Shree: Data

Shree: Data

Today’s nightmare is ‘data’. But symbolically speaking extrovertedness and dependence of any kind causes fear or a nightmare – as an imagination of the mind. Is it required to be bothered about “data”? I feel it has lost the significance on many grounds as a measure for discovering peace. Here are some of my understandings –

1.       Rate of change is too fast to make any sense of data in terms of variables, meaning, short and long term measures, analysis, consolidation and revelation. A wholesome experience requirtes allowance for change, analysis, consolidation and looking ‘beyond’. It is applicable for life, relationships and anything of phenomenon. Too fast a change disturbs this equation.

2.       Data assimilation is reduced to a linear logic and only some tangible and measurable expression – that too becomes intolerant of many organic, intangible dimensions of existence. A human being is beyond a logical dimension that is the reason we are ‘not’ machines and have feelings and intuition. These work beyond logic and systems of productions. This has to be ironically admitted in an age when we find it increasingly difficult to look beyond any logical framework! By hastening the logical thought – one ends up in that way only – more logic and perhaps more stress and more stupidity! Look at any elder and he/she will remind oneself that their feelings, expectations and approach to life is beyond any logical system of analysis. Herein we are actually asking empathy for elders, which a logical system won’t even acknowledge.

3.       Life, people and situations are ingrained with feelings too – I don’t see data acknowledging this subjective perspective of feelings. And taking a polar stand is also not an answer to buck this tendency. I feel what I feel and increasingly see it pointless to justify any position – this can be either liberating or frustrating.

4.       Data is equated to access, speed, and production. Again, the intangible way unfolds a perspective that even tons of data may not generate. Patience is a virtue that the instant culture cannot imagine.

5.       Data is based on intellect. Awareness of Intangible presence or dimension of Existence is based on trust or faith. Trust also informs the intellect and I only see this dimension of trust getting compromised by increase in speed of change or of generation of data. The ability to accept enormous complexity and contradictions is based on trust. In order to do this, it is not necessary to understand complexity or contradictions. A fundamental connect with anything in a tranquil state of mind is the ingredient of trust. This should be practiced everyday.

6.       Memory is rubbed off. So, the meaning of traditions, culture, environment and how they generate a feeling of peace require to be rediscovered and NOT to be confirmed with established notions of those experiences. Yet decoding the process of reading and conceiving places is essential before it is said as some rhetoric or a formula. Essentially a peaceful place is “felt within as an experience” and is not externally present.

7.       Data assumes a fixing solution to the problem of humanity or thoughts. This, I feel, is going against the nature of Being – that accepting our incompleteness is a natural phenomena and then working our way through it is a fundamental need of a human being.

8.       Data assumes that things ought to be expressed and told always and judgment or evaluation depends on that. I don’t think that this should be the case. There are a lot of spaces that “become” anything or take on any form.

9.       Data assumes refinement, exclusion, perfection, staticness and compartmentalization. Life or Existence is opposite to these values.

Hari Om.