There are so many things from where people can learn. one can learn only by paying attention. If someone is actually passionate about learning, then this life span is not enough to learn about everything. Moreover most of the studies are so shallow that their validity is for limited period of time. Even the hard core scientific facts which holds true now, might not be true in the future. As we grow & make development, old facts which people holds to be as absolute truth, turns out to be something else. More deeper and meaningful a thing is more truthful and valid that thing will be. If someone has grown wise, after all these years of education, should know that normally things cannot be taken at their face value. Things we see is not what it seems to be, if you simply go a bit deeper, its meaning changes. There are so many layers of facts and each layer holds true to itself but combined their entire meaning changes. Like body, there are so many different layers, on top there is skin, go a bit deep there will be nerves, veins & blood, still deeper there will be muscles, than organs & other stuff still deeper skeleton, break them down to cells which are in itself a complex self surviving body, still deeper, molecules, still deeper atoms, still deeper neutrons, electrons & protons, still deeper more finer particles, until we can no longer divide them with current level of technology and understanding. Then go into bigger layers there are nations, still bigger continents, still bigger planets, even bigger solar systems, even bigger galaxies, and endless nebula, there is no end to it, from bigger view point, we ourselves will be like an invisible atom in the entire creation. There is no end in either direction, and what we are at current level, is itself not stable & permanent and keeps changing. But we take it as ultimate truth in itself, that this physique is sole purpose of our creation, and we live our life on a very superficial level. we don't even know the precious gem that is within and waste such a precious life at the value of scrap. As once a person dies all that is left is scrap, and only thing we cared about was scrap and never recognized the value of light within but lived our life in darkness, in ignorance.
Everything is created in time & time in itself is ever changing. Back on the superficial level, it gets very difficult to decide which information to hold in our head, for what duration of time and when to let it go, and fill in new information. We use our current (Present) time to hold information which we are going to use in future (i.e. after Post-Graduation), but question is, for what amount of time, will that information, be relevant. If we have knowledge, we can influence others. That is how business operates (by Influencing people), that is how sales occur (by influencing customers), that is how politics is carried out (by influencing citizens), that is how communities are formed or groups are made, that is how relationships are formed(by influencing partner). Our believe system is formed according to the knowledge which we hold to be as truth, and we act accordingly, and our entire life goes as in understanding other peoples believes, the amount of knowledge they have and the ways to influence or manipulate or change others believe as per our needs.
Education promises to give us knowledge, superficial knowledge, or shallow knowledge, which has lost its taste or appeal for the most part. It does not have all the answers, It tells us about things or companies or environment that will be completely different in next few years, Science has explanations for things that might be useful for next few years, or about past, past for me will be before I gained consciousness, and amount of time, for which, I have consciousness is 60 or 70 or 80 years. In short education tells us things that has happened, is happening, might or will happen in future, by providing relevant information. First step of any educational institution who want its students to learn, should be to teach a student how to put aside one's believes and thoughts or how to empty one's head so that new information can be filled in it. One will be ready to do that if one trusts the person who is teaching (that the teacher will not mislead). Any sort of learning includes faith, faith in the fact that what you are learning is important and useful for achieving desired objectives. One has to be very careful in putting his faith, as if a person puts his faith in someone who is blind, person will himself end up being blind or having a skewed or narrow vision of world.
We get influenced by everything, children can be influenced easily as they don't have any strong belief system, as we grow fewer and fewer things influence us, as we have developed a belief system, based on our past experience. Therefore new ways have to be found to influence a person. Emotions plays such an important role in influencing others, that the person who is not conscious of the self, will always be on a roller coaster of emotions.
