Force, Emotions & Acting:

Force, Emotions & Acting:
It is this powerful, even monstrously strong force of going against self residing in the minds of all ordinary people that is the blind and often implacable drive of all acting through speech, motion, thinking and perception with its impossible simultaneous attention dividing combo of substance and style that has mindless unnecessary constant changes in speed and force (loudness) that leads without fail to stress, restlessness and distraction that gets worse with age and will culminate in mad logic, mad violence, mad restlessness and mad distraction or daze if it is not negated.
Why do people act? The purpose of acting is to deceive others, to get along, more specifically to falsely please, impress, intimidate and dominate others in order to get what one wants. As much as people like to think they are such genuine and honest or decent people, acting that is what they ALL do ALL THE TIME is totally false and designed to put on a show, to be nice not true or good to others.
So accomplished and accepting are people of their deception that they believe they are genuine and good when they are forcefully nice with constantly stretched syllables and constant unnecessary changes of speed and loudness even when they whisper or think they speak calmly.
If you allow a dangerous criminal into your house you must always assign a security guard to constantly keep an eye on and limit what mischief or harm he might be doing; you will be a fool and will not last long if you permit the dangerous criminal unfettered freedom. In the same way, this mental force of going against self cannot be allowed to reign unopposed but it must be constantly modulated and resisted by the force of self preservation so that the force of going against self cannot harm that being too much or fatally.
This force of going against self that must be constantly antagonized by the force of self preservation can be compared to a mythical snake with a head at either end each always pulling the snake with its other head or force in its direction and whatever act of going against self can only proceed if the force of self preservation pulling in the opposite direction has been neutralized and the act is brought to an end when the force of self preservation becomes strong enough to negate and even pull the snake in the opposite direction.
Before an act in saying or doing something false designed to be nice not good to others can begin, it must decisively overcome the force of self resistance that then continues to resist the act and will not desist until the act comes to an end. It is this constant forceful tug of war between these two mutually antagonistic forces that is the source of great energy expenditure, conflict and tension that leads to stress that when irresolvable because the person keeps acting, leads to restlessness and thence distraction.
Whilst the force of self preservation always pulls in the opposite direction as the force of going against self, actors never set it upon the force of going against self and in order to exit tormenting, mind warping and degrading acting, the being must mobilize his force of self preservation to attack his force of going against self in a battle of attrition or progressive effacement gradually weakening the force of going against self until it expires and there is no need for the force of self preservation anymore. Either you coexist with your mental force of going against that you can merely control and will inevitably lose control in a crisis or old age or you extinguish it by setting your force of self preservation on it in a fight to the death.
Because a person who does not act does not say or do anything that goes against self ease to deceive (please, impress, dominate or intimidate) others, he has no need to use force to force himself to say or do those things and there is no forceful self resistance needed to resist and limit that act.
Just as however exalted or lowly the electrical fixtures in a house, they are all powered by electricity and they are rendered useless without electricity, similarly all the emotions (anger, hate, fear, sadness, depression, like and dislike, lust, pride and shame, greed, covetousness, jealousy, doubt and uncertainty are all powered by the mental force of going against self, they are little more than the power of going against self dressed up in fancy clothes to suit the occasion and they are all deflated with the cessation of all mental force.
Anyone who is constantly stressing himself to say or do things to please, impress, dominate and intimidate others must feel ashamed of himself, must hate himself that he cannot accept and therefore must banish and substitute with inordinate pride for self and things he identifies with. If you keep stressing, distracting yourself, keep making yourself restless, you must have endless fear because you cannot escape a killer that is yourself, you must feel insolubly sad that sinks into depression because you are your worst enemy.
