#Emptiness or Sunyata ::

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Emptiness is form and form is emptiness.

Introduction:

The Sunyata was Expounded by Buddha 2500 years ago and it was explained further to help all the sentient beings and later developed by Nalanda professor NagarJuna in 2nd century as a commentary to  Lord Buddhas Teaching.

 

What is Sunyata or dependent arising ( dependent origination)?

1…According to Buddha every phenomena in this universe is based on emptiness, that means everything exists depending on  other  Phenomena. And there is no individual essence unchanging and permanent in the each entity.

For instance , human being has body which consists of five senses functioning it’s own function and mind sense which forms mental thoughts:

Thought arises in human depending on sense organs and we are conscious of it . 

Consciousness depends upon senses to exist , in fact each sense organ has its own consciousness.

Buddha taught there is No subject (no self) as everything is changing and non permanent 

However, emptiness is not nothingness, it cannot  be put into words or conventional truth exactly.

Emptiness can be neither same to its cause nor different to its cause.

Just like in above examples: you are Neither same to body- mind consciousness nor different to it. 

That can be right explanation to Sunyata, how can you grasp it ?

2…Now we come to Buddhist teacher or Great master NagarJuna  who founded Madhya Mika Buddhist School.

It was known that  Buddha remained in silence when questioned whether there is self or  no- self .

Buddha remained silent to question If there is self, because ultimately emptiness is not nothingness and non- self was taught because there is no known essence permanent in every entity. 

In order to remove attachment and desire in beings , Buddha taught how there is no self and how self is illusory in nature. 

On the basis of self and No self teaching or On Buddhas middle path, NagarJuna expounded and taught Madhyamika Buddhist Philosophy .

What is Madhyamika Philosophy?

It is a middle way approach to self  and anatman ( no self) which must be answer to Buddhas silence to regarding existence of self and non self.

NagarJuna Explained Madhyamika ( regarding Sunyata) that there are no objects too as all Dharma exists interdependently or arise dependently 

Simple example : where is Ferrari

without tyre? 

Is Ferrari a Tyre? Or is tyre a Ferrari?

The great Also explained that Sunyata doesn’t mean non existence of phenomena,it means that there is no independent existence of intrinsic permanent and unchanging entity .

He explained two types of truth conventional truth( concepts , knowledge and languages or reality of this physical world)

Ultimate truth ( emptiness, Sunyata and nirvana)

NagarJuna has also taught emptiness of emptiness , which means that emptiness itself is empty. 

*In my opinion NagarJuna has taught emptiness is void too means , he was saying that whatever concepts or conventional truth he used to point emptiness should be left unattached as conventional truth can flirt only near by emptiness or ultimate truth .

Conclusion :

The great silence of Buddha should be interpreted by each individual by following Buddhas middle path teaching and after going through NagarJuna’s teaching on lord Buddhas noble teaching .

The conventional truth or name can be always given to describe ultimate truth. The Buddhas teaching via silence and Buddhas teaching of non- self , both should be interpreted rightly to be empty and Sunyata or to realize true nature of oneself.

May all sentient being will grasp and be emptiness of empty one day .

Emptiness wrongly grasped is like grasping poisonous snake by the tail 

Teacher Nāgārjuna 

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EVEN THE GOLDEN TEMPLE COULDN'T MAKE ME CHEERFUL.

Sept-16-2014

 

EVEN THE GOLDEN TEMPLE COULDN'T MAKE ME CHEERFUL.

 

 

I was so gloomy that day; I didn't know what karma is It.? My friends would have observed my gloominess on that day. Why I was feeling so pathetic and cheerless that day. The answer clicked as pain, since the beloved human being who once so close to me was gone away completely from my life.

Though I was in dismal on that day, my friends were all cheerful and laughing, but my laughter doesn’t originate from the heart. To act as if I was laughing from the heart was the tough task that I couldn't give the right laughter that a joke deserves.
I was among our group friends masked my face with a weak smile that was strength-less and that it won’t be able to get reply from any of my friend. However, I managed to act throughout.

As we all reached outside the college campus, there was a bus ready to take its journey towards Jalandhar(main city in Punjab) from where we can further journey to our destination that is Golden Temple. We all entered the wrecked local bus and took the empty seats. I got my seat beside one of the passengers that was seat parallel to my friend chimmi. The bus was full of local passenger however, it managed to provide comfortable seat for all of us and it became ready to be on the wheel.

