What’s Wrong With “Well”?:

What’s Wrong With “Well”?:
'Well' is always spoken unnecessarily eg "Well, you lied" to be nice, not good and not letting one's yes be yes only but more which comes from evil. It serves no function because you say just as well, "You lied" without losing any meaning.
When you say, “Well, you lied” you are speaking unnecessarily in two directions, “well” is one direction that you draw the listener’s attention to whilst “you lied” is another direction you next draw him to. Hence it is a form of unnecessary twisting and turning that stresses the listener and said to be pretentious. When you say, “You lied” you save yourself the energy and stress of saying a useless word and it stresses the listener less.
Because “well” serves no function it is therefore a fake, not an exaggeration. Hence people underestimate the amount of faking they are guilty of.
(Similarly all embellishments like, Err, Ah, Hah, Huh, Oops, Uh Oh are useless, harmful fakes or false speech adornments, not exaggeration. When people say, “Uh Oh, here he comes” they have a hidden or different meaning from merely announcing an arrival. It is not ‘here he comes’ but they are sinfully hinting that 'here comes trouble' and therefore the person is not saying what he means.
A Loaded Question:
Whenever ordinary people ask “What’s up?” it is never matter of fact but loaded.
He may be irritated by some commotion and is asking angrily, “Whaattss uppp??!!” In that case what he said is faked because what he meant was “I am angry with you for making so much noise” or 'Why are you making so much noise?'.
A husband trying to demonstrate (act) his concern for his wife mask ask her in an anxiously concerned, musical manner, “Wwhatss up???” when it is merely a ploy to engage her in conversation. Hence, that too is a fake.
In social relations, people have learnt well to hint, to be deceitful and think nothing wrong with their deviousness. A husband may say to his wife, “Let’s go to bed” when it not sleep but something else on his mind and that would be a form of dishonesty that is not harmless because it propagates an attitude of dishonesty. Usually the wife has learnt so well to play along, to appreciate it.
Sometimes, a person is displeased and when when asked what he would like, he says “Up to you” when what he meant was “I don’t care or don't give a damn”. He may not think much but he is cultivating an attitude of casual dishonesty that leads to future woe.

Signs Of Future Danger & Acting:
Many ordinary people have trouble seeing themselves acting but there are many signs that should warn the person that he is acting without knowing.
Stress is never blameless but it is an inevitable result of forcefully, emotionally going against oneself to act. If you find yourself assailed by stress it is a warning that you are acting and if you do not take urgent measures to eliminate acting and therefore stress, stress will become habitual, increasingly easier to arouse, more intense and will seize you madly as you age.
Tension in the mind and body, feeling knotted up, unable to decide are signs that the person is going against himself. If you never went against yourself, there is never conflict and therefore no tension. Again conflict and tension are forceful and reinforcing so that it seizes more & more the person who permit them to fester. If you must laugh, smile, stretch your syllables, be excited and speak explosively conflict and tension will be your constant and increasingly more familiar and intense companions.
Depression sets in when a person who is constantly stressed is unable to shake it off because he keeps forcefully acting to create stress. A person who tolerates depression, cohabits with depression instead of swiftly eliminating it by eg stop it's source acting, will become increasingly hounded by increasingly severe depression that may end in suicide.
Only a person who acts experiences inevitable episodes of being sick of himself. If one never went against oneself, one will be free of stress, tension and depression, will be clearly thinking and calm, so why would he be sick of himself?

"What causes life, unbounded or confined --
His process of becoming -- this the Sage
Renounces. With inward calm and joy he breaks,
As though a coat of mail, his own life's cause."
A Buddha does not cease existence in a fit of being sick of himself or hollowness but with inward calm and joy.

Attacks of giddiness or dizziness are not harmless physiological disturbances but is indication of temporary brain inebriation from the constant forceful, punishing abuse from acting it is subjected to.
Mental blocks (forgetting what you are thinking, saying or doing) may reflect what is being perpetrated goes against self attended by forceful self resistance that occasionally blocks the act in its track.
Elderly people often complain of dizzy spells which may be an aggravated form of the same dizzy spells younger people experience briefly from time to time but as the mind ages, becomes easier to be triggered, are more severe and prolonged.
