The Mirror

Human fate and Trajectories in history......

2022-04-29T17:23:00.000-04:00

Direction of trajectories.....

In human history and ideologies

That surpass and outlive our lifetimes are

Just a projection of....

Our possible/finite imaginations...

Not certainties by which.....

Human fate/s gets to be defined.

The rule of thumb and

What is certain is...

That which is non "Dharmic"

In the present is.....

A precursor to a future....

That is uncertain and terminal.

In Malice....

2021-12-12T18:16:00.000-05:00

What......

Even the greatest of the enemy

Does not do is.........

Twist the words spoken by Thee.....

Though one may not like the words

That are spoken and even refute

But to replace the word with lies or twist

Is dishonor even to.....

A worthy enemy.

Nature is thrifty in all its actions.............

2021-12-07T21:26:00.000-05:00

The laws of movement and of

rest deduced from

this principle being precisely

the same as those observed in nature,

we can admire the application of it

to all phenomena.

The movement of animals,

the vegetative growth of plants are

only its consequences; and

the spectacle of the universe becomes

so much the grander,

so much more beautiful,

the worthier of its Author,

when one knows that

a small number of laws,

most wisely established,

suffice for all movements.

-- Pierre Louis Maupertuis.(1698 - 1759)

French mathematician.
philosopher and man of letters.

Zabriskie Point ...........

2021-11-23T22:17:00.002-05:00

Ever since the beginning of modern science,

the best minds have recognized that

the range of acknowledged ignorance

will grow with the advance of science.

Unfortunately, the popular effect of

this scientific advance has been a belief,

seemingly shared by many scientists,

that the range of our ignorance is

steadily diminishing and that

we can therefore aim at

more comprehensive and deliberate

control of all human activities.

It is for this reason

that those intoxicated by

the advance of knowledge

so often become

the enemies of freedom.

-- Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992),

Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974.

To see the real future..../ And To be free from The Past...../ or / To have a Future embedded in past ?..../ to be Twice born........

2021-08-27T02:27:00.001-04:00

To observe the hidden,

One has to have eyes

That are not conditioned by the past.

One must look at oneself

As though for the first time,

Each time, and

Therefore never accumulate.

If not, you are just playing a game.

You are not serious.

--Jiddu Krishnamurti.

An ideal subject...........

2021-08-02T17:16:00.001-04:00

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is

not the convinced Nazi… or

the convinced Communist,

but people for whom the distinction

between fact and fiction

(i.e., the reality of experience) and

the distinction between true and false

(i.e., the standards of thought)

no longer exist.

-- Hannah Arendt. (1906–1975)

What it is to be civilized........

2021-07-24T14:55:00.003-04:00

The first requisite of civilization is

That of justice.

--Sigmund Freud.

To be responsible.....

2021-07-22T23:04:00.001-04:00

When it come to responsibility

It is always

Oneself....

To begin with.

What Lies....... In matters of Lies.........

2021-07-20T15:42:00.001-04:00

In matters of lies

Lies.......

Both visible and invisible

Deception and Corruption

Conflict and Litigation.

Who is not blamed ?

2021-07-18T15:57:00.000-04:00

They blame those

who remain silent,

they blame those

who speak much,

they blame those

who speak in moderation.

There is none in the world

who is not blamed.

-- Gautama Budha.

To be........../ Tik Tock...........

2021-07-18T15:53:00.005-04:00

What you think yours is

Not yours....

It is just a Tik Tock of

Reality breathing in and out

Be aware and let go......

So that your heart remains

Untarnished.

That which is A real construct and ...Yet an illusion..../ Dharma as Entropy and Evolution.....

2021-07-14T16:05:00.007-04:00

To give way to and

To have a sense of reality

Determinism works and operates

With in a framework of

Time......

Where all time and

Its constructs........

Which apparently give us

A sense of reality are

Subject to change and entropy

Where-as in the totality of

Annihilation and

Ending of time

For oneself (death) and

The world to be.........

Everything is

Null and void....... and

Only dharma........

The essence of all living

That which gives justice is

The only unchanging reality

Where life.........

In its creation and

Continuity becomes

A possibility.

Quote of the day......

2021-07-11T15:53:00.001-04:00

The scapegoat has always had

the mysterious power of unleashing

man's ferocious pleasure in torturing,

corrupting, and befouling.

-- Francois Mauriac.(1885-1970)

Nobel Prize in Literature (1952)
Source: Second Thoughts, 1961

Self and Ingenuity..../ And then there were none.....

2021-07-11T15:51:00.001-04:00

If a person is ingenious

With an intent and malice enough

To make up something.....

He or she can come up with all

That can be deemed as ev·i·den·tia·ry Or

Find something they wish......

Others may believe in and

A person with sufficient ingenuity

Can find evidence anywhere

To build a case against others.

--- Agatha Christie.

What is the appropriate behavior..............

2021-07-10T14:33:00.000-04:00

What is the appropriate behavior

for a man or a woman

in the midst of this world,

where each person is clinging to

his piece of debris?

What’s the proper salutation

between people as they pass

each other in this flood?

* * * * *

Let none find fault with others;

let none see the omissions and

commissions of others.

But let one see one’s own acts,

done and undone.

-- Gautama Budha.

Being Lured.......

2021-07-09T00:29:00.000-04:00

It is a man’s own mind,

not his enemy or foe,

that lures him to evil ways.

-- Gautama Budha.

Distinctions... and Difference........

2021-07-09T00:13:00.000-04:00

In the sky,

there is no distinction of east and west;

people create distinctions

out of their own minds and

then believe them to be true.

-- Gautama Budha.

Verifiability......

2021-07-08T21:47:00.000-04:00

Verifiability is not about

His word or Her word or Their word Or

A belief....A tradition .... A custom etc...

It is not even about what

A judge would admit or not

It is about finding for oneself

What was /and is...

Thus spoke the grey parrot

When Men became mute.

Real Learning....

2021-07-06T13:05:00.000-04:00

Real learning comes about

When the competitive spirit

has ceased.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Quote of the day......

2021-07-03T22:45:00.001-04:00

It is a great importance to set

A resolution, not to be shaken,

never to tell an untruth.

There is no vice so mean, so pitiful,

so contemptible and he who permits

himself to tell a lie once,

finds it much easier to do it

a second and third time,

till at length it becomes habitual,

he tells lies without attending to it, and

truths without the world's believing him.

This falsehood of the tongue leads to

that of the heart, and

in time depraves all it's good dispositions.

-- Thomas Jefferson.(1743-1826),

US Founding Father, 3rd US President
drafted the Declaration of Independence.

What it is to understand.....

2021-06-30T18:57:00.001-04:00

If we can really understand the problem,

The answer will come out of it,

Because the answer is not separate from

The problem.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Quote of the day......./ Proverbs 24:26........

2021-06-30T14:55:00.006-04:00

An honest answer is......

The sign of true friendship.

-- Proverbs 24:26.
Source: The Holy Bible.

Freedom from the Known.........

2021-06-30T12:25:00.005-04:00

Thought is so cunning

So clever.........

That it distorts everything for

Its own convenience.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti.

To question a Lie.......

2021-06-28T23:37:00.008-04:00

Every time

The world fails

To question a Lie

It looses

A part of.....

Its humanity.

Quote of the day.....

2021-06-28T22:39:00.000-04:00

Most of our faults are

more pardonable than

the means we use to conceal them.

-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680) French author.