Monks who are not noble:

It is important to discern others’ true nature so that one will not be deceived to be led to harm or believe and practice what they practice that is false and will lead to suffering even for another eternity. As the Buddha said, do not go by traditions or hearsay, when you yourself know that something is true and beneficial then you should embrace it.

I have seen pictures and films of Thai, Burmese and Tibetan monks in the past and their appearance and behaviour indicate they are far from noble but even mischievous, aggressive, distracted, unintelligent and even evil looking.

Recently I watched a BBC documentary by Michael Palin about the Himalayas. What I realized rapidly was that Tibetan Buddhism from top to bottom is a parody of what the Buddha actually taught not in specific aspects but systemic.

The Dalai Lama’s bedroom is at the top of the Potala that overlooks all of Lhalsa; the roofs are decorated extensively with genuine gold figurines that are not in keeping with the Buddha’s teaching not to worship or value material treasures that gold is a symbol of.

I have yet to see one Tibetan monk walking the streets who I can say is noble. They were walking mindlessly distracted, looking at this and that, tossing things to each other in a playful disrespectful way. They practice rituals like twirling a row of wheels that are supposed to afford protection from evil. They even have argument sessions in some courtyard where one person will be seated on the ground whilst other monks surrounded him and argued with him in a way full of aggressive arm movements and the winner is supposed to beat himself.

You do not argue, let alone argue for the sake of arguing as organized arguing sessions are. What you do is to meet as needed (and not on a mindless schedule) to discuss and contemplate questions of relevance to a reduction in suffering.

There was footage of the then just installed 18 year old Dalai Lama meeting Mao who loathed religion and you could see from the footage that Mao was not too impressed meeting the Dalai Lama who was then much leaner but still had a tough steely look on his face. There was an armed rebellion that involved even monks that the Chinese brutally suppressed and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet under heavy disguise.

There was one top Lama who is supposed to be so avaricious that no attractive male or female was safe from defilement by him.

The Tibetans believe in delusion there is great merit in making pilgrimages to holy temples and they may even prostrate themselves all the way to the temple. One woman had her young son tethered by rope to her as she prostrated herself in a ritualistic step by step manner towards her objective. One lake was supposed to be very holy and hoards of pilgrims would walk around its shores even in biting cold.

Even their appearances, what and how elderly monks spoke reflect they are deluded and at variance with what the Buddha in the Pali Canon taught.

Thus it appears that left on their own beings in this world are clueless about what is the truth and they are all labouring under delusions. It is not an accident that no one changed the world’s consciousness when it is possible to do so and no one speaks like me even today when it should be possible for others to say so. If what I say are false or lies, how come no one lie like me? There are many different liars but they can be classified and there are similarities in their lies. How come no one lies like me or is what I say the truth that this world cannot see, know and accept? The Buddha called himself The One Who Thus Comes, meaning he is not of this world but came by himself. He was a being from heaven in his penultimate existence. Virtually all the beings here are trapped in this world of suffering not pleasure and the Buddha was not trapped here but he came from heaven.

Even sleep is bad not good:

Those who are starved of sleep crave sleep and most if not all people when asked if sleep is good or bad will without question say “good” not realizing they are deluded according to the Buddha.

It is seems virtually everything that ordinary people hold as good is bad and they are totally deluded.

Sleep is part of ‘sloth and torpor’ one of the five hindrances (greed and distress regarding the world, restlessness, ill will, doubt and uncertainty, sloth and torpor) that detain one in this world and is a formidable barrier to self awakening.

A person who does not abuse himself and others by practicing style or the constant use of force to stretch, change speed and loudness is not exhausted and requires minimal sleep (true monks need less than four hours sleep per night). Nowadays I become very refreshed even after 15 minutes nap in the afternoon.

Sleep is descent into drowsiness accompanied by dreaming or fantasy that stirs emotions and the wise man eschews sleep, not likes to sleep a lot. A person who sleeps a lot, who likes sleeping is headed for woe. When he is asleep he is unguarded and may be attacked by a beast or killed by an earthquake or some natural disaster.

Utthana Sutta: On Vigilance

"Rouse yourself! Sit up! What good is there in sleeping? For those afflicted by disease (suffering), struck by the arrow (craving), what sleep is there?

"Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless, lead you astray and dominate you.

"Go beyond this clinging, to which devas and men are attached, and (the pleasures) they seek. Do not waste your opportunity. When the opportunity has passed they sorrow when consigned to Niraya-hell.

"Negligence is a taint, and so is the (greater) negligence growing from it. By earnestness and understanding withdraw the arrow (of sensual passions)."

EVEN IN THE MATTER OF SLEEP, ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE WRONG VIEW ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA AND ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THE BUDDHA ADVOCATES A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP IS MISREPRESENTING THE BUDDHA. I KNOW THAT SPENDING THE NIGHT ALERT IN MEDITATION IS BETTER THAN THE TORPOR OF A ‘GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP’.

CLUELESSLY TRAPPED:

BY THEMSELVES NONE OF THOSE TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD, THE LOWER REALMS WILL DISCOVER THE TRUTH TO EMANCIPATE THEMSELVES FROM THIS WORLD IN TRUTH OF TORMENT THAN UNADULTERATED PLEASURES.

EVEN AFTER THE TRUTH IS MADE KNOWN TO THEM WHAT IS SUFFERING AND WHAT IS THE WAY OUT OF SUFFERING, IT IS DECLARED TO THEM THAT THERE IS HEAVEN WHERE THERE IS NO SUFFERING AND EVEN ETERNAL LIFE, FEW WILL LISTEN AND OF THOSE WHO LISTEN, MANY MISAPPREHEND AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND OF THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND ONLY SOME WILL PUT INTO PRACTICE IN A SUSTAINED OR PERSISTENT MANNER TO OBTAIN RELEASE FROM THIS REALM OF SUFFERING. THE REST WILL SINK BACK INTO THIS MIRE OF TORMENT.

IT IS ONLY WHEN THEY MAKE A MESS OF THEMSELVES OR THEY ARE CAUGHT IN A TERRIBLE MESS LIKE THE MUDDY TRENCHES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR OR THE MASSACRE OF NANKING WILL THEY RAISE THEIR ARMS TO DECRY THE MEANINGLESS NATURE OF THEIR LIVES HERE AND TURN TO HEAVEN AND ASK & CURSE IN BITTERNESS AND ANGER, “WHO HAS WROUGHT SUCH MADNESS AS IS THIS WORLD?”

