Numbered Days

Nuri’s days are numbered:
Quote headline: Nuri (40 year old helicopter) days (in RMAF service) are numbered.
Comment: Although reading this statement might arouse some emotion in some people, they are likely to see nothing wrong when there is.
It is not letting your yes be yes only and not calling a spade a spade. It is a stylish way of speaking to impress others.
By saying its days are numbered you are saying the days of its lifespan has numbers implying it has strictly limited lifespan. But having numbers to its days left in service does not necessary mean short and it is the common usage (in the name of style) that has given the phrase an additional meaning that may escape those who are new to the English language who may puzzle as to what ‘days are numbered’ means not because they are stupid but it is a sly added on meaning as a result of perversion of people who cannot let their yes be yes only say the Nuri’s days in service are very limited.
PEOPLE LIKE TO IMPLY AND NOT CALL A SPADE A SPADE BECAUSE IT IS PERCEIVED AS SOPHISTICATED AND THOSE WHO ARE NEW WHO DO NOT GRASP SUCH ADDED MEANING FEEL LIKE A FOOL WHEN THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS SAID.
False Perception:
When you say the Nuri’s days are numbered you mean there are numbers on the Nuri’s days.
If you perceive that having numbers on the Nuri’s days means very few days left you have false perception that you again have the false perception that you are not headed for mad perception. When you perceive there are ants crawling all over you when there are none that is mad perception.
Why people never mean what they say never say what they mean:
You cannot mean what you say when you said that the Nuri’s days are numbered because you cannot mean there are numbers on the Nuri’s (remaining) days in service and you did not say what you meant that the Nuri’s days (in service) are limited or few.
There are many different ways with which ordinary people never (not seldom) say what they mean and mean what they say and just as they are unaware they did not mean what they say or said what they meant above they are aware like the tip of an iceberg the occasions where they never said what they meant and meant what they said.
What are the many different ways with which people never say what they mean and mean what they say?
1) What they say makes no sense as in the above example when there is literal conflict between what they are saying (Nuri’s days are numbered) and what they mean that they may not realize they did not invent but they merely copied by rote from society without knowing why and accepting as fait accompli, in collective deceit to never call a spade a spade or to be abstract in the name of style to be impressive. The fascination with abstract art (eg Picasso’s cubism) or poetry is the fascination with saying or doing one thing that is intended to mean another that is courting future madness.
2) They are sarcastic. When you are sarcastic you mean the opposite of what you said (eg you’re so wonderful when they mean you are ‘shit’)
3) They tell jokes or as if everything they say is funny. If something you say is the truth it cannot be a joke or funny. All jokes are false and therefore cannot be meant.
4) They tell lies. You cannot mean what you say when you are telling lies.
5) They say things dishonestly to please, impress, dominate or intimidate others. If your intention in saying something is to please someone (make them like themselves), impress them (make them like you), intimidate or dominate others you cannot mean what you say because you mean to please, impress, intimidate or dominate which you seldom if ever admit and may even deny that what you say is to impress or please.
6) They cannot mean the style (speaking with hushed gentleness or anxiousness or concern or eagerness too is style) or emotion or like or dislike that always accompanies what they say because style that is nothing more than using force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness, like and dislike or emotions in their speech are all about force that has no reason and if you are transmitting force that is meaningless and harms yourself and others, you cannot mean what you say. Thus anyone who speaks with style, like (excitement) or dislike (disdain) or emotions (pride, shame, anger, lust) cannot mean what they say because they are meaningless manifestations of force that stylish people not only intend but they find meaningful.
7) The consistent individually different style with which they always say things can never reproduced live specific for an occasion but it is always rendered by memory or rehashed by rote from a mental jukebox and if what you said is rehashed, it cannot be sincere but impersonal standardized and you therefore cannot mean what you say on a certain occasion.
BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS STYLE, LIKE OR DISLIKE OR EMOTIONS ACCOMPANYING WHAT PEOPLE SAY THAT IS RENDERED NEVER SPECIFIC FOR AN OCCASION BUT BY REHASH OF SOMETHING RECORDED, THEY IN ADDITION SAY THINGS THAT DO NOT MAKE LOGICAL SENSE (TO BE STYLISH OR ABSTRACT), THEY TELL LIES OR SAY THINGS JUST TO PLEASE, IMPRESS, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE, THEY TELL JOKES AND ARE SARCASTIC, THEY NEVER SAY WHAT THEY MEAN OR MEAN WHAT THEY SAY EXCEPT IN THEIR ABIDING DELUSION THAT THEY CAN AND SOMETIMES DO.
