Objectivity and subjective ends.

Objectivity is essentially being objective not subjective. Even if you are subject, you still act as if you are not. You maintain general aura of disinterestedness. This is very attractive quality.

Academics celebrate for this. That is why they say be objective.

Sometimes, we hang on to something, thinking doing so advances our interest whereas objectivity doesn't.


We are mistaken, being objective in your analysis and conclusions will better allow you to pursue subjective ends. The reason being you are morel likely to hit the truth.



The truth, Somalis say, scares people, but it doesn't hurt.

Based koan analysis and my own meditation practices, I concluded that I stillness, not movements, even though in the chapter of kaons, more masters appear to say they are movements, like the one who says beating the drum and rolling balls and so on.

Stillness is indifferent to everything, but to stillness itself. To realize this in ordinary activities, or in the serious business of life, I maintain that indifference to anything but to that stillness.


Zen master is quoted in the book saying what is sweet is sweet and what is bitter is bitter, but appears to be true only from one perspective so that other perspectives is may not be true.

A water is very sweet for a man who walked in the desert without water for extended period of time than to a man who can have it at will. Water essentially remain the same, but the perspective differs.

So, It is more true to say what is sweet to you is sweet to you and what is bitter to you is bitter to you.


I once noted an effective tool of reading for the purpose of understanding something or even mastering it: read it word by word. This is very slow process,
but the level of understanding that I gained was quite profound. So much so, I decided to pursue this as hobby .

I even thought of pursuing it as profession ,by picking up a book that I like, study it an then teach it, say on YouTube.

Make money out of it by building an audience. I really thought so because of the amount of insight that I can get out of a book by reading it word by word. The author this kind of reading as language samadhi.

Aristotle's ethics was one of the books that I thought of.

My understanding get even deeper when I read out loud.