Friday, August 13, 2004

False Or Faked Perception:

False Or Faked Perception:
Just as how and what people say or do can be faked, the way they perceive or sense via sight, sound, touch, smell, taste and intellect is not objective, sacrosanct, inviolable but can be tampered, can be exaggerated or faked to suit that person’s perverted or deluded agenda.
When you see me, hear me speaking or read what I write, you may perceive that I am little different from you, you are just as holy as me, just as discerning, just as good, just as devoted to truth or unpretentious and you may be right or your perception may be false and therefore faked perception. In the same way, when you read what Jesus or the Buddha said, you may perceive they are similar to you, you may be right or your perception may be very wrong.
You may perceive that I am an actor just as you are an actor and you may be right or you may be seriously wrong or your perception is false.
You may perceive you are not an actor just as much as I (or the Buddha or Jesus) am not an actor and you may be right or you may be wrong or your perception is false or deluded.
The reasons why such false or faked perception is hard to exit is that it is accompanied by strong emotions (pride, arrogance) based on self identity views (one of three fetters the Buddha said leads to states of woe), is forceful, never passive and has strong habit energy (the person is already seized and blinded).
All ordinary people (in their own ways) only want to see or hear things they want to see or hear the way they want them to be seen or heard. They refuse to see or hear things they do not want to see or hear. This is not passive preference and refusal but it is again emotional, forceful with strong habit energy. This is not a form of exaggeration but if you only want to see certain things the way you to see it, you are prejudiced and your perception is not true but false and faked.
The noble person is not emotional, is not forceful, he sees everything without aversion or dislike, without coloring them. He sees everything but that does not means he accepts (passively) everything as OK. Would a Buddha be in anyway upset or coy or aroused if he was confronted by a sexy girl cavorting nude before him? It is not because you are very good that you are upset or coy or aroused but it is because you are pretentious, denying your sexual interest, trying to act more wholesome than you truly are that you act (not are) hypocritically outraged. It is because you are a slave to your senses, not a master of your senses that you are provoked to applaud, laugh or decry.
Just as many people stare whenever they see, many peer whenever or intermittently when they see. The reasons why they peer may be because they do not want you to see clearly what and how they see, they want to hide the evil in their eyes, they are trying to shut their eyes to the deceit of what they speak or they don’t want to see you and they are faking they are looking at you, they are forcing themselves reluctantly to half or not fully look at you. This is not exaggerated seeing but a faked way of seeing or a faked way of perception.
Hence people can fake what they perceive, can fake the way or how they perceive.
(If you watch your mind, you may sometimes hear the tunes and voices you’ve heard many times playing in your mind virtually. Sometimes it is annoying when you want to shake off the tune that is getting on your nerves but it refuses to budge. Nowadays, such tunes do not bother me, they do not have the force or reality as in the past and I shake them off easily when they arise. This may not be a blameless condition of existence and you may be presumptuous that the Buddha is similarly afflicted. It may not be a pleasure or blameless but a suffering and a state of being compromised to have tunes or voices using your mind as a virtual playground to haunt you and it may be a sign of future woe when these virtual songs and voices will become permanent or easily, frequently aroused to torment you. Hallucinations of voices, of figures only occur in fabricating minds that habitually fake or exaggerate what they hear and see so intensely such that they have now become their private or mad reality; they indeed hear voices and see things that are not shared by others)
Speaking In A Faked Way:
If you listen to many people speaking, it is very dramatic and rapidly fluctuating in speed and loudness in a ding dong manner. One moment they speak as if they are downcast or pained, almost going to cry and the next moment they are up in the air, delighted or excited and just as suddenly again they are angered or puzzled. This is not an exaggerated way of speaking but a faked way of speaking always accompanied by serious stress and warping of the person’s sanity and perpetrated not without purpose because it is designed to deceive others how charming and socially well adjusted or happy they are (not).
What they speak about is usually also faked or grossly exaggerated but the way they speak is not merely exaggerated but faked because whatever anybody wants to say to others can be said calmly, clearly without drama without losing an ounce of meaning but all the dramatic expressions be they sad, anxious, excited or joyful are completely faked to advertise themselves. You can say calmly, effortlessly ‘I am delighted to pass my exam’ and it will be true without arousing your listener but you can say it with barely restrained, eye popping, arm shaking faked joy to impress others. Because nobody likes to be aware or admit they are liars or fakers, they insist emotionally they truly feel ‘so joyful’. Whatever you might say, anybody who expresses eye popping, shouted, body shaking joy stresses himself in a way that lingers and he stresses his audience who feel obliged to appreciate his histrionics, with karma not merit attached to that ‘joyful’ person.
