The Process Of Knowing

THE PROCESS OF KNOWING:
THERE IS NOTHING SUPERNATURAL OR MYSTERIOUS INVOLVED WHEN YOU COME TO KNOW SOMEONE OR SOMETHING, EG HOW A TV WORK.
WHAT IS INVOLVED IN KNOWING IS INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND POSSIBLY PUTTING TOGETHER ALL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO ENABLE YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
When someone introduces someone as his wife and you trust him, you accept as you are told to then know she is his wife.
If someone explains to you how a TV works, provided you are conversant in electronic gadgets, you begin to correlate his explanations with knowledge you already have, put them together to know to an extent dependent on your ability to grasp, how a TV works.
BECAUSE JESUS SAID ‘YOU KNOW HIM’ REGARDING THE COUNSELOR, IT MUST BE POSSIBLE FOR READERS TO KNOW HIM BASED ON THE INFORMATION JESUS PROVIDED WITHOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF ANYTHING SUPERNATURAL OR SPECIAL WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH KNOWING AS IT IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD.
BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER MENTION OF THE COUNSELOR APART FROM THAT IN JOHN’S GOSPEL, THAT MENTION MUST BE THE BASIS FOR KNOWING THE COUNSELOR AND IT SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE ELSE TO FULFIL THE DESCRIPTION JESUS GAVE.
KNOWING IS EITHER A PROCESS OF ACCEPTING BY FAITH WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD OR WORKING IT OUT FOR YOURSELF LOGICALLY WHO THE COUNSELOR IS. THEREFORE IN SAYING ‘YOU KNOW HIM’, JESUS IS SAYING IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISCERNING TO WORK OUT LOGICALLY WHO THE COUNSELOR IS BASED ON HIS CONCISE DESCRIPTION.
CLEARLY JESUS WAS TELLING YOU OF SOMEBODY WHO IS TO COME IN THE FUTURE THAT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW, THAT HE THINKS YOU CAN KNOW FROM THE DESCRIPTION HE GAVE AND IT IS NOT JESUS’ FAULT (HE GAVE YOU INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO PINPOINT THE COUNSELOR) THAT MANY EVEN AMONGST WHO THINK THEY ARE GOOD AND SMART WHO HAVE READ THOSE PASSAGES ARE IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT LET ALONE USE THE DESCRIPTION AS A GUIDE TO KNOW THE COUNSELOR AS JESUS SAID IS POSSIBLE.
Those who see but do not see (and they are far more numerous than pretentious humans like to believe) will not know the counselor. Only those who seeing, they see will know the counselor.
Not A Delusion Of Grandeur:
The Buddha: "And, monks, as long as this knowledge & vision of mine -- -- was not pure, I did not claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos with its deities, Maras (Evil ones) & Brahmas, with its contemplatives & priests, its royalty & commonfolk. But as soon as this knowledge & vision of mine -- was truly pure, then I did claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos. Knowledge & vision arose in me: 'Unprovoked is my release. This is the last birth. There is now no further becoming.'"
The Buddha does not say anything that has no rational basis or truth. He only claimed to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos when his knowledge and vision was truly pure. If he could not survey all the beings not just on earth but in the heavens to see that he is truly not make believe without compare, he would not speak so.
IN THE SAME WAY, MY CLAIM TO UNIQUENESS IS NOT BASED ON CONCEIT, MADNESS OR DELUSION BUT THERE IS OBJECTIVE BASIS.
MY CLAIM IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT WHEREAS I CAN SPEAK EFFORTLESSLY WITHOUT STRETCHING MY SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED OR LOUDNESS TO THEREBY PERMANENTLY EXIT STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, SOMETHING PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE, NO BEING, HUMAN OR ANIMAL CAN BE HEARD TO DO SO, EVEN THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SMART AND GOOD CANNOT DO SO AFTER I HAVE PERSONALLY DEMONSTRATED MANY TIMES TO THEM WHAT NOT STRETCHING, NOT CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS SOUNDS LIKE.