Episodic bouts of mad impulses: Actors may find themselves doing things madly without control, eg he shakes a container vigorously a few times unnecessarily. He taps the spoon with excessive force a few times impulsively without realizing driven by restlessness. He stamps an inkpad forcefully in rapid succession three times when a single attentive stamp will do. He claps his hands loudly and forcefully many times without awareness until he has done it.
Bouts of involuntary restlessness: Actors may find themselves seize by occasions when they just cannot keep still, they must keep moving, do something. This is an early sign of mania that will not be controllable later.

EPISODIC BOUTS OF STRESS, TENSION, RESTLESSNESS, DEPRESSION, FEELING SICK OF ONESELF, FEELING GIDDY FOR NO REASON AND MAD UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSES ARE NOT HARMLESS OR BLAMELESS BUT SIGNS OF ACTING. IF A PERSON TRULY NEVER ACTED (POSSIBLE BUT VERY RARE) IT IS NOT POSSIBLE HE WILL BE STRESSED, TENSED, RESTLESS, SICK OF HIMSELF, SUFFER BOUTS OF GIDDINESS WITHOUT REASON AND BE SUBJECT TO UNCONTROLLABLE MAD IMPULSES. THEY ARE WARNINGS OF FUTURE APPOINTMENT WITH SERIOUS SUFFERING. MOST PEOPLE DISREGARD SUCH EARLY TREMORS OF FUTURE EARTHQUAKES, THEY IGNORE THESE SIGNS WHEN THEY ARISE AND PLOD ON WITH WHAT THEY ARE DOING (ACTING) INSTEAD OF DROPPING WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO IMMEDIATELY EXORCISE THESE DEMONS BY FOCUSSING ATTENTION AND ANALYSIS OF QUALITY. THEY THEREFORE ALLOW SUCH ARISEN WOEFUL STATES TO LINGER AND GAIN STRENGTH, NOT REALIZING THAT LIKE A PYTHON, THESE STATES ARE PUTTING ROOTS IN THEIR MINDS THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO PULL OUT THE LONGER THEY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE ROOT.
Jesus Suggests There Is Reincarnation:
He (Jesus) also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward (manager), and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods (like modern day CEOs). And he called him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.' And the steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.' So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' He said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'(the manager is contriving with debtors to cheat his master by under declaring what is owed so that they will feel indebted to him) Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.' The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon (cheating), so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations (here is suggestion that the eternal punishment that Jesus speaks of is eternal habitations or transmigration or eternal rebirths as the Buddha speaks of).

"He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much (a sinner is a sinner in everything he does or as the Buddha said, a man of no integrity is a man of no integrity in everything he does; the integrity that ordinary people see is acted or fabricated integrity, not from the heart); and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
Making Mountain Out Of Molehill:
Quote: Hard drive speed limit is reached
The bad news is that this upper limit means that the fastest data can be written using changes in magnetisations is 435,000 million bits every second.
The good news is that this is still one thousand times faster than the best magnetic hard drives in use today.
Comment: Many people think it is a funny or good cheer speaking in the fashion above, which is never letting your yes be yes only. It is a form of exaggeration because if the HD speed limit is still 1000 times faster than current HD speed, it cannot be that bad and hence to call it bad news is gross exaggeration or false. People think it is good cheer but so long as one indulges in such mischief, which misleads readers to get initially alarmed and then laugh it off is heading for mental torment in the form of madness (because it is make belief) or depression.
Why label it unnecessarily good and bad news? What is so good or bad about the news? If there is nothing intrinsically good or bad about the news, it is making a mountain out of a mole hill, you are guilty of making others unnecessarily alarmed.
The matter of fact person just says, “The upper limit of writing is 435 billion bits per second, which is 1000 times faster than current HDD speeds.
Feeling Sick Is Denial Failure:
Because acting is what ordinary people constantly do and it is forcefully going against oneself to exaggerate & fake in the name of deceiving, pleasing, impressing, intimidating and dominating others, the actor must feel sick of himself for constantly stressing and going against himself.
What keeps him going is his stubborn defiance and pride, he is adamant what he does or says is good for himself and others. He is so good that despite stress, he is nice and cordial to others. Therefore he forcefully acts happy, smiling, walks with a spring in his gait, has a ready firm handshake for everyone he meets. “I’m fine, I’m fine” he keeps telling himself mantra like.
