Here, your write up throws up four or five main
issues for which or through which or to grasp the relevance or relationship of
these things life churns up its experiences and encounters. These things are
not necessary in this order but 1. What is happiness or what factors lead to
real happiness? 2. What is reality or
have we realized the truth of what is reality to declare with axiomatic
certitude that something is reality and something is happiness etc? 3. How we
perceive things, i.e. what is perception? 4. Evaluation, what is it and how do
we evaluate anything or anyone and how can we be sure that our method of
evaluation is the best one? 5. What is the role, relationship, relevance and
our interaction viz à viz gadgets?
Before we get into explaining all these we must
accept a broad premise, that is , we
can neither defy nor deny the importance, relevance or existence of anything or
anyone .Everyone and everything is a piece in the jigsaw puzzle called life .
Life is not a mere biological accident. It is boon to be enjoyed, enriched, experienced
and enlightened by every individual with a sense of gratitude for everything
that happens and towards everyone that we encounter.
I am flooding you
with some very lengthy materials with lots of links but I can assure you that
all these will be inspiring and instigating the thought process.
1. On reality
2. Evaluations
Coming to the aspect of evaluation, how to normally encounter
and evaluate any subject or topic?
It is preferable to immerse any topic or subject
matter, primarily and basically with its intrinsic
elements/components/aspects/attributes intact, into a cauldron
which has a mixture of all these- knowledge based analysis, limited
perception based on frames of reference and scales of observation, skepticism ,
criticism, intellectual scrutiny, compassionate emotionalism, humane socialism,
rational thinking, contextual relevance [ which includes too many components] ,
traditions, practical viability, psychological comfort, aesthetic sensitivity,
scientific scrutiny etc and churn the cauldron without clinging on to any
particular restrictive social, cultural or political or religious identity.
This process inevitably will bring out lot of outputs. We can
exercise our freedom and sometimes select and choose some of the outputs.
Sometimes the outputs will draw us. Sometimes away from all or any of our intended
searches and seeking, outside the circle of these known paradigms, almost
tangentially serendipity will drag us to an oasis of serene clarity.
At all costs the intrinsic attributes must be
the predominant factor. So
that, whatever is thrown into the cauldron and however it is churned, the
ultimate output must include those attributes to ensure that our evaluation
is not distorted or desperately doctored to fit into any predefined and
expected outcome.
So, what pans out ultimately depends on various factors and
aspects some of which are explainable within the ken of logical and rational
thinking but some are beyond these.
We can also observe uneasily how the human intellect polished by
a rare faculty [compared to other species] of conscious awareness, capacity
to think, store the knowledge, retrieve it for reference etc, is mostly,
unwilling to take the risk of accepting the uncertain; the intellectually
undecipherable and the inexplicable outcomes, even if such acceptance is
branded, extolled and promoted as virtues of humility or modesty.
For example if one is evaluating music, one must ensure that
music quality/musicality as an intrinsic aspect must be highlighted and then
evaluate the other extraneous factors like who renders it, how it is rendered,
who is the composer, what is the composition, what is the lyrics, how is the
acoustic quality, how the person who is rendering it is dressed, how was the
ambiance of the place where it was rendered etc.
This blog posting delves rather deep into the process of evaluation
Specifically the link in that http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/12/story-of-mango-fruit-sambar-and.html
If you have enough time you may go through this as well.
3. Happiness
4. Perception
5. Gadgets
But for spectacles most of us would
all be grouping about with defective vision. Without microscope we would have
never known the microbes or molecules. So every garget also is born to fulfill
a specific need. Without recording devices we would have lost lot of great
music etc
Gadgets are semi gods, if not gods.
I wish all of you read the wonderful book by Thomas Crump ‘A
brief history of science as seen through the development of scientific
instruments’ to get an idea as to how these inventions have shaped our lives in
many ways.
6.
Gather
knowledge from as many sources as possible
“All
of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule
and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power
arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
We
must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always
expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly
entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves
to be, we become.” Grace Speare.
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