We were on the way inside bulky bus with a speedy wheel among other passenger who was looking to us with confused eyes and with little interest in us. Though I encountered with different people and saw different ways of lifestyle, it got no changes in my sad mind. From every side of thought I always remembered immeasurable beauty of her. The bus was carrying me to some other world physically, mentally my heart drives me near to embrace her. As soon as I reached near her in imagination, I would realize the fact that she was not there for me, which pained me lot.

 Suddenly, the bus stopped at one of the stops and I was separated from her from the world of fantasy and brought to the present active world. Then I heard conductor pronouncing,'Jalandhar,Jalandhar… some people were leaving the bus, and some were entering in it as she entered deep inside my mental world, and I didn’t know what happens for the next few hours.

At the same time coster-mongers were entering time and again inside the bus to pronouncing something repeatedly and same thing. I thought it might be the name of edibles they brought to sell but no one was willing to buy. They deboarded the bus with a smile less face, but they wait for the taste of next bus. We were on speedy wheel again and almost made our journey to Jalandhar.

Now it is time for us to leave from the bus, it is Jalandhar bus station. There were many local bulky buses as if they were called for the essential meeting. We all came out to find the bus that would be carrying us to Amritsar(where Golden temple is located).The next bus was also of  same quality like the bus by which we came till Jalandhar.The day was so hot and sunny day so we all entered inside the bus to keep us protected from the burning rays of the sunshine before it started its journey.

All were silent but I was in deep thought and mental agony. After a while ago the conductor came inside the bus, and I witnessed the same characteristics in all the bus conductors. Pronouncing the name of the destination time and again, active, talking over the top of their voice and the whistle hung from their neck. And every coster- mongers did same thing, I could see the dull face when they re-camp the bus without finding single person interested in what they are selling, and I could also see the hopes that still collected in their suntanned face which they reflect in their two roaming eyes.

After two hours of journey witnessing the same busy street people, we reached to the town of Amritsar from which we have to take Rickshaw (Indian popular taxi) till the nearest town where the Golden Temple is. And after a few minutes’ drive, we reached the yards of the Temple where I could feel the religious music hung in the atmosphere and see The Golden temple in its full glory giving me sense of deep satisfaction. But the glory of the temple could not bring changes still .I wish if she were with me sharing the view of the Golden glorious temple, then only I could feel the gloriousness of the Golden Temple. 

While visiting the temple, we were made to wrap scalp with yellow scarf, then only you can visit it. So, we all wrapped scalp with yellow scarf, and we all had one each. We also had to keep our shoes and slipper together packed inside the sack before entering the gate leading to the golden temple. Many local people, monks and tourist had also come to visit the temple which was remarked as one of the ancient's Seven Wonders of the World. We had also conjoined them in visiting the temple and the museums in which mostly the traditional paintings were depicted noble man's life from the past. The atmosphere seemed to be different and peculiar with many faithful dedicating devotees, over and above the religious music makes the atmosphere really spiritual.

I didn't learn anything, but I was partially satisfied on that day, at-least I visited one of the famous places in the world. We snapped as much as we can to proudly show that we reached to the place. But one thing was still missing from me. She was not with me focusing her lovely eyes towards camera and I felt so pathetic and sad. The lonesome boy without her, I did not want to save my image to be showed to others proudly. Without her, I cannot be complete and proud anymore. So, I clicked on to dustbin button and then she smiled to me.     

At that time her smile touched roots of my tear glands and it made my eyes misty and again I was into thoughts about her uncontrollably again and again.

 

 

The more painful thing is to love back to the people who once used to love you.

And when it become too late and when they are no more in this world to make it happen.

NCHBkarma\

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BOOK REVIEW ON “DRIVE: THE SURPRSING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US” by DANIEL H.PINK

“Drive” is about by what motivation techniques or systems in place really works to steer individual, organizations or societies to gain maximum benefits and optimal satisfaction. In it author explained on the basis of scientific experiments by various think tank and social scientist that carrot and sticks (rewards and punishment) are so last century and what we need in 21^st century are autonomy, mastery and large purpose in the work we do. And he also says what business does and what science proved or knows is going mutually exclusive to each other in the present scenario.

In the book author covered vast fields and it must be read by every individual. Here I would be writing summaries of book in a nutshell.

