9%. Lastly there is 1% who post create and share. Not occasionally but regularly. They do this out of passion, or as their Job. They are the creators. So, if you are from that 1% group, this article is for you. Suprise: https://unsplash.com/@theshubhamdhage Step number 2 - How to become a creator That is the easy part. You already know what to do. You are a creator when you create something. Even when you fold a piece of paper to create an origami paper plane, you are a creator. Even when you cook your meal you are a creator. Even when you work in your garden caring for your tomato plants you are a creator. You just have to know that you are. And only way to be a one is to take actions and be aware of them. Step 3 - Consistency Matters, novelty comes late. If there is no creative idea in your head, start copying others. I am not asking you to plagiarize. I am just asking you to reuse the alphabet. Do not think you can start and introduce a new letter to alphabet on the day 1 of your creative journey. You must travel to the edge of the knowledge to do that. And the path will get steeper more you travel. So, consistency matters more than the outcome of your actions. Novelty comes later. There are no gifted artists in the world. Everyone is just an ordinary person with a belief that they were unique. Step 4 - Diversify early, Diversify late, Diversify throughout. Life is a search function. Think of your creative journey as a search function of google. Like a lightning strike which hasn't struck the ground. Your task is to find a unique territory where you can comfortably land with your full strength. The way to do that is by diversifying. This is a lesion I learned from Finance. Yes! from those boring people who learn about money. Diversifying is survival in a competition. You will spend a broken ordinary routine average creator if you are not open to opportunity and change. Diversifying is adaptation, like a squirrel who wants to survive a harsh winter in the wild. Search and gather all your nuts, although there are sunny days, winters will come for everyone. Step 5 - Enjoy En route. Not at the destination. Life is what happens when you are busy doing the ordinary. For a creator ordinary is creation. Life is what happens when you rehearse for your Ballet dance. Not at the moment when you perform on the stage. Life is what happens when you mix your paint, not you meet the audience when it is displayed in the Gallery. Life is what happens when you chose your words for your ordinary poem on a Tuesday morning, when all the others are sleep. So, be aware and present for your life, which otherwise you would remember as a suffering. Life is the struggle, and the suffering that you chose to endure. And that is true for every one of us.

I have been to the gem city once. But not to a mine itself. Yet I have seen plenty of gems. In fact, the other day I was reading avidly about the gems, especially blue big sapphires and Rubies and Emeralds. I have never touched a Sapphire or a Ruby. But in my mind, I am in love with Emeralds. They are called the queens of the Gem. A lush green transparent color gem with little cracks inside. Just like a person with scared past. However, cracks do not make these gems less worthy. Still investors spend millions of dollars on empty lands in Colombia mining them. People kill each other for these stones which are slightly shinier and with a tone. I do not know if they were skipped on a surface of water they would make same ripples. How come they are different from every shiny transparent thing I have seen in my life? Sapphires But there are more fascinating things about other gems. For an example, I have read about the Black star of the Queensland. Which was found by a 12-year-old boy in 1930. It was kept for a doorstop for decades until 1947. It was rediscovered and given its proper value after cut and polish to reveal its true nature, which has a six-pointed star reflection on its surface. To me this is just the perfect metaphor in some lives. They are not valued unless they are surrounded by people and circumstances which gives them a value. Unless they change their toxic environment and moved on. The Black star of Queensland had been the biggest Sapphire in the world until recently it was replaced by Star of Adam in Sri Lanka in 2016. Gemstone: https://unsplash.com/@gyostimages Star of Adam is a blue Stone, which has tiny inclusions in it. When cut and polished they create a star on their Surface. The price these stones are sell is astonishing, but nobody knows who bought this latest gem. But the story doesn't end there. Now the title is shifting from Star of Adam to Star of Pure land, a purple Sapphire again found in Sri Lanka with a weight of 3563 Carrots. Emeralds About Emeralds I have written a whole article. But not about their cracks. Emeralds also have inclusions inside them like Sapphires. They are called Jardin as sometimes represent a garden inside them. These liquid inclusions do not make them less valuable. Contrarily