A Doomsday Scenario:

A Doomsday Scenario:
People think that the disaster scenario Jesus described may be far fetched or too remote for them to be concerned in their cozy armchairs but according to scientists in an article in the NY Times, Greenland is a big bowl of ice that is melting at an accelerating rate. If it melted completely, sea levels will be raised 20 feet and Florida & Bangladesh would be gone apart from submerging Manhattan.
Once the defrost button on a fridge has been pressed, the march towards total meltdown may be relentless and accelerating. It gets quicker and quicker just as anger rises rapidly when the angry person blows his top. Melting water seeps deep into glaciers where it lubricates the glacier’s floor boosting its glide towards the equator or sea where increased it will melt faster. Less ice mean less reflection of sunshine back into space increasing global temperatures increasing melting. Further, ice presses down tectonic plates and if the ice disappears, the plate will rise and if other plates are locked with it, earthquakes may be triggered. When all the ice on Scandinavia in the past melted it apparently rose 20 feet.
Greenland is only one piece of a jigsaw of global environmental change that includes deforestation, agriculture (cows & rice produce methane, a greenhouse gas), pollution, overpopulation and mass extinction that is well advanced. We may be approaching a precipice down which the earth will plunge and it may be nearer than foolish, greedy men think.
Quote: "If Greenland melted," he said, "it'd raise sea levels by 20 feet. There goes Florida. There goes most of the Mississippi embayment. There go the islands in the South Pacific. Bangladesh is obliterated. Manhattan would have to put up dikes."
Although much work is needed to solve the puzzle, he added, the hints of big changes are building. "There's definitely a lot of melting going on," Dr. McConnell said, flinching as a crack echoed from the warming white cliff and a giant ice slab shifted ever so slightly.
How The Double Barreled Shotgun Is Pointed At You:
Whenever you (driven by emotion) are driving your car faster than is necessary to impress someone (by definition, an act) who is pursuing (challenging) you (and impressing anybody else including yourself or the girl besides you who might care to be impressed), you have to force yourself to drive and take corners as fast as you dare (and you are constantly being stressfully tempted to up the stakes, to drive even faster) so that you will be even more impressive but at the same time, you have fear (another emotion) in opposition to force yourself to exercise restraint, because you woill look very foolish and sorry rather than impressive if you wrecked your car or end up dead.
Hence, in choosing to act driving for show (to impress others) instead of being easefully himself just driving, the actor has forced himself to experience two unnecessary stresses:
The actor has to apply extra force with stress and energy waste to what he wants to do (drive) to drive as fast as he can so that he can impress.
Because he is driving excessively fast and stressing himself, he has to constantly apply force to restrain himself not to get carried away and kill himself.
The constant battle between the emotional urge or force to act to impress and the urge or force or fear to self protect creates tension leading to restlessness that if insoluble, leads to loss of control (rage) and depression.

The same principles hold in all instances of acting. For instance, if you force yourself excessively to smile as much as you dare to be charming (eg you are an airline hostess greeting boarding passengers), you must also force yourself to control your smiling because serious strain inevitably builds up with prolonged smiling and may cause you to twitch or scowl or dread that someday you will make a fool of yourself scowling at a passenger when you want to smile with false charm. This fear may haunt you and become a self fulfilling prophesy. The longer and more aggressive you smile, the more stress and tension build up and you are dicing with lost of control and madness.

Anyone who thinks his smile is genuine, not faked to please or impress should arrange to smile without pause greeting a file of assorted airline passengers and see whether his smile can be maintained with equanimity or if instead he will become cynical, morose (and trying to hide it because it clashes with his charming smile and it gets increasingly harder to hide his scowl the longer he maintains his forced smile) and going through the motions resentfully or stressed to break point.

(AND IT IS IN THE NATURE OF FORCEFUL EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES THAT ONCE YOU HAVE DRIVEN FAST TO IMPRESS ANOTHER, THE URGE TO REPEAT THE SAME IN THE FUTURE BECOMES EASIER TO BE AROUSED AND EVERYTIME YOU DRIVED FAST WHENEVER YOU PERCEIVE (REAL OR IMAGINED THAT YOU ARE BEING CHALLENGED) YOU ARE STRENGTHENING THE BOND TO DRIVE FAST FOR SHOW. SOON, IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE HOOKED EGOTIST NOT TO GUN HIS THROTTLES AND DRIVE LIKE A MAD MAN WHEN HE SEES A BMW BESIDE HIM AT THE TRAFFIC LIGHT. SOON, HIS DEFAULT WAY OF DRIVING IS FAST AND BECAUSE IT IS SHAMEFUL TO HAVE THE URGE TO RACE OTHERS, HE MAY DELUDE HIMSELF THAT HE IS BEING HIMSELF DRIVING FAST. TO FORCE YOURSELF TO DRIVE FASTER THAN IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO IMPRESS OTHERS AND YOURSELF IS ACTING.

