Proof The Buddha Is Highest:

It is not because the Buddha says he is the highest that it is so but it can be objectively established.

You have no reason to doubt the evidence proffered below (but you can have emotional causes) that the Buddha is higher even than God unless you want to flirt with future tormenting mad doubt and uncertainty that cannot be assuaged. How do you know what is reported below is false, is fabricated by the Buddha or misreported? If you have no knowledge that what the Buddha said did not happen, you will be wise to abstain from committing yourself one way or another.
According to Jesus, God can destroy you in hell, can create bread out of nothing, can heal your sicknesses and paralysis, can bring you back from death but according to what the Buddha said below, God cannot do anything to the Buddha, cannot make him disappear but the Buddha can make himself invisible to God or make God not see him but only hear him. Thus the Buddha is higher than God.
Majjhima Nikàya I5. 9. Brahmanimantanasuttaü(49) An Address to Brahma
I heard thus.
At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery, offered by Anàthapiïóika in Jeta's grove in Sàvatthi. The Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus from there.
Bhikkhus, at one time I was living in Ukaññha, at the root of a big Sàla tree in the Subhaga forest. At that time, to Baka brahmà an evil view (wrong view) like this had arisen. This is permanent, eternal, complete and a not changing thing. This is not born, does not decay, does not die, is not re-born, and there is no refuge higher than this. I cognised the thought processes in the mind of Baka brahmà and as a strong man would stretch his bent arm, or bend his stretched arm, disappeared from the Subhaga forest and appeared in the Brahma world. Seeing me in the distance Baka brahma said, welcome! good sir. It's after a long time, that you have come. Sir, this is permanent, eternal, complete and a not changing thing. Not born does not decay, does not die, is not re-born and there is no refuge higher than this. When this was said, I said thus to Baka brahma: Indeed Baka brahma is deluded, that he says, an impermanent, not eternal, incomplete, changing thing is permanent, eternal, complete and not subject to change. To a born, decaying, dying, fading and reappearing thing, he says is not born, does not decay, does not die, fade and is not re-born When there is a refuge more noble than this, he says there is no refuge more noble than this.
(However long an eon is, it may be many billions of years, it comes to an end and your reward for being good is one eternity in heaven and afterwards depending on your deeds before, you can even descend to hell according to the Buddha. Jesus said the reward for laborers is one denarius, no more or less and that may signify one Age or eon in heaven only. All existences, even for brahmas are not permanent)
Then Death the Evil One took possession of a member of the retinue of Brahma and said to me (the Devil prompted an angel to ask): Bhikkhu, do not hinder this one. He (God) is the great conquerer, the unvanquished one, he wields power over everything. He is the ruler of creations, the chief among creaters, the father wielding power over all creators. Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before you. They loathed and reviled, earth, water, fire, air, the born, the gods, brahma, the creators and the wives of creators. After death they were born in a lower state (If you offended God you are doomed). Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before you, they praised, and took pleasure in earth, water, fire, air, the born, the gods, brahma, the creators, the wives of creators. After death they were born in a higher state.
Bhikkhu, I tell you this, Come sir, do what Brahma asks you to do. Bhikkhu, if you exceed the words of Brahma, like a man come to give splendour is turned out with a stick. Or like a man trying to fall into hell was pulled out from earth with hands and feet. Such a thing will happen to you. Come! Good sir, do whatever Brahma asks you to do and do not exceed him. Do you see the retinue of Brahma seated? The Evil One pointed out the retinue of Brahma to me. When this was said, I said thus to the Death Evil One: Evil One, I know you, Brahma and all his retinue are under your power,
Do you think that I `m in your power?
When this was said, Baka brahma said thus to me: Sir, I'm permanent, stable, eternal, complete and not doomed to fall and say that I'm permanent, stable, eternal, complete, and not doomed to fall. Not born, not decaying, not dying, not fading, not re-born, and not seeing any refuge more exalted than this, say I not born, will not decay, die, fade and be re-born, and see no refuge more exalted than this. Bhikkhu, there were recluses and brahmins before this. Their austerities lasted as long as their sign of concentration lasted. Would they know whether there is a refuge more noble than this, or there is no refuge more noble than this? Even if there be no refuge more noble than this, it will bring you only fatigue and trouble.
Bhikkhu, if you cleave to earth, water, fire, air, the born, to gods, to the lords of the populace, to Brahma, I will be at your bidding, protecting wealth, doing your wishes and standing outside. Brahma, I know your goings and your splendour. Baka brahma has such powers and such splendour. Good sir, what do you know about my powers and splendour?
