Comments on: Do You See What I See? http://pathlessmind.com/do-you-see-what-i-see/ A Discussion of a Better Life Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:05:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ruda http://pathlessmind.com/do-you-see-what-i-see/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Ruda Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:09:31 +0000 http://pathlessmind.com/?p=172#comment-52 hahaha, I keep trying to imagine how big of a barricade it must have been. I think you got the point of what I was trying to say about past experience hindering our perception in the present. I guess it's harder to overcome than we realize, at least being aware of it might cause us to change little by little. Ruda hahaha, I keep trying to imagine how big of a barricade it must have been. I think you got the point of what I was trying to say about past experience hindering our perception in the present. I guess it’s harder to overcome than we realize, at least being aware of it might cause us to change little by little.

Ruda

]]> By: Sanjay M http://pathlessmind.com/do-you-see-what-i-see/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Sanjay M Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:10:51 +0000 http://pathlessmind.com/?p=172#comment-51 <blockquote>Maybe the fact that we have formed opinions based on experiences takes away our chance to like something for what it is.</blockquote> This is the key point I liked in this post - if we could look at things from a fresh unbiased perspective we'd be a lot more happier (just like a child!) :) <i>"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Einstein</i>

Maybe the fact that we have formed opinions based on experiences takes away our chance to like something for what it is.

This is the key point I liked in this post – if we could look at things from a fresh unbiased perspective we’d be a lot more happier (just like a child!) :)

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” – Einstein

]]> By: Sanjay M http://pathlessmind.com/do-you-see-what-i-see/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Sanjay M Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:05:56 +0000 http://pathlessmind.com/?p=172#comment-50 One of the characteristics of beauty is that it fascinates, it holds our attention atleast for a while... There is a lot to learn from kids, I see my 2+ year old boy so fascinated by the most ordinary things! We definitely live in a fascinating world, but its just that we're usually too busy to notice. I guess it also takes patience and a non-hurried attitude to even notice beauty, let alone appreciate it. On the other hand, I think its impossible for us to be completely objective. So any pleasure we get from beauty of the moon or ocean, is not because because of the moon or ocean, but what is within us, our own perception of them. Once I was in a car with a friend on an autobahn (highway) in Germany. You may know, there are no speedlimits on the German autobahns, and we were driving at high speed through a green countryside - most of it looking like a huge golf course as it was mostly plain and not too many trees. On the way, we passed a bridge across a valley and suddenly I gasped in amazement - there was a vast expanse of blue breaking the green monotony! It was like a huge endless lake more bigger and beautiful than anything I could ever imagine! My heart was filled with joy and my spirits rose...! A second later, it realisation dawned on me that this was actually a blue barricade on either side of the bridge that was erected so people living below in the valley wouldn't get disturbed by too much noise of the traffic on it! I felt really humbled ('dont know whether to laugh or cry' ;) ) at how self-deceptive my mind could be!! One of the characteristics of beauty is that it fascinates, it holds our attention atleast for a while…

There is a lot to learn from kids, I see my 2+ year old boy so fascinated by the most ordinary things!

We definitely live in a fascinating world, but its just that we’re usually too busy to notice. I guess it also takes patience and a non-hurried attitude to even notice beauty, let alone appreciate it.

On the other hand, I think its impossible for us to be completely objective. So any pleasure we get from beauty of the moon or ocean, is not because because of the moon or ocean, but what is within us, our own perception of them.

Once I was in a car with a friend on an autobahn (highway) in Germany. You may know, there are no speedlimits on the German autobahns, and we were driving at high speed through a green countryside – most of it looking like a huge golf course as it was mostly plain and not too many trees. On the way, we passed a bridge across a valley and suddenly I gasped in amazement – there was a vast expanse of blue breaking the green monotony! It was like a huge endless lake more bigger and beautiful than anything I could ever imagine! My heart was filled with joy and my spirits rose…!

A second later, it realisation dawned on me that this was actually a blue barricade on either side of the bridge that was erected so people living below in the valley wouldn’t get disturbed by too much noise of the traffic on it! I felt really humbled (’dont know whether to laugh or cry’ ;) ) at how self-deceptive my mind could be!!

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