(BY BEING TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD IS MEANT BEINGS WHOSE RECENT PREVIOUS LIVES IN THIS EON OR AGE WERE ALSO IN THE LOWER REALMS NAMELY HELL, THE GHOST AND ANIMAL REALMS. THE BUDDHA AND HIS DEPUTIES’ PREVIOUS LIVES WERE NOT IN THIS WORLD BUT IN HEAVEN AND SO THEY WERE NOT TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD. AS JESUS SAID, THIS IS A WORLD OF GOATS AND A FEW LOST SHEEP AND IT IS THESE LOST SHEEP THAT HE CAME AFTER, HE CAME WITH A SWORD TO SEPARATE THE GOATS FROM THE SHEEP, NOT TO BRING PEACE ON EARTH)

You may think I look very ordinary but there are subtle differences that elude the detection of those who think they are very smart and even monks and mankind’s religious elders do not appear, speak and behave like me. Not one speaks or moves without stretching, changing speed and strength of force as I do.

The purpose of a roof:

The only meaningful purpose of a roof is to provide shelter from the elements and its reflects delusion on guardians of most of human religions that they deem it fit to decorate with elaborate golden figurines and domes that invites sacking.

The reason mankind likes to fashion golden roofs is to impress, to stir and it reflects material worship that they choose gold.

Because it is meaningless to decorate the roof let alone decorate with gold, it is merely to impress which is just the stirring of the beholder’s mental force that has nothing to do with reason or understanding, those who are responsible and those who appreciate ornate roofs are headed for insanity.

No excuses for falsity & harmfulness:

THERE ARE NO EXCUSES FOR SAYING OR DOING ANYTHING THAT IS FALSE OR HARMFUL, WHICH IS ALWAYS AN OBJECTIVE DIAGNOSIS THAT APPLIES TO EVERYONE AND PEOPLE HAVE WRONG VIEW TO THINK THEY ARE EXCUSED IF THEY DID NOT KNOW OR SEE WHAT THEY DID OR SAID WAS FALSE OR HARMFUL. IF YOU DID NOT KNOW OR SEE SOMETHING IS TRUE AND BENEFICIAL YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO SAY OR DO IT. IF YOU ONLY SAY OR DO THINGS YOU KNOW AND SEE AS TRUE AND GOOD, HOWEVER LITTLE YOU SEE OR KNOW, YOU CANNOT COMMIT FALSITY OR HARMFULNESS AND YOU CANNOT BE LIABLE TO PUNISHMENT. IF YOU DON’T, THERE ARE NO EXCUSES AND YOU ARE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT YOU SAID OR DID WITHOUT KNOWING OR SEEING IT IS TRUE AND GOOD. THE REASON IS BECAUSE WHATEVER IS FALSE OR BAD HARMS YOURSELF AS WELL AS OTHERS AND THERE WILL BE BAD CONSEQUENCES FOR YOU, WHETHER YOU KNOW OR ACCEPT OR NOT. THUS PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY HAVE ACQUITTED THEMSELVES WELL BY ADMITTING ‘IT IS MY MISTAKE’ MAY BE FOOLING THEMSELVES AND EVEN ACCRUING ADDITIONAL KARMA DEFLECTING FAULT.

IF A PERSON DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE SAID OR DO IS TRUE AND YET HE SAYS OR DOES IT, HE MUST SUSPEND TRUE REASON AND USE FORCE TO PUSH IT THROUGH, NOT NECESSARILY WITHOUT MOTIVE THAT MAY BE TO DECEIVE, IMPRESS & PLEASE THAT WITH REPEATED DENIAL HE BECOMES INCREASINGLY BONDED TO IT AND COMES TO PERCEIVE IT AS TRUE & GOOD WHEN HE DOES NOT SEE OR KNOW OR HE INITIALLY KNEW OR SAW IT AS FALSE & HARMFUL.

“Mistake” is a nice or false word that is proffered so as to not admit wrongdoing that is a prerequisite for corrective actions to ensue (if it is just a mistake that you did not intend or cannot help, what is there to correct?), if people examined their ‘mistakes’ they may admit they knew beforehand what they said or did was or might be wrong but they are too proud to admit and therefore they falsely give an excuse, “I made a mistake”, blaming distraction or whatever for their ‘accident’. It is because people (are too eager to) allow themselves to be coerced by others or circumstances or by themselves, not necessarily blamelessly but in the name of pleasing or impressing others or selfish gains, to say or do things they did not see or know as true or good that they make ‘mistakes’. No matter how little you see or know, if you only speak or do things that you see or know is true and good, you cannot make any mistakes. Mistakes are wrongdoing commissioned as a result of saying or doing things you have no right to say or do because you did not see or know they are true or good.

Further if what you say or do is not live specific for the occasion but rehashed to fake as if specific for the occasion, is it a surprise that sometimes what is said or done rehashed may not fit the situation at hand and be called ‘a mistake’? Even when it appears appropriate, what is said and done by rehash is a clever forgery that has fooled the rehashing person and his recipients as genuine when it is a clever counterfeit.

And if people examine honestly their claimed mistakes, they may admit that they knew what they said or do is false or wrong and it is a lie to say you made a mistake eg knocking into his car. You were busy on the phone when you should be concentrating on the road and you claim mistake to falsely reduce your culpability or not admit your fault with additional karma you severely underestimate.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES OR ACCIDENTS. IF YOU STUCK TO SAYING OR DOING THINGS YOU KNOW OR SEE AS TRUE, YOU CANNOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES. IF YOU DO NOT, YOU SAY OR DO THINGS YOU DO NOT SEE OR KNOW AS TRUE, YOU ARE PRESUMPTUOUS, A SERIOUS DEFILEMENT OF YOUR MIND AND OTHERS. OFTEN PEOPLE SAY OR DO THINGS THEY DO NOT SEE OR KNOW BECAUSE THEY WANT TO IMPRESS, PLEASE OTHERS OR FOR SELFISH GAINS AND WHAT THEY SAY OR DO IS REHASHED AS COUNTERFEIT FOR THE OCCASION THAT IS NO MISTAKE OR ACCIDENT BUT INTENDED TO DECEIVE.

When people are confronted by their wrongdoing or falsity they may say they are not God or do not know everything, they did not know it was false or wrong then, how are they supposed to know then that what they said or did was wrong or false.

What they do not realize is that what they say is an excuse and even if it was accepted by foolish fellow cohorts, he must suffer for perpetrating a wrongdoing or falsity.

