Universe and Open Startups

Today I thought of writing about one of the following:

1) "Where are we ? " Asked the Peaceful warrior, "Where is the universe?" and concluded by saying "I dont know . Life is a Mystery. My Ignorance is based on this Understanding and your Understanding is based on ignorance."

So from here my thought process went, what if tomorrow our distance and spread out satellite detects a huge body/asteroid/planet, etc.. which based on certain calculations is headed to collide with Earth ? What if you were told it would hit in 10 yrs from now and its so big that we cannot break it or change its trajectory ?
Would you still be doing the same thing as you are doing now ?
Hmm. Think about it and your answer to it. Hmm now I'm in 20's , its realistic assumption that I might be gone in another 60 years. Death is going to come, still I would like to be living the same life ?
I did not know exactly where my thinking was heading. :P

Another thing: (2)

Open Startups

 

A good link here: http://seanblanchfield.com/index.php/2011/12/the-startup-cooperative/

Startup founders are selfish ?
They want their idea to be a huge success and then want to enjoy the rewards, fame, power and money.

How about a Open Startup ? I cut off my selfish ties from the idea. I stop working on it in secrecy. I put it out in the open and simultaneously work on it. Invite interested people to join in and do whatever aspect they want to work on. We build the system. The system adds value to people. People utulize it and pay us.

Everyone clings to their ideas as if they were treasures. Everyone is working on something or the other. Some live in fantasy world, mssing some key reality checks , which could ruin their idea.
Some ideas im attracted to and some just don't interest me - doesnt mean they aren't great - its just not my cup of green tea ! ;)

So proposing - Unselfish idea implementation.
An idea , which makes your heat beat faster, which you instantly recognize to be revolutionary, Which you think about for days and few nights pass by due to the restlessness it brings along, etc etc..
Now, don't say "Its Mine" like a kiddo. Thank the superpower for presenting you the idea.
Also, now its your duty to implement the idea for the power it has and the good that it can do. It has to see the light of the day and its your responsibility.

So removing qualities such as selfishness , desire for fame, name and money from a founder, what do we have? A person whose sole aim is to make the idea a reality by any means,  because he realizes the impact the idea can have on the society and nothing else matters to him.
He seeds the idea into different minds, spreads it. Even if stolen , he doesnt feel sad, because his was only to see it succeed not to reap the fruits of success. For him there is no need for Money, fame or Power. Slaves need power to make more slaves!
He is a true Monk + Entrepreneur = The Monkepreneur!

What does he achieve by realizing his ideas ? He forces his will upon External Nature. The Nature yields.
He forces his will upon his internal nature, it too yields, revealing secrets. He works both ways realizing the truth, the love and divinity within him.

Think and Be !

How much Batista can I be when taking cold showers, when going through physical torture?

How much Sherlock Holmes can I be when analyzing things, people and situations around me?

How much Vivekananda can I be when I have to have unflinching discipline?

How much Bruce Lee can I be to concentrate and move my energies?

Each one of the above has powerful images - Batista - the animal of WWE is the symbol of wild energy and capable of taking a hard beating - He asks how harder can you get  ? Thats all you got ?

Sherlock Holmes - the fast ever aware calculating and clever mind. He lives in the present, see's every fine detail that is easily missed by an ordinary eye. Sets the high standard for level of awareness / conciousness of the present.

Vivekananda - purity, strength , knowledge , discipline. He is one fine personality with tremondous will power and unflinching discipline.

Bruce Lee - The peaceful warrior. Symbolizes for me, Hard work, concentration and control over body and thus the mind. Quick powerful movements, Mastery over martial arts. I can feel the Grit when he talks . "Be like water my friend" he says.

So.. Ask again and again..
 How much Batist can I be?
How much Holmes can I be?
How much Vivekananda can I be?
How much Lee can I be ?

Ask these in every situation , feel their energies and be them in those situations.

Swami Vivekananda's command over English

How must have Vivekananda mastered English ?
Every interviewer of his time said his command over English can only be described as Perfect!
His writings are rich in vocabulary. He uses apt words. Words describe ideas. Few ex in an article i read today: Sophistry, vindication, dogs in the manger, weal, coterie, etc..

How did he learn all this ? Writing is one thing. How did he master spoken english ?
I can Imagine this:
Vivekananda has read many books. He must have had a dictionary. With his great concentration power and memory, these beautiful words, which describe certain ideas perfectly , stuck in his mind or memory.