But even this denial exerts its inevitable toll and when the dam finally bursts, in vacant private moments, when he can no longer not look at the empty, putrid dustbin of faking in his mind, he gets sick of himself, he feels the forcefully repressed revulsion for himself welling to the surface of his consciousness.
It is the lot of whoever who will act that no matter how they (forcefully) deny they act, how they force themselves to be always happy (in truth always acted too, never effortlessly, truly happy), they will be sick of themselves. And if they are sick of themselves (which they can still shrug off forcefully), they will be even sicker of themselves and helplessly so when the fruits of their acting karma finally ripens and falls off the tree.
Hence, if you occasionally feel sick of yourself, you must be defiling yourself and a somnolent actor.
Dizzy Spells & Falling Into A Daze:
If someone punched you in the head, you will feel stinging pain as well as become groggy or dizzy that will not recover instantly but may take even hours to subside.
If ordinary people observe or pay correct attention to themselves {mindfulness as the first factor of awakening} after a heated argument or an animated conversation, they will surely detect stress as well as a variable degree of dizziness of their minds, depending on how forceful the conversation had been.
Hence, dizziness is a consequence of assault on the brain that may be physical (eg a punch) or mental. Mental stress is assault of the brain and dizziness is a consequence of the build up of stress in the brain to a level that inebriates it, causing temporary dizziness that will subside if the tempo of acting reduces.
Because acting is what ordinary people do all the time and it is forcefully going against oneself, applying force and emotion to one’s brain to exaggerate and fake, he will inevitably experience bouts of dizziness especially if he is carried away or forced by circumstances to raise the tempo of his acting and hence the risk of episodes of heightened dizziness.
HENCE, THE NEXT OCCASION A DIZZY SPELL INTRUDES INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, APPLY ANALYSIS OF QUALITIES TO SEE IF IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY STRESS AND WHETHER IT OCCURRED AFTER AN EPISODE OF HEIGHTENED ACTING SELF ABUSE. INSTEAD OF BEING BLAMELESS OR HARMLESS, SUCH DIZZY SPELLS MAY REFLECT ACUTE BUILD UP OR STRESS OVERLOAD OF BRAIN AND IF YOU ALLOW YOUR BRAIN TO BE A CONSTANT PLAYGROUND OF DIZZINESS, IT MAY SEIZE YOU LATER. THIS MAY BE THE REASON WHY MANY ELDERLY COMPLAIN OF EPISODES OF SEVERE OR DEBILITATING DIZZINESS.
IF YOU CANNOT ACCEPT THAT YOUR DIZZINESS IS DUE TO YOUR CONSTANT FORCEFUL ACTING SELF ABUSE, THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS. IF WHAT I SAY IS TRUE, YOU ARE DELUDING YOURSELF WITH FURTHER KARMA APART FROM BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE. NOWADAYS I DO NOT EXPERIENCE DIZZY SPELLS LIKE IN THE PAST WHEN I WAS STRESSED FROM ACTING AND NEEDED TO LET OFF STEAM AT THE DRIVING RANGE. UNTIL YOU HAVE STOPPED ACTING AND SEEN HOW DIZZY SPELLS THEN VANISH LIKE MIST IN THE SUN, YOU CANNOT TELL FOR SURE YOUR DIZZINESS IS ROOTED IN YOUR SELF ABUSE.
When you fall into a daze, you lapse into helpless, self absorbed, thought filled or spasmodic or frozen inactivity. You lose touch with reality or the environment. Buddhas cannot fall into a daze because they don’t daydream, they don’t yearn, they do not indulge egotistically in thought. They are never in a daze but always fully comprehending, attentive either externally or internally, rooted in reality, not fantasy.
Only a person who acts can fall into a daze because acting is constant forcefully going against oneself, constant make believe. Anyone who is constantly subjecting his mind to constant forceful going against itself, constant make believe would occasionally sink into a daze or a state of powerlessness or thought shrouded incapacitation.
