{"id":5050,"date":"2019-06-20T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2019-06-27T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:04:12","slug":"rule-no-6-redefined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/06\/20\/rule-no-6-redefined\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule no 6 Re-defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Nine &#8211; Sleeping At Last<\/h1>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRgtB8lWUc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>European Philosopher, Ren\u00e9 Descartes once famously theorized, <strong>&#8220;Cogito, ergo sum.&#8221;<\/strong> Which translates to english as, <strong>&#8220;I think, therefore I am.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Meaning &#8211; our act of thinking about thoughts of thoughts is a proof of our existence, and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, about my thoughts on thoughts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simple, It&#8217;s all our <strong>head!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Call it, the chatbot. Call it Knowledge or the illusion of it.<\/p>\n<p>Call it, a breathing menace. Kindness. Fear. Judgement. Complications. Solutions. Anxiety. Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Call it the epitome of <strong>crazy-badshit-shenanigans<\/strong> or the manmade definition of <strong>normal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Call it happiness or a fucking sadness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heed carefully, t<strong>houghts<\/strong>, they manifests in the language we speak. The tone we ensue. Conclusions we draw. Wave we create. World we see. Attitudes and behaviors that surfaces and bespeaks. In our ignorance. In our suffering. In Buddha that shelters inside us. And also in Monkey that annoys us from inside-out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts;<\/strong>\u00a0good or bad, healthy or harrowing, healing or hammering has absolutely no congruency, no connections, matter of fact &#8212; nothing to do with the reality of things we call <strong>Life!<\/strong> Not a fragment of shit!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Surgically dissect any thoughts that is ruminating around your head for quite sometime now. And, you won&#8217;t be surprised to acknowledge or to realize that these self-inflicted, illusionary warm-hole of mental excreta, have entirely no tangible objectifications, no logical expression, no forms, no substance, but mostly a crap-load-of <em>gibberish<\/em>, <em>self-serving, disguised, deluded<\/em>, <em>non-sensical<\/em> <strong>cocksureness;<\/strong> successfully creating a gigantic blackhole of blindspots and simultaneously also insinuating horse-shit-of deafening confusions and the illusion of <strong>realism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, <strong>thoughts\u00a0<\/strong> have no flesh, no leash, no control over itself, no concrete floodgates. Thoughts are abstract, non-existential, paralyzing, decapitating. Emptying. Suffocating. Painful!<\/p>\n<p>A tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kapilguptamd\">@KapilGuptaMD<\/a>, <strong>&#8220;Few men come to realize that their entire life has been lived inside their mind&#8221;<\/strong> surfaces on my twitter feed rightfully validates <strong>this<\/strong> thesis on my school of thoughts about\u00a0<strong>thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the question remains, how to not give in to our own alley alike enemy called thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Precisely, how to filter thoughts!<\/p>\n<p>Well, <strong>rule no 6 says,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t take yourself so dam<\/strong>ned\u00a0<strong>serio<\/strong>usl<strong>y!&#8221;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because,\u00a0If you take life <em>(or your own thoughts in the language of Ren\u00e9)<\/em> too damn seriously, you miss out on the joy and the adventure life defaults at. You expect. You complain. You get too attached to your self-serving-self.<\/p>\n<p>So, unsolicited piece of advice:<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, help yourself to BE lightweight as you abide by <strong>DTYSDS<\/strong> platitude, so that you can in any given day, help somebody who&#8217;s in need of your help!<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, chill so that you don&#8217;t feed yourself the drug of <strong>nihilism!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To the nutshell :-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t take yourself so da<\/strong>mn<strong>ed seriously<\/strong> is undoubtedly the right tool out of the box to weaponize yourself from your own thoughts!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And one last thing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Presenting you a story woven around <strong>Rule number Six<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Two prime ministers were sitting in a room discussing affairs of state.\u00a0 Suddenly an aide burst in, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk.\u00a0 The host prime minister quietly said, \u201cPeter, kindly remember\u00a0<strong>Rule Number Six<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 Peter was instantly restored to complete calm, apologized for the interruption, and left the room.\u00a0 The prime ministers resumed their discussion.\u00a0 Several minutes later, another aide rushed in, shouting and stamping.\u00a0 Again the host prime minister quietly said, \u201cMarie, please remember\u00a0<strong>Rule Number Six<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 Marie calmed down immediately, apologized, and left the room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The visiting prime minister said \u201cI\u2019ve seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this.\u00a0 Tell me, what is this\u00a0<strong>Rule Number Six<\/strong>?\u201d\u00a0 The host prime minister said, \u201cIt\u2019s really very simple.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Rule Number Six<\/strong>\u00a0is \u2018Don\u2019t take yourself so damned seriously.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 After a moment of pondering, the visiting prime minister inquired, \u201cAnd what, may I ask, are the other rules?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The host replied, <strong>\u201cThere aren\u2019t any.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Nine &#8211; Sleeping At Last European Philosopher, Ren\u00e9 Descartes once famously theorized, &#8220;Cogito, ergo sum.&#8221; Which translates to english as, &#8220;I think, therefore I am.&#8221;\u00a0Meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/06\/20\/rule-no-6-redefined\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule no 6 Re-defined<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}