Deluded From Top To Bottom:

If even senior Christian and Buddhist leaders see nothing wrong when it is unbecoming, even sinful but they likely think that they have conducted themselves exemplarily by speaking the substance and style of what is quoted below, what more that you should expect ordinary people can behave blamelessly.

Quote: Rev Dhammananda was so shocked (this is emotional and what is the big deal, would it shock the Buddha?) by archbishop Fernandez’s humility that he hollered (hollered is speaking emotionally, if the writer exaggerated he is misrepresenting the situation, can a Buddha holler?): What! (Questioning or doubting that conditions himself and others to doubt. Why question something that has happened? Does he not believe what his eyes see?) You are the catholic bishop of KL and you touched the sandals of a monk? The unassuming Fernandez meekly replied, “That’s right, you are not only the chief monk of Malaysia but also Singapore”. The two shook hands and laughed.

Comment: Rev Dhammananda is speaking emotionally that is not in keeping with what the Buddha taught that one should be dispassionate and he is not letting his yes be yes only but saying much more that comes from evil according to Jesus. He is making a fuss or much ado over nothing or getting carried away in exclaiming his astonishment at the bishop touching his sandals. It is likely he is joking and when you joke you cannot mean what you say and therefore they are both engaged in make believe, being stressfully nice not good to each other. There is no need to make a fuss and if one wanted to make a comment, one should say solemnly that he feels honored that a bishop should touch his sandals. It actually betrays a status consciousness to think that a bishop cannot touch a monk’s sandals. The bishop does not realize that what he said is false and contradictory. If he said “That is NOT right because you are not only the chief monk of Malaysia but of Singapore” is he speaking without contradiction. He is saying he is touching Rev Dhammananda’s sandals because he is the chief monk of Malaysia so how can he affirm that Rev Dhammananda is right he the bishop is touching a mere monk’s sandals?
Unwittingly they are both acknowledging their attachment to status, a bishop shouldn’t lower his status to touch a mere monk’s sandals and a bishop is touching a monk’s sandals because he is the chief monk of Malaysia and Singapore. Again status consciousness is not meritorious but sinful. How can one who does not care for what he shall eat and wear as Jesus advised, care about status of himself and others?
By saying ‘you are not only the chief monk for Malaysia but also Singapore’, the archbishop is acknowledging that he values stature & impressible, the person who is chief monk of Singapore & Malaysia is in his eyes more impressive than a person who is chief monk of either.

By saying 'you are not only the chief monk for Malaysia but also Singapore', the archbishop is saying that he is impressible, in his mind the person who is chief monk for Malaysia and Singapore is more impressive than either and he is promoting a mindset of status consciousness that may not be a characteristic of heavenly existence but it is of the lower realms.

Does he mean that just because he is a chief monk for both countries, he is even more worthy of being touched on his sandals?

It is because people doubt even what their eyes tell them, "What? You are touching my sandals" that they condition themselves to be increasingly doubtful that leads to uncertainty and being thus fettered by doubt and uncertainty that is one of three lower fetters, they are headed for future states of woe according to the Buddha.
The folly of questioning what you see:
Did the chief monk see the bishop touch his sandals? If he saw with his eyes what happen, why did he question, express disbelief what he saw? The purpose of expressing disbelief is to falsely express ‘wow’, that what has happened is unbelievable or incredible but in the process you are conditioning yourself not to believe what you plainly saw and you are also conditioning the bishop to doubt what he actually did that you do not realize will become with regular practice become involuntary and you are headed for mad or uncontrollable doubt that leads to mad uncertainty, you are headed for mad perception and logic that what is true is false.
People think that of course it is rightful that they should doubt and question others about what they say or what happened not realizing that there is NEVER any justification to doubt. Often if you examine their questioning, it is not based on reason but based on emotion or ill will to sow doubt in the other person (eg ‘are you sure you want to buy that?’). Even in the case when you know something said to you is false, you do not ask the person to doubt himself but you state what you believe is true eg ‘I think you did it’ instead of ‘are sure you did not do it’.
Not only is there doubt and uncertainty in the speech and thoughts of ordinary people but it is reflected in the hesitancy of their movements, they often stop in their tracks suddenly, vacillate and are undecided to carry out or not carry out what they do.
Doubt and uncertainty are not harmless but they are suffering that culminate in mad doubt and uncertainty and it is also one of three lower fetters that the Buddha says leads to future states of woe.
I have no doubts and uncertainty because I can effortlessly see through the chicanery of others, I speak the truth, do not indulge in falsity (putting on a show to impress others) and do not what to make others suffer by sowing doubt and confusion.
This lady whom I had assured twice that the lab boy will collect her blood sample today nevertheless turn around at the door to ask me again whether her blood will be collected today reflecting her forceful doubt that cannot be assuaged.
NEVER DOUBT ANYTHING OR QUESTION OTHERS BUT SEE CLEARLY AND MERELY SAY WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUE OR HAPPENED. DOUBTING IS FALSE, FORCEFUL, TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, MEANINGLESS AND CONDITIONING THAT WILL END IN AGONY FOR YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON YOU SOWED DOUBT.

ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE DELUDED BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN THEIR SPEECH AND MOTION THAT THEY BELIEVE IS MEANINGFUL AND BENEFICIAL TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS WHEN IT IS MEANINGLESS (FOR SHOW TO DECEIVE, IMPRESS, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE AND DOMINATE) AND HARMFUL TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS (IN CREATING INSOLUBLE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION). DELUSION IS ACROSS BOARD NOT PART TIME JUST AS THEIR STYLE IS ACROSS BOARD IN EVERYTHING THEY SAY, DO, THINK AND PERCEIVE, NOT SELECTIVE.

WILL ANYONE IN THIS WORLD SAY THE THINGS I SAY TO YOU ABOVE? IS WHAT I SAY NONSENSE OR THE TRUTH THAT THIS WORLD CANNOT SEE AND ACCEPT? THUS IF YOU SCOFF AT ME, YOU DISAGREE WITH ME, IT MAY BE DISAGREEING WITH TRUTH THAT MEANS YOU GO ALONE IN YOUR FALSE WAY EVEN FOR ANOTHER ETERNITY.
THE BUDDHA SAID THE PERSON WHO PREACHES FROM THE TEACHING AND DISCIPLINE DECLARED BY HIM IS RARE. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE PAST OR PRESENT WHO PREACHES FROM HIS TEACHING THE WAY I DO? BECAUSE NO TWO DIFFERENT WAYS CAN BE CORRECT, IF MY WAY IS TRUE, THEIR WAYS MUST BE FALSE AND THUS I MAY BE EVEN MORE RARE (OR UNIQUE) THAN YOU IMAGINE.

Jesus said “Woe to you who laughs, for you shall weep”. Thus it is not meritorious to laugh because it is stressful and agitates the mind of self and others. It is not because Jesus said so that laughing is sinful but laughter is a form of lying or pretense or putting on a show that will redound on the unrepentant person.
What the chief monk & the archbishop are indulging is mutual back scratching, lauding each other on their false fabricated humility and making much ado about nothing. It is because the chief monk thinks much about the exalted position of the archbishop, about having his sandal touched by a person of high stature that he is moved emotionally to pass a flattering comment and it is worship of stature by the archbishop that moved him to falsely affirm he is indeed touching the sandal of a monk but not just any monk but the chief monk of Malaysia and Singapore. Would he do so to a run of the mill monk?
HAVE YOU HEARD THE BUDDHA OR JESUS CRACK ANY JOKES OR TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF THINGS? THEY MAY NOT EVEN REALIZE THEY ARE JOKING, TRYING TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF A SITUATION, LET ALONE THAT JOKING IS MISCONDUCT NOT VIRTUOUS IN BOTH BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
If ordinary people did not dislike (scorn or indifference) what transpired above, they will like it (feel moved or touched by the apparent humility and mutual respect). If what I say is true that far from meritorious, the interchange above is unbecoming and incurs karma for both of them, then you may agree that this world has no eye for the truth and true virtue.
I may be wrong with the view I articulate above but if I turn out to be correct, how many if any espouse the same view I espouse above? Thus if I am correct, it is no surprise that the Father should have to give you another counselor as Jesus said because by themselves, humanity will not come to a realization the many things that I have dwelt on.
“He will not speak on his own authority” indicates that the counselor Jesus described will speak as if on his own authority, “but whatever he hears he will speak” indicates the counselor will not know everything but whatever he hears (that others do not hear) he will speak.
If people in this world are capable of seeing and saying things that the counselor will say there will be no need for him to come. If what the counselor will say is similar to what men say, there is no need for him to come.
The Pivotal Role Of Fabrications:
What the Buddha says is never for show to impress or please you but it always has purpose.
By telling you that from ignorance comes fabrications (fermentations or determinations) and from fabrications comes consciousness, he is telling you of the pivotal role or crucial link between ignorance and consciousness that is the root to continued existence and all its woes is fabrications or whatever activities the mind is capable, namely perceiving, thinking, speaking and conducting bodily movements.
Unless you enjoy shedding your own blood that is greater than the four great oceans, you enjoy weeping and gnashing your teeth, you enjoy being tormented by stress, restlessness and distraction or you are too foolish to seek an escape then you must seek a way out of your predicament if it is available.
What the Buddha is saying is that ignorance, fabrications (speech, thought and bodily actions) and consciousness are not independent but intimately linked in which fabrications is the crucial link because its cessation leads to the cessation of consciousness and this world and opens the door to the banishing of ignorance and thence accessing enlightenment.
This is borne out in practice because a change in fabricating as happened after 1977 and in recent years have led to a change in consciousness in the positive direction and you can see that people nowadays have more presence of mind even if they are all still acting and being nice not good to each other.

