IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR A PERSON WHO LIKES TO LOVE. LOVE IS ABSENT IN HIM.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR A PERSON WHO LOVES TO LIKE. LIKE IS ABSENT IN HIM.
ORDINARY PEOPLE ALWAYS AUTOMATICALLY LIKE OR DISLIKE WHAT THEY PERCEIVE. BECAUSE LIKE AND DISLIKE ARE IMMEDIATE BLIND FORCE REACTIONS TO PERCEIVING SOMEONE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THAT PERSON TO AT THE SAME TIME EXPERIENCE LOVE WHICH IS FORCE FREE & TOTALLY HARM FREE SEEING OR REASONING CONCERN AND CARING FOR THE PERCEIVED PERSON. ONCE A MIND IS OCCUPIED BY BLIND FORCE (LIKING & DISLIKING) IT CANNOT ALSO BE NOT OCCUPIED BY FORCE AND SEEING OR REASONING THAT IS A REQUISITE FOR LOVING. BECAUSE NO ONE CAN SOMETIMES SWITCH OFF HIS LIKE AND DISLIKE TO LOVE AND SOMETIMES SWITCH OFF HIS LOVE TO LIKE, A PERSON WHO LIKES CANNOT LOVE.
THE REASON WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY CAN BOTH LIKE AND LOVE IS BECAUSE WHAT THEY CALL LOVE CAN BE PROVEN OBJECTIVELY TO BE LIKE OR PASSION.
Because liking is the blind or unreasoning immediate undulating rise and fall of one’s mental force on perceiving a desired person it immediately occupies the mind preventing passive (always) reasoned or comprehending or seeing harm and force free love from arising.
Until you are able to see & hear another person without causing undulating rising and falling changes in the speed and strength of your mental force, until you are able to speak to, do things to and touch another person without stretching, changing the speed and strength of force or loudness of your speech and motion you cannot LOVE the other person, you cannot impart untainted bliss to another person. You are merely indulging in LIKING another person.
The reason is because rising and falling speed and strength of your mental force can be imparted to the other person and causes both you and the other person to experience rising stress, restlessness and distraction, harms yourself and the other person and therefore you cannot truly love or benefit or give the other person unalloyed bliss except in the wrong view or delusion you can.
Anyone who touches another person, no matter how gently or tenderly he may contrive, if there are in truth constant changes in speed and strength will cause the other person’s mental force to change in speed and strength giving rise to stress, restlessness and distraction no matter how he may foolishly appreciate or like the sensuality of the touching.
Anyone who stares at another person, no matter how lovingly he may insist his stare is, will impart the force in his ‘loving’ stare on his target that must create stress, create restlessness and distraction in him and the recipient that is never true love but is always just a liking for the other person.
Because all ordinary people like, they undulate the speed and strength of their mental force when they ‘love’ another, they cannot truly love; they do not know what true love (which exists) is like.
The reason why people often interchange love and like and sometimes they cannot tell whether it is like or love they are experiencing is because like is faked love, is a substitute for love that they have learnt to accept and dish out. Thus what is a forgery of love, like cannot coexist with love, disqualifies or displaces true love that ordinary people who are forceful have not experienced.
THEREFORE IF LIKING AND DISLIKING IS PRESENT IN YOU, YOU CANNOT KNOW WHAT TRUE LOVE IS AND IT DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM LOVING, YOU HAVE WRONG EMOTIONAL VIEW IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT ‘IRRESISTIBLE’ LOVER. YOU CAN ONLY BE IRRESISTIBLE IF THERE IS IRRATIONAL OR BLIND FORCE IN YOUR ‘LOVE’ OR OTHERS ARE FORCEFULLY ATTRACTED TO OR LIKE YOU BASED ON PHYSICAL FACTORS.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT LIKING AND DISLIKING AND PAYING ATTENTION TO STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, STOP CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS FOR THEY ARE CRUCIAL TO LEARNING HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF AND OTHERS.
Speaking as a person who has successfully quit liking and disliking (and without any inclination to revert to them anymore than a man who has vomited out poison will return to the poison), I know that like and love can never be mistaken one for the other just as good can never be mistaken for bad and they are mutually incompatible, cannot coexist, what people call love is being nice and liking each other and love is incomparably blissful to self and the other person, never leaves an aftertaste of stress, restlessness and daze. If you think you can both like and love, you may be right or deluded. Can you tell precisely when it is you are liking and when it is you are loving? If you cannot, you do not know what you are experiencing, you do not know what you are talking about.