Hence the tendency to sink into a daze is not harmless or insignificant but reflects a mind constantly subjected to conflict or make believe that occasionally becomes overwhelmed to sink into a helpless daze and if unheeded, these dazes may become more frequent and severe with age leading to madness or catatonia.
YOU CAN DO CONSIDERABLE MORE FOR YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH BY REDUCING THE LEVEL OF STRESS IN YOUR LIFE THAN BY POPPING THE BEST PILLS, THE BEST FOODS AND THE BEST EXERCISES IN THE WORLD. STRESS REDUCTION IS VASTLY SUPERIOR TO PILLS, HEALTH FOOD AND EXERCISE IN THE QUEST FOR A LONG AND HAPPY, DISEASE FREE LIFE. BECAUSE FORCEFUL ACTING IS THE TAP ROOT OF ALL STRESS IN ALL PEOPLE, THE ONLY WAY TO SERIOUSLY REDUCE STRESS IS TO WAKE UP TO AND DEACTIVATE ONE’S ACTING.
Feeling Serene During & After Conversation:
Nowadays (as I have just done), after an extended conversation, my mind remained calm, unruffled, clearly thinking. My body remained relaxed because I was not emotional, was not forceful or anxious in what I said. I was not anxious to impress or please the other person and was not anxious to prolong the conversation or end it (irritated) and when it ended, there was no clinging or was I emotionally glad or relieved it was over.
This is actually a wonderful state of the mind and body to remain serene throughout and after a conversation (instead of being worked up) and even if ordinary people desired, they will be unable to achieve because it takes effortless concentration of the mind as a result of regular correct meditation, true virtue, selflessness and discernment to bring this state to fruition.
Whenever you feel stressed, tense after a conversation, you have been talking emotionally or forcefully and therefore acting.
HENCE IF YOU GET WORKED UP AFTER TALKING, IT IS A SIGN YOU ARE USING FORCE WHEN SPEAKING, YOU SPEAK EMOTIONALLY AND YOU ARE ACTING OR NICE IN YOUR CONVERSATION. TO SPEAK WITHOUT FORCE, WITHOUT GETTING EMOTIONAL MAY SOUND SIMPLE BUT IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE. IT IS NOT A USELESS ACHIEVEMENT BUT THE (EFFORTLESS) SERENITY IS IMCOMPARABLE TO SENSUAL PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD. ORDINARY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE MISSING. TO GO ABOUT IN LIFE UNDISTURBED (WITHOUT ACTING SO) BY ALL THAT HAPPENS AROUND YOU WITHOUT BEING INDIFFERENT IS A JOY AND PRIVILEGE ACCORDED ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE RISEN ABOVE THE MORASS OF THIS WORLD.
THE EXISTENCE OF STRESS, TENSION, DEPRESSION, RESTLESSNESS, MAD THOUGHTS AND IMPULSES, DIZZY SPELLS, DAZES AND FEELING SICK OF ONESELF ARE NOT PASSING CLOUDS BUT THEY ARE THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES OF ACTING, DAMAGES OR CORRODE THE MIND AS THEY OCCUR AND IF UNCHECKED, WILL LEAD TO CHRONIC MADNESS, MANIA AND DEPRESSION IN OLD AGE. JUST AS WEED ALLOWED TO FLOURISH WILL IN TIME MAKE ANY GARDEN A SORRY MESS, EVEN SO STRESS, TENSION, DEPRESSION, MAD IMPULSES, DIZZY SPELLS, DAZES AND FEELING SICK OF ONESELF WILL CHOKE THE MIND THAT FOOLISHLY ALLOW THEM USE AS THEIR UNFETTERED PLAYGROUND.
STRESS AND SUFFERING FOLLOWS THE ACTOR LIKE A SHADOW THAT LENGTHENS AND DARKENS WITH AGE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE STRESS, YOU DO NOT LIKE SUFFERING THAT WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY TORMENTING AND UNRELENTING, THEN YOU HAVE TO DEVOTE UNDIVIDED ATTENTION ON HOW YOU FORCEFULLY BEHAVE AND SPEAK (ACT) AND ELIMINATE IT.
