hisay lama

  Statue of Compassion Buddha at Bongeunsa temple in Seoul (South Korea) In this blog, I would like to narrate three important questions which are deeply philosophical but used very often by researchers, corporations, business firms or even by an individual to understand the broad perspective of life. They are -  (i)  Why do we want to do something? (ii)  What do we want to do? (iii) How are we going to do? The rationale behind these questions is straightforward: they are broadly meant to funnel down our thought process to a list of a few essential questions that are relevant to us.  I find the coaches who train the corporate personnel insist executives ask these questions. Interestingly, the researchers are also trained to ask these questions, and they have to answer them every time they propose a research project.  Besides all this, I entered the 30s club, and life started knocking on a bell, creating an alert almost every time. All these 3 questions wand...

                                Picture of Pagoda at Gokokuji temple, Mejirodai, Bunkyo Japan Numbers are such an essential thing that helps us to count, calculate, measure or label things (Ref: Wikipedia). Although it is impossible to explain everything about the number, here, I will present my observation. I find it essentially everywhere,  we use it for several things, for example, we count years, weeks, days, time and so on.  In the context of a living being, the lifetime of survival, number of heartbeats, pH of blood or body fluid. Isn't that all fascinating? Such sort of numeral quantification has traditionally assisted many scientists to build a constructive intuition and understand life.  Another example is the picture shown above. This picture posses a specific number of pixels that spreads across its width and height.  Since the image is coloured, we additionally have 3 channels...