To achieve any goal the first thing that one has to do is believe in himself. Most of our lives, we just play safe as we think that its the best way to avoid the problems that we might face. But we never understand that faluires and frustrations are just a part of the growth process.
From the time when we are very small the world starts teaching us what is easy and what id difficult to achieve. and we start believing what we are told. Many times we are told "you won't be able to do it" or "this has never been done before". But if life was to be lived like this then nobody could have ever climbed great summits like Mount Everest. we also have to climb many summits in the process and for that we need to believe that it is possible. Most of the time we play our own enemies by having negative thoughts, comfort zones, self defeating habits, blame lists etc. The moment you realize and decide that you are the single most determining factor as to whether or not you succeed or fail, only then will your life have a chance to improve.
Carl Joseph was born with one leg. Not using crutches or artificial legs, he decided to play football in high school. He worked so hard that eventually he made to All-State defensive lineman. The local newspapers said, "He ran so smoothly and so effortlessly that when you watch him run you could hardly tell he was missing a leg. Especially when he was chasing down quarterback from behind". In basketball he could dunk the ball, and in track he could jump five feet ten inches-all with one leg. In fact, even with his disadvantage, he went on to recieve a four-year athletic training scolarship from University of Pittsburgh. He said, "It is all in the mind. My mind always told me that i could do things, and i just went and did them. I never worried that i couldn't do something, I just did it. You just keep trying, and you will always get there."
Although inspired by greatness, we sometimes doubt our own potentials. We aren't confident and think,"I don't have special talents." "I don't have what they have." "I could never do that". Extraordinary people are simple ordinary people that do extra ordinary things. Many of them don't have the education, talent, resources or special advantages.
Thomas Edison, who has a great number of discoveries to his credit, only had three months of formal education.
Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old. His teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams"
But they have belief in themselves and that is the first thing that is required for any possible growth. Once and for all, start believing in yourself.
And don't listen to anyone who tells you anything negative. There are many people who don't want to take the trip themselves, yet pose as experts who criticize the travel of others. They are toxic for you.
Once you start believing in yourself there is no hurdle to high for you to clear, no goal too hard to achieve and no crisis too hot for you to cool down.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
POST 8- Evolutionary step
Our mission here is to produce so much positive thoughts that they become an inseperable part of ourselves.
It is really possible.
When you see a person with a torn jean, do you think that he is poor to buy a new jean or do you consider him sporting it as a fashion statement??
If otherwise he looks ok, then there is no wonder that he is sporting it as a fashion statement. But how do we come to think that???
Actually the jeans were developed for the US mine workers as there ordinary pants use to tear soon due to rash usage in mines. Jeans was developed to be more rough and tough than an ordinary jeans. It became famous soon. Now when a person travelled on horse for long duration, the roller(that is behind the shoes to ride horse easily) use to cut the jeans from the lower back end of both legs and due to long distance travel the jeans' colour faded. So the people saw a person with a torn and faded jeans as a brave and strong person. The thought was so strong that now it has built in us. Even when we didn't know why it's fashion, we feel that it looks good.
There is a kind of snake in Australia that on seeing a mongose behave as dead so that the mongose doesn't hurt him. While a study was going, it was seen that the child of the snake while hatching from it's egg saw a mongose and behaved as dead. Who taught him that?? Obviously he had some in built thoughts in itself.
I want to produce such positive thoughts so that even from the time a child is born, he thinks positively. And it is possible.
May be not in my lifetime. Many times the results come much later. When Galileo said that sun is the centre of the solar system, noone believed him but it doesn't prove that he was wrong.
sometimes result come much later.
Some people say that we don't have time for such things. hey friends, even Einstein, Nostradamus, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespear and many great people who lived in this 3-Dimensional world had 24 hours in a day.
Its not how much time that you spend here but its what you do in that much time, that metters.
We spend our day and night to make sure that we live long and easily but do we spend little time to actually live??
Somebody asked me, what'll i gain out of all this?? Hey friends, gain is always not measured in material terms. Even if one soul on the earth changes due to my effort, i'll think that my efforts have been successful.
Even our thoughts have their effect on this world and this world changes continuosly based on them. Suppose i effect the 1 square meter that i stand on, another person will effect another square meter and there are so many thinkers in this world that billions of meters are effected every second. Sometimes small efforts produce great effects in the process of evolution.
While our journey, we'll have to have a clean mind and for that we should know about many things.
To begin with, we'll study all the religions.
I'll start with Hinduism and will then step by step we'll study all possible.
