The Next Change:
Cinemas in the olden days used to have billboards that advertised ‘the next change’. There were ‘cheap matinees’ featuring old movies and midnight shows.
The next change in terms of consciousness changes will be for some but never all or many to finally come to an end of all stretching, changes in speed and loudness enabling them to not just experience a release from stress, restlessness and distraction but enable them to discern for themselves as they could not before that everyone in this world are great actors, putting on a show driven by ill will, being wickedly nice not good to each.
THE EFFORTLESS CESSATION OF ALL STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN A BEING’S SPEECH, MOTION, THOUGHTS AND PERCEPTIONS IS THE ONLY END POINT OR GOAL OF RECENT CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES THAT LOOKS LIKELY BEYOND THE REACH OF MOST BEINGS HERE AND WHAT MATTERS IS THAT THUS STILL DETAINED IN STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THEY WILL CONTINUE TO WANDER IN SUFFERING.
ONLY A BEING THAT TRULY DOES NOT STRETCH HIS SYLLABLES, CHANGED SPEED OR LOUDNESS IS NOT GUILTY OF DETAINING OTHERS IN THE TORMENT OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT ENDS IN INSANITY AND HEARTBREAK.
A Forced & Reasoned Change:
If your consciousness change is the result of the reduction of external stress, restlessness and distraction impacting on your consciousness due to an alleviating change in the behavior of others, then it is a forced or mindless change.
If your consciousness change is a result of mindful change in your conduct eg not getting angry, not smiling to please or impress others, not stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness that reduce self generated stress, restlessness and distraction, it is a reasoned consciousness change.
One Cause & Cure For Mental Suffering:
It is only because there exist in ordinary people’s minds two mental forces that are constantly active, constantly opposing each other, stretching, changing speed and strength that the person has no peace, no release from conflict, stress, restlessness and distraction (inability to concentrate that at lower levels may convince the fool that he can concentrate if he wants when his concentration is like a candle compared to the incandescent light of a force free mind).
It is only because ordinary people are never directly responsible for their activities (perceiving, thinking, speaking and moving) but they are only indirectly responsible for what they say or do; they commit their individually distinctive substance and style activities to memory so that they only pay attention to select whatever they want to say or do to then pass it on to their mental force of going against self that will then carry out in their entirety what they want to say or do with no questions asked. Because once selected it is their blind mental force that is carrying it out, they or their consciousness has no direct control over what they say or do and should they desire to stop or switch tracks, there is always a lag and they have to do so indirectly by instructing their opposing force of self preservation to increase in strength to bring that speech or action to a halt.
If people pay attention to their behavior they may realize they sometimes do or say things against their will because their mental jukeboxes have jumped the cue. Just like a parrot that has been instructed to say certain things in certain situations, the parrot sometimes does not wait for the command but executes the speech or action by itself. Sometimes you might be pleased with yourself that your parrot has spoken for you without being asked but sometimes it can cause consternation because you fear losing control of your parrot.
If people pay attention they may realize they often do certain things without choice. For instance they see certain things they don’t like or are uncomfortable seeing and they automatically look away and they must use great force to turn their heads to look at what they refuse to look. It is therefore force and not reason that dictates what they see and do not see.
Often, when there is great emotion behind what they see and do, they cannot stop it immediately but there is a lag between their intention to stop and the coming into effect of the intention because it is not their consciousness or reason that stops it but they have to instruct their force of self preservation to do so and there is an inevitable lag between ordering and coming into effect.
When a person is very angry, he can be told to shut up but he will continue to argue or flare up again because his anger or force of going against self once aroused has not expended its energy. Therefore when a person is angry it is not his reason that is running the show but it is his force of going against self that is running the show and whatever reasoning he might proffer are excuses to justify his anger.
Consciousness or reason can never directly stop rote speech or actions that are or have become distressing or inappropriate because they are reproduced blindly by rote powered by the mental force of going against self but consciousness or reason can only indirectly stop them by directing his mind’s force of self preservation to rise in strength to stop them.
Normally the force of self preservation never confronts to destroy the force of going against self but it merely pulls in the opposite direct to resist and bring to a halt all acts of going against self.
Like a snake with two heads at each end, the force of self preservation always pulls in the direction that opposes the force of going against self. Though it is possible (under instruction by consciousness) for the head that is the force of self preservation to turn around to confront and do battle with the force of going against self to permanently destroy it, ordinary people neither have the awareness or the will to destroy their force of going against self.
THUS THE ONLY WAY FOR A BEING TO PERMANENTLY EXIT MENTAL CONFLICT, STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION IS FOR HIS CONSCIOUSNESS TO PAY ATTENTION TO DIRECT HIS FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION TO CONFRONT AND ATTACK HIS FORCE OF GOING AGAINST HIMSELF, SOMETHING HE HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE WITH THE AIM OF PERMANENTLY DESTROYING HIS FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF SO THAT HE CAN HAVE TRUE PERMANENT PEACE OF MIND.