What Increasingly Lifelike Robots Means:
THAT ROBOTS ARE GETTING INCREASINGLY LIFELIKE SUGGESTS THAT YOU DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE HUMAN TO BEHAVE LIKE HUMANS DO BECAUSE ROBOTS WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS CAN INCREASINGLY IMITATE HUMANS. HUMANS MAY BE NOTHING MORE THAN SOPHISTICATED BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS, OVERRATED VOYEURS AND DISC JOCKEYS OPERATING BY ROTE OR FAKED LIVE FROM MENTAL JUKEBOXES BUT THIS IS NOT REASON FOR CYNICISM (WRONG VIEW) BUT EVEN THOUGH THIS ROBOTIC MODE OF EXISTENCE IS UNIVERSAL ON EARTH, IT IS NOT INEVITABLE, THERE IS AS THE BUDDHA SAID A HIGHER LIFE WITH A HIGHER REASONED PURPOSE.
This mannequin like robot I saw on TV yesterday was dressed like a female receptionist and endowed with a face that was capable of moving or expressing just like the human face can. She nodded as if acknowledging or understanding the question being asked (she is faking it), she blinked, smiled, rotated and bent her head and hands as if she was alive just as humans do as she fielded questions posed by a reporter.
I think there now exists vehicles, even cars that can steer, brake and drive autonomously without any remote human guidance over a variety of terrains including inclines to safely reach a destination. Therefore you do not need higher cerebral functions or consciousness to drive a car but just knee jerk reactions and even a robotic car can drive itself.
The Honda dancing and trumpet playing robot may give an uncanny impression that it is alive because it seems to be enjoying or liking its playing because there is arch like stretching, rising and falling changes in speed and strength of force programmed into its dancing and trumpet playing motions that ordinary people have been conditioned to perceive as liking or enjoying and therefore they are deceived the robot is alive because it seems to be enjoying or liking its music.
Just as you can record many tunes and videos into a computer hard disk and it will play them back with fidelity each time, all you need is a being with consciousness to decide which tune or sequence of tunes and to change tracks, in the same way, although in theory humans can choose to say or do something live for the occasion at hand, in practice when confronted with a situation at hand, they all (not some) merely act as voyeurs and disc jockeys deciding on which tune or combination of tunes from a vast repertoire that they have committed to memory by regular practice is appropriate for playback, to repeat or cut off as required.
For one who sees correctly the simultaneous substance and style combo that is constantly present in people’s speech and movements cannot be rendered live but must be memorized, learnt by imitating others. The way ordinary people see, hear, smell, taste and touch always have a style that is characteristic of the person that is rendered without thinking by rote and what they see, hear, smell, taste and touch too have a style or predilection depending on that person’s likes and dislikes (eg a lusty man is always on the lookout for girls whilst a thief is always looking for opportunity and valuables to steal).
THEREFORE THE ENTIRE BEING OF ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE, COMPRISING WHATEVER AND HOWEVER THEY PERCEIVE, THINK, SPEAK AND MOVE HAS A COMBO OF SIMULTANEOUS SUBSTANCE AND STYLE THAT MUST BE RENDERED BY REHASH FROM THEIR MENTAL JUKEBOXES, THEY THEREFORE CANNOT PERCEIVE WHAT IS HAPPENING AS IT IS AND CANNOT RESPOND LIVE TO THAT EVENT BUT BY STANDARDIZED ROTE OR FAKED LIVE AND THEY CANNOT SEE AND KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING OR THE TRUTH.
Japan, with its particularly regimented social structure is unsurprisingly fascinated with and at the forefront of robot research and the advancing life like sophistry in humanoid robots is unequivocal evidence that machines devoid of consciousness can be programmed to carry out sophisticated speech and sequence of actions in response to environmental stimuli as if they are alive or intelligent or thinking.
An implication of robot behavior that increasingly resemble human behavior is that human speech and actions do not necessarily require consciousness (since there is no consciousness or attention in robots) or reasoning, do not necessarily require seeing or hearing things as they actually happened but merely require the recognition of patterns or cues in what is seen and heard and do not require speech or motion that is freshly composed for the occasion but an approximate preprogrammed response that appears appropriate suffices and may fool undiscerning observers to think it is a live specific to the occasion response.
