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A warm welcome to my Blog

I shall post some news of interest to Sri lankans about life in Sri Lanka in the period 1950-1960 mainly. This will feature articles on music, general history and medicine. I am dedicated to humanism and refuse to judge people according to labels they are born with. Their actions and behaviour shall be my yardsticks, always cognizant of the challenges they faced in life.

Sunday 3 November 2013

Universal Truth by MG

UNIVERSAL TRUTH

A person, a self, an aware being,
Smaller than a pin head in an ocean
The ocean itself 
a pin head in a vast Universe
A person of Universal Insignificance 
yet of high Personal Significance

Happy or not, in pain or not,
is all a matter of central sensation
Sensation is individual, 
experience-conditioned, 
expectation-conditioned
Nothing is absolute
The  intensity of the sensory experience
can vary in and within persons
with the same stimulus and circumstances

Why waste time, money and energy
trying to intensify and vary the stimulus
in the hope of a greater sensory experience
Is it not better to change the reaction 
rather than the stimulus?
And be similarly or  even more content 
with less futile investment of time and energy.
Is this the secret of happiness?
What is happiness?
Just a state of mind
What is mind?
Just a conscious awareness 

North West Sri Lankan Literary Club

This is now well established. The last presentation was by me on *Laughter- why do we laugh and musical connections of laughter". It was held on the 28th of September