The Dangers Of Faking So Well:
Not only do actors fake, they put prodigious effort and energy to fake as well or as realistic as they can such that they now cannot see they are faking, they think nothing about faking and they have accepted what they (and inevitably others) fake is true. They might be smug in their immaculate deceit but they do not realize they are making an appointment for themselves with tormenting madness and thence perdition when their deft, tenacious control over their deceit will crumble and they are left with uncontrolled, uncontrollable fakery.
There are many actors or actresses whose smiles are considered by general consensus to be gorgeous. Because all smiles directed at others are faked, a gorgeous smile is a gorgeous fake that is made as real as the actor can possibly make it but he or she does not realize he or she is flirting with madness when what they faked so well so often so long finally escapes their control to become madly rendered.
Similarly actors and actresses on stage fake their tears or rage or tantrums so well that audiences think it is real.
(IF WHAT I SAY DOES NOT CONVINCE YOU OF SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT, WHAT ELSE THAT WILL BE MORE CLEAR OR SUCCINCT CAN ANYBODY ELSE SAY THAT WILL CONVINCE YOU? I HAVE SPOKEN TO MANY PEOPLE, SOME OF WHOM BY THEIR ATTITUDES IMPLY THEY ARE QUITE GOOD {WHEN THEY ARE ACTUALLY STRESSFULLY NICE} AND THEY GET UPSET BY WHAT I SAY, THEY EVEN COUNTER ACCUSE ME. WHETHER THEIR RESENTMENT IS JUSTIFIED, HARMLESS OR THEY ARE BLIND AND WILL HEAD FOR THE DESTINY OF BLINDNESS, ONLY TIME WILL TELL THEM. IF YOU ARE BLIND, HOW CAN YOU GO TO HEAVEN? THERE ARE NO GUIDE DOGS IN HEAVEN TO LEAD YOU. IF YOU CAN SEE TRUTH, THEN TRUTH CAN BE SHOWN TO YOU AND YOU CAN FOLLOW THE PATH TO GREATER TRUTH. IF THE TRUTH IS SAID TO YOU AND YOU ARE RESENTFUL, HOW CAN YOU GO TO THE PLACE OF TRUTH? IF FLATTERING, COURTEOUS NICETIES ARE SAID TO YOU AND YOU LIKE THEM, YOU ACCEPT THEM AS TRUE WHEN THEY ARE FALSE AND POISONOUS, YOU MAY BE DELUDING YOURSELF IF YOU THINK YOU CAN NEVERTHELESS GO TO HEAVEN. IF YOU CANNOT GO TO HEAVEN, YOU ARE HEADED FOR ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. YOU MAY BE A FOOL IF YOU THINK TRUTH IS EVERYWHERE, PEOPLE LOVE AND WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. IT MAY BE THE TRUTH THAT THE LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE TRUTH, HATE AND ARE EVEN ENRAGED BY THE TRUTH. THEY HAVE SWITCHED THEMSELVES OFF, ARE DEAD INSIDE AND ONLY WANT TO HEAR PLATITUDES AND NICETIES AND ONLY FORCEFULLY PRETEND THEY LOVE TO HEAR THE TRUTH. IT IS ACTUALLY TO A PERSON’S GOOD THAT HE AWAKES TO AND STOPS HIS ACTING BECAUSE ACTING IS STRESS AND MADDENING AND NOT ACTING IS THE OPPOSITE. IF YOU UPHOLD YOUR ACTING, YOU SEE NO WRONG WHEN THERE IS PLENTY AND DEADLY WRONG THEN YOU SHALL WANDER ON IN AGONY AND THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE HERE, THERE MAY BE NOBODY TO TELL YOU WHY)
Why The Madman Is Always A Deranged Actor:
Because this is a world of actors, the madman must be a deranged actor whose lifelong going against himself has finally turned uncontrollable or mad and to one who observes mad people with discernment, this is the reality; the madman is always previously an actor.