A robot does not and cannot see or hear what is actually or exactly happening but it is only instructed by programmers to detect sight and sound patterns or cues that it needs to enable it to select an appropriate prerecorded response for that situation. A robot cannot detect patterns or cues that it is not programmed for, it cannot respond in ways it has not been programmed for. For instance in order to avoid bumping into objects, the robot merely senses through ultrasound or radar reflections that there is an obstacle say three feet away at 30 degrees from midline. Unless programmed, it may not detect objects further away nor can it tell whether the object is a sofa or stone column. Therefore even though the robot may fool gullible observers that it seems alive, intelligently aware of the presence of an obstacle and took successful evasive action, it did not see the truth, did not see what the object was or anything else present in the room that was beyond its range. You may think it saw the obstacle but it saw nothing beyond radar reflections that gave it information on the distance and direction of an obstacle to enable it to take evasive action.
Ideally, a person should see and understand in its entirety whatever that is actually happening or said to him on a particular occasion so that he can make a live specific response in speech or action but in reality, all ordinary people only intermittently sample the situation intermittently not necessarily for the truth what is actually happening but for patterns of information or cues that will enable them to make a decision as to what speech or action from their mental jukeboxes to playback.
ROBOTS ARE NOT AND CANNOT BE INTERESTED IN WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AROUND THEM BUT THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN INSTRUCTED BY THEIR PROGRAMMERS TO LOOK OUT FOR PATTERNS OR CUES IN WHAT THEY PERCEIVE TO ENABLE THEM TO CARRY OUT WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN PROGRAMED TO EG AVOID OBSTACLES. IT MAY APPEAR TO BE ALIVE, INTELLIGENT AND UNCANNILY SEEING AND AVOIDING OBSTACLES BUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IS THAT ITS RADAR TELLS IT THE DISTANCE AND DIRECTION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES AN OBSTACLE.
IN THE SAME WAY, HUMAN ROBOTS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING OR THE TRUTH BUT THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN ASPECTS THAT CONFORM TO THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES OR BASIC SELF SERVING PURPOSES THAT IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEM TO MAKE DECISIONS AS TO WHAT APPROPRIATE SPEECH OR ACTION TO INITIATE.
ROBOTS CANNOT AND DO NOT RESPOND SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION AT HAND ALTHOUGH THEY MAY GIVE AN ILLUSION THEY DO SO. INSTEAD THEY CANNOT DETECT PATTERNS AND CUES THAT THEY ARE NOT PROGRAMMED TO DETECT, THEY CANNOT INITIATE COURSES OF ACTION OR SPEECH THEY HAVE NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED TO CARRY OUT.
IN THE SAME WAY HUMAN ROBOTS MAY APPEAR TO RESPOND IN SPEECH AND ACTION SPECIFICALLY TO THE SITUATION AT HAND BUT IT IS AN ILLUSION, THEY CAN BE STUMPED TO NOT DETECT PATTERNS OR CUES THEY HAVE NOT PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO DETECT (EG STRETCHING OF THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS OF THEIR SPEECH), THEY CANNOT RESPOND TO THE SITUATION AT HAND IN A WAY THAT THEY HAVE NOT PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO (FOR INSTANCE A WOMAN WHO HAS LEARNT OR PROGRAMMED HERSELF TO BEHAVE SEDUCTIVELY WILL BECOME FLUSTERED IN BED BECAUSE SHE HAS NOT PROGRAMMED HERSELF TO PERFORM IN BED, SHE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO ACT IN BED).
THUS IF A PERSON’S MOTIVES IN LIFE IS LITTLE OR NOTHING MORE THAN SURVIVAL AND TO SATISFY HIS LIKES AND AVOIDING HIS DISLIKES (NO MATTER HOW HE MIGHT DELUDE HIMSELF AND OTHERS HOW NOBLE HIS IDEALS ARE) THEN HE HAS NO NEED FOR OR INTEREST IN SEEING THINGS AS THEY ACTUALLY ARE IN THEIR ENTIRETY OR SEEING THE TRUTH BUT HE ONLY NEEDS TO SEE IN SNAPSHOTS PATTERNS OR CUES OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS THAT IS SUFFICIENT TO ENABLE HIM TO SATISFY HIS LIKES (EG STEALING OR LUST) & AVOID HIS DISLIKES AND FOR HIM TO SURVIVE. WHO SAYS YOU NEED TO SEE THINGS AS THEY ACTUALLY HAPPEN TO SURVIVE?