THE WAY THIS IS ACHIEVED IN PRACTICE IS THAT THE PERSON MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DETECT STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS THAT ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF HIS FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF IN ACTION TO THEN INSTRUCT HIS FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION TO APPLY COUNTER FORCE TO STOP THE STRETCHING, CHANGING OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS (SOMETHING HE HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE) SO THAT A TIME WILL COME WHEN THE URGE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS WILL FINALLY BE EXHAUSTED LIBERATING HIS CONSCIOUSNESS FROM CONFLICT, STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION.
Cars never increase or decrease speed without the input of engine power or brake force and therefore all stretching, changes of speed and loudness in speech require input of force and has nothing to do with reason, reason is not required to stretch syllables, change speed or loudness.
Imposters Accepted As Beacons:
Although they may appear deceptively similar, there is a world of a difference in a purported dialogue between Manjusri and Yuima, two luminaries in the pantheon of the ‘New Wisdom Schools’ that sprang up after the Buddha’s departure and what the Buddha said.
Can you tell what is false and what is true in both cases?
Quote:
Yuima: “Oh Manjusri, you are welcome indeed. But your coming is no coming and my seeing is no seeing.” (Without being asked, it is jumping the gun and being eager with ulterior motive like trying to impress to tell the other person that his coming is no coming and my seeing is no seeing. One should not speak for others or tell someone his coming is no coming but let him speak for himself. If you let your yes be yes only, your coming is your coming, anything more, your ‘not coming’ comes from evil apart from being a blatant denial of reality and trying to perceive more in someone’s coming than there is. If you believe your coming is also your not coming, you may be flirting with future mad perception and mad logic if in truth there can be nothing more in a person’s coming than just his coming. The Buddha taught Bahiya that in reference to the seen there will only be the seen, so how can it be that your seeing is no seeing?)
Manjusri: You are right. I come as if not coming; I depart as if not departing. For my coming is from nowhere and my departing is no wither. (It is never your coming as if not coming that truly distinguishes it meaningfully from others’ coming but it is if your coming is without stretching, changes in speed and strength of force that makes it free of stress, restlessness and distraction that truly distinguishes it)
Yuima: Because all sentient beings are sick I am sick, and when they all cured of illness I shall be cured. (Neither the Buddha nor God said that because all beings are sick, they are sick. It may be emotionally gratifying to say thus but it is all bravado and not based on reality)
Majusri: As I understand it when there is not a word to utter, not a sign to see, nothing to take cognizance of and there is complete detachment from every form of questioning, then one enters the gate of Non duality. O Yuima, what is your view? (The reason he asked the question is not to ascertain the other person’s view because he knows the answer he expects but he wants to put the other person to the test and that is deceitful. If there is complete detachment from every form of questioning, why does he want to test the other person?)
Yuima remained silent and did not utter a word. Thereupon Manjusri said, “Well done, well done indeed, O Yuima! This is the way to enter the gate of Non-duality”
(It is a common tendency amongst humans to want to give others the impression that they are privy to certain secrets or knowledge or physical or mental powers that others do not have; it may be a form of one-up-manship or intellectual snobbery that whereas others only see, I see without seeing. It may be a temptation too great to resist for some people, particularly if they are in positions of power who have entered a religion and failed to achieve its objective which is enlightenment in this case to rather than admit failure to tamper around with the religion to bend it around to their own liking. Can your ‘seeing is no seeing’ be in keeping with what the Buddha said that in reference to the seen there will only be the seen? )
Ogha-tarana Sutta: Crossing over the Flood
Then a certain devata (female angel), in the far extreme of the night, her extreme radiance lighting up the entirety of Jeta's Grove, went to the Blessed One. On arrival, she said to him, "Tell me, dear sir, how you crossed over the flood."
"I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."
"When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."
The Buddha is not speaking without being asked but he is replying to a question. Further he was not speaking for others (eg your coming is no coming) but speaking only on his own behalf.
Unlike Manjusri & Yuima, he did not contradict himself by saying “I crossed the flood by pushing forward without pushing forward; by staying in a place without staying in a place”. What the Buddha is saying is that to approach crossing the flood of existence from a physical perspective that can only be either pushing forward or staying still did not work because when he pushed forward he was spun around or repulsed but if he stood still he sank or receded further from his objective of crossing over so he crossed over without pushing forward nor staying still. What the Buddha is saying is that you are barking up the wrong tree approaching crossing over the flood from a physical perspective. The reason is because crossing over is not something you can strive towards or wait for it to come to you but crossing over or unbinding will automatically occur once you are truly without passion, has cut all ties and have no considerations of self. Once a being is truly without passion and all considerations of a self, he has truly cut all ties, he is released or unbound or enlightened & has crossed the flood. The remainder-less cessation of all passions, cutting of all ties and all self consideration that is the key to enlightenment or crossing the flood has nothing to do with pushing forward or staying still and therefore the Buddha was not indulging in intellectual mischief or mental calisthenics when he said he crossed the flood without pushing forwards (moving) or staying still whereas Manjusri and Yuima were.
"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are mental fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origin, such its disappearance.' Because of this, I say, a Tathagata -- with the ending, fading out & relinquishment of all construings, all I & mine-making & tendencies to conceits -- is, through lack of sustenance/clinging, released."
