Why Fear, Shame & Sadness Are Different

Why Fear, Shame & Sadness Are Different:
Fear, shame & sadness are different from other emotions in different ways.
Fear:
Unlike all other emotions that boil down to like or dislike both powered by the force of going against self and is always directed towards the target, fear is powered by the force of self preservation and is directed away, moves the being away from the target of fear.
Fear is an emotion or the consciousness experience when there is an unabated rise in the speed and strength of force of the force of self preservation away from the object of fear.
Fear is conditioning so that with regular experience fear becomes easier to arouse, on each occasion that greater force, greater acceleration in speed and strength of force than in the past are added, the more intense and more accelerating becomes the fear that being can experience.
Whereas all the other emotions is driven by the mental force of going against self, fear may be the only emotion driven by the force of self preservation.
Whatever activities a being usually undertake, namely perceiving, thinking, speaking and doing must be driven by the force of going against self because they always have forceful stretching, forceful changes in speed and strength of force that harms the being by creating stress, restlessness and distraction.
Because reason can never stop force, it takes another force acting in the opposite direction to control and stop the force of going against self to limit and finally put to an end acts of self harm, whatever activities that a being who goes against self undertakes must be constantly resisted by a force of self preservation whose resistance must always be overcome before any act that goes against self can be carried out and the waxing strength of this force of self preservation must momentarily exceed that of the waning force of going against self in order to bring a current act to an end.
Normally the force of going against self is always ascendant and overrides the force of self preservation that plays second fiddle in the background to limit the acts of going against self. The force of self preservation is like the head at the other end of a mythical two headed snake that always moves in the opposite direction as the head of the force of going against self. In order for an act of going against self to commence it must overcome the force of self preservation that will then keep pulling in the opposite direction. An act of going against self comes to an end when the force of self preservation finally is stronger than the force of going against self. On rare occasions, specifically when seized by fear, the force of self preservation is ascendant and succeeds in pulling the force of going against self along in its direction.
In certain scenarios, when there is threat to the wellbeing of the individual (eg a tiger appears), the force of going against self may be blunted or even cowed to abandon the being so that his force of self preservation is momentarily unopposed and pulls him with accelerating speed and strength away from the target that is causing the fear.
The being who presides tolerantly over his force of going against self to do or say things to deceive, please, impress, intimidate and dominate others is always a coward and a bully and so in situations where he perceives his being is threatened or he sees a bully bigger than himself, he swiftly reins in his force of going self to intimidate others so that his now unopposed force of self preservation can rapidly accelerate in speed and strength to irrationally pull the being away from the source of fear. No matter how great the threat, fear is unnecessary, stressful and counter productive because thus seized by fear, the being cannot think clearly to discern options that may be available to overcome the danger.
DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT VULNERABLITIES TO FEAR (A BUDDHA IS TRULY PASSIVELY FEARLESS), WHAT IS FEARFUL TO ONE IS NOT TO ANOTHER. THIS MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR DIFFERENCES IN CONDITIONING, THE RELATIVE STRENGTHS OF THEIR FORCES OF GOING AGAINST SELF AND PRESERVATION. THERE IS NO REASON TO FEAR, FEAR IS NOT ONLY SUFFERING BUT CONDITIONING IN THE SENSE THAT IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY EASIER TO AROUSE TO GREATER INTENSITY THAT IS HARDER TO SHAKE OFF AND THE BEING IS HEADED FOR MAD FEAR. RATHER THAN IRRATIONALLY FEAR, ONE SHOULD REMEMBER POTENTIAL DANGERS AND USE REASON TO AVOID THEM. A PERSON PARALYZED BY FEAR CANNOT THINK STRAIGHT SO THAT HE MAY MISS AN OBVIOUS ESCAPE.
IT IS A DELUSION TO THINK THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION IS A FORCE FOR GOODNESS BECAUSE IT SIMILARLY APPLIES FORCE ON THE MIND CAUSING STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF THAT THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION IS MANDATED. IF THE BEING NEVER PLAYED HOST TO THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF, THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION AUTOMATICALLY DIES BECAUSE IT IS NOT REQUIRED.
ALL THE USUAL EMOTIONS (EG ANGER, HATE, LUST, GREED, PRIDE) IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCE OF THE UNDULATING RISE AND FALL OR UNABATED RISE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH OF THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF IN ACTION AFTER SUCCESSFULLY OVERRIDING THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION. FEAR IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCE OF THE UNABATED RISE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE OF THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION IN ACTION AFTER OVERRIDING THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF PULLING THE BEING AWAY FROM THE SOURCE OF FEAR.
Only Force Can Stop Force:
Reason cannot stop force and only another force that is acting in the opposite direction (eg friction) can stop a force (kinetic force of a vehicle).
No amount of talking or reasoning to your car can stop it but only opposite force applied through the brakes will stop it.