IF I DID NOT CHANGE MY CONSCIOUSNESS NOT ONCE BUT TWICE AFTER 1977 AND IN RECENT YEARS TO EXPERIENCE AN INCOMPARABLY SUPERIOR PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS STATE IN WHICH TO EXIST IN THAT THEN WAS THE TRIGGER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES THAT SWEPT AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, I WOULD NOT CLAIM TO ANY EXCLUSIVITY.
IF I HAVE NOT SAID MANY, NOT A FEW THINGS THAT ARE UNIQUELY BENEFICIAL AND INSIGHTFUL, NEVER BEFORE SAID BY ANYONE IN THE PAST OR PRESENT, I WOULD NOT CLAIM TO ANY EXCLUSIVITY.
CANNOT DO SO:
I HAVE YET TO COME ACROSS ANYONE, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE READ WHAT I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES, EVEN THOSE WHOM I HAVE PERSONALLY DEMONSTRATED HOW THEY STRETCH THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGED SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHO CAN SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED OR LOUDNESS.
I AM CERTAIN NOT JUST CONFIDENT THAT IF I WERE TO ASK ANYONE, EVEN THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE VERY SMART AND GOOD TO TAKE THEIR TIME TO ASSESS CAREFULLY WHAT THEY HAVE JUST SAID AND THEN REPEAT IT WITHOUT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO DO SO, EVEN IF THEY ARE GIVEN UNLIMITED TIME AND ATTEMPTS TO CORRECT THEMSELVES. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS EVEN IF THEY WANTED BECAUSE THE WAY THEY SPEAK WITH ITS CHARACTERISTIC STRETCHING, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS ARE AUTOMATED, MINDLESSLY BY ROTE FROM MENTAL JUKEBOXES THAT THEY CANNOT INSTANTLY SWITCH OFF IN WHICH THEY ARE MERELY DISC JOCKEYS WHO HAVE NO SAY HOW THE TUNE IS PLAYED ONCE THEY PRESS THE START BUTTON. BECAUSE ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SWITCHED OFF OR DISARM THEIR MENTAL JUKEBOXES FROM WHICH THEY ALWAYS FUNCTION FROM, THEY CANNOT SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
YET I CAN RENDER TO THEM WHAT THEY HAVE JUST SAID WITHOUT STRETCHING ANY SYLLABLE, WITHOUT CHANGING SPEED OR LOUDNESS AT MILD/MODERATE AND HIGH LOUDNESS AND OR SPEED. THE REASON IS BECAUSE I DO NOT OPERATE A MENTAL JUKEBOX THAT NEEDS TO BE SWITCHED OFF, THE WAY I SPEAK IS ALWAYS LIVE FOR THAT OCCASION WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
THERE ARE TWO REASONS WHY ORDINARY PEOPLE EVEN THOSE WHO ARE VERY INTELLIGENT CANNOT INSTANTLY STOP STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS WHEN SPEAKING:
FIRSTLY, UNTIL THEY GO MAD, NOBODY WILL KNOWINGLY DO THINGS THAT HARM THEMSELVES. IT IS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE HARMING THEMSELVES THAT THEY SOMNOLENTLY DO SO. BECAUSE STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS ARE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, ONLY NECESSARY FOR SHOW AND CREATES INSOLUBLE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT IS ULTIMATELY FATAL, ACTORS MUST WILL THEMSELVES TO REFUSE TO SEE THEY ARE DOING SO, AN ENDEAVOR THAT IS ABETTED BY THEIR POOR DISCERNMENT, INABILITY TO SEE THINGS CLEARLY AS THEY ARE BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE UNDER THE CONSTANT DURESS OF DISTRACTING FORCE THAT MAKES IT UNABLE TO FOCUS WELL AND THEREFORE SEE IN ITS ENTIRETY EVERY INSTANCE THAT THEY STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS (WHICH IS IN TRUTH NOT FREQUENTLY BUT CONSTANTLY).