In the introduction part he had introduced the puzzling puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci (Psychologist and behavioral scientist) in which author explained about their experiment with monkeys for two weeks and scientist’s finding of third drive- what some call “intrinsic motivation” in human being. He mentioned that human being have a biological drive since time immemorial that includes hunger, thirst, and sex. Respond to the rewards and punishment in our environment is another drive human beings have. He says that business hasn’t caught up to this new understanding of what third drive is, which was found by several behavioral scientists decades ago. He further mentioned that if we want to strengthen our companies, improve the world, and lead our lives peacefully, we need to close the space between what business does and what science has found, knows and proved.

Under Part one: A new operating System. Chapter 1: The rise and fall of motivation 2.0; Here he related motivating systems to the computer system software. He says that human societies have operating system like computers have operating systems. He calls first operating system of motivation of human being- Motivation 1.0, which is functioned all about survival. Motivation 1.0 upgraded to 2.0 in 20^th century, which is about carrots and sticks method that worked fine in early 20^th century normal routine works. He instills that now in this 21^st century works are more of thinking job or heuristic task in which upgrade of human motivating system is must. He rationalizes against the incompatibility motivation 2.0 in how we organize what we do, how we do what we do and how we think about what we do.

Chapter 2: Seven reasons Carrots and Sticks (often) don’t work; Here he says that Conventional “if –then” rewards (if you do this then you will get that) will give us less of what we really desire or need; they can crush creativity, diminish intrinsic motivation (third drive) and reduce performance. Then it further gives us what we don’t want (He considers bugs in motivation 2.0 operating system), such as creation of addiction towards rewards, unethical behavior to get rewards and avoid punishment, and harbor short term and narrow thinking.

Chapter 2A… and the Special circumstances when they do; He explains here that carrots and sticks are not all bad. This system can be more effective in routine works which is rule-based in which there is less creativity to be crushed and little intrinsic motivation to be undermined. And it routine task result will be more effective if giving rewards offer rationale for why the task is necessary , if we acknowledge people that it is boring, and allow doers autonomy over how they complete it. For conceptual and heuristic work, rewards are dangerous- especially ‘if then-rewards’, “but now that” rewards (Non contingent rewards) are okay for creative and right brain work mainly if they provide useful information about their performance, efforts and strategies.

Chapter 3: Type I and Type X; He says in this chapter, that motivation 2.0 fosters Type –X behavior- behavior fueled by extrinsic desires than intrinsic ones and concerned less with the inherent satisfaction of the work and more with external rewards to which an activity leads. Where else Type-I behavior is fueled by the motivation 3.0, the upgrade that’s necessary for the good functioning of 21^st century businesses. He says that, we need to move ourselves and our colleagues from Type- X to Type-I. And the good news is that Type I’s are made not born – and Type I behavior leads individual to stronger performance in whatever one does and gives higher overall wellbeing in life.

Part Two: The three elements. Chapter 4: Autonomy; Here he rationalizes persuasively that ‘Autonomy’ is must to make people to catch Type-I behavior quickly. ‘Our default setting’ is to be self directed and autonomous. Unfortunately the situations and most of the time our ignorance of practicing management style alters our default setting from Type I to Type-X. His idea is very agreeable that giving of autonomy to people in 21^st century over four ‘Ts’, Task (What they do), Time (When they do it), Team (Who they do it with), and Techniques (How they do it) to foster Type-I behaviors and to elevate the overall performance of individual and gradually of organization. He cited examples of various companies which offered autonomy over even one of Ts outperforming companies which don’t recognized the power of giving the ‘Autonomy’.

Chapter 5: Mastery; Here he emphasizes the origination of mastery and its importance in performance and one's conduct. He believes that Motivation 2.0 requires compliance differing from motivation 3.0 which demands engagement and full concentration. Only engagement will develop mastery (Becoming better day by day that matters). Explains that how mastery begins with flow-Optimal experiences when the challenges we face are beautifully matched to our inner capabilities. He says that mastery is mindset: It requires capacity to see your abilities not as finite but as infinitely upgradable and improvable. Mastery is pain: It demands grit, effort and deliberate practice and Mastery is asymptote: It is impossible to fully realize, which is better that it will be never ending journey of thrills for developing mastery despite simultaneous frustration and allurement.

Chapter 6: Purpose; Humans by nature, beseech purpose – a greater cause and more enduring that oneself interest. In motivation 3.0, purpose maximization is taking its place along with the aim of maximizing profit and guiding principles. This new “Purpose” is expresses itself in three different ways within the organizations; In ‘goals’ that use profit to reach purpose, In ‘words’ that emphasizes than self-interest, and in ‘Policies’ that allow people to pursue purpose on their own terms which combining all this rejuvenates organization with both profit maximization and purpose maximization.