This Blog will continue discussions and for studying of religions we'll make seperate blogs so that its easier to manage.
Keep producing positive thoughts till the world changes.
Questions can be sent to missionmind@gmail.com
It is really possible.
When you see a person with a torn jean, do you think that he is poor to buy a new jean or do you consider him sporting it as a fashion statement??
If otherwise he looks ok, then there is no wonder that he is sporting it as a fashion statement. But how do we come to think that???
Actually the jeans were developed for the US mine workers as there ordinary pants use to tear soon due to rash usage in mines. Jeans was developed to be more rough and tough than an ordinary jeans. It became famous soon. Now when a person travelled on horse for long duration, the roller(that is behind the shoes to ride horse easily) use to cut the jeans from the lower back end of both legs and due to long distance travel the jeans' colour faded. So the people saw a person with a torn and faded jeans as a brave and strong person. The thought was so strong that now it has built in us. Even when we didn't know why it's fashion, we feel that it looks good.
There is a kind of snake in Australia that on seeing a mongose behave as dead so that the mongose doesn't hurt him. While a study was going, it was seen that the child of the snake while hatching from it's egg saw a mongose and behaved as dead. Who taught him that?? Obviously he had some in built thoughts in itself.
I want to produce such positive thoughts so that even from the time a child is born, he thinks positively. And it is possible.
May be not in my lifetime. Many times the results come much later. When Galileo said that sun is the centre of the solar system, noone believed him but it doesn't prove that he was wrong.
sometimes result come much later.
Some people say that we don't have time for such things. hey friends, even Einstein, Nostradamus, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespear and many great people who lived in this 3-Dimensional world had 24 hours in a day.
Its not how much time that you spend here but its what you do in that much time, that metters.
We spend our day and night to make sure that we live long and easily but do we spend little time to actually live??
Somebody asked me, what'll i gain out of all this?? Hey friends, gain is always not measured in material terms. Even if one soul on the earth changes due to my effort, i'll think that my efforts have been successful.
Even our thoughts have their effect on this world and this world changes continuosly based on them. Suppose i effect the 1 square meter that i stand on, another person will effect another square meter and there are so many thinkers in this world that billions of meters are effected every second. Sometimes small efforts produce great effects in the process of evolution.
While our journey, we'll have to have a clean mind and for that we should know about many things.
To begin with, we'll study all the religions.
I'll start with Hinduism and will then step by step we'll study all possible.
This Blog will continue discussions and for studying of religions we'll make seperate blogs so that its easier to manage.
Keep producing positive thoughts till the world changes.
Questions can be sent to missionmind@gmail.com
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
POST 7- The Alien Observer
Man considers himself the peak of creation; less, perhaps, than gods, demons, angels and other beings that are more than natural; but certainly greater and more important than anything he can see or touch.
We can say, man expends energy and performs work in order to provide for the future.
But is this truly a distinction between man and other forms of life??
Doesn’t the beaver build dams, the squirrel store nuts, and the spider spins webs??
To us, it would seem there is simply no comparison. In none of these cases, or any others involving the lower animals, is anything like human forethought involved.
So, I repeat, it seems to us. Yet is it possible that this difference so clear to us is a result of mere prejudice and self love??
Would a creature from another world, studying life on earth, really see the difference between a spider building a web and a man casting a net into the sea as anything more than one of degree??
Then we developed tools, but even birds use rocks to break snail shells and even insects may use pebbles to block tunnels.
Our alien observer, watching men swarm over the quarries and deserts of Egypt and the slow, painful stone-by-stone construction of the Great Pyramid, might not see much of a distinction between this and the construction of a termite hill.
In fact the termite hill is larger compared to the insect than is the Great Pyramid compared to a man, and the alien might be more impressed by the termite. To be sure, the man manufactures his simple tools while the termite has his built into his body, but the alien might consider this sign of great ingenuity on the part of man to be interesting but not crucial.
Then man tamed animals to attain more energy and perform even the kind of work which was not possible with the limited energy his body possessed.
Our alien observer might see in our use of animals still another mere extension and elaboration of some of the activities of the lower animals.
To take an example, sea anemones are sometimes fixed by a crab to his shell. This is to the benefit of the sea anemones which, ordinarily quiescent, now finds itself transported from place to place, thus increasing its chances of finding food. This is also to the benefit of crab since the stinging tentacles of the sea anemones keep creatures at a distance which might otherwise prey upon the crab. Moreover, the crab dines upon scraps of food that escape the sea anemone during the latter’s meal.