The stronger and more rapidly accelerating your force of going against yourself and the more frequently you exercise it, the stronger and more rapidly accelerating will be your fear because the force of against self is a killer for yourself as it is a killer for others who have the misfortune of interacting with you and all evil people cling to their dear lives here and are therefore fearful their force of going against self will do them in. What you see of macho men’s bravery is their mask of imperturbability forcefully & stressfully concealing their fear that the right application of force can break down to reduce tough men and women to hysterical, weeping wrecks. Because fear has strength, it can be conditioned in the mind and be displaced beyond the actor’s wishes maddeningly to more and more targets to fear (where previously they didn’t generate fear) and so evil men who have powerful forces of going against self are beset by increasing numbers of rational and then irrational fears, they become paranoid. All tyrants eg Mao, Stalin, Hitler were noted to be intensely paranoid.
As the Buddha said, feelings are passive sensations that can only be pleasant, unpleasant, neither pleasant nor unpleasant that the person feels upon contact through the sensory media (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and thought) and they disappear on cessation of contact. Whenever people who are actors feel, their mental force immediately latches on, they forceful cling or forceful like and try to prolong sensations that are perceived as desirable, they forceful recoil and dislike what contact that is perceived as unpleasant.
It is OK to feel and what existence is all about but it is sinful and suffering (but perverted actors delude themselves it is pleasure) to be emotional. Emotions are mental forces whilst feelings are passive sensations on sensory contact. All emotions are harmful because they apply force to the mind or brain warping and degrading it. A warped mind tends to behave in a warped way and the more warped the mind becomes the harder is it to exit emotions and acting. Because actors are distracted and preoccupied by their distresses regarding the world, they fail to perceive that their minds are slowly degenerating (increasing poor concentration, cannot think straight, more delusions clutter the mind, they are more constantly and more strongly emotional) as a result of their constant often violent abuse until it is too late.
Whatever acting in speech, motion, thought and perception must be performed through a common final pathway of individually varied or customized stretching of syllables with constant changes in speed and loudness/force. It is the characteristic way each person (forcefully) stretches his syllables and (forcefully) changes speed and loudness that defines his style that can be imitated by others. It is this constant (not frequent) changes in speed and loudness that is mesmerizing, that becomes forcefully autonomous that is the root of the restlessness that torment all actors.
Whoever whose speech and motion either voluntarily or involuntarily has constant changes must suffer from restlessness that will not remain static but will increase in severity with age. Because all ordinary people display constant changes in speed and loudness, they are heading for mad restlessness. Anyone who suffers regular bouts of restlessness should take note of future certain torment.
Because nobody can simultaneously pay attention to render the style and substance of what they want to say or do, they must either frequently switch their attention between the two, therefore habitually forcefully dividing their attention (this is the mode when learning a new act) or they soon graduate to rendering both substance and style by rote from a mental jukebox (this is the standard and most ‘efficient’ mode to render acts that have become old hat). The danger of rendering by rote from a mental jukebox is the risk of mad rendering against the actor’s wishes, first intermittently but becoming more malignant with old age degenerating.
Therefore the person who cannot give up his manner of speaking or moving that has constant combination of substance and style that cannot be both mindfully rendered simultaneously is constantly dividing his attention or constantly mindlessly or absent mindedly rendering his behavior in an act he does not realize he will pay dearly in torment when his jukebox will madly play his recorded tunes without authorization.

Teaching the truth is not a simple matter of disseminating information but the problem that may be insurmountable is that it often falls on deaf or uncomprehending or misapprehending ears. As the passage below indicates, people who are receptive to the truth that liberates them may be a distinct minority, even rarity:

Then the Blessed One, having encompassed the awareness of the entire assembly with his awareness, asked himself, "Now who here is capable of understanding the Dhamma?" He saw Suppabuddha and thought, "This person here is capable of understanding the Dhamma." So, aiming at Suppabuddha the leper, he gave a talk on generosity, virtue, heaven; he declared the drawbacks & corruption of sensual passions, and the rewards of renunciation. Then when he saw that Suppabuddha’s mind was ready, he gave the Dhamma-talk peculiar to Awakened Ones, i.e., stress, origination, cessation & path. Suppabuddha, sitting in that very seat, the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye arose within him, "Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation."