ORDINARY PEOPLE ALWAYS SPEAK AND DO THINGS WITH ACOMPANYING STYLE THAT IS NOTHING MORE THAN THEIR INDIVIDUALIZED WAYS OF STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES OR TWISTING/CURVING UNITS OF MOTION, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT CAN NEVER BE PERFORMED LIVE SPECIFIC FOR THE OCCASION BUT THE SUBSTANCE AND STYLE COMBO MUST BE COMMITTED TO MEMORY TO BE TRIGGERED BY COMMAND IN RESPONSE TO A SITUATION. THIS IS BEHAVING LIKE A ROBOT AND IT IS BECAUSE HUMAN ROBOTS ARE MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED, ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE THEMSELVES ROBOTS THAT THEY FAIL TO SEE THAT THEY THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE AROUND THEM ARE MERELY OVERRATED ROBOTS. (If ordinary people observe themselves they will surely catch themselves regularly having the urge to say or do silly things that are out of context reflecting early intermittent mad jukebox or rote behavior that will descend into final mad rote behavior if they do not practice to stop their substance and style rote behavior.)
JUST AS SOPHISTICATED COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY CAN FOOL THE UNSUSPECTING THAT IT IS GENUINE, PEOPLE WHO ARE THEMSELVES UNWITTING ROBOTS CAN BE FOOLED THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH REAL PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE DEALING WITH SOPHISTICATED BIOLGICAL ROBOTS CONSTANTLY (NOT FREQUENTLY) OPERATING BY REGURGITATION FROM MENTAL JUKEBOXES WHEN THEY CAN BE LIVE BEINGS RESPONDING SPECIFICALLY TO EVERY SITUATION THAT ARISES.
AN IMPORTANT REASON WHY PEOPLE CANNOT SEE THEMSELVES STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS EVEN WHEN IT IS BLATANT AND CONSTANT IS BECAUSE WHAT THEY SEE OR AND THE WAY THEY SEE IS PROGRAMMED AND THEY HAVE NOT PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO SEE THEMSELVES AND OTHERS STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND WHAT THEY HAVE NOT PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO SEE, THEY CANNOT SEE.
AN IMPORTANT REASON WHY PEOPLE NEED TO REHEARSE THINGS THEY HAVE NEVER DONE (EG THEIR MARRIAGE CEREMONY), THEY GET FLUSTERED AND EVEN CRIPPLED WITH PERFORMANCE ANXIETY SAYING OR DOING THINGS THEY HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE EG SPEAK PUBLICLY OR ACTING LIKE A DOCTOR IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ROTE ACTORS WHO NEED TO PROGRAM THEMSELVES FIRST TO SAY OR DO THOSE THINGS (EG HOW TO ACT LIKE A FATHER OR HUSBAND), THEY NEED TO PRACTICE MANY TIMES BEING A FATHER OR HUSBAND BEFORE THEY FEEL CONFIDENT TO REGURGITATE IT OUT AS IF THEY ARE GENUINE FATHERS WHEN THEY ARE PAINFULLY FAKING IT BY ROTE ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY THINK SOCIETY EXPECTS THEM AND BY COPYING THEIR FATHERS OR PEERS.
Why People Cannot See & Know The Truth:
Jesus implies this world cannot see and know the truth when he spoke of the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it (this world) neither sees him (who personifies truth) nor knows him and he also said of people that ‘seeing they do not see (what actually happens or the truth), hearing they do not hear (what actually happens or the truth)’. The Buddha said the truth (what actually happens) is not easily seen and it is hard (for ordinary people) to see the truth.
Therefore what I say is not without precedent and if you accuse me of arrogance (as if only I can see and know the truth), you slander me because I speak calmly and clearly without emotion because I can see and know that people cannot see and know the truth.