IN THE SAME WAY, ONCE YOU HAVE SHOUTED AT SOMEONE TO INTIMIDATE HIM, IT BECOMES EASIER FOR THE URGE TO SHOUT OR BARK WHEN SPEAKING TO BE AROUSED IN THE FUTURE. VERY SOON, YOU ARE FORCED TO, NOT FORCING YOURSELF TO TALK IN A BARKING WAY. PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IN A SMILING, SOFT, ANXIOUS TO PLEASE, EAGER, MUSICAL MANNER DO NOT REALIZE IT IS FAKED, SO WELL LEARNT THAT THEY ARE NOW FORCED TO TALK IN THIS WAY, NO MORE FORCING THEMSELVES. THEY THINK THEY ARE GOOD SPEAKING GENTLY BUT IT IS NICE, FALSE)
ACTING IN A PHONE BOOTH:
Before 1977, people were like the person acting (mischievously) inside a very crammed telephone booth. After 1977, the door was (miraculously) opened for them but they only congratulated themselves on their newfound freedom and started to act with more openly stretched limbs and panache with the room to manuever.
Today people are more subdued, more circumspect, toned down in their acting, but they are still acting, still unaware they act and how it is related to their woes, they act more directly or with more immediacy and violence when triggered.
One day, they do not realize, they will be dragged screaming and kicking back into that telephone booth to continue their tormenting acting, not for a day but even for another eternity.

Forced To Act, No Longer Forcing Themselves To Act:
Ordinary people no longer have to force themselves to act but they are now forced even over their will or resistance to act by minds that have become (permanently) warped with impulses that are too strong to resist.

Actors no longer have to forced to smile (or stretched their syllables) when they speak or meet others; they are forced to smile (or stretch their syllables), even before they are aware or without awareness they do.

People never say evenly without stretched syllables, “Tony”, they never even say “ttooneee”, but they say “tTTOOoONnieEee” explosively with varying loudness and stretching of syllables to be falsely seductive or friendly. Because actors can NEVER let their yes be yes only, “Tony” is not enough, does not sound right to them, hence they must always exaggerate, jazz it up by saying “tTTOOoONnieEee” full of verve, conviction and mischief they think God is applauding them.

Actors never say unemotionally, “It is good” but they are forced (no longer forcing) to say without being self consciousness they are forcing, with much facial expression of delight, “mmMMmmm…iittssss goooodd!!” The ‘mmm’ and the stretched syllables are unnecessary add-ons to exaggerate, to impress others.

Hence ordinary people who say they do not act are kidding themselves. If you insist that is not acting, then whoever says ‘mmm’ or stretches his syllables unnecessarily with force will stress himself and waste energy. Even if actors wanted, they cannot stop themselves speaking thus unless they pay attention. but as soon as their attention lapses, they will revert to mindless “mmm, it isss goooodd!!”

(It is because ordinary people have acted for so long, they are now forced to act, no longer having to consciously force themselves to act; they are largely unconscious that what they say or do is not passive or natural but fabricated and stressful, accompanied by excessive force and speed.)
Because acting is always forceful and LEARNT it will be remembered or imprinted in the actor’s mind. Acting is a mindless individualized way of saying or doing things to be well learnt and then set on autopilot to be rendered with grim determination and self belief it is true when it is faked.

EVERY MOMENT’S ACTING IS EVERY MOMENT’S REINFORCEMENT OF ACTING AND IF ACTING IS SUFFERING, YOU ARE REINFORCING, STRENGTHENING SUFFERING IN YOURSELF. EVERY MOMENT’S EXISTENCE IN STRESS, TENSION, CONFLICT, DEPRESSION, MAD & VIOLENT IMPULSE IS EVERY MOMENT’S REINFORCEMENT OF IT SO THAT THEY WILL RETURN MORE EASILY TO HAUNT YOU IN THE FUTURE. EVERY MOMENT’S DENIAL OF CALM CONCENTRATED STILLNESS OF YOUR MIND IS EVERY MOMENT’S REINFORCEMENT OF THAT DENIAL SO THAT IN FUTURE, YOU SHALL HAVE NO PEACE. THE WISE PERSON LEARNS TO CULTIVATE PEACE ALWAYS BECAUSE PEACE IS NEVER SUFFERING BUT RESTLESSNESS ALWAYS IS. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH AND WILL FOR YOURSELF BECAUSE IT WILL ULTIMATELY BE FULFILLED.