If you think you can sometimes mean what you say when you never then that is wrong view which according to the Buddha leads to hell (if it greatly harms others as if you are a guru leading others astray) or the animal womb (it does not harm others as much). If you think a man with views that are objectively proven to be false can nevertheless go to heaven then that may be another instance of wrong view because how can you be one with your Father in heaven when you subscribe to wrong views and your Father always has right views because He is perfect?
You cannot mean what you deny:
Even when I point out to others and show proof that what they say and how they say it is to impress or please not because it is genuine, they are resentful and insist that it is not their intention to impress or please, they DO mean what they say.
Often people do not realize what and how they say something is to impress, please or intimidate or dominate.
IF YOU DO NOT REALIZE THE WAY AND WHAT YOU SAY IS TO PLEASE, IMPRESS, INTIMIDATE OR DOMINATE, YOU EVEN DENY WHEN YOU ARE CONFRONTED, HOW CAN YOU MEAN WHAT YOU JUST SAID? IF YOU ARE AWARE THAT IT IS YOUR INTENTION TO PLEASE, IT IS YOUR INTENTION TO IMPRESS THEN YOU, IN A SENSE, MEANT WHAT YOU SAID. PEOPLE NOT ONLY SAY THINGS TO PLEASE OR IMPRESS BUT THEY DENY THEY DO SO.
They deny they mean to stress, make restless and distract:
Ordinary people are not aware let alone that they will admit that the way and what they say stresses, make restless and distract not just their recipients but themselves let alone that they can truly mean to stress, make restless and distract others that is the inevitable fruit of the stylish, liking or disliking or emotional way with which they always speak.
UNLESS YOU CAN ADMIT THAT YOU MEAN TO STRESS, MAKE RESTLESS OR DISTRACT THE PERSON YOU ADDRESS, YOU CANNOT HAVE SAID WHAT YOU MEANT BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU DID WITH YOUR STYLISH, LIKING OR DISLIKING OR EMOTIONAL WAY OF SPEECH THAT ALTHOUGH YOU CANNOT HELP IS NOT MANDATORY BUT AN OPTION THAT YOU CHOOSE TO EXERCISE IN COMMON WITH THE REST.
Message of style not substance:
Quote headline: Vietnamese footballer with no faith in his team plans wedding for match day.
The person might think he means what he says and he is conveying meaning but he is addressing your emotion or like or dislike and using the occasion or news as an excuse to stir up your mental force as if it is so funny or interesting.
If he were to say what he means he should tell you “I plan to stir up your emotions or liking by telling you of this footballer who plans his wedding for match day, so funny, ho, ho, ho!”
THE TRUTH IS THAT MANY THINGS PEOPLE SAY ARE NOT INTENDED SOLELY AS A MESSAGE OF SUBSTANCE BUT THEY ARE MERELY CONDUITS FOR THEIR PURPOSE THAT IS TO STIR YOUR LIKING AND DUSLIKING. WHAT THEY SAY IS OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE BUT THAT YOU SHOULD LIKE OR DISLIKE (THEY WANT TO PROVOKE YOU) WHAT THEY SAY, BE PLEASED, IMPRESSED, INTIMIDATED OR DOMINATED IS A MORE IMPORTANT MOTIVE.
Fabricating in a fabricated way:
Buddhas do not fabricate anymore and as a result they are released because the fabrications that maintain ignorance are dispelled.
Beings in heaven merely fabricate but reflecting their perverse nature, beings here (including animals) fabricate in a fabricated way or they fabricate their individually differing ways of fabricating their perceiving, thinking, speaking and doing.
Because the way you fabricate that differentiates you from others is nothing more than how you differ in your use of mental force to prolong, change speed, strength of force or direction, it is a meaningless harmful difference that consumes prodigious wasted energy and you are headed for madness for doing what is harmful and unnecessary and you are a sinner because your fabricated way of fabricating harms others with debts due to you.
ALTHOUGH THERE MUST BE MAD IMPULSES IN YOU (EG SUDDEN GUTTURAL UTTERANCES, SUDDEN LASHING OUT, MAD URGE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS) YOU HAVE NOT GONE TRULY MAD YET SO DO NOT BE PERSUMPTUOUS THAT YOU MIGHT JUST ENJOY BEING MAD BECAUSE UNTIL YOU HAVE TRULY GONE MAD YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE HOW TERRIBLE IT IS TO HAVE A MIND AND BODY THAT DOES NOT OBEY YOU. YOUR TRANSIENT MADNESSES THAT BESET YOU ARE WARNING OF A TIME IN THE FUTURE WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER SUPPRESS THEM AND YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION AND MAKE EFFORT TO STOP STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS UNLESS YOU WANT TO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF HOW TERRIBLE IT IS TO GO MAD.