He must've practiced speaking what he had written ?
When I write I think freely, But when I speak, there are many distractions, but still he mananges to get hold of tough words.

I just went through an Old blog post that I had written when I was preparing for my GRE. I saw usage of new words in my post. They were well used and conveyed exact meaning.
I remember how I read during the GRE days - I liked reading words because they conveyed ideas, wisdom, thoughts.. People have coined terms to represent an Idea, a characterisitc, etc.. so these tell us about the
existence of various things in the world. A new word is your introduction to a new phenomenon i.e most people observed "that" in the world , maybe even u know of the word's meaning and identify it with ur life
experience, but you didnt bother to label it.

Vivekananda did extensive work reading books, collecting ideas, reading sanskrit books - he knows the power of words and the ideas they represent in sanskrit. Maybe he tried to find words in english with which he could describe the powerful words of sanskrit.

Vedas are condensed form of wisdom. Containeing wise ideas , contains information about how not to delude oneself, how to be beware of wrong things, etc..
It teaches discrimination, fine and finer discrimination which needs subtle words to describe it. Thus vivekanandas vocab is full of powerful words for good things and equally powerful words for the bad
things and can convey complicated meanings.

Coming to spoken English. It needs practice. I'm sure he was a confident english speaker in school and had his grammar in place. His basics were strong.
My basics are good too, but my confidence is lower. I cant seem to frame proper sentences while speaking, they are either incomplete or do not exactly convey what I want to say to my satisfaction.
I need practice of my own written work. I need to build more concentration and confidence and mostly work relentlessly to achieve the level of excellence Vivekananda achieved in English in those days, even without Internet.

First Step : Hack Nature !

Say all this is hokum bunkum.. all the philosophy , vedanta, etc..
THen ?
What do you think you will do ?

I want to be happy like anyone else. But the condition of my hair ,face,etc affect me. I was born with these, So I had no say in this matter.

I want healthy life, I dont need eye sight problems, digestion issues, hand problems, etc..
I find lust as an evanascent desire, the joy fades out and there's disoderlyness in the body with a feeling of loss of energy.

So, My body craves for lust , so as to procreate. My confidence or happiness depends on my body - how it looks , how healthy it is. But this body is not mine, I have no control over it.

So Whatever blows nature gives me I should take it ?
Cancer, urinary incontinence, obesity, etc..
Maybe I'll be responsible for some diseases, but in general, Nature seems to be controlling my happiness.

My environment around me controlls who I meet. If im surrounded by women , I would have girl friends. If I was born in Kasab's place I dont know what I would have done.

I wont care about looks and hair. then ? Other ppl will call u names and think bad of you.
I wont care wat others think , then ?
Hmm.. But you have strong lustful desire, so for that reason , you will try things to affect others minds and get what you need.
So, Lust is a desire created by Nature-You! I will reject it too. THis Machine- My body , shall be my slave and then I will be happy forever.

Hmm.. But the machine cannot survive without food and water. What about these desires ? Give them up you fool !
I have read about a yogi who lived without food and water, I bet hard work determination and will can achieve that too.

I am not the body, the body is nature. Am I logic ?
Logic is a part of brain, If it gets damaged its gone, Memory is the same too.
SOme part of me is using logic , emotion etc of this brain to think about itself.
I have emotions, logic - Intellect. Everyone has these. And these are modified by education, enviroment.
So these are different according to different experiences of people.
So Whatever Im typing is just because of my life experience and using logic,emotion, etc intellect.
But ingeneral some people are more emotional, sensitive ,etc..
These are inborn. Nature decided my feelings ?

If i think about breath, I can make my body breathe well. But soon I forget that I decided to breath deeply all day long. But who made the decision to breath deeply - Logic and memory of some article I read!
Ok I had logic and I remembered. But what made me breath deeper?
My decision. Here I am. In Decisions.

I can decide to stop my breath for some time. Nature only gives some time for this, but with practice it allows me to extend this time.
Nature doesnt allow me to control blood flow to various parts - But has shown me that blood can be directed to different parts by powerful thoughts with the example of lust. SO with more practice, I can direct blood suitably by will.
In lust, I notice, originality and flow of the idea is powerful.
So with other actions I wish to achieve, Powerful thoughts and originiality must be there. This needs control of mind, Directing thoughts in a particular way - A way it has not gone much/at all. A path less travelled. Difficult but yields results with patience.

So I, the decision maker can manipulate my body's blood preference.
So Im taking decisions to control what nature has given me - My body and Mind.
Controlling the body and Mind so that I am not at like a machine or at mercy of nature. So what do I want to be like.

