Solution lies beyond your beliefs

I read these beautiful lines and wanted   to share with you.

Buzzard when put in a container of six to eight feet square & open at the top, the bird, despite of his ability to fly, will remain a prisoner. he reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten to twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his habit,he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.

A ordinary bat that flies around at night, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

Human Beings sometimes behave similarly.They keep struggling about their problems and frustrations,without realizing that the answer was always there above them.When ever you are in  a problem ,see around for a solution than waiting for solution to come to you.

Struggle between Theory and Practice

As a management practitioner ,I always have struggle between what we call theory/books and what reality demands .This reality can be as applied to your own life or for the business you work for.

Your reading and knowledge should not become like weather forecast or a daily horoscope as published in newspapers everyday...which everyone goes through but no one believes in 

I do not want to disrespect academicians here but in my own experience I have found this to be true many times. When I shared this with one of my friend ,he told me that horoscopes are sometimes useful as they contain practical advice.
I have seen my colleagues in academia and in business many times getting into the "trap" which I call intellectual masterxxxx. They are happy with getting themselves published in journals or getting patents but not interested in co-relating this to the impact the same will have to address the critical challenges of people in their life or for businesses they work for.

In my own experience ,I have seen this more becoming a manipulation or just to impress their colleagues or seniors (more of a ego booster ) then a real creation of value.Research as applied should be the measure.

I have been associated with Industry and Academia and as well want to take my share of blame as well of not doing enough..I love theories/books/knowledge and do not want people to loose respect for same.I feel it's my duty to make sure that relevance of same is always maintained. I’ve always wanted to be in a position where I create a real value.. 

I have been as well reading psychology apart from management books .I have been able to find commonalities between challenges as faced by people and business. People are both component of business and family (&society ) -Family, Society & Business is for people & by people so they are very well interrelated 

When I have gone deep in the problems as faced by them,I’ve learned that often there is more to a problem than what is seen on the surface .The real crux of a problem turns out to be invisible. Over a period of time ,I have learnt from my colleagues,friends,clients and have become more aware and conscious. 

I have learnt that behind rational behavior there is lot of irrational causes A anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, “Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason 

I’ve learnt from my own experience that the best way to grow our minds is to solve real problems only.

There is no Meaning & Purpose of Life beyond what you define for yourself

I was reading one of the books and want to share few things here on my blog.We human beings sometime think that this world has been created for us only...How funny? In fact we do not realized that we have created more mess around us ...for our self

Legendary science writer Stephen Jay Gould once told  :The human species has inhabited this planet for only 250,000 years which is like .0015 percent of the history of life.Human beings have lived for that much time.Think of your own life span w.r.t this . The earth & this world fared perfectly well without us for all but the last moment of earthly time–and this fact makes our appearance look more like an accidental afterthought than the culmination of a prefigured plan. Moreover, the pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. Human evolution is not random; it makes sense and can be explained after the fact. But wind back life’s tape to the dawn of time and let it play again–and you will never get humans a second time.

So I am not sure what are we proud of...if we are not sure of our existence second time .Continuing with same .... 
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher’ answer — but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling, if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and exhilarating.

Infact I am liberated after reading this..

We cannot read the meaning of life passively in the facts of nature. We must construct these answers ourselves — from our own wisdom and ethical sense. There is no other way.

Someone once question this to himself  Why I’m here most of my life ? Then he answered himself - If there’s a purpose I don’t care anymore. I’m seventy-four. I’m on my way out. Let the young people learn the hard way, like I did. No one ever told me anything.

 I am neither young now neither old...so what to do..
Just to be on the lighter side and those who do not want to stress themselves more than what they have already accumulated so far  

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus?If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

As far as I am concerned I am more of a seeker, an agonist and this definition suits me...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the temples, churches, mosque ,state ,parenting and our educational system. We are here to drink wine & beer. We are here to kill war.We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. We are here to read these words from all these wise men and women who will tell us that we are here for different reasons and the same reason.

Last but not the least some one even questioned this questioning 
Avant-garde composer and philosopher John Cage said : No why. Just here...

Happy Reading...