they increase the value of Emeralds when combined with their avid green color. Colombia, Zambia and Brazil are famous for Emeralds. If stones had personalities Emeralds would be the ones which have composed their personality even with deficiencies and bad memories. Rubies Rubies are the hardest on the scale to crack. If you checked Moh's hard scale, only Diamonds appear more than Rubies. They have colors ranging to pigeon blood to crimson. The chromium inside them gives them this color which can glow when applied by sunlight. Apparently the first Lazer demonstration was done in 1960, had used synthetic Ruby for their experiment. Rubies represent, the blood, love and toughness of a person. This is why the 15th and 40th anniversary are associated with Rubies. Although they have become increasingly rare to gain, and progressively increasing in price, when human minds crave them, you cannot stop them from Mining for them and buying. All the rest of the stones. I do not see a diffence between a Ruby, Emerald or a Sapphire. To my naked eyes they are just shiny things. Just like I remember them as a kid. Shiny things which might add color to my Toy basket. So, all the other Topaz, Toumalines, Amethysts and Opals, are similar in shininess to them. This is why it is hard to value a Gemstone. Hope we all can look at people with the same mind of a child who looks at a Gem and be fascinated with all the gardens and cracks we possess inside ourselves.

Have you ever searched for something? Perhaps your keys went missing, or you lost your purse somewhere. Maybe you are searching for a new land to build a house. Maybe It is just a car. Maybe you are looking for a spouse, or even someone missing in your life. No matter what the situation is the life feels like a search function. Have you ever contemplated about this? Life as a search function. Even a newborn baby cries as he/she is looking for her mother for some milk and warmth. Animals search for food, water and shelter. In times of the spring, they look for mates and x. Each and every time when they go on searching for something, they would eventually find it. Or something similar. And that will stop their search. At least for a while. For a half a minute actually, someone would not look for something, and we can call this peace. Next, their minds will fix on something else to search. Searching: https://unsplash.com/@irrabagon So, if you want to learn about life, I suggest you start thinking about this search function. More importantly following questions. What to search in life? How to search in life? Why search for anything in life? I will try to answer with my knowledge and limited wisdom. However, answers should be generated or recreated individually by each person. What to search in life? Whatever your heart desire Answer to this question, is it doesn't matter. Our likings and disliking's markedly differ. And opportunities provided to us in life are varied according to our environment. As an example, if you are born a son to a farmer in Vietnam you would be wanting to buy a tractor. That would be your search function for the rest of your life. But if you are born son to a Texas ranger, you would want to become a Rodio Bull Rider. Imagine you changed the location of the Ranger and the Farmer. They would definitely search for different things in life then. So, as far as what to search in life is concerned, we have to be more knowledgeable. More you have information your wanting will change in life. Today information is free, it's just a matter of choosing what to put inside the brain. It will get iteratively better when you start as each new information will improve the next one. How to search in life? - Search in parallel This was my mistake in life. The greatest mistake in life for someone is not to realize that search function is not linear. Like a Turing machine. Search function can be parallel. Without searching in a particular place at a particular time, you might want to run 100 search queries simultaneously. It is more likely you will hit the target in shorter period of time. We can call it having more options, or diversifying your portfolio, or even multitasking. (Although latter is a myth) Why life is a search function? Perhaps this is the hardest question of life. If you solve this problem, you will stop the search function entirely at your will. Imagine such a condition, where you can sit on a chair without needing anything, except for the physical pain of existence, there is no mental pain. And you might even stay until your hunger no longer bothers you, and nothing moves you away from your peace. Can meditation and mindfulness achieve such a state of mind? I am not sure, in a matter of days for few minutes of meditation it might not work. However, if we deliberately try to understand the process of mind over years and decades, the peace will eventually come, not in ways we assume it would, as mind is always run with an inherent error. And conclude itself the search for anything in life is meaningless.