As far as the moon and sun wield power illuminating, the directions,As far as the thousandfold world systems, you wield power,You know this world and the other world, and those with greed and without,And the movements of thoughts of beings `to be' here and there.
Thus I know your movements, splendour, and power. Baka brahma is so powerful and has such splendour. Brahma you have three other bodies, do you know and see that? You have a body named âbhassara. (lustrous) Fading from that is born here. Owing to settling there long, lost mindfulness, you do not know, or see that. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Brahma you have names Subhakinnà (full of good) and Vehapphalà(power in the air) You do not know and see that. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Brahma, I thoroughly know, and become earth to the least possible extent. Do not appropriate it, or take pleasure in it. Brahma, I thoroughly know water, fire, air, the born, those wielding power over the populace, gods, Brahma, âbhassarà, Subhàkinnà, Vehapphalà, The Almighty Brahma and All I thoroughly know and become All, to the least possible extent. Do not appropriate All and take pleasure in All. So I'm your better in higher knowledge. Good sir, if you are not born of All, you would be useless and empty. Consciousness is non-indicative limitless and illuminates all over. If you were not born of earth, water, fire, air, gods, the lords of the populace, brahma, âbhassarà, Subhàkinnà, Vehapphalà, the Almighty brahma, I will now disappear you. Brahma if it is possible do so. Then Brahma saying I will make the recluse Gotama disappear was not able to do so. Then bhikkhus, I said, brahma I will make you disappear. Then I performed a fete of super normal power in which Brahma, his retinue and his gathering could not see me, yet could hear me and I said this verse.
I saw fear in being and non-being, not desiring any being. [1]I did not hold with interest to anything.
Then bhikkhus, Brahma, the brahma gathering and his retinue were surprised, and said, wonderful is the majesty and the power of the recluse Gotama. Before this we have not seen a recluse or brahmin so majestic and wonderful as the recluse Gotama, the son of the Sakyas, who has gone forth from the clan of the Sakyas. Friends, the populace is amused in being, fond of being and has arisen from being, has completely come out of being. [2]
Then bhikkhus, Death the Evil One took possession of one of the retinue of Brahma and said thus to me. Good sir, since you know so well and is enlightened, do not lead or teach disciples, or give them the going forth. Do not greed for disciples. Bhikkhu, before this there were recluses and brahmins, in the world, who acknowledged they were perfect and rightfully enlightened. They gave the going forth to the disciples and were greedy for disciples. After death they were born in lower states Bhikkhu, before this there were recluses and brahmins, in the world, who acknowledged they were perfect and rightfully enlightened. They did not give the going forth to the disciples and were not greedy for disciples. After death they were born in exalted states. Therefore, bhikkhu, live at ease, abide in pleasantness here and now, the not told is clever, do not advise others. Then I said thus to Death the Evil One: Death I know you, it is not out of compassion that you speak thus. You know that to whomever the recluse Gotama gives the Teaching, they go beyond your power. Evil One, there are those not rightfully enlightened, acknowledging we are rightfully enlightened. As for me, Evil One, I'm rightfully enlightened, and acknowledge I'm rightfully enlightened. Evil One, whether the Thus Gone One teaches and leads disciples or not it is the same to the Thus gone One. What is the reason? Evil One, those defiled desires of demerit heavy with future unpleasant results of birth, decay, death are dispelled from me, pulled out from the roots, made a palm stump, made things that would not rise again. Evil One when the top is cut the palm does not grow. In the same manner, those defiled desires of demerit heavy with future unpleasant results of birth, decay, death are dispelled from me, pulled out from the roots, made a palm stump, made things that would not rise again.
As this discourse is addressed to Màra, and Brahma, so this discourse has a synonymn as `An address to Brahma.'
The Aim Of The Holy Life:
The Buddha: The holy life is led not for gain (donations by the faithful), honor and fame, not for the endowment of virtues (not killing, stealing, sex, lying, speaking harshly), not for the endowment of concentration (even though it is desirable and blissful to be able to concentrate), not for the endowment of knowledges and vision (even though they are desirable and blissful). Bhikkhus, it is for the unshakeable release of mind that is the essence and end of the holy life. (My release from stress, restlessness and distraction is unshakeable and therefore I know I am on the right path whereas I can see my detractors are all manifesting stress, restlessness and distraction and they are on the wrong path to future woe)