Orchestral Breakdown:
All acts start as hesitant, cog wheeled or jerky, forceful conscious intended acting (as when a teenager learns how to act intimate with the opposite sex) but with frequent practice it graduates sooner or later into slick, less visibly cog wheeled but still forceful unconscious (without need for thinking) intended or automatic acting (as when he becomes a Casanova or a professional tennis player socks his serve over). But because automatic or unconscious intended acting, no matter how realistic, is forced and going against oneself to deceive others, it is stressful and there are nasty, conflicting, rebellious impulses to do silly, mad or harmful things that can only be suppressed, not eliminated because they are generated by acting; continued acting provides continued impetus for nasty impulses which must be given vent as unconscious, uncontrollable unintended forceful acting (as when he makes a monkey face or burps at someone he dislikes). If you are constantly going against yourself to act, you will want to hang yourself and some actors may harbor crazy thoughts of putting a noose around their necks.
Because a person is made up of numerous different acts at once or for different occasions (eg party or funeral modes), it is like a complex orchestration that can occasionally be overwhelmed and hence he occasionally suffer major or minor act breakdown. He twitches whilst he tries to fabricate a charming smile for the camera or he has a nervous breakdown, unable to face the world.
All acting is learnt, and in order to learn how to act in a certain way, you must pay attention to your acting or the acting of someone you want to imitate eg Elvis or Marylyn. After you have learnt to act in a certain way, you can shut your mind and do or say it by rote so realistically you think you are being yourself, being genuine.
If you desire to learn how to play tennis, you must pay attention to how others hold the racket, hit the balls. You must pay attention when you hold the racket as to how you want to hit or serve the ball. There is no way you can learn to play tennis if you do not pay attention.
THEREFORE, IN ORDER FOR YOU TO UN-ACT, TO NOT ACT, YOU MUST MAKE EFFORT, YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR ACTING, NOT FOR A SHORT WHILE BUT CONSTANTLY LIKE YOU EXAMINE A STOCK PRICE TICKER TAPE AND PAINSTAKINGLY APPLY NEUTRALIZING FORCE (OR OPPOSITE STEERING LOCK AS IN A SPINNING CAR) AND PERSISTENCE TO UNDO YOUR ACTING BIT BY BIT, DESPITE SETBACKS. THE TROUBLE WITH MOST ACTORS IS THAT THEY ARE MINDLESS, ENGROSSED WITH WORLDLY AFFAIRS, NOT REALIZING WHAT MAY BE AT STAKE FOR THEM MAY BE AN ETERNITY IN HELL AND PUNISHMENT OR AN ETERNITY IN HEAVEN WITH NO WORRIES, NO SICKNESS, NO HUNGER, NO DEPRESSION, NO DIZZINESS, NO MADNESS, NO PUTTING UP WITH OTHERS, NO RESTLESSNESS.
Jesus: "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius (one denarius may signify one Age or eon in heaven) a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place; and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.' (Even those who will repent and go in to work in the vineyard at the last hour will be rewarded with one Age in heaven) And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder, saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' * So the last will be first, and the first last." (You cannot have two Ages in heaven for extra laboring. Perhaps if you applied yourself to become a householder who hires than a laborer who works, it may be different)
The Buddha:
The Buddha says that the lifespan of deities in Brahma’s retinue is one eon, which is enough time for a wandering being to accumulate a pile of skeleton as high as a mountain and it is ‘loving kindness’ to all that guides one there.
Puggala Sutta: Persons (excerpt)
"Here, bhikkhus, a certain person abides with his heart imbued with loving-kindness extending over one quarter, likewise the second quarter, likewise the third quarter, likewise the fourth quarter, and so above, below, around, and everywhere, and to all as to himself; he abides with his heart abundant, exalted, measureless in loving-kindness, without hostility or ill-will, extending over the all-encompassing world.
"He finds gratification in that, finds it desirable and looks to it for his well-being; steady and resolute thereon, he abides much in it, and if he dies without losing it (Jesus said those who endured till the end will be saved), he reappears among the gods of a High Divinity's retinue.