Yesterday I was having a chat with the sky. And sky said I am trying to do business with everything. I thought, Mmmmmm.. maybe I am. Guess what? I did. I tried to commercialize the sky. But when I think about it, I realized the sky is already commercialized. Like everything else on earth, from a grain of silicon to charcoal, to a drop of oil to the wind which is evergreen. This article is a brief description on how to commercialize the sky. How to commercialize the sky? Sky is commercialized, by the Aviation industry. Thousands of aero planes fly over united states per day. If you look at a map, there would be 10000 of them in the sky. How about telecommunication? We have gone beyond the limits of the reach of humans and commercialized outer atmosphere. If you are rich enough you can travel to the international space station, for a large sum of money. Balloon: https://unsplash.com/@jasongooljar24 How about a hot air balloon ride? Would you like one in your summer vacation. You can look down upon the scenic beauty of cultivated landscapes of river valleys. Perhaps a skydiving, or even a helicopter ride would do good to your health. Literally some news agencies have commercialized the sky by putting up advertisements for everyone to see. If you are not rich enough to buy a balloon, you can fly a kite. Or even sell few when you have some free time. Take a photograph, of a beautiful sunset and post it on Instagram. Maybe a couple silhouettes of some aquatic birds would add a color to your imagery. If you upload them to Shutterstock Instead of Unsplash, you would be paid a premium by the ones who use your photo. But hilariously, this is the most stupid and funny thing. Imagine it, the sky is free for anyone to look at. Twice a day there would be beautiful colors painted across it during golden hours. If you are just capable of climbing to rooftop or a hill, you would definitely see the sight. But we are too busy to do this. Too lazy or too tired. Instead, we shamefully pay to someone else to take a photo and show us on our face for us to wow.. about it. How pathetic is the life of a modern man has become. How to claim the sky? It is easy. You just have to look at it, and pay attention when you do. Twice a day everyday, you just look at the clouds which drift ever so slowly and fast. You can just close your eyes and imagine how it looked this morning during the hard working day. You might occationally catch a moon which likes to hide behind clouds, shy and retracted. If you wait long enough it will reveal itself to show the full glory that it hides. All these things in life doesn't cost a penny. Yet, as we have commertilised our time instead the sky, we do not see the value of it. While someone esle have harvested the vision of our own eyes. By commertilising everything. If you are smart you can just follow them. Instead of looking and watching and contemplating, you can take a photo and post it in social media with a tag "Feeling Awsome". If it is worth. The question is, are you going to claim the sky today?

You are already a winner, If you woke up this morning when a thousand reasons there for you to get late. You are a winner, if you smiled with a fellow human being, despite knowing how unpleasant some of them are. You are a winner if you typed a sentence in you cooperate letters, with a smile. You are a winner if you drank plenty of water today, so future you are free of kidney stones. A winner: You are a winner if you kept a book open on your desk, for you to wake up and read tomorrow morning. You are a winner if you stayed 10 minutes before turning on the TV, contemplating on the couch about ghosts from your past, that you avoided confronting because of fear. You are a winner if you saw the sunrise today and did not miss the sunset. You are a winner if you stepped outside your home, in shitty weather, like a hydrophobic leaf You are a winner if you did not give a reason for your mind to get angry, and you are a winner if you watched your anger so it wouldn't break something precious You are a winner if you dig up a mine, in search of emeralds, although you came back empty handed in vein. You are a winner if you ate a piece of fruit, an apple, orange or a plate of cabbage, like a cow. You are a winner if there is one single person who says they do love you, and you are a winner if that person is you. You are a winner if you can spend a day in silence, observing everything from door frames and cob webs. You are a winner if you gets invited to a party on a Tuesday, even if you do not enjoy the wine that they offered. You are a winner still if you could go back home and be the kid that never grew up. You are a winner if you find reasons to smile in an ordinary life, when there are dreams to be chased, deeds to be done and thousands of errors haunt you. You are a winner, if you can visit a grave and think about the lives spent by those who are dead, and question your own reality. You are a winner if you can hear a fish shout in pain, loneliness and shame of unable to swim out of its bowl. You are a winner if there is a place where you can be quiet and peaceful once a day, you are a winner if you chose to meditate You are a winner even if you lose your life, a job, a spouse or a child, if you did not forget to make an effort to make things right. Beach: https://unsplash.com/@daviddiveroli You are a winner if you saw a single cloud, a tree a bird perhaps pecking on its bough, looking for tiny insects dwell in its bark You are a winner if you noticed an ant a spider or a gecko, crawling down the cieling, like you used to notice when you were a kid. You are a winner if you call a friend, give some help, or even get up and have some food. As I have seen depressed weary and weak who cannot do any of those but still lives a life.