And I not sure whether there are chemicals behind triggering emotions through our brain or something else. Some people says its your thoughts that makes you happy or sad as according to our thoughts, brains triggers chemicals that alter our moods. But what triggers thoughts or ideas in first place, I have no idea, they just come out of nowhere into our conscious mind and fills our head continuously with all sorts of thoughts most of the time, completely grasping our attention in those thoughts. Then there is subconscious mind of which people were not aware until recently, maybe there is unconscious mind or soul or something as well of which no one is aware of and if reached can open altogether a different level of consciousness for a person, like that of saints or prophets. Least one can do is to be conscious of one's thoughts, of the self and shouldn't get lost in thoughts and get drifted away either in past or future. To learn one has to be present where the information is provided, not just physically but consciously (or attentively) as well, because it is only by paying attention one can learn. Without paying attention just physical presence is completely useless.
First thing which marketing does is grabbing the attention, and then advertisement is designed so effectively that people become a part of the message being delivered (like someone completely immersed in a movie) so that it triggers an emotion of passion, love, care, innocence, beauty, elegance, and so on, which has nothing to with the product, just that when you saw something different an emotion was attached with it, to distinguish it & If someone can do that, then even if product goes from the market, it will still live inside the minds of people. (product or object-emotions-will then trigger an action-sales- recycles money-part of the population becomes happy paying-another part of population becomes happy receiving-company become happy paying and receiving-this is what constitutes economies-just emotional manipulation-but it gets complicated because we include or try to accommodate others beliefs or objects of manipulation, in this system, to keep everyone happy-all this for happiness but the best part is even after doing this still people are not happy, still people don't realize something is wrong in the way we live life, and way we guide others to live life)
I hope people understands and realizes the self and then help others to live a more fulfilling life, and not just materialistic life, to help them realize who they are, what they are, the significance of things they do. We have a limited life, limited attention, and look at the things, we pay attention to. Consciously we never grow. We are born ignorant, like a child & as we grow, we become like a spoiled or rouge child (maybe cunning child) body grows but from within we don't. We still need toys to entertain us to keep us happy. Only difference is that, as we grow our toys become big, like when we are small we play with small cars but when we grow we need a big cars to play with, when we are small we have small fights and small ego (1 minute we will fight so fiercely and next we will become best friends) , and when we grow we have big fights and big ego,(we have big fights like wars, and even for a small fight or even if someone says something which we don't like, we don't even go and look at the face of the person(big ego)), we hardly have any wants when we were small, but as we grow our wants grow. And the negative things never stops growing and we peruse them at the cost of our integrity, honesty, goodness, happiness, and then wonder why we are not happy. As you sow so shall you reap, we know we have ourselves to blame, but because we avoid facing ourselves, we find reasons or logic to rationalize it, we look outside for faults to find something to place the blame on, like maybe there is someone else to be blamed for our unhappiness.
We never Learn, think wisely.....
Everything is created in time & time in itself is ever changing. Back on the superficial level, it gets very difficult to decide which information to hold in our head, for what duration of time and when to let it go, and fill in new information. We use our current (Present) time to hold information which we are going to use in future (i.e. after Post-Graduation), but question is, for what amount of time, will that information, be relevant. If we have knowledge, we can influence others. That is how business operates (by Influencing people), that is how sales occur (by influencing customers), that is how politics is carried out (by influencing citizens), that is how communities are formed or groups are made, that is how relationships are formed(by influencing partner). Our believe system is formed according to the knowledge which we hold to be as truth, and we act accordingly, and our entire life goes as in understanding other peoples believes, the amount of knowledge they have and the ways to influence or manipulate or change others believe as per our needs.
Education promises to give us knowledge, superficial knowledge, or shallow knowledge, which has lost its taste or appeal for the most part. It does not have all the answers, It tells us about things or companies or environment that will be completely different in next few years, Science has explanations for things that might be useful for next few years, or about past, past for me will be before I gained consciousness, and amount of time, for which, I have consciousness is 60 or 70 or 80 years. In short education tells us things that has happened, is happening, might or will happen in future, by providing relevant information. First step of any educational institution who want its students to learn, should be to teach a student how to put aside one's believes and thoughts or how to empty one's head so that new information can be filled in it. One will be ready to do that if one trusts the person who is teaching (that the teacher will not mislead). Any sort of learning includes faith, faith in the fact that what you are learning is important and useful for achieving desired objectives. One has to be very careful in putting his faith, as if a person puts his faith in someone who is blind, person will himself end up being blind or having a skewed or narrow vision of world.