YOU HAVE YET TO GO TO HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB AND THEREFORE YOU DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE IN HELL. WHATEVER PAINS YOU HAVE SUFFERED HERE MAY BE DWARFED IN INTENSITY BY THE PAIN OF HELL AND SO YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT YOU ARE NOT A CANDIDATE FOR HELL AND THAT YOU MAY EVEN ENJOY HELL. THE BUDDHA SPOKE OF HELL AS LIKE FALLING INTO A PIT OF GLOWING COALS AND EXPERIENCING EXTREMELY SHARP RACKING PAINS THAT LASTS EVEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
An unusual seagull:
Animals have personality and vary in intelligence just like this sea gull that has learnt to steal a certain brand of chips from a shop. Apparently he will wait till there are no customers and the shopkeeper is not looking before sneaking in to take the bag of chips that he will then rip open outside and share with his mates.
As the Buddha said you can become an animal and he said he cannot think of anything more tormenting than hell or the animal womb.
You have eyes, nose and ears, mouth, intestine and uro-genital orifices just do animals, you are born and die as animals also do, so what makes you think you are so special that animals are in this world for you to use and abuse and you cannot become an animal in the future?

Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter
The seagull has been nicknamed Sam by locals
Shoplifting seagull
A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps.
The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos.
The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for his crisps.
Shop assistant Sriaram Nagarajan said: "Everyone is amazed by the seagull. For some reason he only takes that one particular kind of crisps."
The bird first swooped in Aberdeen's Castlegate earlier this month and made off with the 55p crisps, and is now a regular.
Once outside, the crisps are ripped open and the seagull is joined by other birds.
'Fine art'
Mr Nagarajan said: "He's got it down to a fine art. He waits until there are no customers around and I'm standing behind the till, then he raids the place.
"At first I didn't believe a seagull was capable of stealing crisps. But I saw it with my own eyes and I was surprised. He's very good at it.
The seagull takes the crisps outside and eats them
"He's becoming a bit of a celebrity. Seagulls are usually not that popular but Sam is a star because he's so funny."
A spokesman for RSPB Scotland said: "I've never heard of anything like this before.
"Perhaps it tried some crisps in a shiny packet in the street, and was just opportunistic one day at the shop when it saw what was inside.
"As everyone knows, gulls can be very quick and fearless, and clearly this one is no exception."
He added: "We'd discourage people from feeding gulls though, as gulls in towns generate lots of complaints every year, and the availability of food is the only reason they live in urban settings."
A Master Of Flattery:
Whether your message is that of substance that reflects the truth or you are saying it falsely to flatter, it does not reflect reality and to please others may be known objectively. If in truth it is to flatter you are headed for insanity. Someone who says things to please others is like a cow tethered to a cowherd, he is a slave of others’ opinions.
Quote: WITH his unmistakable voice, eloquence and charismatic presence, Mahadzir Lokman is still one of the most sought after master of ceremonies. Not many are aware that this former newscaster shares the same birth year as our nation. But despite just turning 50, the affable Mahadzir (he is a very descriptive man, exactly how truly affable he is or he is putting on a stressful smiley show may be known) has no intention of slowing down.She is not just reading:
Sloth & Torpor:
The Buddha is not talking about something exotic when he spoke of sloth and torpor as one of the five hindrances that must be exorcised if one is to exit suffering and head for safety and bliss.
The sloth and torpor he is referring to is just laziness and sleepiness that afflicts all ordinary people.
You can be hardworking (opposite for laziness) for things of this world like study for exams, make more money, practicing sports like golf or tennis and rather than virtuous you are bonding yourself to this world because such practices are driven by force and condition you mindlessly to be hooked to making money or playing tennis.
It can be no mistake that the hardworking that the Buddha refers to is unflagging addressing of the five hindrances namely greed and distress for matters of the world, ill will, restlessness, doubt and uncertainty and sloth and torpor themselves. If your lifestyle or the way and what you usually do or say causes you distress then you should be hardworking to pay attention to examine whether it is blamelessly so or there are causes why your conduct in speech and action causes you distress. You cannot stress yourself and others if you never prolonged your syllables or units of motion, changed speed and strength of force and therefore if your life here distresses you then you should be hardworking (not lazy) to pay constant attention to examine your speech and motion for stretching, changing speed and loudness and work hard to eliminate them.
Contrary to the popular opinion of the ordinary person that sleep is wonderful and desirable and to be encouraged sleep is descending into drowsiness, diffuseness of concentration, dreaming or false personal fabrication, compromise and entrapment in this world. If the person did not abuse himself, consuming prodigious unnecessary energy by constantly using force to stretch, change speed and loudness, he will be less exhausted to require less sleep. Sleepiness is the opposite of alertness and a noble person must cultivate alertness and awareness of what is happening to his body and mind.