The reason is because no being will knowingly say or do something that is false or wrong but if they did not know whether something they did or say is true or false they must be coerced by others or must apply force themselves to do or say it without knowing whether it is true or false, right or wrong. In so doing they have committed presumption, a defilement of the mind according to the Buddha and they have applied force on their minds that will cause stress, restlessness and distraction apart from conditioning it to forceful presumption that will end in insanity if not corrective action is instituted.

It is the truth that whatever people say or do is pre-recorded and rehashed from their mental jukeboxes to fit into situations arising and it is not a surprise but to be expected that they must regularly ‘make mistakes’ or say or do things that are inappropriate to the situation at hand. Whatever that is rehashed as if specific for the occasion is false, deceptive and harmful and so even if you fool others that you are genuine, it is false and deceptive.

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE ALL KNOWING OR ALL SEEING OR YOU KNOW AND SEE VERY LITTLE, IF YOU SHOULD SAY OR DO SOMETHING WITHOUT KNOWING OR SEEING IT AS TRUE OR FALSE, RIGHT OR WRONG, YOU MUST APPLY FORCE ON YOUR MIND OR YOU MUST BE COERCED WITH FORCE BY OTHERS TO SAY OR DO IT. ONLY IF A PERSON SEES AND KNOWS SOMETHING IS TRUE OR RIGHT WILL HE NOT HAVE TO USE FORCE TO FORCE HIMSELF TO SAY OR DO IT AND BY NOT USING FORCE HE DOES NOT HARM OR CONDITIONS HIS MIND TO FORCE.

A TRULY RIGHTEOUS PERSON WILL NOT SAY OR DO ANYTHING HE DOES NOT SEE OR KNOW IS TRUE AND HE THEREFORE DOES NOT FORCE HIMSELF TO SAY OR DO THINGS HE DOES NOT SEE AND KNOW IS TRUE AND RIGHT AND THEREFORE EVERYTHING HE SAYS OR DOES MUST BE TRUE OR RIGHT. JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS YOU DO NOT SEE OR KNOW IS TRUE OR FALSE, RIGHT OR WRONG DOES NOT MEAN YOU CANNOT RESTRICT YOURSELF TO SAYING OR DOING ONLY THINGS YOU SEE AND KNOW IS TRUE AND GOOD.

THEREFORE THE PERSON WHO SAYS HE IS NOT GOD, HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THEN THAT WHAT HE SAID OR DID WAS FALSE OR WRONG IS GIVING AN EXCUSE, IF HE DID NOT KNOW OR SEE IT THEN HE SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID OR DONE IT THEN. HE WAS PRESUMPTUOUS AND PRESUMPTION IS A DEFILEMENT OF THE MIND, NOT A VIRTUE ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA.

ONLY FORCE EITHER BY SELF ON OTHERS CAN FORCE A PERSON TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING HE DOES NOT KNOW OR SEE IS TRUE AND THUS IF SOMETHING SAID OR DONE BY SOMEONE IS FALSE OR WRONG, HE MUST HAVE FORCED HIMSELF THAT IS ALWAYS STRESSFUL AND CONDITIONING. THEREFORE IT IS ALWAYS FALSE TO CLAIM IGNORANCE AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR SAYING OR DOING SOMETHING FALSES OR WRONG.

THUS THE MONK WHO AT FIRST DID NOT REALIZE HE WAS ADDRESSING THE BUDDHA BUT IT DAWNED ON HIM FROM WHAT THE BUDDHA SAID THAT HE MUST BE IN THE BUDDHA’S PRESENCE, DID NOT PROFFER ANY EXCUSES AS ORDINARY PEOPLE MAY HAVE, BUT HE ROSE FROM HIS SEAT, BOWED TO AND APOLOGIZED TO THE BUDDHA BY SAYING THAT A FAULT HAS OCCURRED IN HIM IN THAT HE WAS DISRESPECTFUL AS TO TREAT THE BUDDHA AS A ‘FRIEND’. HE DID NOT SAY WITH A SMILE, ‘I MADE A MISTAKE’ OR I AM SO SORRY (THAT WORDS CANNOT CONVEY MY SORROW) BUT HE SOLEMNLY ADMITTED A FAULT HAS OCCURRED IN HIM.

You will be judged for every careless word you say:

As Jesus said, you will be judged for every careless word you say.

If you say something without knowing or seeing that it is true or not harmful or what you said can subsequently be proven to be wrong, then is this not being careless or not caring?

Thus not knowing what you said or did is false or harms is not an excuse or exoneration of you but you will be judged just the same.

Thus the wise person protecting his own life will only stick to saying things he knows and sees as true and refrain from saying things he does not know or see as true.

You want to exist, you desire separate existence but you do not make the rules and if these are the rules of existence and existence is a very expensive business then if you know what is good for you, you must discover its rules and abide by them.

Thus you may disagree with what I say but what I say may be in line with what Jesus and the Buddha said.

A stunned look:

Because emotional forceful people are constantly subjecting their minds to constant force, constant accelerating in speed and strength force, their control of these forceful changes increasingly escape their control and as they age, their control of their now quite strong and unruly mental force deteriorates so that they can become stunned even in mid conversation that appear inappropriate or excessive.

She has a stunned look that reflects that there is a momentary power overload in her mind that she can now still overcome or shrug off to return to matters at hand but like all others who can be stunned, she is walking down a tightrope down which she must fall.

No exoneration not no excuses:

It is no exoneration for falsity, not no excuses for falsity.

There is no exoneration for saying or doing what is false and harmful and whatever is said to explain why a falsity or harmfulness has occurred is an excuse.

There is no exoneration for what is said or done that is false or harmful, even if you did not see or know it then you are still accountable but if you see your transgression and apologize for it and it is forgiven then the offense no longer remains.

If you are not forgiven then you may still have to pay for it in punishment but the person who does not forgive will himself not be forgiven for whatever his transgressions that will be grave and plenty.

False, harmful & constantly done:

What is false, harmful & constantly perpetrated without knowing or seeing?

The use of force to stretch syllables, units of motions, change speed and strength of force (loudness) is something people do all the time that is false, harmful (stresses, make restless and distracts) and constant that people do in the name of style to impress, please and intimidate others.

Even if you do not know whether your style is true or false, harmful or beneficial does not absolve you of guilt should stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness be in truth false and harmful.

Smiling, expressing themselves facially and telling & appreciating jokes is something that is false and harmful to themselves and others that people indulge in frequently without knowing or seeing whether it is true or false, beneficial or harmful.