I see and know the truth and I can see and know that there are no other ways to see or know the truth except through the way with which I see and know it which does not belong to me or anyone but it is the universal and ONLY way to see or know the truth and because I see that all ordinary people see things in ways that are significantly different from me, they struggle, take issue and cannot see and understand or misapprehend what I say to them, I see and know that they cannot and do not see the truth.
As Sariputta, the Buddha’s deputy said, truth and deliverance from suffering is like a fortress with only one entrance guarded by a vigilant sentinel and whoever enters the fortress of truth must enter through this only entrance with the approval of the competent sentinel. This entrance does not belong to me or the Buddha or anyone.
If you cannot see that the person above is quietly acting or putting on a show, you cannot see the truth or what is actually happening. There is a faint smile and expressed eagerness or liking in his stared or forceful way he sees, not directly but dishonestly through the side of his eyes (an honest or unstylish person looks straight on), there is acting in his propping up his chin with force that can be objectively proven to be more than is necessary (I can prop up my chin just like he is doing but without style by using significantly less force) and with a (masculine) style. If you cannot see that there is excessive force and masculine style in his propping up his chin, it is not that his head needs propping but he is propping it up to convey a certain image of for example thoughtfulness, then you cannot see the truth. Unless you are speaking or eating, it is most economical and easeful to keep one’s mouth restfully passively shut, it requires energy and is for show to leave one’s mouth open to express perhaps your friendliness, eagerness or interest.
People who act or all ordinary people cannot see or know what actually happened or the truth for four major reasons.
Their resident stress, restlessness and distraction permanently render out of focus their consciousness state to make it impossible for them to see and know the truth. They are beset by serious permanent baseline stress, restlessness and distraction that is continuously being created by their constant forceful stretching, changes in speed and strength of force of their perceiving, thinking, saying and doing things to be unable to focus their consciousness that is a requisite to seeing things as they are or truth.
Ordinary people always instantly like or dislike whatever they see, hear, smell, taste or touch. Because like and dislike are nothing more than automatic blind or unseeing force reactions to whatever is happening, they cannot at the same time also force free with reason or comprehension see what is actually happening or see or know the truth. Because like and dislike are blind forceful reactions to events, they prevent the person at the same time free from force calm and clear see and know with reason what is actually happening.
You can perceive, think, speak and conduct yourself live specific for the occasion at hand or you can perceive, think, speak and conduct yourself as preprogrammed and rehashed rendition from a mental jukebox. Anyone who operates from a mental jukebox cannot see and know the truth because he is not in constant contact with reality but he lives in a private make believe or false world from which he only intermittently sample reality or what is happening around him for patterns or cues to enable him to initiate appropriate approximate standardized responses.
They hate true truth and even when true truth appears before them they try very hard not to see it. They are kidding themselves if they think they love the truth because they have killed true truth and the truth they love is a fake of truth.
THEIR RESIDENT MENTAL FORCE REPELS TRUTH & REASON JUST AS WATER AND OIL CANNOT MIX. THEY HAVE AN UNCONSCIOUS ATTITUDE OF HATING & REFUSING TO SEE THE TRUTH AND THEREFORE CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH, CANNOT REASON TRULY.
All ordinary people appreciate jokes or try to be funny or see the funny side of life. Even when they do something serious like teaching others how a TV works, they try to teach it in a humorous way that is discounting the truth that they believe in delusion will make their audience remember better. Appreciating jokes is nothing more than appreciating absurdity (or falsity) or laughing at the misfortune of others. It is wrong view that you can choose to at times appreciate falsity (joking and humor) and at times appreciate truth. A person who loves the truth cannot appreciate humor or jokes and a person who likes to joke or be humorous is always discounting reality and can never truly appreciate truth, the truths that he thinks he appreciates can be proven to be counterfeit truths.
Appreciating jokes and trying to be funny is an attitude or mindset and therefore all ordinary people who all appreciate or like jokes have a mindset of appreciating or like falsity that precludes or disqualifies them seeing and knowing the truth. This is the reason why there is not even one joke in the bible or what the Buddha preached.
One supposed truth that people accept without awareness is the statement “I cannot imagine what it is like for my parents (on learning about my cancer)”. If by saying so she is conveying that what happened is so terrible for her parents she cannot imagine what it is like for them then she is contradicting herself, saying something is false because what she says implies she can imagine that it was so terrible for them so how can she say she cannot imagine what it is like for them?