Actors are no longer masters of their acting or forcing themselves to act but are forced by their minds that re already warped by their acting to helplessly render what they want to say or do in a forceful acted way.
Only in a few whose acting are not so strong, more defensive than aggressive, provided his discernment permits him insight how he acts, can make a determined or persistent effort to painstakingly dismantle his acting.

Professional actors cannot or see with difficulty that they act all the time, cannot see how their speech and behavior is intimately linked to their woes, they are resentful and proud, indifferent, are quite happy to suffer and make others suffer, are complacent that although they are stressed, they will always be like this when the noose of stress is ever tightening around their necks. Further, they are bombarded everywhere by stress from others wicked acting and this stress keeps them distracted and emotional to continue acting. Not only are they bombarded by acting everywhere, but they actively seek or expose themselves to stress that maintains their acting (eg listening to punk rock, watching TV game shows)


Actors Are Driven By Impulse, Not Reason:
Actors may think that they are driven by reason but that may be an illusion and it is impulse that drives them to speak and do things in ways that can be detected as explosive, blasting, jerky, constantly varying in yoyo fashion instead of smoothly, evenly.
Anyone who speaks in a demanding, urgent, fluctuating (instead of smoothly), stabbing, blasting fashion is speaking impulsively and if you are perceptive, virtually all ordinary people are guilty of saying or doing things in demanding, urgent, jerky, explosive fashion.
An actor may be sitting daydreaming and suddenly on impulse he gets up with a jolt to do something (he is forced to get up by his impulse), sometimes even before he is aware he has done so. Watch yourself carefully and you may detect impulse (sudden, forceful urge to do or say something) occurs in you more frequently than you concede.

When someone bursts into a loud grunt or spits, he is driven by impulse. When someone is moved to turn his head away, to look away when someone approaches, to scratch his head or adjust his tie on seeing someone, he is acting on impulse.
Whilst the actor is still young and his faculties intact, most of his impulses are involuntary intended (to manipulate others). But as he grows old his impulses will become increasingly disorganized, involuntarily unintended or mad.

ACTING AFTER IT BECOMES AUTOMATED IS DRIVEN BY IMPULSE OR URGES, WHICH IS WHY IT IS DIFFICULT TO CORRECT BECAUSE IMPULSE & URGES HAVE GREAT MOMENTUM, FORCE AND SPEED AND IN ORDER TO REVERSE THIS KIND OF ACTING, ONE MUST BE ATTENTIVE TO CATCH THE IMPULSIVE OR URGENT ACT AND APPLY BRAKES TO STOP IT. THE HABIT ENERGY IS VERY STRONG AND IT TAKES REPEATED NEGATION OF SUCH ACTING AS THEY ARISE BEFORE THE IMPULSE TO ACT THUS WILL BE EXHAUSTED.

Quote: Would I Lie To You?
It is a form of exaggeration and reflects arrogance. Anyone who speaks thus is presumptuous, pretentious (acting or putting on a show), casting uncertainty on others (how can others know whether he would lie) and heaping karma on himself.
The unassuming man says, “I did not lie to you” but the presumptuous, haughty man asks you instead, as if it is a forgone conclusion (an exaggeration or false because it is not forgone) that he will not lie to you. How would you know he will not lie to you? Surely he should know better and answer the question himself. He is speaking carelessly, driven by emotions (haughtiness). Jesus said you will be judged for every careless word you say.


Elaborate Or Consummate Self Deception:
There are many like this man:
When he sees a noble person calmly waiting to cross a road, he is seized by malice to speed up to prevent him from crossing or slow down to make him wait, whichever is expedient.
But if he sees a decrepit old lady trying to cross the road, he will be moved to slow down or make a fuss of his concern for her and he would be filled with emotion that he is such a good person.
He is expressing discrimination and engaged in a deceit he fools himself and fellow nice people who will uphold him as ‘good’ when he is nice.
The emotion of ‘good’ he feels in letting the old lady cross is a sense of pity that makes him feel ‘good’. Actors are suffering and (secretly) like to see others suffer. Whenever they see someone suffering (the old lady), they feel moved and powerful to exercise their restraint not to knock them down. Whenever they see someone truly happy (the noble person) they are seized by jealousy, hatred to run him down or impede him (Jesus said they hated me without reason).
In truth, you should have goodwill to all, weak and strong, noble and ignoble, old or young, white or black. If anything (according to the Buddha), you should bias your goodwill to a noble person than a sinful decrepit old lady (what is given to a noble person bears great fruits, not so much what is given to the sinful). Nice people have no goodwill, what they call goodwill is acted niceness to impress others how good they are when inside because they act, they seethe with ill will they can barely conceal from others.