Will our alien see difference between this and a case of a man who rides a horse and fed and protects the animal in return?
Then man started using other sources of energy like wind and running water.
Undoubtedly, it puzzled early man to find such large quantities of energy in inanimate nature. He resolved it by giving life to apparently inanimate nature and imagining the existence of demons or gods who made themselves manifest in the storm blast. The wind was their breath and waters raged at their command.
However, long before wind and water were even feebly tamed by man, another source of external energy came under his command. This is commonly referred to as the “Discovery of fire”.
Fire itself, of course, was never really discovered since it has always existed. But man came to know how to create fire and so domesticated fire. Fire gave him light, warmth, protection from other animals and increased his food supply as he found that cooked food was easier to chew.
It is beyond doubt that the discovery of fire is the greatest single human achievement. Here at last, our unwearied alien observer can finally find his clear distinction. No other species, however intelligent, makes even the most fumbling attempt to use fire, whereas no tribe of man is known today, however primitive, that doesn’t use fire.
And this is one reason that you can find no place of worship today where fire is not worshipped. In different forms like candles, incense sticks, a lamp etc., in any kind of worship, fire is the main element. The Greeks had their myth of Titan, Promethus, saving the human race from misery by bringing down the celestial gift of fire from sun. The sun as the prototype of fire was worshipped by many.
Most of us light candles, lamps, incense sticks etc. while worshipping, but we never think why we do it.
This is an attempt to make you think.
Discussions will continue till the mind is freed.
Send in your comments and questions at missionmind@gmail.com
We can say, man expends energy and performs work in order to provide for the future.
But is this truly a distinction between man and other forms of life??
Doesn’t the beaver build dams, the squirrel store nuts, and the spider spins webs??
To us, it would seem there is simply no comparison. In none of these cases, or any others involving the lower animals, is anything like human forethought involved.
So, I repeat, it seems to us. Yet is it possible that this difference so clear to us is a result of mere prejudice and self love??
Would a creature from another world, studying life on earth, really see the difference between a spider building a web and a man casting a net into the sea as anything more than one of degree??
Then we developed tools, but even birds use rocks to break snail shells and even insects may use pebbles to block tunnels.
Our alien observer, watching men swarm over the quarries and deserts of Egypt and the slow, painful stone-by-stone construction of the Great Pyramid, might not see much of a distinction between this and the construction of a termite hill.
In fact the termite hill is larger compared to the insect than is the Great Pyramid compared to a man, and the alien might be more impressed by the termite. To be sure, the man manufactures his simple tools while the termite has his built into his body, but the alien might consider this sign of great ingenuity on the part of man to be interesting but not crucial.
Then man tamed animals to attain more energy and perform even the kind of work which was not possible with the limited energy his body possessed.
Our alien observer might see in our use of animals still another mere extension and elaboration of some of the activities of the lower animals.
To take an example, sea anemones are sometimes fixed by a crab to his shell. This is to the benefit of the sea anemones which, ordinarily quiescent, now finds itself transported from place to place, thus increasing its chances of finding food. This is also to the benefit of crab since the stinging tentacles of the sea anemones keep creatures at a distance which might otherwise prey upon the crab. Moreover, the crab dines upon scraps of food that escape the sea anemone during the latter’s meal.
Will our alien see difference between this and a case of a man who rides a horse and fed and protects the animal in return?
Then man started using other sources of energy like wind and running water.
Undoubtedly, it puzzled early man to find such large quantities of energy in inanimate nature. He resolved it by giving life to apparently inanimate nature and imagining the existence of demons or gods who made themselves manifest in the storm blast. The wind was their breath and waters raged at their command.
However, long before wind and water were even feebly tamed by man, another source of external energy came under his command. This is commonly referred to as the “Discovery of fire”.
Fire itself, of course, was never really discovered since it has always existed. But man came to know how to create fire and so domesticated fire. Fire gave him light, warmth, protection from other animals and increased his food supply as he found that cooked food was easier to chew.
It is beyond doubt that the discovery of fire is the greatest single human achievement. Here at last, our unwearied alien observer can finally find his clear distinction. No other species, however intelligent, makes even the most fumbling attempt to use fire, whereas no tribe of man is known today, however primitive, that doesn’t use fire.
And this is one reason that you can find no place of worship today where fire is not worshipped. In different forms like candles, incense sticks, a lamp etc., in any kind of worship, fire is the main element. The Greeks had their myth of Titan, Promethus, saving the human race from misery by bringing down the celestial gift of fire from sun. The sun as the prototype of fire was worshipped by many.
