Foot and Fire

In Part V, it is all about resilience. In education, we have to accept that change is the only constant. Meaning, Life is not a story to be told but to be lived,  it cannot be told or summed up in a simple slogan because it has to be lived along with the uncertainties.  Meanwhile in Meditation, it invites us to just observe how everything progresses so that one can think how to adapt. Just like the recent job lay offs of tech companies. all along tech companies are what we are thinking to be our direction to progress. But through meditation, we can pause and think for creative solutions or alternatives or answers.    (P.S. This is part of the series I was making in 2021. Please check other post for complete picture of what this book offers to us...)

I mentioned in my earlier blog that the other thing apart from French Painter Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates painting, I gushed over the Egyptian relics. Having seen a real mummy with intricate bandage, met a Sphinx and scrutinized a Mentuhotep statue in person gave me an inexplicable joy. I read somewhere that The Met or the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one Museum that you have to go to if you have to choose one, and now, I agree. The African Origin of Civilization with Egyptian Art in Gallery 136  Floor 1. But see more in Galleries 304, 376, 455, 550, 601, 681, 753, 828, 957, 964, Ground Floor, Floors 1 & 2.  The mummy that gave real face to the mummies we just saw in movies. The fabric used is sturdy and the latticework in wrapping the body is intricate, not like it's just wrapped by a roll paper.  Dutch masters were a real find too and I was lucky to have seen a Rembrandt and a ...

       Took up Part I of 21 Lessons in the previous blog . Now, we take up the Part II of the book which tackles Political Challenge by discussing Community, Civilization, Nationalism, Religion and Immigration.       Community. Humans have bodies, so there is a big challenge for maintaining  the separate lines between the online vs offline communities because there might come a time when tech giants might manipulate our entire bodies in the same way they currently manipulate our eyes, fingers and credit cards.         Civilization. Whatever changes await us in the future, they are likely to involve a fraternal struggle within a single civilization rather than a clash between alien civilization. Though humankind is very far from constituting a harmonious community, we are all members of a single rowdy global civilization.     Nationalism. Nationalistic Isolation seems not to be the answer since g...