Oldest problem of philosophy - Seneca occupation Until recently I thought the problems of modern man were very recent, due to the development of urban culture. It seems majority of the people in the city are stuck in some job doing things and getting busy by themselves without actually living a life of their own. But apparently this is not a very modern problem than industrial revolution created. Rather industrial revolution and development have created more opportunities for more men to live a virtuous life. In the case of Seneca, the wealthy stoic adviser to the roman Emperor 2000 years ago, he himself have tried to address the problem of human occupation. This article is exploring his approaches to it. Birds : https://unsplash.com/@gdfoto Life as a bank account Imagine time you can live as a bank account. You make a withdrawal every day and you cannot return it. Bank account slowly gets depleted over time. Think about life as a depreciating asset than something you build and crash at the end to become zero suddenly. Then more important question to ask is what would you spend your withdrawal on today? Would you tire yourself acquiring more wealth and status, which you cannot keep for yourself without exerting day after day? Would you spend your hours on TV looking at information you did not want to receive in the first place, but given to you on accordance to someone else agenda? Would you read a book you do not want to read, or be somewhere you do not want to be? Would you spend time with some people who you do not appreciate but just carry on as circumstances necessitate this? Answers to these problems is YOU WOULD NOT! If you do understand the true currency of life is the time you live on earth, and the true wealth you gain is experience and knowledge exploring yourself and others, you would spend your time on creating more opportunities to these rare moments. I can give you a list of rare moments of human life. It seems not only in this modern society, but they were also rare in the era of Roman Emperor 2000 years ago. Priceless rare experience you can get in life. A man seated on a chair thinking about nothing is a rare wealth. A person who spends five minutes without wanting anything in life is a rare sight. Someone walking down a busy road observing the nature is a rare phenomenon. A young person going to bed and waiting in silence for the sleep to come is a rare situation. A man who stays in silence and responding calmly when someone blames is rare A man doing some favor to someone else without anything in return is rare. Being content with what you have now is a rare life experience. A living man, not being afraid of death is fulfilling. Not wanting to be anywhere else but here, now is a rare life experience. Watching a bird chirping in the garden and hopping away looking for worms is a rare sight for an adult. As you can see, these priceless experiences in life don't cost anything, as all the ingredients necessary are given to us by default. The key factors missing are understanding. Our tendency to learn what we should value, from our ancestors, not from within ourselves. It rarely has anything to do with our jobs, or occupation. But if they seem hindrances, and spill over to your life spoiling your ordinary experience, perhaps it is time to act upon Seneca wisdom, which is applicable to even today. If you remember that your time is limited, ordinary moments become more valuable. -Senecca

Presence of a visible audience. Imagine a play, a dance of ballet or a show or comedy. The actors have a place to perform, which is in front of the audience. They prepare their whole lives to act. They do numerous rehearsals, plot changes, and expensive costumes. They make sure the stage is well lit, and elevated above the ground so everyone can see. On the day of the performance, they get ready in the backstage putting a final make up before entering the arena. And they do a breathtaking performance leaving a visible audience with an awe. This is an example of a visible audience, but where is the invisible audience? Visible Audience: https://unsplash.com/@headwayio Presence of an invisible audience. Invisible audience is invisible. So, many of us do not know it is present. However, artists and creative workers, even scientists spending their entire lives cracking millennial problems know the presence of an invisible audience. Imagine our actors while they rehearse their play. They do this before the actual performance begins, to an invisible audience before the play begins. Imagine an artist painting. He does this in front of an invisible audience, before the artwork displayed in the gallery in front of a visible audience. A worker in a co-operate office function to impress his/her boss or colleagues. They try to entertain an invisible audience by doing this, even though to the actual audience, you are just a piece of domino, which can be replaced. Uses of invisible audience. The invisible audience gives a motivation for anyone to work on a task which gives a delayed reward of appreciation. The anticipation of this reward makes us work hard and longer hours. In fact, most of our lives we have been following signals of this invisible audience to change our direction in life. Dangers of an invisible audience. The natural tendency to follow this invisible audience is dangerous. The ruminations going through our minds when we practice our performance in life, is not real at all. Often