If you and ordinary people can appreciate truth how come you did not realize by yourself the statement is untenable?
It may be another instance again of unwarranted assumption or folly to think that despite failing to see the truth in the instance quoted above, it was a blip, you were not paying attention (this is an excuse not reason, if you read without paying attention then you are acknowledging you are a rote reader, reading without comprehending) you are nevertheless able to see the truth ‘where it counts’ because the truth that you think you can see ‘where it counts’ may be just the same make believe truth as above or a delusion that is commonly shared by all humanity that if subjected to objective analysis by me may be proven to be equally untenable.
You may think you have spoken the truth when you say with a smile, stretched syllables and speed and loudness changes, “Well, I was sarcastic then” but it is a grudging or disliked reluctant admission of guilt and therefore a discounted not true total acknowledgement of the truth that you were sarcastic.
The truth in “I cannot imagine what it was like for them” is more apparent than real because surely the person can imagine to some extent what it was like for her parents. It is again false to say “A saree is anything but a square piece of cloth” because whatever else a saree might be it is still a square piece of cloth and there are many things a saree cannot be.
Below are examples of what people call and accept as truth but can be reasoned objectively by me to be forgeries of truth or make belief truth.
Quote: Shock for Houdini the python who swallows electric blanket.
Quote: Earth splitter: Scientists watch a future ocean take shape in Ethiopia.
You may satisfy yourself that you have spoken the truth or heard the truth when you spoke or read the above BBC headlines but you may be kidding yourself and have no eye for truth.
The pet python swallowed an electric blanket but was not shocked but needed surgery to remove it. Therefore the headline is sensationalizing and misleading and not true.
To call a serious long crack in the earth that developed after a recent earthquake an earth splitter is disingenuous, disrespectful, not treating the matter with the dignity it deserves. It may sound funny to you but if you are killed by an ‘earth splitter’ you will not find it so funny. A more respectful headline would be: The earth splits. Scientists watch a future ocean take shape. It is unlikely to be an accident but reflects the attitude of the writer to say ‘earth splitter’ to trivialize or make funny everything he says or sees.
Before you can know truth you must first be able to see truth or what actually happened that provides the basis for you to reason out or know the truth in other areas where you cannot see what is happening or have no direct access to the truth. Because people have never seen things as they actually happen, they always see things as they like or dislike it, they have no idea of what actually happens or truth to provide a yardstick to know or reason out truth in other occasions.
From faulty premises and logic come faulty conclusions. If you accept your faulty assumptions as correct then your conclusions are also correct but if your assumptions are incorrect then the conclusion is also incorrect.
For instance the statement ‘I smile because I like someone’ can be perceived as correct because as a result of experiencing undulating changes in speed and strength in his mental force upon seeing someone with liking, he is irresistibly driven to move his facial muscles in a similar fashion with undulating changes in speed and strength of force of contraction to smile. But if you see that liking is false, has no reason but it is a blind undulating rise and fall of the strength and speed of one’s mental force that stresses the mind inciting smiling that also stresses the other person, then liking is not a reason for smiling but it is the case of one falsity and delusion (that mindless, stressful liking is good) leading to another falsity and delusion (therefore my smiling is genuine, good for me and others).
What people call their reasoning are merely their memorized beliefs with which they match what is happening to and their faulty often idiosyncratic methodologies of arriving at conclusions that society, their parents, peers and teachers indoctrinate in them plus whatever they can concoct in how to think by themselves. Thus if you have rudimentary atrophied (from disuse) reasoning or rote reasoning implanted by society, you lack the true reasoning that is indispensable to KNOW the truth.
One must not make the mistake of confusing thinking with reasoning. People think a lot, they think nonstop in a forceful or emotional manner always with a combination of substance and false style but when they think they are mostly daydreaming or arguing with themselves in a dingdong fashion, they seldom if ever reason using the tools of logic to work out what actually happen or the truth of the matter, even if they tried to, their tools of logic are faulty.
