Balance V - Balanced Moments

Its being a long time since i wrote something in my blog. But i being thinking about this "Balanced moments" for quite sometime. I might get over this feeling in the future, but it an important phase i should scribe it down!

I started off with some extreme sides ...say a western religion and thought process. Thought that stuff's to be of OBJECTIVE importance. Like the definition of "God", which has to be a SINGLE and doesn't need to have to have any desire or earthly things sort of things. I enjoyed the undivided beauty of Aristotelian logic too. This or That!

Then i went through eastern side, where they is less definitions and SUBJECTIVE, where everything is blurred and in between, where they celebrated the Sakura's impermanence and beauty of earthly living. Enjoyed the awesomeness of metaphors and poems. Inspired to see how these metaphors can push the human limits and endurance. Learn to understand the accept the life's offerings.

After seeing both sides of the coin, i took a step back and saw everything in balance and realized that the importance of balance. I wrote few previous posts on balance, how balance was up-holded and seen through out our everyday life and process.I started living and experiencing thing in balance, in pairs, in itself!.

But i was getting little uncomfortable with conclusions, never comfortable with closed ended solution. This stage even scares me from writing ...writing anything. Because writing is concluding, because balance in a bigger picture is nothing and everything. There is nothing more to write or to discuss or to feel. So i became uncomfortable even in BALANCE!.

I wanted to probe further, further my quest to understand our process of balance. So i go wandering for more, i hit upon this feeling of "Balanced Moments". Because there has being moments/time when i was a rightist but still balanced, then there were moments when i was leftist but still balanced. Not just for politics,but for every aspects of life. To get to any understanding in Science, the first and foremost step of ideas are metaphors or some mere examples. Once we reached a concluding stage (by Aristotelian logic), then to neglect the earlier stages is not complete and true. So i thought that we get to balance in moments, in steps, in stages... The stage of metaphors and blurred definitions are true. True for that moment. The stage where we unravel and find some answers were also true. True for that moment. There were time when we needed war, there were time we wanted peace. To live life and realize the fullest,we need to appreciate the balance and for the moment. If we took the balance for a "whole" process or life, then we may not be able to move (forward or backward). Everything seems like a circle. Circle and cycles is not a comfortable positions. It might look very well balanced. But its never changing and never ending!. But balanced moments are like "WAVES", you will have the ups and downs and balanced for that moment. A Balanced Moment. Happy new year to all. Enjoy your wave.

BALANCE IV- WinWin Situation.

I always perceived that its all a zero-sum game. If some one has to win, some one else has to loose. All the scientist would agree that any thing would have to come from something.

I saw this guy with a limp in the MRT(city-train). Normally if i see any old people i would be willing to give up my seat. But in this case, the guy seems to be around 40 (not too old). Seems to have a some limping...but not disabled.

In this case if i give up my seat, i think he would be offended. He doesn't wanted to be treated as handicapped. He should be given a respect of an full grown adult with maximum abilities to take care himself.

So in this case, i don't have to give up my seat and he is still happy....win win...

BALANCE-III INDIFFERENCE & REFLECTION

You can be my friend, you can be my enemy, but don't be indifferent to my presence. I feel ignoring a person's presence is the most cruel form of acknowledgement.

Human as a responsive being.We work just being responding to the stimulus we receive. But of course we got limits, laws, rules, constrain to respond. Basically, we are subject to the Newtons third law of (e)motions. "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." The worst thing is not an enemy. But a person who is indifferent to you. Just don't respond!

Who could be the best audience for my blog. I wonder. If the whole world can view it, then it would be the ideal or is it just me. The reflection of the whole word is me...just me.