"Now the gods of a High Divinity's retinue have a life-span of one aeon (enough time to accumulate a pile of skeleton as high as a mountain if you are in eternal punishment) An ordinary person [who has not attained the Noble Eightfold Path] stays there for his life-span; but after he has used up the whole life-span enjoyed by those gods, he leaves it all, and [according to what his past deeds may have been] he may go down even to hell, or to an animal womb, or to the ghost realm. But one who has given ear to the Perfect One stays there [in that heaven] for his life-span, and after that he has used up the whole life span enjoyed by those gods, he eventually attains complete extinction of lust, hate and delusion (deities in heaven still have some lust, hate and delusion)in that same kind of heavenly existence.
"It is this that distinguishes, that differentiates, the wise hearer who is ennobled [by attainment of the Noble Path] from the unwise ordinary man, when, that is to say, there is a destination for reappearance [after death, but an Arahant has made an end of birth; he cannot be born anywhere else again].

Faith on rites & precepts:
Wesak Day commemorating the Buddha’s birthday arrives this weekend and devotees will flock to temples offering prayers. You can picture them in temples with solemnity that is always fabricated or acted but which they will firmly believe in abiding delusion is genuine and meritorious. Full of acted (enforced) reverence, they line up to offer incense or whatever rituals the temples may recommend, eg lighting candles or pouring water. Because ordinary people are all actors, they will attend these ceremonies full of forceful, enforced, exaggerated or even faked piety, firmly believing in the efficacy of the rites or vows or prayers they are offering, unaware that the Buddha in the Pali Canon has said that faith in rites, ceremonies and precepts (together with uncertainty or doubt and self identity) is a bond leading to states of woe.
(If you are deluded and you know you are deluded, then all is not lost because you are only partially blind, but for many, they are deluded and they do not know they are deluded and they become irate when you point out the error of their ways)
It is not commemoration, piety and prayers that truly respect the Buddha. What is the use of a day’s acted, enforced solemnity after which you return to your usual (unchanged) mindless acted exaggerated and faking, smiling, dishonest, nice/nasty ways of behavior that persecute yourself as you persecute others?:
Then the Blessed One lay down on his right side, in the lion's posture and so disposed himself, mindfully and clearly comprehending.
4. The twin sala trees broke out in full bloom, though it was not the season. And the blossoms rained upon the body of the Tathagata and dropped and scattered and were strewn upon it. And celestial mandarava flowers and heavenly sandalwood powder from the sky rained down upon the body of the Tathagata. And the sound of heavenly voices and heavenly instruments made music in the air.
6. "Yet it is not thus, Ananda, that the Tathagata is respected and honoured in the highest degree. But, Ananda, whatever a person abides by the Dhamma, lives uprightly in the Dhamma, walks in the way of the Dhamma, it is by such a one that the Tathagata is respected, and honoured in the highest degree. Therefore, Ananda, thus should you train yourselves: 'We shall abide by the Dhamma, live uprightly in the Dhamma, walk in the way of the Dhamma.'"
This was said by the Blessed One: "Even if a monk, taking hold of my outer cloak, were to follow right behind me, placing his feet in my footsteps, yet if he were to be greedy for sensual pleasures, strong in his passions (emotions), malevolent in mind, corrupt in his resolves, his mindfulness muddled, unalert, uncentered, his mind scattered, & his faculties uncontrolled, then he would be far from me, and I from him. Why is that? Because he does not see the Dhamma. Not seeing the Dhamma, he does not see me.
"But even if a monk were to live one hundred leagues away, yet if he were to have no greed for sensual objects, were not strong in his passions (emotions), not malevolent in mind, uncorrupt in his resolves, his mindfulness established, alert, centered, his mind at singleness, & his faculties well-restrained, then he would be near to me, and I to him. Why is that? Because he sees the Dhamma. Seeing the Dhamma, he sees me."
Many do not realize that what is at stake for them, once they pass from this life, is either an eon in heaven or an eon in hell and eternal transmigration:
This was said by the Blessed One: "If a single person were to wander & transmigrate on for an aeon, he/she would leave behind a chain of bones, a pile of bones, a heap of bones, as large as this Mount Vepulla."
The accumulation of a single person's
bones for an aeon would be a heap
on a par with the mountain, so said the Great Seer.
(He declared this to be the great Mount Vepulla
to the north of Vulture's Peak
in the mountain-ring of the Magadhans.)*
But when that person sees
with right discernment the four Noble Truths --
stress, the cause of stress,
the transcending of stress, & the Noble Eightfold Path,
the way to the stilling of stress --
having wandered on seven times at most, then,
with the ending of all fetters,
he puts a stop to stress.