Why Share Markets Are So Resilient, Fearless Nowadays:
In the past, the market would correct sharply with any potentially bad news and stay down until the coast is clear. Nowadays, although blue chips are well priced (with historically high PE ratios) they seem to shrug off threats (eg rising oil prices), scandals (Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Internet bubble, Shell) and move strongly ahead as the Dow has now climbed to 10391.
This strength may be illusory and in fact a portent of grave future danger should the dam finally break. It may be because the support for the share market is now more broadly based, many more people (including pension funds from all over the world) have put their money in stock markets all over the world as compared to the past and further, they have entrusted fund managers to invest for them. It is in the interest of fund managers to prop up the market, even to unrealistic levels because they are rewarded by it and it attracts more greedy money and in any event, it is not their money that will be lost should the market crash. Governments all over the world have reduced interest rates to historical low levels that further support the market unrealistically.
However, if the market is propped up at unrealistic levels, there are negative effects and sooner or later, there will be a reckoning. The longer the distortion, the more painful will be the consequences. Still, nobody cares because investors are happy to see high share prices because it makes them feel rich, fund managers are happy to see share prices high because it makes them rich and bring more business, CEOs are happy to see their share prices as high as possible for various reasons, the government and the stock exchange are also happy to see high share prices. But even Achilles has a heel and there may be a reckoning one day.
IF EVERYONE (EXCEPT PERHAPS SHORT PLAYERS, WHO ARE MARGINALIZED WITH LITTLE CLOUT) IS HAPPY TO SEE THE MARKET HIGH, HOW CAN THE MARKET BE REALISTICALLY PRICED (BEARING IN MIND MANKIND’S RECKLESS NATURE) AND HOW CAN IT CRASH UNLESS A SERIOUS CRISIS OVERWHELMS THE BROAD BASED SUPPORT CAPACITY? IT WILL COME BUT ONLY AFTER RESISTANCE HAS BEEN EXHAUSTED.
Quote: But experts say that the days when the cartel could call the shots on oil prices are long past.
Comment: There is a mentality of disrespect, insouciance, haughtiness that would use ‘call the shots’ than ‘dictate’ or ‘determine’. There is serious karma attached because it comes from wrong view.
Quote: But in characteristically colourful form, he (Rumsfeld) admitted the whereabouts of Bin Laden - who has topped Washington's most-wanted list since his apparent masterminding of the 11 September attacks - remained a mystery.
Comment: It suggests that Rumsfeld is such great fun to be with or he finds Rumsfeld interesting and is therefore a form of exaggeration. If in truth, Rumsfeld is great stress (blunt, sarcastic and scowling) to be around with, not colorful, you have a perversion of fun, this person is recommending stress to others, seeking out and gratefully accepting stress for himself. Not only do actors stress themselves by acting, they willingly and go out of their ways to seek stress from others. Is it any surprise they become mad, restless, unable to sleep and depressed later?
Raising Your Eyebrows:
If people observe themselves, they will surely notice they raise their eyebrows or crease their forehead muscles when they greet someone as if to express delight or surprise. This is a form of acting . A Buddha would not crease his forehead to greet anybody.
No matter how genuine you think your raised eyebrows are, stress always accompanies raised eyebrows which are unnecessary and provocative, because it provokes the opposite party to stress himself to similarly act as if pleased to see you.

