As we accumulate grey hair, we should also get multiple interests/hobbies/likings/things we love to do/engagements/pastimes/fancy amusements to make life more interesting, or else couch sitting or armchair thinking will surely prepone death and dullness. If you are passionate about music/poetry/movies/old coins/stamps/documentaries/books or anything else of that sort by 60-70 and do something about them then surely life will have more vigor and passion.
Else we are lost in the gossip of the neighborhood, meaningless political debates, and involved way too much in the lives of grandkids.
Triangle
Culture, conditioning, and childhood. These are the three things that a man carries throughout his/her life. Any possible freedom in mind begins only with their annihilation. Our reality, reactions, and responses are their prisoners, and cleaning our mental slate is almost next to impossible as one or the other influences our thought processes, actions, and resultant circumstances. The whole edifice of our karma is their blessing or curse.
Quality
Your belief that the project that you undertook will succeed no matter what the difficulty will determine the quality and to an extent even the quantity of the work you do for it. The negative story, the strong gut feeling that it will fail despite the effort, or subconscious doubts will hamper your chances of eventual success because you won’t work to your potential unless you believe in it.
Prisons
Crimes are often committed in an unconscious state. Many in fact regret it just a few moments after it was done and it’s established that an individual is less inclined to do evil when he is alone than with a group as association with later decreases his awareness about himself and the emotions of the mind. Hence more awareness is the solution. So, meditation camps, emotional intelligence training, therapy and so on that can better bring sense about his/her emotional state can be effective in dealing with criminalities in our society.
Inequality
Religion is the prime culprit for the origin of inequality. The relationship between god and man, of priest and the common lad, of divine spirits in nature and the ordinary person, of knowledgeable and illiterate of the rituals, it created solidified the idea of inequality in the consciousness of man. The biological inequality and violence committed by strong men too got sanctioned when the middlemen and women performed complicated rituals and sacrifices to give divinity to oppression and subjugation by the wars. The crusades, communal riots, and the pogroms too confirm this fact.
Questions
Very simple questions often unlock great mysteries of the universe and the world. Newton’s why things fall down? or Wittgenstein’s what is language? or Ramana Maharshi’s who am I? or the great question of why there is something instead of nothing.
Humble questions provoke greatly because we can relate to them and are very much grounded in the human experience. However, few are interested in them. People dare to become millionaires and billionaires but none bother except a few to ask the question what is money? In fact, in universities, few lectures are devoted to the simplest things like definitions and basic elements of the subject. People are given degrees without asking them to inquire about things like what is thought? and what is space?
It’s better to come down than go up in search of exotic knowledge.
Price and benefits
Sometimes the price that you pay outweighs the benefits you get in return. The 18-hour work for extra dollars and the 3-hour internet searching for coupons and discounts for saving a few pounds belong to this category. We plan exotic trips to god-forsaken places but the long flight journeys, visa issues, and poor accommodation make the fancy beach and unique flora and fauna pointless. The promotion might be good but sadly the trading off of family and personal time might not be.
Distance
Closeness is always dangerous and threatening for people. The fantasies, mirages, and appearances that they created will falter and break away when there is less gap. That’s why we are scared of love and avoid intimacy with friends and partners. And being distant from everybody, for this reason, calls for an inauthentic living, lies, and fake lifestyles. This eventually creates a distance within yourself with yourself and alienates you from a sense of purpose and meaning in life. Being tightly knitted is chilling but it is honest and perhaps simple.
God and Wishes
God cannot and should not fulfill our wishes because the consequences are dangerous. Any change in your reality will alter the world’s reality. You getting a car/home/job in an unintended way or time will disturb the fragile order and set in chaos. Likewise, god saving you from death too will start a wildfire that might kill tens if not thousands in some unimaginable ways and means. Reality should be allowed to flow in its own path without obstruction. For instance, if the lord lets you unite with your lover then you as a personality change in a different manner and react in some other unique method that kindles a chain reaction and events that no one can alter unless everything in the universe is destroyed and started afresh.
Anger
I’ve realized that people are angry about some issues but they vent out on other ones. The real problem with your manager might be that you are getting too close to the boss and the possible promotion in near future. But they vent out on you over some statistical error in the monthly report. If someone is arguing in a heated way then pause and think over the elephant in the room that’s bothering if the relationship is worth saving in the first place. By this, at least you can worry about the right matter.
Thy Vox 