Cogwheel Rigidity:
No matter how slick an actor’s movements or speech have become (without him needing to pay attention), because it is forced, unnecessary additional force is added by the actor to whatever he wants to say or do, there is a detectable jerkiness or cog wheeled rigidity in whatever an actor says or does. This is because acting is forcefully going against oneself, there is self resistance each time he forces, which is why excessive force must be applied to overcome this resistance which always gives in, hence no matter how slick an actor’s motions or speech have become with practice, there is detectable jerkiness or snatchy-ness or cog wheeling that a careful observer can detect. I see it all the time when actors do things or speak. This jerkiness becomes more prominent when the actor becomes self conscious, is tired or put under the spotlight. He becomes nervous, his previously well choreographed movements become jerkier, his hand trembles or becomes excessive stiff, he finds it harder to execute a procedure he has done innumerable times.
Because a non actor never goes against himself, whatever he does or says comes straight from his heart without resistance or conflict, there is no force to overcome, no need to apply excessive force to overcome self resistance; hence his movements and speech are truly smooth, unhesitant and non explosive. He applies the minimum energy and movement to achieve his aim; there are no flowery or stylish accessory movements or postures. He speaks without force, without emotion, without using his hands in flowery gestures, without the full complement of facial, forehead, ocular, head and neck movements that actors execute without being aware they are doing.
Conversational Lapses:
Can a Buddha forget what he is saying in mid sentence?
The reason why people get lost and suffer embarrassing lapses in the middle of what they are saying; is because they are fabricating in a forceful and emotional manner with inner resistance that sometimes overwhelm their train of thought leading to embarrassing lapses. What is fabricated and false is complicated. What is true is simple, flows effortlessly unimpeded by itself. Hence it reflects that what is said is not quite true, it is artificially complicated and it sequence can be lost that actors lose sight of what they intend to say.
Hence such lapses are not innocent but are indications of defilement, fabrication and liability to future suffering.
Similarly actors must experience bouts of scratching their heads (an act, would a Buddha ever scratch his head?) wondering, “What was I going to do? What was I searching for?” This is again a sign of somnolence, lack of mindfulness, living in fantasy land and acting by rote.
Giddiness Is A Part Of Stress:
Whenever you feel stressed, observe your mind and you may or will detect the presence of giddiness. The more stressed you are, the more giddy you will feel. Just like stress, giddiness does not recede instantly but will only subside gradually with difficulty, with a reduction in stress. When you become giddy, your faculty control weakens, you wobble and fall into a daze or become remote or detached from reality.
Because stress is something actors experience everyday, giddiness is also something they experience daily in the background usually without being aware because they are preoccupied with their activities.
WHAT PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE IS THAT THEY ARE GETTING ADDICTED TO STRESS AND GIDDINESS BY PERMITTING THEM TO FESTER WHILST THEY PUSH ON REGARDLESS WITH THEIR SELFISH PURSUITS. EVERY MOMENT’S DWELLING IN STRESS AND GIDDINESS IS EVERY MOMENT’S REINFORCEMENT OF THEM IN THE MIND. ALL THE STRESSES AND GIDDINESS THEY EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BUT HAVE BEEN ETCHED IN THE MINDS AND WILL SEIZE THEM MORE EASILY, DEEPER AND MORE PROLONGED AS THEY AGE.
THE WISE PERSON WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE RISING OF STRESS AND GIDDINESS IN HIS DAILY LIFE AND TAKE URGENT MEASURES TO ELIMINATE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE INSTEAD OF DEFIANTLY CHALLENGING THEM LIKE A BULLDOG.
That many old people experience severe, debilitating bouts of giddiness as if out of the blue may not so much reflect old age but the cumulative damage of a lifetime’s abusive forceful acting creating stress and giddiness in their minds. It is not ‘out of the blue’ but because their threshold for giddiness is now low, it is easy to provoke in their primed minds, it appears as if ‘out of the blue’. As you sow, so shall you reap. People are sowing giddiness their whole lives and they will get giddy when they grow old.