Force Yourself While You Still Can:
People are forcing themselves all the time but they force themselves to do or say bad things (disguised as good), they force themselves to act, to be nice, force themselves towards falsehood (pretense), force themselves to be restless, always occupying themselves. But they never force themselves to be good, truthful and towards peace and stillness.
One day they will become totally forced to do mad things, to be madly restless and if they don’t make hay for themselves now whilst they can still force themselves, whilst their minds still respond to force, they may be a ticking time bomb that will blow themselves apart.
And what should they force themselves to do? They should force themselves to stay still even when restlessness wells up and they want to get up. They should force themselves to sit still, not think unnecessarily, force out restlessness and concerns for the world and replace it with deep, imperturbable peace.
When you plant an oak tree, you don’t expect it to be tall and strong overnight but it takes time, even years. Hence, if you are anxious to have a strong tree that no evil winds will blow down, you better start planting now and be patient husbanding it to grow.
Similarly, the default state in actors is restlessness and at the moment they are still able to force themselves to be calm, to be still, albeit if their attention strays, they will lapse into restlessness. That the usual state of ordinary people is restlessness, impulsiveness and it is a struggle to stay still even for awhile suggests how grave their plight is.
Hence, whilst you can still force yourself to stay calm, stay still, you don’t regularly force yourself to stay calm by seclusion (avoidance of incitement by others) and meditation, to keep forcing yourself to stay still even when there is impulse to move, you may be setting yourself up for a time when even if you wanted to force yourself to still calm, it will remain restless.

IF YOU DON’T FORCE YOURSELF TO STAY STILL (WHENEVER YOU SENSE RESTLESSNESS IN YOU INSTEAD OF CARRYING ON IN RESTLESSNESS CREATING INTERACTIONS), WHILE YOU CAN STILL DO SO NOW, A TIME MAY OR WILL COME WHEN EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO FORCE YOURSELF TO STAY STILL, YOU CANNOT STAY STILL. THEN YOU WILL WEEP AND GNASH YOUR TEETH YOU DID NOT APPLY YOURSELF, YOU DID NOT APPLY FORCE ON YOURSELF TO ISOLATE YOURSELF FROM INCITEMENTS TO BE RESTLESS (SECLUSION FROM OTHERS), TO FORCE YOURSELF TO STAY STILL (MEDITATE) EVEN WHEN THE OVERWHELMING IMPULSE IS TO MOVE.

Self Identity Views:
Self identity views are false properties of being that a person repeatedly & emotionally ascribes to himself and comes to believe is true. Because they are false and stressful, the person is embracing stress and therefore heading for states of woe. The Buddha says that self identity views together with faith in rituals and precepts and doubt and uncertainty are the three fetters leading to future states of woe.
A person who tells himself and others frequently thinking it is funny or meritorious being self deprecatory, “I am a pain in the neck” starts to behave as if he is a pain in the neck and it soon becomes a habit.

It is much more important that you be Christian, you practice Christianity than you identify yourself as a Christian with all the trappings that you perceive being a Christian entails. It becomes an act and a self identity view.

Ordinary people attached to their selves all have many self identity views, eg I am very pretty, everybody likes me, everybody hates me, I am talented, I am stupid, I am no good.
Below the Buddha is describing how self identity views afflict beings in this world:
"'He has been stilled where the currents of construing do not flow. And when the currents of construing do not flow, he is said to be a sage at peace.' 'I am' is a construing. 'I am this' is a construing. 'I shall be' is a construing. 'I shall not be'...'I shall be possessed of form'...'I shall not be possessed of form'...'I shall be percipient'...'I shall not be percipient'...'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' is a construing. Construing is a disease, a cancer, an arrow. By going beyond all construing, he is called a sage at peace.

"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are mental fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origin, such its disappearance.' Because of this, I say, a Tathagata -- with the ending, fading out & relinquishment of all construings, all I & mine-making & tendencies to conceits -- is, through lack of sustenance/clinging, released."