Most of us light candles, lamps, incense sticks etc. while worshipping, but we never think why we do it.
This is an attempt to make you think.
Discussions will continue till the mind is freed.
Send in your comments and questions at missionmind@gmail.com
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
POST 3- Do you fear death??
We all say that life is sacred.
All love life.
Everyone says that once we die, we’ll go to heaven but no one wants to die.
Scientific definition of Life is – capacity for growth, functional activity, and continual change until death.
All fear death.
Once one of my friends asked me that is it possible that we become immortal.
It made me think of a story which I heard somewhere.
The story goes like this.
Once somebody told Alexander that there is a waterfall, which has water of immortality.
Alexander sent his army to search for it.
After years of search the army found the waterfall in a cave.
Alexander told his army to stand guard around the cave so that no one other than him can go in. When Alexander went in and was about to drink the water, he heard a voice that said “Please drink the water only after listening to me”. He saw around and saw that it was a pigeon speaking. Seeing a talking pigeon stunned him. The pigeon told him that he drank the water of the waterfall Millions of years back. He said that he was very happy at that time. The pigeon did everything he ever wanted to. When he has done all, he found newer things and even did many things which pigeons can’t even imagine doing, as he was immortal.
He soon got exhausted & then did almost everything that was possible. He understood everything he possibly can but then he was exhausted and wanted to die. He tried everything from drowning to burning but he can’t die, as he was immortal.
He said that at this moment he was very sad & couldn’t enjoy anything, as he knows that he’ll never die.
Alexander threw away the water & ran towards the opening of the cave to never return. He even got the waterfall buried so that no one should suffer.
It should be very clear by now that it is immortality that is more fearful than death. The fear of death drives us daily. Have you ever thought that why humans want there own children?? It may not be the most important reason, but one of it is fear of death. Every human being knows from the core of his heart that he’ll die one day. And the constant urge of immortality leaves him with no other alternative but to live his name through his children.
There is nothing to fear from death.
It is because of death that we enjoy everything we do.
Death is such a thing that’ll relieve all the suffering.
Death is also as sacred as life.
Post questions at missionmind@gmail.com
All love life.
Everyone says that once we die, we’ll go to heaven but no one wants to die.
Scientific definition of Life is – capacity for growth, functional activity, and continual change until death.
All fear death.
Once one of my friends asked me that is it possible that we become immortal.
It made me think of a story which I heard somewhere.
The story goes like this.
Once somebody told Alexander that there is a waterfall, which has water of immortality.
Alexander sent his army to search for it.
After years of search the army found the waterfall in a cave.
Alexander told his army to stand guard around the cave so that no one other than him can go in. When Alexander went in and was about to drink the water, he heard a voice that said “Please drink the water only after listening to me”. He saw around and saw that it was a pigeon speaking. Seeing a talking pigeon stunned him. The pigeon told him that he drank the water of the waterfall Millions of years back. He said that he was very happy at that time. The pigeon did everything he ever wanted to. When he has done all, he found newer things and even did many things which pigeons can’t even imagine doing, as he was immortal.
He soon got exhausted & then did almost everything that was possible. He understood everything he possibly can but then he was exhausted and wanted to die. He tried everything from drowning to burning but he can’t die, as he was immortal.
He said that at this moment he was very sad & couldn’t enjoy anything, as he knows that he’ll never die.
Alexander threw away the water & ran towards the opening of the cave to never return. He even got the waterfall buried so that no one should suffer.
It should be very clear by now that it is immortality that is more fearful than death. The fear of death drives us daily. Have you ever thought that why humans want there own children?? It may not be the most important reason, but one of it is fear of death. Every human being knows from the core of his heart that he’ll die one day. And the constant urge of immortality leaves him with no other alternative but to live his name through his children.
There is nothing to fear from death.
It is because of death that we enjoy everything we do.
Death is such a thing that’ll relieve all the suffering.
Death is also as sacred as life.
Post questions at missionmind@gmail.com
Friday, April 07, 2006
POST 1- I THINK, THEREFORE I EXIST
The Mission “Cogito Ergo Sum”—I THINK, THEREFORE I EXIST.
You want a revolution?? I am the one who’ll make you witness. I say, will you follow me till there?? Can you handle me?? You crave and I crave like you. If I am not left to guide you, will you survive on the spares which I’ll leave as seeds in your holy brains????
This is an effort to build your mind and make your lives meaningful.
