Modern philosophy

Like mine, and I will like yours

From mind perspective, if we cleanse the moment called "now" and retained so, we are simultaneously cleansing yesterday and tomorrow, because all these three tenses are inseparable from one another. To supplement, those who attained enlightened some 2500 years ago might not have gone to the beginning of their existence to cleanse the negativity of those moments.

Education and Civilization

I walk on the path made by mankind, I step over the smooth surface, I step over the rough. I read a chapter on contentment and compare in my mind, but the wisdom is hardly lodged, though I claim that I understood the chapter to full.

This is the pattern of modern education, well versed in extinguishing the man razed wild fire with help of technologies and equipment, yet at grass root level on the wisdom why we shouldn’t raze that beautiful forest (just an example). I came up through the process of education which taught me to become a doctor, an engineer, a pilot, an electrician, but not yet an intrinsic human. I learned the pleasure of luxuries, but not educated on the pain of pleasure. Education has reached people to the moon, stars, but not yet the ground of humanity. I see all these forms of education as more of wants than needs, whereby the true needs of the education may lie in finding the peace in oneself, in one’s environment, people, animals and all forms of the surroundings. Is it true my friends? Or if you find it controversial, why not we turn around and see, the wars, destruction, fighting for power, position, inheritance, etc, etc. None of these ideas might have come from the mind of blind, or illiterate, or to the people who are not exposed to any form of education, be it religious, cultural or modern.

Our lifestyle is so entrapped in the experience of past and future that we fail to rejoice the moment now, which has the potential to explore all the beauties of this world. This is not included in any form of education that a child is born and brought up into. When I say I am my environment and not the true self, it means that our life is dominated by the sense of beautification, competition, luxuries, etc, which incurs huge chunk of mind energy in the form of mental poisons, such as desire, anger, hatred, jealousy and so on. A person remaining within the boundaries of four walls physically and mentally have least to compare with the world, against the one who has already put himself amidst competitions and selective livelihood.

How can we inculcate such habits of discovering the peace and contentment, going through the current form of life and education? Such findings and theories needs to be incorporated in modern education from the basic, at par with the one that demands competitions for survival. Comparing the life process, survival of the fittest, from a single celled organism which existed as the only living form at the time of evolution, we see now diverse forms of existence as per the environment they got and type of adaptation they developed for survival. This teaches us that, the kind of world we are living now, kind of environment we have around us is all made by ourselves, which has in turn made us.  

Such environment further decides us as to what kind of human will be born in future to adapt with the situations available then.

Some of the religious views say that our world has entered the phase of degeneration, and it is high time that we start developing the sense of responsibilities in creating a healthy and peaceful environment for our own betterment. This really strikes in my mind when I look at our environment, our societies, relationship and all other forms of existence. How ignorant it is that we betray the law of cause and effect as coined by one of the greatest scientists; every action has its equal and opposite reaction, or, as you sow, so shall you reap. Doesn’t it apply to each and every one of us? We mayn’t fight against the natural calamities such as Earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. But we have the power to fight against wars, hatred and destructions or so since all these comes from lack or inappropriate form of education that we receive. Just for instance, during our primary or medium education, we end up mugging diverse forms of subjects and chapters such as history, geography, English, but at par, I feel it is highly important to incorporate the education system on humanity. A student who has streamlined his profession into medical or engineering has least to do with his primary school subjects, but as much we give due preference until he/she chooses a profession, that person should be receiving equal education on the science of good human behaviour and practices so that the wisdom gained benefits at all level of profession and livelihood.

 When I think of my age about 50 years later or so, I assume my environment a very different one, with all my responsibilities handed over to the upcoming generations. But how they will take charge is what we inculcate in them now, the wisdom we generated from our elders now. But if we ourselves are not well seasoned with right guidance and environment, what good will my generation gain from me? and this is how the things go on degenerating. To supplement with few words from my poem- water fall the comfort, if I sum it up in one sentence, comfort drags us into further comfort, which thus the comfort we got yesterday turns insufficient tomorrow. Then we are dragged down towards seeking more comfort, more luxury, where we end up being just the lump of flesh and blood, with no vigour to deal with the system of nature.

So to produce a genuine human, we need to step forward very carefully as we are the messengers between past and future, so we be assured that just the cream is handed over.

To conclude, rather than claiming to be the follower of perfect religion, culture or holding a high lineage, what is more important for us is to become a good human, accumulating right wisdom and leading a right livelihood.