How Actors Pervert Sex:
BECAUSE ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE ACTORS, THEY NEVER EXPERIENCE SEX IN A MANNER THAT IS MATTER OF FACT, CALM (YOU ENJOY ALL THINGS BETTER WITH A CALM, NOT EXCITED MIND), TRUE TO EACH OTHER, PURELY SENSORY (NOT SENSUALLY) WITH NO EMOTIONS, NO FORCEFULNESS OR HURTFULNESS. INSTEAD ORDINARY PEOPLE (ALWAYS) PERFORM SEX IN WAYS THAT ARE SENSUAL (FALSELY HEIGHTENED OR EXAGGERATED PERCEPTIONS SENSATIONS OF SIGHT, SOUND, TOUCH, SMELL), FULL OF EMOTIONS (LUST, POSSESSIVENESS, AGGRESSION), FANTASY (FALSE, IMAGINED THOUGHTS THAT HEIGHTEN, OF A MAKE BELIEVE NATURE, THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCE) AND ACTING OUT (MOANS, GROANS, HYPERVENTILATING, PANTING AND FLAILING ARE ALL ACTS, EXAGGERATION AND FAKING TO IMPRESS OR PLEASE).
Reflecting their delusional natures, some actors are obsessed with sexual fantasies of a sadomasochistic nature eg that there is something mystical, mind boggling or elusive that is just out of their reach to experience, to which they keep pushing themselves forcefully to reach and in doing so they end up doing something tragic (kill themselves or their partners) that they may regret for the rest of their lives or even for an eternity. They may foolishly search in vain for a man or woman they think will deliver them to sexual nirvana that they are willing to kidnap or kill for, they may try all sorts of sexual practices, aphrodisiacs, environments and atmospheres, ratchet up their violence or forcefulness thinking the more forceful and emotional they are, the more pleasure they will experience.
There is murder trial that has gripped Malaysians, involving what appears to be sadomasochistic adulterous sex that went too far and horribly wrong. An apparently attractive and respectable woman died of suffocation in bondage after violent sex with a married man in her condominium. He may have been seeking the limit of sexual excitement and fantasy that was never there for him or anybody. Many have this fantasy that there is something wonderful, out of this world, mystical union or incomparable about sex when in truth it may be emotional passion that once aroused, has to be expended with nothing special, deep or everlasting about it. Because actors can never let their yes be yes only, they feel there must be something just beyond that if they become more forceful they will be gratified in a way they have never experienced before. But it is all delusion because there is only so much sensual pleasure in sex and all the huffing and puffing will not extract more but detract and even end up fatal.
There is in truth only so much emotion (lust or excitement, covetousness, aggression) and sensory (tactile, smell, sound, sight, thought or fantasy, even taste) experience in sex and it is actually (like everything in existence) best experienced in a calm, matter of fact manner. The more emotional & fantasy shrouded the sexual experience, the more stress is associated with it. Hence all the people who seek nirvana in sex or ‘love’ if it sounds more nice to them, be it in an ideal partner, practice, atmosphere or intensification of their sadomasochism are seeking something that is never there but instead are bonding themselves ever strongly to stress and suffering. All sex as practiced by nice people has some element of sadomasochism in it, no matter how loving they insist they are because all actors are driven by ill will that they may try to conceal from everyone including themselves, not goodwill.
SEXUAL PERVERTS OR FETISHISTS ARE ESSENTIALLY NO DIFFERENT FROM DIEHARD POETS OR PHILOSOPHERS OR SCIENTISTS OR THE ZEN MASTER WHO KEEPS STARING AT A WALL OR CHOPS HIS ARM (ALTHOUGH THE LATTER CATEGORIES WOULD UNSURPRISINGLY INSIST THEY ARE MADE OF LOFTIER STUFF). THEY ARE OBSESSED AND BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE THAT NOT ONLY HAS NOTHING THERE, BUT TORMENTING SUFFERING. THERE IS NO NIRVANA BUT AGONY, SELF FLAGELLATION AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW OF POETRY (ARTISTIC CONCEIT), PHILOSOPHY (INTELLECTUAL CONCEIT) & SCIENCE. THE FIRST VITAL STEP IN ESCAPING ALL SORROWS IS TO AWAKE TO ONE’S ACTING, NICENESS AND PUT A COMPLETE STOP TO IT. WITH THE MIND THUS SERENELY RELEASED ONE CAN WORK TO TOTALLY UNBIND, TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED AND SAY GOODBYE TO ALL EXISTENCE THAT IS ULTIMATELY STRESSFUL. NO ONE CAN FORCE THEMSELVES TO BE ENLIGHTENED. IT COMES AS A MATTER OF COURSE IN ONE WHOSE MIND IS (EFFORTLESSLY, NOT FORCEFULLY) CONCENTRATED, PURIFIED, BRIGHT, RID OF DEFILEMENTS, MALLEABLE, STEADY AND ATTAINED TO IMPERTURBILITY. (NOWADAYS WHEN I AM MEDITATING AND SOMEONE MAKES DISTURBING NOISES NEARBY, I DO NOT FLINCH OR FORCE MYSELF NOT TO FLINCH, BECAUSE IT IS NOW EFFORTLESSLY IMPERTURBABLE)
YOU CAN HYPOCRITICALLY FORCE YOURSELF NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN SEX OR YOUR LUST CAN BECOME EFFORTLESSLY EXTINCT OR AT A MUCH LOWER LEVEL THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT ON AN ACT YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SEX. THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT YOU MUST LET YOUR LUST HAVE FREE REIN AND END UP IN HELL.