Just as there is no reason in physical forces like gravity, electricity, magnetism and heat, they do not respond to nor understand reason, they only carry out what they are designed to, in the same way there is no reason in mental forces, they do not respond to nor understand reason, they only carry out what they are instructed to, it takes another force acting in the opposite direction to stop a mental force.
Because whatever activities in perceiving, thinking, speaking and moving is driven by the mental force of going against self to deceive, impress, please, intimidate and dominate others, whatever reason that is proffered as rationale for deceiving, pleasing, impressing, dominating and intimidating others are always excuses, there can be no true reason to deceive, impress, please, intimidate and dominate others, reason cannot stop these acts nor will the force of going against self listen or understand but it takes another force, the force of self preservation that constantly resists the force of going against self, that has the force that is necessary to stop the force of going against self in its tracks when the stress built up is getting too grievous or dangerous.
And so it is that it is impossible for any being that harbor the force of going against self to act to deceive, please, impress, intimidate and dominate others not to similarly harbor a force of self preservation that has similar strength that is necessary to provide the brakes and sometimes to even dominate the force of going against self.
Whatever reason there is in people who are actors or robots, exist as a poorly developed underutilized bystander watching the constant battle in their minds between the force of going against self driving speech, deeds, thinking and perceptions that have stretching, changes in speed and strength of force that creates stress, restlessness and distraction whilst its opposite the force of self preservation battles to impede and restrict these ruinous acts.
IT IS ACTUALLY NOT A SERIOUS MISTAKE ORDINARY PEOPLE MAKE BUT IT IS ANOTHER INSTANCE REFLECTING THEIR ENDEMIC POOR DISCERNMENT THAT THEY CONFUSE INTELLIGENCE WITH TRUE LOGIC AND DISCERNMENT. THERE ARE MANY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD BUT THERE ARE VERY FEW TRULY DISCERNING OR REASONING PEOPLE. IF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE TRULY DISCERNING, THEY WILL HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THEY ARE CONSTANTLY STRETCHING THEIR SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS AND HOW THEY ARE MEANINGLESS ONLY FOR SHOW CREATING INSOLUBLE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION.
INTELIGENCE IS MERELY SUPERIOR ROTE MEMORIZING AND SUPERIOR ROTE RECALL TO APPLY TO SITUATIONS AT HAND AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DISCERNMENT OR SEEING THINGS CLEARLY AS THEY ARE & TRUE LOGIC. INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE MERELY SUPERIOR ROBOTS COMPARED WITH THEIR LESSER BRETHRENS. THERE ARE MANY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WHO CAN SPEAK WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL BRANDS OF ELOQUENT SUBSTANCE & STYLE TO RENDER A GREATER VARIETY OF APPARENTLY APT RESPONSES TO A SITUATION BUT THIS MERELY INVOLVES SUPERIOR MEMORIZING OF MORE OPTIONS AND SUPERIOR, FASTER AND MORE APPROPRIATE RETRIEVAL FOR THE SITUATION AT HAND. IF YOU EXAMINE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE’S SPEECH CAREFULLY THERE ARE AREAS WHERE THEY ARE SERIOUSLY DEFICIENT AND THEY TOO ARE ROBOTS WHO CAN ONLY RESPOND IN WHAT AND HOW THAT THEY HAVE PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO RESPOND. FOR INSTANCE IF INTELLIGENCE IS THAT GREAT, WHY CAN’T INTELLIGENT PEOPLE STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, STOP CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS ON DEMAND? IT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES TO SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, WITHOUT CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT THEY CAN’T DO SO ON DEMAND. IF I ASK INTELLIGENT PEOPLE TO TELL ME PRECISELY EVERY INSTANCE THEY CHANGED SPEED AND LOUDNESS, IT IS LIKELY IF NOT CERTAIN THEY WILL FAIL SEVERELY.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSIDERED BY SOCIETY TO BE ‘BRILLIANT’ BUT WHOSE SPEECH & REASONING I DISCERN IS SERIOUSLY FLAWED.
Sadness:
Sadness an emotion but it is trickier to define or fathom its nature.
If you listen to songs that arouse sadness you may find that the reason they do so is because there is a cyclic rising of pain which is a form of dislike followed by its decaying as if dying to be repeatedly in cycles of reinforcement that may end in a climax of agitation.
Therefore sadness is nothing more than an initial dislike followed by its fading away usually to be renewed in repeated cycles until the being breaks the cycle or his preoccupation with sadness is disrupted by a distraction.
Usually sadness is generated by a significant loss (eg a loved one or article), it has an initial phase of dislike or anger or upset at the loss which is an unabated rising of one’s speed and strength of mental force targeted at that loss followed by the realization that the dislike is hopeless, will do no good so that the disliking force gradually fades away in speed and strength as if dying or mourning. At the thought or reminder again of that loss, the dislike will blindly helplessly be aroused only to again fade away as its futility is again realized.