STRESS LEADS TO GIDDINESS AND THEY ARE BOTH NOT HARMLESS BUT LIKE POISON THAT WILL NOT ONLY SLOWLY KILL YOU, BUT TORMENT YOU LATER.
Where Does The Giddiness Come From?
If people will pay attention to themselves instead of being engrossed in their worldly pursuits, they will notice stress building up daily and together with that stress is an uncomfortable sensation of giddiness or dizziness. It is because this stress and giddiness is usually bearable, can be ignored or masked by preoccupations with world pursuit that ordinary people has developed a tolerance or somnolence to its brewing in the background.
Where do this stress and giddiness come from?
It is likely to originate from the forceful and emotional way people conduct themselves and speak; the bombardment of forceful niceness and acting from others.
Stress impacts on the body and mind and as it builds up or persist, the brain’s tolerance or defense may be temporarily overwhelmed resulting in giddiness.
It may be akin to alcoholic abuse; each episode of binging makes the brain drunken (giddy) which harms the brain in a way imperceptible to the undiscerning until it is too late, he becomes hooked on alcohol and the damage is significant and he refuses to stop.
Hence, every time a person forcefully acts in speech and action, he applies force to his brain, stressing and harming his brain leading to giddiness. This acute harm to the brain is partially reversible but there is residual permanent harm that is imperceptible to unobservant and preoccupied people who do not realize that the constant hammering he is subjecting his brain to is leading to a lengthening shadow of woe from stress, giddiness, restlessness, depression and mad impulses that will become increasingly easy to provoke, lasts longer and deeper and more difficult to banish.
Just as the more you practice tennis, no matter how lousy a player you are, the better you get at it, the more often you experience stress, giddiness, depression and restlessness, the more easier it will be in the future to stir them up and like a tune you cannot drive from your mind, they will become increasingly difficult to banish, to your chagrin.
The more often you are angry and entertain anger, the easier it will be to become angry in the future.
The more often you become depressed and indulge your depression, the easier it will be for you to become depressed until you become seized.
AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP. HENCE THE WISE PERSON WILL CONSTANTLY SOW CALM, NOT RESTLESSNESS, SOW EASE NOT STRESS IN HIS MIND, SOW RAPTURE NOT OF THE FLESH NOT EXCITEMENT OR DEPRESSION, SOW TRUTH NOT MAD FALSITY. A PERSON WHO IS WISE RELEGATES ALL PREOCCUPATIONS WITH THE WORLD TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ABIDE HERE IN CALMNESS, ALWAYS FREE OF STRESS, EXCITEMENT, GIDDINESS, RESTLESSNESS, DEPRESSION AND MAD IMPULSES SO THAT HE WILL CONSTANTLY ABIDE THUS IN THE FUTURE.
The Crab & The Stick:
As I pulled up the roller doors to my premise this morning, I was confronted by the sight of a mean looking man, cigarette in mouth, passing by on the five foot way.
When he saw me, he instantly turned his face away not to look at me whilst reflexively pulling up his trousers in a forceful, swift manner.
What he did was to act unconsciously in an unintended or mad manner to express his hostility. Perhaps he expected everyone to suffer, to pull up the rollers in a nasty, hasty, forceful manner and when he saw someone pulling it up unusually in a mindful, gentle, unrushed manner, his ingrained powerful hostility caused him to involuntarily, forcefully turn his head away to pretend not to see (or refuse to see) whilst at the same time pull up his trousers as a gesture of hostility or disdain.
Such a person might think he is a master of himself but it is emotions (nastiness is an emotion) that drive him and whenever he is faced with situations that provoke emotions, he is seized to act, to respond without thinking. Even if he wanted, he cannot stop himself looking away or pulling up his trousers. This is unconscious, involuntary, unintended or mad acting and as his vitality weakens with age, such mad acting will seize him more and more in increasingly severe fashion.
It is like the crab hiding in his mud hole, when someone pokes a stick into it, he mindlessly snaps at it and is drawn up to end up on somebody’s dinner table. Seldom is there a wise crab that learns not to snap at the provoking stick. If you are little more than reflex, standard responses to standard situations, you can exist just as well as a crab instead of being a human. It may be possible for karma to arrange for you to exist in knee jerk fashion as animals in future existences.