Laziness and sleepiness are forceful states of the mind and therefore not just suffering but conditioning, making one increasingly prone or addicted to laziness and sleepiness.
Barbara Streisand’s bizarre behavior:
According to a report, Barbara Streisand specified rose petals in her toilet bowl and the color of the toilet rolls matched her skin at the venue where she is performing. She would weave about on stage and demands metal detectors be constantly used because she feared assassination for her pro Israeli and leftwing views. At one time she used to demand people leaving her room retreat facing her.
She is very fastidious such that one person who had to work with her describe it like having a picnic at the end of an aircraft runway.
She suffers from stage fright because many decades ago she forgot the lyrics of a song she was to sing on stage. Anyone who is a victim not master of phobia is a victim of emotion or force because phobia is never based on reason but force and is headed for woe not heaven unless he works hard to eliminate it by meditating to calm himself depriving his phobia of the mental force necessary to power it.
Like so many others, she may be rich and famous but she is suffering and headed for serious woe even for another eternity because having rose petals in your toilet bowl is caring for what you shall eat or wear and she is an obsessive compulsive person.
WHAT BARBARA STREISAND IS PRACTICING IS CALLED CONTROLLED MADNESS (PARTLY BECAUSE SHE IS NOT AS GOOD AS SHE MIGHT LIKE TO THINK) AND WHEN CONTROL IS LOST AS IT WILL BE IN THE FUTURE ACUTELY OR IN OLD AGE, IT BECOMES UNCONTROLLABLE MADNESS.
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MADDENING IMPULSES IN YOU, YOU HAVE NOT GONE MAD YET SO DO NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT MIND BEING MAD BUT YOU SHOULD REMIND YOURSELF THAT YOUR MAD IMPULSES (TO DO OR SAY CERTAIN THINGS LIKE SCREAM ABUSE) ARE PORTENTS OF CERTAIN FUTURE MADNESS UNLESS SCRUBBED OFF WITHOUT REMAINDER AND THAT YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED MADNESS AND THEREFORE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE MAD.
BECAUSE MADNESS EXISTS AND YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED IT YET AND YOU HAVE MAD IMPULSES, YOU SHOULD NOT BE COMPLACENT THAT ALL IS FINE OR YOU WOULD NOT MIND IF YOU DID BECOME MAD.
The earth is neither heaven nor hell:
If the earth was heaven or hell there would not be any need for a separate heaven or hell and it is precisely because the earth is neither heaven nor hell that there is a need for a separate heaven and hell.
What this implies is that whatever suffering physical or mental that you may experience here (and it can reach excruciating levels) the suffering in hell may be even more UNIMAGINABLY so because you have not gone to hell yet and therefore do not know what it is like in hell.
In the same way, whatever pleasure physical or mental that you may experience here the bliss in heaven may be even more UNIMAGINABLY so because you have not gone to heaven yet and therefore do not know what it is like there.
Therefore bearing in mind that there may be a hell and it may be far more hellish than anything on earth which can itself become very hellish at times, one would budget with one’s behavior in speech and bodily action that one may be liable to go to hell.
Even the man who calls his brother ‘you fool’ is in danger of the fire of hell, a trifling deed can send you to hell, the gate is wide that leads to ruin and many find it, most people run up and down on this side, few reach the other shore.
YOUR SUFFERING NOW IS WARNING OF MORE EVEN WORSE SUFFERING TO COME IN THE FUTURE AND YOUR LACK OF SUFFERING (POSSIBLE IF YOU DO NOT STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS) IS A CERTAIN SIGN OF LACK OF SUFFERING IN THE FUTURE.

A ritual and perversion:
What purpose does it serve to sprinkle rose petals onto your toilet bowl as Barbara Streisand is purported to do? If there is no sensible purpose and you do it regularly it is a form of ritual and obsession and compulsion.
There is likely to be a purpose for doing so and it may be an urge to defile or desecrate the flower petals. You have a perverted urge to urinate and even defecate on the flower petals or it gives you perverse pleasure to do so.
If you practice what has no sensible purpose you are practicing controlled madness heading for loss of control and madness and as it is a ritual and the Buddha said faith in rituals and precepts (rigidly held beliefs that can be examined and proven false) is one of three lower fetters to future states of woe.
Gathering her soul:
Quote: Ying Ying’s (murdered child) father performed ritual to gather her soul.
Many believe wholeheartedly or with reservation that is cultivating doubt and uncertainty such practices when true reason will tell you they are false or inefficacious.
