Friday, December 29, 2006

Proof The Buddha Is Highest:

It is not because the Buddha says he is the highest that it is so but it can be objectively established.

You have no reason to doubt the evidence proffered below (but you can have emotional causes) that the Buddha is higher even than God unless you want to flirt with future tormenting mad doubt and uncertainty that cannot be assuaged. How do you know what is reported below is false, is fabricated by the Buddha or misreported? If you have no knowledge that what the Buddha said did not happen, you will be wise to abstain from committing yourself one way or another.
According to Jesus, God can destroy you in hell, can create bread out of nothing, can heal your sicknesses and paralysis, can bring you back from death but according to what the Buddha said below, God cannot do anything to the Buddha, cannot make him disappear but the Buddha can make himself invisible to God or make God not see him but only hear him. Thus the Buddha is higher than God.
Majjhima Nikàya I5. 9. Brahmanimantanasuttaü(49) An Address to Brahma
I heard thus.
At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery, offered by Anàthapiïóika in Jeta's grove in Sàvatthi. The Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus from there.
Bhikkhus, at one time I was living in Ukaññha, at the root of a big Sàla tree in the Subhaga forest. At that time, to Baka brahmà an evil view (wrong view) like this had arisen. This is permanent, eternal, complete and a not changing thing. This is not born, does not decay, does not die, is not re-born, and there is no refuge higher than this. I cognised the thought processes in the mind of Baka brahmà and as a strong man would stretch his bent arm, or bend his stretched arm, disappeared from the Subhaga forest and appeared in the Brahma world. Seeing me in the distance Baka brahma said, welcome! good sir. It's after a long time, that you have come. Sir, this is permanent, eternal, complete and a not changing thing. Not born does not decay, does not die, is not re-born and there is no refuge higher than this. When this was said, I said thus to Baka brahma: Indeed Baka brahma is deluded, that he says, an impermanent, not eternal, incomplete, changing thing is permanent, eternal, complete and not subject to change. To a born, decaying, dying, fading and reappearing thing, he says is not born, does not decay, does not die, fade and is not re-born When there is a refuge more noble than this, he says there is no refuge more noble than this.
(However long an eon is, it may be many billions of years, it comes to an end and your reward for being good is one eternity in heaven and afterwards depending on your deeds before, you can even descend to hell according to the Buddha. Jesus said the reward for laborers is one denarius, no more or less and that may signify one Age or eon in heaven only. All existences, even for brahmas are not permanent)
Then Death the Evil One took possession of a member of the retinue of Brahma and said to me (the Devil prompted an angel to ask): Bhikkhu, do not hinder this one. He (God) is the great conquerer, the unvanquished one, he wields power over everything. He is the ruler of creations, the chief among creaters, the father wielding power over all creators. Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before you. They loathed and reviled, earth, water, fire, air, the born, the gods, brahma, the creators and the wives of creators. After death they were born in a lower state (If you offended God you are doomed). Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before you, they praised, and took pleasure in earth, water, fire, air, the born, the gods, brahma, the creators, the wives of creators. After death they were born in a higher state.
Bhikkhu, I tell you this, Come sir, do what Brahma asks you to do. Bhikkhu, if you exceed the words of Brahma, like a man come to give splendour is turned out with a stick. Or like a man trying to fall into hell was pulled out from earth with hands and feet. Such a thing will happen to you. Come! Good sir, do whatever Brahma asks you to do and do not exceed him. Do you see the retinue of Brahma seated? The Evil One pointed out the retinue of Brahma to me. When this was said, I said thus to the Death Evil One: Evil One, I know you, Brahma and all his retinue are under your power,
Do you think that I `m in your power?
When this was said, Baka brahma said thus to me: Sir, I'm permanent, stable, eternal, complete and not doomed to fall and say that I'm permanent, stable, eternal, complete, and not doomed to fall. Not born, not decaying, not dying, not fading, not re-born, and not seeing any refuge more exalted than this, say I not born, will not decay, die, fade and be re-born, and see no refuge more exalted than this. Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before this. Their austerities lasted as long as their sign of concentration lasted. Would they know whether there is a refuge more noble than this, or there is no refuge more noble than this? Even if there be no refuge more noble than this, it will bring you only fatigue and trouble.
Bhikkhu, if you cleave to earth, water, fire, air, the born, to gods, to the lords of the populace, to Brahma, I will be at your bidding, protecting wealth, doing your wishes and standing outside. Brahma, I know your goings and your splendour. Baka brahma has such powers and such splendour. Good sir, what do you know about my powers and splendour?
As far as the moon and sun wield power illuminating, the directions,As far as the thousandfold world systems, you wield power,You know this world and the other world, and those with greed and without,And the movements of thoughts of beings `to be' here and there.
Thus I know your movements, splendour, and power. Baka brahma is so powerful and has such splendour. Brahma you have three other bodies, do you know and see that? You have a body named âbhassara. (lustrous) Fading from that is born here. Owing to settling there long, lost mindfulness, you do not know, or see that. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Brahma you have names Subhakinnà (full of good) and Vehapphalà(power in the air) You do not know and see that. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Brahma, I thoroughly know, and become earth to the least possible extent. Do not appropriate it, or take pleasure in it. Brahma, I thoroughly know water, fire, air, the born, those wielding power over the populace, gods, Brahma, âbhassarà, Subhàkinnà, Vehapphalà, The Almighty Brahma and All I thoroughly know and become All, to the least possible extent. Do not appropriate All and take pleasure in All. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Good sir, if you are not born of All, you would be useless and empty. Consciousness is non-indicative limitless and illuminates all over. If you were not born of earth, water, fire, air, gods, the lords of the populace, brahma, âbhassarà, Subhàkinnà, Vehapphalà, the Almighty brahma, I will now disappear you. Brahma if it is possible do so. Then Brahma saying I will make the recluse Gotama disappear was not able to do so. Then bhikkhus, I said, brahma I will make you disappear. Then I performed a fete of super normal power in which Brahma, his retinue and his gathering could not see me, yet could hear me and I said this verse.
I saw fear in being and non-being, not desiring any being. [1]I did not hold with interest to anything.
Then bhikkhus, Brahma, the brahma gathering and his retinue were surprised, and said, wonderful is the majesty and the power of the recluse Gotama. Before this we have not seen a recluse or brahmin so majestic and wonderful as the recluse Gotama, the son of the Sakyas, who has gone forth from the clan of the Sakyas. Friends, the populace is amused in being, fond of being and has arisen from being, has completely come out of being. [2]
Then bhikkhus, Death the Evil One took possession of one of the retinue of Brahma and said thus to me. Good sir, since you know so well and is enlightened, do not lead or teach disciples, or give them the going forth. Do not greed for disciples. Bhikkhu, before this there were recluses and brahmins, in the world, who acknowledged they were perfect and rightfully enlightened. They gave the going forth to the disciples and were greedy for disciples. After death they were born in lower states Bhikkhu, before this there were recluses and brahmins, in the world, who acknowledged they were perfect and rightfully enlightened. They did not give the going forth to the disciples and were not greedy for disciples. After death they were born in exalted states. Therefore, bhikkhu, live at ease, abide in pleasantness here and now, the not told is clever, do not advise others. Then I said thus to Death the Evil One: Death I know you, it is not out of compassion that you speak thus. You know that to whomever the recluse Gotama gives the Teaching, they go beyond your power. Evil One, there are those not rightfully enlightened, acknowledging we are rightfully enlightened. As for me, Evil One, I'm rightfully enlightened, and acknowledge I'm rightfully enlightened. Evil One, whether the Thus Gone One teaches and leads disciples or not it is the same to the Thus gone One. What is the reason? Evil One, those defiled desires of demerit heavy with future unpleasant results of birth, decay, death are dispelled from me, pulled out from the roots, made a palm stump, made things that would not rise again. Evil One when the top is cut the palm does not grow. In the same manner, those defiled desires of demerit heavy with future unpleasant results of birth, decay, death are dispelled from me, pulled out from the roots, made a palm stump, made things that would not rise again.
As this discourse is addressed to Màra, and Brahma, so this discourse has a synonymn as `An address to Brahma.'
The Aim Of The Holy Life:
The Buddha: The holy life is led not for gain (donations by the faithful), honor and fame, not for the endowment of virtues (not killing, stealing, sex, lying, speaking harshly), not for the endowment of concentration (even though it is desirable and blissful to be able to concentrate), not for the endowment of knowledges and vision (even though they are desirable and blissful). Bhikkhus, it is for the unshakeable release of mind that is the essence and end of the holy life. (My release from stress, restlessness and distraction is unshakeable and therefore I know I am on the right path whereas I can see my detractors are all manifesting stress, restlessness and distraction and they are on the wrong path to future woe)

The meaningless hypocrisy of style:

You can only communicate or interact with another through speech or bodily actions (or what you say or do); apart from speech and bodily conduct, there are no other significant avenues of interaction with others. And if what you say or do has a style that differs from others or differ from occasion to occasion (eg you can say the same thing sarcastically or full of fabricated or false sincerity or eagerness), then it is never just the substance of what you say that is important or to be considered by the recipient and communicated but it is the sum total of how or the manner you say or do it and what you said or did that is important or relevant.
THUS WHENEVER A PERSON SAYS OR DOES SOMETHING WITH AN ATTENDING STYLE (EG ANGER, SARCASTICALLY), HE IS MEANING BOTH WHAT HE SAID AND DID AND HOW HE SAID OR DID IT, NO MATTER HOW HE MIGHT INSIST HOW HE SAID OR DID IT IS BESIDE THE POINT. IF THE STYLE OR HOW HE DID OR SAID IS MEANINGLESS, THEN IT COLORS OR TAINTS IF NOT TOTALLY RENDER WHAT HE SAID OR DID MEANINGLESS OR HYPOCRITICAL.
Style present in speech or actions is intended to deceive, impress, please, intimidate or dominate others.
Deceiving, impressing, pleasing, intimidating and dominating others that are the aims of style are never reasons that apply for a certain speech or action, is never specifically for a particular speech or action but the same style can be generally applied for virtually any speech or action that arises (eg you can say ‘I love you’ angrily or lustfully or apply the different style of anger and lust to the same substance of speech) but they are entirely communications of force and more specifically communication of emotions.
Whenever you want to impress others with the style of your speech or movements, you must say or do it with added style that can only be how you stretched (linearly or in a curved manner), changed speed and strength of force (loudness) what you said or did that is aimed at causing the recipient’s mental force of going against self to stir in a manner with undulating rises and falls, in other words, cause him to like or be attracted or impressed with how you said or did it.
Thus your style that is designed to impress others has nothing to do with reason because it is purely a matter of how you used mental and physical force to stretch your syllables or units of motions, changed speed and strength of force or loudness and its reception by the recipient also has nothing to do with reason but it is merely an undulating rise and fall of his force of going against self that gives him the consciousness experience of liking or being impressed by the way something was said or done to him.
IN THE SAME WAY, WHENEVER YOU WANT TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING IN A WAY OR STYLE THAT IS DESIGNED TO DECEIVE, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE OTHERS, YOU MUST SAY OR DO IT USING MENTAL FORCE (NOT REASON) TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN A PARTICULAR WAY THAT YOU DEEM WILL BE DECEPTIVE, PLEASING, INTIMIDATING OR DOMINATING THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR COMMUNICATION OF REASON OR SPECIFIC MEANING AND IN THE SAME WAY, THE RECIPIENT’S MENTAL FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF IS CAUSED BY THE STYLE YOU TRANSMIT TO SIMILARLY STRETCH, RISE AND FALL IN SPEED AND STRENGTH IN SYMPATHY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING BUT MERELY HIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCING OF THE ACTIVITY OF HIS MENTAL FORCE.
THUS ANY ATTENDING STYLE IN WHATEVER YOU SAY OR DO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING IN ITS GENERATION BUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MENTAL FORCE (THAT IS REQUIRED TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS) AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR SPECIFIC MEANING IN ITS RECEPTION BUT IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE SYMPATHETIC UNDULATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT’S MENTAL FORCE CAUSED BY THE PERCEIVED STYLE GENERATING HIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCE OF FORCE STRETCHING AND CHANGING IN SPEED AND STRENGTH.
If you think that style is meaningful, has specific reason in it, you may be right or you may have false perception and logic that you do not realize with culminate in mad or uncontrollable false perception or logic either in an acute crisis (panic or terror) or chronically in old age when you capacity to sustain your relative sanity permanently weakens and abandons you.

