Friday, August 5, 2011

Digital Logic and Tristate

In digital logic there are 2 states viz. 0 and 1. When the logic is neither 0, nor 1 then that state is called as Tristate. That was about technology. Interestingly, mind is no different. It gravitates to Right (say, 1) or Wrong (say, 0), Good (say, 1) or Bad (say, 0). Its subsequent movement is only from that state e.g. Good. The whole action of mind and body operates from Good, from then on. And there is equal probability that the movement could happen from Bad. Lets bring it to life, “fast life is bad, slow life is good.” Not very long ago that people lived a slow life and 2 generations down we are living a fast life. The only difference then and now is they were getting heart ailments latter in life, we are getting them earlier. Not that they were free of it in any way. So, when there is an opportunity of doing a certain thing fast you miss out on it because you say “Slow life is good” and you tread slow. This applies when you want to do a certain thing slow, you miss the fun because now you say "Fast life is good". Any amount of living with logic-0 or logic-1 will be a confinement. With understanding of this confinement begins Tristate. Its an amazing state which is of neither 0 nor 1. Its aptly called “Undefined” or “Don’t care” state. It appears to the logical (0/1 based) mind that Tristate is meaningless, being careless (Don’t care) but its not so. In fact, it’s the most sensitive, mouldable state of mind that logical mind will fail to go anywhere closer to. When we understand this in our hearts there will be less craving of people who are living ‘fast’ life to move to country side and ‘villagers’ to move to cities. Do find the art of living in Tristate, its worth dabbling with, than swinging on to rights and wrongs and polishing them on and on and on till the last breath.