I want to fight nature and conquer it ? As in nothing that you offer or take from me is going to change anything or any feeling in me.
So, before, I used to feel a change, Happiness or sadness due to nature's acts. So I was dependant on nature. WHy do i say I? Happiness and Sadness are feelings. So I am a feeling too ?

Hmm If I feel lustful my body reacts in one way. If i feel happy its reacts another way, etc.. So I choose a feeling ? Or I am the feeling?

Maybe Feelings are intially not under my control. I become happy/sad/lustful , as nature (genes, surroundings,etc..) has programmed me. As I take control , I can decide to feel what I want. I wish to take the control from Nature.
So I am the decision maker once again. SO feelings are my decisions.
So If I master this and Decide upon some feeling, What about the outcome?

Say in case of lust, I feel about something, but my bodys reaction was something nature has designed. Actually the whole system of lust was designed by nature - including the feeling part.
So different feelings manifest different outcomes in body. The wisdom says, empowering feelings of determination, will and Goodness are strength and others are weakness.

So say, I decide strongly (what does strongly mean - I become the Master of my mind) to culitvate good feelings, then they manifest in the form of good body, words and actions , powerful figure.
But this is just a manipulation of natures programming for my benefit. Hacking it is! SO,be it. Its not easy and its the first step to mastery over nature!
Then later, WHAT?

.. to be cont..

Quit !

Some jobs are meant for you to figure your life out , quit the job and start the journey, I said, giving examples of watchman, security guards, agents, etc.. and said this engineering job is no different from those.

This obviously hurt the ego of the person staying in the engg job for years. He said quickly unable to control “Then quit the job, why r u here”, I said “I will, when the time is right”

If I am not doing my job, he smilingly said, I’m not patriotic. This is the kind of statements ppl use to justify what they do. I said this job can be done by anyone, it doesn’t require Nikhil Kulkarni, who is more than this. It doesn’t require a great deal of mind. Infact these are the kinds of job people should use to rediscover themselves, not settle, cuz everyone is more than what these jobs require you to do. Then leave the job, he says. Yes I will I say.

But till when will I keep telling I will quit?

Childhood poor friend

Few things on my mind.

·         I don’t have any materialistic desires. I don’t need a great car, I don’t want a new bike, I don’t want an expensive watch. Whats wrong with me? Or is it too good. Am I deep into solving my personal problems? Sometimes. And these are the times I’m heavily stressed and can’t enjoy the present moment.

Is it always important to rhyme?

I ask myself;

how can someone ask himself?

are there multiple souls inside;

But what is soul?

it’s just a house of beliefs;

were we born with those beliefs?

whom am i asking now,

wow.. who is it thats inside me,

·          

I’m so stuck up with my problems. Remember Anjaiah?

U let him lead his bad life... didn’t help even a little. He came to my house repeatedly, just to talk or maybe expecting something. Each time I just spoke a little and sent him away.

What more help could I do?

I saw a clerk opening being posted on Npcil site. Its for SC. Why not inform him i thought. Did i help atleast one guy in life ? Maybe if he had known little English and passed 10^th I could have helped him.

Anjaiah is one such example. He was a close friend, I had played with him, he taught me many things. He used to sit in the corner in our hall and watch tv. I can never forget the small car his brother made with just an aluminium wire. Those were their glorious days, mine too i guess. There father was our watchman. Later he left our apartments, and joined somewhere else. But his children kept coming to meet us. Later his father left all. They depended on their mother’s n brother’s income.

I remember visiting their house. Small and smells something, can’t say bad but not good too, definitely food, old food. All was under one roof, kitchen ,hall , bedroom. Anjaiah liked music. Like almost every telugu guy, he was a pavan kalyan fan. He had a tape recorder. And many many cassettes. He used to buy latest film songs of his hero’s new films. But i was wondering why he was wasting money on cassettes? And i said u could find them on internet for free , come home one day I record all n give u.

Infront of his house, rather a small room, there was a huge farm. I thought it was their’s, but now I know, its not, they wouldn’t be so poor if it were. Green farm. He caught dragon flies, showed me a variety of dragon flies – the fat helicopter types to the sleek anorexic types (they looked just like a small twig with wings)

He has some health problem too.. Its like he gets hiccups every 2-5 mins. There’s some kind of jerk in his whole body. Why didn’t i ever google what it was? Why ? He has teeth stained with brown colour.