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Seeker's thoughts ...

From Darkness to Light, Dependence to Freedom, Fear to Fearlessness ....

Saturday, November 27, 2004
Alexander

"Conquer your fear, and I promise you'll conquer death" -- a very bold statement; a statement that can be made only by someone who has truly conquered death; by someone who feels death is just a step in his journey and not the end of it.

Another quote of his sums up what he learnt at the end of it all: "A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."

Great men make great thinkers !!!
Only people who have seen and felt one extreme can truly understand and appreciate the other end of the spectrum, methinks.

Sunday, November 21, 2004
Hope or False Hope

Even if I know from past experiences that a certain thing or relationship is going to give me sorrow, I still have a hope that it will give me happiness.

Hope for happiness supersedes the experience of failure.

“The world has survived due to hope”, “never leave hope”, etc are some of sayings that we have been listening from the childhood; but in this case, hope is hopeless and brings nothing but sorrow in the end. I don't get happiness, but in the process I do get sorrow and lose my peace of mind; as hopes breaks.

But I don’t like sorrow; so my mind quickly raises the hope that it was tough luck this time, but next time around I would certainly get happiness. The mind is so quick that even before I start realizing the truth and feel the sorrow of failure, it raises another hope and I start running behind it.

I guess the only solution is to stay alert and not let the mind do what it wants. Analyze each moment and the results will show.

This is not about being pessimistic, its about being realistic. You can't expect to get oil by churning sand, its not a pessimistic thought, its being realistic. I think this statement is analogous to the above argument. There is a very fine line between being pessimistic and being realistic. I guess the reason this is different from pessimism is because pessimists just crib and don’t try to find a solution, while here there is a solution being offered.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004
the Truth about Lies

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde

A lie can go just one way. Its always intended to mislead the other person. Now the outcome we desire might be different each time: sometimes it might just be for fun, sometimes to get the other person off our back, sometimes it may be used to project ourselves as something we are not or sometimes it might be downright malicious.

On second thoughts, there is nothing like a for-the-better lie, there exists a "NO" for such occasions. Even considering to lie, as an alternative if everything else fails, is so so weak !
Do circumstances makes you lie? I think not ... its your lack of faith in the other person. Lies arent bad just because they might hurt the other person ... many times they dont; but lies are bad because they hurt you ... because you become morally hollow ... because you lose all your self-esteem, not in others' eyes but in your own eyes.

There is no bottom to worse ...

Sunday, November 14, 2004
Philadelphia

One of the best movies I have seen ... this blog is a direct consequence of seeing that movie ... Again ...

The prejudices in people's minds for one's color, race, sexual orientation and the discrimination emerging from it is really bad.

Prejudice leads to closed minds and closed minds are the worst things that exist.
Closed minds lead to difference of opinions, quarrels, feuds and wars.

Another classy point made in the movie was that we take life was granted ... the way Tom Hanks's character, during the opera scene, shows how much he values life the closer he gets to death, really puts into perspective our whole taking-our-life-for-granted thing ... cliched but true.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004
who knows ... who can say the reason why?
fools give answers ... wise men never try

Sunday, November 07, 2004
Independence

Independence is the biggest provider of joy in this whole wide world.
It doesnt matter whether u r a nation or an individual ... the only thing which can make you truly happy is independence.

Dependence on anything/any person means you need something from others to make you happy. In other words you have to rely on someone else for the pleasure you want to get ... that means that the other person controls the situations when you get happy and when you get sad.
I think this should be the most discomforting thought ... that the remote control of your happiness/sadness is in some other person's hands.

I guess the key is to be contended with oneself and not look for pleasure from external sources but from internal ones. If we can be like that, I don't think we need to search for pleasure from any other thing/any other person. We can be always happy ... as the only condition over here is you should be there ... which is true always.

From Dependence to Freedom ...

Saturday, November 06, 2004
Choice

Is there something as a good thing or a bad thing ???
I think not.

There is nothing good or bad at any given point of time, its just a choice, nothing more ... nothing less. Some particular activity at a given instant which maybe good for me may be bad for others or vice versa. Does it make that activity bad ??? I dont think so. Its just a matter of choice.
Also no choice is good or bad ... its just ... well its just a choice.

We dont always have to try and grade everything as either good or bad. We should try and look beyond that to truly enjoy them. Because casting it as wrong or right makes us very prejudiced. It puts a veil over our eyes, thus affecting our every decision. Prejudice is so not cool !

Maybe I am not making any sense ... maybe I dont know myself ... maybe

Tuesday, November 02, 2004
In life one needs to be know the answers to the following 2 questions if not anything else:

1. What do you want to do with your life ?
2. What is it you are currently doing ? (In other words, is it going along the same path you intended it to)

Nothing more needs to be known ... Nothing ... except this