this is far different from the visible audience. Invisible audience is speculative, and always rewarding. Presence of an invisible audience might even make someone anxious. But the visible audience on the other hand behave differently. We cannot predict how they would behave watching our performance as correlation with this visible and invisible audience is poor. Often invisible audience misguide us. As a real audience is really unpredictable in their reactions, speculation with the invisible audience is a bad practice. Self-sufficiency is the key to tackle with invisible audience. Imagine you are self-sufficient. Self-sustained and self-fulfilled. This is a real happy place to be, as the external audience, either visible or invisible would not affect the act, performance or the art. There would be no validation you seek from the boss, neither from your invisible parents and not from your family. Not even when they are present, not when they are not present. There would be only an action, which you would do regardless, which is the only thing that matters in life and only thing we should focus on improving. Our real character will be visible to us when we perform without any audience, visible or invisible.

Ever since her mother made crepes for Lily she wanted to make them on her own, whenever she was hungry. So, the other day she wrote down the recipe on her diary. And kept it with her. One Saturday, she wanted to make some crepes. First, was to melt some butter into a bowl. That was easy, she just cut some butter put it in a bowl and heated it in the oven. Second was to crack an egg to another bowl. She hit the egg with back of the knife just like her mother asked to do. Kept it over the bowl and cracked it open with fingers. Oppps! suddenly the egg cracked with force and egg was spilled everywhere except into the bowl! Crepes :https://unsplash.com/@maxniceman "Oh dear" Mother said sympathetically, and Lily was sad. "Egg is spilled all over my frock, and on the floor, and I ruined your cooker mom. It is everywhere!" "Do not worry dear, why don't you go to the bathroom and change your dress, we will crack another egg" So, Lily white cleaned herself and let her mother crack the eggs and mix the ingredients. She did not want to do it anymore as she was very sad. "I am never going to crack the eggs; it is so hard!" So, Lily did not, crack the eggs next time they made crepes, or waffles, or anything which needed eggs to be cracked. It was about a fortnight later, they were at the kitchen, and this time Lily wanted to crack the eggs again. She had almost forgotten last time, what disaster it was to spill eggs all over the kitchen. And she cracked an egg and this time it was far worse. The egg was broken again with so much force that it even went on her hair. She had a full change of clothes and a bath, before eating "Mom made" crepes again. And she told Rosy, "I am never going to crack eggs ever again". "Oh, Lily that was just an accident, I want you to learn how to make crepes. So, we can make them whenever we are hungry. Grandma doesn't know how to make them, so when Mom is not there, we can do it with her" "Hmmmm... I will think about it. I will try one more time. Cracking eggs is the hard part!" So, in a few days, Lily was seen in the kitchen with her father this time. She wanted to show him how to make crepes. And once again she tried to crack an egg into the bowl. Blooooob... The egg did crack this time, half went into the bowl with butter, quarter of it on the floor and quarter of it spilled all over Lily's dress and even on her face. And it was a rotten Egg ! It was stinky like a dead rat. Lily was crying and everyone tried to console her. Rosy was looking at everything from the dining room with her nose closed. It was the worst smell of all. Project crepe was an utter failure. They stopped working in the kitchen. Father ran a bath on Lily and sprayed water on her, like she was a puppy. Half and hour rubbing with all kinds of soap did not make the odor go away. It took almost one day for it to completely gone. "I am never going to make crepes again" She was sobbing and crying. "I think you should try again Lily" "Why?, it is going to happen again" Lily said. "I know it is going to happen again, but what is the worst can happen? You have cracked a rotten egg! There is nothing worse than that. If you want to make crepes. I guess there is no way out. YOU NEED TO CRACK YOUR EGGS! " "Hmmmm.." It was only after another two weeks Lily finally cracked her own eggs, completely into the bowl. And she already knew how to do the rest. They did a cooking demonstration to Grandmother next day on "How to make Crepes". There was a note on Lily White's diary, and it was about Crepes. How to make crepes Ingredients 1 cup (125 g) flour 2 eggs 1½ cups (360 ml) milk 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 tablespoon sugar (for sweet crêpes) ¼ teaspoon salt DO NOT PUT BAKING POWDER! Mix the ingredients, until it is smooth. Like mom says, no amount of butter is less or more. And no baking powder. After mixing I ask my mom or dad to cook it for me. Hardest part of making crepes is breaking the eggs. I am getting better at it. It is good that I did not stop after I cracked the rotten egg. Although I feel stinky when I remember it. We love crepes. Me and Rosy would never ever be hungry again when MOM is not here! The best part is how Rosy loves it when I make them instead of mother.

