Contemplating Aloud

  Astonishment - A poem From an ever expanding,  Glowing sphere of light,  are Emanating rectangular atoms,  of Beatific colors, Changing from golden to green,  then Moving through darkness to orange, back to golden,   Coming towards with a celestial aura so powerful that,  a perfect rainbow, the limitless sky,  and the poetic language,  be but mere imitation. 

 I was supposed to meet someone for lunch today; We had lunch, the food was very satisfying, and then the universe switched it up. We ended up watching one of the most peaceful sunsets!, which was completely unplanned.   From my perspective, this sunset was simple yet very, very different from any of the sunsets I have experienced before. The spot was at a perfect height from the horizon, no person or ships in the line of sight. The sight was uncluttered with just the beach, the waves, and the sun followed by phenomena of sunset and all the various colors that comes with it. Simple things that can light you up with joy! . The sunset was so peaceful because it gave me the experience of some minutes of complete thoughtlessness.  My lesson was -  when we live life in a simple way, everything is peaceful. Isn't that a beautiful way to live ? anything we feel complicated is essentially a bunch of simple things put together in a step by step manner. We can use our wil...

 This week I got stuck with some work in office that I couldn't figure out. After two full days of thinking, I kind of figured out but not completely. More importantly, now I know how to proceed without getting stuck at that point. The desire to write something today combined with the day's events is making me write something about "getting unstuck".   Why is getting unstuck important ? Because when we feel stuck, we can make incorrect decisions. We tend to make decisions based on moods. We forget to ask ourselves the simple questions. To start making good decisions, we can ask ourselves two simple questions - (1) Am I making these decisions out of my moods or am I making this out of logic and my true feelings ? - (2) Is it worth it to me ? In other words, if I succeed in my efforts in this, will life become better ? Why to we feel stuck ? It could be any reason! One of the common reasons is - we might do the same things and expect a different result (Einstein said - ...

 Long ago, when I heard about infinity first in school, I asked mom what is infinity - the symbol that looks something similar to a horizontal 8. She said it is something very large. The homework question in the book was - what is infinity + 1. Everyone (including that textbook) said infinity.  My first thought on hearing this was "what non-sense".  A google search gives conflicting answers. Something very large is just not satisfactory enough as an answer. I will attempt to answer my own question - what is infinity ?  To understand abstract concepts such as infinity, we must use logic as well as feel what it means. We often forget that a highly intellectual mind cannot absorb concepts correctly. Luckily, two tools can help us here - imagination and visualization. Visualization is not the same as hallucination. Visualization is a conscious process that involves effort.   You might have come across this as a visualization exercise elsewhere, but it is very u...

  Today, a song called "Vande Mataram" showed up on my you-tube feed. As I was listening, I had a unique experience of truly respecting the country I am in. (not where I was born and spent the first 20 years) We don't always have control with regard to which country we will live in. That is because our ambitions and inspirations often require us to travel to other countries and inhibiting our ambitions and inspirations is unhealthy. We are bombarded with concepts of homeland, motherland, etc. As a result we are unable to perceive that the land we are currently in is nourishing us just like a mother. Instead we will be pushed to think about missing our home! (the childhood one).   When we think of mother, comfort comes to our mind. A mother never wishes the child to be unhappy. If we are truly unhappy, sometimes just a change of home in the same country might make a huge difference!, or on some occasions we may go back to the place we were born, or even to a different coun...

  I was talking to a friend who was annoyed with having to wear a mask during cardio exercises. (Most gyms require that). It just made sense to me, I was also definitely of the opinion that wearing a mask during cardio exercises defeats the purpose of cardio. Mainly because I had experienced it too earlier, but, I didn't have an explanation for it at the time. As humans, we like a rational explanation. On the back of my mind, this thought was running, and while buying my groceries the answer suddenly hit me. This was my mental exercise of the day.  Like Feynman says, we just have to go a little deep and everything seems so beautiful. One of the main benefit of cardio exercises like running, swimming, etc. is a much improved lung capacity. It just forces you to breathe deeper.  Have you ever seen a decent runner or a swimmer with a bad lung capacity ? If you measure the oxygen saturation levels of blood in a decent runner or a swimmer, it will almost always be 99 or 100....

 Today I am having an inclination to write about how we consume turmeric and milk, yogurt as well.  Before proceeding, I would like to thank my teachers - a guy named Ernst from whom I learnt about habits, and an ayurvedic practitioner named vaidya mishra whose work I research on, but he passed on a few years ago.  Like Feynman said, to find the truth, you have to go deep, really deep. Having to experience it helps! It's important to not be a fanatic and follow a balanced approach, but the more I research, the more I find that we are in bad habits, more like conditioned to be in bad habits, more often than not due to lack of knowledge.  Moving on,  Turmeric :  At one time, I had something that was causing inflammation in my body. Alongwith other things, my doctor prescribed curcumin which is concentrated turmeric. I knew turmeric is an extremely potent herb, but it did not help me at that time, it in fact was more aggravating, I listened to my body and stop...