Naked Solutions Of Dressed up Life Woes - Santosh Jha (ebook smartphone .txt) 📗

are usually done without any thinking or thought processing of mind; mostly as intuitive reaction of a presenting stimulus. However, when we stop before taking an intuitive and instinctive action and start thinking over the prudence and wider utility of the decision (action), we create something, which is what science calls ‘intelligence’.

However, this is still not intelligence in perfectness. The self-control on our intuitive/instinctive behavior is only one part of our ‘intelligence’. The other part is processing an intuitive input or a range of such stimuli with rigid and objective knowledge and scientific benchmarks.

For example, you see a platter of sweets with crispy fries on your dining table and instinctively, your hand reaches for them, as all your instinctive inputs urge you to eat it and that too most of them. However, you apply self-control as another part of your mind, your conscious self, warns you that this may be harmful for your health. You do not stop here. You go on to process the two mutually opposing inputs to your decision-making.

This surely is intelligence but not a complete one. Because, there are some people who overdo this intelligence and cause greater harm. Some people practice the self-control so much that they face another health problem in the form of anorexia. Listening to only your conscious mind at the cost of denying your intuitive self is not always intelligence.The intelligence is also in knowing your body facts and so many other facts correctly, which will make your decision-making matrix a perfect, objective and a poised one. This is what modern wisdom recommends – a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective for all decision-making exercise.

Being truly intelligent means, you know how much is your blood sugar level, what is your body’s tendency to accumulate cholesterol, what is your current BMI, would you be ready and willing to burn that extra calorie by doing exercises, etc.

After holding back your decision to eat sweets and objectively and scientifically assessing your facts in rigid framework of sincerity, you may probably take the final decision to have half the plate or just one or two sweets and crispy fries only. This value-summation or decision-matrix is what science calls ‘intelligence’.

The trouble is, all wise people from the fields of science, religion, philosophy and social sciences, regret that majority of daily decisions of most people are purely instinctive and intuitive, meaning that in a huge majority of human decisions, virtually no ‘intelligence’ is applied and still, these majority of humans would never ever admit that they are not intelligent and genius.

Tragically, among those who apply intelligence, most either under-do it or over-do it as they do not base their intelligence on rigid scientific data and facts and depend on popular social benchmarks of subjective knowledge. Still, nobody ever admits, he or she is not intelligent.

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Intelligence Is In Holistic, Assimilative And Integrative Decision-Making

MODERN WISDOM HAS made us truly empowered. We now understand the mechanism of mind’s decision-making processes. We also understand how well we can train our minds to arrive at a consciousness, which is truly intelligent, as against the popular and archetypal idea of intelligence.

Mind is value neutral. We all are born with a value-neutral mind with instinctive mechanism for survival. Experts say, “The human mind has instinctive mechanism to universalize goodness as well as evil. What we feed in it is not its concern. This is the role of intellect. The universe has not put us where we are today with any specific purpose of designed goodness. We have to design our purpose.”

We, as intellectual beings, need to set objective, lofty and larger goals for ourselves and then program our minds to attain it. That is why; the beautiful metaphor of ‘God’ was created by humanity as the ultimate and singular icon of all referrals for individual as well as collective value summation.

As we repeat this objective mind training to our brain, the objective goodness would spread all throughout its neural circuitry and then, we will not have to think twice to perform goodness, as it would then become an instinct, and thus an involuntary mechanism

A real good human is not one who needs to think and then behave and act good. Rather, it is someone who does not have to think as all his or her behavior and actions are instinctively bound to be good. This stage of consciousness comes only after rigid and constant practice of objective goodness. The higher consciousness leads us there.

Human actions are usually instinctive as we are designed this way. Intelligence is in an objective and lofty mind training through a scientific culture so that all goodness becomes intuitive and instinctive. We all need to be intelligent this way. This is the new thinking humanity has to be led towards.

Aligning our culturally ‘dressed-up’ mind-consciousness to this new thinking and wisdom is not easy. The first and foremost requirement is huge courage, determination and resilience.

Our first reaction; instinctively reactive as we humans are; is to reject it all in complete and categorical disbelief. Our mindsets have concretized over a huge period of thousands of years. This mindset is used to of accepting what is and has been icons and benchmarks in our popular culture since ages.

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‘Unlearning’ Is Greater Challenge Than ‘Learning; But Real Intelligence

LATERAL, PLURAL AND UNFOUNDED behavior patterns and mindsets created by the popular culture, which is based on their subjective notions, have made us what we are today. Accepting something new and contrary to our mind and cultural training would be not only tough but also very painful for us.

That’s why, the first requirement is this huge courage, determination and resilience in our part to come out of this mould and accept an entirely new mindset which shall look like as completely contrary to what we so far hold as not only true but ‘sacred’. We need to be accommodative to this new knowledge and modern scientific facts, parallel to our traditional cultural ideas and benchmarks. Holism, assimilation and integration is the ‘intelligence’, which shall help in we all being the great problem-solver we have been.