As the Buddha said no matter how much prayers others may offer, the evil man will not go to heaven and no matter how others may curse a good man still he will go to heaven.
You have no right to believe what you cannot see. Can you see her soul being gathered and guided by the ritual?
How can a simple ritual or set of movements gather a departed person’s soul and how do you know that her soul is not gathered and needs gathering?
She herself is not innocent; I have seen pictures of her posing with a contorted body and a smile that reflects inner tension and acting.
NO RITUAL PERFORMED BY OTHERS CAN AFFECT THE SOUL OF ANOTHER BUT WHAT THAT PERSON DOES HERE WILL DETERMINE HIS FATE AFTER HE DEPARTS.
BELIEVE FULLY OR IN PART SUCH RITUALS (FAITH IN RITUAL IS ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO FUTURE WOE, THE BUDDHA DID NOT SPECIFY SOME RITUALS ARE BAD AND SOME ARE GOOD AND THUS BY IMPLICATION ALL RITUALS ARE FALSE OR DELUDED) BUT IF THEY ARE INEFFICACIOUS YOU ARE EMOTIONALLY BELIEVING IN WHAT IS FALSE AND HEADED FOR MADNESS.
Two Kinds Of Ritual:
A ritual is a standardized sequence of motion performed with body or limbs or mouth (verbal) with or without various implements (eg bell or baton) either without purpose for the sake of that sequence of motion (eg in a dance the combination of substance and style of a repetitive sequence of motion is gratifying or meaningful to some) or with purpose, to achieve an aim that it does not achieve (eg ritual to gather a departed person’s soul).
Thus in obsessive compulsion, you might have a ritual of stepping on cracks or avoiding cracks on the pavement that may have a purpose that is false eg ward off bad luck. Repetitive washing of one’s hands may be driven by fear of germs.
Fear is a major drive for faith in rituals:
Fear and intimidation by society plays a major role in a person having enthusiastic or reluctant faith in rituals and precepts and as a result of their initial reluctant coercion into the practice of rituals they are thus initiated and it is hard for them to shed especially when their false perception grows that perhaps the ritual is efficacious.
Because faith in rituals is not harmless but one of three lower fetters to future states of woe and society coerces individuals to believe and practice rituals it is very hard to extricate one from the morass of this deluded world.
First society force you to practice and believe in certain rituals and increasingly you start to believe with increasing realism the rituals that you initially resisted are meaningful.
Further because all ordinary people’s behavior are mindlessly rehashed from mental jukeboxes, they are de facto behaving by ritual or a set recorded protocol and it is not surprising that they should in addition believe in and practice rituals.
Driving seat:
If you believe that ‘in the driving seat’ is the same as being in the lead you have false perception that will end in mad perception.
When someone speaks of a person being in the driving seat you must picture him in a driving seat and then work out that what he actually meant was that he is in the lead of a tournament. If you said someone is in the lead or has a big lead it is straightaway understood that he is the leader by a big margin.
IT IS AN URGE TO HAVE A COLORFUL LANGUAGE TO BE IMPRESSIVE THAT MOTIVATES MANY TO USE ‘DRIVING SEAT’ INSTEAD OF SAYING ‘IN THE LEAD’, AS A RESULT YOU MUST PERFORM MENTAL CALISTHENICS AND FORCE READERS TO SIMILARLY PERFORM MENTAL CALISTHENICS THAT IN THE DRIVING SEAT MEANS IN THE LEAD NOT HE IS SEATING IN A CAR DRIVING.
Difficulties Communicating:
Often when you try to explain something simple to another or spell out something eg your email address over the phone, there is resistance on the other side, he or she can’t get it and you have to repeat yourself even a few times to get it over.
This is seldom an accident or that the other person is deaf but there is an emotional reaction partly to resist or reject, to not hear, to believe he or she cannot understand or grasp (‘I cannot, I cannot do it’ attitude). Sometimes the person has heard but it is automatic or deliberate that they pretend they did not hear to make the other person trouble himself to reiterate. Sometimes it is an ingrained diffidence to make everything even simple things so difficult to grasp, an emotional attitude of diffidence or doubt and uncertainty.
When you make everything so difficult or hard to grasp you are not only emotionally suffering but you make the other person suffer with karma due to you not merit.
Why is it hard to communicate or teach another?
a) They hear emotionally and selectively. Although people like to think they are open and hear everything there is to hear in the environment, they never just hear passively but they hear selectively forcefully, liking or disliking or emotionally and there are certain things they like to hear (eg flattery, how pretty they are) and things they do not like to hear (eg things to grasp or learn or criticism). What they do not like to hear they have resistance that makes it harder to hear or they hear but it falls on deaf ears.
b) They are antagonistic. They heard what you said but reflexively or deliberately pretend they did not hear to make you say again.
c) They have advanced doubt and uncertainty that makes them disbelieve or not accept what they hear.
d) They have emotional diffidence or an attitude that everything is so hard to grasp (eg a telephone number dictated to them). Because they have this emotional attitude that is always suffering, never pleasure that they cannot do it even before they have tried it, it is hard to communicate anything to them.
