Moment of Zen

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
– Napoleon Bonaparte

Moment of Zen

mattuvin chattangale! allenkil mattum athukalee ningalethan!

Reform, change the rules! Else those very Rules will be your downfall!
– Kumaran Asan

Moment of Zen

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Moment of Zen

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
– Dr. Ben Shneiderman

Moment of Zen

“If you have to create a new world, a new civilization, a new art, everything new, not contaminated by tradition, by fear, by ambitions, if you have to create something anonymous which is yours and mine, a new society, together, in which there is not you and me but an “ourness,” must there not be a mind that is completely anonymous, therefore alone? This implies, does it not, that there must be a revolt against conformity, a revolt against respectability, because the respectable man is the mediocre man because he wants something, he is dependent on influence for his happiness, on what his neighbor thinks, on what his guru thinks, on what the Bhagavad-Gita or the Upanishads or the Bible or the Christ says. His mind is never alone. He never walks alone, but he always walks with a companion, the companion of his ideas.

Is it not important to find out, to see, the whole significance of interference, of influence, the establishment of the “me,” which is the contradiction of the anonymous? Seeing the whole of that, does not the question inevitably arise: Is it possible immediately to bring about that state of mind that is not influenced, which cannot be influenced by its own experience or by the experience of others, a mind that is incorruptible, that is alone? Then only is there a possibility of bringing about a different world, a different culture, a different society in which happiness is possible.”
– J. Krishnamurthy

Moment of Zen

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
– Socrates

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Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge… It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two “I”‘s are identical namely when one disregards all special contentsâ€â€Â? their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further… when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.
– Erwin Schrödinger

This great physicist, famous for pioneering quantum physics, and the Schrödinger’s Cat proposal, had another side to him which dwelled on the mysteries of life. He was also the author of a book, “What is Life?”

Moment of Zen

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw

Moment of Zen

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
– Robert Frost

Mind-bending

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
– from The Matrix