BALANCED II - BIASED

How can anyone be unbiased? When you have a choice, then there is no such thing as unbiased!. And human life is full of it. Choices!..we have to make each and every day. In the end, biased decision are taken and done in every single little things we do. This sounds totally opposite of balance. Unbiased is balance. Its like choosing nothing!. Because in a balanced life, there would be nothing to choose from, there would be nothing to be biased. Discrimination is a worst word to use for biasing. No one is far from it. Its just a human behavior. may be i can say, intelligent human behavior. We discriminate based on color, language, food...etc. We might have improved (Civilised) in a certain way. But i see it that we have only transformed from one form to another, we still have the discrimination. Now its based on intelligence. We get jobs based on intelligence and your salary. That's going to decide your status in the society. The you discriminate based on this. Some time back in the past, it was the power, brute strength. Now it is the intelligence. Next it could transform into something else, so this will keep on going from one form to another. But the discrimination will be there as long as human intelligence exists. Its is the way we see, understand things. If everything is same and nothing is different. then there is nothing to discuss, nothing to compare, nothing to improve. We just would died down.Is it? Is there a way?

If humans are born just with memory, but not intelligence...then i wonder, how this world will be. Its worth exploring the possibility. (Without my human intelligence ability, i wouldn't be able to make this statement Of course!). Intelligence could seen as the corruption of our memory. Its corrupts, it biases, it tells you to make decision. Best way to understand is to look at the human babies. When they are born, they are unable to make decision, they just absorb things..in their memory. Of course they do nothing! But slowly, their intelligence kicks in...started making decision....and we became what we are. Decision making animal!. I don't have to tell you that wright and wrong are just names and you could change as per your point of view. So the point is decision making between choices. Whether its wright or wrong...its just constrain, environment based.

Out of curiosity, I try to differentiate between Japanese and American way of decision making. I could have take any other group, but the reason for choosing this two is because i being exposed more to it and both contrast each other well. I said differentiate, i want to be careful that i should not make decision and take sides. But i am afraid i am just a human.

Japanese tend not to take quick decisions and of course not by the individual. It will always be a team effort, team decision. Some time its became indecisive! :). (Here i go..biased). Americans on the other hand, take quick decisions and of course its highly based on individual. Ayn Rand style. There is always a decision, never without it. Japanese tend to eliminate the possibilities, they give importance for all possibilities, verify it and then eliminate the wrong ones...finally reaching at the correct one. This is a bit rigorous, but quick effective with persistent effort. Yes you need to be very passionate and very persistent. While American way of thinking is, just think out of box and hit the bulls eye out of no where. Some time you get lucky, but if not, then you don't know what to do!. Of course, things may not be so sharply divided as i described. But for argument sake. This could be considered as a two classical way of division between being in group and being individual.

Biased are we humans, in every aspect of life.

BALANCE-I : OPPOSITES

The world is full of it. Our life revolves around it. We live it, we love it, we would be lost without it. Balance, balance in anything , balance in everything is the answer to all.

Physically, people needs to eat, sleep and lead a balanced life. We know any food taken in moderation is good for health. Balanced diet. Mentally and spiritually, we need to have a balanced as well.

Does the god has a role to play if there wasn't any evil. Will there a meaning to peace if there was no war. Will we be cherishing the good time and laughter if there was no bad time. Human life as i see it is cycle. Ever action has an equal and opposite reaction. Or every reaction is caused by any equal and opposite action. Is that simple enough.

To find the richest person, you need to find and define the poorest pauper. To see an extreme, you need to go to the other extreme!. You can only find peace where there is lot of war. I always tell people, war movies are not about war, its about peace. Biggest of heroes are made when you have the worst enemies. Every new world order will come after the worst of chaos.

To appreciate any thing tangible and intangible is to go very far away from it. That is to miss it. The highest value of any product/relation is its opportunity cost. You will realize only when you don't have it. In this way, you can define and understand any item by looking at its "OPPOSITE". Opposites or balancing forces or completing entity. Woman completes a man or a Man completes a woman. Happiness completes the sad. Peace completes the war. These entities should be perfectly balanced. Every time, everywhere, everything....