THEREFORE SADNESS IS NOTHING MORE THAN CONDITIONING REPEATING CYCLES OF DISLIKE OF LOSS FOLLOWED BY THE DECAYING IN SPEED AND STRENGTH OF THE DISLIKE. IT IS IRRATIONAL BECAUSE DESPITE AWARENESS THE LOSS IS PERMANENT, THIS DISLIKE FOLLOWED BY DECAY KEEPS RECURRING.
In contrast to sadness, in anger or hate the maximum strength of the force of going against self is maintained on its target and it is only later when the stress built up is too severe to ignore that the person unwinds his anger or hate.
Again in contrast to sadness, in like or lust or greed, the force of going against self rises in speed and strength in a controlled fashion to reach a maximum before reaching its target to reduce to its baseline level as it reaches its target.
Shame:
SHAME IS NOT JUST A SIMPLE DISLIKE FOR SELF TRIGGERED BY SOMETHING HAPPENING BUT IT INVOLVES A SIMULTANEOUS COLLAPSE OR IMPLOSION OF ONE’S FALSE PRIDE WHICH IS PARTLY A DENIAL OF DISLIKE FOR ONESELF. PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERMITTENTLY PROUD BUT THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR SELVES AND THINGS THEY IDENTIFY WITH ARE CONSTANT, ONLY VARYING IN STRENGTH. THIS PRIDE IS PARTLY A FALSE FAÇADE OF WHOLESOMENESS THAT THEY LIKE OTHERS AND THEMSELVES TO BELIEVE AND PARTLY A DENIAL OF THE DISLIKE THAT THEY MUST HARBOR DEEP DOWN IN THEMSELVES FOR SAYING AND DOING THINGS THAT HURT THEMSELVES. WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT THREATENS TO EXPOSE THEIR FAÇADE OF WHOLESOMENESS OR RESPECTABILITY THAT THEY SO TRY TO MAINTAIN THEY EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF FEAR OR PANIC AT THE LOSS OF THEIR COVER TOGETHER WITH A STRONG SENSE OF DISLIKE FOR THEMSELVES WELLING UP.
ORDINARY PEOPLE’S PRIDE IN THEMSELVES MUST BE FALSE (CANNOT BE TRUE) AND A DENIAL BECAUSE DEEP DOWN THEY KNOW THEY CAN BE OR ARE NASTY, THEY HAVE FANGS THAT THEY CONCEAL, THEY OFTEN DO NOT MEAN WHAT THEY SAY OR DO, THEY ARE ONLY GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS, EVEN WITH THEIR ‘LOVED’ ONES. THEY HAVE LURKING FEAR OF EXPOSURE, THAT THEY WILL BE FOUND OUT OR THEY MIGHT ‘ACCIDENTALLY’ EXPOSE THEMSELVES AND IN A SITUATION THAT THREATENS TO EXPOSE THEM, THEY FEEL SHAME WHICH IS A MIXTURE OF FEAR, LOSS OF PRIDE THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO THEM AND SIMPLE DISLIKE FOR THEMSELVES.
PRIDE IS FULLTIME AND FOR SHOW TO SELF AND OTHERS, IT ONLY VARIES IN STRENGTH FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT BUT SHAME IS PART TIME, IT IS USUALLY ARTIFICIALLY WELL SUPPRESSED OR HIDDEN FROM VIEW NOT JUST FROM OTHERS BUT EVEN FROM SELF SUCH THAT SHOULD A SITUATION ARISE THAT THREATENS TO UPSET THE FECKLESS ACTOR’S CULTIVATED IMAGE OF HIMSELF, HE EXPERIENCES A POWERFUL FEAR, SENSE OF LOSS WITH A WELLING UP OF DISLIKE FOR SELF THAT HE CAN NO LONGER SUPPRESS.
(PRIDE CAN NEVER BE TRUE OR GOOD BECAUSE THERE IS NO REASON IN PRIDE BUT IT IS MERELY A BLIND EMOTIONAL LIKING FOR SELF AS A RESULT OF FLATTERY FROM OTHERS OR IT IS FAKED TO COUNTER AND HIDE ONE’S SHAME FOR SELF THAT ALWAYS CAUSES STRESS BY APPLYING CHANGING FORCE ON THE MIND)
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO IMPRESS OTHERS, REALIZING THAT OTHERS LIKE THEM OR WHAT THEY SAY OR DO WILL GIVES THEM A GLOW OF PRIDE AND CONVERSELY IF OTHERS DISAPPROVE OR ARE NOT IMPRESSED BY WHAT THEY SAY OR DO, THEY ARE LIKELY TO FEEL OFFENDED TO RETAILIATE OR THEY WILL FEEL ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.
AN IMPORTANT REASON WHY YOU SPEAK AND MOVE WITH STYLE IS TO IMPRESS OTHERS AND SO IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU PERCEIVE YOUR SUPPOSEDLY IMPRESSIVE PERSONAL IMAGE THAT YOU HAVE PAINSTAKINGLY CULTIVATED IN EYES OF OTHERS MAY BE SHATTERED, YOU MAY FEEL INTENSE SHAME OR DISLIKE FOR YOURSELF FOR JEOPARDIZING OR RUINING YOUR ‘IMPRESSIVE’ IMAGE.
