Tuesday, December 07, 2021

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

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.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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

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. 

Friday, August 27, 2021

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


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.

Monday, August 02, 2021

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

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) 

Saturday, July 24, 2021

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

The first requisite of civilization is 

That of justice.

--Sigmund Freud.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

To be responsible.....

When it come to responsibility

It is always 

Oneself....

To begin with.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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

In matters of lies

Lies....... 

Both visible and invisible 

Deception and Corruption

Conflict and Litigation.

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Who is not blamed ?

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...........

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.

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

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

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.

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Quote of the day......

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.....

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.

Saturday, July 10, 2021

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

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.

Friday, July 09, 2021

Being Lured.......

It is a man’s own mind, 

not his enemy or foe, 

that lures him to evil ways.

-- Gautama Budha.

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

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.

Thursday, July 08, 2021

Verifiability......

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.

Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Real Learning....

Real learning comes about 

When the competitive spirit 

has ceased.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Saturday, July 03, 2021

Quote of the day......

 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.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

What it is to understand.....

 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........

An honest answer is...... 

The sign of true friendship.

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