THUS IF YOU ARE CONSTANTLY USING FORCE TO STRETCH YOUR SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS, YOU FREQUENTLY SMILE, WEAR EXPRESSIONS ON YOUR FACE AND JOKE WITHOUT SEEING OR KNOWING IF THEY ARE TRUE OR FALSE, BENEFICIAL OR HARMFUL AND THEY TURN OUT TO BE FALSE AND HARMFUL, THEN YOU WILL NOT BE ABSOLVED OF YOUR SIN BUT YOU ARE A PERSON WHO IS CARELESS AND WILL BE JUDGED.

Not only knowing how to hurt others but hurt others in a disguised way:

Not only are people well versed in the various ways of speaking and doing things that they know will hurt others, will permit themselves to take revenge but they are well versed in disguised ways of doing so that will camouflage their intent and they may deny their intent when confronted.

People know how to pester others, how to make life difficult for others, how to obstruct others, how to ask a lot of difficult questions that take time and effort to reply that also provide them further opportunities to snipe or raise more questions whilst suppressing their glee at your struggling and should you turn on them, they can jump on you for ‘losing your cool’.

If you continue with your antics, cannot see what you say or do that is to make life difficult for others is false and harmful for yourself and others, you do not realize there is a corner in hell awaiting you.

Force Is Never Needed If You Saw & Knew:

If you saw something happening or knew what happened by working out through deduction based on reliable facts, you do not need to use force to believe or accept it as true; you do not need to use force to say or do things based on what you did not see or know as true.

For instance if you are God and you saw the policemen kill Altanturya and you heard Razak instructing and liaising with the policemen then you do not need to believe or use force to accept as true that Razak and the two policemen killed Altanturya and you do not need to use force to say or do things based on what you saw and knew happened.

Alternatively, based on what the defendants have foolishly admitted thinking it would exonerate when it incriminates and based on reliable facts of the case, you can reliably work out quite clearly what happened and in this case, thus knowing, you do not have to believe or use force to accept that the trio were responsible for Altanturya’s death.

NO MATTER HOW STUPID YOU ARE, UNLESS YOU ARE INEBRIATED OR BRAIN DEAD AND THEREFORE DID NOT SEE, IF YOU SAW WHO KILLED ALTANTURYA YOU NEED NOT BELIEVE WHO KILLED HER, YOU JUST KNOW.

It is only because you did not see or know what happened but you are desirous to believe what might have happened based on your likes and dislikes that you must use force to believe or accept as true either Razak and the two policemen are guilty or innocent and you will have to use force to say or do things based on your belief that may be correct or wrong based on what you forcefully believed.

Force is only required to believe and thence to say or do based on what you believed or (forcefully) accepted as true, not what you saw or knew as true.

If you saw or knew something is true, it would be insane and there is no need to use force to believe or accept it as true or use force to say or do things based on what you saw and knew.

All beings however lowly, have a capacity or ability to see and know things happening, what has happened and did not happen that may vary from very little or limited to the all seeing and all knowing in the brahmas and Buddhas. The only way to emancipation for all beings who are in truth trapped in suffering is to develop or improve his seeing and knowing until, as the Buddha said, thus seeing and thus knowing he is freed from the cankers of desire.

Thus if a being is devoted to truth and will only restrict himself to what he saw and knew and saying things based faithfully on what he saw or reliably knew then he will not have to use force to believe anything or use force to say or do things he did not see or know based on belief of what may not have happened. Because he is thus scrupulous, his mind is not cluttered and confused by a body of so called facts that are in fact unverified even dangerous beliefs that hinder rather than aid his ability to determine the truth in other matters. Devotion to the truth leaves the mind uncluttered with beliefs masquerading as facts enabling the scrupulous man of truth to see even more; good begets more good and his mind is wise and filled increasingly with more true knowledge or facts compared to the person whose mind is cluttered with many facts that actually unverified and inevitably conflicting beliefs.

One error leads to another error and before long the foolish person’s mind is entangled like a matted ball of thread of errors or beliefs masquerading as facts such that he cannot see head from tail and the way out of that mess is very difficult if not impossible.

Because force is conditioning or addictive, as soon as you start to use force to believe or accept as true, to use force to say or do things based on what you believed not saw or knew, you soon become forced by force to always use force to perceive, believe or accept as true and use force to say or do things that effectively permanently alienates you from seeing and knowing the truth.

Even when they are born into this world, beings trapped in the lower realms are beings of force not reason and they are immediately and incessantly subjected to even brutal socializing force from every other beings here, in particular their parents, to use force to say or do whatever based on what they did not see or know but forcefully accepted as true or believed.

Trapped and conditioned to forcefully believe, you can either accept the status quo or if you are concerned by your physical and mental suffering, you must make effort to wean yourself off force by paying attention to detect and erase all unnecessary use of force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness that will reduce the grip of force on your mind enabling true seeing, knowing and reason to develop.

No need to use force to feel:

Just as you do not need to use force to see or know and say or do things based on seeing and knowing, in the same way you do not use force to feel but you must use force to like or dislike what you feel.

As the Buddha said, whatever contact with objects in sight, sound, touch, taste and smell can only be passively pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant (paper is neither pleasant nor unpleasant to taste). Contact can be very pleasant over mildly pleasant but you need force to be strongly like or be attracted to it or strongly dislike or be repulsed by it. The fact that people cannot help being strongly liking or disliking what happens to them is because they have conditioned themselves so long so well with such great force that they are now largely powerless to stop themselves being strongly liking or disliking not realizing that if they do nothing to efface their liking and disliking they will continue to suffer and be doomed to insanity.

Thus if you only stick to feelings just as if you only stick to seeing and knowing, you will not need to use force to falsely like or dislike that is never pleasure but tormenting, just as you will not have to use force to believe or accept as true what you did not see or know and say or do things based on what you believed.

$5 billion NS highway to cost public $65 billion over 30 years:

The North South Highway was initially a government project and parts of it (eg KL Seremban) were in place when it was privatized. The KL Karak highway too was constructed using public money but now privatized, the toll is even rising to levels that are painful to those who are poor.

There is an estimate in the alternative press that $65 billion in toll (or even profits) will collected over 30 years by its concessionaires when it costs them $5 billion to build.

(Exactly how much it cost them to build, eg actually 3 billion and 2 billion was pocketed, and exactly how profitable it is may be known by God if not by you and if you did not see or know as true the figures above, you are not entitled to emotional refute it or tout it as facts. The above estimation may be true or false but without seeing or knowing you cannot reject it or accept it as true)

If it is so profitable, why doesn’t the government build, recover the costs by initially collecting toll and once costs are recouped to convert it into a free highway?

