The Buddha said there have already been eons or Ages too many to enumerate in the past. According to Jesus the reward of a person who is a faithful sheep is one Age (lasting many billions of years) in a formed heaven. According to the Buddha, depending on how lofty you develop your mind you may achieve a lifespan of two, four or 500 Ages after which the same person may descend even to hell depending on his past deeds but the noble disciple of the Buddha puts an end to all existing after enjoying his lifespan there.
If you have attained and established well the first meditative trance (with discursive benevolent thoughts freed from ill will and sensuality) you will be reborn in heaven amongst Brahma’s retinue for one Age or eon.
If you have attained and established well the second meditative trance (one pointed mind free of thinking) you will be reborn amongst the gods of radiance with a lifespan of two Ages or eon.
If you have attained and established well the third meditative trance (mindful abiding in pleasantness with equanimity) you will be reborn with the lustrous gods for a lifespan of four Ages or eon.
If you have attained and established well the fourth meditative trance (purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain) you will be reborn with the gods of space for a lifespan of 500 Ages or eons.
THUS HOW LONG YOU EXIST FREE OF SUFFERING AND HOW HIGH THE BLISS YOU ENJOY DEPENDS ON HOW HIGH AND WELL DEVELOPED YOUR MIND IS AND THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR MIND DEVELOPMENT THAN PRACTICING MEDITATION. NOWADAYS I SLEEP HARDLY A FEW HOURS AT NIGHT AND I FIND MEDITATION BETTER THAN SLEEPING.
3. Pañhamananakaraõasuttaü - The first on diversity.
Bhikkhus, these four persons are evident in the world.
Here, a certain person secluding from sensual desires and demeritorious thoughts, with thoughts and discursive thoughts and with joy and pleasantness born of seclusion attains to the first higher state of mind. Enjoying it, longing for it, he attains prosperity in it. Keenly applying himself to it, making much of it and not decreasing from it, he dies and is born with the gods of the sphere of Brahma. The life span of those gods is a forward world cycle (one Age). Finishing his complete life span there, he would either be born in hell, as a beast, or as a ghost. As for the noble disciples of The Blessed One, they would finish the complete life span there and would extinguish in that same birth. Bhikkhus, this is the difference and diversity between the learned noble disciple and the not learned ordinary man in their course of action, birth and conscience
Again, bhikkhus, a certain person overcoming thoughts and discursive thoughts and internally appeasing the mind making it one pointed without thoughts and discursive thoughts and with joy and pleasantness born of concentration attains to the second higher state of mind. Enjoying it, longing for it he attains prosperity in it. Keenly applying himself to it, making much of it, not decreasing from it he dies and is born with the gods of Radiance. The life span of those gods is two forward world cycles. Finishing his complete life span there, he would either be born in hell, as a beast, or as a ghost. As for the noble disciples of The Blessed One, they would finish the complete life span there and would extinguish in that same birth. Bhikkhus, this is the difference and diversity between the learned noble disciple and the not learned ordinary man in their course of action, birth and conscience
Again, bhikkhus, a certain person with equanimity to joy and detachment abides mindful and aware experiencing pleasantness with the body too that the noble ones say mindful abiding in pleasantness with equanimity. He attains to this third higher state of mind. Enjoying it, longing for it he attains prosperity in it. Keenly applying himself to it, making much of it and not decreasing he dies and is born with the lustrous gods. The life span of those gods is four forward world cycles. Finishing his complete life span there, he would either be born in hell, as a beast, or as a ghost. As for the noble disciples of The Blessed One, they would finish the complete life span there and would extinguish in that same birth. Bhikkhus, this is the difference and diversity between the learned noble disciple and the not learned ordinary man in their course of action, birth and conscience
Again, bhikkhus, a certain person dispelling pleasantness and unpleasantness, and earlier having dispelled pleasure and displeasure without unpleasantness and pleasantness and purifying mindfulness with equanimity attains to the fourth higher state of mind. Enjoying it, longing for it he attains prosperity in it. Keenly applying himself to it, making much of it and not decreasing he dies and is born with the gods of Space. The life span of those gods is five hundred forward world cycles. Finishing his complete life span there, he would either be born in hell, as a beast, or as a ghost. As for the noble disciples of The Blessed One, they would finish the complete life span there and would extinguish in that same birth. Bhikkhus, this is the difference and diversity between the learned noble disciple and the not learned ordinary man in their course of action, birth and conscience
What Distinguishes Disciples Of The Buddha:
The Buddha said that there is a difference between ordinary beings and his disciples in that there is no further destination for his disciples after they have enjoyed their last span in heaven.