Understanding past. I am not going to trick you and divert you to some AI generated hypothesis to discuss current hypothesis about time travel. But simply, I am going to discuss how, what and why understanding past has an enormous impact on my own life. So, if you follow the arguments, you will see this also apply to your life too. If it doesn't, fine, you can move on to the next article or the cat picture you need to see on your screen. The past, as I have discussed before has no evidence to its presence. I can give you a memory of the past. Something happened 80 years ago like Hiroshima bombing. But to create the feeling of the past, first we have to imagine that there is a one! By bringing out a memory which mind has gone through before. But we forget when we do that, that memory location is not in the past. That memory location points exactly to the present. What we are doing is, filling up our now, with a past experience. So truly speaking, I can say there is now, but not the past and the future. Past: https://unsplash.com/@jack_1 It is important to contemplate on the above fact, as long as necessary. Do not let it slip your mind just as a nice idea. As understanding that would have enormous impact on everything that you do. Everything ordinary, extraordinary that you are planning to do today would depend on your past and future projection. Your meaning and values stand on the believe that there is Time, like a continuum. However, this is just a one interpretation of the understanding of the world. There are few people who find fault even do not believe that this interpretation is wrong. And they are not wrong either. Only when you contemplate on this fact long enough in various situations you would understand the illusion of life. After all this blog is about mindfulness. What better practice there other than contemplating on Now? Can your chang your past? Absolutely Yes! The solution comes from the form itself. If past is just a memory in the mind which we interpret in the present, perhaps we can interpret it better. So, we feel more productive and alive. As an example, imagine some stupid thing you have done in the past. I am sure there are loads of things in your memory bank. When you remind of this thing, just cut off the label Stupid, and look at it just like you would look at a thing. This stripped naked thingness in everything in life is neutral. From there you can put a any topping you like. You can think about alternative routes you could have taken and ask "Then what" until you find the meaning of all of this. As an example, consider you are on a vacation and now you think you should have been at home. Ask Then what? What would happen if you were at home? You would do ordinary stuff, walk to the park, watch some TV. Ask Then what? You would sleep and the day would end. So, a couple of days would end, and you will meet yourself in the future. Ask then what? The life will go on as usual. As you can see, there is no end to it. Nothing remains in the mind including your sad and happy thoughts. But the past would be changed indirectly with your interpretation. Another thing you can do is to think about exact circumstances that lead to your decision during that time. We take decisions with available information, although when viewed in retrospect, we might find faults, we cannot recreate exact circumstances in mind, and these will be never replicated in the future. So, truth is past is merely a gone function. There is nothing to learn from it by thinking back. Whatever gained can be used as information for current decision making. Other than that everything can be discarded the moment it arises in mind like a piece of a rotten banana. So, that is it. So far I have given two ways for you to recreate your past. One is to create a new painting over your previous picture. Other is discard your old ones entirely with rational thinking. Hope this helps.