Now this one has been bothering me for ages ...
For as long as i remember, various characters around me have been advising me on usage of Heart & Mind... “Use your Mind brother not your heart”... “don’t be an emotional fool use your mind” .... “Oh come on, have a heart” .... “a heart is always right” .... “be practical- follow your mind” ... now this conflict of heart VS mind has become a mystery and when few days back at the National Police Academy I heard a very senior journalist and intellectual discuss the difference between heart and mind, I was so damn sure that I am not the only one facing this classic dilemma ........ HEART or MIND??
So what is this all about?? if we ask from point of view of their function or characteristics then heart is a physical organ - it keeps all other organs functional and regulates and circulates blood around the body. Mind is more connected with brain and mental thoughts. The word heart that we use in daily life to denote love, affection, good feelings are supposed to be connected with heart. But technically or scientifically it does not have any relation with the organ heart that we have. The heart here denotes characteristics of a person or his attitude. Mind is generally the intellectual capacity - it has a strong base and connection with brain. But on the other hand our physical heart and people saying we have a big heart are two different things. Use of heart in context of feelings or emotions is just a phrasology in English and other languages too.
Have heard ppl around me say ... “heart is mortal, mind is immortal” .... “Heart is emotional mind is without emotions” .... “Heart is volatile, while mind is rational” ... “Heart is a way to reach the mind”.But I guess mind is the thinking faculty and heart is the emotional faculty.. You can be in two minds but you can never have two hearts ... on the other hand while you cannot apply half a mind to anything, you sure can perform a task whole heartedly or half heartedly... phew! Getting more confusing haan??
Now, I have also come across “head thinking” and “heart thinking”.. it is said that Because it is ego-driven, head thinking can often be delusory. Heart thinking is focused on reality and therefore unlikely to go too wrong.... Ever since I read this fascinating concept I have been pondering over the difference between heart thinking and head thinking. Most gurus and spiritual teachings exhort us to make this very transition-from head to heart. But what does it actually mean? For most head thinkers this appears to be an inferior state of mind.
But on the other hand, along with the word ‘heart’, the word ‘love’ is often dragged in to many conversations and used to describe all manner of behaviour good and bad....... When we talk about the heart we mean the space in the middle of the chest we point to when we say ‘this is me’ – the place we feel the essence of our being more than anywhere else...... It is also where most of our higher and nicer qualities emanate from – empathy, kindness and love :) ....Emotional attachment, on the other hand is a tangled up array of feelings from the mind.... but the sources of love and emotional attachment are located so lose together, they can and are often confused by the indiscriminating person.....poor guy :) ... However, setting aside some time each day for a practice of self-discovery and self-enquiry (e.g. meditation) will very quickly enable you to distinguish one from the other.
Phew! Enough ... i must stop writing before i get further confused and get all other who reading this confused as well
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
NMIMS Management students living in Andheri abuse 13 yr old maid, post video on YouTube; disgusted classmates complain, get them arrested
Few things shock me beyond belief. This is one of them... Being someone who interacts day in and out with management students and representatives of management institutions across the world, the intensity of shock is much more.
Students of one of the better known management institute, which claims to churn out managers and leaders of the future and has a tradition of training young minds and finding solutions to address tomorrow’s challenges carry out such a heinous act, which put the whole of mankind to shame. While we all can say that parents are to be blamed and attribute the whole episode to upbringing and I agree that most parents happily ignore the fact that parenting is a continuous process and does not end with their children securing admission is elite education institutions across the country, I guess the onus of this one does lie with the institute as well. Is the Institute responsible only for imparting management book knowledge and haven't the teachers failed to spot the behavioural traits of students attending classes everyday with them?? All the management schools brag about how they are different from the other and the only criteria that each one of them try to differentiate themselves from others is the fact that they strive to make "better human beings" out of their students. This incident proves that to be a far cry. Forget creating "better human beings" I wonder if they even are aware of behaviour traits of students in their institutions. Going through the video clearly indicates that the students engaged in this particular heinous activity are mentally imbalanced and have no sense of maturity and resp0nsibility. They also do not have sense of respect and their core values of humanity seem to be completely absent. How did such individuals secure admission to such a "prestigious" institution. The whole of admission machinery, which boasts of best minds in the country in panel to select students after elaborate interviewing process, seems to have failed, with no one in the panel being able to spot such inconsistency in behavioural pattern. and if they claim that they did a good job in that process, then it simply means that their though process deteriorated after being a part of this institution. Both ways they cannot escape the responsibility of this act.
Now having spoken of the above lets look at the way the country and its law enforcing mechanism dealt with the case. The culprits were released on bail of just Rs 7000/- in 24 hours. Amazing as it may sound but is true. Where is NCHR??? All they are interested in is ensuring Ajmal Kasab gets fed properly.... Women rights commission members are still sleeping as it is weekend for them or maybe they are busy with page 3 parties. Oh and yes we have the IPL finals today .. so maybe they can deal with this little girls plight tomorrow (after all this one wont give them the same limelight as it doesn't involve any high profile personality)...
I know in few days no one would remember this episode, but if this is the direction in which some of our youngsters behavioural pattern is moving towards, its a matter or grave concern.
Students of one of the better known management institute, which claims to churn out managers and leaders of the future and has a tradition of training young minds and finding solutions to address tomorrow’s challenges carry out such a heinous act, which put the whole of mankind to shame. While we all can say that parents are to be blamed and attribute the whole episode to upbringing and I agree that most parents happily ignore the fact that parenting is a continuous process and does not end with their children securing admission is elite education institutions across the country, I guess the onus of this one does lie with the institute as well. Is the Institute responsible only for imparting management book knowledge and haven't the teachers failed to spot the behavioural traits of students attending classes everyday with them?? All the management schools brag about how they are different from the other and the only criteria that each one of them try to differentiate themselves from others is the fact that they strive to make "better human beings" out of their students. This incident proves that to be a far cry. Forget creating "better human beings" I wonder if they even are aware of behaviour traits of students in their institutions. Going through the video clearly indicates that the students engaged in this particular heinous activity are mentally imbalanced and have no sense of maturity and resp0nsibility. They also do not have sense of respect and their core values of humanity seem to be completely absent. How did such individuals secure admission to such a "prestigious" institution. The whole of admission machinery, which boasts of best minds in the country in panel to select students after elaborate interviewing process, seems to have failed, with no one in the panel being able to spot such inconsistency in behavioural pattern. and if they claim that they did a good job in that process, then it simply means that their though process deteriorated after being a part of this institution. Both ways they cannot escape the responsibility of this act.
Now having spoken of the above lets look at the way the country and its law enforcing mechanism dealt with the case. The culprits were released on bail of just Rs 7000/- in 24 hours. Amazing as it may sound but is true. Where is NCHR??? All they are interested in is ensuring Ajmal Kasab gets fed properly.... Women rights commission members are still sleeping as it is weekend for them or maybe they are busy with page 3 parties. Oh and yes we have the IPL finals today .. so maybe they can deal with this little girls plight tomorrow (after all this one wont give them the same limelight as it doesn't involve any high profile personality)...
I know in few days no one would remember this episode, but if this is the direction in which some of our youngsters behavioural pattern is moving towards, its a matter or grave concern.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)