Can robots see and know the truth? Do robots need to know the truth or what is true in order to function eg weld a car together? Robots are merely programmed to do or say certain things in response to certain environmental cues, to mimic as if they have life or reason by responding with a choice of preprogrammed reactions. In truth ordinary people are such sophisticated robots they fool themselves that they are real people (I speak in truth not sarcasm or denigration), they have been programmed in a much more sophisticated manner by society and themselves to say or do certain things in certain situations and they can go about throughout their lives without ever having to summon their reasoning or ability to work what is true and false (which may never exist in many people, even those who are in high positions).
This may be the reason why even today, despite changes upon changes, people are unaware there are constant stretching of their syllables, constant changes in speed and loudness of their speech because the ways they speak was learnt by mindless imitation of others or mimicry and produced without thinking by rote from their mental jukeboxes and even after I have demonstrated to them how they change speed and loudness, they lapse back to their rote mindless jukebox rendition that require no reasoning or seeing the truth. That people lapse repeatedly into constant stretching, changing of speed and loudness is a sign that they are robots or more precisely overrated disc jockeys operating mental jukeboxes.
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Truth is whatever that has happened irrespective of whether you liked it or not, whether it is good or bad, beneficial or harmful, pleasant or ugly, genuine or faked.
If something is present and you cannot see it then you have faulty or defective discernment. For instance if there are constant stretching of the syllables, changes in speed and loudness in your speech and that of everyone else’s and you cannot see them, then you have faulty discernment and wrong view or cannot see the truth.
THE BUDDHA SPOKE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AS AWAKENING THAT IMPLIES THAT THOSE WHO ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED ARE ASLEEP IN IGNORANCE & FALSITY (YOU CANNOT BE ASLEEP WITH TRUTH OTHERWISE WHY WAKE UP?) THAT CANNOT BE PARTIAL BUT MUST BE TOTAL BECAUSE ANYONE WHO CAN SEE THE TRUTH WILL NOT TOLERATE OR COUNTENANCE FALSITY WHICH IS ALWAYS FORCEFUL AND TORMENTING AND THEREFORE ORDINARY PEOPLE CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH.
In her emotional haste to exaggerate how wonderful her parents are, how intense they felt for her plight (something that she cannot know for certain, Kylie Minogue said something that did not and cannot happen that she cannot imagine what it must be like for her parents. The fact that she speaks of imagining what it is like for them suggests she can imagine however poorly (and probably she has quite a good idea) what it is like for them and therefore her statement that she cannot imagine what it is like for them is false, intended to convey falsely how terrible it is. Every time you emotionally forcefully say you cannot do something (eg imagine) when you can, you are reinforcing the falsity not realizing that one day you will lose control of your deceit to totally cannot imagine and that is insanity.
The Buddha: Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already.
Many think the Buddha is referring to others but he may be referring to you. If you are little or nothing more than a sophisticated biological robot then you are already like the dead, only waiting for your time to die to come.
INVIDIOUS SOCIAL PRESSURES TO HOLD VIEWS:
There is actually a lot of social pressure often unconscious to hold opinions or views on all sorts of matters from the trivial to the serious such that the individual is forced or feel oblige to formulate and express views or opinions on various matters eg current affairs, fashion, cars, music, sports, etc.
Even if the person does not think much of his views on these matters that he has forced himself to hold and express, with repetition he becomes increasingly hooked to his opinions that were initially formulated with insufficient knowledge based on hearsay that he is unwarranted to hold so that increasingly he believes they are true and will defend when challenged.
Further by being forced by a combination of social pressures and self pressure (to impress others how knowledgeable you are), to always proffer opinions or views, you are addicting yourself to mindlessly, compulsively hold views on every subject that comes to your attention and this is a form of self identity views that the Buddha said is a fetter to future states of woe, not heaven.