SECONDLY, MUCH AS THEY LIKE TO BELIEVE THEY ARE GENUINE PEOPLE, THEY ARE MERELY OVERRATED DISC JOCKEYS OPERATING MENTAL JUKEBOXES THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE ALWAYS FOR THE WAYS THEY SPEAK WITH THEIR INDIVIDUALLY CHARACTERISTIC STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS. JUST AS YOU HAVE NO SAY, YOU CANNOT ALTER THE TUNES YOU RECORDED IN YOUR CASSETTE UNLESS YOU STOP THE PLAYBACK CUM RECORDER TAKE IT OUT AND RE-RECORD IT, IN THE SAME WAY, IN ORDER TO STOP STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, STOP CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, ACTORS MUST PAY ATTENTION TO STOP PLAYBACK FROM THE JUKEBOXES (SOMETHING THEY HAVE NEVER DONE IN THEIR LIVES) TO THEN PAY ATTENTION TO SPEAK LIVE (NOT FAKED LIVE FROM JUKEBOXES) WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHICH IS AGAIN SOMETHING THEY HAVE NEVER DONE IN THEIR LIVES BEFORE. THIS IS TOO TALL AND INTIMIDATING AN ORDER FOR EVEN THE MOST INTELLIGENT ACTORS TO FULFILL.
ALTHOUGH ORDINARY PEOPLE DO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WAYS THEY AND OTHERS SPEAK, THEY CANNOT SEE THEMSELVES & OTHERS STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS BECAUSE THEY ONLY PAY ATTENTION TO HOW STYLISH OR DISAGREEABLE THEIRS & OTHERS’ SPEAKING IS, THEY DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO HOW THEY STRETCH THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS. THE WAYS THEY SPEAK ARE NEVER RENDERED LIVE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ATTENTION BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS RENDERED BY ROTE MINDLESSLY FROM MENTAL JUKEBOXES THAT MUST FIRST BE IDENTIFIED (ACTORS ARE NOT EVEN AWARE IT IS THEIR JUKEBOX AND NOT THEM THAT DOES THE SPEAKING) SO THAT IT CAN BE TURNED OFF, SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE TO ENABLE THEM TO THEN SPEAK LIVE FOR THE OCCASION WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHICH IS AGAIN SOMETHING THEY HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE. JUST AS A STEREO CANNOT PLAY THE TAPE RECORDER AND PHONOGRAM AT THE SAME TIME THROUGH THE LOUDSPEAKERS, EITHER HAS TO BE SWITCHED OFF FOR THE OTHER TO PLAY, EVEN SO THE JUKEBOX MUST BE SWTICHED OFF TO ALLOW THE PERSON TO SPEAK LIVE.
HOWEVER IMPRESSIVE A TAPE RECORDING IS, IT CANNOT BE INSTANTLY ALTERED BUT MUST BE LABORIOUSLY RE-RECORDED. ALL ACTORS ARE NOT EVEN AWARE THAT THE WAYS THEY SPEAK ARE BY ROTE FROM JUKEBOXES JUST AS THEY ARE NOT AWARE THERE ARE CONSTANT STRETCHING, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND HOW THESE ARE THE ONLY CAUSES OF THE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT MUST BESET THEM, SO IT IS AN IMPOSSIBLE NOT DIFFICULT TASK FOR THEM TO FULFILL TO ASK THEM TO INSTANTLY SPEAK LIVE (NOT ROTE) WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS BECAUSE IN ORDER TO DO SO, THEY MUST FIRST STOP THEIR AUTOMATIC JUKEBOXES (SOMETHING THEY HAVE NEVER DONE IN THEIR LIVES & THEY ARE NOT EVEN AWARE THEY ALWAYS SPEAK FROM MENTAL JUKEBOXES) AND SPEAK LIVE, ATTENTIVELY WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS (SOMETHING THEY HAVE AGAIN NEVER DONE BEFORE AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT SOUNDS LIKE).
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO INSTANTLY STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS BECAUSE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE THEY WOULD ALL HAVE DONE SO LONG AGO BECAUSE NOT TO STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS THE INCOMPARABLE RELEASE FROM THE PRISON OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION. THEY CANNOT EVEN SEE IN ITS ENTIRETY HOW THEY CONSTANTLY STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS LET ALONE STOP THEMSELVES DOING SO.
BECAUSE ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SPOKEN WITHOUT STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS (THOUGH THEY MIGHT IMAGINE THEY DO & CAN), IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO DO SO ON REQUEST.
IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE TO EXIT CONSTANT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS BY A GRADUAL TIME CONSUMING PATIENT PROCESS OF PAYING ATTENTION TO INITIALLY DETECT GROSS STRETCHING, CHANGES OF SPEED & LOUDNESS TO UNCOMPROMISINGLY ELIMINATE THEM THAT THEN MAKES THE MIND MORE FOCUSED TO SEE STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT HE PREVIOUSLY COULD NOT SEE THAT HE CAN NOW ELIMINATE IN A STEPWISE PROCESS UNTIL HE REACHES THE REMAINDERLESS NOT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS. JUST AS YOU CAN EFFACE YOUR STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, IF YOU ARE LACKADAISICAL OR COMPLACENT, YOU CAN SLOWLY REVERT TO MAXIMAL STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND SUFFER THE HORRENDOUS CONSEQUENCES. EVEN HELL AWAITS.
ONLY WHEN A PERSON HAS ACHIEVED THE COMPLETE CESSATION OF STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND THEREFORE EXPERIENCED FOR HIMSELF THE INCOMPARABLE DIFFERENCE THEY BRING AND CAN ALSO SEE IN ITS ENTIRETY WHAT CONSTITUTE STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS IS HE SAFE FROM BACKSLIDING BACK TO SUFFERING BECAUSE THUS KNOWING AND SEEING, HE WILL NOT PERMIT HIMSELF TO SUFFER UNNECESSARILY. SO LONG AS A PERSON HAS NOT PUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS TO A TOTAL END, HE CANNOT SEE HIMSELF COMPLETELY DOING SO AND THUS BLIND, IS IN DANGER AND CAN BE INDUCED TO REVERT TO THE TORMENT OF THE PAST.
THE PROBLEM WITH MANY IS THEIR ABIDING UNSHAKEABLE DELUSION THAT THE WAYS THEY SPEAK ARE CHARMING, IMMUTABLE & GOOD FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR RECIPIENTS WHEN IT IS STRESSFUL, RESTLESS AND DISTRACTING. THEY EVEN HAVE THIS PERVERTED LOGIC THAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GOOD THAT THEY WILL SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION TO SPEAK THE WAYS THEY DO TO BENEFIT OTHERS.
Monumental Folly:
Do not underestimate the importance of stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness because they are never isolated or merely frequent but they are always constant and there are equivalents in all the being’s activities, namely his motion, thinking and perceptions.
According to the Buddha, a being consists of his fabrications which can only be speech, motion, thinking and perceptions and the consciousness that arises as a result of these ignorant fabrications.
Therefore if stretching, changes in speed and strength of force of units of speech, motion, thought and perceptions are constant, they are totally unnecessary except for show to deceive, please, impress, dominate and intimidate others, they are the only sources of stress, restlessness and distraction that not only torment the being, but is warping and degrading his mind so that he is headed for madness, there can be no other more important consideration for the being to address than his constant stretching, changing of speed and strength of force.
Can The Blind Be Taught To See?
If a person’s blindness is complete and he sees nothing wrong with his condition (which is being blind), nothing can be done for him but he must be allowed to continue to suffer even to agonizing levels for extended periods for as many eons as it takes until the day if ever his blindness diminishes or he is distressed enough to seek redress.
You can miraculously restore the eyesight of the visually blind but you cannot miraculously install wisdom or discernment or the ability to see things clearly as they are. If it is possible to make the spiritually blind or foolish and wicked to be wise then everyone will be in heaven not suffering here.
If a person’s blindness is only partial and he is motivated to change then it is possible to cure him of his blindness or foolishness but only by a process of gradual effacement.
A person is foolish or undiscerning only because his consciousness is under the spell of significant mental force that prevents it from focusing and therefore see things clearly as they are. This mental force will not suddenly depart on its own accord but it must be grappled with and painstakingly dismantled by progressively effacing it until it is vanquished.
