What is it?

What is that which can get you out of hell? What is it that can satisfy all desires at once? What is that knowing which everything else can be known? What is it that lifts the spirit of man from the lowest depths imaginable? What is it that transforms despair into ecstasy? What is it that inspires the highest feeling? What is it that lies at the heart of all things? The answer to all these is the same - It is Love.

Force

What is a force? Be it gravity, electromagnetism or nuclear, it is something that effects an object. If there were no forces, there would be no change. Imagine a world in which force does not exist. Such a world would be changeless. But what is the cause of force itself? What is it that causes change to take place? Life is change. What causes life to change? What is life itself? Some believe that all forces originate from a field. What is it that causes this constant motion and change in all things. Maybe every object has a field surrounding it. When any two objects interact, their fields overlap and this overlap of fields causes force.

Boredom

So, here I am once again. Let us explore boredom today. So what exactly is boredom? From my experience, boredom is that feeling of isolation and time slowing down. The sensation of having all the time in the world and yet having nothing to do with it. No goal in mind. Worst is the terrible sense of isolation that boredom invariably brings along. And the thoughts that come with it. The feeling of just wasting your life doing nothing. The angst of having nothing but your own thoughts for company. The feeling of just wanting to burst out of your body. And also the fear of watching life pass by while you doing nothing. Feeling contracted. Feeling separate from everything around you. Its strange but I notice that people derive their sense of self worth primarily from their job, from what they do for a living. So for someone who does not have a job, feelings of worthlessness do show up. And since such a person also has the most time on his hands and therefore more likely to feel bored which when coupled with feelings of worthlessness can also lead to depression which can become a cycle. This leads to apathy and lethargy which leads to inaction and thus the cycle widens.

Learning

Learning is something that is very important to me. I love to learn. Learning is nothing more than observation and remembering what you already know to be true. A keen observer will be a good learner. This includes both, the observation of the internal as well as the external world. Observing one's own thoughts and emotions is an equally powerful way of learning as is observing the external environment around us. For what we see as the external world is merely what our brain processes from the information that it gathers and projects that image in front of us. What we as human beings process is really only a very small fraction of information and spend our whole lives within an extremely narrow range of perception. But the issue is that most people are not even aware of this and imagine that what they see is all there is when nothing could be farther from the truth. What we see is an extremely small fraction of reality. As an example, human vision is capable of observing only a very small range of color from violet to red. Beyond these limits, our sight cannot go. Same with sound, smell, taste and touch. But inspite of all this we believe that what our senses show us to be all of reality which is really absurd.

Sunlight

Sunlight is the most important resource in life. All our energy is ultimately derived from sunlight. Right from the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels to even hydroelectric power generation! Infact, it is precisely because the heat of the sun causes evaporation of water that water can be transported from a lower level to a higher level. And when this water moves back down, we can use this potential energy to power generators which generate electricity. We must learn to revere the sun for what it actually is, that is the source of all physical life on earth.

Change

Where am I heading? This is a question that I ask myself very often. And find that the answers are not always the same. Being at home, apparently 'doing nothing' I often find myself thinking about meaning and purpose. I also think sometimes that what is it that I really value. And does what I value today change tomorrow or does it remain constant? At a personal level, I believe that it is important to contribute. Either working or teaching or helping. I personally enjoy teaching and discussing ideas. Writing is something I have just discovered. What I have observed is that people have a tendency to cling to the way things are. Although change is the nature of life, people take great pride in the fact that they have remained the same over years, their way of life is still the same. I think we are all afraid of change. Even if things are not very nice at present, atleast we know how they are. Atleast there is a small certainty. Willing change is very difficult to conceive. But since change is the nature of life, people have to accept change unwillingly even if it is sometimes for their own good.

Visioning

Today, I would like to talk about the importance of vision. Vision is imagining in your mind's eye about how you would like your life to be. Visioning is probably one of the most important activity one engages in. Because, without first a vision of where you want to be or what you choose to experience in life you would be just drifting along. So, it definitely helps to sometimes just stop in the course of our lives and assess where you are and where you would like to go. But this alone is not enough. A vision needs to be strengthened through repeated imagining and envisioning. Do not bother about the possibility of the vision manifesting but be very clear and specific in your visioning. As an example, if it is a new relationship that you desire, be bold in envisioning it. Do not feel that you are unworthy or unlovable. Just hold on to the vision of the relationship you desire. Be with the vision, spend time with it. Dont bother about its feasibility. But be clear in your vision. Take effort to do this. And dont lie to yourself. Test this for yourself and see what happens. I leave the results to each one of you who does this..