IF YOU NEVER SPEAK OR DO THINGS TO IMPRESS OTHERS, YOU NEVER WANT OTHERS TO BE IMPRESSED BY YOU, YOU NEVER FALSELY OR ARTIFICIALLY PRESENTED A WHOLESOME IMAGE OF YOURSELF, WHY SHOULD YOU CARE IF OTHERS SHAME YOU OR ARE NOT IMPRESSED BY YOU, WHY SHOULD YOU BE SEIZED BY SHAME WHEN YOU FEEL OTHERS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU? THEREFORE THE CAPACITY TO FEEL SHAME IS NOT A SIGN OF VIRTUE BUT IT IS SINFUL AND THE FLIP SIDE OF THE IRRATIONAL NEED TO IMPRESS OTHERS AND FOR OTHERS TO BE IMPRESSED WITH YOU.
ANYONE WHO PUTS ON A SHOW TO PLEASE AND IMPRESS OTHERS IN THE PROCESS CREATING STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION FOR HIMSELF MUST FEEL SICK AND ASHAMED OF HIMSELF AFTER THE SHOW AND WITH REGULAR PRACTICE THIS SHAME CAN RAPIDLY RISE TO INTENSE LEVELS.
(For instance, no matter how you insist your smiling and laughing is genuine, if it is stressfully to impress others with your false charm and social confidence, then afterwards you must feel sick or ashamed of yourself which is nothing more that an unabated rise in the strength and speed of your mental force targeting yourself which conditions your mind so that with regular practice with incremental additions of force, it becomes increasingly easy for you to arouse intense dislike or shame for yourself even over minor slights or loss of face)
ANYONE WHO WANTS OTHERS TO BE IMPRESSED WITH THEM MUST EXPERIENCE SHAME FOR TWO REASONS.
BECAUSE HE IS FALSELY COURTING OTHERS’ FAVORABLE VIEWS, CREATING STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION FOR HIMSELF, HE MUST DISLIKE HIMSELF NO MATTER HOW HE MIGHT DENY HIS DISLIKE TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS BY CULTIVATING PRIDE FOR HIMSELF. DEEP INSIDE HE KNOWS HE IS A SLUT.
ANYONE WHO APPRECIATES AND COURTS OTHER PEOPLE’S LIKE FOR HIM MUST ALSO APPRECIATE AND BE SENSITIVE TO SLIGHTS AND INSULTS FROM OTHERS TO DISLIKE OR BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. IF OTHER PEOPLE’S LIKE FOR YOU MEAN NOTHING TO YOU, THEIR INSULTS AND DISLIKE FOR YOU WILL ALSO MEAN NOTHING TO YOU AND YOU CANNOT FEEL SHAME FOR YOURSELF OR OTHERS.
EMBARRASSMENT IS A FORM OF SHAME, IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PRETENTIOUS, THEY HAVE A FALSE SENSE OF WHAT IS PROPER OR WHAT THINGS OUGHT TO BE THAT THEY CAN BE EMBARRASSED. EMBARRASSMENT IS NEVER PLEASURE BUT SUFFERING.
(Truth is universal and applies to everyone, otherwise how can you be one with your Father in heaven? You can only be one in truth not falsity with your Father. If what I say above is the truth and it applies to everyone then whoever is the counselor Jesus described must also teach you that if he is to teach you everything. If I have taught you so, I will have superseded him)
Why I Am The Source Of Recent Consciousness Changes:
In any process that occurs by contagion it is unlikely if not impossible that there is more than one original source of the contagion. The science of using DNA or gene mutation to trace the origin & progress of species, diseases & migration is based on the assumption that there is only specific single instance of mutation not multiple independent mutations either at the same time or occurring subsequently.
Where there have never been consciousness changes in the history of human existence it is unlikely if not impossible that suddenly there should be simultaneously more than one source of consciousness changes that happened after 1977 and in recent years.
I was definitely the source of the consciousness change in 1977 because I know I did it at a specific point in time and I only became aware that all others were also changing much later in 1978. I did not jump hastily to conclusion that everyone was changing but I became increasingly certain everyone was changing by making scrupulous repeated observations of the demeanor and behavior of everyone.
Just as I had changed myself in 1977 long before I suspected from the unusual reactions of others that they were also changing in 1978, similarly I was changing in recent years long before I became increasingly certain everyone else not just locally but throughout the world was changing by making scrupulous repeated observations of their demeanor and behavior. Yet again today, I have changed to stop stretching my syllables, stopped changing speed and loudness where I cannot detect anyone or animal doing the same after making scrupulous repeated observations of their speech or vocalization and therefore I am again the only pioneer in not stretching, changing speed and loudness.
Because I set out to change in recent years without imitating anyone else by instituting behavioral changes that are unprecedented like not smiling, not saying or doing things to please and impress others, not stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness, unless there are multiple independent sources of the current consciousness changes, I must be the source.