Confidence and diffidence are not based on reason but emotion and it is an attitude different people adopt that is for show. Both are never true pleasure but a suffering act with facial and bodily expressions of confidence or diffidence (hesitancy). There are manipulative advantages to present an attitude of confidence or diffidence. For instance if you are a pretty girl you can act diffident or coy so that some men will be attracted to wrap their strong arms around you.
Faith in rituals:
When you see someone cooking you see him perform a set of actions with a product, cooked food at an end and so this (cooking) is a purposeful or meaningful action. There is no need to have faith here because you can see him cooking and see the results of his cooking.
When you dance the rumba or cha cha cha, you are repetitively performing a sequence of movements with your body that has no purpose except for show to impress others or emotional gratifications. Because there is no meaning in any dance it is a ritual and the fact that you find it meaningful is not because there is but you have what the Buddha called faith in rituals that he also said is one of three lower fetters to future states of woe. You have to have faith in the dance and whatever beneficial properties that you can ascribe to it (eg one become physically fit or boosts one’s confidence) because you cannot see the benefits.
When you perform a set of motion with or without implements to exorcise a ghost or gather a child’s departed soul, can you see the ghost being exorcised or the soul being gathered? If you cannot or you force yourself to imagine you can, you are practicing false perception and flirting with future mad perception. Unless you can see the ghost being exorcised or the child’s soul being gathered, you are foolish to believe in the efficacy of the ritual. Again you cannot see the benefit of the rituals here and you must therefore have faith that they do what they are purported to do. Often priests and the establishment want you to believe in or have faith in rituals because it gives them special imagined powers as conductors of these rituals and present themselves falsely as authority figures that you must fear and respect.
ACTIONS WITH YOUR BODY CAN ONLY PERFORM PHYSICAL TASKS WHOSE FRUITS (OR LACK OF) CAN BE SEEN WITH YOUR OWN EYES AND THEREFORE NEED NO FAITH IN. TO ASCRIBE MORE BENEFITS OR ACHIEVEMENTS OF BODILY ACTIONS IS TO BELIEVE THERE ARE SPECIAL MAGICAL POWERS IN CERTAIN SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENTS, IS NOT LETTING YOUR YES BE YES ONLY BUT MORE, BELIEVE THERE IS MORE TO A SEQUENCE OF MOVEMENT THAN THERE IS THAT MEETS THE EYES AND THIS COMES FROM EVIL NOT GOOD ACCORDING TO JESUS. IF PHYSICAL EXERCISE CAN KEEP YOU MENTALLY HEALTHY THAN ALL THE SUFFERING MADMEN OR PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WOULD BE VIGOROUSLY PURSUING EXERCISE AS THEIR PANACEA. IF EXERCISE CAN GIVE YOU GOOD HEALTH AND PROLONG YOUR LIFE JESUS WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU TO EXERCISE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BUT INSTEAD HE ASKED YOU WHICH AMONGST YOU CAN PROLONG YOUR LIFE EVEN ONE CUBIT BY WORRYING ABOUT IT? IF YOU DID NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH WHY DO YOU EXERCISE? THEREFORE TO ASCRIBE BENEFIT HEALTH BENEFITS TO EXERCISE OR YOGA OR TAI CHI IS TO ASCRIBE MORE BENEFITS THAN IS WARRANTED. EVEN THE JOGGING IS PUNISHING YOUR BODY CAUSING ARTHRITIS, SO HOW CAN IT PROLONG THE LIFE THAT IT WEARS DOWN?
THE WISE PERSON ONLY ACCEPTS THAT PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS CAN ONLY ACHIEVE PHYSICAL TASKS LIKE SWEEPING FLOOR, WRITING LETTERS OR COOKING FOOD, ANYTHING MORE IS UNJUSTIFIED AND FLIRTING WITH IMAGINATION AND FUTURE INSANITY.
Distracted:
One important reason why people do not register what is plainly spoken to them is that they are distracted, their minds are somewhere and seldom present with the current situation they are in and they cannot maintain their attention for long to grasp what is said to them.
Much as they like to believe they are masters of themselves, their destiny and attention, they have poor fleeting concentration, they need to use force to maintain their concentration on something and thus they often fail to grasp or misapprehend what is said to them. They only hear key words and then use presumption to tell themselves what they think you said to them.
