This
is a world of instant choices - Yes / No/ -Click here to agree! Click here to disagree!
But
we worry about our choices being right
Confucious
had no such problem – (because he is dead). And also because he was a Know- All.
He
discovered the truth about the truth without internet, when he stated ‘to know
what you know and to know what you do not know is the characteristic of the one
who knows.’
India
since the age of the Neolithic when they imported tooth whitening agents from Germany,
meteorite metal for weapons from the asteroid belts in space and philosophers
from China, were always famous for their imports.
Imported Chinese Zen philosophers have been popular because they are so easy to
understand and apply to local conditions. Indians are very positive about
indigenisation.
That
is why our Indian Educational system in India got rid of all that thinking crap
and decided that the goal of all education was to do what Confucious laid out
as knowing – know /not know - Which led to the development of whole new generation of brilliant young
minds.
My
son too has prospered and been successful under this system, so I may add that
I can vouch for it.
When
he was preparing for high school exams he would choose a student who would help
him and that used to be always a student who failed in the examination. I was curious about how this worked.
He
said “I passed because the portion of the course material I studied came for
the exams and the portion of the course that he studied, did not. So by the law
of Zen learning -to know what you know is not enough, you must get to know what
you do not know from the one who knows but did not have the luck to get the
right questions for which he had the right answers.”
It
is a foolproof method of passing CBSE board exams.
Simple?
And
can be vastly improved if the master and student discuss the theories of
probability of the exam questions before the examinations, over chilled beer.
But as we are all aware life is not always simple. Adulthood
turns out a little more complex than high school gymnastics in knowledge. It is
about the art of congesting bits and bytes. And, of how much Bit to Byte.
Research from California, San Diego University, states that
an average person today is exposed the tremendous volume of data thru the
internet, television and other media-
around 34 gigabytes of information per day. Something that it is clearly not designed to
handle as of now. This creates serious problems for the brain creating shorter attention
spans. We respond to data but have no time to absorb and assimilate it Being
constantly subject to information results in shorter attention spans, low
memory and mental fatigue.
But that is nobody’s problem but yours.You have to use your
brains whether it can or cannot process the data within the time frame and come
to a conclusion .And you have no other choice but to choose right.
There
was this man who was a great believer of St. Francis.One day, while hiking in
the mountains, he slipped and fell off a cliff.While falling, he prayed to St.
Francis to save his life. Suddenly, a big hand came out of the clouds and
grabbed him, stopping his fall.
“Thank
you, St. Francis,” sobbed the grateful man. “I knew I could depend on you.”
A
celestial voice boomed out of the clouds – “Hang on – before we go any further,
which St. Francis did you call for – St. Francis Xavier or St. Francis of
Assissi?”
That
happens too…
What
about the sheer pleasure of being wrong? Or procrastinating over the
ponderables versus the imponderables? It does not exist.
You
always have to know how much bit to byte…
My
Mother- in -Law presiding over the dining table asks me “how many chapattis
will you eat?”
I
get one split second for giving the pat reply.
Her
commandment for the correct answer cannot be ignored because she is the undisputed descendent of Confucious ( the one who knows all ) , and she says that being incorrect has dire consequences.
The
wrong number from me will either lead to wanton wastage affecting the hungry in
the third word countries or my hungry stomach languishing in hunger in the
world of the privileged.
I
am unable to consult my stomach in the assigned one split second.
I
lost the vision of my belly button to that. The internet states that the
inability to take the right decision on a number relating to the consumption of
round wheat foods can lead to a permanent loss of the belly button.
Right
or wrong?
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