Questions and Answers... And other stuff..

I like to think of myself to be a reasonable person. Not too buff, not too smart and so on.. However sometimes the world tends to turn differently then what I expect it too. Well, the reason for that is that I am not even in charge of giving the "turn" to the world, if you know what I mean.. The higher power definitely jumps in from time to time to show you how wrong you actually are, and sometimes even how right. But that's not the issue here. I doubted if I am the kind of person who is easily in the "likeable" category, but God intended otherwise I guess.. He wanted me to have the hugest impression of myself.. Very confusing no? I think so too.. :P God.. ahh that's an interesting topic and I think a topic to even separately talk about. I mean a self-sentient being in charge of my actions? Not only mine but all the people of my community, of my country, of my...... and so on.. And then to define who "me" is??? GOSH!! hahaha.. You need to really take a chair, a hot cup of tea (with lots of honey) and just think about your real identity.. Whom do you actually refer to when saying "I", "me", "mine"? To this body composed of several elements? Or to something far beyond our conception, mostly referred to as the soul? Even that simple concept of who "I" am, is something which the whole world is discussing since time immemorial. In the ancient Indian scriptures it is said "Tat tvam asi" = that art thou.. OK! Thanks, I am that! Who are we? Some say we're god, some say we have him in us. Ok, let's take it for real that we're god.. Then why do we suffer? oof oof.. such a difficult subject. Well we suffer because.. uhh, the soul fell into illusion.. EXCUSE ME? We're god, yet we fell into illusion? Isn't the very definition of God to be all-powerful and so on and so on? Then how can god fall into illusion??? Well.. because.. I dunnow? Ok.. Other concept then, we have god in us. We're getting to a more acceptable theory. God is in us... Why does he let us suffer? Well, he doesn't, we are suffering because of the choices we make. Why are those choices even there, if it's going to make us suffer? Why did he create those choices? Because... the living entities have a free will, and in order to have free will, we should be able to differentiate between certain things, and what is more basic to differentiate then good and evil? Point taken? or still unclear? I don't think so!

A Common Mistake

A fault we often make is to forget to actually apply lessons that we learn. I was just in a class which was about the avoidance of actually blaming each other, and looking at others faults. Just afterwards however a girl started criticizing one of my friends. I mean, you just learned about something.. isn't it logical to try to apply it? Well, on the other hand why should I complain I mean, then I wouldn't be better off than her.. I guess it's because I wanted to learn something from it. To learn doesn't simply mean to only hear and trying to understand even. To learn is to understand and thereafter apply. What's the use of learning something which does not help one in his/her life? As Abbe Dimnet said in his Art of Thinking: "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.".. This of course does not only apply to children, but actually to people in general. One only learnt something when he has learned to apply it in his life. :)

A New Beginning

Sometimes I think that my life is intended for something entirely different.. and then on the other hand how do I really know? Yet we all plan and think we have a goal, and that we'll actually reach there, someway or the other. I just took the decision to really dedicate myself to one certain aspect of my life, and that for sure shall never change. Sometimes I think it is a too big of a step for me, especially now at my age, yet I know that I am right. Isn't it funny how we can decide things like this? We all know that our life is intended for something and I think mine is definitely for this purpose.

I was just thinking yesterday when I had a cup of tea. I told my mother that the tea was just perfect to drink, it was not too cold and not too hot. Funny no? I just actually stumbled upon a very big philosophical point. "What does man think to be perfect?" That which is in balance (e.g. not too hot and not too cold). Yet we always tend to go to extremes. I have a friend and he was in a big fix. The authorities were telling him to go from one extreme to the other.. However, when he did that, it became apparent that going from one extreme to the other does not solve anything. I told him that the only way to come to an agreement, it doesn't have to be a solution, rather a collaboration, is when you make a balance in things. Just a thought for the day I guess...