Abetting Sin, Not Meritorious:
Nice people, when faced with an old lady making a nuisance of herself by pestering, keep asking the same (demented) questions over & over again whilst refusing to leave and coming back again to ask the same questions, may smile, shrug their shoulders, shake their heads (an act) and act indulgent, even ‘gently’ poking fun at her.
This is not meritorious but abetting and tolerating sin. Even if the old lady is set in her ways, pestering and preoccupied by silly things, she is suffering and there is nothing funny to smile about. She is headed for states of woe and you think it is funny or comical and then imagine you are good.
Further, to be confronted by a pestering old lady is never fun or funny but stress and by smiling, you are denying to yourself and others, telling a lie to yourself and encouraging others to put up a show that it is funny to be pestered. Denial is suffering and to set example for others to deny is encouraging others to similarly suffer, with karma, not merit attached.
Instead the wise person will not be moved, will not find it at all funny, will not in anyway feed her delusions by making dishonest, nice comments that incites. Whatever she asks, he will mindfully reply matter of fact or remain silent. He refrains from being upset and then hiding his upset behind sarcasm or pious pity.
The Sin Of Fostering Uncertainty In Others:
The Buddha said that uncertainty and doubt is one of three fetters leading to states of woe.
Hence by asking someone, “Would I tell you are lie?” you are mischievous, putting him in a dilemma, forcing him to entertain a question that he can never possibly answer with certainty. He will experience uncertainty as a result of being asked a question he cannot be certain and that experience is never forgotten and you have sowed a seed of future doubt or taught him how to wrongfully doubt himself.
For the discerning person, the question itself conveys the answer because the person is pretentious, does not let his yes be yes only, he is incapable of unadulterated truth and therefore he can lie to others, often when he thinks he is telling the truth, it is not quite the whole truth. Such a person might think he is capable of telling the truth, knowing the truth but it may be make belief (delusion). A truthful person does not subject others to unnecessary stress or uncertainty by saying, “I would not lie to you”.
The Difference Between Forced & Impulse:
Impulse is like an explosion, once the fuse is ignited or the button pushed, it explodes and cannot be arrested midway. Impulse is a frequent mode of acting. The explosive, stabbing or demanding ways people do or say things comes from impulse, not force. When something irks you to spit or grunt, it is impulse, not force. Ordinary people just have to see or hear something they dislike and on impulse they cannot resist, they turn away, scratch their heads, rub their nose or sneeze. When actors get angry or jealous, it is by impulse, once triggered the anger or jealousy rises explosively and the actor might struggle to conceal it.
Because acting is going against oneself, so it has to be always forced (or impulsed), excessive force is applied to whatever one wants to say or do. Although it is rapid, it can be stopped in mid flight by applying counterforce.
The third way to do or say things that is deprived actors is attentive, fully aware, flexible, can be altered midway, has just sufficient force to accomplish, is without conflict or resistance to overcome. It is saying or doing things that one means, without exaggeration or faking. It is an exhilarating, enjoyable way of doing or saying things that impulsive and forceful actors have never tasted.
Why No Usurpers?
Could an ordinary person usurp the role of the counselor?
This may be or is impossible because, as Jesus said, the counselor is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. If the world neither sees or know truth, how can they usurp the truth? Truth as the Buddha also said is the highest of savors and hard to see. If truth is hard to see, how can ordinary people usurp it?
Truth may be more exotic in this world than ordinary people think. What they call truth is sham or forged or fabricated truth. What people call being good is actually being falsely and hurtfully nice.

If the world cannot receive truth, neither sees not know him, how can anyone in this world usurp him?

Ordinary people cannot say what I say because what I say never occur in their minds but sinstead other things and even the opposite of what I say occupy their minds.
Ordinary people will not say what I say because they are all actors driven by ill will, not goodwill to manipulate others and that is inimical to saying the things I say.