The Buddha said: 'This Dhamma is for one who enjoys & delights in non-complication, not for one who enjoys & delights in complication.
If you enjoys non-complication then your coming is only your coming and your seeing is only your seeing. If you relish complication then your coming is also your not coming, your seeing is also your not seeing and if you are fabricating, making believe that your coming is not coming, it will end in mad perception and logic.
Truth is whatever happened and falsity is whatever did not happen. What happened is that you came and what did not happen and is false is that you did not come and therefore the statement that my coming is no coming is false and mischievous. What has happened (your coming) cannot also at the same time not have happen (your not coming) and this statement suggests it is possible to contravene reality; you can come and yet not come. The only way your coming is no coming is to use your imagination to imagine that it is so and this is fabricating or falsifying because whatever did happen need no imagining.
Exactly what is the nature of your coming is no coming, seeing is no seeing can be known because the Buddha said that encompassing mind with mind he knows the exact nature of that mind. It (coming is no coming) can either be physically possible and a truly superior way of doing things or it is just delusion; you keep willing yourself to believe you can do something and yet not do it until you perceive with increasing realism that you can do what is physically impossible, you can see and not see, come and not come. If that is behaving like a zombie then you are courting future insanity.
Correction: It Is Derisive Not sarcastic.
Quote: Must tragedy occur before City Hall takes action?
Comment: When you are sarcastic you mean the opposite of what you say and this is not the case above because the speaker did not mean the opposite of what he said but he was derisive compared to the person who says, “City Hall should take action before a tragedy occurs.”
Projecting Style Into Whatever They Perceive:
The reason why what they read irritates people is because they project a phantom style that may their own or memory of others’ styles onto what they read and this projected style is what upsets them. Ordinary people automatically project style in what they read, they automatically project onto what I write and so they think I am stylish just like them.
Jukebox Performance Anxiety Causing Agonizing Doubt & Uncertainty:
Because their speech & actions, even the way they perceive are must always be reproduced by rote, no matter how many times they have done it before, there is performance anxiety that there might be glitches, they might be ‘caught with their pants down’ in embarrassingly failing to reproduce their desired amalgam of substance and style particularly for occasions that mean a lot that this can lead to agonizing doubt and uncertainty that even shakes the jukebox actor’s self esteem.
If the person’s behavior is live, for the occasion, has no style that must be incorporated, there is no performance anxiety regarding the failure to reproduce the desired speech or action for the occasion.
Thus rote behavior is a key contributor to doubt and uncertainty besetting the person through performance anxiety, fear that his behavior might unravel when he needs it most.
The Nature Of Doubt & Uncertainty:
Contrary to what people might perceive, doubt and uncertainty has nothing to do with reality but they are false emotional states of the mind.
Doubting is a forceful attitude of questioning, of refusal to accept what is said or done to them, what they see and hear. Although initially it may have a rational basis, eg they can see something said is false (but that does mean you must doubt it, you merely do not accept it) because doubting is forceful, it conditions the mind so that it arises rapidly to intense levels that cannot be shaken off even over trivial matters.
Anyone who questions must become hesitant or uncertain and the more he doubts the more hesitant or uncertain he becomes and this uncertainty too is forceful and conditioning and the person is headed for increasing torment.
There is no reason to doubt at all but it is the more that comes from evil. If you know or can see something is false, you do not accept or believe it, so what is there to doubt? It is only when you know something is false but you fake you believe it is true that you are cultivating doubt. If you do not know if something is true or false, you do not take any positions on the matter.
The Man Of Great Doubt Is A Man Of Little Faith:
Jesus rebuked John saying, “Man of little faith, why did you doubt?” when John became frightened and began to sink.
Therefore doubt and uncertainty that the Buddha said is one of three lower fetters to state of future woe is no stranger to Christianity but it the opposite of faith that is valued by Jesus. If you are a man wracked by doubt and uncertainty even over trivial daily matters, you are hesitant even over your movements and speech, you are a man of little faith.
Excuses are deadly:
Ordinary people severely underestimate the occurrences of excuses in their daily lives both perpetrated by them and others because many excuses have been accepted as valid by them.
Because excuses are not the true reason for what happened, if you accept them without question or awareness that they are false, you are flirting with future insanity when you totally or helplessly believe your and others’ excuses are true. Even though they now accept and see nothing wrong in their & others excuses, it is a forced never passive acceptance and there is subconscious resistance in the form of cynicism to everything. When you finally become mad, this ‘healthy cynicism’ abandons you and you then totally believe excuses are true.
In her eagerness to please me, this female petrol kiosk assistant apologized for not remembering my car’s registration number in writing a receipt because according to her, I had so many cars (three). Even if I drove one car she may not remember it because she has many customers and unless she is obsessed with the numbers of my cars, why should she remember it? She is merely saying it to please me, as if she has an interest in the numbers of my car and the only reason why she could not recall is because I had so many cars.
She is flirting with future madness and feeding her doubt and uncertainty in thinking she can remember what she cannot, to think that if I only had one car she would have remembered it.