When a machine is created, every component in it holds a purpose. Big or small, each of these elements got a role to play in the functioning of the machine. No machine is built with any part without any role to play. In short, each of these components is essential. If we humans can have creations with such precision, won’t you trust the universal creator to exhibit better precision?
When we realize that each one of us is a component of his machine, we start thinking about the meaning of our existence. Are we not here to perform some duty? karma? contribute to the proper functioning of this machine? As every machine is made of multiple components, each component is made of sub-components. The duty of each component is to work in sync with other components. Either help or facilitate the function of others. Any component which malfunctions and obstructs the functioning of others is rightly called as Waste.
It is easy to blame the way the world is. Way things are around you, personally and professionally. The reason why things are not right is that some of the components of this huge machine are defective. Or, it is not functioning the way it is supposed to be. This is the time to do a soul search. Question the meaning of your own existence. How meaningful do you want to make it? Are you happy being a mere coating on one of the cogs of the machine or do you want to be a key component of the turbine? Well, don’t read me wrong here. I am not urging every individual to be a part of the centrifugal force that drives the universe. Not everyone can be a Mother Teresa, Einstein, Edison, Mandela, Gandhi, Bill Gates, Tendulkar, Bolt, Picasso or any other legend. It definitely is not in your hands. But, what is in your hand is your choice of not being no one. When you start questioning the meaning of your existence, you start creating your own answers. It is you who can decide the value and meaning of your existence.
A self introspection will make you realize the value you are adding to this Universe. You add value to this machine by playing your role perfectly, in whichever capacity it is supposed to be. When you add value to you as an individual, to your work place, to your family, to your society, you add value to the Universe. You start creating a meaning for your own existence. The simplest gesture of un-complicating things and simplifying life for the people around you in your work place makes you realize the meaning of your existence there. You can use every action in your professional and personal life to add value to your existence. Your existence in this world is a sweet responsibility, not a mere opportunity. Each individual is responsible for making his/her own existence more meaningful to people around you and in-turn to the entire universe. We have no right to complain about anything, unless we make efforts to create greater value for our own existence. The more relevant you make it, the less waste you are.
You got 2 choices.
Make your work radically helpful to others than useful to yourself alone. Strive for excellence in whatever you do. Commit yourself to recognize value in what others do around and be appreciative of the same. Help them to add more value to what they do and let them improve their worth. Assume responsibility for your own net worth in the Universe.
OR
Blame everything around you.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Master your Thoughts.
A lazy Saturday evening, in a pensive mood, sipping the hot caffeine drink, I started thinking of my actions for the rest of the weekend.My thoughts jumped boundaries with ease and I realized that more than ten un-related thoughts flashed through my mind by the time the seconds needle in the clock finished one circle.
Has anyone thought about the origin of thoughts? The raw material needed for a thought? What is its duration? Are thoughts the condensed or summarized results of our experiences? Or are they reflections of our aspirations, dreams and fears? ( I started fearing about something in 2011 and later the fear became true!). Thoughts, according to my experience are formed, dissolved and reformed in rapid succession. Between two successive thoughts there won’t be any connection at all! This lack of connection is differentiating the lesser mortals from the great thinkers, philosophers and creative brains. When there is no connection between each thought and its neighbours, they can’t complement each other. One can’t strengthen the other one. When you are able to channelize your thoughts in a streamlined manner without interruption, it penetrates the core of the subject of thought and comes out with a mind-blowing result that only a few can deliver.
Each man is the person who most constantly affects his own mind. Others might affect it occasionally, but it is his own thoughts about others let them affect him. Our own influence over our mind is far stronger than that of anyone else and we fix ourselves the wave lengths at which our mind vibrates. Thoughts which do not resonate with our mind cannot touch it. They get repelled. If a man thinks truth, a lie cannot occupy any corner of his mind. Thoughts of love cannot enter a mind filled with hatred. Many a times, we have listened to incidents/actions and exclaimed “how can he even think of doing it!” Ever thought why we react like that? That’s because those actions are not things your mind can approve off. So you don’t even think about them.