The fool & the wise person:
The Buddha: "A person endowed with bodily, verbal & mental misconduct is to be recognized as a fool.
"A person endowed with good bodily, verbal& mental conduct is to be recognized as a wise person.
It is not what you think of yourself or need to impress others with that make you a wise person but anyone who misbehaves himself in speech, body and thought is a fool. He is a fool because he is headed for eternal punishment, for suffering the Buddha said is as vast as an ocean and as long as an eternity.
And all misconduct in speech, body and thought are forcefully performed with constant unnecessary changes in speed and force that harms self and others by creating stress, restlessness and distraction.

Different Styles:
If you asked 10 people to read a certain passage, it is certain they will all read it with a different style that can be characterized by the different ways they stretch their syllables, different ways they change speed and loudness, apart from different accompanying facial and hand gestures.
If you asked them to repeat reading, it is likely that there will be remarkable consistency in the ways they read.
What they read or the substance of their speech in this case is identical. The differences in the speeches by different people in this case are merely due to the differences in styles between them. It is style otherwise they would all stretch their syllables and change speed & loudness in an identical way.
It has to be rendered in each person by rote (each person has characteristic memorized ways of pronouncing each word and rendering their sentences) otherwise each reading will be appreciably different, not substantially identical.
The importance is that these individual styles are unnecessary, consume considerable energy to render, create unnecessary stress, restlessness and distracts the reader and the listeners from the substance of the speech. Further, because it is actually rendered mindlessly standardized from a mental jukebox, it is delegating a parrot to say what you want to say, in danger of mad rendering either intermittently under duress or chronically when that jukebox inevitably degenerates.

Style Is The Mega Piece In The Substance Style Combo:
If substance and style can be compared to two contiguous pieces of a jigsaw puzzle stuck together and presented as a single piece to gullible, naïve and distracted fellow actors who don’t discern, then the style piece is invariably many times the size of the substance piece. The style piece is always false for show and the substance piece is often also false (eg a lie or sarcasm, leaning forward or crossing one’s legs stylishly or seductively to express attraction) such that the waste of energy creating unnecessary stress, restlessness and distraction involved in fabricating and rendering the style component is prodigious or profligate, never minimal or acceptable. Because even when the actor is silent or motionless, there is style and added force in his thinking and perception, he is constantly profligately consuming vast amounts of unnecessary energy acting many times the energy a non-actor consumes.
Even when people are speaking softly, the style component reflecting the energy needed to constantly stretch syllables and fluctuate speed and loudness, the dramatic mid sentence pauses, speed ups and slow downs as a sentence unfolds, the accompanying facial and hand expressions that may be trace but significant, all consume energy that may be quite a few times larger than the substance component.
And when people launch into animated, emotional speech with dynamic complex fluctuations in speed and loudness, floridly stretched syllables, forceful facial & hand expressions (gesticulations), repeated words (eg yes, yes, yes instead of merely yes) and unnecessary wordiness, the energy wasted on the style component may be even astronomical compared with the substance component.
PEOPLE WHO ACT DO NOT REALIZE THAT THEIR BASELINE MENTAL & BODY STATE HAS RESIDUAL FORCE, STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION LIKE AN ENGINE THAT NEVER STOPS BUT ONLY IDLES. THEY SEVERELY UNDERESTIMATE THE ENERGY THEY WASTE FABRICATING & EXECUTING THE STYLE COMPONENT IN EVERYTHING THEY SAY, MOVE, THINK OR PERCEIVE. THE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION (INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE) THEY ARE AWARE OF ARE ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG WHEN STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION BECOME TOO STRONG FOR THEM TO IGNORE. AS A RESULT THEY SERIOUSLY UNDERESTIMATE THE ROLE THEIR ACTING PLAYS IN THE PHYSICAL MALADIES THAT AFFLICT THEM. STRESS AND RESTLESSNESS ENGENDERED BY THEIR STYLE COMPONENT MAY BE FAR MORE IMPORTANT IN THE ETIOLOGY OF THEIR LUNG CANCER THAN SMOKING THAT THEY CONVENIENTLY BLAME.