The previously unthinkable, unimaginable consciousness changes that occurred after 1977 and in recent years is proof the Buddha is correct because fabrications condition consciousness.

It is because the status quo has never been broken by anyone, everyone’s conduct was maintaining each other in a stable level of stress, restlessness and distraction that there have never been alleviating consciousness changes in the past. As soon as someone breaks the deadlock by significantly lowering his endemic stress, restlessness and distraction through his conduct that is a true departure from the norm (by determinedly not manipulating others by acting weak or submissive, not OK, by not being nice but striving to be genuine) where there never was before, he experiences an appreciable reduction in his stress, restlessness and distraction level that alleviates his consciousness state that he and all others can appreciate and this acts as a compulsory or mandatory drive for them to also similarly change so that in time everyone changes in a defensive way to minimize his suffering as far as his continued urge to sin will permit.

IT WAS A NEVER BEFORE OCCURRED CHANGE IN THE WAY I FABRICATED (I REMEMBER I WAS SEIZED TO BE GRIMLY DETERMINED NOT TO SUFFER ANYMORE, NOT TO COUNTENANCE NONSENSE FROM OTHERS ANYMORE, FROM NOW ON, ONLY I WILL DETERMINE WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG FOR ME) THAT WAS THE BASIS OF THE JOYFUL PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE I EXPERIENCED IN 1977 AND BY A PROCESS OF CONTAGION IN ALL OTHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. THEREFORE THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES AFTER 1977 AND IN RECENT YEARS IS PROOF THE BUDDHA IS CORRECT THAT CONSCIOUSNESS COMES FROM ACTIVITIES (SPEECH, THOUGHT, BODILY ACTIONS) OF THE MIND THAT UNSURPRISING ALSO MOULDS THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS DERIVED FROM IT.
In 1977 and in recent years I used force (my force of self preservation) to persistently remodel my behavior and speech and this led to an unimaginable unintended change in my consciousness state indicating that behavior influences consciousness states. Why should this be so except that it is as the Buddha said that consciousness is derived from and a product of fabrications or activities of that mind.

In recent years I changed my behavior in a never before way by refusing to smile, refusing to say or do things to please others, refusing to stretch my syllables, change speed and loudness when I became aware of their presence and how they caused stress, restlessness and distraction.
Before 1977 it was my force of going against self that was ascendant that dictated my weak, withdrawing, hesitant and dependent nature and behavior and in 1977 in an instance of provocation it dawned on me in a flash that I could be strong, could stand on my own feet, be my own boss and therefore I mobilized my force of self preservation to neutralize the negativity of the behavior generated by my force of going against self to achieve an appreciable alleviation of my consciousness state not realizing that I was setting my force of self preservation on my force of going against self in a process of gradual erosion that will see it vanish so that I finally achieved a consciousness state in 1978 wherein I was effortlessly free of stress, restlessness and distraction.
It was not my intention to change my consciousness state or that of the world nor did I know it was possible beforehand when I embarked on my dedicated course of change and therefore the consciousness changes after 1977 and in recent years are proofs that what the Buddha said is correct that consciousness comes from fabrications and therefore the nature of those fabrications dictate the consciousness derived from it.

IT WILL ALSO BE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN FABRICATIONS (SPEECH, THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR) THAT WILL LEAD TO A RELATIVE REDUCTION OF IGNORANCE OR RELATIVE ENLIGHTENMENT WHILST A TOTAL CESSATION OF ALL FABRICATIONS THROUGH DISPASSION OR DISENCHANTMENT WILL LEAD TO A TOTAL BANISHMENT OF IGNORANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT.

