Version Nomadic

Sunday afternoons have always been tough, at least for me, for as long as I can remember. And sitting in a mostly empty but elegantly built corporate office somewhere in the wrong part of the world, I am amazed and somewhat amused that I still feel the same way about Sunday afternoons. It’s a strange feeling, a mixture of loneliness and despair and I find myself questioning my normally bullish attitude to life. My still school based life-attitude and philosophy comes under intense scrutiny and I seem to notice clouds I don’t normally see on the horizon. But this moment too shall pass, just as surely as it will come back to haunt me again. And as I channeled the power of the web in an attempt to get through the afternoon, I found myself looking at my long forgotten blog with its one single post, written about two years ago. That was back when I was bitten by the blogging bug, but right after the first post, a total lack of confidence in my writing skills killed any future posts. Till today. And I think, today, I am just posting to myself. The writing skills be damned.

So I decided to do a self-appraisal, a validation of sorts, to what I had deemed as logic points for my life operating system – The Buddha OS. And as with any operating system, release an upgrade. Launching, two years after inception, The Buddha OS – Version Nomadic

Logic #1: You can have no contradictions in life. When you encounter a contradiction check your premises, one of them will be false. Eliminate all such false premises. Keep life contradiction free.

Logic #2: You must always have faith in the process in everything. Life takes care of the betrayals.

Logic #3: You must prioritize your battles. It is futile to try and fight all the battles at once. And make sure you only fight the right ones. Sometimes you win by walking away

Logic #4: The best form of deception is the truth or a version of the truth. Just stick with the truth. And stop deceiving yourself.

Logic #5: Every force has an opposing force. To win you must always fight a certain force with its opposing force. Use logic #3 first to determine battle priority, win conditions and use of force. Then apply logic #5.

Logic #6: That which does not matter, you must let it pass. And when it doesn’t pass fast enough, look at the night sky for a cosmic perspective.

Logic #7: In matters of offence, you must strike swiftly ,forcing your enemy into indecision and thereby giving you a chance to make swift gains, which you then use to negotiate from a position of strength and decisively and eliminate the opposition forever.Keep a high bar for what can be deemed a matter of offense. Fully integrate with Order of the 9th Dragon.

Logic #8: There is no pot of gold happiness waiting for you at the end of the rainbow. The gold happiness is scattered all across the rainbow. Gold is not equal to happiness. And happiness isn’t limited to any one color in the rainbow. Take your time, enjoy the ride and make sure you experience all the colors.

Logic #9: System Scalability Balance - Never grow up at the cost of core values and dreams. If it seemed important in school, it’s still important. Disregard arguments and advice built on words like “sensible”, “practical” and “economic sense”.

Logic #10:: Reusable system blocks - Respectful. Simplicity. Passionate. Honesty.

Logic #11: Fuzzy logic – Make your highest exception(s) for the one(s) you love the most. So when all other logic points lead to a fuzzy conclusion, make the exception. At this point, contradictions disappear, faith is rewarded, winning and losing don’t matter, deceptions vanish and happiness is experienced.