Does fear have its own velocity? - 2 January 2012

Does fear have its' own velocity? Are we hungry for our own fear?
Bharat Bhushan - 2 January 2012

Feeding into our fears is a primary tangent, going away from our actual lives. Fear is a tangent. It is meant to go away from us. Our mind does not allow it to happen. We make the 'impossible' to become a significant reality of our lives. We make the tangent turn back, after the point of intersection, and cause it to re-enter our lives. The tangent does not turn back. It never actually happens.

Our mind assumes with extreme certainty that the tangent of fear actually has turned back to re-enter our circle of life. This fallacy is pure myth. But, we cause the aspect of fear to assume primordial shape and substance. Fear evolves into fright, gets converted to a phobia, and changes into diurnal, nocturnal and daytime realities. the actual reality of fear touches our circle of life for only a brief moment in time.

The cause emerges from nowhere, some point of unknown origin, and establishes its own velocity and touches us and goes on its own manner, path and behaviour. There is only one reality in terms of fear. The reality of fear is that there is no reality. Fear never existed. It is our response to a situation, stimuli or understanding. Our response assumes a real and organic existence within our unclear lifestyles. Formative myths take strength from our insistent realities and demand to feed on our fears.

We get to be hungry for our own fear, and we want more of it. There is no satisfying our hunger, to use a cliche. We get to be happy with the aspect of being frightened inspite of the fact that it is not real. there is notable means of being stronger, and there are ways and means of avoiding fear. Associated thought leads to consolidation of fear and our refusal to part with it. We begin to establish ownership over our fear.

We love that we are in fear of a certain issue. We start deliberating over it, and we end up in being afraid of exploring alternatives to our fear. What was a tangent, and should have been allowed to continue on its path, is now accomodated within our lives, and is now resident within us. The tangent has now taken over the circle.

Is change very deceptive or is it merely a perception? - 1 January 2012

Does change actually happen or is it a deceptive perception within our minds?
Bharat Bhushan - 1 January 2012

People change. From a child, to a young person to an adult, as a spouse, as a young parent and as a middle-aged individual. Relationships change over the years. Proximacy may cause occasions for arguments and lead to dissension. Age-old perspectives can be deceptive within different periods of time. There is always a first time for beginning with all activities. The correct approach to understanding change is to accept it.

We may question change and we may hesitate. We analyse those who are close to us. We analyse too much. We examine intentions, behaviour, reasons, logic, friendship and enmities. Our assumptions become our convictions within our mind. Why? Because, we think we are correct. We determine the correctness of our deceptive perceptions within our minds.

Distance can also lead to the same ideas. "The myth of Sisyphus" tells us that "there is no punishment more severe than eternally futile labour." This is true within our minds. We are always at labour within our minds, determining how our close ones understand us and examine our actions towards them. We are always living out a myth. Any examination of the reasons of behaviour of those individuals close to us is always a dirty way of going about our lives.

There is always a supplier and a recepient of actions. We supply reasons for analysis and we assume reasons for the actions of others. It seems more and more apparent that each individual is a lonely island. We live by ourselves within our midns, and we  grow positively and negatively within ourselves. We lose objectivity, and we establish a bias within us.

Our value systems may destroy themselves within our lifetime. We are products of our own values and we cannot retain our value neutrality. Maintaining the freedom from our values is crucial because all our values are our assumptions to social facts. Empirically observable reality is a perception. Public opinion is a social fact. Qualitative matter being observed objectively is an endeavor. Relativity, within any particular context, should give us similar behavior patterns, which does not happen. We will end up nowhere as always, and this would become a trend. 

Minimalism - is there a need to be minimal? - 3 November 2008

Minimalism - is there a need to be minimal? Can one succeed in minimalism? 
Bharat Bhushan - 3 November 2008

Sometime back in 1990, I guess, I had gone to visit a senior journalist friend at his residential quarters above his newspaper offices, and I found him living out of some bare bookshelves, a coir mat and a pillow and very few other accessories. When I questioned him, he said that he was a minimalist. That was the first time that I had heard the word, and I liked it. It seemed to be almost like a religion with him, and I found that he actually believed in living it out in that manner. I was quite taken up by it, and I do try to follow the tenets, from time to time, sometimes succeeding, and mostly, failing.

It is indeed very difficult to become a minimalist. There is an entire science to it, seemingly. The theory or the paradigm is known as minimalism. There are many net pages and material to read from on the internet about minimalism. There are experts out there, and there is software especially made to help you become a minimalist. I would not be surprised if there was a cellphone app also made for it. But, if you go around collecting all this stuff, you would no longer qualify to be a minimalist.

One of the most popular theories is that it is the removal of all the stuff that we collect and getting rid of all the clutter that we live with. This can be at several planes in life. It can be simply to get rid of the material matter that one has collected, and at the other plane, it can be to get rid of the clutter within the mind. It can also be to getting rid of the work systems that do not work for us, and to getting rid of all the wasteful planning methods that we have that destroy our future.

So, simply put, minimalism helps us review our past, the present and the future. We need to get rid of something, some clutter, junk or our belongings, from each aspect, i.e., the past, the present and the future. We collect tremendous aspects of junk within our mind and within our thoughts. We search for vague happenings that have happened a long time ago in the past, and we pull them out, stretch them to more tensile fragility than a simple rubber band, and pretend that it has more importance for the present and the future than it would ever have been.

But, to become a minimalist, and to adopt minimalism, there has to be a deliberate decision. You really need to go ahead and want to do it. It cannot just be a thought and it cannot just be an idea. You need to actually start and get to doing it. There is no planning about becoming a minimalist. You start when you think about it, and you start doing it. Pick up the nearest object, give it away. Pick up your wallet, and decide that you will not purchase anything. Pick up your ATM card or credit card and keep them away for a fortnight. These are simple actions. They help get you started.

When one embarks on the path towards total quality management, the ISO 9001 system requires that the aspirant firm makes a very deliberate top management decision to want to achieve perfection. That is the same with minimalism. Your top management, i.e., your mind and your thought system, should take the decision and make it immediately deliberate by beginning and creating output. One of the theories is that you establish a relay or a tag sport within your house and your office to begin to get rid of stuff. Keep hitting a different spot and continue to pick up something and get rid of it.

We are all consumers. If we do not purchase, if we do not pick up, and if we do not want to take up something or some event, life does not halt at its orbit around our actions. It goes on. The reality is what happens, and it is never the aspect of what did not happen. Whatever did not happen, never existed. It is counter to what does exist. The thought of the aspect that did not exist, will always distract us. Others will contribute to the thoughts and evolve it into a disappointment. Understand the myth and accept the reality. It never existed. THAT is the truth.