The meaningless hypocrisy of style:

You can only communicate or interact with another through speech or bodily actions (or what you say or do); apart from speech and bodily conduct, there are no other significant avenues of interaction with others. And if what you say or do has a style that differs from others or differ from occasion to occasion (eg you can say the same thing sarcastically or full of fabricated or false sincerity or eagerness), then it is never just the substance of what you say that is important or to be considered by the recipient and communicated but it is the sum total of how or the manner you say or do it and what you said or did that is important or relevant.
THUS WHENEVER A PERSON SAYS OR DOES SOMETHING WITH AN ATTENDING STYLE (EG ANGER, SARCASTICALLY), HE IS MEANING BOTH WHAT HE SAID AND DID AND HOW HE SAID OR DID IT, NO MATTER HOW HE MIGHT INSIST HOW HE SAID OR DID IT IS BESIDE THE POINT. IF THE STYLE OR HOW HE DID OR SAID IS MEANINGLESS, THEN IT COLORS OR TAINTS IF NOT TOTALLY RENDER WHAT HE SAID OR DID MEANINGLESS OR HYPOCRITICAL.
Style present in speech or actions is intended to deceive, impress, please, intimidate or dominate others.
Deceiving, impressing, pleasing, intimidating and dominating others that are the aims of style are never reasons that apply for a certain speech or action, is never specifically for a particular speech or action but the same style can be generally applied for virtually any speech or action that arises (eg you can say ‘I love you’ angrily or lustfully or apply the different style of anger and lust to the same substance of speech) but they are entirely communications of force and more specifically communication of emotions.
Whenever you want to impress others with the style of your speech or movements, you must say or do it with added style that can only be how you stretched (linearly or in a curved manner), changed speed and strength of force (loudness) what you said or did that is aimed at causing the recipient’s mental force of going against self to stir in a manner with undulating rises and falls, in other words, cause him to like or be attracted or impressed with how you said or did it.
Thus your style that is designed to impress others has nothing to do with reason because it is purely a matter of how you used mental and physical force to stretch your syllables or units of motions, changed speed and strength of force or loudness and its reception by the recipient also has nothing to do with reason but it is merely an undulating rise and fall of his force of going against self that gives him the consciousness experience of liking or being impressed by the way something was said or done to him.
IN THE SAME WAY, WHENEVER YOU WANT TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING IN A WAY OR STYLE THAT IS DESIGNED TO DECEIVE, PLEASE, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE OTHERS, YOU MUST SAY OR DO IT USING MENTAL FORCE (NOT REASON) TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN A PARTICULAR WAY THAT YOU DEEM WILL BE DECEPTIVE, PLEASING, INTIMIDATING OR DOMINATING THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR COMMUNICATION OF REASON OR SPECIFIC MEANING AND IN THE SAME WAY, THE RECIPIENT’S MENTAL FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF IS CAUSED BY THE STYLE YOU TRANSMIT TO SIMILARLY STRETCH, RISE AND FALL IN SPEED AND STRENGTH IN SYMPATHY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING BUT MERELY HIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCING OF THE ACTIVITY OF HIS MENTAL FORCE.
THUS ANY ATTENDING STYLE IN WHATEVER YOU SAY OR DO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING IN ITS GENERATION BUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MENTAL FORCE (THAT IS REQUIRED TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS) AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR SPECIFIC MEANING IN ITS RECEPTION BUT IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE SYMPATHETIC UNDULATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT’S MENTAL FORCE CAUSED BY THE PERCEIVED STYLE GENERATING HIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCE OF FORCE STRETCHING AND CHANGING IN SPEED AND STRENGTH.
If you think that style is meaningful, has specific reason in it, you may be right or you may have false perception and logic that you do not realize with culminate in mad or uncontrollable false perception or logic either in an acute crisis (panic or terror) or chronically in old age when you capacity to sustain your relative sanity permanently weakens and abandons you.

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.

It is because humans perversely, emotionally (forcefully), falsely and status consciously raised themselves on lofty pedestals that they then feel it is moving when such icons stoop to touch the sandals of another.
The fuss is not about one person touching the sandals of another but an archbishop touching the sandals of a chief monk and therefore it is all about status not true humility.

Based on the false presumption by the chief monk that a person of high standing, an archbishop, cannot touch the sandals of a monk and the false perception again by the chief monk that the archbishop is touching the sandals of a mere monk when he is touching the sandals of the chief monk not only of Malaysia but Singapore, the chief monk arrives at a false perception and conclusion that he cannot believe that an archbishop is touching his sandals. All presumptions are not meritorious but defilements of the mind that prevents that mind from accessing the truth, according to the Buddha.
Based on the reality that there is no reason why one person cannot touch the sandals or another, any person including a high standing person can touch the sandal of another person or based on the correct perception that the archbishop is not touching the sandals of an ordinary monk but a chief monk, the chief monk will have no difficulty believing what he sees, an archbishop touching his sandals.