We need to consciously and continuously tell our mind that look, we are in the midst of a huge change and we are introducing some new ideas and notions that is going to be the new and additional matrix, equally important, if not superior than the traditional one, for a new and objective value summation and decision-making.

Reiterate that resolve to your mind repeatedly as it is only through conscious repetition that mind accepts external inputs and then forms it as part of its instinctive value summation programming, or what people popularly refer as ‘soul’ or ‘higher conscious’.

For example, His Holiness Dalai Lama said, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”. This may sound like a philosophy or spiritual message but it has the total backing of science. Science is seldom against what true philosophy and spiritualism enlists as good and ideal. The difference is in the mechanism only.

Once we understand the objective and provable mechanism, we shall have ease in understanding the fruition and utility of holism, assimilation and integration of all wisdoms of humanity – old and new.

Reception of pain in mind is a sensor mechanism; one cannot stop that at entry point. However, mind also has ‘processing’ neurons, which is what science as well as religion-philosophy calls ‘higher conscious’. This processing neuron can be trained not to react to the pains in usual emotions, rather accept it as an emotion of larger ‘wellness’, thus creating a ‘feeling’ that results in less suffering. Science admits, effective meditation can curb the sufferings upto 70%. Buddhist monks do it 99%. This is mind training, no miracle.

A situation is not same for different people. How good or bad one accepts a situation as depends on his past experience with a same or similar situation as well as the iconic-reaction one had earlier stored in mind as ‘experience’.

For example, I fell from my cycle when I was a kid. It hurt a lot but blood did not come out. Therefore, what I said to myself was, “Oh, it is nothing as blood has not come out.” And, I continued with cycling even as it pained a lot. I did say so because my mother would scream at me only when she would see me with a mishap where blood came out. Therefore, it was already there in my mind as ‘referral’ experience that bad is something which has a relationship with blood.

Next time I fell and if again blood did not come out, I would say, the mishap is not bad, even if it broke my bones. However, if I fell and blood came out, I would say, the mishap is a huge one, even when I would feel no or little pain. The feeling I shall have of a pain depends on my ‘particular and subjective’ emotions “learnt” from my experience. This is a cultural burden on my mind-consciousness, as I am being subjective in my decision-making about ‘actual problem’, as against the requirement of being objective.

I need to “undress” my mind-consciousness of my archetypal subjective ‘benchmarks’ of ‘pain-assessment’. It is clear to an outsider that I am either under-assessing or over-assessing my actual pain because of my subjective consciousness. I need to ‘undress’ the element of my ‘mother-factor’ in my ‘assessment’ of pain. This is tough for me, easy for anyone else as the ‘subjectivity’ has now engrained in my mind and has become part of my instinctive decision-making. I can be ‘intelligent’ only when I am able to understand that and do this “undressing”, before it is too late.

Problems and their assessment are usually relative experiences, often colored by our ambient culture and hence requiring different emotions and resultant feeling. What we need to do from childhood is, train our minds suitably.

This challenge is tougher when we have grown up. Still, we can train our minds to have an ‘objective and actual’ benchmarks and referrals of problem-assessment. This is a crucial process of “unlearning”, which we talked about earlier. Monks do it with self-discipline of minds using techniques of meditation. We too can do that.

From the functioning of our minds, we now know that it is instinctive in human neural system to accept training and compete to become better. We also now know that what works for us is instincts. Majority of our decisions are instinctive and intuitive. So, intelligence is in conditioning our instincts through self-control, self-discipline and objectively train it to accept only those values as referral for instinctive value-summation which are proven, measurable, singular and objective.

We now have a scientific value matrix, which also must be known, understood and accepted for mind-evolution of a uniform global culture, as against multitude of conflicting and competing ethnic cultures.

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Unraveling The Bare-Basics Of Cultural Troubles Of Gender-Divide

KNOWING PROBLEMS AND troubles in its complete structural and functional details in utter objectivity always helps in arriving early and surely at solutions and even in the enhancement of overall utility of solutions.

For example, let us put to test, the modern and contemporary man-woman relationship, which was once the core culture responsible for success of human evolution but now, probably the universal platform of conflicts. The gender-divide is at the core of many problems, which modern societies face.

When we objectively test the gender-divide, in the light of the new thinking, no doubt, we find not only physical differences in form and shape between the sexes but also neural differences. However, since ages, these differences were evolved to suit and complement roles between man and woman.

Most of the gender divides and conflicts we find today in modern contemporary societies seem very much cultural ones. Especially, the elements of competitiveness and conflicts, which have replaced the age-old symbiosis and cooperation looks like more cultural than genetic.

Let us consider the very important and core issue of the state of marriages or man-woman bonding for procreation in contemporary modern societies. In most developed societies, divorce rates are almost equal to marriage rates. The developing societies are also picking up