If consciousness changes can occur quickly and easily for little or no reason, they would have occurred long ago and it is precisely because a person’s suffering consciousness state will only be changed if there is a significant sustained reduction in the stress, restlessness and distraction that are being constantly generated by the being’s ingrained entire behavior in perceiving, thinking, speaking and moving that takes considerable time and sustained effort to efface that consciousness changes are so hard to achieve. Even if the correct behavior (eg not smiling, not stretching syllables, not changing speed and loudness) were instituted but are abandoned before they have come to fruition, it is conceivable that the being will relapse to his former consciousness state without realizing that an unimaginable woe free consciousness state lay just around the corner). In other words if I have succumbed to social pressures to doubt myself, to appease society by smiling, stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness again, it is conceivable I might have returned to the previous stress, restlessness and distraction without realizing that an effortlessly stress, restlessness and distraction free consciousness state is possible.
A sustained absence of stretching of syllables, changing of speed and loudness that is the opposite of universal norm in this world is the basis of the changes I instituted that led to my changed consciousness state wherein I experience a previously unimaginable freedom from stress, restlessness and distraction. I discern that I must always apply mental force if I were to stretch my syllables, change speed or loudness and this unfailingly caused stress, restlessness and distraction to arise that will seize me to continue stretching, changing speed and loudness if I did not desist.
Unless there is a different mechanism underlying the consciousness changes in others as compared to me, if not stretching, not changing speed and loudness that is the opposite of the universal norm is the underlying basis in reducing stress, restlessness and distraction that is the basis of recent consciousness changes, then because I am foremost in not stretching, not changing speed and loudness, I did not copy others but I instituted these changes myself, I must be the source of the consciousness changes of recent years.
It is unlikely if not impossible for people who cannot stop themselves liking and disliking, who constantly stretched their syllables, changed speed and loudness to have triggered the recent consciousness change that makes it possible for them to do so where it was impossible in the past but it must take someone who has stopped stretching syllables, stopped constant changes in speed and loudness where everyone else have not to have been the source of this recent consciousness change that make them possible.
It is unlikely if not impossible for people who cannot even admit there have been consciousness changes, let alone that they should articulate accurately what these changes are, let alone that anyone from amongst them should have been the trigger of the consciousness changes. If you are too embarrassed even to speak openly about blatant consciousness changes, you will not come forward to take credit for the changes (not because you are so good but because you are afraid you will be ridiculed or you are a slave to others’ acceptance) how can you be the source of the change?
Ordinary people dare not come forward to take credit for recent consciousness changes because they know they are not the source and even if they are the source, it is not because they are so good or humble that they do not do so but it is because they are too beholden to society, too fearful of ridicule and backlash and too pretentious to admit they did it.
It is impossible for pretentious people who are too concerned with putting up with appearances, to get along with others and society, to maintain the status quo, to have triggered consciousness changes that alter the status quo.
THEREFORE I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT I AM THE SOURCE OF RECENT CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES THAT HAVE SWEPT AROUND THE WORLD AS I WAS DEFINITELY THE SOURCE OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE AFTER 1977. IF YOU QUESTION MY RIGHT TO SAY I AM THE TRIGGER OF CHANGES IN RECENT YEARS WITHOUT A VALID REASON THEN YOU ARE ENGAGED IN ANTAGONISM, TRYING TO CAST DOUBT IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS THAT WILL END IN AGONY, MAD UNASSUAGABLE DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY THAT IS ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO STATES OF FUTURE WOE.
Fettering Yourself To Doubt & Uncertainty:
Quote: Kampung Rawa fancy their chances of retaining the football championship.
Comment: When you adopt a position in an event that you cannot be certain, in this case you fancy your chances of retaining a football championship that may not happen, you are unwittingly conditioning yourself to experience doubt and uncertainty that is one of three fetters leading to states of future woes according to the Buddha. Even if your team should end up retaining the championship and you are exulted that your prediction has been vindicated, it will foster a belief in you that you can predict future events that will inevitably on some occasions be dashed.
Anyone who bets and in this case because he cannot know the future, he is taking a bet that his team will retain the championship is cultivating doubt and uncertainty by believing or hoping what will happen is what they predict when they cannot be sure and they must therefore entertain doubt and uncertainty regarding their bet that is conditioning in the sense of being addictive and increasing in strength with practice.
Suffice that you prepare yourself well for the tournament and should you win, fine but if you should anticipate and fancy your chances, you are taking up bets that conditions yourself to doubt and uncertainty.
Only a person who scrupulously deals with facts and truth can be free of doubt and uncertainty. Is it a fact or can you be certain you will win before you start a match, before you start gambling or investing? If you cannot be certain and you entertain thought you will win the match, gamble or investment, you are exposing yourself to uncertainty in the name of selfish gain that is always suffering, always addictive and thereafter if you believe what the Buddha tells you, you are headed to perdition not heaven.
If you emotionally think your team will win and it turns out they lost, you will have created doubt that what you think will happen did not. If your team won, you will reinforced the delusion that you can predict what you cannot predict is true apart from reinforcing your urge to place further bets in the future.
