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The Motorcycle Diaries

I finally completed the book - The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevera, which gives some insight into how Che became Che. It doesn't provide any direct reason for that, although, the last speech put in the book as appendix is the most explanatory of that. Since, I have turned myself into not a good reader in the recent days, I only have a handful of noteworthy things that I can remember from the book. When I watched the movie - The Motorcycle Diaries, I was baffled by how many times they fell from their motorbike, but since then, based on my own recent experience with motorcycle, and their more detailed description, I now understand why that is possible or more likely to happen. The unequal distribution of load, and any sort of gravel or potholes along the road, is enough to tip the motorcycle over. And whatever they did, and how far they traveled on such a bike on such roads is very commendable. The next thing that is amazing is the way they traveled. They traveled on Ponderosa...
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Intelligence VS mind

In our discussion, he mentioned that the mind plays tricks on us. I have also heard this before, but I always feel it interesting this concept of three separate entities - body, mind and intelligence. We are the intelligence, not the mind or the body. Body is dispensable, as in it's temporary. It will rot away eventually. So, the best we do to get as detached from the body, and appearance, the better it is. For what? I don't know. But it doesn't mean we don't take care of our body, because if we don't it affects other aspects of our life. So, body is as important, but attachment to material world, we do have to try our best to get away from. As for mind, mind shouldn't be the one that should have control over us, but the intelligence should have control over the mind. The mind will say "I want to do this". We have to get somewhere, the mind will say "I want to be lazy, what's the hurry. We can get there few minutes late". This way, thing...
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Discipline

Discipline is a very hard thing to achieve. Lot harder when you are independent and free, not that I don't want to be independent and free. But when there is no-one around to push you, when there is nothing at stake, not that I want anything to be at stake, it becomes tough. When you feel there is nothing to prove, or sometimes nothing I can prove, it's pretty difficult. Motivation, whether internal or external, is I believe very important to push you forward, to push you to be disciplined. Or is it the other way around? Is the disciplined one who is the most motivated to make changes, either to himself, or the world around him, or world farther from him/her? But either way, the disciplined one is the one who can keep going, no matter the lack of motivation. Is that right? And where do you get this motivation? What is its origin? How does it get born within a person? Or is a person born with it? Why do I find it hard to find it when others can find it so easily? Or maybe, th...
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