It may be precisely because it is so profitable and those who hold the concession for toll collection are intimately linked to those in power and the public are in fact held ransom, being milked dry with detrimental effects to the economy that such chicanery is allowed to happen. What is happening here is not an isolated blemish but replicated in many other similar situations not just in this country but all over the world even in those countries who tout themselves as fair.

It is not just the foolish powerless masses that are being ripped off but the earth cannot sustain such endless economic developments, the plunder and destruction of the environment in the insatiable quest for new profits that far exceed those money grabbers capacity to spend to enjoy themselves and the earth may already have reached the point of instability that is beyond mankind’s ‘ingenuity’ to redress. These people have pocketed far more money than they can spend and yet they want more and they demand more in toll from the public.

THE BUDDHA SAID IT IS BETTER FOR A MAN TO SWALLOW A RED HOT IRON BALL THAN STEAL THE ALMS OF THE PEOPLE AND BY THUS RIPPING OFF LIKE PARASITES THE PEOPLE’S MONEY THESE PEOPLE, HOWEVER MUCH THEY MAY BE ENJOYING THEIR LARGESSE, DO NOT REALIZE THEY HAVE COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO FUTURE PAIN THAT IS MUCH WORSE THAN SWALLOWING A RED HOT IRON BALL.

IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A PERSON TO RESTRICT HIMSELF TO WHAT HE SEES AND KNOWS AND TO SPEAK AND DO THINGS ONLY BASED ON WHAT HE SEES AND KNOWS THAT REQUIRES NO USE OF FORCE IN THE ENTIRE PROCESS BUT BEINGS IN THIS WORLD NEVER DO SO. THEY ARE EAGER TO BELIEVE, TO USE FORCE TO ACCEPT AS TRUE WHAT THEY DID NOT SEE OR KNOW AND TO USE FORCE TO SAY OR DO THINGS BASED ON WHAT THEY BELIEVED OR USED FORCE TO ACCEPT AS TRUE.

THERE IS PLENTY IN THIS WORLD TO SEE AND KNOW WITHOUT USING FORCE TO BELIEVE AND BY USING FORCE TO BELIEVE THEY HAVE FATALLY CORRUPTED THEIR MINDS AND CLUTTERED IT WITH MANY FACTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY UNSUBSTANTIATED BELIEFS AND THUSE CONFUSED AND ENTANGLED THEY CANNOT WORK THEMSELVES OUT AND ARE DOOMED FOR SUFFERING.

It has always been like this:

Those who express surprise or disbelief that as a result of the few greedy speculators with money who artificially raise demand for oil so that everyone has to pay for oil at $100 per barrel instead of $60 are deluding themselves.

It has always been the same story that just a few men can wreak havoc for the rest of humanity.

Just because of Hitler and his band of followers millions died and whole nations and cities were destroyed. The same with Japan which wrought much destruction and murder in China and South East Asia.

Just because of Stalin or Mao, many millions perished and were made to suffer famine as a result of the disastrous great leap forward.

SO WHAT IS THE BIG SURPRISE THAT THE WORLD IS PAYING FOR OIL THROUGH ITS NOSE AS A RESULT OF AVARICIOUS SPECULATORS AND MALAYSIANS ARE PAYING THROUGH THEIR NOSES FOR TOLLS ON THEIR ROADS? RATHER THAN THE TAXMAN GETTING THE MONEY AND RETURNING IT TO THE SYSTEM, NOW THE CRONIES GET THE MONEY AND STASH IT OVERSEAS.

Don’t disbelieve unless you want to be mad:

No matter who you are, unless you want to suffer needlessly and become mad you must not disbelieve. Why is that so?

If you saw or knew something is true, what is there to disbelieve? It reflects the advanced state of true and faked false perception that some people can disbelieve what their eyes or ears tell them, eg they cannot believe they have won a lottery. What they do not realize in their complacency is that they are headed for total mad perception when they cannot believe anything their senses tell them.

If you did not see or know what happened you have no right to not believe just as you have no right to believe.

Even if the person of truth saw and knew something is false, he does not disbelieve which requires the use of mental force to reject. He merely sees and knows it is false and state so.

Whether you saw and knew something is false or did not, if you disbelieve you must use force to reject that is suffering because it is applying force to your mind that stresses and it conditions incrementally your ability to disbelieve that will end in an total inability to believe what is straightforward.

You have no right to reject or disbelieve what the Buddha said that he is the highest teacher and there is no being like him throughout the Universe because you cannot see and know that it not so. Even if you can see it is false, the person of truth will just say it is false rather than express falsely disbelief.

You have no right to disbelieve or reject what I say that there is constant stretching of syllables, changes of speed and loudness in the speech of everyone here and they are the roots to the stress, restlessness and distraction they must experience regularly because if you knew or see, you will see it is true because I can demonstrate precisely how people constantly stretch, change speed and loudness and how stress, restlessness and distraction inexorably rises as I imitate others’ ways of talking.

DISBELIEF IS USUALLY DONE WITHOUT KNOWING OR SEEING SOMETHING AS FALSE AND THAT IS UNRIGHTEOUS.

EVEN IF YOU SAW OR KNEW SOMETHING AS FALSE, WHAT IS THERE TO APPLY FORCE AND PROJECT FORCE THAT STRESSES TO DISBELIEVE WHEN YOU SIMPLY SAW OR KNOW IT IS FALSE?

IF YOU KEEP ON DISBELIEVING YOU ARE SLOWLY CONDITIONING YOURSELF TO BE UNABLE TO BELIEVE THAT WILL END IN TOTAL INABILITY TO BELIEVE SIMPLE THINGS THAT IS NEVER A PLEASURE BUT MADDENING.

A man who likes and dislikes is a prejudiced man:

Why is it that a man who likes and dislikes is a prejudiced, closed man, much as he likes to delude himself he is open and broadminded? He is never truly open or broadminded but he uses force to project a semblance of openness hiding his parochialism or prejudices.

Whatever that impinges on a person who likes or dislikes is first greeted with like and dislike which then significantly colours his assessment of that experience.

Greeting something happening with like or dislike is greeting something with attractive or repulsive force or using force instead of reason to assess something.

It is insane to use force to greet or assess something happening and no man of true reason will do that but instead he will use his reason aided by his discernment or ability to see what has happened clearly as it is (and not as he likes or dislikes it) to work out what it is truly all about.