The society is split into different nations, races, religions and political groups. The belief that all these fragments are really separate can be seen as the essential reason for the present series of social, ecological and cultural crises. It has alienated us from nature and from our fellow human beings. It has brought grossly unjust ever rising wave of violence in which life has often become physically and mentally unhealthy.
Our tendency to divide the perceived world into individual and separate things and to experience ourselves as isolated egos in this world is seen as an illusion that comes from our measuring and categorizing mentality. It is called avidya, or ignorance, and is seen as a state of disturbed mind which has to be overcome.
When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things disappear.
This is an effort to quiet the mind. An effort to LIBERATE.
When you liberate your willpower, you become the master of your own personal world. There is no hurdle too high for you to overcome. There is no challenge too tough for you to surmount and no crises too hot to cool down. LIBERATE….
This will be a series of articles through which we’ll discuss the causes of human misery and the solutions to them. Obviously for this we’ll have to look into a lot of things. We’ll discuss everything from religions to science, from suffering to nirvana. I’ll use my own thoughts combined with the thoughts and writings of many great persons in this world which have helped me form my thoughts. I’ll use everything that helps in the growth of the mind.
Here I’ll be truthful, unafraid and unmerciful.
many things which I write may hurt many but I’ll speak the truth whatever the consequences are and I’ll not say anything that has no logic. I’ll provide you with proofs if you want.
I’ll like to make some things very clear if you want to really learn.
Suppose that you join a course for mathematics which is about some things that you haven’t studied before. And suppose that on your first day the teacher asks you some question which is based on a formula that you have never seen in your life before. What will be your answer???
You’ll surely say that how could you tell as this is your first day at the class.
But if I ask your any question like why a human is behaving a certain way, in a certain situation Or any question like how a particular thing is effecting anybody’s life, you’ll pick up your pen and will start filling pages on that and would never say that you can’t tell as this is your first day. You’ll start working on the preconceived notions that you accept as facts.
Explaining this in another way, i can say that how can you pour more coffee in a cup that is already full. You’ll have to empty your cup first to understand properly.
You can ask me any question if u have regarding any issue or anything that you can’t understand at missionmind@gmail.com
The site will be updated regularly.
You want a revolution?? I am the one who’ll make you witness. I say, will you follow me till there?? Can you handle me?? You crave and I crave like you. If I am not left to guide you, will you survive on the spares which I’ll leave as seeds in your holy brains????
This is an effort to build your mind and make your lives meaningful.
The society is split into different nations, races, religions and political groups. The belief that all these fragments are really separate can be seen as the essential reason for the present series of social, ecological and cultural crises. It has alienated us from nature and from our fellow human beings. It has brought grossly unjust ever rising wave of violence in which life has often become physically and mentally unhealthy.
Our tendency to divide the perceived world into individual and separate things and to experience ourselves as isolated egos in this world is seen as an illusion that comes from our measuring and categorizing mentality. It is called avidya, or ignorance, and is seen as a state of disturbed mind which has to be overcome.
When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things disappear.
This is an effort to quiet the mind. An effort to LIBERATE.
When you liberate your willpower, you become the master of your own personal world. There is no hurdle too high for you to overcome. There is no challenge too tough for you to surmount and no crises too hot to cool down. LIBERATE….
This will be a series of articles through which we’ll discuss the causes of human misery and the solutions to them. Obviously for this we’ll have to look into a lot of things. We’ll discuss everything from religions to science, from suffering to nirvana. I’ll use my own thoughts combined with the thoughts and writings of many great persons in this world which have helped me form my thoughts. I’ll use everything that helps in the growth of the mind.
Here I’ll be truthful, unafraid and unmerciful.
many things which I write may hurt many but I’ll speak the truth whatever the consequences are and I’ll not say anything that has no logic. I’ll provide you with proofs if you want.
I’ll like to make some things very clear if you want to really learn.
Suppose that you join a course for mathematics which is about some things that you haven’t studied before. And suppose that on your first day the teacher asks you some question which is based on a formula that you have never seen in your life before. What will be your answer???
You’ll surely say that how could you tell as this is your first day at the class.
But if I ask your any question like why a human is behaving a certain way, in a certain situation Or any question like how a particular thing is effecting anybody’s life, you’ll pick up your pen and will start filling pages on that and would never say that you can’t tell as this is your first day. You’ll start working on the preconceived notions that you accept as facts.
Explaining this in another way, i can say that how can you pour more coffee in a cup that is already full. You’ll have to empty your cup first to understand properly.
You can ask me any question if u have regarding any issue or anything that you can’t understand at missionmind@gmail.com
The site will be updated regularly.
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