What distinguishes disciples of the Buddha?
They have given up all considerations of self. All is not self taught the Buddha.
They have given up all passions.
They have seen and known for themselves that existence even in heaven is impermanent, ultimately unsatisfactory (even suffering) and empty.
Jesus said all that his Father has is his, suggesting that a time may come when Jesus succeeds his Father. The Buddha said he is the highest teacher and he is this eon’s only Buddha or self awakened one (no one awoke him as he awoke his disciples) and it may be the truth that no being can exceed the Buddha in virtue, wisdom and supernatural powers. A Buddha’s virtue, wisdom and powers can be equaled but not exceeded.
Just as not all beings are destined to become Brahmas, not all beings are destined to be Buddhas. The ultimate end of many beings is to unbind themselves after an eon in heaven, they will not progress to become brahmas let alone become self awakened.
Targeting Your Emotion Not Reason:
Most people do not realize it may not be entirely their fault that their emotions become aroused by what they read below but they are unwitting victims of the way the writer addressed them.
Quote: Membership of world’s exclusive billionaire club jumps.
Comment: Although even the person responsible may not be aware, he is targeting your emotions partly to attract attention to his article. It is not an accident he uses emotion arousing words like exclusive to imply being a billionaire is exclusive in an envious way and he uses the forceful word ‘jump’ instead something more sedate like ‘increases’.
The net effect is to attract readers to the headline to exclaim ‘wow’ or to scoff (dislike).
An unemotional person who intends to convey a substance only message might say: Number of billionaires in the world increases.
THUS MANY INCLUDING THIS PERSON MAY THINK THEY MEAN WHAT THEY SAY BUT THEY DON’T BECAUSE THE EMOTION THAT THEY STIR WITH THE WAY THEY EXPRESS THEIR MESSAGE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT THEY WANT TO SAY. THEY MEAN TO WOW YOU MORE THAN TELL YOU THAT THE NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES HAVE INCREASED. IF YOU DON’T GIVE A DAMN, YOU MAY BE UNDISCERNING AND SETTING UP YOURSELF TO BE CONNED BY OTHERS.
What he said is false:
Is there a billionaire's club in this world? If there is no official billionaires' club where all billionaires are registered and given membership he is speaking falsely and headed for madness.
Just because it is exclusive to you does not mean it is exclusive to everyone so it is presumptuous to label this virtual club exclusive.
HE IS TALKING NONSENSE REFERRING TO A CLUB THAT DOES NOT EXIST EXCEPT IN THE FIGMENT OF HIS IMAGINATION AND PRESUMPTUOUS TO LABEL IT EXCLUSIVE.
Eight Forms Of Madness Awaiting All Actors:
All those who speak with style or the constant stretching of syllables, changing speed and loudness must suffer to some degree from these eight forms of madness that they can now still suppress that they do not realize will ultimately overwhelm them.
These eight forms of looming madness are mad perception, mad logic, mad rote or robotic behavior, mad stress, mad restlessness, mad distraction, mad violence & mad emotions.
Mad Perception: Paranoia is a form of mad perception that others are out to get you. Hallucinations (visual, auditory, taste, touch, smell) are forms of sensory mad perceptions. Mad perception is when the alcoholic sees pink elephants or you feel ants crawling all over you when there are none. When you perceive something is true or beneficial to you when it is false and harmful, that is false perception that will culminate in loss of control to mad perception. If you perceive your smiling, laughing, stretching of syllables, changing of speed and loudness is beneficial, enjoyable when it is stressful, restless and distracting, that is false perception that will end in mad perception.