THUS AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE TO PRETEND THEY ARE OPEN MINDED AND INTELLECTUAL OR UNEMOTIONAL, ANYONE WHO ADMITS TO LIKING AND DISLIKING IS A PREJUDICED MAN AND A GREAT FOOL TO USE ATTRACTIVE OR REPULSIVE FORCE TO ASSESS OR CLASSIFY SOMETHING HAPPENING INSTEAD OF USING SEEING AND UNDERSTANDING TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED.

Disbelieving is doubting:

Whether you saw or knew what you disbelieved is false or not, if you used force to reject or disbelieve, you are doubting instead of just stating it is false and doubt and uncertainty is a fetter to future woe according to the Buddha and therefore I am correct to say that you are headed for suffering if you choose to disbelieve or doubt.

THE FOOL THINKS HE CAN CHOOSE AS HE WISH TO BELIEVE SOME THINGS AND DISBELIEVE OTHER THINGS WITH IMPUNITY BUT IMPERCEPTIBLE TO HIM, HIS FALSE PERCEPTION BECOMES INCREASINGLY COMPELLING AND WILL FINALLY SWALLOW HIM LIKE A BLACKHOLE.

Believing what he is certain:

Sometimes people say, “I believe he did it” when they saw or knew he did it reflecting that they cannot call a spade a spade or they like a certain vagueness to what they say perceiving it is charming.

This is muddled thinking that also confuses others to think what is certain is not certain with karma attached not merit.

Whatever the motive, if you keep saying you believe what you saw or knew, in time you become muddled or mixed up, not certain of what you say or saw or knew and that is the path to insanity not sanity.

VAGUENESS (SAYING YOU BELIEVE WHEN YOU SAW) IS ENFORCED OR DRIVEN BY FORCE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON AND INCREASINGLY THE PERSON HAS THE URGE TO BE VAGUE THAT WILL GET WORSE WITH AGE. IT IS BECAUSE A PERSON HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY DISHONEST AND THERE IS FREQUENT CONFLICT IN HIM THAT HE HAS AN URGE TO BE VAGUE OR EVASIVE.

When people say they suspect when they know that too is vagueness.

When people speak of ‘kind of’ blue or ‘sort of’ blue they too are expressing uncertainty that not only stirs uncertainty in themselves and their listeners but also condition them further that will end in tragedy.

Why it is always false to disbelieve:

If you see or know something is true, you must be mad not to believe or accept it as true and therefore for you not to believe something you must not be able to see or know it is true.

If you see or know something is false then it is just false and there is no need to disbelieve or not use force to not accept it as true.

If you did not see or know something as true or false, then you have no right to disbelieve or use force to not accept what you did not see or know is true or false. If there is no reason or basis for your disbelief then it is must based on force, on dislike or prejudice.

THUS THERE IS NEVER A NEED OR REASON TO DISBELIEVE ANYTHING BUT THERE IS AN URGE OR DRIVE TO DISBELIEVE THAT IS THE MORE THAT COMES FROM EVIL. IT IS BECAUSE OF SELF IDENTITY AND AN URGE TO DERIDE OR PUT DOWN OTHERS THAT YOU DISBELIEVE. EITHER YOU KNEW OR SAW SOMETHING AS TRUE OR YOU KNOW OR SEE SOMETHING AS FALSE. IF YOU NEITHER SEE NOR KNOW SOMETHING AS TRUE OR FALSE, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DISBELIEVE IT EXCEPT THAT IT IS DRIVEN BY DISLIKE OR HOSTILITY.

IT MAY NOT BE AN ACCIDENT THAT THERE IS NO RECORD OF JESUS OR THE BUDDHA SAYING ‘I BELIEVE THIS OR THAT’, ‘I AM CERTAIN OF THIS OR THAT’, ‘I DOUBT THIS OR THAT’ BUT IT REFLECTS BELIEVING AND DISBELIEVING ARE FALSE AND HARMFUL.

Not surprising chimps beat university students in test:

The reason why chimps consistently beat university students is because the lifestyle of chimps is less distracting, they have few distractions in their lives and they are therefore better able to concentrate on the task at hand and not to be distracted by frivolous thoughts that make them forget the sequence of jabs on the screen.

In contrast, there are many simultaneous demands for attention in humans and their minds cannot concentrate on the task at hand but frivolous thoughts are intruding that make them forget what the sequence of jabs are.

People are distracting themselves by doing many things at once eg talk on the phone whilst walking and eating or watch TV whilst eating and this divides their attention. How often have you seen a chimp watching TV or talking whilst it eats a banana? How often have you seen people talking when they eat? It is usually concentrating on eating the banana and as a result it enjoys the banana better than you enjoy your KFC.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION OR ONE POINTED UNIFICATION OF THE MIND THAT IS THE CULMINATION OF VIRTUE LEADING TO CALM LEADING TO CONCENTRATION LEADING TO EQUANIMITY THAT IS THE WAY TO BLISS EVEN FOR MANY EONS IN HEAVEN.

Chimps beat humans in memory test

By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News

Counting test Number memory test

Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists.

The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.

The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives.

Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills.

"There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said lead researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.

We are still underestimating the intellectual capability of chimpanzees, our evolutionary neighbours Dr Tetsuro Matsuzawa

"No one can imagine that chimpanzees - young chimpanzees at the age of five - have a better performance in a memory task than humans.

"Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working memory capability for numerical recollection - better than that of human adults tested in the same apparatus, following the same procedure."

Memory tests

Dr Matsuzawa and colleagues tested three pairs of mother and baby chimpanzees against university students in a memory task involving numbers.

Human v Chimp

The mothers and their five-year-old offspring had already been taught to "count" from one to nine.

During the experiment, each subject was presented with various numerals from one to nine on a touch screen monitor.

The numbers were then replaced with blank squares and the test subject had to remember which number appeared in which location, then touch the appropriate square.

They found that, in general, the young chimps performed better than their mothers and the adult humans.

The university students were slower than all of the three young chimpanzees in their response.

The researchers then varied the amount of time that the numbers appeared on-screen to compare the working memory of humans and chimps.

HOW FAST CAN YOU COUNT? Humans can instantly "see" about four or five dots at a glance - but research suggests chimps are sometimes better than humans at counting in this way. Take the test

Chimps performed much better than university students in speed and accuracy when the numbers appeared only briefly on screen.

The shortest time duration, 210 milliseconds, did not leave enough time for the subjects to explore the screen by eye movement - something we do all the time when we read.