The natural state of people’s concentration is to be forcefully distracted, diffuse or scattered and wander not passively effortlessly attentive to a matter at hand which can only occur in a person whose mind is free of emotions, who does not perceive, think, speak and do things with constant forceful prolonging, changing of speed and strength of force.
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YOU ARE NOT LETTING YOUR YES BE YES ONLY AS JESUS TAUGHT AND IN DANGER OF MAD PERCEPTION IF YOU ASCRIBE ANYTHING MORE IN MEANING OR ACCOMPLISHMENT TO WHAT YOU SEE IN THE ORGANIZED OR REPETITIVE ACTIONS OF OTHERS. FOR INSTANCE IF YOU SEE A HEAD MONK LEADING A GROUP OF MONKS CIRCLING THE CASKET OF A DEPARTED PERSON CHANTING PRAYERS AND REGULARLY STRIKING A BELL, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING, GOING AROUND IN A CIRCLE AS A GROUP, ANYTHING MORE, EG THAT THEY ARE GUIDING THE DEPARTED PERSON’S SOUL THAT YOU CANNOT SEE COMES FROM EVIL NOT GOOD, IS BEING PARTY TO COMMON DELUSION THAT ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO EMBRACE.
Why people have poor concentration:
It is not an accident but inevitable that all ordinary people including even high standing ones suffer from poor concentration.
Why is that?
The reason is that the permanent substance and style of not just what they say and do but what they think and perceive (when you stare you are not just seeing but seeing with added force and prolonging) permanently divides their own attention between the substance (what they say) or the style (angry way) of what they are saying, they are constantly bombarded by audiovisual inputs from others that have a similar concentration dividing substance and style such that they are forced to divide their attention between substance and style or they are forced by stress to switch off and sample what is happening in installments.
IN THEORY THE SIMULTANEOUS SUBSTANCE AND STYLE THAT IS PRESENT IN EVERYTHING BEINGS HERE PERCEIVE, THINK, SPEAK AND DO PERMANENTLY FORCIBLY DIVIDE THEIR ATTENTION BETWEEN THE TWO OR TO SWITCH OFF AND ONLY TAKE SAMPLES OF WHAT IS AUDIOVISUALLY BOMBARDING THEM AND IN PRACTICE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.
POOR CONCENTRATION IS NEVER PLEASURABLE, IS NOT BLAMELESS BUT TORMENTING, BLAMEWORTHY & THE RESULT OF THE STYLE IN PEOPLE’S FABRICATIONS AND IF YOU THINK POOR CONCENTRATION IS THE PATHWAY TO HEAVEN YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FOOL. THE BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO YOUR CONCENTRATION IS TO PAY REGULAR ATTENTION TO NOT STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS.
“Change the only constant”
Quote headline: Change the only constant.
The meaning of ‘constant’ is ‘no change’ so how can change be the only constant or no change? By saying so you are mischievous, trying to tell others that the impossible is possible. You may think God applauds your wisdom or profound insight but He may ask how did you get in here, bind him and cast him into the outer darkness.
The fact that the writer wrote thus must reflect he believes it or perceives it is true.
There is constant change or there can be constant changes in something for example the speed and loudness of one’s speech but change itself can never be constant.
True reason will tell you the proposition change is the only constant is false but if you banish true reason and forcefully or emotionally or in liking keep telling yourself that change is the only constant and it has profound meaning then your perception that it is true and meaningful becomes increasingly compelling.
The change in something that you must specify can be constant, intermittent or absent but change itself cannot be constant or no change.
The Buddha said there is the changeless or unchanging and it is the highest truth and rest because whatever is unchanging is not deceptive but whatever is changing is deceptive.
Thus only the changeless or unchanging which exists (according to the Buddha) is the only and true constant and it is false and mischievous to say change is the only constant which implies there is no other constant apart from change.
By implication you are telling others that change cannot be avoided because change is constant so give up trying to seek constancy or rest and join in to constantly change. If constant change leads to uncontrollable change or restlessness you have karma leading others into the path of woe.
There are changes that are necessary (eg changes in the configuration of your vocal apparatus to produce the next syllable) and there are changes that are unnecessary (speed and loudness changes from exhaling with rising speed and force) but there is no change that is the only constant.
Even though you are not capable of constant speed and loudness there are entities like the earth that is capable of revolving and orbiting the sun at great constant speed and force.
It is correct to say that change is the constant condition of existence but it is false to say change is the only constant.
All ordinary people have a fascination for falsity that is reflected by their appreciation for such falsities as ‘endless end’, ‘deafening silence’, funny sound (it is not a sound that is funny but your false perception that makes it sound funny).