Mad Logic: Just as people are unaware they are constantly stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness, they are unable that their logic is seriously flawed. For instance, they think they are meritorious thanking you for something they did not appreciate. When you thank me for emails that you did not tell me you delete, you are de facto saying that you are grateful for receiving emails that you obviously were not grateful because you deleted them without reading. It is again false logic that will end in mad logic if you think you may not be grateful for my emails but in thanking me you are expressing gratefulness for my effort in sending the emails. You did not say specifically that you thank me for sending the email but you do not thank me for the emails; it is an excuse and false logic if you think thanking me for emails means thanking me for sending them. It is again unwitting false logic to say I smile because I like someone because you are saying you smile because your mental force is stirred in speed and strength at the sight of someone. If you do not know the nature of your liking, that it is merely the stirring of your mental force, then you are foolish if you do not know what you are speaking about. (I know what I am talking about when I speak of liking, do you know what liking is when you talk about liking?)
Mad Rote Behavior: Because ordinary people’s speech and motion never live specific for the occasion but reproduced memorized standardized as if live for the occasion, they are vulnerable to mad jukebox speech and actions. What they reproduce frequently by recall can become very slick so that they have an urge to say or do things that are out of context or madly for no reason. Obsessions and compulsions (eg uttering profane phrases) are examples of mad rote behavior.
Mad stress, restlessness and distraction: Because ordinary people have subjected themselves to stress, restlessness and distraction for so long, so many times to even intense levels, their stress, restlessness and distraction (cannot concentrate) can now be provoke by minor insults to rise to disproportionately intense levels that they find hard to shake off.
Mad violence: When a person runs amok, he has succumbed to mad violence. To one who sees correctly, there is mindless unnecessary added force in the speech, motion, perception and thinking of all beings that the person who stretches, changes speed and loudness is merely controlling with is force of self preservation and it is inevitable that he will lose control of this force in a fit of violence.
(When a person runs amok he is not angry but he is madly violent, violently destroying things)
Mad emotions: It is inevitable that people who are practicing their emotions lifelong should become owners of strong emotions that can be easily aroused by seemingly innocuous provocations to intense levels that are hard to shake off. As they age, their emotions (eg sadness, pride, anger, shame) become easily provoked to intense levels or even inappropriate and they are headed for a (deserved) appointment with mad emotions (eg weepiness). When you become angry or sad for no reason that is mad emotion.
Do you know what you are talking about?
I know what I am talking about when I speak of like or dislike, stress, restlessness, distraction, emotions, fear and love but do you know what you are talking about when you talk of like or dislike or emotions?
If you do not know what you are talking about, you cannot define like and dislike, love or emotions, aren't you a fool to talk about things you do not know?
There is such a thing as mad violence as distinct from mad anger because if you observe people who have gone amok, they are not angry but they are seized by strong mental force to be directly destructive rather than be angry like roaring and shouting.
When you suddenly become angry or sad for no apparent reason that is mad emotion.
When someone keeps shouting "I know you" in an identical way for no apparent reason, that is mad rote or jukebox speech.
Unscrupulous, reckless & mischievous:
Far from harmless or fun, it is the way of this world that leads to death and torment, unscrupulous, reckless, mischievous and flirting with future mad logic and perception to equate a Forbes report concerning a rise in the number of billionaires to a jump in membership of world’s exclusive billionaire club that does not exists.
Because falsity is whatever did not happen and cannot happen, if you believe and by writing want others to believe that such an entity as an exclusive billionaires club exist when it does not exist and cannot exist, you are flirting with make belief that when its control is lost, descends into insanity.
Anyone who condones or appreciates such unwarranted liberality in the interpretation of reality will similarly head for perdition. Because you appreciate his way of saying it, you must appreciate however briefly or ‘light-heartedly’ the existence of something that does not exist, a billionaires’ club.