FABRICATIONS OR ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MIND THAT IS THE SOURCE OF THAT MIND’S BEHAVIOR AND SPEECH IS PIVOTAL BECAUSE IT STANDS IN THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT. THE CESSATION OF ALL FABRICATING OR ACTIVITIES, SOMETHING THAT BEINGS TRAPPED IN EXISTENCE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BANISHES IGNORANCE TO ALLOW ENLIGHTENMENT TO PREVAIL AND CONSCIOUSNESS TO BE EXTINGUISHED. A TRUE IMPROVEMENT OF ONE’S FABRICATING AS MANIFEST IN ONE’S BEHAVIOR WILL RESULT IN AN ALLEVIATING CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE.

The Buddha: Monks, determinations (fabrications or fermentations) are threefold as bodily determinations, verbal determinations and mental determinations. These are the threefold determinations.
Comment: What the Buddha said proves that I am correct in saying that fabrications or determinations are whatever activities a mind is capable of and these can only be perceiving, thinking, speaking and bodily conduct. Consciousness is not an activity but it is like an illuminating lamp to cast light on and direct the activities occurring that have a luminosity that may be dim and flickering in lesser beings but incandescent and unwavering in the noble ones.
From Fabrication Comes Consciousness Change:
It follows that if consciousness comes from fabrications that from a significant fabrication change may come a significant consciousness change.
The reason why there have never been consciousness changes in the past is because there have never been meaningful changes in the fabricating of people, when people changed in the past, they changed from one style eg more aggressive style to another less aggressive style that maintained the status quo, the baseline level of stress, restlessness and distraction that determined the consciousness change.
The reason there was a consciousness change after 1977 and in recent years is because there has now been a truly meaningful change (initiated by me) in fabrications towards the direction of a reduction in style that reduced the stress, restlessness and distraction impacting on the consciousness.
It was a consciousness change that made people able to bear what they could not bear in the past and therefore Jesus was alluding to a future consciousness change when the counselor comes. Without a consciousness change I will not be saying the things I say and you will not be able to bear the things I am saying.
BY IMPLICATION OF WHAT THE BUDDHA SAID THAT FROM FABRICATIONS AS A REQUISITE COMES CONSCIOUSNESS, HOW WONDERFUL OR BLISSFUL OR CONSUMMATELY WOE FREE A CONSCIOUSNESS STATE YOU ATTAIN IS DEPENDENT ENTIRELY ON THE QUALITY OF YOUR VIRTUES WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN BLAMELESS PERCEIVING, THINKING, SPEECH AND CONDUCT OR IN OTHER WORDS HOW VIRTUOUS ARE YOUR FABRICATIONS.

STOP THINKING:
IT IS POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT DAILY FUNCTIONS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THIS AND THAT BUT WITH ONE’S CONCENTRATION TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE TASK OR SPEECH AT HAND BECAUSE THE BUDDHA SAID IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP ONE’S THINKING.
(PEOPLE NEVER TELL THEMSELVES TO STOP THINKING ON A SUSTAINED BASIS, THEY MAY MAKE HALF HEARTED ATTEMPTS TO STOP THINKING WHEN A MATTER OF CONSIDERATION DISTRESSES OR EMOTIONAL STIR THEM TOO MUCH BUT THEY WANDER OFF TO OTHER SUBJECTS, NOT FOCUS TO STOP THINKING TOTALLY EVEN FOR AN INSTANCE)
JUST BECAUSE YOU TELL YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING DOES NOT MEAN YOUR MIND WILL LISTEN AND STOP THINKING BUT IF YOU KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF TO STOP THINKING AS YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED EVEN BRIEFLY IN DISRUPTING THE USUAL TRAIN OF FRIVOLOUS THINKING THAT IF MAINTAINED WILL RESULT IN A SLOWING OF THE SPEED AND INTENSITY OR FORCE OF THINKING THAT MAY ONE DAY RESULT IN YOUR FINALLY CONSCIOUSLY STOPPING THINKING. YOU CONSCIOUSLY EXIST WITHOUT THINKING THAT IS SOMETHING ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT IS NOT BOREDOM BUT IT IS AN INCOMPARABLY BLISSFUL CLEAR STATE OF MIND COMPARED WITH INCESSANT FRIVOLOUS, DISTRACTING, DISORGANIZED EMOTIONAL THINKING.