Metta Sutta: Good Will
The Buddha: "Monks, for one whose release of awareness through good will is cultivated, consolidated, and well-undertaken, eleven benefits can be expected. (Anyone who is an actor constantly forcefully stretching his syllables with constant changes in speed and loudness, creating stress, restlessness and distraction for himself and others is not a man of goodwill except in his abiding delusion)
"One sleeps easily (if you suffer from insomnia, it is warning of perdition thereafter), wakes easily (if you struggle to wake up, it is warning of future suffering), dreams no evil dreams (nightmares are warning of sin). One is dear to human beings & non-human beings. The devas (angels) protect one. Neither fire, poisons nor weapons can touch one. One's mind gains concentration quickly (if you struggle to gather your concentration, it is a sign of danger). One's complexion is bright. One dies unconfused (if you are easily confused now, you are likely to die confused) and -- if penetrating no higher -- is headed for the Brahma worlds (heaven).
The reason fire, poisons (toxins and carcinogens) and weapons can touch ordinary people is because their awareness (consciousness) is not released through goodwill, they believe in protecting themselves by carefully watching their diet, their health, they believe in their bodies, their afflictions and their lives here that they do not realize is false, acted, poisonously nice not good to themselves and others.
Routines:
Ordinary people all have routines like getting up, tidying up, washing themselves and going to work, office routines, etc.
However, not only are they routines (the same daily chores) but these routines are invariably performed with uncanny rigid fidelity (almost identical each time and actors are upset if they depart from their own protocol or step by step way of doing something), reflecting they are ritualistic or performed by rote from memorized ways to proceed.
People like to think they are such genuine, flexible real time people, not distracted automatons or parrots but if you watch them go about their routines, you could almost predict exactly what they will do and say, how they will do and say it. Even just hearing the approaching footsteps or a cough can tell the discerning who is approaching.
For instance, if you are familiar with a person, you can predict that each time he brushes his teeth he is going to emit loud explosive guttural grunts and spitting where another person will be quiet as a church mouse. If you are familiar with a colleague doctor, you can predict how he will approach a patient, address and go about examining the patient.
The importance of rote routines is that they are forcefully conditioning their minds and rendered from a mental jukebox that can turn malignant. It is also practicing rituals and faith in rituals and precepts which according to the Buddha, is one of three lower fetters to future states of woe.
(If people think carefully, they may recall that they have on occasions rehearsed what they wanted to say before they met someone important eg what to say on a date or when receiving his prize on stage. This is actually forcefully recording what to say to be rendered by rote later instead of mindfully with singular attention saying without style, without previous orchestration or fabrication what you want to say at that moment. Because it is prerecorded and inflexible, when the time comes to say, it may turn out inappropriate for the occasion but because there is strong impulse, the actor blurts it out anyway and feels sensitive that he might have made a fool of himself)

Accelerating Acceleration Is Not Hype:
Why is accelerating acceleration not hype?
Just as it is possible to accelerate at different constant rates (eg 1,2,3,4 m/sec/sec), it is possible to keep increasing or decreasing one’s rate of acceleration either gradually or sharply.
You can move at a constant speed of 4 meters per second or you can move with a constant acceleration of 4 meters per second per second. You can subsequently progressively change your rate of acceleration to 6, 8, 10 meters per second per second. This is accelerating acceleration and therefore it is not hype to say that people do not just accelerate in speech or when driving their cars but they often speak and drive with mild to violent accelerating acceleration, thereby substantially increasing the intensity of restlessness they will experience.
In contrast, it is untenable to rebel against rebellion because rebellion is not an entity that one can rebel against.
