A sudoku puzzle also has  other meanings for example although you can’t see it when you first look at the puzzle every single number in there is connected to every other number so if one of those numbers is it the wrong place then at least some of the others will also be in the wrong place ultimately leading to impossibility of solution.

A mystical way of looking at the world might see the world in the same way that every being in the world is connected to every other being in some way and if one dies it’s affects all the others that are connected. Remember the lines written by that famous English poet John Donne

Ask for not for whom the bell tolls

It tolls for thee.

Even two other people we don’t read the newspapers or look at the news on the television we are affected by what is happening to others.

So why can’t we make the world more peaceful?

Someo say we can’t even make our own hearts more peaceful.

Soon somebody will put tariffs on the trees and charge them for every leaf they drop…

A leaf falls from the tree and someone drowns in the Pacific.

I’ve been laid up recently with a virus and it’s only that that’s made me try to do some Sudoku puzzles. They don’t really help me to feel better but it’s interesting doing them on a tablet rather than on paper in fact I’ve even done one on my phone

What I have realised is unless there’s a misprint or an error all the knowledge that you need to solve the problem is there already it’s just that we can’t see it.

So we’re trying to find the hidden knowledge but the hidden knowledge is determined by what you can see this is not something where you have to use guesswork or creativity

Then I was wondering if some people are better at seeing the hidden knowledge or the implicit knowledge than others are.

It may happen because you’ve done a lot of puzzles and you begin to build up a lot of information or it may be that just immediately you can see connections on missing numbers that most of us can’t see immediately.

It’s tempting to try to do it in one big sweep

But even with the toughest ones it seems for a beginner better to go step by step in some order which you can then repeat because every time you add one number to a line it changes the whole problem.

And that’s interesting as well

One little change can change many things and this may be true in the more general sense in life itself.

Even something that seems trivial like washing your hair can sometimes have a big effect on your life if you happen to meet someone when your hair is looking beautiful so if your hair was dirty and uncombed you will not feel so confident maybe you would not smile as much and so you are not appeal to other people as much

On the other hand the same women get so fed up from attention they deliberately don’t wash their hair or do glamorous things with it

I must say though I find the sudoky puzzle really irritating on the whole but still you can learn from them. I suppose that’s my desire to learn something more general.

But they’re also very limited because you don’t need anything outside that box to fill the squares in unlike a crossword

Crosswords may improve our variable skills and vocabularies and that helps us to relate better to other people. Crosswords are better for you in my opinion yet sometimes I feel drawn to the puzzles.

What ultimately they may be boring because they are a closed system

I suppose some branches of Christianity or indeed all of Christianity attempts to be a closed system but there’s always a new virtue to be discovered and there’s always a new way to realize that we are weak and even sinful at times.

I suppose that’s why humility matters. If you don’t admit you’ve got a crack the light can’t get into you