Profundity In Style & In Substance:
There is style or false profundity and there is substance or true profundity.

People in this world desire and strive to impress each other with their profundity or how intellectual they are and because they are lacking in substance they resort to ‘wordplay’ that may seem profound but it is a mirage. Empty vessels make the most noise. A drum full of water makes no noise.

Style profundity is deceptive for show profundity depending on the WAY you construct your statements playing with words.
Substance profundity is entirely about what you say that is truly profound or penetrative. For instance my statement that there are constant prolonging, changing of speed and strength of force in the perceiving, thinking, speaking and motion of all beings here and they are the only roots of the stress, restlessness and distraction that beset them and with which they persecute all who come into contact with them is a truly profound statement because it is fundamental, applies to everyone and has not been stated or discovered by anyone before and even after I point it out, those who call themselves good or smart or both still continue to display stretching, changes in speed and loudness as if they are somnolent.

Because what you state is actually nonsense or makes no sense, it is only a play of words, it must be incomprehensible or contradictory; it only has the appearance of being profound to those who are foolish or gullible.

For instance what the writer may be trying to get at in his confused or muddled way in saying 'change is the only constant' is 'change is inevitable or unavoidable' or 'change is constant'. If he had said 'change is inevitable or unavoidable' or 'change is constant' then even though both statements are still false, they are plain to understand and there is no profundity that is the figment of his and the reader's imagination as when he said “change is the only constant'.
You have false perception that will end in mad perception if you think that his saying 'change is the only constant' is the same as 'change is inevitable' or 'change is constant' as may have been his intention.

Even if he had meant change is inevitable, although this is easily comprehensible, it is still a false statement because change is never inevitable but you can choose not to change just as you can choose not to change speed and loudness when you speak even though everyone in this world never does so.

Even if he had meant change is constant, although this is easily comprehensible, it is still a false statement because change is never constant because you can start and stop changing so how can change be constant?
It is dangerous to speak in absolute terms and to say that 'change is the only constant' you imply there are no other constants except change and that is patently false because there are many other constants in this world. As the Buddha said, there are things that are possible and things that are impossible and you cannot make things that are impossible possible or things that are possible impossible and this is another constant or certainty. The Buddha said virtue, concentration and wisdom are clearly defined and not negotiable and these too are constants or certainty. Therefore it is mischievous and false to say absolutely that change is the only constant.

Change is never a constant or mandatory but it can be initiated or stopped and change is not the only certainty because there are many certainties in this world. The doubt and uncertainty is in your mind and a product of your falsity and forceful unrighteous questioning or doubting yourself and others.
IF WHAT YOU STATE (EG THERE IS CONSTANT STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS) IS TRUE & BENEFICIAL EVEN IN A FUNDAMENTAL OR REVOLUTIONARY WAY (IT IS THE ONLY KEY TO THE PERMANENT EFFORTLESS CESSATION OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION) AND IT IS HARD FOR MOST PEOPLE TO SEE OR UNDERSTAND THEN IT IS TRULY PROFOUND.
IF WHAT YOU STATE IS FALSE AND CONFERS NO BENEFIT BUT EVEN HARM AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TRULY SEE OR UNDERSTAND BECAUSE IT IS NONSENSE OR MAKES NO SENSE THEN IT IS STYLE OR FALSE PROFUNDITY.
WHAT BENEFIT DOES SAYING (ACTUALLY IMPLYING) THAT CHANGE IS INEVITABLE OR A CERTAINTY BRING? DOES IT MEAN YOU SHOULD (WRONGLY) GIVE UP STRIVING TO BE CONSTANT WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO EMBRACE CONSTANCY, TO SPEAK WITH CONSTANT SPEED AND LOUDNESS EVEN IF EVERYONE ELSE DO NOT.
The Buddha: "Even so, Vaccha, any physical form by which one describing the Tathagata would describe him: That the Tathagata has abandoned, deprived of the conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. Freed from the classification of form, Vaccha, the Tathagata is deep, boundless, hard to fathom, like the sea. 'Reappears' doesn't apply. 'Does not reappear' doesn't apply. 'Both does & does not reappear' doesn't apply. 'Neither reappears nor does not reappear' doesn't apply.
"Any feeling...Any perception...Any mental fabrication...
"Any consciousness by which one describing the Tathagata would describe him: That the Tathagata has abandoned, its root destroyed, deprived of the conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. Freed from the classification of consciousness, Vaccha, the Tathagata is deep, boundless, hard to fathom, like the sea. 'Reappears' doesn't apply. 'Does not reappear' doesn't apply. 'Both does & does not reappear' doesn't apply. 'Neither reappears nor does not reappear' doesn't apply."