This post is kind of a continuation to shamanth's 'about blank' post. Shamanth, I must say u r a true initiator man.Anyways thanks for initiating that post on thinking.
So here goes my view on it
Its a very rosy thought- not to think anything. To be on the lighter side I totally agree with Aneesha that some or the other time most of us may have used the phrase that 'my mind went blank' during the first few minutes of an exam. Wasnt that the time we dreaded the most, or was it the time we enjoyed the most. Dreaded not because u were afraid of failing, but very honestly because u realised that there is something u are not able to do, coz u found urself incompetent, kind of a fear that u experience just after a bad accident, whether ur shoulder which is paining so much is really going to work, or u have lost it.(speaking out of 2 brutal experiences)
Frankly speaking i fear those times the most when i found myself unable to think. Its just that mental paralysis which cannot be shown to anyone, it cannot be cured with someones help. It's just within u, u have to fight it. Have been some moments in my life, very brief but very scary.
I would go a bit further in stating some(actually many) lines from Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED, which very precisely answer the question"to think or not to think". Here i would like to state a small disclaimer that i am not quoting these lines with reference to any of the comments or posts on Shamanth's blog, but just a very outright and kind of outrageous way of stating the subtle topic Shamanth started on his blog
Thinking is a man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all evils, is that nameless act of blanking out, the willfull suspension of ones consciousness, the refusal to think-not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance-but the refusal to know. Its is an act of unfocussing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of your judgment.
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him , its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To think is an act of choice. The function of your stomach , lungs or heart is automatic, that of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of ur life, you are free to think or to evade the effort.But u are not free to escape from ur nature, from the fact that reason is ur means of survival, so that for u who are human beings the Q is not "to be or not to be", rather it is "to think or not to think"
Too much philosophy to start with, but I hope I don't get any hate mails for this. Coz even if i get, i "choose" not to "think" about them.
So here goes my view on it
Its a very rosy thought- not to think anything. To be on the lighter side I totally agree with Aneesha that some or the other time most of us may have used the phrase that 'my mind went blank' during the first few minutes of an exam. Wasnt that the time we dreaded the most, or was it the time we enjoyed the most. Dreaded not because u were afraid of failing, but very honestly because u realised that there is something u are not able to do, coz u found urself incompetent, kind of a fear that u experience just after a bad accident, whether ur shoulder which is paining so much is really going to work, or u have lost it.(speaking out of 2 brutal experiences)
Frankly speaking i fear those times the most when i found myself unable to think. Its just that mental paralysis which cannot be shown to anyone, it cannot be cured with someones help. It's just within u, u have to fight it. Have been some moments in my life, very brief but very scary.
I would go a bit further in stating some(actually many) lines from Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED, which very precisely answer the question"to think or not to think". Here i would like to state a small disclaimer that i am not quoting these lines with reference to any of the comments or posts on Shamanth's blog, but just a very outright and kind of outrageous way of stating the subtle topic Shamanth started on his blog
Thinking is a man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all evils, is that nameless act of blanking out, the willfull suspension of ones consciousness, the refusal to think-not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance-but the refusal to know. Its is an act of unfocussing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of your judgment.
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him , its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To think is an act of choice. The function of your stomach , lungs or heart is automatic, that of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of ur life, you are free to think or to evade the effort.But u are not free to escape from ur nature, from the fact that reason is ur means of survival, so that for u who are human beings the Q is not "to be or not to be", rather it is "to think or not to think"
Too much philosophy to start with, but I hope I don't get any hate mails for this. Coz even if i get, i "choose" not to "think" about them.
3 comments:
i had never THOUGHT about the impact of my crapology. i just put out on the blog wt had been playing on my mind since long...
even i believe thought is necessary for existence...but my point ws on the lighter side of the topic...as in concurrence with the examples i had cited.....wen i say "i want to blank my mind"...i DO NOT IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE mean..PERMANENTLY. it's just a way of trying to relax ur mind for the time being...nothin else...cuz we all keep on exhausting our minds thru-out th day for some or th other reasons...so it is important that we relax it sometimes...nothin els..
anywy...deviating frm th topic...it feels gud to c that we hav so many good thinkers around us...n that we voice our own opinions so simply n candidly....i guess thats the true beauty of the mind..! so as channel V wud say....MIND IT! ;)
Pretty valid...Instaed of attempting to blank our mind...Dont u think it would be better to replace our negative thoughts by positive ones??..I guess that would do more gud than just blanking our for relaxation..wtsay??
thanks to shaMANth and aneesha for those comments....
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