If I were to say that the existence of a billionaires’ club is a figment of his fertile imagination I would be sarcastic or mocking but if I said it was a figment of his perverted or bizarre imagination I would not be sarcastic.
NO ONE IN THE PAST OR PRESENT WILL SAY THIS TO YOU BUT IT IS DEADLY MISTAKE TO THINK IT IS FUNNY AND HARMLESS TO PRESENT A RISE IN NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES AS A JUMP IN MEMBERSHIP TO THE WORLD’S EXCLUSIVE BILLIONAIRES CLUB.
IT REFLECTS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS WORLD, A RELENTLESS TRANSFER OF WEALTH BY HOOK OR BY CROOK FROM THE MANY TO THE FEW SO THAT INCREASINGLY THERE ARE MANY WHO HAVE NOT WITH A FEW WHO HAVE A FILTHY A LOT.
Do You Know What You Are Doing?
Ordinary people, including those who are very intelligent do not know what they are doing because they cannot tell me precisely when they are stretching their syllables, changing speed and loudness even when they are doing it all the time and it is the source of their tormenting stress, restlessness and distraction. Further, they do not know what they are doing because they are rendering it by rote or standardized rehash from memory or faked live whilst their minds are distracted, elsewhere.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, DO NOT KNOW YOU ARE STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, AREN’T YOU A GREAT FOOL DOING THINGS THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT TORMENTS YOU?
Why Laughing Is Not Letting Your Yes Be Yes & Controlled Madness:
Whenever a person emits a sound vocally it is intended to communicate.
Vocalized sounds can be categorized as meaningful (to communicate something discrete) or meaningless (nothing defined is communicated).
A group of sounds that represent ‘book’ or ‘take’ is meaningful in that it conveys a message to the listener. A group of sounds ‘ha, ha, ha’ that is what laughter is about is essentially a mindless repetition of ‘ha’ that has no meaning either alone or when grouped together.
If you let your yes be yes only, you say ‘ha’ if you do not let your yes be yes only but you say more that comes from evil, you mindlessly repetitively say ‘ha, ha, ha’.
‘Ha’ by itself is meaningless and if you are capable of merely saying or laughing ‘ha’ instead of automatic ‘ha, ha, ha’ you will know that it is meaningless whilst consuming energy to create stress on the mind and vocal apparatus.
What meaning is there in laughing, in issuing ‘ha, ha, ha’? It is intended for show to impress others how happy, socially competent and appreciative you are (of someone’s joke) and intimidate others (as when the evil man laughs to threaten his victim). Laughing is merely a transmission of force with the intention of imparting that grievous force onto the listener that is purely for show.
LAUGHING IS THE FORCEFUL PRACTICE OF SOMETHING THAT IS MEANINGLESS THAT MUST BE CONTROLLED BECAUSE IT CAUSES STRESS THAT PILES UP AND BY INCESSANTLY PRACTICING LAUGHTER YOU BECOME INCREASINGLY BETTER AT IT NOT REALIZING THAT WITH SITUATIONAL OR OLD AGE LOSS OF CONTROL YOU ARE HEADED FOR MADNESS, THEREFORE JESUS SAID, ‘WOE TO YOU WHO LAUGHS, FOR YOU SHALL WEEP’.
For Show Is A Nice Word For Deception:
Whenever people say what he said or did is for show, they mean he did not mean to say or do it but it was only for show and because he did not mean it, it is deceptive. Thus style in what you say (angrily or charmingly) is always for show or for deception because what you said is not genuine, you need an accompanying style to divert attention from what you said.
By Hook Or By Crook:
People use the phrase by hook or by crook but how often do they know what it means? They use it by imitation and think they approximately know what it means.
By hook means you use force as in a hook to pull something desirable towards you, by crook means by devious means or cheating.
Thus when you say ‘by hook or by crook’ you mean you get what you want by force (confiscation, robbery) or by cheating (stealing).