THERE IS A LOT OF SOCIAL PRESSURE FOR A PERSON TO HOLD OPINIONS OR VIEWS ON EVERY SUBJECT (EG CLOTHINGS, APPLIANCES, CARS OR FOOD FASHIONS) FOR APPEARANCES SAKE AND NO MATTER HOW UNATTACHED ONE IS INITIALLY TO THESE OPINIONS, IN TIME AND REPETITION, ONE BECOMES CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE THEM SO THAT ONE IS ENGULFED IN A MASS OF WRONG VIEWS, CONFUSED AND IN DOUBT. THUS THOSE WHO PRESSURE OTHERS TO HAVE OPINIONS HAVE KARMA & SOCIETY HAS COLLECTIVE KARMA. NOT ONLY IS THE FOOLISH PERSON CONDITIONED BY PEERS TO HOLD OPINIONS ON VARIOUS MATTERS, BUT BY FREQUENTLY BEING FORCED TO VENTURE OPINIONS ON SUBJECTS HE IS UNWITTINGLY CONDITIONING HIMSELF TO FEEL EMOTIONALLY NOT OK IF HE DID NOT HAVE ANY VIEWS OR OPINIONS ON ANY MATTER OR BECOME ADDICTED TO FORMING OPINIONS AND THIS IS AT THE CORE OF THE FALSE SELF IDENTITY VIEW THAT ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA IS ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO FUTURE STATES OF WOE. FURTHER THE OPINIONS THAT SOCIETY FOSTERS IN ITS INDIVIDUALS ARE BY AND LARGE IF NOT ENTIRELY WRONG (CAN BE PROVEN BY REASON TO BE FALSE) AND AGAINST THE DIVINE VIEW.
TASTE IT FOR YOURSELF:
THERE IS NO POINT BEING A COWHERD IF YOU HAVE NO COWS OF YOUR OWN AND YOU ARE CONSTANTLY ENVIOUSLY & JEALOUSLY COUNTING OTHER PEOPLE’S COWS.
IT IS FRUITLESS AND VEXATIOUS TALKING ABOUT THE FINER POINTS OR SUBTLETIES OF TRUTH AND GOODNESS AND HOW YOU ARE DEVOTED TO THEM. TASTE TRUE TRUTH AND GOODNESS FOR YOURSELF AND EVERYTHING WILL FALL INTO PLACE AND YOU WILL STOP ARGUING WITH ME.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT BY STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WHEN SPEAKING?
CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF AND OTHERS CONSTANTLY STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS? IF YOU CANNOT SEE OR CANNOT BE BOTHERED, NOTHING CAN BE DONE FOR YOU AND IF YOU ARE BESET BY STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION YOU JUST HAVE TO AWAIT THE VERDICT OF FATE WHAT IS IN STORE FOR YOU.
CAN YOU PAY ATTENTION TO TRY FOR A REASONABLE PERIOD NOT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, NOT CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS?
IF YOU HAVE TRULY SUCCEEDED IN NOT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, NOT CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS YOU WILL BE IMBUED BY A CALM CLARITY YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED AND YOU WILL THEN SEE THINGS CLEARLY AS YOU NEVER SAW BEFORE TO NOT ARGUE WITH ANYONE ANYMORE.
The Ten Fetters:
According to the Buddha, all beings that exist are bonded by ten fetters. There are 5 lower fetters and 5 higher fetters. All beings in this world are afflicted by the 10 fetters whilst beings in heaven are only afflicted by the higher 5 fetters.
The five lower fetters are self identity views (my body, my mind, my possessions, my views, my wife, my religion, my race, my country), faith in rites and precepts (acting from mental jukeboxes is always ritualistic and therefore all actors have faith in rituals and precepts, they practice rituals or ritualized or standardized ways of doing and saying things all the time), doubt and uncertainty (the doubt and uncertainty that the Buddha refers to is the same doubt and uncertainty people frivolously speak of or experience in their daily lives. Whether genuine or faked, each time you conjure doubt and uncertainty you are conditioning yourself to them, incite others to do so), ill will (they want to harm others, they are aggressive and forceful, they often disguise their ill will to think they have goodwill eg when they smile and say something with undulating changes in speed and strength of their mental forces they think they are good when they are harming themselves and others) and sensuality (they are emotionally attached, they like or experience undulating rise and fall of their mental forces when they see, hear, smell, taste or touch certain objects).
The five higher fetters are ignorance (with enlightenment one knows what everything is all about and cease to desire separate existence), restlessness (a passive desire for that which is changing which is what existence is about), conceit (basking in the glory of one’s being), attachment to forms (angels live in a formed heaven) and attachment to the formless (brahmas are higher, have no form and exist blissfully in a formless realm).
What the Buddha said above may be the only truth or what actually happens and is not negotiable; he will not alter what he said just because you do not like it. If you rubbish it and it turns out to be what actually happens, you have wrong view that is the way to hell or the animal womb not heaven.
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