💻Vivek Thomas

A tensegrity structure of unmet needs.. Let's start from some basic mammalian needs we need to survive and thrive as a troop... The four brahmaviharas can be considered basis vectors of the mammalian feeling space.. nutrients we need to grow and love and live together. Metta => to be kind to each other, Karuna => to face our pains, Mudita => to share our joys Upekkha => to be held steady. Like any basis vectors, they can define an entire world. When these needs are met early => everything is smooth and stable, we don't look for substitutes When they're NOT MET => something gets built to stand in for the lack That something is a sankhara/knot/schema And it shows up in two flavours: near & far... Far defence = armour. We escape the lack by turning to its opposite. Aka "I really didn't want it! I hate it! It's weak!" No metta => ill-will. Aimed out, it's mistrust. Aimed in, it's shame. No karuna => cruelty => "I deserve to suffer." No mudita => envy. Someone else's joy is my failure. No upekkha => reactivity. Grasp, flee, grasp, flee. Near defence = counterfeit. We manufacture a poor substitute of the missing feeling and cling to it. Aka "I'll settle for this" No metta => attachment. Love bought by pleasing, earning, merging. No karuna => pity/self-pity. Falling into the wound instead of sitting beside it. No mudita => status-joy. Glad only when witnessed, only when winning. No upekkha => numbness/indifference. Withdrawal that passes for peace — the hardest one to catch, because it looks most like the goal. What happens when these defences add up on top of each other? Let's look at tensegrity — Buckminster Fuller's idea — a structure that keeps its shape with no solid core. Rigid struts that never touch each other, suspended in a continuous net of tension cables. Struts push out, cables pull in, and the shape is nothing but those two forces cancelling. The stiffness — the thing that makes it feel like an object — comes entirely from the pre-tension. Push on it anywhere and the load spreads across the whole net, never into one joint. The sankharas/schemas built up by the lack of the basis vectors create a tensegrity structure. The far-defence struts push apart, the near-defence cables pull in. Defectiveness => approval-seeking => unrelenting standards => punitiveness => and the self-punishment loops straight back to "not enough." The ring powers itself. Each one absurd alone, load-bearing together. Which is why fixing one sankhara rarely holds. Cut one cable => the tension redistributes => the structure heals around the cut and re-forms. You see through the pattern on Tuesday, it's back Friday with the same face :) You snapped a strut. The pre-tension was untouched. And the pre-tension is the original lack of the basis vector. So you don't take a tensegrity apart node by node. You can't. You relax the tension holding the whole thing taut. Learn to sit in the jhana — metta, then karuna, then mudita, then upekkha. Generate enough safety, satisfaction, bliss and soak them all in. Your body/mind stops improvising the missing nutrients and starts supplying them directly. Feed the system the actual nutrient => the needs are met => tension releases. And tensegrity doesn't sag politely. Past a threshold it loses integrity and drops — not joint by joint, all of it, everywhere, all at once. That's what release feels like: not a slow repair, the sudden absence of a strain you never knew you were holding. Nothing left to brace against. Nothing pushing back. So what was standing there, before it came down? A set of forces held in one shape by an old hunger. No central strut. No solid thing in the middle — only tension, read as an object because it never once went slack long enough for anyone to check. Which leaves me with one open question: The structure that drops when the strain finally releases — the one held in shape only by compensating for what it never received — is that what we've been calling the Self?

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Madras was ahead of Bangalore, Pune and Hyd in IT industry two and half decades back. Now all 3 are way ahead of Chennai. Airport is not the only reason. A honest introspection needs to be carried out, course correct and bring high end jobs to the city back. If you can generate a million high end jobs here over the next 5 years, it will also boost the state's tax revenues big with that million spending here big.