“Life is a physical manifestation of your own thoughts” is said not for no reason. It is critical that you do not allow your mind to be idle and invite any wandering thought to inhabit it. Keep it occupied with the right thoughts that resonate with your inner self. By having positive and noble thoughts, life can be happier for yourself and the world around you. When thought process is mastered, you can think of what you want and stop thinking of what you do not want. Every conflict that arises is resultant of the thought process. If one disagrees to another’s opinion, it is a difference in each of their thought processes. We like what we learn to like. It is extremely tough to unlearn something.
Till the time we master our thoughts, everything we think, say or do leaves a residue of conditioning in the mind. The slightest thought has consequences, as does the slightest act. It is the sum of all these consequences – large and small – that shapes our lives over the years. Every thought is energy and it got its own consequences. Thoughts are more materialistic than the stuff we can touch and feel. It is thoughts, not things that make up our experiences. Thoughts are the very source of our destiny, for from our thoughts flows everything. The intensity we attach to each thought is the reinforcement to this flow of energy. The intensity is proportionate to our desire to achieve a particular goal. The more we think about the goal, the more energy the mind is channelizing towards the possible achievement of the goal.
Everything we have achieved so far is what we have thought for ourselves, spoken and done in the previous moments of our life. Past and future are present in every present moment. What we shall be tomorrow will be the result of what we think today, speak today and act today. This makes us responsible for our present and future.
Has anyone thought about the origin of thoughts? The raw material needed for a thought? What is its duration? Are thoughts the condensed or summarized results of our experiences? Or are they reflections of our aspirations, dreams and fears? ( I started fearing about something in 2011 and later the fear became true!). Thoughts, according to my experience are formed, dissolved and reformed in rapid succession. Between two successive thoughts there won’t be any connection at all! This lack of connection is differentiating the lesser mortals from the great thinkers, philosophers and creative brains. When there is no connection between each thought and its neighbours, they can’t complement each other. One can’t strengthen the other one. When you are able to channelize your thoughts in a streamlined manner without interruption, it penetrates the core of the subject of thought and comes out with a mind-blowing result that only a few can deliver.
Each man is the person who most constantly affects his own mind. Others might affect it occasionally, but it is his own thoughts about others let them affect him. Our own influence over our mind is far stronger than that of anyone else and we fix ourselves the wave lengths at which our mind vibrates. Thoughts which do not resonate with our mind cannot touch it. They get repelled. If a man thinks truth, a lie cannot occupy any corner of his mind. Thoughts of love cannot enter a mind filled with hatred. Many a times, we have listened to incidents/actions and exclaimed “how can he even think of doing it!” Ever thought why we react like that? That’s because those actions are not things your mind can approve off. So you don’t even think about them.
“Life is a physical manifestation of your own thoughts” is said not for no reason. It is critical that you do not allow your mind to be idle and invite any wandering thought to inhabit it. Keep it occupied with the right thoughts that resonate with your inner self. By having positive and noble thoughts, life can be happier for yourself and the world around you. When thought process is mastered, you can think of what you want and stop thinking of what you do not want. Every conflict that arises is resultant of the thought process. If one disagrees to another’s opinion, it is a difference in each of their thought processes. We like what we learn to like. It is extremely tough to unlearn something.
Till the time we master our thoughts, everything we think, say or do leaves a residue of conditioning in the mind. The slightest thought has consequences, as does the slightest act. It is the sum of all these consequences – large and small – that shapes our lives over the years. Every thought is energy and it got its own consequences. Thoughts are more materialistic than the stuff we can touch and feel. It is thoughts, not things that make up our experiences. Thoughts are the very source of our destiny, for from our thoughts flows everything. The intensity we attach to each thought is the reinforcement to this flow of energy. The intensity is proportionate to our desire to achieve a particular goal. The more we think about the goal, the more energy the mind is channelizing towards the possible achievement of the goal.
Everything we have achieved so far is what we have thought for ourselves, spoken and done in the previous moments of our life. Past and future are present in every present moment. What we shall be tomorrow will be the result of what we think today, speak today and act today. This makes us responsible for our present and future.
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