Ordinary people dare not say what I say because they have vested interests and what I say may upset others, may make them unpopular and they therefore dare not say what I say.
Because the whole mass of humanity cannot (because they cannot see), will not and dare not say the truth, by default (not choice or self election or conceit), I speak the truth solely that even now, many who hear will harbor resentment and doubt.
There is ample evidence that this is so.
There must be many in the world who meditate, some because they are distressed by daily life. How come it has never occurred to them in their meditations that they act and are nice to others (eg smiling and stretching syllables) and it is the root to their insoluble daily stresses? They are meditating to seek a permanent answer to their stress so how come they do not realize they can permanently exit stress by not acting, by not smiling and stretching their syllables?
Psychiatrists are supposed to be experts dedicated to restoring troubled minds to mental health. They are constantly working with emotions, mental stress and conflict. How come they never realized that feelings are different from emotions and how emotions are always harmful and inextricably linked to suffering & torments? Feelings are passive sensations that may be pleasant, unpleasant, neither and arise and disappear with sensory stimuli (touch, smell, taste, sight, sound and thought). Emotions (pride, shame, anger, greed, lust, hate, jealousy, envy, fear) are forceful, harmful, blind, quick to be roused but slow to fade and are the roots to all evil. It is OK to feel, existence is all about feeling but evil and stressful to be emotional. Why don’t psychiatrists advice you to attentively recognize your emotions when they arise, catch hold of them by the scruff of their necks and eject them from your minds? How come pyschiatrists have not discovered that the roots of stress is constant acting, constant forcefully going against oneself to exaggerate and fake in the name of deceiving, pleasing, impressing, dominating others creating insoluble stress and warping the mind? Is it because pschiatrists are themselves guilty of acting, clueless actors and are only act helping, not truly helping distressed patients.
Christians and preachers have read the New Testament repeatedly. How come they still smile and laugh when Jesus said "woe to you who laughs, for you shall weep"? Jesus said let your yes be yes, anything more come from evil. Christians are kidding themselves if they think they let their yes be yes because they utter mindlessly, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” or pretentiously ‘yyeeessss!’ Even after they have been told umpteen times, people who think they are good continue to smile, stretch their syllables and be nice.

Even though truth confers immediate serenity whilst falsehood is stressful, forceful, it is not just a matter of telling people the truth and they will understand and change. Many are stubborn and proud (both emotions), have (forcefully) shut off their ears and eyes and only pretend (again forcefully) to listen or see. Even though truth when understood & put into practice, imbues that person with peace, certitude and serenity whilst their current states, false acting confers stress, tension, restlessness, violent impulses and depression, many fail to grasp what I say because they continue to act, are helpless to continue acting.

In any matter of contention, the right thing to do is give both options a trial: not smile for one month and smile madly for one month, not stretching one’s syllables for one month and then revert to madly stretching for one month. Yet in reality, people are incapable of conducting such an experiment because they are incapable, impotent to stop smiling or stretching their syllables.

Many who called themselves discerning and good, cannot even see that the things they say or do are far from good and truthful but harmfully nice not only to others but themselves and dishonest, not honest as they delude themselves.

Why is this so? It is because people are not masters of themselves, it is their emotions and stress that run them. Because emotions and stress are forceful, blind and harmful, they are driven by emotions and stress to wallow in suffering thinking they are OK, safe when they are suffering and heading for more. People are no longer forcing themselves but forced by impulses that are overwhelming to continue acting despite distress and there may be powerful, even insurmountable forces blocking their exit from acting.

THEREFORE IT MAY NOT BE TRUTH DEPRIVATION THAT CAUSES MANKIND’S WOES BUT SOMETHING INTRINSIC IN BEINGS IN THIS WORLD, THEIR ILL WILL & MALICE, THEIR LOATHING FOR REAL TRUTH AND THEIR EMBRACE OF FAKED TRUTH, AS MANIFESTED BY THEIR ACTING (THAT THEY WILL NOT GIVE UP) PLUS THE TIGHT MUTUAL ENFORCEMENT OF FALSITY AND ACTING BY ALL BEINGS THAT IS THE CAUSE OF THIS BLINDNESS, AS JESUS SAID:
This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.' But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

The Folly Of Willing Excitement On Oneself:
Anyone who thinks he is not willing restlessness for himself is kidding himself because instigated by others, they seek excitement, seek to make themselves excited. They listen to music, watch shows and participate in interactions that make themselves excited and even when they are not excited, they pretend to be excited (eg they pretend they are excited to meet someone). Even the normal way they talk and do things, rushed and explosive arouses excitement or restlessness. Even smoking and drinking stimulates them to become restless. They quietly sneak up on someone and shout to give them a fright. If this is not exciting others and self, what is it? Telling and enjoying jokes is exciting or arousing self and others.
Hence ordinary people are frequently willing excitement and restlessness for themselves. As a result, excitement is now very strong in them, easily aroused and slow to fade, they crave excitement, they are forced to be excited, no more forcing themselves to be excited and they do not realize that one day they will lose control of their excitement and restlessness by committing suicide or going mad.