STOP THINKING:
IT IS POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT DAILY FUNCTIONS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THIS AND THAT BUT WITH ONE’S CONCENTRATION TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE TASK OR SPEECH AT HAND BECAUSE THE BUDDHA SAID IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP ONE’S THINKING.
(PEOPLE NEVER TELL THEMSELVES TO STOP THINKING ON A SUSTAINED BASIS, THEY MAY MAKE HALF HEARTED ATTEMPTS TO STOP THINKING WHEN A MATTER OF CONSIDERATION DISTRESSES OR EMOTIONAL STIR THEM TOO MUCH BUT THEY WANDER OFF TO OTHER SUBJECTS, NOT FOCUS TO STOP THINKING TOTALLY EVEN FOR AN INSTANCE)
JUST BECAUSE YOU TELL YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING DOES NOT MEAN YOUR MIND WILL LISTEN AND STOP THINKING BUT IF YOU KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING AS YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED EVEN BRIEFLY IN DISRUPTING THE USUAL TRAIN OF FRIVOLOUS THINKING THAT IF MAINTAINED WILL RESULT IN A SLOWING OF THE SPEED AND INTENSITY OR FORCE OF THINKING THAT MAY ONE DAY RESULT IN YOUR FINALLY CONSCIOUSLY STOPPING THINKING. YOU CONSCIOUSLY EXIST WITHOUT THINKING THAT IS SOMETHING ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT IS NOT BOREDOM BUT IT IS AN INCOMPARABLY BLISSFUL CLEAR STATE OF MIND COMPARED WITH INCESSANT FRIVOLOUS, DISTRACTING, DISORGANIZED EMOTIONAL THINKING.

It is because humans perversely, emotionally (forcefully), falsely and status consciously raised themselves on lofty pedestals that they then feel it is moving when such icons stoop to touch the sandals of another.
The fuss is not about one person touching the sandals of another but an archbishop touching the sandals of a chief monk and therefore it is all about status not true humility.

Based on the false presumption by the chief monk that a person of high standing, an archbishop, cannot touch the sandals of a monk and the false perception again by the chief monk that the archbishop is touching the sandals of a mere monk when he is touching the sandals of the chief monk not only of Malaysia but Singapore, the chief monk arrives at a false perception and conclusion that he cannot believe that an archbishop is touching his sandals. All presumptions are not meritorious but defilements of the mind that prevents that mind from accessing the truth, according to the Buddha.
Based on the reality that there is no reason why one person cannot touch the sandals or another, any person including a high standing person can touch the sandal of another person or based on the correct perception that the archbishop is not touching the sandals of an ordinary monk but a chief monk, the chief monk will have no difficulty believing what he sees, an archbishop touching his sandals.

It may be that although you suffer mental and bodily pains, stress, restlessness and distraction (inability to concentrate) even to levels that sometimes threaten to overwhelm your considerable capacity to sustain but somehow you always manage to subdue them to fight another day and once you die, it is all over or it may be that despite all your suffering and battling, you are headed as Jesus described for another eternity of weeping and gnashing your teeth before you next return here as humans again or as the Buddha said, creating another ocean of blood from having your neck cut off. If what Jesus and the Buddha said is true, is it not to your advantage that they point it out to you.
How Like & Dislike Differ:
Just as people automatically raise their hands to ward off blows or protect themselves, whatever activities (that can only be speaking, moving, thinking and perceiving) that the mind undertakes that applies force on it must be automatically resisted or opposed by an opposite force because the application of force causes pain, physically harms the mind in proportion to the strength of force and duration and leads to a build up of stress, restlessness and distractibility.

When the force of going against self that is the drive behind the constant stretching of syllables or units of motion, constant changes of speed and strength of force is successfully matched and modulated or controlled by the opposing force of self preservation, the person has the consciousness experiencing of liking that activity.

Whenever the force of going against self that is the drive behind the constant stretching of syllables or units of motion, constant changes of speed and strength of force has outstripped the containment effort of the force of self preservation, its control by the force of self preservation has been momentarily lost, the person has a consciousness experience of dislike for that activity or what is occurring to it or what it is perceiving.

All emotions apart from fear is nothing more than derivatives of like and dislike occurring in particular situations, whether like or dislike is focused or diffuse and inwardly or outwardly directed.
Anger is nothing more than dislike diffusely directed outwardly at others or inwardly at self. Hate is nothing more than focused or pointed dislike at others or self. Lust is nothing more than sexual greed and greed is nothing more than like or the involuntary undulating of one’s mental force of going against self on the perception of money and material objects.

BECAUSE LIKE AND DISLIKE AND ITS DERIVATIVES THE EMOTIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE APPLICATION OF FORCE ON THE MIND THAT IS MODULATED (LIKE) OR UNMODULATED (DISLIKE), IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING BUT ARE MERELY VICARIOUS OR SENSATE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE SEVERE DRAWBACKS LIKE STRESS (SEIZURE OR SPASM OF THE MIND AND BODY BY FORCE, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE) AND SO A PERSON WHO LIKES TO LIKE AND DISLIKE, WHO IS SUBJECT TO EMOTION IS NOT A MAN OF REASON BUT A MAN OF FORCE WHO WILLS FOR THE AFFLICTION OF BOTH HIMSELF AND ALL OTHERS WHO COME INTO DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH HIM.
FOR ONE WHO SEES CORRECTLY, THERE ARE NO PART TIME MASTERS OF THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES BUT ANYONE WHO LIKES AND DISLIKES ARE SLAVES WHO CONSTANTLY DO SO, OFTEN WITHOUT AWARENESS, OFTEN DISGUISING THEIR DISLIKE WITH FAKED LIKE AND VICE VERSA.
See Nothing Wrong?
Do you see wrong in what Condoleeza Rice said below or do you defend her right to say it?
Quote Ms Rice: Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them”.
What she subsequently said, ‘thousands of them’, belies or contradicts her admission that ‘we have made tactical errors’, she did not mean it or was contrite but instead she was defiant, taking a swipe at detractors. She is being dismissive rather than acknowledging errors as her initial admission of error suggests and therefore she is a hypocrite who does not mean what she says or says what she means (which is damn you, we made errors, so what?). Jesus said you will be judged for every careless word you say and she does not know the sword of future pain hovers over her head.
She was reported to have said that the Iraq war was worth it. When it is her turn to come under incessant fire and die for others’ wars then let me hear her say it is worth it.
JUST AS MOST PEOPLE WILL SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT SHE SAID OR EVEN UPHOLD HER, IN THE SAME WAY THE INCIDENCE OF FALSITY OR HYPOCRISY THAT THEY FAIL TO RECOGNIZE ARE FAR MORE THAN THAT WHICH THEY ARE AWARE BECAUSE THEY ARE SWITCHED OFF, IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE WORLDS OF DELUSION. IN TRUTH THE FALSITY AND HYPOCRISY IN THIS WORLD MAY BE FAR GREATER THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE CYNICALLY AWARE, THE CAPACITY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE TO SEE THE TRUTH AND REASON MAY BE FAR MORE PRIMITIVE THAN THEY LIKE TO BELIEVE.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Deluded From Top To Bottom:

If even senior Christian and Buddhist leaders see nothing wrong when it is unbecoming, even sinful but they likely think that they have conducted themselves exemplarily by speaking the substance and style of what is quoted below, what more that you should expect ordinary people can behave blamelessly.

Quote: Rev Dhammananda was so shocked (this is emotional and what is the big deal, would it shock the Buddha?) by archbishop Fernandez’s humility that he hollered (hollered is speaking emotionally, if the writer exaggerated he is misrepresenting the situation, can a Buddha holler?): What! (Questioning or doubting that conditions himself and others to doubt. Why question something that has happened? Does he not believe what his eyes see?) You are the catholic bishop of KL and you touched the sandals of a monk? The unassuming Fernandez meekly replied, “That’s right, you are not only the chief monk of Malaysia but also Singapore”. The two shook hands and laughed.

Comment: Rev Dhammananda is speaking emotionally that is not in keeping with what the Buddha taught that one should be dispassionate and he is not letting his yes be yes only but saying much more that comes from evil according to Jesus. He is making a fuss or much ado over nothing or getting carried away in exclaiming his astonishment at the bishop touching his sandals. It is likely he is joking and when you joke you cannot mean what you say and therefore they are both engaged in make believe, being stressfully nice not good to each other. There is no need to make a fuss and if one wanted to make a comment, one should say solemnly that he feels honored that a bishop should touch his sandals. It actually betrays a status consciousness to think that a bishop cannot touch a monk’s sandals. The bishop does not realize that what he said is false and contradictory. If he said “That is NOT right because you are not only the chief monk of Malaysia but of Singapore” is he speaking without contradiction. He is saying he is touching Rev Dhammananda’s sandals because he is the chief monk of Malaysia so how can he affirm that Rev Dhammananda is right he the bishop is touching a mere monk’s sandals?
Unwittingly they are both acknowledging their attachment to status, a bishop shouldn’t lower his status to touch a mere monk’s sandals and a bishop is touching a monk’s sandals because he is the chief monk of Malaysia and Singapore. Again status consciousness is not meritorious but sinful. How can one who does not care for what he shall eat and wear as Jesus advised, care about status of himself and others?
By saying ‘you are not only the chief monk for Malaysia but also Singapore’, the archbishop is acknowledging that he values stature & impressible, the person who is chief monk of Singapore & Malaysia is in his eyes more impressive than a person who is chief monk of either.

By saying 'you are not only the chief monk for Malaysia but also Singapore', the archbishop is saying that he is impressible, in his mind the person who is chief monk for Malaysia and Singapore is more impressive than either and he is promoting a mindset of status consciousness that may not be a characteristic of heavenly existence but it is of the lower realms.

Does he mean that just because he is a chief monk for both countries, he is even more worthy of being touched on his sandals?

It is because people doubt even what their eyes tell them, "What? You are touching my sandals" that they condition themselves to be increasingly doubtful that leads to uncertainty and being thus fettered by doubt and uncertainty that is one of three lower fetters, they are headed for future states of woe according to the Buddha.
The folly of questioning what you see:
Did the chief monk see the bishop touch his sandals? If he saw with his eyes what happen, why did he question, express disbelief what he saw? The purpose of expressing disbelief is to falsely express ‘wow’, that what has happened is unbelievable or incredible but in the process you are conditioning yourself not to believe what you plainly saw and you are also conditioning the bishop to doubt what he actually did that you do not realize will become with regular practice become involuntary and you are headed for mad or uncontrollable doubt that leads to mad uncertainty, you are headed for mad perception and logic that what is true is false.
People think that of course it is rightful that they should doubt and question others about what they say or what happened not realizing that there is NEVER any justification to doubt. Often if you examine their questioning, it is not based on reason but based on emotion or ill will to sow doubt in the other person (eg ‘are you sure you want to buy that?’). Even in the case when you know something said to you is false, you do not ask the person to doubt himself but you state what you believe is true eg ‘I think you did it’ instead of ‘are sure you did not do it’.
Not only is there doubt and uncertainty in the speech and thoughts of ordinary people but it is reflected in the hesitancy of their movements, they often stop in their tracks suddenly, vacillate and are undecided to carry out or not carry out what they do.
Doubt and uncertainty are not harmless but they are suffering that culminate in mad doubt and uncertainty and it is also one of three lower fetters that the Buddha says leads to future states of woe.
I have no doubts and uncertainty because I can effortlessly see through the chicanery of others, I speak the truth, do not indulge in falsity (putting on a show to impress others) and do not what to make others suffer by sowing doubt and confusion.
This lady whom I had assured twice that the lab boy will collect her blood sample today nevertheless turn around at the door to ask me again whether her blood will be collected today reflecting her forceful doubt that cannot be assuaged.
NEVER DOUBT ANYTHING OR QUESTION OTHERS BUT SEE CLEARLY AND MERELY SAY WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE OR HAPPENED. DOUBTING IS FALSE, FORCEFUL, TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, MEANINGLESS AND CONDITIONING THAT WILL END IN AGONY FOR YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON YOU SOWED DOUBT.

ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE DELUDED BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN THEIR SPEECH AND MOTION THAT THEY BELIEVE IS MEANINGFUL AND BENEFICIAL TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS WHEN IT IS MEANINGLESS (FOR SHOW TO DECEIVE, IMPRESS, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE AND DOMINATE) AND HARMFUL TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS (IN CREATING INSOLUBLE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION). DELUSION IS ACROSS BOARD NOT PART TIME JUST AS THEIR STYLE IS ACROSS BOARD IN EVERYTHING THEY SAY, DO, THINK AND PERCEIVE, NOT SELECTIVE.

WILL ANYONE IN THIS WORLD SAY THE THINGS I SAY TO YOU ABOVE? IS WHAT I SAY NONSENSE OR THE TRUTH THAT THIS WORLD CANNOT SEE AND ACCEPT? THUS IF YOU SCOFF AT ME, YOU DISAGREE WITH ME, IT MAY BE DISAGREEING WITH TRUTH THAT MEANS YOU GO ALONE IN YOUR FALSE WAY EVEN FOR ANOTHER ETERNITY.
THE BUDDHA SAID THE PERSON WHO PREACHES FROM THE TEACHING AND DISCIPLINE DECLARED BY HIM IS RARE. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE PAST OR PRESENT WHO PREACHES FROM HIS TEACHING THE WAY I DO? BECAUSE NO TWO DIFFERENT WAYS CAN BE CORRECT, IF MY WAY IS TRUE, THEIR WAYS MUST BE FALSE AND THUS I MAY BE EVEN MORE RARE (OR UNIQUE) THAN YOU IMAGINE.

Jesus said “Woe to you who laughs, for you shall weep”. Thus it is not meritorious to laugh because it is stressful and agitates the mind of self and others. It is not because Jesus said so that laughing is sinful but laughter is a form of lying or pretense or putting on a show that will redound on the unrepentant person.
What the chief monk & the archbishop are indulging is mutual back scratching, lauding each other on their false fabricated humility and making much ado about nothing. It is because the chief monk thinks much about the exalted position of the archbishop, about having his sandal touched by a person of high stature that he is moved emotionally to pass a flattering comment and it is worship of stature by the archbishop that moved him to falsely affirm he is indeed touching the sandal of a monk but not just any monk but the chief monk of Malaysia and Singapore. Would he do so to a run of the mill monk?
HAVE YOU HEARD THE BUDDHA OR JESUS CRACK ANY JOKES OR TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF THINGS? THEY MAY NOT EVEN REALIZE THEY ARE JOKING, TRYING TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF A SITUATION, LET ALONE THAT JOKING IS MISCONDUCT NOT VIRTUOUS IN BOTH BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
If ordinary people did not dislike (scorn or indifference) what transpired above, they will like it (feel moved or touched by the apparent humility and mutual respect). If what I say is true that far from meritorious, the interchange above is unbecoming and incurs karma for both of them, then you may agree that this world has no eye for the truth and true virtue.
I may be wrong with the view I articulate above but if I turn out to be correct, how many if any espouse the same view I espouse above? Thus if I am correct, it is no surprise that the Father should have to give you another counselor as Jesus said because by themselves, humanity will not come to a realization the many things that I have dwelt on.
“He will not speak on his own authority” indicates that the counselor Jesus described will speak as if on his own authority, “but whatever he hears he will speak” indicates the counselor will not know everything but whatever he hears (that others do not hear) he will speak.
If people in this world are capable of seeing and saying things that the counselor will say there will be no need for him to come. If what the counselor will say is similar to what men say, there is no need for him to come.
The Pivotal Role Of Fabrications:
What the Buddha says is never for show to impress or please you but it always has purpose.
By telling you that from ignorance comes fabrications (fermentations or determinations) and from fabrications comes consciousness, he is telling you of the pivotal role or crucial link between ignorance and consciousness that is the root to continued existence and all its woes is fabrications or whatever activities the mind is capable, namely perceiving, thinking, speaking and conducting bodily movements.
Unless you enjoy shedding your own blood that is greater than the four great oceans, you enjoy weeping and gnashing your teeth, you enjoy being tormented by stress, restlessness and distraction or you are too foolish to seek an escape then you must seek a way out of your predicament if it is available.
What the Buddha is saying is that ignorance, fabrications (speech, thought and bodily actions) and consciousness are not independent but intimately linked in which fabrications is the crucial link because its cessation leads to the cessation of consciousness and this world and opens the door to the banishing of ignorance and thence accessing enlightenment.
This is borne out in practice because a change in fabricating as happened after 1977 and in recent years have led to a change in consciousness in the positive direction and you can see that people nowadays have more presence of mind even if they are all still acting and being nice not good to each other.

The previously unthinkable, unimaginable consciousness changes that occurred after 1977 and in recent years is proof the Buddha is correct because fabrications condition consciousness.

It is because the status quo has never been broken by anyone, everyone’s conduct was maintaining each other in a stable level of stress, restlessness and distraction that there have never been alleviating consciousness changes in the past. As soon as someone breaks the deadlock by significantly lowering his endemic stress, restlessness and distraction through his conduct that is a true departure from the norm (by determinedly not manipulating others by acting weak or submissive, not OK, by not being nice but striving to be genuine) where there never was before, he experiences an appreciable reduction in his stress, restlessness and distraction level that alleviates his consciousness state that he and all others can appreciate and this acts as a compulsory or mandatory drive for them to also similarly change so that in time everyone changes in a defensive way to minimize his suffering as far as his continued urge to sin will permit.

IT WAS A NEVER BEFORE OCCURRED CHANGE IN THE WAY I FABRICATED (I REMEMBER I WAS SEIZED TO BE GRIMLY DETERMINED NOT TO SUFFER ANYMORE, NOT TO COUNTENANCE NONSENSE FROM OTHERS ANYMORE, FROM NOW ON, ONLY I WILL DETERMINE WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG FOR ME) THAT WAS THE BASIS OF THE JOYFUL PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE I EXPERIENCED IN 1977 AND BY A PROCESS OF CONTAGION IN ALL OTHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. THEREFORE THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES AFTER 1977 AND IN RECENT YEARS IS PROOF THE BUDDHA IS CORRECT THAT CONSCIOUSNESS COMES FROM ACTIVITIES (SPEECH, THOUGHT, BODILY ACTIONS) OF THE MIND THAT UNSURPRISING ALSO MOULDS THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS DERIVED FROM IT.
In 1977 and in recent years I used force (my force of self preservation) to persistently remodel my behavior and speech and this led to an unimaginable unintended change in my consciousness state indicating that behavior influences consciousness states. Why should this be so except that it is as the Buddha said that consciousness is derived from and a product of fabrications or activities of that mind.

In recent years I changed my behavior in a never before way by refusing to smile, refusing to say or do things to please others, refusing to stretch my syllables, change speed and loudness when I became aware of their presence and how they caused stress, restlessness and distraction.
Before 1977 it was my force of going against self that was ascendant that dictated my weak, withdrawing, hesitant and dependent nature and behavior and in 1977 in an instance of provocation it dawned on me in a flash that I could be strong, could stand on my own feet, be my own boss and therefore I mobilized my force of self preservation to neutralize the negativity of the behavior generated by my force of going against self to achieve an appreciable alleviation of my consciousness state not realizing that I was setting my force of self preservation on my force of going against self in a process of gradual erosion that will see it vanish so that I finally achieved a consciousness state in 1978 wherein I was effortlessly free of stress, restlessness and distraction.
It was not my intention to change my consciousness state or that of the world nor did I know it was possible beforehand when I embarked on my dedicated course of change and therefore the consciousness changes after 1977 and in recent years are proofs that what the Buddha said is correct that consciousness comes from fabrications and therefore the nature of those fabrications dictate the consciousness derived from it.

IT WILL ALSO BE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN FABRICATIONS (SPEECH, THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR) THAT WILL LEAD TO A RELATIVE REDUCTION OF IGNORANCE OR RELATIVE ENLIGHTENMENT WHILST A TOTAL CESSATION OF ALL FABRICATIONS THROUGH DISPASSION OR DISENCHANTMENT WILL LEAD TO A TOTAL BANISHMENT OF IGNORANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT.

FABRICATIONS OR ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MIND THAT IS THE SOURCE OF THAT MIND’S BEHAVIOR AND SPEECH IS PIVOTAL BECAUSE IT STANDS IN THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT. THE CESSATION OF ALL FABRICATING OR ACTIVITIES, SOMETHING THAT BEINGS TRAPPED IN EXISTENCE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BANISHES IGNORANCE TO ALLOW ENLIGHTENMENT TO PREVAIL AND CONSCIOUSNESS TO BE EXTINGUISHED. A TRUE IMPROVEMENT OF ONE’S FABRICATING AS MANIFEST IN ONE’S BEHAVIOR WILL RESULT IN AN ALLEVIATING CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE.

The Buddha: Monks, determinations (fabrications or fermentations) are threefold as bodily determinations, verbal determinations and mental determinations. These are the threefold determinations.
Comment: What the Buddha said proves that I am correct in saying that fabrications or determinations are whatever activities a mind is capable of and these can only be perceiving, thinking, speaking and bodily conduct. Consciousness is not an activity but it is like an illuminating lamp to cast light on and direct the activities occurring that have a luminosity that may be dim and flickering in lesser beings but incandescent and unwavering in the noble ones.
From Fabrication Comes Consciousness Change:
It follows that if consciousness comes from fabrications that from a significant fabrication change may come a significant consciousness change.
The reason why there have never been consciousness changes in the past is because there have never been meaningful changes in the fabricating of people, when people changed in the past, they changed from one style eg more aggressive style to another less aggressive style that maintained the status quo, the baseline level of stress, restlessness and distraction that determined the consciousness change.
The reason there was a consciousness change after 1977 and in recent years is because there has now been a truly meaningful change (initiated by me) in fabrications towards the direction of a reduction in style that reduced the stress, restlessness and distraction impacting on the consciousness.
It was a consciousness change that made people able to bear what they could not bear in the past and therefore Jesus was alluding to a future consciousness change when the counselor comes. Without a consciousness change I will not be saying the things I say and you will not be able to bear the things I am saying.
BY IMPLICATION OF WHAT THE BUDDHA SAID THAT FROM FABRICATIONS AS A REQUISITE COMES CONSCIOUSNESS, HOW WONDERFUL OR BLISSFUL OR CONSUMMATELY WOE FREE A CONSCIOUSNESS STATE YOU ATTAIN IS DEPENDENT ENTIRELY ON THE QUALITY OF YOUR VIRTUES WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN BLAMELESS PERCEIVING, THINKING, SPEECH AND CONDUCT OR IN OTHER WORDS HOW VIRTUOUS ARE YOUR FABRICATIONS.

STOP THINKING:
IT IS POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT DAILY FUNCTIONS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THIS AND THAT BUT WITH ONE’S CONCENTRATION TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE TASK OR SPEECH AT HAND BECAUSE THE BUDDHA SAID IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP ONE’S THINKING.
(PEOPLE NEVER TELL THEMSELVES TO STOP THINKING ON A SUSTAINED BASIS, THEY MAY MAKE HALF HEARTED ATTEMPTS TO STOP THINKING WHEN A MATTER OF CONSIDERATION DISTRESSES OR EMOTIONAL STIR THEM TOO MUCH BUT THEY WANDER OFF TO OTHER SUBJECTS, NOT FOCUS TO STOP THINKING TOTALLY EVEN FOR AN INSTANCE)
JUST BECAUSE YOU TELL YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING DOES NOT MEAN YOUR MIND WILL LISTEN AND STOP THINKING BUT IF YOU KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING AS YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED EVEN BRIEFLY IN DISRUPTING THE USUAL TRAIN OF FRIVOLOUS THINKING THAT IF MAINTAINED WILL RESULT IN A SLOWING OF THE SPEED AND INTENSITY OR FORCE OF THINKING THAT MAY ONE DAY RESULT IN YOUR FINALLY CONSCIOUSLY STOPPING THINKING. YOU CONSCIOUSLY EXIST WITHOUT THINKING THAT IS SOMETHING ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT IS NOT BOREDOM BUT IT IS AN INCOMPARABLY BLISSFUL CLEAR STATE OF MIND COMPARED WITH INCESSANT FRIVOLOUS, DISTRACTING, DISORGANIZED EMOTIONAL THINKING.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

An Eon May Lasts 15 billion Years

An eon may be as long as 15 billion years:
Although this world is deceptive as the Buddha said, it cannot be a lie and so the Age or world period should begin not with the creation of the earth but the creation of this universe, which unless science is lying to us, indicates it is anywhere between 10 -20 billion years ago with the consensus somewhere 15 billion years ago. This would fit the Buddha's comparison of taking one mustard seed out every 100 years from a pile that is seven miles cubed.

Thus, although you are undaunted, you think you have nothing to worry about, what you say or do here may consign you to many billions of years of eternal punishment, gnashing your teeth and weeping rather than blissful existence in heaven.

Still, many even those who call themselves good and wise do not know how to be good and wise even after it has been demonstrated to them in no uncertain terms how to be good and wise: STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, STOP CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS.

Just as with regular practice you get quite good at playing tennis in your individual stylish or quirky way in the same way the reason why your anger is so monstrous, so easily aroused to levels that you can barely contain is because you have been practicing getting angry, displaying your anger for others to see to intimidate them that it is so. Because anger is always suffering and persecutes others, you have debts to repay for being such an expert in anger. It is not just when you are angry that you harbor anger but anger is idling in you waiting to be triggered explosively by the right triggers that may differ from others and because it is conditioning, if you do nothing to de-condition yourself, to scrub off you anger, you are doomed for eternal punishment.

You may say that what I say makes you angry, it may be true I am being provocative, I say what I say with anger or nastiness which is why you are provoked or it may be that you already have mad perception and logic that what I say without nastiness or accompanying emotion that displeases you is automatically or helplessly perceived as nasty by you and you are headed for the agony of final madness.
I Interpreted The Buddha Correctly:
I was not aware that the Buddha himself has explained in detail what he meant by Dependent Arising, an important if not crucial tenet of what he taught. In retrospect, the explanation that I arrived independently corresponds well if not perfectly with the Buddha’s own explanation.
Crucial to grasping Dependent Arising was the nature of the ‘fabrications’ or determinations from which arose consciousness.

I could not grasp initially when I came across the Buddha’s teaching of Dependent Arising and whilst others might shrug it off as false or unintelligible anachronism, I reflected on it and finally worked out a tenable explanation that made everything fall into place.

The Buddha had said that from ignorance as a requisite comes fabrication (determinations), from fabrications as a requisite comes consciousness.
I had said that fabrications are whatever activities that a mind is capable and these can only be perceiving (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting), thinking, speaking and the moving of bodily parts which can occur totally independent of consciousness, are totally without consciousness just as a computer can carry out whatever activity it is instructed to do without any intrinsic consciousness and consciousness occurs comes about as a result of mental activities to experience and conduct them.
In the explanation by the Buddha that I have retrospectively come across, he said determinations (fabrications) are threefold, namely bodily, verbal and mental. (You could classify seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling as bodily activities).
All activities of the mind (thinking, speaking and bodily motion) are powered by mental force that is excessive and constantly stretching, changing in speed and strength in foolish beings trapped in the lower impure realms that require another force the force of self-preservation to modulate its harmful tendencies.
Feelings are passive sensations that (according to the Buddha) can only be pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant (paper tastes neither pleasant nor unpleasant) that arises with contact through the five senses and vanishes on loss of contact.
However most contacts in daily life are not passive contacts with OBJECTS but contact with FORCE via objects that is why the experience lingers and is stressful. For instance a slap is not passive contact with an object (the palm) but it is contact with stinging force delivered through the palm. The toothache throbs incessantly because the swollen tissues are applying constant force on the nerves that convey pain. Punk rock rings for some time in the ears because there is excessive force in the stretching of notes, constant changes of speed and loudness that is more a transmission of force through the ears than a transmission of audible sounds. The motion of animals and humans has forceful (curved) stretching, constant forceful changes in speed and strength of force that is again more visual contact with force rather than visual contact with objects.
The coming into being of consciousness to experience and conduct the mind’s activities (or fabrications) allow the coming into being of the physical world of objects that then allow the coming of the sensory media (vision, sound, touch, taste, smell) to interact with it. Objects precede the sensory media and can exist without the sensory media because high frequency sounds that dogs can hear can exist without you being able to hear it. Even though you cannot see the security markings on a dollar note because you lack the sensory medium to do so does not mean security markings are not there.

Below is the Buddha’s own explanation of Dependent Arising that I was previously unaware that proves that I have independently arrived at a correct interpretation of what he taught:

3. The Blessed One said: ßMonks, what is dependent arising? On account of ignorance arise determinations (fabrications or all activities a mind is capable of). On account of determinations arise consciousness. On account of consciousness arise name and matter (this world with its objects). On account of name and matter arise the six spheres (sensory media). On account of the six spheres arise contact. On account of contact arise feelings. On account of feelings arise craving (emotional liking). On account of craving arise seizing (attachment). On account of seizing arise being. On account of being arise birth. On account of birth arise decay, death, grief, lament, unpleasantness displeasure and distress. Thus arises the complete mass of unpleasantness.
4. ßMonks, what is decay and death?
ßThe decay seen in this and other categories of beings in the form of broken teeth, signs of age, grey hair wrinkled skin, decrease of the life span, the decay of the mental faculties. This is called decay.
ßThe disappearing, moving away, breaking up, non evidence in time, the breaking up of the masses and laying down of the carcass of this and other categories of beings is called death. Monks, that decay and this death is called decay and death.
5. ßMonks, what is birth? The birth, growth, appearance, rebirth, the manifestation of the masses, and the gain of the spheres of this and other category of beings is called birth.
6. ßMonks, what is being? Monks, being is threefold. It is the prevalence in thoughts in sensuality, in material states (beings in heaven and here are trapped in material or formed existence, possessing a body) and in immaterial states (Brahmas who are higher than angels, exist in formless states normally not visible to formed beings). Monks, this is called being.
7. ßMonks, what is holding? Monks, the mind's way of holding is fourfold. That is holding to sensuality, holding to views, sticking to virtues and seizing a view of a self. Monks, these are the four ways of holding.
8. ßMonks, what is craving? Monks, there are six masses of craving. Someone craves for forms, for sounds, for scents, for tastes, for touches and for ideas. Monks, these are the six masses of craving.
9. ßMonks, what is feeling? Monks, there are six bodies of feelings. Feelings arising to someone through eye-contact, through ear contact, through nose contact, through tongue contact, through body contact and through mind contact. Monks, these are the six bodies of feelings. (Feelings are passive, pleasant, unpleasant or neither and lasts as long as contact)
10. ßMonks, what is contact? Monks, there are six bodies of contact. The contact of eye, the contact of ear, the contact of nose, the contact of the tongue, the contact of the body and the contact of mind. These are the six bodies of contact.
11. ßMonks, what are the six spheres? It is the sphere of the eye, sphere of the ear, sphere of the nose, sphere of the tongue, sphere of the body and the sphere of the mind. Monks, these are the six spheres.
12. ßMonks, what is name and matter? Feelings, perceptions, intentions, contact and mental attention are name. The four great elements (earth represents solids, water represents liquid, wind represents gaseous, fire represents energy) and this form seized from them as me or mine is matter. And this name and this matter form name and matter.
13. ßMonks, what is consciousness? There are six bodies of consciousness. They are eye-consciousness, ear-consciousness, nose Ý consciousness, tongue-consciousness, body Ý consciousness and mind-consciousness. These are the six bodies of consciousness.
14. ßMonks, what are determinations (fabrications or activities a mind is capable)? Monks, determinations are threefold as bodily determinations, verbal determinations and mental determinations. These are the threefold determinations.
15. ßMonks, what is ignorance? Monks, if someone does not know unpleasantness (stress, restlessness and distraction), the arising of unpleasantness (stress), the cessation of unpleasantness (stress) and the path leading to the cessation of unpleasantness. To that is said ignorance.
16. ßThus, monks, on account of ignorance arise determinations, on account of determinations arise consciousness ... re ... Thus the complete mass of unpleasantness, arise. With the cessation of ignorance without a remainder, determinations cease. With the cessation of determinations, consciousness ceases ... re ... Thus comes about the cessation of the complete mass of unpleasantness.û
THUS WHAT THE BUDDHA IS TELLING YOU IS THAT NO MATTER HOW EXALTED A BEING YOU THINK YOU ARE, ALL BEINGS THAT MAY RANGE FROM MINISCULE DUST DEVILS (EVEN AMOEBAS), ANIMALS THROUGH HUMANS TO GODS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THAT BEING’S INDIVIDUAL PERISHABLE INCONSTANT CONSCIOUSNESS (WHEN YOU SLEEP YOU BECOME TEMPORARILY UNCONSCIOUS, BUDDHAS DO NOT SLEEP OR DREAM LIKE YOU) THAT COMES INTO BEING TO EXPERIENCE AND CONDUCT THAT IGNORANT AND FOOLISH BEING’S FABRICATIONS OR ACTIVITIES OF HIS MIND. ONCE A BEING BECOMES ENLIGHTENED, HIS IGNORANCE AS TO HIS NATURE AND THE UNSATISFACTORY NATURE OF ALL EXISTENCE IS DISPELLED, HE CEASES TO DESIRE SEPARATE EXISTENCE AND THEREFORE PASSIVELY, UNEMOTIONALLY BIDS A PERMANENT GOODBYE TO ALL ILLUSIVE EXISTENCES. WHEREAS ALL BEINGS HAVE A SELF, BUDDHAS HAVE EXTERMINATED ALL CONSIDERATIONS OF SELF.

A BEING IS NOTHING MORE THAN HIS CONSCIOUSNESS (THAT IS ULTIMATELY FALSE) THAT COMES INTO BEING AS A RESULT OF THE FABRICATIONS OR ACTIVITIES OF HIS MIND TO EXPERIENCE AND CONDUCT THESE ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE INTRINSICALLY WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CONSCIOUSNESS. HIS ACTIVITIES ARE ALL POWERED BY A MENTAL FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF (THAT MUST BE ALWAYS COUNTERED BY A FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION) THAT IS ALWAYS SERIOUSLY AND UNNECESSARILY EXCESSIVE IN STRENGTH AND CONSTANT UNNECESSARILY CHANGING IN STRENGTH AND SPEED IN ALL BEINGS TRAPPED IN THE LOWER IMPURE REALMS THAT IS THE SOURCE OF THE CONSTANT STRETCHING, CHANGING OF SPEED AND STRENGTH MANIFEST IN THE CONDUCT OF ALL THE BEING’S ACTIVITIES. ALL ACTIVITIES OF A MIND THAT THE BEING IS ATTACHED TO & FOOLISHLY IDENTIFY AS SIGNIFYING HIS SELF ARE PERISHABLE, CONSTANTLY CHANGING AND FALSE AND THE EXTINGUISHING OF ALL ACTIVITIES (EG IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP ALL THINKING) IS THE EXTINGUISHING OF ALL CONSCIOUSNESS. ONCE A BEING BECOMES ENLIGHTENED, KNOWS WHO HE TRULY IS, HE CEASES TO DESIRE TO FABRICATE AND IS EXTINGUISHED AS A BEING. IF YOU THINK IT IS WONDERFUL TO SUBJECT YOURSELF TO STRESS, TO HAVE YOUR HEAD CUT OFF ENDLESSLY SPILLING BLOOD THAT IS AS VAST AS THE FOUR OCEANS, THEN YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO FABRICATE.

WHAT I SAY PROVES THAT THE BUDDHA IS NO FAKE, MAD MAN OR ORDINARY PERSON BUT HE IS OF UNEXCELLED PENETRATIVE WISDOM AND WHAT THE BUDDHA SAYS PROVES I AM AN EXCEPTIONAL PERSON WHO NOT ONLY CAUSED THE WORLD’S CONSCIOUSNESS TO CHANGE TWICE AFTER 1977 AND IN RECENT YEARS BUT IN ADDITION EXITED STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION BY NOT STRETCHING MY SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHERE NO ONE ELSE COULD AND ELUCIDATED IN SO MANY INSTANCES WHAT THE BUDDHA AND JESUS SAID WHERE NO ONE BEFORE OR TODAY HAS EVER DONE.
THE BUDDHA SAID A PERSON WHO PREACHES FROM THE TEACHING AND DISCIPLINE DECLARED BY HIM IS RARE. HOW MANY IF ANY HAVE TOLD YOU WHAT THE FIVE LOWER AND UPPER FETTERS ARE , LET ALONE ELUCIDATED HOW ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE SERIOUSLY FETTERED BY DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY, SELF IDENTITY VIEWS AND FAITH IN RITES AND PRECEPTS (EG HEALTH FOOD AND REGULAR EXERCISE WILL DELIVER THEM FROM SUFFERING) THAT WILL CONDEMN THEM TO FUTURE STATES OF WOE?

JUST AS I AM CORRECT IN INDEPENDENTLY INTERPRETING WHAT THE BUDDHA SAID, I AM CORRECT TO SAY WHERE NO MAN HAS SAID BEFORE THAT THERE IS CONSTANT UNNECESSARY STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS IN THE VOCALIZATION OF ALL BEINGS TRAPPED HERE AND IT IS THE ONLY INALIENABLE SOURCE OF THE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT MUST BESET THEM AND WITH WHICH THEY PERSECUTE EACH OTHER, THAT IS FURTHER CONDITIONING THEMSELVES TO STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT WILL END IN MADNESS AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
Stop Thinking:
The Buddha said it is possible to stop thinking, something that is unthinkable for ordinary people because there is force and momentum in their emotional thinking that is in truth incessant in their conscious lives and even when they are asleep.
Just because you keep telling yourself to stop thinking does not mean your mind will obey you to do so but if you keep trying, your mind will slowly settle down, think more slowly with more purpose and less force such that a time will come when you can stop thinking at will as I am beginning to experience so.
In truth you need to think very little in daily life, many things that people do or say in daily life need very little thinking or decision making. A lot of the thinking people do in daily life is frivolous, not only useless but repetitive, stressful, restless and distracting, conditioning them like drug addicts to helplessly keep thinking.
Even if people wanted they cannot stop themselves thinking which is not a blank dumb state but an exquisitely peaceful state that they have never experienced and so they are unrighteous to dismiss without having experienced it. Whenever you tell yourself ‘stop thinking’ you have briefly occupied your mind and stopped the usual thinking rut and if you keep reminding yourself ‘stop thinking’ you keep disrupting the usual mindless thinking pattern to stop thinking for sufficient durations to experience in glimpses its incomparable difference to constant forceful thinking.
There is no reason in style at all:
The purposes of style is generally for show and specifically to deceive, impress, please, intimidate and dominate are not reasons but they are emotions which are proxies of mental force.
Style is present in all activities of the actor all the time and it is nothing more than his individual brand that is usually copied or mimicked from others of stretching units of speech, thought or motion, changing of speed and strength of force (loudness) that have nothing to do with reason, does not require reason but always require force.
A person of reason will not embrace style because there is no reason in style, it requires the incessant use of force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness that not only induces stress, restlessness and distraction (inability to concentrate, divides his awareness between his style or how and substance or what he says), but conditions him to stress, restlessness and distraction that increasingly warps his mind towards insanity, mad stress, restlessness and daze.
When the purpose of your style on an occasion is to deceive someone, it is not a reason but it is an emotion, an urge or force to deceive or fool the other person in the name of material gain. For instance you speak convincing to gain the person’s trust in a scheme that will defraud him it is driven by an urge that may be concealed to harm that person.
When the purpose of your style on an occasion is to impress someone, you want someone to admire or like you or certain qualities of yours. Because liking is the undulating rise and fall of the force of going against self that has nothing to do with reason, when you want others to be impressed by being stylish, you want an emotional reaction not reason response from others.
When the purpose of your style on an occasion is to please someone, it is again driven by force or emotion because nobody will do or say things in a certain way to please others except that it is forced or compelled for instance for fear of punishment or loss. For instance people may bow to their kings to please them, not because they truly want to.
Intimidation and domination are matters of force never reason and therefore when the purpose of your style that conveys force is to intimidate or dominate others it is entirely a matter of force not reason.
THERE IS NEVER REASON FOR STYLE, NEVER REASON IN STYLE BUT THERE IS ALWAYS FORCE OR EMOTION FOR STYLE AND EMOTION OR FORCE IN STYLE.
STYLE OR CONSTANT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN ONE’S ACTIVITIES CANNOT BE UNDERTAKEN WITHOUT FORCE BUT TOTALLY DOES NOT REQUIRE REASON TO BE PRESENT & THE PRESENCE OF STYLE IS ACTUALLY INIMICAL TO THE PROSECUTION OF STYLE THAT IS THUS USUALLY MEMORIZED AND REPRODUCED BY ROTE, THE PURPOSES (TO DECEIVE, IMPRESS, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE AND DOMINATE) OF STYLE TOO ARE BASED ON MENTAL FORCE NEVER REASON.
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All ordinary people are experiencing and expressing like and dislike all the time (never some of the time) but because they are so used to incessant and they are distracted by affairs of the world, they often are not aware they are liking or disliking, especially at pedestrian levels.

A lot of the liking is actually faked and a lot of the disliking is actually hidden from view for fear of offending others, or exposing one’s inadequacies from others. Thus the predominant mental state of beings here is dislike that they often hide behind a smile or impassive face and only rarely do they have occasion to experience genuine liking (example taking delivery of new car or making a ‘killing’ on the stock market).
Whatever activities in perceiving, thinking, speaking and moving is driven and powered by the force of going against self that is responsible for the constant stretching, changing of speed and strength of force (loudness) that because it is harmful (stressful, induces restlessness and distraction) must be opposed and controlled by another force called the force of self preservation.

Whenever a person speaks or does something with his individual style (eg dance or write or play tennis) with his force of going against self firmly under the control or leash of his force of self-preservation his consciousness experiences liking for what he is doing or saying. Because it is under the control of the force of self preservation, the rises and falls in speed and strength of force of the force of going against self is undulating, rising and falling under the influence of the force of self preservation.
Whenever a person speaks or does something (eg dance or write or play tennis) with his force of going against self out of the control of his force of self preservation and therefore it rises in speed and strength in an unabated fashion, his consciousness experiences disliking for what he is doing or saying.
Whenever he sees or hears something (eg music) with undulating rises and falls in speed and strength of his mental force of going against self because it is under leash by the force of self preservation, the person experiences liking for what he sees (eg attractive girl) or hears (music he likes).
THUS LIKE AND DISLIKE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON, THEY ARE MERELY THE UNDULATING RISE AND FALL OR UNABATED RISE OF ONE’S FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF AS A RESULT OF PERCEIVING SOMETHING OR DOING SOMETHING THAT WITH LIFELONG PRACTICE CAN BECOME INVOLUNTARY OR AUTOMATIC OR WITH HARD TO RESIST URGE. IF YOU THINK THERE IS REASON OR MEANING IN LIKE AND DISLIKE, YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION. IF IT IS WRONG VIEW TO THINK LIKING AND DISLIKING IS MEANINGFUL, THEN THE DESTINATION FOR WRONG VIEW IS ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA, HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB.
ALL THE EMOTIONS (HATE, ANGER, LUST, GREED, EXCITEMENT, PRIDE, SHAME, SADNESS, JEALOUSY, ENVY, DERISION, TRYING TO BE FUNNY OR MISCHIEVOUS, JOKING, LAUGHING) THAT FOOLISH ORDINARY PEOPLE HOLD SO REAL AND DEAR ARE NOTHING MORE THAN LIKE AND DISLIKE DRESSED UP IN FANCY CLOTHES FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. THEY ARE THEREFORE SLAVES OF FORCE JUST LIKE ANIMALS LIKE AND DISLIKE ALL THE TIME.
FEAR IS A DIFFERENT EMOTION IN THAT IT IS THE OCCASION WHEN THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION IS ASCENDANT AND TOGETHER WITH THE OFTEN SUDDEN DROP IN STRENGTH OF THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF, PULLS THE FEARFUL PERSON AWAY FROM THE TARGET OF FEAR.
WHETHER YOU AGREE OR NOT THAT EMOTIONS ARE SINFUL, THE CONSTANT APPLICATION OF MENTAL FORCE THAT IS CHANGING IN SPEED AND STRENGTH ON THE MIND NOT ONLY CREATES STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION (CANNOT CONCENTRATE) THAT CAN BE IMPARTED ON OTHERS BUT CONDITIONS IT SO THAT HE IS A FOOL HEADING FOR FINAL INSANITY OF MAD STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION. IF ORDINARY PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION THEY WILL SURELY NOTICE MAD STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT CAN ARISE AS IF OUT OF THE BLUE SUDDENLY. ONE MOMENT THEY ARE QUITE THE MASTER OF THEMSELVES AND SUDDENLY AS A RESULT OF A MINOR INSULT (WHAT SOMEONE SAID OR DID) THEY BECOME SEIZED BY INTENSE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND A SCATTERED MIND.

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT BEFORE 1977 THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE CONSCIOUSNESS STATE OF THE WORLD TO CHANGE? I CERTAINLY DID NOT BECAUSE IF I KNEW I WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT MUCH EARLIER.

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE WORLD’S CONSCIOUSNESS TO CHANGE YET AGAIN AS IT HAS DONE IN RECENT YEARS?

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT JESUS SPOKE OF THE COMING OF ANOTHER COUNSELOR? DID YOU OR THE CHURCH LEADERS OR THE SCHOLARS WHO PORE OVER THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGHOUT THE AGES?

NOBODY CHANGED ME IN RECENT YEARS BUT I CHANGED MYSELF JUST AS NOBODY CHANGED ME IN 1977. I SET MYSELF STEADFASTLY ON A COURSE OF CHANGE IN RECENT YEARS BECAUSE I HAD ENOUGH, I WOULD NOT COUNTENANCE SUFFERING AND NONSENSE FROM OTHERS ANYMORE BY REFUSING TO SMILE, REFUSING TO SAY OR DO THINGS TO PLEASE AND IMPRESS OTHERS, REFUSING TO STRETCH MY SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS.

What Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth” indicates that no one else except the spirit of truth can guide you into all the truth and he is likely if not certainly foretelling a time when a consciousness change will enable you to bear what you could not them. Only a consciousness change involving everyone will enable you to bear what you could not bear then and it has occurred enabling me to bear what I could not bear before 1977 and it was I who triggered it in 1977 and again in recent years. If the counselor guide you into all the truth and teaches you many things that you cannot bear then you must be unrepentant and deluded and it is not suprising that you will not be forgiven if you cannot see and accept the truth that is spelt out to you as never before.

IF AS THE BUDDHA SAID, YOU HAVE BEEN TRANSMIGRATING FOR COUNTLESS EONS AND EACH EON LASTS EVEN 15 BILLION YEARS AND YOU HAVE SHED YOUR OWN BLOOD GREATER THAN THE FOUR OCEANS, IS IT ANY SURPRISE THAT PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES GOOD AND WISE TAKE ISSUE WITH WHAT I SAY NOT REALIZING THEY ARE DELUDED AND DOOMED FOR EVEN ANOTHER ETERNITY OF SUFFERING? IF IT WAS SO EASY TO REFORM DELUDED GOATS, YOU WILL NOT HAVE WANDERED FOR SO MANY EONS AND SHED BLOOD GREATER THAN ALL THE FOUR GREAT OCEANS.

Jesus: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor (like Jesus was a counselor, a person who came), to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive (if the great majority of people are good and therefore truthful they would have received truth or perhaps this is a world of falsity where people are all acting and being poisonously nice, not good to each other), because it (the world or the great majority) neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you. "These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit (The counselor is the Holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things (he will cover a broad range of subjects), and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (if the church has brought you remembrance of what Jesus taught, it would be redundant).But when the Counselor comes (he will not come immediately), whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father (Jesus said he came from the Father, just as he says the counselor comes from the Father. Jesus said he was the Son of man, surely not because men are his father but there may be another son who is not of man), he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (The counselor must bring you advantage as no man has done)And when he comes, he will convince the world (if the counselor was a voice in the minds of Christians, how can he convince the world instead of just Christians?) concerning sin and righteousness (goodness) and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. (When the counselor comes, it will be time for mankind to be judged)"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (Perhaps a consciousness change that the counselor will initiate would be enabling) When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak (if the counselor knows everything, he will not need to hear and then speak) and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you (if the church and Christians have glorified Jesus, there would be no need for a counselor to do so. If What the counselor speaks is similar to the Church, there would be no need for a counselor to speak). All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Jesus called the counselor the Holy Spirit and he also said that whoever speaks against him will not be forgiven.

Jesus: Therefore I tell you, every (not some) sin and blasphemy will (not may) be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against (blasphemes) the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against (blasphemes) the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

How Long Is An Eon?

A mustard seed is 1 mm in diameter. If a man was to take one seed out every 100 years from a pile of seeds seven miles in length, width and height, the world cycle has still not come to an end.
Science tells us the earth is at least 4 billion years old. The Universe is 14 billion years old.