ANYONE WHO BETS OR MAKES GUESSES IRREGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE WINS OR IS PROVEN TO BE CORRECT OR NOT IS CONDITIONING HIMSELF TO DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY.
Quote: Pluto stripped of its status as planet.
Comment: When you strip someone you humiliate him and it is no accident but reflects the forcefulness and ill will to use the emotive word ‘strip’. An appropriate headline would be Pluto declassified or demoted as planet. It is no big deal for Pluto to be ‘stripped’ of its status but it is status conscious humans who make such hoo-hah.
Quote: Siti’s grand and glamorous wedding:
Comment: Anyone who appreciates grandeur and glamour whether in others or in themselves is a person attached to this world. Glamour is all about style not substance and you therefore appreciate style. Many do not believe they are headed for eternal punishment thinking they are benefiting others and themselves.
Why The Buddha Is The Highest Teacher:
It is said that after the Buddha first promulgated the four noble truths and the eightfold noble path to Kondañña ‘a cry shot right up to the Brahma (heavenly) worlds. And this ten-thousand fold cosmos shivered & quivered & quaked while a great, measureless radiance appeared in the cosmos, surpassing the effulgence of the deities.
Just because what the Buddha taught is ho hum to you, does nothing to you does not mean it will be similarly ho hum to beings in heaven.
It is not because the Buddha said he is the highest teacher that it is so but it can be objectively indisputably proven that this is so. It is because people cannot see the truth, they are partisan that they will object without being able to reason why or they proffer reasons why they object that can be proven objectively to be flawed, untenable or excuses.
It is very simple to establish if the Buddha is the highest teacher as he states. All you do is make a list of all the relevant teachers, establish what they have taught and then using your reason or eye for truth you establish who has gone the furthest, has taught the most comprehensive.
There are many examples of what the Buddha has taught that had never been taught before or since that are of the highest relevance to all beings even if most of them or the entirety of humanity do not understand or misapprehended him.
It was the Buddha who taught you that self identity views (something all ordinary people subscribe to), faith in rites and precepts (ordinary people who are substance and style robots must have faith in rites because the way they behave is ritualized by rote from memory) and doubt and uncertainty (something that beset all ordinary people) are three lower fetters to future states of woe. If what he said is true and nobody has said it before or since, then he is the highest of teacher.
The Buddha said that the destination of wrong view is hell or the animal womb. He told you that you can become an animal, all the animals you see are valid beings just like you and after you depart here, the next occasion when you return here may be even after another eternity, if it is true that in wandering for an eternity as animals you will build a pile of skeleton as high as a mountain, then the Buddha is the highest teacher in telling you all this.
The Buddha taught you that harsh speech (stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness is always harsh), tale bearing (gossip) and idle chatter (something all ordinary people partake) leads to hell or the animal womb. If it is true and nobody has told you so, he is the highest teacher.
If it is true that equanimity (passive neither liking nor disliking) exists and it is an incomparable release from suffering compared to constant liking and disliking which universally afflict not just all humans but all animals trapped here, then the Buddha is the highest teacher in telling you so. Not just that but the Buddha teaches you that equanimity is the culmination of the process of awakening that starts with mindfulness leading to analysis of quality leading to persistence leading to rapture not of the flesh leading to calm leading to concentration and finally equanimity. For instance one pays attention to one’s way of speaking (mindfulness) to examine (analysis of quality) it for the presence of stretching, speed and loudness changes that if persisted (persistence the third factor of awakening) leads to a reduction of the stress, restlessness and distraction that weighs down one’s consciousness enable it to experience a rapture that is not of the flesh. When one’s mind experiences rapture that is not of the flesh it becomes slowly calmed or stilled and like a beaker of turbid water that is allowed to settle or be calmed, the suspended particles will gradually settle so that the mind becomes concentrated and it is in the nature of things that a concentrated mind in time becomes truly equanimous.
If nobody told you before and since that it is possible for your mind to attain the state of no thinking, or for you to exist consciously without thinking not just in meditation but in daily life and far from boredom it is the incomparable release from the scourge of constant emotional thinking, then the Buddha is the highest teacher in being the first and only person to tell you so.

The Buddha: "There are five strands of sense desire. Forms cognizable by the eye that are desirable, bound up with sensual desire. Sounds cognizable by the ear, odors, flavors & tangibles (touch) cognizable by the body. The pleasure arising dependent on these five strands is called sensual pleasure.
"Now, if someone were to say: 'This is the highest pleasure,' I would not concede that.
There is another which surpasses and is more sublime. Here, quite secluded from sensual desires, unwholesome states of mind, a monk enters upon the first meditative absorption (jhana), which is accompanied by thought conception and discursive thinking and has in it joy born of seclusion. This is the pleasure which surpasses and is more sublime.
"If someone were to say: 'This is the highest pleasure,' I would not concede that.
