Monday, December 15, 2008

What Students Study in Pakistan ?

BE — Bomb Engineering
M.B.B.S -- Member of Bomb Blasting Society
IIT --Islamic Institute of Terrorism
CAT —Career in Alqueda & Taliban
M.Tech –Masters in Terror Technology
LLB –Learning Licence of Bomb Blasting
B.Sc. –Bio-Weapon Science
AIIMS —All International Islamic Members Society
BA —Bomb Analyst
B.D.S. —Bomb Development Society

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

When is your Thinking time?

I have been observing & analyzing myself and i came up with some strange idea & got one big question (yeah it seems very big) When i think?(or more generally when do people think?)Mine is mostly during traveling. That happens most of the time & at that time checklist of "To Do" list runs in my brain. And during traveling i try to make Phone calls to people whom i need to call but some times it is difficult to talk over phone,as many people will be eavesdropping on my telephonic conversation but still it can be manageable.

And it seems to me that almost all people do the same, may be it's because traffic in Bangalore is more and on an average an individual spends 4 hours of his time in traveling alone per day.

We can make use of traveling time to think about ourselves(plans, priorities etc..) instead of thinking about work or family. That way we can assess ourselves and learn to love our self.

Let me know when you think.

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Never Loose Hope

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
~
Samuel Beckett

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him. He drank the hemlock and died corrupting.

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62. He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never, Never, Never, Never give up." (his capitals, mind you)

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe. He returned to his office and kept on writing.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class. His teacher commented that "there was a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another." Three years later Sternberg graduated with honors from Stanford University with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, he became President of the American Psychological Association.

Charles Darwin gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Clearly, he evolved.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
~
Confucius

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Even to do a little math.

Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 students in chemistry.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.

R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

F. W. Woolworth was not allowed to wait on customers when he worked in a dry goods store because, his boss said, "he didn't have enough sense."

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

John Garcia, who eventually was honored for his fundamental psychological discoveries, was once told by a reviewer of his often-rejected manuscripts that one is no more likely to find the phenomenon he discovered than to find bird droppings in a cuckoo clock. (sort of a cute critique actually)

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work in the rarefied atmosphere of outer space.

Daniel Boone was once asked by a reporter if he had ever been lost in the wilderness. Boone thought for a moment and replied, "No, but I was once bewildered for about three days."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly."
~ Robert F. Kennedy

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation." Lombardi would later write, "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Jordan once observed, "I've failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed."

Babe Ruth is famous for his past home run record, but for decades he also held the record for strikeouts. He hit 714 home runs and struck out 1,330 times in his career (about which he said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."). And didn't Mark McGwire break that strikeout record? (John Wooden once explained that winners make the most errors.)

Hank Aaron went 0 for 5 his first time at bat with the Milwakee Braves.

Stan Smith was rejected as a ball boy for a Davis Cup tennis match because he was "too awkward and clumsy." He went on to clumsily win Wimbledon and the U. S. Open. And eight Davis Cups.

Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh, and Jimmy Johnson accounted for 11 of the 19 Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1993. They also share the distinction of having the worst records of first-season head coaches in NFL history - they didn't win a single game.

Johnny Unitas's first pass in the NFL was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. Joe Montana's first pass was also intercepted. And while we're on quarterbacks, during his first season Troy Aikman threw twice as many interceptions (18) as touchdowns (9) . . . oh, and he didn't win a single game. You think there's a lesson here?

After Carl Lewis won the gold medal for the long jump in the 1996 Olympic games, he was asked to what he attributed his longevity, having competed for almost 20 years. He said, "Remembering that you have both wins and losses along the way. I don't take either one too seriously."

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay."
~
Eric Hoffer

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.

Charles Schultz had every cartoon he submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff. Oh, and Walt Disney wouldn't hire him.

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." He kept that memo over the fire place in his Beverly Hills home. Astaire once observed that "when you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion." And here is the reward for perseverance: "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."

After his first audition, Sidney Poitier was told by the casting director, "Why don't you stop wasting people's time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?" It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting.

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress in 1927, she was told by the head instructor of the John Murray Anderson Drama School, "Try any other profession."

The first time Jerry Seinfeld walked on-stage at a comedy club as a professional comic, he looked out at the audience, froze, and forgot the English language. He stumbled through "a minute-and a half" of material and was jeered offstage. He returned the following night and closed his set to wild applause.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." I'm sure you know that Norma Jean was Marilyn Monroe. Now . . . who was Emmeline Snively?

