Near Perfect Pic

The one I found on the internet. The anonymous sculptor's effort is note worthy

Tathagath, Siddharth, Gautam, Sakyamuni,Bodhisatva, Buddha. From a prince to a disillusioned king to a vagabond and then to a God.

Book reading or anything

Why are some books easy to read while others are difficult to complete. Without loss of generality, compare Jeffery archer and Frederick Forsyth or to make my point more clear let us take Sidney Sheldon and Orhan Pamuk. I am not trying to draw these writers into my silly comparisons, but perhaps you would understand the point I am not trying to say. A passing thought is like a shooting star, it ends as soon as it begins, and we are left trying to make sense of it. One passing thought makes me write something like this. Some books are indeed unappealing to us because we are not in a good mood or because we do not like the subject, the story or the style of prose. But I am talking about the ones which we like and still are not able to complete. To many readers, a Jeffery archer book can be completed in one sitting or in maximum two sittings. Why? Because the plot is engaging and keeps their interests alive till the end. It satisfies the curiosity of outer layer of our brain immediately. However reading the book of the other kind becomes a challenge. Understanding what is written, what is emphasized requires more labor. In some way, it is like probing deeper into layers of our brain and trying to prepare a report card for our brain.

The prospect of which brings fatigue within us.

Reading is as much an art as writing. Completing an interesting piece which is difficult may require one to be in a trance, and be switched off to everything else. Like a doped recluse trying something all by himself.

The actual comparison then, is between the different layers of our mind. It is very natural to extend this beyond the subject of book reading. I think it is about the effort required to contrive sync between the task at hand and one layer of our mind. The one which is obvious and strikes rhythm with our outermost layer is most tempting and serves instant understanding. We require more effort to break into a different level of harmonic. I know that what I have said is nothing new, but just that I again wrote about warp and woof of our thought process.