I would say that I agree to what Writer Daniel H. Pink had written in the Book as it was all backed by evidences and scientific experiments by the social scientists. However he had cited examples of all developed nations, of biggest companies and cited examples of computer software engineers and mostly about high skilled people who works in popular companies. He didn’t cited examples from undeveloped nations. Though it is 21^st century, many nations are undeveloped and have just facilities of as same as late 20^th century of those developed nations now. So, I have doubt that how it can be applied by the small organizations and small undeveloped nations. And one short fall I find is that he is basically relating to finding ones passion, but in this competitive era, individual person cannot opt what he or she like, unless he or she is very rich or having large assets of inheritance. Many middle class and lower income or less skilled people just landed up in whatever or first job they get just to get salary to support their life and family. So, every individual cannot adopt what he has said about motivation 3.0, because many just not know how to use autonomy over time, technique, team and task as they being always directed from above.

Having said that, over all I was impressed by what has written by him, so I am going to buy his book more in future. The most essential take away from his book just now in my personal life is Doing what matters to a lot with greater purpose, living a life fully by creating less restriction to myself and having more autonomy over my daily doing and plans, and essentially, I have learned that rewards should not impress, and punishment should not be leading me to unethical practices.

My professionals take away, from this very enlightening book is, as policing is also mixed with non-routine and creative task, I would apply while briefing my men as per the nature of work they are doing. For example, Patrolling is very routine job, so to inspire them , one have to acknowledge it’s a boring and by letting them know the larger purpose of doing patrolling would instill energy to do patrolling well. Whatever I have learned personally from this book can definitely be applicable to group of person in police organization and department as whole. And lastly but not the least knowing what to say to my men and when to say while performing my duties and their duties to elevate level of motivation to staff rightly according to their task, so that the result will be effective with maximum satisfaction to individual level and department as whole.

Finally, I would say that the book is very enriching and surely change the approach how we look upon the life and what motivates us and others, which is inseparable drive of every human being since time immemorial.

Karma Tshelthrim ()

The New Season

THE NEW SEASON-poem

The New Season

Forty pale seasons have drifted by,

Dark halos crown my weary frame;

I walk this world with a sickened soul,

Guided by neither spark nor flame.

Through hollow days and lightless paths,

With trembling limbs and weary bile,

I wander on—a ghost of self—

Behind an artificial smile.

By-Lt.Karma Tshelthrim

My Realization During pandemic crisis

The species so called, “Homo Sapiens” are very fond of destroying vegetation and construction, development of speed technologies, and to bring artificial genetic changes in natural species. So, whatever happens on this earth is result of what we human are doing on this earth due to our insatiable greediness.

Here is what I realized down below, during this period of human fates on this earth.

-Most importantly, what I realized is health is all that is very essential to human being than anything else.

-Globalization makes virus to become pandemic rapidly and also, I would say despite struggle faced by those people who are infected and indirectly affected by lockdown. For some of the people, it is realization; it is journey towards inside to know oneself.

-And what a destruction human have brought upon this earth in the process of chasing happiness.

- Many people are lost to these pandemic diseases and all the nations of the world should always prepare for such viral infection in future than focusing on developing mega cities, so that we would be ready to face it confidently.

I realized that earth must have suffocated till now due to human activities and daily works of developing for better life; that what human calls.

I should conclude by saying that whatever happens on this earth and in our life, it all starts with external factors from the universe and internal thoughts from individual. It is nothing to be surprised and taken aback thinking that it’s unusual and unprecedented. As, after all we living beings are just guest on this planet and living in blind confidence that death will not lay his icy hand soon. So, I believe that we human should have certain concrete ceiling for development.

Psychologist, Mr. Mihalay CSKsentmihaly rightly described in his book “Flow” that almost all the people now have life of past emperors and even more luxurious than past emperors. But he says that even then humans are still craving for next higher level. He meant to say that we human being should come out of this deadly illusions in-order to embrace upon what human really need in its lives.

LT.Karma

2020

Humble message to Parents, societies and teachers.

Honorable Teachers and Parents,

Our successive legendary kings of Smen Ljong Drukyul has always said that the future of nation belongs to the Children of today. whether to further nation peacefully in future or disorganize it down is fully dependent upon the youth of today.

By taking into account the present situation of the world and our nation, all the learning places were under lockdown and world is more or less stagnant and under restrain by the Corona virus.