A car or motorbike taking off sounds harsh because of the violent accelerating acceleration in speed (pitch of the sounds) and loudness. When people stab another, it is done with accelerating acceleration. All jerky movements eg grabbing, snatching, seizing, slamming are done with accelerating acceleration. Speech sounds stabbing or explosive (eg screaming, shouting) because of accelerating acceleration in speed and loudness. When an orchestra goes into a deafening crescendo, it may be because it is an accelerating acceleration of speed and loudness. When people panic or sound very excited, they are moving and vocalizing with accelerating acceleration that they cannot control. Someone’s speech and motion only sound or appear urgent or frantic because of accelerating acceleration that though people cannot discern, they are capable of experiencing in empathy.
A grin or giggle may appear and sound so infectious because there is not just acceleration but accelerating acceleration in speed and force in the movements of the facial muscles.
What is the point of defining and identifying accelerating acceleration?
The importance is that accelerating acceleration is the ultimate more virulent more tormenting form of the practice of constant unnecessary changes and the guilty person is now practicing largely involuntarily a terminal tormenting form of restlessness.
People who manifest accelerating acceleration may be hardcore addicts of constant change, their urges and impulse may be too strong to reverse and they are doomed. Just like it is very difficult to catch a falling knife without being cut, it is difficult if not impossible to reverse accelerating acceleration compared to mere acceleration. Again, the capacity for accelerating acceleration is like terminal cancer whereas the capacity for merely accelerating is relatively early stage cancer that can be successfully treated.
BECAUSE CONSTANT CHANGE IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS UNNECESSARY BUT NECESSARY ONLY FOR SHOW, IT HAS TO BE INITIALLY FORCED ON THE PERSON BY HIMSELF AND OTHERS BUT BECAUSE IT IS FORCEFUL, IT IS REINFORCING OR ADDICTIVE LIKE ALCOHOL. THUS ADDICTED, WITH A MINDLESS URGE TO KEEP CHANGING OR BE RESTLESSNESS, SEEING NO WRONG IN THEIR BEHAVIOR, OTHERS TELL THEM THEY ARE OK, EVEN GREAT, THEY CAN ALWAYS COPE, ULTIMATELY SUBDUE WHATEVER EPISODES OF INTENSE RESTLESSNESS THAT ARISE, THEY THINK THINGS WILL ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME WHEN THEIR RESTLESSNESS IS GETTING MORE INTENSE AND EASY TO AROUSE WITH CONSTANT PRACTICE, THEIR POWERS OF SELF PRESERVATION ARE BEING STRETCHED TO ITS LIMITS AND WILL FAIL IN DUE COURSE BECAUSE IT IS OVERWHELMED OR IT IS DEGRADING WITH AGE AND ABUSE, PLUNGING THEM INTO THE AGONY OF UNCONTROLLABLE RELENTLESS INTENSE RESTLESSNESS THAT THEY HAVE NOBODY TO BLAME EXCEPT THEIR HEEDLESSNESS AND LACK OF CONSCIENCE AND CONCERN FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.
PEOPLE ARE ONLY COPING WITH THEIR RESTLESSNESS WITH THE HELP OF DAILY SLEEP (HOLIDAYS EG WEEKENDS) AND CARE NOT TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO OVERSTIMULATION BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALWAYS SUCCESSFULLY GONE AGAINST THEMSELVES TO CREATE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, THERE IS A FEARFUL TEMPTATION TO REALLY DO THEMSELVES IN, TO CUNSUMMATE THEIR URGES TO HARM THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF TURNING BACK AT THE LAST MOMENT. HEREIN IS THE SOURCE OF THE SADOMASOCHISM THAT MUST AFFLICT ALL ACTORS BUT NOT NON ACTORS WHO NEVER GO AGAINST THEMSELVES.