The conscientious practice to the best of one’s ability of paying regular attention to not stretch one’s syllables, not change speed and loudness will appreciably reduce the force acting on one’s mind, will appreciably reduce the stress, restlessness and distraction impacting on one’s mind, enabling it to see things more clearly which will then permit it to see stretching, changes of speed and loudness that previously escape his awareness that he can put a stop to them to further reduce the application of force on his mind to experience even greater discernment.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO INSTANTLY SEE IN ITS ENTIRETY HOW HE CONSTANTLY STRETCHES HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGED SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND THEREFORE INSTANTLY PUT THEM TO A STOP BECAUSE HIS SEVERE LACK OF DISCERNMENT DOES NOT PERMIT HIM TO DO SO BUT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE WHO IS CONSCIENTOUS TO PAY ATTENTION TO STOP WHATEVER STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT HE CAN DETECT SO THAT HE WILL EXPERIENCE A MEASURE OF RELIEF FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT WILL ENABLE HIM TO SEE AS THEY ARE, STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT HE PREVIOUSLY COULD NOT SEE THAT HE CAN NOW ADDRESS TO THEREBY FURTHER INCREASE HIS DISCERNMENT UNTIL HE CAN COMPLETELY SEE IN EVERY INSTANCE HOW HE STRETCHES HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGED SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND THEREFORE PUT A TOTAL STOP TO THEM TO EXPERIENCE A PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE RELEASE FROM THE PRISON OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION.
As the Buddha said; great becomes the gain of concentration when fully developed by virtuous conduct; great becomes the gain of wisdom when it is fully developed by concentration. Virtuous conduct in practicing not stretching, not changing speed and loudness results in great concentration from releasing the mind from incessant force, stress, restlessness and distraction impacting which then allows it to see clearly or have great wisdom which then allows it to further see and eliminate sinful conduct that it previously was unable to see.
Those who cannot see have to take it on faith from those who can see that what is said to them is true; this was said by the Buddha’s deputy, Sariputta. Those who are discerning, who can see things truly as they are, need not have faith in others who can see but they can see it directly for themselves.
You will have to take it on faith from me that I am not conceited, not deprecating others and not deluded (seeing things where there is none) that although it is possible not to do so, I have yet to meet another person (or animal) who speaks or vocalizes without stretching his syllables, changing speed and loudness.
For anyone who speaks I can demonstrate to him how what he had just said will sound like if he had not stretched, not some but ALL his syllables, not changed speed or loudness when he just spoke.
If a person can see that he is constantly stretching his syllables, changing speed and loudness he will see they are the infallible links to the stress, restlessness and distraction that must beset him and therefore it is because they cannot see that it is so (out of ignorance) that ordinary people continue to defile themselves and others with abusive constant stretching, changes in speed and loudness.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Which came first, their inability to see that they are constantly stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness that thus causes them to continue defiling themselves and others by stretching their syllables, changing speed and loudness OR their constantly stretching, changes in speed and loudness that constantly apply divisive or distracting force cause their consciousness to be permanently blurred or out of focus so that they cannot see that they are constantly doing so enabling them to continue witlessly stretching their syllables, changing speed and loudness?
LIKE THE CHICKEN AND EGG, LIKE A VICIOUS CIRCLE THAT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK BUT MUST SOMEHOW BE BROKEN IF ONE ASPIRES TO EXIT THE TORMENTING PRISON OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, THE INABILITY OF ALL (NOT SOME) BEINGS IN THIS WORLD TO DISCERN THAT THEY ARE CONSTANTLY STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, CAUSES THEM TO CONTINUE DOING SO IN THE PROCESS APPLYING CONSTANT DIVISIVE FORCE ON THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS MAKING IT BLURRED OR UNABLE TO SEE THAT THEY ARE CONSTANTLY STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
THE MOST I CAN DO IS TO POINT OUT TO OTHERS THAT THEY DO SO AND IN CERTAIN CASES DEMONSTRATE TO THEM EXACTLY HOW WHAT THEY HAVE JUST SAID WILL SOUND LIKE WITHOUT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS (THEY OFTEN GET CROSSED OR DEFENSIVE IF I SHOW THEM), THE REST IS UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS CONCERNED ENOUGH FOR HIS OWN GOOD TO REGULARLY EXAMINE THE WAY HE SPEAKS FOR EVIDENCE OF STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS IN A LABORIOUS PROCESS OF UNDOING HIS STRONG HABIT ENERGY TO MINDLESSLY STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
As the Buddha: Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, a gradual inclination, with a sudden drop-off only after a long stretch, in the same way this Doctrine and Discipline has a gradual training, a gradual performance, a gradual progression, with a penetration to gnosis (and therefore joyful release from suffering) only after a long stretch.