This is evidence, the researchers believe, that young chimps have a photographic memory which allows them to memorise a complex scene or pattern at a glance. This is sometimes present in human children but declines with age, they say.

"Young chimpanzees have a better memory than human adults," Dr Matsuzawa told BBC News.

"We are still underestimating the intellectual capability of chimpanzees, our evolutionary neighbours."

'Ground-breaking'

Dr Lisa Parr, who works with chimps at the Yerkes Primate Center at Emory University in Atlanta, US, described the research as "ground-breaking".

Dr Matsuzawa and chimps Ai and Ayuma

She said the importance of these primates for understanding the skills necessary for the evolution of modern humans was unparalleled.

"They are our closest living relatives and thus are in a unique position to inform us about our evolutionary heritage," said Dr Parr.

"These studies tell us that elaborate short-term memory skills may have had a much more salient function in early humans than is present in modern humans, perhaps due to our increasing reliance on language-based memory skills."

The research is published in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Barking up the wrong tree:

Reading the comments of scientists, they are surprised and marvel at the chimpanzees’ abilities and think we may have underestimated their cognitive functions and that they have better photogenic memory.

Our memory and cognitive functions may be better than chimps but if you are not concentrated, it is to no avail. Think when you are emotionally upset, nothing you read stick nor do you understand what you read. Thus all the best cognitive function is to no avail if your mind is power overloaded or distracted or scattered.

An indication that I may be correct is that it was noted younger chimps performed better than their mothers that would be in line with distraction being conditioning and as animals age their concentration deteriorate whilst their distractibility ‘improves’.

Either I am correct or the scientists are correct or we are both wrong. It reflects that as intelligent as humans like to think they are, they may often be biased not to think of certain explanations that possibly fit the scenario.

Why it is distraction not memorizing power:

Concentration may be inextricably linked to the memorizing process because the better you pay attention to encode and decode the better is your memorizing ability that is likely a skill that improves with practice and age until senility sets in.

Distractibility is a conditioned process and as soon as a being is born into this world he is mercilessly conditioned to be distracted or has his concentration scattered or diffused by others that will get worse with age and therefore you will expect distractibility to be worse in an adult female than in a juvenile, all things being equal. Because humans are subject to greater distractibility pressures you would expect that they become more distracted compared to their chimpanzee counterparts.

Because distraction is a conditioned state of the mind you will expect it to peak at old age and that is the case that all senile people appear and behave as if their minds are permanently scattered or in a daze.

Memorizing, which is a mechanical process of encoding and retrieving should improve with age to a peak in adulthood and then perhaps deteriorate in old age.

Thus if the chimpanzees’ superior performance in the test is due to memorizing you would expect the adult females to perform better or the same as the young but if it is due to the degree of distraction then the young who are less conditioned to distraction should be better than adults as reports suggest.

Chimpanzees may think much less than humans. At any given moment, humans’ minds are preoccupied by a constant stream of thoughts that are forcefully prolonging, changing speed and loudness, frivolous, they may be joking with themselves, trying to see the funny side of things and putting on a show even to themselves that may prove too powerful a barrier to surmount for them to concentrate to remember and recall the sequence of button positions on the screen. In contrast, it is likely chimpanzees may think very little or nothing but their minds will be devoted to the task at hand and thus they are better at it.

Do chimpanzees crack jokes and try to be funny?

Faced with the same task, humans may try to be too clever or mischievous and may think or talk to themselves, “This is insane, why am I doing this, ho, ho, ho”, “Let me see, how shall I go about it”, “You’ve got to be joking” or thoughts may intrude about remembering to do the laundry or whatever that is frivolous that is unrelated to the task.

It is unlikely if not impossible that chimps will be joking or trying to be funny but they will get on with the task.

A MAN WHO IS ALWAYS JOKING, TRYING TO SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF THINGS IS DISTRACTED AND CANNOT GET ON WITH THE JOB AT HAND COMPARED WITH A NO NONSENSE PERSON.

Rule bound thinking:

Stylish people like to think they are the masters of their thinking, they are free to think of anything but instead their thinking is bound, restricted, like chewing the same old cuds (lumps of hay), going around in circles or in ruts or fixed grooves like a vinyl record.

The reason why ordinary people may never think that distractibility is the answer to the superior chimpanzee performance is because they have certain preconceived notions that they do not even realize exists in their minds. For instance they worship power and stature and therefore a superior performance at a test that appears to test memory means chimps are superior in memorizing and therefore ‘wow’, they are greater than us. People worship power and status and therefore look to a pecking order of superiority to explain results that appear to indicate superiority of memorizing. The contribution of distraction as an explanation never crosses their minds because distraction is boring stuff, they themselves are constantly significantly distracted without awareness they are, so how do you expect them to realize distraction plays a crucial role in the results seen.

Even brilliant students can do badly:

Even brilliant students can do badly in a major exam if their concentration is affected by some major event like breakup with girlfriend, death of significant one. The reason they do badly is because they cannot concentrate, their minds are preoccupied elsewhere and even if they knew the answers to the questions, it does not click.

In truth people are significantly distracted even in their usual daily lives and they are not aware, they think the concentration of their minds they experience is the same as others and it is the acme of concentration when their concentration may be like a flickering candle compared to the incandescent sun of God and they themselves do not realize that liberated from stress, restlessness and distraction, their minds may access concentration they never imagined possible for them.

IT IS TO BE EXPECTED THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE USUALLY SIGNIFICANTLY DISTRACTED AND ARE UNAWARE THEY ARE WILL NEVER CONSIDER DISTRACTION AS A KEY DETERMINANT IN THE APPARENT SUPERIORITY OF THE CHIMPANZEES.

PEOPLE LIKE TO THINK THEIR THINKING IS BOUNDLESS BUT WHERE THERE MAY BE 10 FACTORS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED IN A SITUATION, THEIR MINDS MAY ONLY BE ABLE TO ENTERTAIN FIVE FACTORS, THE OTHER FIVE FACTORS THAT MAY IN THIS CASE INCLUDE DISTRACTION IS OFF THE TABLE AND THEY NEVER CONSIDER IT BECAUSE THEIR REASONING IS NOT LIVE SPECIFIC FOR THE OCCASION BUT ROTE, REHASHING, JUGGLING ONLY THE FIVE FACTORS THAT IS ALWAYS ON THE TABLES OF THEIR MINDS.