At the age of 21, French acting legend Jeanne Moreau was told by a casting director that her head was too crooked, she wasn't beautiful enough, and she wasn't photogenic enough to make it in films. She took a deep breath and said to herself, "Alright, then, I guess I will have to make it my own way." After making nearly 100 films her own way, in 1997 she received the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

"Flops are a part of life's menu
and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
~
Rosalind Russell

After Harrison Ford's first performance as a hotel bellhop in the film Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, the studio vice-president called him in to his office. "Sit down kid," the studio head said, "I want to tell you a story. The first time Tony Curtis was ever in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star." Ford replied, "I thought you were spossed to think that he was a grocery delivery boy." The vice president dismissed Ford with "You ain't got it kid , you ain't got it ... now get out of here."

Michael Caine's headmaster told him, "You will be a laborer all your life."

Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered "nonsense."

Enrico Caruso's music teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing. His parents wanted him to become an engineer.

Decca Records turned down a recording contract with the Beatles with the unprophetic evaluation, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." After Decca rejected the Beatles, Columbia records followed suit.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely deaf.

"No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."
~ Baudjuin

The Impressionists had to arrange their own art exhibitions because their works were routinely rejected by the Paris Salon. How many of you have heard of the Paris Salon?

A Paris art dealer refused Picasso shelter when he asked if he could bring in his paintings from out of the rain. One hopes that there is justice in this world and that the art dealer eventually went broke.

Van Gogh sold only one painting during his life. And this to the sister of one of his friends for 400 francs (approximately $50). This didn't stop him from completing over 800 paintings.

John Constable's luminous painting Watermeadows at Salisbury was dismissed in 1830 by a judge at the Royal Academy as "a nasty green thing." Name of the judge, anyone? Anyone?

Rodin's father once said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, he was rejected three times admittance to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His uncle called him uneducable. Perhaps this gave him food for thought.

Stravinsky was run out of town by an enraged audience and critics after the first performance of the Rite of Spring.

When Pablo Casals reached 95, a young reporter asked him "Mr. Casals, you are 95 and the greatest cellist that ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?" Mr. Casals answered, "Because I think I'm making progress."

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
but great minds rise above them."
~
Washington Irving

Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. He was described as both "unable and unwilling to learn." No doubt a slow developer.

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant by her family.

Emily Dickinson had only seven poems published in her lifetime.

15 publishers rejected a manuscript by e. e. cummings. When he finally got it published by his mother, the dedication, printed in uppercase letters, read WITH NO THANKS TO . . . followed by the list of publishers who had rejected his prized offering. Nice going Eddie. Thanks for illustrating that nobody loses all the time.

18 publishers turned down Richard Bach's story about a "soaring eagle." Macmillan finally published Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone.

21 publishers rejected Richard Hooker's humorous war novel, M*A*S*H. He had worked on it for seven years.

22 publishers rejected James Joyce's The Dubliners.

27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

Jack London received six hundred rejection slips before he sold his first story.

English crime novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

William Saroyan accumulated more than a thousand rejections before he had his first literary piece published. Way to not take a hint, Bill!

Gertrude Stein submitted poems to editors for nearly 20 years before one was finally accepted. See . . . a rose is a rose.

I bet you didn't know that John Milton wrote Paradise Lost 16 years after losing his eyesight

One of Professor Pajares's first research efforts came back with a review that began, "There are so many things I don't like about this article I just don't know where to begin."

There is a professor at MIT who offers a course on failure. He does that, he says, because failure is a far more common experience than success. An interviewer once asked him if anybody ever failed the course on failure. He thought a moment and replied, "No, but there were two Incompletes."

Let's end with Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Eighty percent of success is showing up."

"There is something to be said for keeping at a thing, isn't there?"
~ Frank Sinatra

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Transformations

Any life form in any realm - minerals,vegetable,animal or human - can be said to undergo "enlightenment".

Some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, & so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat & pressure, turn into diamonds & some heavy minerals into other, precious stones.

Most crawling reptilians, the most earth bound of all creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers & wings & turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn't became better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling & walking entirely.

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Flowers ,the Human Consciousness and ZEN

Flowers play an important & essential part in the evolution of consciousness of humans. Humans are increasingly drawn to flowers & fascinated by them. With the development of consciousness, flowers provided inspiration to countless humans who later became artists, poets & mystics.

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy & love are intrinsically connected to that recognition.

Their scent is delicate & pleasing to humans, & they also bring a fragrance which looks like coming from the realm of spirit.