THERE IS NO SHORTCUT TO HARD WORK AND PERSISTENCE. FOR EVERY OCCASION YOU DETECT GROSS STRETCHING OR CHANGES IN LOUDNESS OR SPEED AND PUT A STOP TO THEM, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE A MEASURE OF RELEASE FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT WILL THEN ENABLE YOU TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY AND THEREFORE DETECT STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT PREVIOUSLY ESCAPED YOUR DETECTION BUT YOU CAN NOW SEE AND THEREFORE ELIMINATE.
IF THERE IS A TIGHT NOOSE AROUND YOUR NECK, YOU MUST EXERT YOURSELF TO LOOSEN IT A BIT TO ENABLE YOU TO BREATHE A BIT BETTER AND BECOME MORE AWARE OF YOUR PREDICAMENT SO THAT YOU CAN FURTHER ATTACK THE NOOSE TO LOOSEN IT FURTHER ALLOWING BETTER BREATHING AND AWARENESS UNTIL YOU FINALLY CAN SEE THE NOOSE CLEARLY AND REMOVE IT COMPLETELY FROM YOUR NECK.
THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE IS THAT THEY ARE CONCEITED, FOOLISH AND LACKADAISICAL, THEY CANNOT BELIEVE THEY ARE AT FAULT, REFUSE TO EXAMINE THEMSELVES CAREFULLY OR CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO APPLY THEMSELVES TO CHANGE.
THUS REGULAR PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR SPEECH MAY (NOT WILL) ENABLE YOU TO DETECT AT FIRST GROSS STRETCHING, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT IF YOU PUT TO A STOP, WILL LEAD TO A MEASURE OF RELIEF FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT THEN ENABLES YOU TO SEE MORE CLEARLY AND THEREFORE DETECT MILDER FORMS OF STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY COULD NOT SEE THAT BECAUSE YOU NOW CAN SEE YOU CAN ELIMINATE SO THAT STEP BY STEP, WITH PERSISTENCE, YOU CAN INCREASINGLY SEE IN ITS ENTIRETY HOW EXTENSIVE AND SEVERE YOU AND EVERYONE STRETCHED THEIR SYLLABLES AND CONSTANTLY CHANGED SPEED AND LOUDNESS, EVEN TODAY. THIS COUPLED WITH REGULAR MEDITATION OR SECLUSION THAT MAKES YOUR MIND MORE CALM AND THEREFORE CLEARLY SEEING, WILL ENABLE THOSE WHO PRACTICE CORRECTLY TO FINALLY SEE AND THEREFORE PUT A STOP TO THE MAD PRACTICE OF CONSTANT UNNECESSARY STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
Unheeded Clues To The Nature Of Intelligence:
You hear people say without realizing they are shedding light into the nature of intelligence that “He is very smart or intelligent, he learns very quickly”. What they are implying is that intelligence is about learning or remembering or memorizing facts or how to do certain things (eg drive car or sing). Therefore intelligence is about superior memorizing of information and how to do things in which case the computer is superior because whatever data is consigned to the computer is instantly and permanently recorded. The more intelligent person has a broader and deeper store of knowledge, a broader and deeper store of skills of how to do certain things like play tennis or the piano.
Again you hear people comment thus: “He is very intelligent, he is always saying the right things, finding the right answers to a problem or situation”. Therefore superior intelligence is the ability to retrieve from his memory information that are relevant or apply to a situation where the less intelligent person cannot see the connection between the current situation and information he has stored in his brain or he retrieves information that are inappropriate or wrong. Thus the other facet of intelligence is superior retrieval of information to apply to a situation.
When people read something eg what I write, they try to remember as much as they can what they read whilst trying to make sense by comparing what they read to what they know or have memorized.
A dog is considered intelligently if it can be trained (nothing more than memorizing and rendering) to perform certain tasks. It is considered stupid if it struggles to learn and retain things.
Thus intelligence is mechanical, it is a laborious process motivated by greed or success in the world to greedily memorizing as much and as faithfully as possible and the ability to retrieve the right information from the vast repository to apply to a situation. Intelligence is a fabrication, an activity of the mind that is driven by force and consumes energy to memorize and retrieve.