Work for your purpose and not desires

One of the signs of creating..is that you loose sense of time.You also feel that nothing is more important than this purpose.This Purpose has a bigger meaning than your whole life put together.The thought of this purpose energizes you and you get meaning of your life...Through this purpose whatever you do sometimes become a Creation
Work is to be done to satisfy your needs and desires.We all have needs of body and we have desires of mind. Most of our life is around these needs and desires...but if through these desires we are trying to find meaning of our life..we will remain unfulfilled most of our life...Completion of desires gives us momentarily happiness and a long wait for "waiting to be happy." or a feeling of  "incompleteness "

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ~ Stephen King

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Repeating lines which I read somewhere  "You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you’re still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.”

Love this book by Paul Cohelo - The Valkyries

Just felt like sharing few lines from a book by Paul Cohelo which I started reading

• Anything that occurs once can never occur again. But, should it happen twice, it will surely happen a third time. 
• And each man kills the thing he loves,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The coward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword. 
• I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everyone Else's.

The last line above as well reminds me of a very old  I remember famous Urdu words from one of my teacher - 

Qismat ki khoobi dekhiye tooti kahan kamnd
Do char haath hee jab lab-e-baam reh gaya

• He quit his job again (a mania for leaving everything behind). He gave no explanation, saying only that he was fed up with what he was doing.He also said that it didn't make sense to keep quitting his jobs, changing one for another. He needed to discover what it was that he wanted. They had put some money aside, and had decided to do some traveling. 
• Have you ever had the feeling, at certain moments in your life, that someone was observing what you were doing?  How did you know ? - I just know. There are moments when, without really knowing it, we are aware of the presence of someone 
• We begin to create a kind of film in which we are the main character, and we are certain that someone is observing our actions.But then, as we get older, we begin to think that such things are ridiculous. We think of it as having been just a child's fantasy of being a movie actor. We forget that, at those moments in which we are presenting ourselves before an invisible audience, the sensation of being observed was very strong.

Does Life has a beginning or an end ?

Nature has answers to most of the questions which come in human mind.Nature as well have been an inspiration to most of the innovators and inventions..Our scientists and spiritual teachers the most famous one being Buddha have compared Life with a river....The insight which Buddha got while watching a river were similar to what Newton got while watching a apple fall...My memories of what I read earlier got revived while reading one of the Paul Cohelo's books last week

Many of us sometime do had questions about life and where we were before birth and where we will go after death.. While watching a river flow,Buddha said that river too is like life..where this river was before it took the form of a river  and where it will go after it will disappear in sea.So where river was before it took shape of a river and where it will go when it disappear in sea....Appearing and Disappearing of life and river is similar to death and birth..but life and river were always there in another form...Also law of conservation of energy.Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed..It just transforms or changes forms...River becomes vapor in clouds and Clouds become rain and it becomes snow..and then becomes river... .So clouds are like soul of river in case there is something called soul otherwise we can say life transforms  into another life...like river transform as cloud All elements of human body after death go where they belong to 

Life is all around us not only in human beings and it was always there even when human beings were not there. 

Quoting from Paul Cohelo's book - Rivers that have just been reborn in the sea. They will rise to the sky, and remain there until, for whatever reason, they once again become rain and fall to earth.The rivers return to the mountains, but carry with them the wisdom of the sea. That is how you discovered those secrets we had never discussed. You are a river.You have already run down to the sea, and you know its wisdom. You have died and been reborn many times. All you have to do is remember .

If only I could have defined Life & Human beings !!

• How about Life is one of God's jokes, and we work to make it a good joke instead of a bad one...
• Life is all about Living and through Living you get experience ...Now the challenge with Experience is that it is a hard teacher. It gives the test first and the lessons afterwards
• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own
• Life exists only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we are not in touch with ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life
• Life must be lived as it comes along. By living our lives one day at a time, we live all of the days of our lives
• Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. We cannot go back and start a new beginning,but on any day we can make a fresh start toward a new ending
• The doors we open and close each day will decide the kind of lives we will lead
• To see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle
• Heaven or hell is not determined by the direction in which we travel, but by the person we have become when we arrive
• No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living
• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it
• Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good
• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands