Jesus: 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.
What Jesus said implies that the counselor will clearly benefit you even to the extent that it is to your advantage that he should go away.
What can be the things that the counselor can bring that will make it to your advantage that Jesus should go?
The Buddha said the core of his teaching is stress and the permanent cessation of all stress implying that stress is never blameless but is blameworthy and can be permanently eliminated and there is no greater consideration than stress and the elimination of stress.
The Buddha: "Very good, Anuradha. Both formerly & now, it is only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress."
By implication of what the Buddha said, stress or suffering is the most important consideration in a being’s existence, stress can be permanently ended and the advantage that the counselor can bring must relate to stress and suffering.
A person’s consciousness presides over whatever he experiences in this world and if there are removable forceful mental constraints that incarcerate him in suffering that left alone he would not be able to discover and cause to be removed then if someone were to act as the catalyst to enable him to become aware and remove his mental shackles, then there can be no greater advantage to him than for this to happen.
If the truth is that beings in this world are not enjoying themselves as they cruelly fake it to be but they universally suffer even to tormenting levels that they can only control and suppress in an endeavor that is ultimately futile because suffering increasingly warps and degrades their minds so that they are doomed to become mad and are headed for perdition that may last even another eternity for persecuting others as they persecute themselves, then if a clear and practical path out of suffering is made known where none existed before or was imagined possible, there can be no greater advantage to the being than if he was the beneficiary of this knowledge.
If the primary cause of the stress, restlessness and distraction that all beings in this world suffer from to even tormenting levels is their constant unnecessary forceful stretching of syllables, constant unnecessary changes in speed and loudness that is also reflected in their movements, thoughts and perceptions, they will experience a permanent previously unimaginable effortless exit from stress, restlessness and distraction if they desisted, then there can be no greater knowledge that anyone can impart to you other than to say, “Stop stretching your syllables, stop changing speed and loudness when you speak”.
If nothing matters or is of more concern to a being except his suffering and an end to his suffering if it is feasible then whoever defines for him the nature of his suffering in its entirety and offers credible practical antidotes must be to his advantage more than anybody or anything else. If apart from physical pain, the entirety of a person’s suffering is little or nothing more than his endogenous restlessness, distraction, doubt and uncertainty then whoever defines their natures, causes and how to eliminate must be of benefit to you more than anything or anybody else.
Stress is nothing more than the painful result of constantly applying force on one own mind either directly or indirectly via emotions by stretching, changing speed and forcefulness in whatever one perceives, thinks, does and speaks.
Restlessness is nothing more than the inevitable frequent loss of control that results from the constant changes in speed and forcefulness in whatever the person perceives, thinks, does and says.
Distraction is nothing more than the helpless division of one’s attention that results from doing more than one thing at a time (talks whilst eating) of which the simultaneous combo of substance and style in whatever the person perceives, thinks, does and speaks is one manifestation of the constant division of his attention.
UNLESS THERE ARE GREATER ADVANTAGES THAN FOR TORMENTING CONSCIOUSNESS CONSTRAINTS THAT PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW EXISTED OR ARE ABLE TO REMOVE BY THEMSELVES BE CATALYZED TO BE REMOVED AND A PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE WAY PERMANENTLY OUT OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION BE MADE KNOWN TO THEM, THEN THESE ARE THE GREATEST BENEFITS THAT CAN BEFALL ANY BEING.
THERE MAY BE OR CAN BE NO GREATER ADVANTAGE TO A PERSON THAN AS A RESULT OF CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES IN RECENT YEARS HE IS ABLE TO BEAR WHAT HE COULD NOT BEAR BEFORE AND AS A RESULT OF STOPPING STRETCHING HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS HE EXPERIENCES AN UNIMAGINABLE EXIT FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, HE ESCAPES CERTAIN TORMENT FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION IN OLD AGE AND HE HEADS EVEN TO HEAVEN FOR NOT PERSECUTING OTHERS WHERE PREVIOUSLY HE WOULD BE DOOMED TO BE BESET BY STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, HE IS HEADED FOR MADNESS AND PERDITION AFTER DEATH.
An Extremely Rare Opportunity:
Just as the Buddha said it is an extremely rare occurrence that the human state has been obtained by you when a Buddha has arisen in this world and has made known the only way out of suffering, it is an extremely rare occurrence for a person to born a human in this world when the consciousness constraints have been removed to permit an escape from tormenting false acting and the way permanently out of stress, restlessness and distraction previously virtually impossible has been made known.
But people who have the good fortune to be born into today’s changed state, even those who think they are good and intelligent who have heard what I have said many times are (emotionally) recalcitrant and unrepentant, they have spurned what I have said, turned a deaf ear and what they have done is turned down the volume of their acting or modified their acting to adapt to and take advantage of changed conditions, they still believe in this world and are attached to it, believed in their sicknesses and try to protect and prolong their precious lives here with exercise, health foods and deluded beliefs of what is mentally and physically good for themselves and others. By turning down the volume of their acting they would have derived a measure of relief from suffering but what they do not realize is that they are kidding themselves that they have changed because they are unrepentant and a day will come when all that they have will be taken from them and they will have nothing, they will lose control of the acting that they refuse to give up and with the final loss of control they will descend into madness and thence to wander on even for another eternity in dark torment where no light shines through where now light has been made to shine through.
TAKE A GOOD CONSTANT LOOK AT YOURSELF AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT STILL STRETCHING YOUR SYLLABLES OR CHANGING LOUDNESS AND SPEED WHEN YOU TALK (IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT BY STRETCHING AND CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS). IF YOU HAVE MERELY MODERATED YOUR STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, YOU HAVE MERELY TURNED THE VOLUME OF YOUR ACTING DOWN, YOU ARE UNREPENTANT AND IN DANGER OF HEADING TOWARDS FUTURE AGONY THAT MAY BE MUCH MORE INTENSE AND EVERLASTING FOR ANOTHER ETERNITY THAN YOU EVER DREAMT POSSIBLE.
Anyone who will use force in his speech, who will stretch his syllables, change speed and loudness will also do the same for his perceptions (the way and what he sees, hears, smells, tastes and touches), thoughts and movements. It is impossible for someone who truly does not use force in his speech, who does not stretch his syllables or changed speed or loudness to experience stress, restlessness and distraction. So any being that regularly experiences stress, restlessness and distraction must be unwittingly doing so. If you are indifferent, unconcerned that you suffer regularly from stress, restlessness and distraction, you think you have more important things to concern yourself, you may rue in regret in suffering for even another eternity.
Stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness whilst speaking consumes prodigious energy creating insoluble cumulative stress, restlessness and distraction in self and others and it is only intended to deceive, please, impress, dominate and intimidate others. If you think they are essential, you are headed for mad logic and you are constantly piling on debts for hurting others as you hurt yourself.
Chiggala Sutta: The Hole
The Buddha: "Monks, suppose this great earth was covered with water and a man were to toss a yoke with a single hole in its center there. A wind from the east would push it west and a wind from the west would push it east. A wind from the north would push it to the south and a wind from the south would push it to the north. And suppose a blind turtle would come to the surface once every hundred years. Now what do you think: would that blind sea-turtle stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole?"
"It would be a sheer coincidence." (an extremely rare fortuitous occurrence)
"It's likewise a sheer coincidence that one obtains the human state and that a Tathagata (One Who Thus Comes) arises in the world. Now, this human state has been obtained. A Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened has arisen in the world. A doctrine & discipline expounded by a Tathagata appears in the world.
"Therefore your duty is the contemplation: 'This is stress...This is the origination... the cessation... the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress.'"
(If you spurn the golden opportunity presented by today’s changed consciousness that permit an exit from tormenting acting with its attending stress, restlessness and distracting that will unfailingly turn malignant by totally not stretching syllables, not changing speed and loudness, you may rue in regret even for another eternity for your great folly)
Mental & Physical Suffering:
There are two kinds of pain or suffering, mental and physical.