It may be that although you suffer mental and bodily pains, stress, restlessness and distraction (inability to concentrate) even to levels that sometimes threaten to overwhelm your considerable capacity to sustain but somehow you always manage to subdue them to fight another day and once you die, it is all over or it may be that despite all your suffering and battling, you are headed as Jesus described for another eternity of weeping and gnashing your teeth before you next return here as humans again or as the Buddha said, creating another ocean of blood from having your neck cut off. If what Jesus and the Buddha said is true, is it not to your advantage that they point it out to you.
How Like & Dislike Differ:
Just as people automatically raise their hands to ward off blows or protect themselves, whatever activities (that can only be speaking, moving, thinking and perceiving) that the mind undertakes that applies force on it must be automatically resisted or opposed by an opposite force because the application of force causes pain, physically harms the mind in proportion to the strength of force and duration and leads to a build up of stress, restlessness and distractibility.

When the force of going against self that is the drive behind the constant stretching of syllables or units of motion, constant changes of speed and strength of force is successfully matched and modulated or controlled by the opposing force of self preservation, the person has the consciousness experiencing of liking that activity.

Whenever the force of going against self that is the drive behind the constant stretching of syllables or units of motion, constant changes of speed and strength of force has outstripped the containment effort of the force of self preservation, its control by the force of self preservation has been momentarily lost, the person has a consciousness experience of dislike for that activity or what is occurring to it or what it is perceiving.

All emotions apart from fear is nothing more than derivatives of like and dislike occurring in particular situations, whether like or dislike is focused or diffuse and inwardly or outwardly directed.
Anger is nothing more than dislike diffusely directed outwardly at others or inwardly at self. Hate is nothing more than focused or pointed dislike at others or self. Lust is nothing more than sexual greed and greed is nothing more than like or the involuntary undulating of one’s mental force of going against self on the perception of money and material objects.

BECAUSE LIKE AND DISLIKE AND ITS DERIVATIVES THE EMOTIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE APPLICATION OF FORCE ON THE MIND THAT IS MODULATED (LIKE) OR UNMODULATED (DISLIKE), IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON OR MEANING BUT ARE MERELY VICARIOUS OR SENSATE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE SEVERE DRAWBACKS LIKE STRESS (SEIZURE OR SPASM OF THE MIND AND BODY BY FORCE, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE) AND SO A PERSON WHO LIKES TO LIKE AND DISLIKE, WHO IS SUBJECT TO EMOTION IS NOT A MAN OF REASON BUT A MAN OF FORCE WHO WILLS FOR THE AFFLICTION OF BOTH HIMSELF AND ALL OTHERS WHO COME INTO DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH HIM.
FOR ONE WHO SEES CORRECTLY, THERE ARE NO PART TIME MASTERS OF THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES BUT ANYONE WHO LIKES AND DISLIKES ARE SLAVES WHO CONSTANTLY DO SO, OFTEN WITHOUT AWARENESS, OFTEN DISGUISING THEIR DISLIKE WITH FAKED LIKE AND VICE VERSA.
See Nothing Wrong?
Do you see wrong in what Condoleeza Rice said below or do you defend her right to say it?
Quote Ms Rice: Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them”.
What she subsequently said, ‘thousands of them’, belies or contradicts her admission that ‘we have made tactical errors’, she did not mean it or was contrite but instead she was defiant, taking a swipe at detractors. She is being dismissive rather than acknowledging errors as her initial admission of error suggests and therefore she is a hypocrite who does not mean what she says or says what she means (which is damn you, we made errors, so what?). Jesus said you will be judged for every careless word you say and she does not know the sword of future pain hovers over her head.
She was reported to have said that the Iraq war was worth it. When it is her turn to come under incessant fire and die for others’ wars then let me hear her say it is worth it.
JUST AS MOST PEOPLE WILL SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT SHE SAID OR EVEN UPHOLD HER, IN THE SAME WAY THE INCIDENCE OF FALSITY OR HYPOCRISY THAT THEY FAIL TO RECOGNIZE ARE FAR MORE THAN THAT WHICH THEY ARE AWARE BECAUSE THEY ARE SWITCHED OFF, IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE WORLDS OF DELUSION. IN TRUTH THE FALSITY AND HYPOCRISY IN THIS WORLD MAY BE FAR GREATER THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE CYNICALLY AWARE, THE CAPACITY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE TO SEE THE TRUTH AND REASON MAY BE FAR MORE PRIMITIVE THAN THEY LIKE TO BELIEVE.