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21 lessons for 21st century Yuval Noah Harari

21 lessons for 21^st century
Yuval Noah Harari
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21 lessons for 21st century

The meaning of life isn’t a ready-made product .there is no divine script , and nothing outside me can give meaning to my life .it is I who imbue(to feel somebody / something with deep feeling, strong opinion or ideas or particular sense of value ) everything with meaning through my free choices and through my own feeling . page no. 298

It is our own human fingers that wrote the Bible, the Quran and the Vedas . and it is our mind that give these stories power.
They are no doubt beautiful stories, but their beauty is strictly in the eyes of the beholder.
Jerusalem , mecca , Varanasi , and bodh gaya are sacred places , but only because of the feelings human experience when they go there

In itself , the universe is only a meaningless hodge – podge of atoms . nothing is beautiful , sacred or sexy but human feelings make it so.
It is only human feelings that make red apple seductive and turd disgusting . take away human feelings and you are left with a bunch of molecules .

We hope to find meaning by fitting ourselves into some readymade story about universe. But, according to the liberal interpretation of the world, the truth is exactly opposite.
The universe doesn’t give me meaning. I give meaning to the universe . this is my cosmic vocation . I have no fixed destiny or dharma.

If I find myself in simbhas or arjunas shoes , I can chose to fight for the crown of kingdom, but I don’t have to.
I can just as well join a wandering circus , go to broadway to sing in a musical , or move to silicon velley and launch a startup . I am free to creat my own DHARMA.

If by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to do what you desire – then yes, humans have free will

But if by ‘free will ‘ you mean the freedom to choose what to desire – then no, humans have no free will. Page no.299

If you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your facebook account or account or with the inner story of the self

· Instead you should observe the actual flows of body and mind . you will see thoughts emotions and desire appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you , just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair.

· And just as you are not the winds so also your are not a jumble of thoughts , emotions and desire you experience and you are certainly not the sanitised story you tell about them with hidsight

· You experience all off them but you don’t control them , you don’t down them and you are not them.

· people ask ‘who am I ?’ and expect to be told a story . the first thing you need to know about yourself, is that you are not a story.

· The budhha taught that the three basic realities of the universe are that everything is constantly changing , nothing has any enduring essence and nothing completely satisfying.

· You can explore further reaches of the galaxy , of your body or of your mind but you never encounter something that completely satisfies you.

· Suffering emerges because people fail to appreciate this

· They believe that there is some eternal essence somewhere and if they can only find it and connect to it , the will be completely satisfied

· The more disappointed and miserable they become due to the failure to find

· Worse yet the greater the hatred such people develop towards any person ,group or institution and seems to stands between then and their cherished goal

· According to budhha , then life has no meaning and people don’t need to create any meaning , they just need to realise that there is no meaning and thus be liberated from the suffering caused by our attachment and our identification with empty phenomena

· What should I do ? ask people and budhha advise , do nothing absolutely nothing . the whole problem that we constantly do something. To really do nothing means that mind too does nothing and creates nothing

· When you give up all the fictional stories , you can observe reality with far greater clarity then before and if you really know the truth about yourself and about the world ,nothing can make you miserable.

The most real thing in this world is suffering

If you want to know truth about universe , about the meaning of life , and about your own identity the best place is to start is by observing suffering and exploring what is is.

· Yet the real enigma of life is not what happens after you die , but what happens before you die, if you want to understand death , you need to understand life.

· If you can understand what happens to you as one moment ends and another moment begins – you will also understand what will happens to you at the moment of death. If you can really observe yourself for the duration of single breath – you will understand it all.

· When I want something and it dosent happen my mind react by generating suffering , suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world . it is mental reaction generated by my own mind

· Between me and the world there are always body sensation.

·   Secular education teaches children to distinguish truth from belief; to develop their compassion for all suffering beings ; to appreciate the wisdom and experience of all the earths denizens to think freely without fearing the unknown and to take responsibility for their action and for the world as a whole.

  Question you can not answers are usually far better you than answer that you cannot question

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