In a wider sense, we can look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants.

The Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower & gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakashyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by 28 successive masters & much later became the origin of Zen.

Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being,their true nature.

Like all life forms, flowers have held special significance for the human spirit, we can say that they are temporary manifestations of the underlying one life, one consciousness.

So when you are alert & contemplate a flower, without naming it mentally, it becomes a window for us into the formless. There is an inner opening, however slight, into the realm of spirit. This is why this "enlightened" life form has played such an important part in the evolution of consciousness.

For example Lotus flower is a central symbol of Buddhism & Hinduism.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Reality

"If you want to follow a practise, you have to follow someone who is realised. Methods are full of frustrations and give no real satisfaction. Reality has no method. Illusion has many methods, many problems and many concepts. To overcome illusion, or concepts, one should ask, "From where does all this thinking arise?" Thinking is always of other things. To know the thoughtless Reality, no thinking is required. It is where there is no thought. Whatever thing you think of doesn't exist. Everything is He only, and apart from Him there is nothing in the world. Whatever is thought of, makes Him something other than what He is. When thinking ends, what happens? You go to zero.


Awakening is nothing but a complete, thorough understanding. A clear cut understanding of a thing is awakening. Reality is not to be achieved, it is there. After this thorough understanding, nothing is required.

And we expect "awakening" to be some great, mysterious happening! "Reality is not to be achieved, it is there" says it all.

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The Alchemist

One big company was hiring new staff, the question of
the written exam is:
You are driving a car on one big storm night, you are
passing a station,there are three people who are
waiting for the bus; one old
ladywho is dying, one doctor who saved your life
before, one guy/lady who is someone you have been
dreaming to be with.

You can only take one passenger, which one you will
choose? Please explain your reason.
Think about it before you read the following :

I am not sure whether it is some kind of personality
test, since every answer has its reason.

Old lady is going to die, you should save her first,
however, old people always end up dying anyway, you
should take the doctor,because the doctor saved my
life before, this is the perfect chance to pay him
back. At the same time, some people believe that you
can always pay the doctor back in the future, but you
may never be able to find the perfect lover once you
pass this chance.


Seems like this is valid reasoning.

But wait for a moment! Think about infinite
possibilities that nature offers every moment. Can you come up
with better possibilities? (I couldn't!)

Read the finish:

Within the two hundred candidates, the one who has
been hired did not explain his answer, he only simply
stated " Give the car key to the doctor, let the
doctor take the old lady to the hospital and I stay to
wait for the bus with the lady of my dream!"
Everyone I know think the above answer is the best
answer, but there is no one (including myself) can
think of this answer first. Is that because we never
want to give up any advantage we held in our hands
(the car key)?


Our actions flow out of conscious mind. But indeed, we are never really free to reason. That so-called mind has lot of filters.
It is like a computer program: The flow is decided by the initialized variables and incoming data. It is never free.

But an enlightened person is in a state of mind which is not "conscious" in a real sense. It just "Is". The actions are then not born out of the experience. They just happen. It is as if the future pulls yoy towards itself and you don't have to do a thing ...

So what is the source of this future? Obviously it is not something that is thought by you, right? It should necessarily be something outside of you ... It is as if the whole universe acts as one being....

Then what is the connection between universe, you and everything else? Perhaps it is Love?..................

To find out Read The "Alchemist Book".

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Why I read and like books?

I believe in Jnana Yoga (i.e. understanding through knowledge rather than practices or beliefs) so i read books.

Change -- A Universal Law

A young monk went complaining to the Zen master: the regimen is harsh, joints cramp during meditation, the body aches, the mind drifts..."My son, don't worry, that will change," the master comforted the youth.

Later, he came back. "Thank you very much, master. Now I know the meaning of bliss. I know what I am, what is life's meaning. I feel eternal pleasure."

"My son, don't worry, that will change."

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Some thoughts

Try xoring together the Holy Bible and the Q'ran. Then reverse it and raise it to the power of a Sutra mod Torah. Then you shall have The Knowledge.

Place me in the company of those who seek Truth, but deliver me from those who believe to have found it.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Problems

The right time to deal with a problem is right now.
whichever time you choose to solve them one of two things will happen:
1.It will grow and grow and grow until it explodes and will disappear for a bit,only to re-emerge and explode in the future
2.It will be get solved.

We can pretend they do/will. But they don’t. And often, the longer we wait the worse they are when we finally get to dealing with them.

So as you ask, “Why wait?”

right? So, the right time to deal with a problem is right now...........