Meaningless sounds:
Sounds like ‘yabadabadoo’ (like), ‘phew’ (dislike), ‘huh’ (anger or dislike), ‘hmmm’ (dislike or scoffing), ‘mmm’ (like), ‘uh oh’, ‘ahhh’ (like), ‘arggh’ (dislike) are meaningless and merely intended to communicate emotion or like and dislike. ‘Uh Oh, look who is coming’ is to express dislike at the coming of someone.
Thus a lot of sounds people issue are nonsensical, merely to convey like or dislike or the controlled or uncontrolled stirring in speed and strength of their mental forces and the fact that they are unaware reflects they severely underestimate the occurrence of nonsense in their habits and they do not know what they are doing. Aren’t you a fool if you do things (smile, utter sounds) that you do not know what they mean?
If you think they are meaningful, you may be right or have wrong view or perception that may end in hell or the animal womb.
Laughter is smiling accompanied by sound and smiling is laughter without sound and therefore a person who smiles whilst speaking is also not letting his yes be yes only and practicing controlled nonsense that will end in torment.
Obsessions Are Intense Liking:
Obsessions & compulsions differ from person to person and they are merely intense, hard to resist liking for certain objects or for doing or saying certain things.
The reason why it is irrational, you cannot reason or persuade a person out of his obsession is because it has nothing to do with reason but everything to do with mental force or the intense stirring in speed and strength of his mental force of going against self when he sees an object or certain thing he wants to say or do.
Because ordinary, lesser forms of liking have less driven force, they can sometimes be denied or suppressed to give a semblance of reason or rationality in it but in truth, there is never reason in liking, only a controlled stirring in speed and strength of that person’s mental force.
Thus you can develop an intense liking for a certain woman that if you look carefully she can be quite ugly, you can develop an intense liking for thanking others that become indiscriminate, you thank others for every real or imagined deed they do to you, you thank them for things you did not appreciate.
No one develops intense liking or obsession instantly but in a person who likes and dislikes, he progressively conditions himself by rousing his mental force with more rapid speed and strength at the sight or thought of that object (eg an actress) until his liking for her is so intense, so rapidly aroused, he is in a swoon, must do something or is driven to something, anything to satisfy his desire.
Because obsessions are all about force, nothing about reason, they are hard to wean because the person may be reluctant to relinquish his mental force, relinquish his obsession even when it causes him much distress (he is a fool). Even if he wanted to get rid of his obsession (something many fools refuse) he has to pay attention to progressively efface or erase the speed and strength of the mental force that he has developed around his obsession.
Why Smart People Also Get Conned:
The reason why even very smart, ‘street wise’ people get conned is because it is a myth that people use reason to assess proposals made to them. In truth it is their liking and disliking that dominates proceedings.
When presented with a scheme to make money, it is their liking for the fabulous profits there for the taking that dominates proceeding, once their initial skepticism or disinterest has been dispelled by the skillful conman. Thus liking for the opportunity for fabulous gains, their assessment (using reason) of the risks involved is impaired and they decide to go ahead.
THE REASON WHY SMART PEOPLE ALSO GET CONNED IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT REASON THAT PRESIDES OVER DECISIONS THEY MAKE BUT IT IS BLIND LIKING FOR THE GAINS ON OFFER THAT DRIVE THEM TO THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND AND AGREE. ONLY IN SITUATIONS WHERE THEIR LIKING IS NOT STRONGLY AROUSED WILL THEY MAKE RELATIVELY SOUND OR CAUTIOUS DECISIONS.