We get influenced by everything, children can be influenced easily as they don't have any strong belief system, as we grow fewer and fewer things influence us, as we have developed a belief system, based on our past experience. Therefore new ways have to be found to influence a person. Emotions plays such an important role in influencing others, that the person who is not conscious of the self, will always be on a roller coaster of emotions.
And I not sure whether there are chemicals behind triggering emotions through our brain or something else. Some people says its your thoughts that makes you happy or sad as according to our thoughts, brains triggers chemicals that alter our moods. But what triggers thoughts or ideas in first place, I have no idea, they just come out of nowhere into our conscious mind and fills our head continuously with all sorts of thoughts most of the time, completely grasping our attention in those thoughts. Then there is subconscious mind of which people were not aware until recently, maybe there is unconscious mind or soul or something as well of which no one is aware of and if reached can open altogether a different level of consciousness for a person, like that of saints or prophets. Least one can do is to be conscious of one's thoughts, of the self and shouldn't get lost in thoughts and get drifted away either in past or future. To learn one has to be present where the information is provided, not just physically but consciously (or attentively) as well, because it is only by paying attention one can learn. Without paying attention just physical presence is completely useless.
First thing which marketing does is grabbing the attention, and then advertisement is designed so effectively that people become a part of the message being delivered (like someone completely immersed in a movie) so that it triggers an emotion of passion, love, care, innocence, beauty, elegance, and so on, which has nothing to with the product, just that when you saw something different an emotion was attached with it, to distinguish it & If someone can do that, then even if product goes from the market, it will still live inside the minds of people. (product or object-emotions-will then trigger an action-sales- recycles money-part of the population becomes happy paying-another part of population becomes happy receiving-company become happy paying and receiving-this is what constitutes economies-just emotional manipulation-but it gets complicated because we include or try to accommodate others beliefs or objects of manipulation, in this system, to keep everyone happy-all this for happiness but the best part is even after doing this still people are not happy, still people don't realize something is wrong in the way we live life, and way we guide others to live life)
I hope people understands and realizes the self and then help others to live a more fulfilling life, and not just materialistic life, to help them realize who they are, what they are, the significance of things they do. We have a limited life, limited attention, and look at the things, we pay attention to. Consciously we never grow. We are born ignorant, like a child & as we grow, we become like a spoiled or rouge child (maybe cunning child) body grows but from within we don't. We still need toys to entertain us to keep us happy. Only difference is that, as we grow our toys become big, like when we are small we play with small cars but when we grow we need a big cars to play with, when we are small we have small fights and small ego (1 minute we will fight so fiercely and next we will become best friends) , and when we grow we have big fights and big ego,(we have big fights like wars, and even for a small fight or even if someone says something which we don't like, we don't even go and look at the face of the person(big ego)), we hardly have any wants when we were small, but as we grow our wants grow. And the negative things never stops growing and we peruse them at the cost of our integrity, honesty, goodness, happiness, and then wonder why we are not happy. As you sow so shall you reap, we know we have ourselves to blame, but because we avoid facing ourselves, we find reasons or logic to rationalize it, we look outside for faults to find something to place the blame on, like maybe there is someone else to be blamed for our unhappiness.
We never Learn, think wisely.....
Hi Deshveer!
ReplyDeleteThank you for reflecting on your thoughts and feelings. As you have experience expressing yourself in blogs, it is clear you are comfortable with writing. Good stuff!
Suggestions: Perhaps you could reflect more often, capturing your experiences twice a week? Also, you range widely and deeply (great!) Would you write, please more specifically also about your experiences in the course, program, with your peers, and in Nanaimo/BC/Canada?
Keep going!
Cheers,
Paul