By contrast, discernment or the ability to see clearly things as they are, is not a fabrication but a property or ability of the consciousness, has nothing to do with memorizing and retrieving, there is no database and retrieval that is vulnerable to disruption or glitches on which it is dependent on. Discernment depends on the consciousness being focused, not blurred and that depends on not subjecting it (consciousness) to incessant violent, constantly changing force. Only virtuous conduct in speech, bodily conduct, thought and perception can shield the consciousness from force abuse and therefore the criteria for discernment or wisdom as the Buddha said is great virtue that gives rise to great concentration that is a requisite to discernment or wisdom that is a property of the consciousness that needs no effort, no memorizing and retrieving.
The Eight Forms Of Madness:
Apart from these eight forms of madness there may be no other forms of madness.
Apart from forceful acting, forcefully going against self to say, do, think and perceive things in a way to deceive, please, impress, intimidate and dominate others, there are no other causes of madness which is the unavoidable fate of all who act unless death supervenes.
No matter how you may deny or cannot see you are an actor, how you may deny or cannot see there are constant stretching of your syllables, changes in speed and loudness, if you do you must suffer from mad stress, restlessness, distraction, violence, emotions, rote behavior, perception and logic.
And this is the inevitability or inescapability of judgment; by your actions and speech you will condemn yourself to suffering.
Mad stress: Anyone who applies force on his mind, who allows others through their actions to apply force on his mind must suffer pain or stress that lingers and if the rate of production far exceeds the rate of dissipation, he will be constantly detained in a residual level of stress.
Because consciousness has the property of memory, can memorize the experience of stress with all its intensity, it can even recreate the stress virtually by recalling the hurtful words that caused it, with lifelong heedless exposure to stress, it becomes malignant. Rather than being ‘orderly’ proportionately induced by provocation, increasingly stress can rise rapidly intensely out of proportion to the insult or application of force on the mind.
Mad restlessness: For one who sees correctly without deprecating others, even those who are supposed to be good and intelligent who have heard what I have said many times continue to speak with appreciable constant changes in speed and loudness. Because constant changes in speed and strength of force in speech, motion, thought and perception are totally unnecessary but necessary for show, are always driven by force, they must be controlled and vulnerable to episodes of loss of control or restlessness. All actors must experience bouts of restlessness, an inability to stay still, the urge to do or say something that becomes more severe with age and if nothing is done will culminate in total loss of control.
Mad distraction: A daze is a severe forceful state of distraction or separation from reality or the moment. When an actor is deeply absorbed in thought that he does not respond even if you shake him, he is in a daze that becomes more intense with age and he may never exit it. The reason why actors must be distracted is because his attention is constantly being forcefully divided between the simultaneous substance and style of his own and everyone else speech, motion, postures, thoughts and perceptions. Further actors greedily do more than one thing at a time eg talk and eat at the same time thereby practicing division of their attention.
When you smile whilst you talk, you must divide your attention between your smiling and what you are saying or you say and smile mindlessly by rote without paying attention. When someone scolds you, you have to divide your attention between the angry way he is speaking and what he is scolding you about.
With age and therefore unabated abuse, dazes and distraction becomes easier or more rapidly induced to more intense levels that are harder to shake off and if he does not take measures to correct himself he is headed for mad distraction like catatonic patients in mental institutions.
Mad logic: To believe what is false or makes no sense is true and meaningful is mad logic. To believe that “you know, I haven’t the vaguest idea how history will judge me” or “A saree (which is essentially a square piece of cloth) is anything but a square piece of cloth” is valid is mad logic. To believe that nonsensical or emotional utterances like ‘yabadabadoo’, ‘well’, ‘uh huh’ make sense is mad logic. Increasingly you believe with compelling reality what is false or nonsensical is true or valid and you have an appointment with mad logic wherein food is shit and shit is food.
To believe others know you haven’t got the vaguest idea how history will judge you or to believe it is true you know Rumsfeld haven’t got the vaguest idea how history will judge him is mad logic.
Mad perception: Doubt and uncertainty, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory hallucinations, paranoia and denial are forms of mad perception.
When you see insults where there are none, you are suspicious of others you are paranoid and have mad perception that will get more severe with unabated practice.
