Moving forward?

So here is the thing. How much can I type with just two fingers and a ten inch screen?

The theory is quite a lot and in a rather short expense of time as well. It's not to say they are wrong. But it's not yet an exact science. The productivity of typing and swiping together plus the usage of word recommendations are a complicated sets of dance. On top of the inherent habit of me not looking at the keyboard when I am typing adds to the complexity of it all.

This brings me to the point of if we are relying too much on the machines to understand what it is that we are trying to express as well as attain. If they are truly able to do so, then skynet is not too far from being attaining consciousness.

Am I dramatising the whole thing a tad bit? How did word recommendations end up into being the AI that brought down human civilization?

Maybe.

But the distinction is not that far apart. At least not as big as you might think.

More and more technology is brought to bear the burden of Man. They are created to take away the complexity of the mundane. To relieve us of our boring task and allow us the chance to focus on more challenging and meaningful subjects.

That's the sales pitch.

Yet that is not what I see happening in real life. What I perceived is a much more mundane existence. The people given these technologies are not really using it to attain a higher level of being. Instead it is mostly use to further push their meaningless existence into further debauchery. Most of us don't try to be better because of the chances we are given, we take it for granted as a god given right. Which in real fact isn't true at all.

This gift that we are given is not a right. It is not something that has to happen. They are so many people which are still living from meal to meal, that for them the furthest thoughts that gains any mind share is that of "where is my next meal coming from". And we squander away our precious gift on treachery and selfishness.

I can't decide to be angry or sad on this matter. Or just succumb to numbness like the rest of the civilised world. Is this our future? Are we destined to be mundane? The movie elysium paints that picture very well. And it scares me terribly.

Achieving zero dark everything...

It's a sticky situation this nirvana thing.

So I am going to share my version of understanding with you on this.

It is about peace of mind.

Basically meaning (to me) the ability to no longer be unbalanced the by the noises in life journey. It is not to say to be cut off from it but instead to be fully accepting of it and to gain balance from it.

It is believed in his teaching that the reason for our pain and suffering in this worldly being is due to our emotional reactions that we associated with events and people. And these events and their relationship causes us to fall into a catch 22 situation. Thus many of his followers took this to heart and decided that the only way to NOT get into this situation is by abstinence. Or cutting away all interaction that causes it.

But to me that just smells too much like a fanatical interpretation. It just does not smell right to me. Instead I gravitate towards the version where we take away the control of such emotional state by embracing their true nature and understanding them. It is the same approach I use when I deal with abusive people. I take away their power by knowing who they are, what they do and why they do it. And then I choose to no longer allow these individuals any room of mental space within my life. They become transparent to me in their motives and I can deal with them appropriately.

You might see this being similar to what your guru is doing, by cutting away the social interaction thus avoiding these noises. But that's where the similarities end. I am not avoiding the noises. For me by understanding and accepting these noises, I nullify their effect. In other words there no longer is any noise.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it's one of the most heavily used concept in the first matrix movie. There is no spoon, remember? Suffering is all in the mind, once we fully grasp that then we can fully appreciate life and it's total offerings.

Living is about participation. It's about being one with it all. How does abstentions from social interaction being one with life? We filter away the noise to hear the music. And that filter is done by our mind.

I hope I did not confuse you more than you began.

Who am I?

Nobody.

And I am ok with it.

It wasn't so long ago when I first step into the working world and I thought i would make a name of myself. Where I would be someone.

Then age taught me a simple lesson.

Know your strength.

Understand your weaknesses.

Be the best that contributes the most.

Ask not what you can get from life, but what you can contribute to it.

So I blended in with the crowd.

I became one of the many.

And it is there which I make my difference.

I am nobody.

But we are legion.

in·ev·i·ta·ble ...

Count from One to Hundred.
Make the heart slow down.
Breath In.
Breath Out.
One foot after another.
Just walk away.
You know the answer.
You know the rules.
Just walk away.
Really.
Just walk away.
Please.
Walk away.