Where is the source of happiness?

Written by Kamyar Monday, 23 February 2009 12:37

Last week, at the end of a class, there were a few questions which we had to answer on the spot. A sort of personal reflection. One of the questions was "What in your current work and life are important sources of energy?" We had 30 seconds to write down what ever came to our minds on the spot.

Here is what I wrote down:
Learning about new ideas, specially about change, unity, innovation and education. More importantly when I share these ideas / dreams with my friends and they resonate, when I see other people who share the same concerns and dreams with me.

Two days after that class, I got the chance to talk with a dear friend of mine, Sahar, for a couple of hours. You can see her name and beautiful comments below many of my blog posts. It was one of those dialogues where after you are finished, you feel like you have evolved, as if something new has emerged whithin you. Not only you feel closer to your friend, but you feel closer to your core self, and you feel closer to everything around you. That's what I call an authentic connection. A dialogue will transform into a dance of unity. It's like you start dancing together, at the beginning one will lead, then the other, and this routine will evolve to a situation where something more than the partners starts to lead. You surrender to the flow and let it lead. Words and ideas come to your mind which you have never used them before. All the scattered dots in your head start to connect, and something new is born out of those connections. Amazing!

Following that dialogue, here is a video, dedicated to all, but specially to Sahar.

'the riddle of here' from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

A Song of Unity - Stand by Me

Written by Kamyar Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:53

This song says, no matter who you are, no matter where you go in your life, at some point you are going to need somebody to stand by you ...

A New Chance to Do Something

Written by Kamyar Monday, 09 February 2009 17:33

Every day can be a new life, but only if we stop thinking about the past and worrying about the future. I have come to believe that, what stops us from being happy are those mental projections; sorrow of the past and fear of the future. Humanity has lost it's connection to what there ever is: this moment, NOW. And that is the source of all the sufferings. All our sufferings reside in our minds. Outside our heads, what ever is, just is, plain and pure, without any positive or negative labels.

Everyday is a new chance to smile, dance, sing, and do something new. Birds know this, and I have been a witness to it.

This short video made me smile all the day today:

'smile' from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

A Cocktail of Unity

Written by Kamyar Saturday, 07 February 2009 11:29

Here are the ingredients of a Unity cocktail:

1. A short letter by Francisco J. Varela titled "Why the mind is not in the head." It consists of 5 small paragraphs, but the message, if truly understood, can change the way you perceive everything. Here is a quote:
   

   ... the basis of mind is the body in coupled action, that is, the sensory-motor circuits establish the organism as viable in situated contexts. Form this perspective the brain appears as a dynamical process (and not a syntactic one) of real time variables with a rich self-organizing capacity (and not a representational machinery). So in this sense the mind is not in the head since it is roots in the body as a whole and also in the extended environment where the organism finds itself.

2. Last night I watched a documentary titled Heima. It takes you through a beautiful musical journey in Iceland. It's an amazing blend of humanity, nature, culture and sound. I think, music is a universal language, and not only within humans. It can also connect us with the natural world and the whole universe.
3. Love Until it Hurts is a short and insightful answer by Ken Wilber. He talks about feminine way of mysticism and it's difference with a masculine way.

I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.