When a person goes to his workplace with a gun to shoot fellow workers, he is carrying out a forceful (violent) act that goes against himself (he may be shot and he is recklessly destroying his future). He is always an angry or hateful man. Hence, driven by emotions (hate, anger) he forcefully goes against himself to harm himself and others violently in an uncontrolled manner. Where the actor forcefully controls his hatred not because he loves himself or others but for self preservation, the deranged actor has thrown all caution to the wind, he has lost control of his emotions and rationality. It is because he is a forceful man who experiences stress and conflict that he becomes madly violent. It is likely if not invariable that the deranged gunman previously owned and has used a gun regularly to shoot game or targets that may be subconscious surrogates of humans he wanted to vent his hate on and his shooting spree may be the a fulfillment of long held repressed hate for others that he was forced to be nice or submissive to.
If a person is never emotional, truly (not faked) does not forcefully do or say anything to go against himself to deceive, please or impress others but does or say things passively, he does not harbor insoluble conflict and since he is never forceful, how can he go mad or violent? It is because a person is forceful, is emotional, is under serious stress and conflict (confused), who is saying and doing things against himself can snap either in a situational crisis or in old age when his control apparatus finally degenerates.
Because a non actor, reflecting his nature not to fabricate, never stretches his syllables he merely says “Argh” if he wants where all actors get carried away to say “aaAARRrgGHhh”. When he gets mad, out of control, he will then say “aaaaAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH” like madmen usually do. Hence the madman is always a deranged actor.
ACTORS ARE LIKE CHICKEN IN THE COOP, THEY SEE OTHER CHICKEN JUST LIKE THEM PERIODICALLY BEING TAKEN SQUAWKING TO THE SLAUGHTER BUT THEY CONTINUE PECKING, NOT REALIZING THAT A SIMILAR FATE AWAITS THEM UNLESS THEY GET OUT. THEY SEE FELLOW ACTORS GET MAD BUT THEY THINK MADNESS IS FOR OTHERS. THEIR BOUTS OF MAD THOUGHTS & ACTIVITIES AND VIOLENT TENDENCIES SHOULD WARN THEM ALL IS NOT WELL.
Seeming Exaggeration May Not Be Exaggeration:
Science tells us the sun and moon is not stationary but moving in space at prodigious speed that is faster than the man who can catch four falling arrows at once. How did the Buddha know without supernatural powers that the sun and moon moves very fast? Or is he making a lucky guess?
If you consider that a person can live a century, you would not believe his life comes to an end faster than the man can catch four arrows. But if you consider that after he departs here, he is headed for eternal habitations or punishment as Jesus said, the next time he is back here may be even billions of years later (out of the earth’s 4 billion history, mankind only appear in the last 100,000 years), then faster than the man who can catch 4 falling arrows, a man’s life comes to an end. Still, most fools prefer to secure their future here (house, car, wife) than in heaven. The Buddha said a person has not lived in vain if he has these seven treasures: conviction (in what the Buddha taught), virtue (goodness), conscience (not to commit harm or evil), concern (as to suffering associated with sin), listening (to truth), generosity (charity) and discernment (ability to tell what appears true but is false).
Dhanuggaha Sutta:The Archer
"Monks, suppose there were four strong archers standing in the four directions, and a man saying, 'I will catch & bring down the arrows let fly by these four archers before they have fallen to the ground.' What do you think? Would that be enough to call him a swift man?"
"Even if he were to catch the arrows by one archer that would be enough to call him a swift man."
"Faster than the speed of that man, monks, is the speed of the sun & moon. Faster than the speed of the sun & moon, is the speed of the devas. Faster than the speed of the devas who rush ahead of the sun & moon, the force of one's life span comes to an end. Thus you should train yourselves: 'We will live heedfully.'
Jesus said nobody goes to heaven except through him, but he also said the King will separate the goats from the sheep, not Christians from non Christians. Many parochial Christians will use it as a cudgel to insist that you must emotionally embrace Christ. Jesus may not be as prejudiced, discriminating or self exalting as you, he accepts all sheep whatever their color and rejects goats even if they are Christian goats. Jesus said there will be more joy in heaven for one sinner who repents than the 99 who need no repentance. Why should there be no joy in heaven or Jesus merely because the repentant sinner is a Hindu or Moslem or Buddhist?

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