Physical pain is rooted in the body eg the pain of a cut, prick, burn, heat, cold or cancer. Although physical pain is caused by an assault on the body it too is experienced in the mind and any mind that harbors force amplifies the pain to a degree dependent on how strong that mental force is.
As the Buddha said, when the fool is stricken by pain (cancer or cuts himself) he is struck by two arrows, the arrow of purely physical pain and the arrow of (emotional or forceful) grief or rebellion that may be far more intense than the purely physical insult. When stricken by physical pain, the noble person does not grief, does not rebel and he is only struck by one arrow, the pain of the insult.
Mental pain is entirely sourced in the mind and takes the forms of stress, restlessness, distraction and emotional pain (sadness, depression, fear and even emotional joy and greed are suffering not pleasure).
Serious Self Identity View:
Self identity views are never the pleasure it is made up to be, are not just suffering and deadly here but they condemn the person to another eternity of suffering because the Buddha said that self identity views together with faith in rites and precepts and doubt and uncertainty are fetters to future states of woe. If you are headed for woe after you leave here you are not headed for eternal life but eternal punishment.
And who is a person with self identity views?
Anyone who acts, puts on a show is a person with self identity views that will condemn him to states of future woe.
Because the constant stretching of syllables, changes in speed and loudness are never isolated to his speech but pervades all his motions, thoughts and perceptions, are never pleasurable or free but consumes prodigious energy creating mounting insoluble stress, restlessness and distraction apart from warping and degrading his mind and persecuting all who come within visible or audible contact of him, are false, an individualized brand aimed at deceiving, pleasing, impressing, intimidating and dominating others, it takes a person of significant or stubborn self identity views to continue stretching his syllables, change speed and loudness even after it has been demonstrated to him how he does so.
Apart from the fabricated pitch differences in their voices (some people’s vocalize with artificially shrill voices eg women, some men make their voice bassier to impress) each person has a style of speaking that can be reduced to their characteristic ways of stretching syllables and changing speed and loudness. If it was not style, it would be the same for everyone. This individual brand of stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness amongst other things reflect a serious self identity view, an identification with a false self that speaks with a false style. Only a person who speaks with no style, no stretching of syllables or changes in speed or loudness is a man effortlessly with no self identity because he does not forcefully painstakingly learn, perfect and adopt his personal brand of stretching and changing speed and loudness to project to others.
ONLY A PERSON WHO PASSIVELY DOES NOT STRETCH SYLLABLES, DOES NOT CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS A PERSON TRULY WITHOUT SELF IDENTITY VIEWS. ANYONE WHO CONSTANTLY STRETCHES HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGES SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS A PERSON WITH SERIOUS SELF IDENTITY VIEWS THAT PROMOTE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AND HE IS HEADED FOR WOE BECAUSE THE BUDDHA SAID FALSE SELF IDENTITY VIEWS ARE ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO STATES OF FUTURE WOE. YOU MIGHT THINK THE WAY YOU SPEAK IS CHARMING BUT YOU ARE CHARMING YOURSELF AND YOUR LISTENERS TO STATES OF FUTURE WOE. THE BUDDHA SAID ALL STRESS IS DUE TO FABRICATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL BRANDS OF STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS ARE FABRICATIONS OR CONCOCTIONS THAT THE PERSON HAS BECOME ATTACHED TO, IDENTIFIED WITH AS DENOTING HIS SELF AND HE IS HEADED FOR WOE NOT HEAVEN.
AND WHOEVER STRETCHES HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGES SPEED AND LOUDNESS MUST HAVE VARIOUS SPECIFIC INSTANCES OF SELF IDENTITY VIEWS WHOSE STRENGTH HE OFTEN DOWNPLAYS OR DENIES SUCH AS IDENTITY TO HIS RACE, HIS NATIONALITY, HIS PROFESSION, HIS VIEWS OR BELIEFS, HIS POSSESSIONS (CARS, HOUSE, WIVES, CHILDREN), HIS BODY, HOW AND WHAT HE LIKES TO EAT, HEAR, SMELL AND SEE.
