A Self Check-Up

 Are We The Shelter of The Positive Feelings?

First a brief intro on how we grow while sheltering positive feelings and decay while sheltering negative feelings, and how we contribute both to the positive and negative world events.

Many researches had concluded that the negative feelings are one of the causes of diseases mostly affecting the performance of vital organs in our body irrespective of whoever is responsible for them. Also recovering from sickness becomes fast when we harbour the positive feelings.

A self check up if we are the shelter of positive or negative feelings will help us to retune our mind to live with joy.

The self check up will yield good results if done in a lonely place preferably in natural surroundings.

The Self Check Up

1. Today from morning till now how many positive feelings and negative feelings I had experienced?

2. Replace today by the current week and repeat the self check up.

3. Replace week by the month and repeat the self check up.

4. In my life, how many persons in my social circle are the sources of positive feelings and how many are the sources of the negative feelings?

5. To how many persons I am responsible for their positive feelings and negative feelings?

The above self check up, like a self X-ray check up, will reveal if you are the shelter of positive or negative feelings.

Also it will provide the guidance to distant yourself from the sources of your negative feelings as well as from the persons to whom you are the source of their negative feelings.

To judge who is right and who is wrong to indulge in blame game is a powerful intoxicating path to shelter the negative feelings.

Let us do the self check up periodically so that we always remain the shelter of mainly positive feelings contributing to self growth and world peace as noted below. 
 

As briefed in ' Lesson from Bamiyan Buddha' (http://veepandi.blogspot.in/2013/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html ), all positive and negative world macro level actions can not be separated from the micro level actions of the human beings. It is like the link between micro level behaviour of the molecules and macro level behaviour of the gas comprising the molecules.

The self check up will enhance the skill of the dynamic practice of attachments to the growth and detachments to the decay (briefed in a post below) .

 

To Enjoy The Music & Dance in Nature

 Free the mind  

During a chill morning walk on a road with coconut trees in a field on the left of the road, I was thinking about the problem in my music software project, and soft cool winds embraced my face. I felt it was a slap on my face reminding me to look at the coconut trees.

I felt guilty, regained my sense of balance and started enjoying the view.

The leaves and the branches were dancing in a rhythmic fashion with music from distant birds adding value.The coconut trees in linear symmetry , matching the dynamic change in the angle of my view during the walking, offered a joyful nature slide show.

We always get what we deserve in our lives.

Even in the midst of natural surroundings of trees, river, hills, etc, if we continue to think of our problems and unfulfilled wishes, we will be denying ourselves the music and dance in nature.

I felt guilty as narrated above, because I sensed it as symptom of my drowning in a life of induced needs and interests (the money value being lost due to the delay in completing my music software product).

I need to earn to live. But I can not live just for earning. I shall not miss the joy in nature just because I need to earn.

So I decided to free my mind in the midst of nature and later switch on to my work and problems when I am in the midst of the concrete structures and similar robot like humans in rat race (briefed in a post below)

I shall continue to feel guilty whenever I loose the above balance.

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Beware of the Human Rats Race

- Also The Use value of Human Rats Network

No doubt one needs to earn money to survive in this world.

Developing more than one employable skill while being alert to emerging scope of money earning will help meaningful survival.

Depending on the changing environment, one's skill may attract more income than expected tempting to more money earning.

Interestingly one has to be beware of the critical point , if one has to safeguard himself/herself from being dragged into the human rate race of money earning - becoming end instead of means to happy life.

Below the critical point one will have time to help others and enjoy nature, retaining his/her human dimension.

Above the critical point, the person’s total focus becomes earning money. All his/her time and all the social contacts need to be connected to money earning. 

In no time the person will find himself/herself in human rat race for money earning, falling into the infection of comparison (briefed in a post below).

Within a short time his/her social circle will be dominated by human rats within a small range above and below his/her ‘social status’ – all the rats including him/her feeling down by comparing with the more successful human rats far above their social status.

To conserve their energy and focus to progress into the social circle of the higher human rats, they need to avoid ‘wasting’ their time, money and energy on non-money earning activities like helping others without a hidden agenda, enjoying nature, etc.

All relationships including husband- wife, parents-children, friends etc will become strong or weak depending on its use value to money earning.

In the course of time, when they die, they just die as human rat with the funeral matching their ‘social status’ of the human rat and with the absence of genuine human grief.

The critical point of the human rat race depends on our life style. A simple life fulfilling our natural needs and interests will have a lower critical point. The magnitude of the critical point will increase in proportional to the magnitude of the infection of comparison we suffer from.

As the magnitude of the critical point increases, our freedom to get out of the human rat race will decrease.

 Use value of Human Rats Network

In fact , to those who opt out of the rat race, the human rat race become an object of enjoyment  like the horse race  - of course without need for betting on the winning human rat.

It can be a source of enjoyment like a cinema in which we are just the observers with the freedom to walk out, if we do not like the show.

We shall not forget about the powerful dimension of the several social net work of human rats.

Like a drowning person trying to survive by grabbing any viable strong hold - not bothering about its dirt ,we can 'grab' the viable contact in the above network when our survival becomes a problem.

After escaping drowning, the person will not continue to spend the rest of his life continuing his contact with that dirty strong hold.

Similarly we can use the above human rats network for short periods for preventing our drowning or for watching a 'cinema' , never permitting ourselves to become one more human rat. 

Blessed are those who could lead a simple life 
without the need to please or fear any human rat.

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Lesson from Bamiyan Buddha

  

As one closely associated with the late Ganapathi Sthapati (former Principal, Government Colleges of Architecture & Sculpture, Mahabalipuram, Chennai http://www.vastuved.com/),

I know the creative value of the following sculptures.