Despite it, our nation is wonderfully doing well under the kind direction of his Majesty and the best effort of the present government to tackle and challenge the modern pandemic per se. And importantly students of our nation were going on continuous process of learning virtually with his majesty’s noble Ideas. Moreover teachers were sending resources and assignments through Emails and other possible social Medias.

Due to the noble visions and arduous strive from the part of successive governments; our education system is upgraded till now from the monastic system to modern education till this stage which is up to the requirement of the world standard.

However, the message imparted to the many children via our system and attitude towards education remain dim and temporary purpose.

Why I am saying that? Because students are naturally inclining towards educating for the short term goals or to avoid punishment or to get good grading to get tangible prize when very educators emphasizes such punishment and focuses too much on exam grades, rewards and punishment.

I have read in news recently that some of the parents have approached authority beseeching permission to skip schooling this year to be continued next year. They mentioned that reason is too much of assignments and children not being able to keep pace with it. I wish the assignments were offered with purpose and by letting pupils to know the purpose of the work they are doing in their life and by looking to the future of the nation.

When I share this message am not boasting of, I am just sharing with good faith or it’s a kind reminder to benefit for those acceptors and readers at large.

Mr. Daniel H. Pink wrote in his book, ‘Drive’ under the sub topic, Nine Ideas for helping our kids.

Before offering any assignments, one should test these following questions.

"Are this assignment offers certain autonomy on students how they going to do it or when?

Is this work promoting mastery which let them engage more rather than normal rote reformulation that already learned in the classes?

Do my students understand the purpose of the particular assignment’s offering? Or can they see doing that particular work contributes to the larger enterprise in which the class is engaged?

If the Answer is no, he said that one should redesign the assignments to make children’s time meaningful. And the autonomy as per Mr. Daniel is very essential as it breeds creativity and interest in the subjects. For example, students can be assigned to write or research in topics or issues which is of their choice without any restriction of rules and control over how they do but confining to which is useful for the Nation as large and for oneself in future.

Mr. Daniel says that parents should give their children some allowances sometime to teach them how to manage finance, but it shouldn’t be the rewards for the certain work done by them or for getting good grades in exams. If he or she was offered rewards for certain work, he would demand and expect next time when he does that and steadily it will lose interest in doing that certain job and or he or she would solely do for rewards".

If the children were rewarded for good grades in exams, their purpose will shift to short term from long term. And the sacrifice is very big as in long run students will lose larger purpose of learning.

American Psychologist Carol Dweck has found that to make children productive, praise is important but one should know how to give it and when. She found praises should be given one to one in private specifically confining to his or her but strategies and efforts but not its intelligence. If one praises child’s intelligence and generalize its overall attitudes via praise, particular children or students would view the intelligence as not upgradable and improvable.

  

And furthermore, His Majesty king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck had said during his Royal address to the nation on December 17, 2019, that world is changing so rapidly, and expressed his noble worries that whether our Kingdom of Bhutan would keep up the pace as per the requirement of the time and in-discriminatory globalization in the present scenario. He further said that world is transiting to the ripening age of information and computer technology such as AI, Machine learning, crypto-currencies, block-chain,VR,Big data, deep learning and internet of things.

At last, but not the least knowing the worries and visions of our King and chiefly the rapid alteration of the world, we the citizen of the nation should change how we impart message of education to children of today to shift their behavior and attitude broadly towards education and learning.

Our children nowadays should be taught practically applicable subjects in life for the larger and broader purpose of nation, by giving bit of autonomy for them during learning process. Importance of continuous learning for fulfilling visions and to make better life and better nation (which is greater rewards). Children should be taught that knowledge and intelligence is not born but made and should be taught to learn importance of particular subjects’ broader meaning of their learning, and schooling rather than educators emphasizing on exams, tests, grades, rewards and punishments.

 And most importantly children those who performed well in exams and those who does not should be viewed as same in classes or publicly without discrimination as praising and rewarding those good graders and punishing and blaming those non scorer publicly, damages or affects the mental attitude and behavior of the majority pupil negatively in further taking interest in continuity of learning with greater purpose.

And by doing so it not only consist to the noble visions and objectives of his majesty but also, system is caring our children with broader perspective to let them breed creativeness and keep our nation’s pace at global requirement in future. As I believe that children uncared and not managed with affection properly today were the future criminals or children in conflict with the laws which would become complete burden to the Nation, People and the king.

THANK YOU

LT.KT

2020

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Is ignorance Blaspheme?????????
Is ultimate aim of enlightened being is to stop cycle of samsara and let human race disappear?
Why realm of human and Animal is together???