Saturday, June 9, 2012
Broken Heart!
Oprah Said About Men!
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HOPE
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A Story
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Malba Tahan tells the story of a man who met an angel in the desert and gave him water.
“ I am the angel of death and I came to get you,” said the angel. “But as you were kind, I will lend you the Book of Destiny for five minutes; you may change what you want.”
The angel gave the man the book. As he was leafing through its pages, the man began reading about the lives of his neighbors. And he got discontented, “ These people don’t deserve such nice things,” he said. With the pen in hand, he began worsening the lives of each one.
Finally, he reached the page of his destiny. He saw his tragic end, but as he prepared to change it, the book disappeared. Five minutes had already passed. And right there, the angel took the man’s soul.
Times of Crises
Times of crises r both dangerous & important. Dangerous for those who have no courage to explore new dimensions of life. They are bound to disintegrate into different kinds of madness, because their mind was made by society. Now with society disintegrating, the mind cannot remain; its roots are in society. It is constantly nourished by society-- and now that nourishment is disappearing.
Because society is disintegrating, a great suspicion, a doubt that was never before, is bound to arise in individuals. And if they were just obedient people who have never gone beyond any limit that society has decided, who have always been respected, honourable citizens, they will immediately go mad. They will start committing suicide, they will start jumping from high buildings.
In times of crises, the danger is for those who have enjoyed the times when society was settled, when there were no problems. These were the people who had enjoyed the obedience of the mind, and these are going to be the sufferers. It is simple arithmetic. They will go psychotic, they will go neurotic-- and these words dont make much difference
Times of crises are of tremendous significance for those daring souls who have never bothered about society's respectability or about what others think about them, but have done only that which they felt right to do; who have in certain way been always rebellious, individualistic. For these people the times of crisis are just golden, because society is disintegrating. Now it cannot condemn anybody--it is itself condemned, cursed. It cannot say to others that they are wrong. It is proving itself wrong; its whole wisdom is proving just foolish, superstitious.
The daring individual can use this opportunity to go beyond mind, because now society cannot prevent him, he is free. There has never been so intense a search for spiritual growth. But there has never been so much madness either. Both are happening because the status quo is no longer powerful; it has lost control.
Today, the old mind, the old society has lost credibility--and not in one place, but all over the world. There are different kinds of old traditions, but they all have come to a point where so many things are scientifically proved wrong.
The most intelligent people are rushing towards the East to find some way, some method. Somewhere somebody must know how to get over this stage, how to go beyond the traditional mind and still remain centered, sane and intelligent. Thousands of people are moving towards the East.
It is funny because thousands of people are coming from the East to West to study science, medicine, engineering, electronics, and the people who know all these are going to the East, just to know how to sit silently and do nothing. But it is a beautiful time. The grip of society is lost. But the people who will go beyond mind will create the new man, the new mind. And the most special thing to be remembered about the new mind is that it will never become a tradition, that it will be constantly renewed.
The new mind has to become continously new, everyday new, ready to accept any unexpected experience, any unexpected truth...just available, vulnerable. It will be a tremendous excitement, a great ecstacy, a great challenge.
So dont think that crisis is bad; it is good. If the new mind can prevail then life can become an enlightenment process. And enlightenment will not be something rare, it will become very ordinary experience.
If God exists, then y is so much suffering in the world.
A man went to trim his hair and beard. As always happens, he and the barber chatted about this and that, until – commenting on a newspaper article about street kids – the barber stated: - As you can see, this tragedy shows that God doesn’t exist. Don’t you read the papers? So many people suffer, abandoned children, there’s so much crime. If God existed, there wouldn’t be so much suffering. - You know something? Barbers don’t exist. - What do you mean, don’t exist? I’m here, and I’m a barber. - They don’t exist! – insisted the man. – Because if they did, there wouldn’t be people with such longs beards and such tangled hair. - I can guarantee that barbers do exist. But these people never come in here. - Exactly! So, in answer to your question, God exists, too. It just so happens that people don’t go to Him. If they did, they would be more giving, and there wouldn’t be so much misery in the world.
Computer Vs Human Brain
Many of us think that computers are many many times faster, more powerful & more capable when compared to our brains simply because they can perform calculations 1000's of time faster, workout logical computations without error & store memory at incredible speeds with flawless accuracy. But is the the computer really superior to the human brain in terms of ability, processing power and adaptability? Let's begin the real comparison.
You might have studied about Retina. The retina is a nerve tissue in the back of the eyeball which detects lights & sends images to the brain. Overall, the retina process about ten one-million- point images per second. The 1,500 cubic cm human brain is about 100,000 times as large as the retina, By simple calculation it can be estimated that the processing power of a average brain is about 100 million MIPS (Million computer Instructions Per Second). The most powerful experimental super computers in 1998, composed of thousands or tens of thousands of the fastest microprocessors & costing tens of millions of dollars, can do a few million MIPS. By estimation, the brain has about 100 million MIPS worth of processing power while recent super-computers only has a few million MIPS worth in processor speed.
The brain is made for general purposes, not specifically just for computational jobs. The average human is constantly distracted by his overwhelming senses, his emotions and his own thoughts. There are exceptional people who could read through a 500 page book in less than an hour & remember all the contents as well as people who could perform mathematical calculations at a snap of their fingers but they are only rare examples that prove the hidden potential of human brain. Computers are far superior in terms of intelligence as defined by Turing’s test. They lack however the logical intelligence that a human brain possesses. They have no idea of right or wrong, something that makes them unfit to make decisions involving life or death. Sure a computer makes faster calculations, but it doesn’t store more memory & it can’t smell, feel, touch and have emotions. It can’t see objectively or subjectively.
Is it true that the objects can surpass its creator? How can this be true?
You might have studied about Retina. The retina is a nerve tissue in the back of the eyeball which detects lights & sends images to the brain. Overall, the retina process about ten one-million- point images per second. The 1,500 cubic cm human brain is about 100,000 times as large as the retina, By simple calculation it can be estimated that the processing power of a average brain is about 100 million MIPS (Million computer Instructions Per Second). The most powerful experimental super computers in 1998, composed of thousands or tens of thousands of the fastest microprocessors & costing tens of millions of dollars, can do a few million MIPS. By estimation, the brain has about 100 million MIPS worth of processing power while recent super-computers only has a few million MIPS worth in processor speed.
The brain is made for general purposes, not specifically just for computational jobs. The average human is constantly distracted by his overwhelming senses, his emotions and his own thoughts. There are exceptional people who could read through a 500 page book in less than an hour & remember all the contents as well as people who could perform mathematical calculations at a snap of their fingers but they are only rare examples that prove the hidden potential of human brain. Computers are far superior in terms of intelligence as defined by Turing’s test. They lack however the logical intelligence that a human brain possesses. They have no idea of right or wrong, something that makes them unfit to make decisions involving life or death. Sure a computer makes faster calculations, but it doesn’t store more memory & it can’t smell, feel, touch and have emotions. It can’t see objectively or subjectively.
Is it true that the objects can surpass its creator? How can this be true?
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