An Important Difference Between People:
Just as some electrical cables are thicker and can sustain much higher electrical current without melting, just as some people willfully develop their muscles in the gym so as to become strapping muscle men, in the same way there are those who can sustain great emotions (eg anger) even great conflicting emotions and still speak without breaking up whilst others become visibly and audibly flustered and incoherent when they become mildly upset.
The ability to function or speak whilst experiencing intense emotion, stress & restlessness, to endure and conceal intense emotion, stress and restlessness from others (those who are discerning are not fooled) is something people willfully develop, condition themselves so that they become very good at it and subsequently they cannot help it, they are trapped and actually suffering whose intensity depends the intensity of the emotions they are capable of generating and hiding. Hiding is itself another layer of suffering.
It is not just brutes that fall into this category but many seemingly mild mannered soft spoken people have developed great capacity to speak without breakup when they are very angry or even murderous.
In the days before I changed in 1977, I was like a thin cable that could not sustain much electrical current before fusing. Unlike others I could never develop the capacity to absorb self and other abuse, to harden myself so as to be seemingly impervious to insults by self and others and I suffered accordingly, becoming easily nervous or agitated to the point of trembling and incoherence when meeting people whose manners of speech contradict their conveyed intentions.
Those who like thick cables have developed an even monstrous capacity to sustain self and other abuse and emotions without flinching may be pleased with themselves but they are trapped men and the intensity of the emotions and mental force they are capable of sustaining without break up is the intensity of torment they will experience now and in the future that may last even an eternity.
The intensity of mental force and emotion varies between individuals, some people have far stronger mental force and emotions than others as a result of wilful development, the ability to sustain strong emotions and mental force before breaking up or succumbing similarly also varies but those who have developed themselves through lifelong practice so that they possess monstrous mental forces that they can still control to allow them to behave and speak whilst experiencing intense emotions that would have felled lesser men should not gloat about their porwess for they are headed for particularly intense mental torment when their intense control ultimately will unravel.
The Substance & Style Of Perceptions:
Actors never just perceive passively but there all have individual ways of perceiving (that are not totally unique but variations of other actors’ ways) that are characterized by the way they stretch units of their perceptions, change speed and force within and between units of their perceptions.
There may be those who are incredulous that anyone can stretch or change speed or force within and between units of their perceptions but it is not based on open mindedness (as they deceive themselves) but based on emotional incredulity, presumptuousness, derision and rejection of what is presented to them that does not fit their deluded world views.
Watch dogs or rats smell and you might notice that whenever something smelly attracts their attention they sniff forcefully, never at constantly speed or force but their sniffing (in drawing of the smell) accelerates and decelerates rapidly, instead of just smelling, they prolong the drawing of the smell (also known as stretching). Therefore the dog or rat is not merely smelling but driven by greed or lust or emotion they frantically stretch or prolong their units of smelling with rapidly fluctuation of speed and force to draw in as much of the smell as possible.
In the same way if you watch people even supposedly very cultured men and women smell something they are attracted to, they put on a great show with a smile on their face, closed eyes, heads tilted upwards as they prolong their imbibing or drawing in (stretch their smelling) that is never at constant speed but as they draw in the smell, the speed and force of the smelling rises to a crescendo or smelling ‘orgasm’.
The person who lets his yes be yes only merely notes a smell, notes that the smell is pleasant, very pleasant, unpleasant or neither, he is not driven to forcefully draw in his breath to prolong the smell, to increase the speed and force of his drawing to intensify his smelling.
Similarly when a lust filled man sees a woman of his desires, he does not merely passively see and not pleasant but he stares with force and speed that rapidly accelerates as he prolongs or stretches his seeing.
And people do not objectively or impartially perceive everything that impinges on their awareness but they always perceive selectively, the substance of their perceptions that may also be false or nonsensical depends on their natures. For instance they lust filled man is always on the look out for attractive girls (according to his perverted perception what is attractive, one man’s meat is another’s poison), he livens up in the presence of female company whilst a thief is always on the lookout for opportunities to steal and things valuable unattended. In other words the substance of their perceptions differs and is not objective.