Thus if you cannot go to eternal life in heaven, you will spend millions if not billions of years wandering as animals.
WHAT IS AT STAKE WHEN YOU END YOUR LIFE HERE IS ETERNAL LIFE OR ETERNAL WANDERING FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AND YOU ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THIS WORLD, MAKING MONEY AND PRESERVING YOUR LIFE HERE. JESUS SAID YOU SHOULD NOT CARE FOR WHAT YOU SHALL EAT OR WEAR.
How many eons have there been?
According to the Buddha there have been innumerable eons and you have been wandering all these while. If 4 persons who live 100 years were to collect 100,000 world cycles day, there is still be more world cycles uncollected when they pass away.
4. ßMonk, a world cycle is very long and it is not easy to innumerate it as, `it's this amount of years' or `this amount of hundred years,' or `this amount of thousand years,' or `this amount of hundred thousand years'.û
5. ßVenerable sir, is it possible to give a comparison?û
6. The Blessed One said: ßPossible. Monk, there is a huge rock which is seven miles by the length, breath and the height. It is without a flaw, not perforated and of the same thickness everywhere. After the lapse of one hundred thousand years a man comes with a cashmere cloth and touches the rock once. By this method the rock diminishes and vanishes, but the world cycle does not come to an end.
7. ßMonk, so long is the world cycle. Many of these world cycles make a several world cycle and a collection of a hundred of the several world cycles make a several hundred world cycle and a collection of a thousand of the several world cycles make a several thousand world cycle and a collection of a hundred thousand of the several world cycles make a several hundred thousand world cycle.
8. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û
6. The Blessed One said: ßPossible. Monk, in a poor city there is a block of mustard seeds (1 mm in size) seven miles by the length, breath and the height bound together by the roots. After the lapse of one hundred years a man comes and takes out one of the seeds. By this method the mustard seeds diminish and vanish but the world cycle does not come to an end.
7. ßMonk, so long is the world cycle. Many of these world cycles make a several world cycle and a collection of a hundred of the several world cycles make a several hundred world cycle and a collection of a thousand of the several world cycles make a several thousand world cycle and a collection of a hundred thousand of the several world cycles make a several hundred thousand world cycle.
8. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û
4. ßMonks, a large number of world cycles have gone by, it is not easy to innumerate them as `it's this amount of world cycles,' or `this amount of hundred world cycles,' or `this amount of thousand world cycles,' or `this amount of hundred thousand world cycles'.û
5. ßVenerable sir, is it possible to give a comparison?û
6. The Blessed One said: ßPossible. Monks, there are four disciples who have life spans of hundred years and live the life span of hundred years. They recollect a hundred thousand world cycles per day. Even while they recollect the world cycle remains The four disciples who have life spans of hundred years and has lived the hundred years pass off at the end of the hundred years.
7. ßMonks, a large number of world cycles have gone by, it is not easy to innumerate them as `it's this amount of world cycles,' or `this amount of hundred world cycles,' or `this amount of thousand world cycles,' or `this amount of hundred thousand world cycles'.
8. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û
You Have Shed More Blood Than The Four Oceans:
UNLESS YOU ENJOY BEING BORN ENDLESSLY WITHOUT CHOICE AS PIGS, SHEEP AND CATTLE FOR OTHERS TO EAT BECAUSE THE KARMA THAT YOU ARE NOW HEAPING ON YOURSELF CONDEMNS YOU, THEN YOU SHOULD MAKE EFFORT NOW ABOVE ALL ELSE TO STEM THE FLOW OF YOUR KARMA BY SPEAKING THE TRUTH, BY NOT PERSECUTING OTHERS WITH STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION BY THE WAY YOU SPEAK WITH STYLE.
CAN ALL THE FASTIDIOUS METICULOUS DEVOTION TO HEALTH FOOD, PROGRAMS OF EXERCISE, MEDICINE, KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICINE, SCIENCE, OR ARTS DELIVER YOU FROM FREEDOM FROM HAVING YOUR HEADS CUT OFF AS BEASTS?
CAN RIGHTEOUS CONDUCT (NOT KILLING, STEALING, DRINKING, NOT LUSTING, TELLING LIES, GOSSIPING & IDLE CHATTER), CONCENTRATION OF MIND (PASSIVE CALM CESSATION OF ALL THINKING AND EMOTIONS) AND WISDOM DELIVER YOU TO HEAVEN AND FREEDOM FROM SUFFERING?
9. ßIndeed monks, the blood you have shed on account of the neck being severed from the body in this long journey in existences running from one existence to another, is more than the water in the four great oceans.
10. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as cattle, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.
11. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as buffaloes, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.
12. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as sheep, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.
13. ßMonks, ... re ... born as goats ... re ...
14. ßMonks, ... re ... born as deer... re ...
15. ßMonks, ... re ... born as fowl ... re ...
16. ßMonks, ... re ... born as pigs..... re ...
17. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who destroy villages, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...
18. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who wait in ambush, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...
19. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who went to other wives that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...
20. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out, of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û

Why People Are So Recalcitrant:
If it is true as the Buddha said you have been wandering for innumerable eons each of which lasts even billions of years, the tears that you have shed wandering from existence to existence is greater than the water in the four oceans, a being who has not been a father or mother or sibling to you in the past is hard to find then it is no surprise at all that beings, even those who call themselves wise and good are recalcitrant, have turned a deaf or condescending ear to what I say and are far more foolish for their own good that escapes their own realization.
What is another eternity of wandering and weeping if you have wandered in suffering for so many eons in the past? Many even those who call themselves good and wise will not be denied. Like insects attracted to the fire to be burnt, many are foolish, driven by their emotions that they cannot resist to the fire to be burnt again and again for an eternity.
IF IT IS SO EASY TO CURE DELUSION AND ILL WILL, LONG AGO PEOPLE WOULD HAVE PUT AN END TO EXISTENCE ESPECIALLY IN THE LOWER REALMS WHICH ARE IN TRUTH UNIFORMLY PAINFUL BUT THEY FAKE THEY ARE ENJOYING THEMSELVES AND WHATEVER PLEASURES OF EXISTENCE ARE SCANT COMPENSATION FOR THE TOILS & TORMENTS BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL OF EXISTENCE IN THE LOWER REALMS THAT INCLUDE HUMAN.
PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE FOOLISH AND DRIVEN BY ILL WILL, INCITED, BRAINWASHED & MAINTAINED TO BE SO MERCILESSLY AND RELENTLESSLY BY EVERYONE ELSE WHO SO WELL THEY THOROUGHLY BELIEVE THEIR DELUSIONS (EG STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGING OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS ARE MEANINGFUL, CHARMING AND BENEFICIAL WHEN THEY ARE MEANINGLESS, HARMFUL AND ENDS IN MADNESS) AS TRUE EVEN AFTER IT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT TO THEM BY ME. IT MAY MAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCE FOR ME TO PREACH TO A WALL THAN TO PEOPLE EVEN LIKE BILL GATES OR THE POPE, SUCH IS THE IMPENETRIBILITY OF THEIR SELF BELIEFS.
4. ßMonks, the heap of bones, the skeletons of a single person running from one existence to the other throughout a world cycle would be like the Vepulla rock if there was someone to collect them and if the collection was not destroyed.
5. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û
6. The Teacher further said:
ßThe Great Sages sayThe collection of bones of a single person,Throughout a world cycle, was as big asThe huge Vepulla rock.Vepulla, is north of the Gijjha peaks,In the cavity of MagadhaWhen the four noble truths are seenWith right wisdom as unpleasantness,The arising of unpleasantness,The ending of unpleasantness,And the noble eightfold path for the ending of unpleasantnessHe limits his births to seven times the mostAnd ending all unpleasantness cuts all bonds.
Style can never add to but it can negate & subtract meaning:
Style can never add greater meaning to what is said but it can subtract and negate the meaning of what is said.
Style or the stretching of syllables, changing of speed and loudness cannot add any meaning to the substance of what is said but style can subtract and even negate the meaning of what is said. For instance, something said can only be sarcastic because of the style with which it is said with the pretentious stretching of syllables, changes in speed and loudness that indicate to those who are discerning that the person does not mean what he says, he means the opposite of what he said.
Seeing Danger In The Slightest Flaw:
IT WAS THE BUDDHA WHO SAID YOU MUST SEE DANGER IN THE SLIGHTEST FLAW. DAILY RECURRING STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE ARE NEVER BLAMELESS BUT REFLECT BLAMEWORTHY SELF CONDUCT AND CONDITION THE PERSON WHO REGULARLY EXPERIENCE THEM EVER MORE INTENSELY TO THEM THAT WILL END IN TRAGEDY. WHETHER YOU KEEP YOUR PRESENT BEING AFTER YOU DIE OR YOU LOSE IT TO WANDER ON IN ETERNAL HABITATIONS IN FRUITLESS VEXATIONS WILL DEPEND ON HOW WISE YOU ARE TO SEE DANGER IN THE SLIGHTEST FLAW AND MAKE DEDICATED EFFORT EG TO STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
The Buddha taught that you must see danger in the slightest flaw and ordinary people are kidding themselves if they think they heed the Buddha’s warning because they see no danger but instead think with society’s including false gurus’ connivance they are meritorious in exhibiting conduct that are actually blatant flaws such as smiling, laughing, joking, giving excuses & saying things they don’t mean to please or impress others.
Compared to existence as humans, formed existence in heaven is incomparably superior. Compared to formed existence in heaven, formless virtually eternal existence as brahmas is even more blissful, compared to formless existence, the total extinction of existence in nirvana that is beyond all conjecture is even higher according to the Buddha.
Because beings here only know the taste of existence here, they have not tasted the incomparably superior modes of higher existences, they are attached to their lives and think their conduct will lead them to safety when they are headed to suffering that may be as vast as an ocean and as long as another eternity.
Until you are free of all emotions, you are not safe. This is a world where everyone is trying to provoke you. Even if you are right, if you are provoked, you have been sucked in and in danger of future suffering. Even your loved ones are trying to provoke you to become emotional by smiling (that provokes you to return the smile with emotional acknowledgement), say things that intentionally or unintentionally incite you to be angry or dislike and once you become emotional, your mind is disturbed and conditioned to disturbance.
When I calmly point out to you how you are stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness and you become angry, you may be right that I am provoking you or you may be wrong, you have mad perception and easily, irrationally aroused dislike or anger that can be provoked by any criticism, that will not tolerate criticism except by those you fear. For example if Dr M criticized you, you will smile as if you appreciate not because you appreciate his criticism but because you are afraid of him and respect him but you will brook no criticism even if it is objective and unemotional from me because you have mad perception of what is matter of fact is provocative that you do not realize will end in future total insanity, uncontrollable violence.
The process of death:
When someone's heart stops pumping blood around their body, the tissues and cells are deprived of oxygen and rapidly begin to die.
But different cells die at different rates. So, for example, brain cells die within three to seven minutes, while skin cells can be taken from a dead body for up to 24 hours after death and still grow normally in a laboratory culture.
But contrary to folklore, this doesn't mean that hair and nails continue to grow after death, although shrinkage of the skin can make it seem this way.
Rate of decomposition
From this point on, nature is very efficient at breaking down human corpses. Decomposition is well under way by the time burial or cremation occurs. However, the exact rate of decomposition depends to some extent on environmental conditions.
Decomposition in the air is twice as fast as when the body is under water and four times as fast as underground. Corpses are preserved longer when buried deeper, as long as the ground isn't waterlogged.
The intestines are packed with millions of micro-organisms that don't die with the person. These organisms start to break down the dead cells of the intestines, while some, especially bacteria called clostridia and coliforms, start to invade other parts of the body.
At the same time the body undergoes its own intrinsic breakdown under the action of enzymes and other chemicals which have been released by the dead cells. The pancreas, for example, is usually packed with digestive enzymes, and so rapidly digests itself.
Green substances and gas
The decomposing tissues release green substances and gas, which make the skin green/blue and blistered, starting on the abdomen. The front of the body swells, the tongue may protrude, and fluid from the lungs oozes out of the mouth and nostrils.
This unpleasant sight is added to by a terrible smell as gases such as hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg smell), methane and traces of mercaptans are released. This stage is reached in temperate countries after about four to six days, much faster in the tropics and slower in cold or dry conditions.
A corpse left above ground is then rapidly broken down by insects and animals, including bluebottles and carrion fly maggots, followed by beetles, ants and wasps.
In the tropics, a corpse can become a moving mass of maggots within 24 hours.
If there are no animals to destroy the body, hair, nails and teeth become detached within a few weeks, and after a month or so the tissues become liquefied and the main body cavities burst open.
Burial in a coffin slows the process
The whole process is generally slower in a coffin, and the body may remain identifiable for many months. Some tissues, such as tendons and ligaments, are more resistant to decomposition, while the uterus and prostate glands may last several months.
But within a year all that is usually left is the skeleton and teeth, with traces of the tissues on them - it takes 40 to 50 years for the bones to become dry and brittle in a coffin. In soil of neutral acidity, bones may last for hundreds of years, while acid peaty soil gradually dissolves the bones.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