WHATEVER IS SUBJECT TO CONTROL (CONSTANT FORCEFUL CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS) IS SUBJECT TO LOSS OF CONTROL AND CONTROL WILL ULTIMATELY BE LOST, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THE FOOL WHO IS CONSTANTLY STRUGGLING TO CONTROL THE RESTLESSNESS HE KEEPS RENEWING FOR HIMSELF DOES NOT REALIZE HE IS DOOMED, FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE LIKE THE FOOL WHO KEEPS BAILING OUT HIS LEAKING BOAT INSTEAD OF PLUGGING THE LEAK. WHATEVER IS NOT SUBJECT TO CONTROL (PASSIVE, EFFORTLESS CONSTANCY IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS) IS NOT SUBJECT TO LOSS OF CONTROL AND AGONY.
Every time you act or behave with constant unnecessary changes in speed and force you are actually tightening a noose around your neck and people are only periodically loosening that noose when it gets too tight not realizing they are getting used to it and resting tightness of the noose is now much stronger than in the past. Because it gets tighter and tighter, it becomes harder to remove completely should the person so desire, so most people with little concern of conscience can’t be bothered. If they can see that the noose will ultimately strangle them in terrible agony, they might get off their backsides and tackle it with more urgency and purpose.
A Vicious Circle:
Because calm and restlessness are mutually exclusive, every moment spent in restlessness is every moment’s conditioning of restlessness so that it gets easier and easier to rise and harder and harder to exit whilst calm is harder and harder to rise and easier and easier to exit. Because it is hard to arouse calm, you have to sit still, not move and talk for some time before calm will arise whilst your inner restlessness keeps pestering you to move for no reason at all, restlessness people are disinclined to meditate, not realizing that they are depriving themselves of pleasures far superior to pleasures of the senses, according to the Buddha.
Because I have practiced calm persistently for a long time, restlessness is now harder and harder to arouse in me and easier and easier for me to exit whilst calm clear thinking gets easier and easier to summon and harder and harder to exit.
Restlessness is always suffering, it is the irresistible urge to keep moving, speaking and thinking that nags and distracts the mind whilst calmness is never suffering but always effortless clearly thinking unification of one’s consciousness. You are a great fool that after a lifetime of practicing restlessness, when restlessness is getting easier and easier to arouse, more intense and harder to exit, you are heading for safety in old age and thereafter. Instead, in keeping with the trend, restlessness will get more intense and harder to exit until it becomes totally mad or permanent.
Irritation:
Anyone who experiences irritation applies force on his mind that harms it, making it easier to become irritated in the future and conditioning his mind to force. How many people realize or can see that they are applying force on their minds that is to their harm when they get irritated, when they screw up their faces however slight to express irritation to themselves or others? You may not think much of a little stress in expressing irritation but drop by drop is the pitcher filled, all these minor applications of force add up to become big stress in due course.
In any case such expressions of irritation are seldom voluntary but as a result of lifelong practice, it is involuntary or an automatic reaction to provocation. It takes a dedicated person to constantly pay attention and put a stop to all expressions of irritation until it becomes extinct.
Therefore the wise person will learn to suppress his irritation such that it fades with increasing ease until a day will come when he will no longer be irritated by anything perturbing in the world at all.
Desire too is force, whoever stirs desire (greed, lust, attraction) in his mind is stirring force in his mind that leads to stress, restlessness and distraction. The more intense the desire, the more intense the force applied that warps and degrades that mind the fool is unaware.

Better Think Again Before You Ask Others To Think Again:
Quote: Those who assume that Khaizatul Akmar Zabidin is just another housewife had better think again. She is all set to rev up her RS250 Aprilia (motorbike) this weekend and to leave her male rivals in her wake. StarMetro finds out what the male riders in the Malaysian Super Series (MSS) think about her maiden appearance in the Aprilia Cup.
Comment: If you want others to think again, you want others to entertain doubt in them so what you want them to think again had better be true and important. Leave others to decide whether they want to think again or not. A person who lets his yes be yes only merely says, “Khaizatul is not your ordinary housewife because she races a motorbike’. In this way, you avoid asking people to better think again with karma not merit attached. It is because the person is domineering or bossy, emotional and trying to incite others to ‘wow’ that he speaks thus.