It is the nature of whatever is forceful that if you apply force to do something, you graduate from having to force yourself to being forced to do it. If you force yourself to be on the look out for things to steal, in time you are forced by habit to helplessly look for things to steal and that is not a pleasure but tormenting and bonding as the Buddha said.
Whoever you are, whether you think you are the greatest Christian who ever existed, you think it is not sin but none of others’ business how and what you perceive, if in truth you are guilty of style and substance perception, force must always be used and energy consumed to selectively perceive (false substance of a thief or lustful man), to stretch units of your perception, change speed and force within and between units of your perception to create stress, restlessness and distraction that is not only insoluble because you keep doing it but they will intensify with age because you are also increasingly conditioning yourself to them and you are headed for final loss of control acutely in situations or in senility to become mad in the what and how you perceive.
WHENEVER A PERSON SNIFFS, HE IS FORCEFULLY DRAWING IN SMELL THAT REFLECTING HIS PROPENSITY IN ALL OTHER AREAS, IS ALWAYS DNE WITH INCREASING SPEED AND FORCEFULNESS THAT PROLONGS THE MOMENT OF HIS SMELLING AND HE THEREFORE SMELLS WITH STYLE THAT HAS STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND FORCEFULNESS. IT IS NOT JUST WHEN HE IS SNIFFING THAT HE SMELLS WITH FORCE, STRETCHING AND ACCELERATING SPEED AND FORCE BUT EVEN WHEN HE SMELLS ‘MILDLY’ THERE IS FORCE, STRETCHING AND FLUCTUATING SPEED AND FORCEFULNESS THAT HE FAILS TO PERCEIVE.
AND PERCEIVING WITH FORCE AND CHANGES IN SPEED AND FORCE IS NEVER BLAMELESS BECAUSE OBSERVERS CAN EXPERIENCE THE FORCE, STRETCHING AND CHANGES IN SPEED AND FORCE IN THAT PERSON’S PERCEPTIONS THAT CAUSE THEM TO BECOME STRESSED, RESTLESS AND DISTRACTED.
Quote headline: Malicious worm aims to bite apple.
Comment: It is unlikely to be accident but it is the result of innumerable past practice that the practitioner is now forced rather than forcing himself to always express himself in a witty (false) way to impress others what a smart or humorous person he is but he is heaping grave debts on himself.
What he says is definitely false because there is no worm aiming to an apple but what he is referring to is a malicious computer software called a worm aiming to attack a computer called Apple and he is being mischievous playing with words that confuses readers and engenders uncertainty because they have to contend with two quite different scenarios he does not realize is never meritorious but has grave karma whilst warping his mind so that increasingly he cannot let his yes be yes only but must say things in a false or deceptive way to be witty.
Only One Cause Of Distraction:
The doing of more than one thing at a time is the only cause of distraction that has depth and intensity because it is forceful or force underlies the distraction.
Saying or doing things with a simultaneous combo of substance and style is only a specific instance of doing two things at once that not only divides one’s attention but divides the attention of those forced to observe.
Apart from saying, doing, thinking and perceiving with a simultaneous combo of substance and style that distracts people also do more than one thing at a time in many daily activities eg talking when walking or eating, eating when watching TV and they persecute others by engaging themselves in conversation whilst they work eg talking about trivial matters to the bank teller as she counts your money.
One’s attention can be divided between two things (rare) or many things or even completely scattered (diffuse) and the depth of distraction can be mild or very intense making it difficult to shrug off.
Great Stress Not Great Joy:
Anyone who thinks he is expressing his unbounded joy is deluded because it takes much violently accelerating mental force to laugh thus and it intimidates others to act as if they appreciate. His eyes are in a piercing daze and it is ill will not goodwill that is the source of this and all laughter. Because it is violently stressful, restless and distracting that he takes some time after to pacify, he must hate himself and others for doing what not only hurts him now but warps and degrades his mind.
Intimidating Others:
Anyone who intimidates another is not going to heaven. Just to carry a gun, point a gun at another is to intimidate and he is headed for grave punishment not heaven and eternal life.
Many do not realize they are intimidating others, so well couched in nicety that they think they are blameless and even benefiting others when they are intimidating others.
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