When you tell lies or do or say things that are false, stressful to your yourself to please and impress others and you deny, refuse to see that it is so, you are practicing false perception that will turn mad.
It is because people see, hear, touch, smell and taste with added force, they in addition engage in elaborate visual, auditory, tactile and gustatory fantasies that they are vulnerable to hallucinations, seeing, hearing, smelling and experiencing touching that are not there.
Mad violence: All actors possess capability for considerable mental and physical violence that must be subject to constant stressful control because all acting is not driven by reason but driven by force that can reach violent levels that are never forgotten to go against oneself to deceive, please, impress, intimidate and dominate. Because actors are constantly hurting themselves by stress, restlessness and distraction in the name of deceiving, pleasing, impressing, dominating and intimidating others, they must hate themselves and others that they must also hide from others and even themselves resulting in violent conflict that must be regularly vented.
Therefore all actors must experience moments when they lose control to thump a table, smash a racket or utter expletives and if they do not correct themselves by stopping acting, they are headed for mad total violence.
Mad emotions: Because actors are constantly expressing emotions that sometimes even faked eg faked anger to intimidate someone, faked hurt to manipulate your boyfriend, these emotions (eg excitement, anger) have become very slick, easily aroused by minor events and they do not realize they are headed for mad uncontrollable emotions.
Mad rote behavior: Much as actors like to think they are such genuine live people, they are fakes, constantly rendering the substance and style of what they say or do by rote or faked live from mental jukeboxes so that regularly they must experience glitches where they say or do the wrong or inappropriate thing for an occasion.
For instance, the Chinese routinely greet others, “Eaten already?” and though they might to think their greeting is genuine from the bottom of their hearts, they are mindless insincere rote and on occasions they may have an irresistible urge to utter it inappropriately when they meet say the prime minister or a foreign friend and they blurt out, “Eaten already?”
Many cannot help smiling when they see someone because it is mad rote behavior that they now cannot help that will be inappropriate in certain circumstances eg when someone is grieving.
If you suffer from these eight forms of madness that you can now still largely hide from public view or rapidly suppress, you are doomed for future florid madness either here or in the next world. No matter how you may deny you are not an actor, if you suffer from these madness you must be an actor, you must be constantly stretching your syllables, changing speed and loudness.
If what I say is true and applies to all ordinary people then whoever is the counselor Jesus spoke of must also dwell on what I have said and if I have already done so, I will have rendered him obsolete.
In Denial:
When I first changed after 1977, after I have checked to make sure I was not kidding myself that I have permanently, joyously changed, I eagerly wrote to my family about the good news and was not abashed to tell those who would listen that I have permanently changed in a way I never dreamt possible before.
By contrast people everywhere are even not inclined to admit to themselves that they and everyone has changed, reflecting their incipient mad perception of seeing things where there are none and seeing nothing where there is something, they are even not quite sure they have changed, let alone publicly discuss changes in themselves and others. Everywhere people are behaving as if nothing has happened when to my eyes, their demeanor and the ways they conducted themselves indicated that they have all changed in recent years yet again.
How can it be possible that people who are all reluctant to admit blatant changes in themselves and others be possibly the triggers of the recent changes but instead they were all dominoes that only changed or toppled as a result of the adjacent domino toppling on them?
How many if any amongst ordinary people will admit that they and the world have changed in ways that are out of the ordinary? I will be the first to admit to myself and others that I have changed in wondrous ways that were inconceivable beforehand both after 1977 and in recent years, not because I am proud I was the trigger but I am not pretentious and must acknowledge what is reality.
HOW CAN PEOPLE WHO ARE ABASHED (BEING ABASHED IS NOT MERITORIOUS BUT IT IS PRETENTIOUS, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR A BUDDHA OR JESUS TO BE ABASHED ABOUT ANYTHING) AND NEVER QUITE CERTAIN TO ADMIT THEY AND THE WORLD HAS CHANGED BE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRIGGERING THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES THAT SWEPT AROUND THE WORLD? INSTEAD THEY ARE MERELY MINDLESS, CLUELESS INTERMEDIARY PIECES OF DOMINO IN THE UNBROKEN CHAIN OF CONTAGION THAT SWEPT AROUND THE WORLD.