A Hypocrite In General & In Particular

There are no part time hypocrites but you are a hypocrite in general and in particular until the day if ever you see the light and repent to pay attention to make effort to correct yourself.
Even those who think they are good do not realize the Buddha is referring to them when he said the person of no integrity is a person of no integrity in his friendship, in the way he wills (he always wills for the stress of others with his stylish speech & behavior that stresses others), the way he gives advice, the way he speaks (with style), the way he acts (with style), the views he holds & the way he gives a gift.
As the Buddha said, there is no way a person of no integrity (a hypocrite) can tell the non hypocrite from a hypocrite but the person who is not a hypocrite (me) can know who is and is not a hypocrite in every instance.
A person is a hypocrite in GENERAL if he speaks with a style because:
a) His style that differs from others but is extremely consistent or a trademark in him cannot be freshly composed for each occasion but must be rehashed old hat impersonally standardized by rote as cleverly faked live. If you are faking live, rehashing from the past, you are a hypocrite.
b) Because you cannot stress, make restless or distract your listener without speaking with style, without stretching your syllables, changing speed and loudness in your individual way, whenever you speak with style you either consciously or unconsciously (in denial) want to stress, make restless and distract your listener that belies whatever fine words or truth that you may say and therefore you are a hypocrite.
c) Because style is meaningless, does not add one ounce of meaning to what he says, he cannot mean what is meaningless when he speaks with style and therefore a person who speaks with style can never fully mean what he says because his ever present style is meaningless.
d) Because his style is meant to deceive, impress, please, intimidate and dominate and he seldom if ever tells his listener that he wants to deceive, impress, please or intimidate or dominate him, he is a hypocrite. For instance when a person speak enthusiastically about his new car, he does say I want you to be impressed by my car, I want you to be jealous or envious.
A person is a hypocrite in PARTICULAR if he says THINGS that he does not mean to deceive, impress, please, intimidate or dominate.
For instance an employee will learn to ask his boss about his golf game not because he is interested in golf but just to please his boss and get on his good books.
When you threaten someone (eg I will report you) without intention to do so, you are saying something false to intimidate him and you are a hypocrite.
When you thank me that imply you are appreciative for emails that you did not appreciate because you deleted without reading, you do not mean your thanks and therefore are a hypocrite.
When you are sarcastic, you mean the opposite of what you say and therefore you a hypocrite. For instance when you say “You are so smart” when you mean you are such an idiot, you are a hypocrite.
When you joke or try to be funny you cannot mean what you say and therefore you are a hypocrite. Because people joke all the time, try to say things in a ‘humorous’ way they severely underestimate their hypocrisy.
Whenever a person tells a lie (and ordinary people severely underestimate the amount of lying they are guilty of) or gives an excuse, he is practicing hypocrisy.
THUS WHEN YOU TELL LIES, GIVE EXCUSES, CRACK A JOKE OR ARE SARCASTIC YOU ARE BEING A HYPOCRITE.
WHENEVER THE MATTER OF WHAT YOU SAY IS NOT TRUE OR THE BASIS OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY BUT YOUR INTENTION OF SAYING IT IS TO DECEIVE, IMPRESS, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE, YOU ARE THEN BEING A HYPOCRITE IN THAT PARTICULAR INSTANCE.
WHENEVER THE STYLE (EG ANGRY, LUSTFUL, CHARMING, SAD) OR WAY OF YOUR SPEECH IS INTENDED TO DECEIVE (SOUND ANGRY BUT NOT REALLY ANGRY), IMPRESS, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE, YOU ARE BEING A HYPOCRITE IN GENERAL.
HYPOCRISY IN GENERAL PERTAINS TO THE WAY OR STYLE OF SPEECH WHILST HYPOCRISY IN PARTICULAR PERTAINS TO THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH.
ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ALL HAVE STYLES ARE HYPOCRITES IN GENERAL AND THEY ARE ALSO HYPOCRITES IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE IT CAN BE OBJECTIVELY PROVEN THAT THEY ARE HYPOCRITES IN PARTICULAR INSTANCES OF WHAT THEY SAY.
Here again below I am preaching from the Teaching of the Buddha as few if any Buddhist leaders let alone Buddhists have done:
Cula-Punnama Sutta
The Shorter Discourse on the Full-moon Night
"Monks, could a person of no integrity know of a person of no integrity: 'This is a person of no integrity'?"
"No, lord."
"Good, monks.'
"Could a person of no integrity know of a person of integrity: 'This is a person of integrity'?"
"No, lord."
"Good, there's no way.'
"A person of no integrity is a person of no integrity in his friendship, in the way he wills, the way he gives advice, the way he speaks, the way he acts, the views he holds & the way he gives a gift.
"And how is a person of no integrity endowed with qualities of no integrity? He is lacking in conviction, conscience, concern [for the results of unskillful actions]; he is unlearned, lazy, of muddled mindfulness & poor discernment.”
"He has as his companions, people who are lacking in conviction, conscience, lacking in concern, lazy, of muddled mindfulness & poor discernment.
"He wills for his own & the affliction of others.
"He gives advice for his own or the affliction of others.
"He tells lies, engages in divisive tale-bearing, harsh speech, idle chatter.
"He takes life, steals, engages in illicit sex.
"He holds a view like this: 'There is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed. There is no result of good or bad actions. There is no this world or next world, no mother, no father, no spontaneously reborn beings; no contemplatives who, practicing rightly, proclaim this world & the next after realized it for themselves.'
"He gives a gift inattentively, not with his own hand, disrespectfully, as if throwing it away, with the view that nothing will come of it.
"Now, monks, could a person of integrity know of a person of no integrity?"
"Yes, lord."
"Good, monks.'
"Could a person of integrity know of a person of integrity: 'This is a person of integrity'?"
"Yes, lord."
"Good, monks.'
"A person of integrity is a person of integrity in his friendship, the way he wills, gives advice, speaks & acts, the views he holds, & the way he gives a gift.
"A person of integrity is endowed with conviction, conscience, concern; he is learned, with aroused persistence, unmuddled mindfulness & good discernment."
"He has, as his friends & companions, those contemplatives endowed with conviction, conscience, concern; who are learned, unmuddled mindfulness & good discernment.
"He wills neither for his own nor the affliction of others.
"He gives advice neither for his own nor the affliction of others.
"He refrains from lies, divisive tale-bearing, harsh speech, idle chatter.
"He refrains from taking life, stealing, illicit sex.
"He holds a view like this: 'There is what is given, what is offered, what is sacrificed. There are fruits & results of good & bad actions. There is this world & the next world. There is mother & father. There are spontaneously reborn beings; there are contemplatives who, practicing rightly, proclaim this world & the next after realized it for themselves.'
"He gives a gift attentively, with his own hand, respectfully, not as if throwing it away, with the view that something will come of it.
"This person of integrity, after death, reappears in the destination of people of integrity. And what is the destination? Greatness among devas or among human beings."
GOING UNDERCOVER:
PEOPLE ARE NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK AGAINST ME BUT FEARFUL TO SPEAK AGAINST JESUS BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHO HE IS AND ARE FEARFUL FOR THEIR LIVES BUT THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF ME BECAUSE THEY THINK I AM A NOBODY. BUT JUST AS KINGS CAN PUT ON ORDINARY CLOTHES AND GO OUT INTO THE STREETS TO HEAR WHAT HIS SUBJECTS ARE TRULY SAYING ABOUT HIM, IT MAY BE THAT I AM JUST A MISTER SO AND SO OR IT MAY BE THAT I AM SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARY THAT YOU SPEAK AGAINST AT YOUR OWN RISK. REMEMBER JESUS SAID THAT WHAT YOU DID TO THE LEAST OF ME YOU DID IT TO ME. EVEN IF I AM THE LEAST OF GOD YOU ARE DOING TO GOD WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO ME.
THE BUDDHA SAYS I AM A RARE PERSON: A person who preaches the Teaching and Discipline declared by the Thus Gone One is rare in the world. BY HIS CRITERIA I AM A NOBLE PERSON BECAUSE I HAVE ABANDONED STRESS (BY NOT CONSTANTLY ADDING EXTRA FORCE TO WHAT I SAY OR DO) AND RESTLESSNESS (BY PRACTICING CONSTANCY IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS), I EFFORTLESSLY NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE (BY NOT ALLOWING MY MENTAL FORCE TO UNDULATE OR RISE UNABATED IN SPEED AND STRENGTH), I GAIN CONCENTRATION EASILY, SLEEP WELL, WAKE EASILY AND DREAM NO EVIL DREAMS. THEREFORE WHEN YOU SPEAK AGAINST ME, YOU ARE SPEAKING AGAINST SOMEONE WHO IS CONSIDERIED NOBLE BY THE BUDDHA WITH COMENSURATELY GRAVER CONSEQUENCES THAN SPEAKING AGAINST ORDINARY PEOPLE.
THE BUDDHA SAID HE HIMSELF HAD BEEN THE ALL POWERFUL ONE FOR SEVEN EONS. ONLY HE COULD BECOME SELF ENLIGHTENED. EVEN HIS DEPUTIES HAD TO BE GUIDED TO ENLIGHTENMENT BY HIM. JESUS SAID THAT ALL THE FATHER HAS IS HIS. IT MAY BE THAT WHEN THE FATHER DECIDES TO PUT AN END TO ALL EXISTING TO BECOME A BUDDHA, JESUS WILL BECOME THE FATHER JUST AS FATHERS PASS THEIR THRONES TO THEIR SONS. THEREFORE GOD OR THE FATHER MAY BE MUCH CLOSER TO THE BUDDHA THAN YOU WERE EVER TO GOD AND IT IS PRESUMPTUOUS TO DISMISS THE BUDDHA WHO SAID HE IS EVEN HIGHER THAN GOD. HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD DISAGREES WITH THE BUDDHA’S ASSERTION?