There is another which surpasses. Here, with the stilling of thought conception and discursive thinking...a monk enters upon the second meditative absorption...in the sphere of the infinity of space... consciousness ... no-thingness...of neither-perception-nor-non-perception.
"If someone were to say: 'This is the highest pleasure,' I would not concede that. Because there is another which surpasses. Here, by completely surmounting the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, a monk enters upon the cessation of perception and feeling. This is the other pleasure which surpasses and is more sublime.
"It may happen, that others will say: 'The recluse Gotama speaks of the Cessation of Perception and Feeling and describes it as pleasure. What is this (pleasure) and how is this (a pleasure)?'
"Those should be told: 'The Blessed One describes as pleasure not only the feeling of pleasure but whenever and wherein so ever it is obtained.'"

JUST AS THE BUDDHA IS THE HIGHEST TEACHER I MAY BE THE HIGHEST INTERPRETER OF WHAT HE HAS TAUGHT BECAUSE NO OTHER PERSON HAS DEMONSTRATED AS I HAVE THE VERACITY OF WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT.

The Buddha taught many things that no other teacher has taught. If it is true there is a state called enlightenment and it is superior even to heaven or all separate existences as the Buddha stated then in teaching you what enlightenment is about he is the highest teacher.
(Supranormal Powers)
"With his mind thus concentrated, he directs it to the modes of supranormal powers. He wields manifold supranormal powers. Having been one he becomes many; having been many he becomes one. He appears. He vanishes. He goes unimpeded through walls, ramparts, & mountains as if through space. He dives in & out of the earth as if it were water. He walks on water without sinking as if it were dry land. Sitting cross-legged he flies through the air. With his hand he touches & strokes even the sun & moon. He exercises influence with his body even as far as the Brahma worlds. Just as a skilled potter could craft from well-prepared clay whatever pottery vessel he likes, in the same way -- with his mind thus concentrated, -- the monk directs & inclines it to the modes of supranormal powers.
(Clairaudience)
"With his mind thus concentrated, he directs it to the divine ear-element. He hears -- by means of the divine ear-element, surpassing the human -- both kinds of sounds: divine & human, whether near or far. Just as if a man traveling along a highway were to hear the sounds of kettledrums, small drums, cymbals. He would know, 'That is the sound of kettledrums, small drums, conchs, cymbals, and tom-toms.' In the same way -- with his mind thus concentrated, he hears -- by means of the divine ear-element, both kinds of sounds: divine & human, whether near or far.
(Mind Reading)
"With his mind thus concentrated he directs it to knowledge of the awareness of other beings. He knows the awareness of other beings, having encompassed it with his own awareness. He discerns a mind with passion, and a mind without passion. He discerns a mind with aversion, and a mind without aversion. He discerns a mind with delusion, and a mind without delusion. He discerns an excelled mind, and an unexcelled mind. He discerns a released mind, and an unreleased mind.
(Recollection of Past Lives)
"With his mind thus concentrated, he directs it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives. He recollects his manifold past lives, many aeons of cosmic contraction, & expansion, [recollecting], 'There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there.
(The Passing Away & Re-appearance of Beings)
"With his mind thus concentrated, he directs it to knowledge of the passing away & re-appearance of beings. He sees -- by means of the divine eye, -- beings passing away & re-appearing, and he discerns how they are inferior & superior, beautiful & ugly, fortunate & unfortunate in accordance with their kamma: 'These beings -- who were endowed with bad conduct, held wrong views and undertook actions under wrong views -- after death, have re-appeared in the plane of deprivation, in hell. But these beings -- who were endowed with good conduct, who held right views, after death, have re-appeared in the good destinations, in the heavenly world.' Just as if there were a tall building in the central square [of a town], and a man standing on top of it were to see people entering,leaving a house, walking, and sitting in the square.
(The Ending of Mental Fermentations)
"With his mind thus concentrated, the monk directs it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations. He discerns, as it is actually present, that 'This is stress...This is the origination...This is the cessation ...This is the way leading to the cessation of stress...These are mental fermentations...This is the origination...This is the cessation...This is the way leading to the cessation of fermentations.' His heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, is released from the fermentation of sensuality, becoming & ignorance. Just as if there were a pool of water in a mountain glen -- clear, limpid it would occur to one, 'This pool of water is clear, limpid. Here are these shells, gravel, & pebbles, and also these shoals of fish.'
When this was said, the brahmin Lohicca said: "Master Gotama, it's as if a man, seizing by the hair another man falling into the pit of hell, were to pull him up & set him on firm ground. In the same way, Master Gotama has pulled me up as I was falling into the pit of hell."
The Buddha has said many things that no other being has said before or since independently and if they are true then he is the highest of teachers.
For instance he said that self identity views, doubt and uncertainty and faith in rites and precepts are three lower fetters that lead to states of future woe and together with sensuality and ill will are the five lower fetters that tie beings to the lower realms. In addition all beings including those in heaven are fettered by ignorance, conceit, restlessness (desire for change), attachment to forms (angels live in a formed heaven), attachment to the formless (brahmas exist formless). If he did not teach you that will you have known it yourself or has anybody else told you that? Most people think nothing of self identity views, experiencing doubt and uncertainty, confusion and wrong views but the Buddha tells you they are deadly serious.