“The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,202 ft). Built in 507 CE, the larger in 554 CE, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art.”
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

Words will fail to express my sadness as the above statue was damaged as shown in the following figure in the above link.

Assuming the media version of their destruction in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols, 

I still feel that every one of us is responsible for it as reasoned below.

All positive and negative world macro level actions can not be separated from the micro level actions of the human beings. It is like the link between micro level behaviour of the molecules and macro level behaviour of the gas comprising the molecules.

Whenever I harbour sustained anger and hatred towards any person or group of persons, I contribute a share to the net resultant negative erupting at macro level.

One such negative resultant  damaged the above statue.

To prevent such occurrences, I shall become a source of positive feelings and if negative feelings (like anger, hatred, jealousy etc) stage unforeseen entry, I shall consciously drive them out without sustaining them. I had found out that such unforeseen entry could be prevented if we free ourselves from the infection of comparison (explained in a post below).

Our contribution to negative become zero if we die to the negative persons.

If you are angry with the negative person, hate the person, you contribute to his/her negative magnitude. 

As explained in a post below (‘Can you be angry with Mathematics?’), when you die to a person, you multiply him/her with zero, making him/her zero with respect to you. In turn your magnitude becomes infinite with respect to him/her -  as you divided by that zero becomes infinite.

When such ‘free’ small kings like us (briefed in a post below) increase in number, the mischievous negative resultants in the world become weak. 

Instead of feeling helpless and dejected, we can initiate the above process with confidence and we will experience the results at our end soon and at macro world level, may be, in our life time.

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You Are Your King;

 Be a ‘Free’ king with small kingdom than a ‘slave’ king with big kingdom

Blessed are those, who could lead a simple life without the need to please or fear anyone. Their social circle will be small.

As a king, they will have the ‘sovereign’ power to decide anything connected with his/her life. Like a king, they will get advises/suggestions from their well wishers – his/her ministers. In terms of wealth, influence & power, it will be a small kingdom of a ‘free’ king, not enslaved to any ‘big’ king.

Their ‘sovereignty’ will become tainted once they strain to increase their kingdom beyond a threshold limit decided by the society/country they are living.

They need to enter into a social power network befriending those whom they do not respect in their heart. They need to do things they may not like to do otherwise. All these have a price tag of subordinating their sovereign power (self esteem) to a higher power center/person.

Soon they will have a ‘big’ kingdom, but they become a kind of ‘slave’ king. Imagine how their lover, husband/wife, children, friends, etc will undergo character transformation (to loose their self esteem in proportional magnitude) to be with him/her to ‘enjoy the – shameful- benefits’ due to many kinds of wrong doings.

No need to explain that any society/country that encourages such ‘slave’ big kings will have to go down in meeting the genuine demands of the citizens.

The potential to free that society/country rests with the free small kings.

All free small kings will try to encourage the growth of many free small kings so that their kingdom is not further reduced due to the  power thirsty ‘big kings’ acting like robots without human value.

The difference between a slave big king and free small king will be revealed in the ‘help’ they render to others. Any help from ‘big’ king will have a price tag of benefiting the big king in one way or other. But a small king’s help will be non-commercial without any hidden selfishness.

Hence the small kings with awareness can encourage the growth of many small kings, easily over throw the big kings and save the society/country in the course of time. Hence ‘Small is not only Beautiful’, but also powerful.

Tail piece:   Beware of the Interesting hidden dimension of the ‘big’ kings

The ‘big’ kings release a part of their disgust in their kingdom, when they meet the ‘small’ kings they trust.
 
Few ‘big’ kings in political parties may share the most unpalatable words about their leader (‘emperor’) to whom they fall at the feet when ever they meet the leader.

They will not hesitate to desert the leader to join the opponent leader and fall at his/her feet for better benefits. 

Unless the ‘big’ kings are kept at a distance, the small kings will be infected or loose their ‘free’ kingdom.

For Joyful Life

Like dissonance in music,

experiencing shame will help joyful life

A joyful life will be like a very good music.

A very good music will invoke different kinds of feelings to the person enjoying the music.

The musical notes in compositions have a relationship among themselves like human relationship, cordial, friendly (different kinds of consonance), shame, inimical, and hatred etc negative feelings (different kinds of dissonance).

A music always avoiding dissonance notes may turn out to be dull and monotonous.

The unique aesthetic dimension of Beethoven’s symphony is the exemplary employment of the dissonant notes to bring out rare emotions culminating in the unforgettable experience while enjoying his music.

Do we live  like a good music?

More than the pride, the feeling of shame has deeper implications to the person experiencing it. Every human being in his/her life will have some phases to experience his unique quota of shame.

We will be missing the experience of our quota of shame in our lives, if we try to evade it due to our obsession with our ‘image’.

If we always aim to improve our ‘image’ in the view of even our close circle (lover. Husband/wife, children, friends, etc), we will have to suffer the infection of comparison (explained in a post below).

One of the dominant symptoms of that infection will be to hide at any cost our experiencing the shame.

Suppressing such feelings will amount to transforming that energy from visible to latent form. Suppressed negative feelings are one of the causes of diseases mostly affecting the performance of vital organs in our body.

Also that in turn will transform our human relationships into a kind of robotic - programmed   to raise our ‘image’ in the view of our social circle.

Like the music always avoiding dissonance notes, our lives may turn out to be dull and monotonous, stressful while chasing the mirage of improving our image in the view of others.

Tail piece:  To motivate others in my circle not to avoid the valuable experience of shame, I started openly admitting my mistakes, shortcomings, failures etc exhibiting openly my experiencing the feelings of shame. To my surprise, it started elevating my ‘image’ in their view, instead of motivating them. I am still researching to overcome that failure. Some had concluded that I lived like a fool, a small consolation to the former.