WHATEVER IS PRESENTED TO PEOPLE (HOWEVER INTELLIGENT THEY ARE) IS GREETED BY LIKE OR DISLIKE AND BASED ON THIS LIKE OR DISLIKE THEY FASHION EXCUSE WHY THEY LIKE OR DISLIKE. IN OTHER WORDS PEOPLE WHO PROFESS TO LIKE AND DISLIKE CANNOT RESIST LIKING OR DISLIKING WHATEVER IS PRESENTED TO THEM AND IT IS THIS NEVER REASON THAT GREETS WHATEVER IS PRESENTED TO THEM. THIS INITIAL DISLIKE CAN BE SKILLFULLY REVERSED BY CONMEN AND WHATEVER MILD INITIAL LIKE CAN BE STIRRED TO BECOME IRRESISTIBLE BY THAT SAME SKILLED SWEET TALKING CONMAN. IF A PERSON IS NOT STRONGLY DESIROUS OR COVETOUS OF THE GAINS ON OFFER (BE IT MONEY OR A PRETTY GIRL) HE WILL NOT BE SWAYED TO OVERRIDE HIS CAUTION.
Not irritated, worried or panicked:
As I was submitting my EPF & SOCSO monthly bills to the cashier for payment I discovered the SOCSO bill was missing. I was unfazed, was not annoyed or irritated, nor worried or panicked about what happened to the bill.
Even though it is not a major mishap, many people through habit would have been instantly crossed, worried about where the bill is and even exclaimed as if surprised and panicked about the discovery.
Being irritated is disliking and worry has nothing to do with reality but it is a false or fabricated suffering state of the mind that the person by himself and as a result of coercion by others, has learnt to condition to arouse and experience in his mind. Apart from suffering and further conditioning the mind to worry that can become increasingly easier to arouse to more intense levels that gets harder to shed, worry is not conducive to finding a solution to one’s predicament because a calm clearly thinking mind free of worry is better equipped to solve a problem if a solution exists. If no solution exists, all the worry in the world will not solve it either.
Panic is an agitated state of the mind and body that may be genuine or faked. Even if it is faked, it conditions the mind that will end in mad panic the fool does not realize. Again apart from suffering and conditioning oneself to future suffering, panic is inimical to resolving the problem at hand.
IRRITATION, WORRY AND PANIC WHICH ARE THE BANE OF ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE WARNING OF FUTURE SUFFERING NOT JUST HERE BUT AFTER YOU DEPART BECAUSE IT INDICATES THE PERSON IS ATTACHED TO HIS LIFE HERE AND HE IS CONDITIONING HIS MIND TO STATES OF WOE.
A Poor Conductor Of Truth:
Quote author: If you had asked paleo-anthropologists a generation ago what lice DNA might reveal about how we became human, they would have laughed you out of the room. But research into our origins and evolution has come a long way.
Scientists and intellectuals like to think they are devoted to reason and unemotional but in truth they are just as emotional and opinionated in a presumptuous or unwarranted way as others they like to decry.
It is only a presumptuous person who has discounted a link between lice DNA and human origin without access to facts who will find the idea incredulous. Nothing is incredulous to an unemotional person whose mind is open without presumptions of what can and cannot be and therefore he does not find the suggestion of a link between lice DNA and human origins incredulous.
What she, as an intellectual, said is false because it is unlikely if not impossible that paleo-anthropologists a generation ago would have laughed you out of the room even if they had been thus asked. It is a hypothetical situation and why speculate on something that never happened except that you are foolishly flirting with false perception (imagining as if it happened) that will end in mad perception.
What her intention in saying so is to impress you ‘wow’ lice DNA is linked to human origin or she is targeting the reader’s emotions than reason and therefore she too is an emotional person.
Even though she is a scientist, she is an emotional or forceful person and if one cannot see the truth, one should be wary whatever she presents as truth; that is not take what she says as gospel. For one who sees, even without hearing her speak, her way of expressing herself in writing exposes her lack of objectivity she claims to represent.
Just as wood is a poor conductor of electricity whilst copper is a good conductor, people who are emotional are poor conductors of truth and a person who is a good conductor of truth is a poor conductor of emotion or force.
Because people are emotional and poor conductors of truth, it needs a being out of this world it needs a Buddha, Jesus or Spirit of Truth who is not of this world to come to teach them the way out of emotion and suffering.
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