The Buddha taught:
"From ignorance (not knowing what existence is about and who you actually are) as a requisite condition come fabrications (all the activities of a mind are fabrications and they occur independent of consciousness).From fabrications comes consciousness (consciousness is required to supervise and experience the fabrications).From consciousness comes name-&-form (this world is made possible by the coming into being of consciousness).From name-&-form come the six sense media (the existence of objects makes necessary the existence of sense media to sense them).From the six sense media comes contact.From contact comes feeling (passive sensations that last as long as contact that can only be pleasant, unpleasant or neither).From feeling comes craving.From craving comes clinging/sustenance.From clinging/sustenance comes becoming.From becoming comes birth.From birth, then aging & death, sorrow, pain, distress, & despair come into play.Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering.
If what is said above is the truth and it applies to all beings, then because nobody has taught that, the Buddha is the highest teacher.

Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta
Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
The Blessed One was staying at Varanasi. There he addressed the group of five monks:
"There are these two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has gone forth. That which is devoted to sensual pleasure with reference to sensual objects and that which is devoted to self-affliction: painful, ignoble, unprofitable. Avoiding these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathagata leads to calm, direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding.
"And what is the middle way realized by the Tathagata? Precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress: Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful. In short, the five aggregates of clinging/ sustenance are stressful.
"And this, monks, is the noble truth of the origination of stress: the craving that makes for further becoming -- accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now here & now there -- i.e., craving for sensual pleasure, for becoming, for non-becoming.
"And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go of that very craving.
"And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path -- right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
"And what, monks, is right view? Knowledge with regard to stress, the origination of stress (stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness), the stopping of stress, the way of practice leading to the stopping of stress (stop stretching, changing speed and loudness).
"And what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation & freedom from ill will. (Just because you resolve to quit smoking does not mean you will do so but to have a right resolve is a crucial first step or sign post)
"And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, divisive & abusive speech, idle chatter.
"And what, monks, is right action? Abstaining from taking life, stealing, sexual intercourse.
"And what, monks, is right livelihood? A noble disciple, having abandoned dishonest livelihood, keeps his life going with right livelihood.
"And what, monks, is right effort? (i) There is the case where a monk generates desire, activates persistence, & exerts his intent for the non-arising of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen. (ii) He generates desire, persistence, for the sake of the abandonment of evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen. (iii) He generates desire, activates persistence, for the arising of skillful qualities that have not yet arisen. (iv) He generates desire, activates persistence for the maintenance, development, & culmination of skillful qualities that have arisen.
"And what, monks, is right mindfulness? (i) There is the case where a monk remains focused on the body in & of itself putting away greed & distress. (ii) He remains focused on feelings in & of themselves. (iii) He remains focused on the mind in & of itself -- putting away greed & distress. (iv) He remains focused on mental qualities in & of themselves.
"And what, monks, is right concentration? (i) There is the case where a monk -- quite withdrawn from sensual pleasures, unskillful (mental) qualities -- enters & remains in the first jhana. (ii) With the stilling of directed thought & evaluation, he enters & remains in the second jhana. (iii) With the fading of rapture, he remains in equanimity, mindful & fully aware, and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana.' (iv) With the abandoning of pleasure & pain he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. (Right concentration is meditation which is not a dead end but if properly developed meditation leads to higher levels of absorptions)
"Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: 'This is the noble truth of stress' ...'This noble truth of stress is to be comprehended'...
"Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: 'This is the noble truth of the origination of stress'...'This noble truth of the origination of stress is to be abandoned'...
"Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: 'This is the noble truth of the cessation of stress'...'This noble truth of the cessation of stress is to be directly experienced'...
"Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: 'This is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress'...'This noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress is to be developed'...
"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, & 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.'"
That is what the Blessed One said. And while this explanation was being given, there arose to Ven. Kondañña the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye: Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
And when the Blessed One had set the Wheel of Dhamma in motion, the earth deities cried out: "At Varanasi, in the Game Refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by priest or contemplative, deity, Mara or God or anyone in the cosmos." On hearing the earth deities' cry, the deities of the Four Kings' Heaven took up the cry...the deities of the Thirty-three...the Yama deities...the Tusita deities...the Nimmanarati deities...the Paranimmita-vasavatti deities...the deities of Brahma's retinue took up the cry: "At Varanasi, in the Game Refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by priest or contemplative, deity, Mara, or God or anyone at all in the cosmos."
So in that moment, that instant, the cry shot right up to the Brahma worlds. And this ten-thousand fold cosmos shivered & quivered & quaked, while a great, measureless radiance appeared in the cosmos, surpassing the effulgence of the deities.
Then the Blessed One exclaimed: "So you really know, Kondañña?" And that is how Ven. Kondañña acquired the name Añña-Kondañña -- Kondañña who knows.