Memory is just a mechanical process:

A CD WRITER HAS NO CONSCIOUSNESS OR UNDERSTANDING, WHAT IT NEEDS IS A RELIABLE INPUT (EG NO BUFFER UNDERRUNS) FOR WHAT IT IS REQUESTED TO RECORD AND A MEANS OF ENCODING AND THEN READING WHAT IS ENCODED. NO REASON OR CONSCIOUSNESS IS NECESSARY FOR A CDWRITER TO MAKE A COPY AND READ FROM THE MADE COPY AND THEREFORE IT IS LIKELY THAT THE MEMORIZATION PROCESS IN THE MIND IS SIMILARLY A TOTALLY REASON FREE, CONSCIOUSNESS FREE PROCESS THAT IS NO BIG DEAL, SO LONG AS YOU HAVE A COMPETENT COPIER, YOU ARE IN BUSINESS JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.

Memory is essentially a mechanical process of memorizing or encoding to your hard disk and then retrieving from the hard disk and just as cheap cameras can capture images that for practical purposes are just as good as the most expensive cameras, you do not need the nuances or subtle touches in ordinary usage of the photos, in the same way, there may be nothing to separate the superiority of one person’s memorization from another’s just as any cheap CD writer will write a copy of a video file just as well as the most sophisticated CD writer.

It reflects men’s foolish obsession with power and superiority that they perceive memorization as a yardstick of superiority when it may be or is just a mechanical process that has limits to its superiority and to which most beings have competent parity.

What is more crucial to the process of memorization that people obsessed with superior memory fail to discern is that attention or concentration is essential for superior recording. It is no use having the best CD writer when the data input is hopelessly unreliable; there are buffer under-runs that ruin the recording.

If the human mind can be compared to a sophisticated computer with many simultaneous demands on the CPU (hyper threading and multiple core processing) then it may be prone to buffer under runs that will ruin the recording. If the chimpanzee brain can be compared to a simple dedicated video recorder, it has no simultaneous demands on it and is more fail safe, will record what is inputted faithfully.

There is much anecdotal evidence that human memory is far superior to chimpanzee memory. Humans remember more things than chimps. Because the substance and style of not just everything people say or do, which is more diverse and numerous, but what they perceive and think is regurgitated from memory, by implication humans must possess far superior memory than chimps, we remember and reproduce more things from memory than chimps.

The test may be skewed too if the chimps are doing it for the 100th time and the university students for the first time it is likely the chimps will have rehearsed or got their mechanical rote acts together better than their human novices. Because memorizing is a mechanical process, you get better the more you do it.

If people recollect they might remember that when they learnt to say a favourite phrase (eg g’daii mate, how are yar!) they may fumble and get it wrong initially but with time they become slicker and slicker until they think it is natural, not forced to impress others of their (false, faked) eager friendliness.

IF YOU CONCEDE THAT MEMORY IS JUST A MECHANICAL RECORDING AND RETRIEVAL PROCESS FOR WHICH MOST BEINGS ARE COMPETENT, SO LONG AS YOU CAN GET A REASONABLE FAITHFUL COPY OF THE EVENT REGISTERED AND RETRIEVE IT, THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO IT, THEN IT IS LIKELY THAT IT IS PAYING ATTENTION OR CONCENTRATION TO REGISTER THE DATA THAT IS INFERIOR IN HUMANS BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE CONDITIONED DISTRACTIONS THAT IS THE CAUSE OF THEIR POOR PERFORMANCE.

PEOPLE GET THRILLED TO THINK THAT THEIR MEMORY IS (REAL OR IMAGINED) SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER WHEN THEY HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION BECAUSE MEMORY IS JUST A MECHANICAL ENCODING AND RETRIEVING PROCESS. ANY CHEAP CD WRITER IS JUST AS GOOD AS THE ROLLS ROYCE OF CD WRITER IN WRITING A VIDEO FILE. INSTEAD WHAT IS A REQUISITE FOR A GOOD RECORDING, PAYING ATTENTION TO THE MATTER AT HAND TO BE MEMORIZED, NAMELY CONCENTRATION IS MORE IMPORTANT. THIS DOES NOT MEAN CHIMPS HAVE CONCENTRATION THAT IS SUPERIOR TO HUMANS OR HEAVENLY BEINGS BUT IT MEANS THEIR MINDS ARE LESS CLUTTERED BY OTHER SIMULTANEOUS INPUTS DEMANDING THEIR ATTENTION AND THEY ARE THEREFORE MORE SINGLE MINDED IN THEIR PURSUIT OF A MATTER AT HAND. YOU SELDOM IF EVER SEE A CHIMP EAT A BANANA AND TALK OR PLAY WITH THEIR VIDEO CONSOLE BUT YOU ALMOST ALWAYS SEE PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BE TOO CLEVER AND TALK WHILST THEY EAT.

WHEN THE BUDDHA TALKS HE DOES NOT EAT, WHEN HE EATS HE DOES NOT TALK. IF YOU THINK ONLY BUDDHAS NEED TO DO THIS YOU MAY BE A FOOL WHO DOES NOT REALIZE HE IS GOING TO TWIST HIS ANKLE OR STEP ON A NAIL WALKING BECAUSE HE DOES NOT PAY ATTENTION TO HIS WALKING. THUS IF YOU TALK TO THE TELLER WHILST SHE PROCESSES YOUR TRANSACTION YOU ARE CREATING KARMA FOR YOURSELF DISTRACTING HER.

MEMORIZING IS BASICALLY A MECHANICAL PROCESS OF ENCODING AND DECODING IN WHICH THE PAYING OF ATTENTION TO COLLECT THE NECESSARY DATA IS MUCH MORE CRUCIAL AND THIS HAS BEEN ABUSED MORE IN MEN THAN CHIMPS. IF YOU WASTED YOUR ALLOTTED TIME AND COLLECTED LITTLE OR PATCHY DATA, WHAT IS THERE TO ENCODE? THUS IF YOU THINK THERE IS MORE TO MEMORIZATION, IT IS A MARVELLOUS PROCESS FULL OF MYSTERY TO BE EXALTED, YOU THINK YOUR SUPERIOR MEMORIZATION, REAL OR IMAGINED, DISTINGUISHES YOU AS A HIGHER BEING (RATHER THAN VIRTUE, DISCERNMENT, WISDOM, CALM & CONCENTRATION), YOU MAY BE DELUDED AND BARKING UP YHE WRONG TREE.

DISCERNMENT IS NOT A MECHANICAL PROCESS BUT IT REQUIRES REASON AND UNDERSTANDING TO SEE THINGS CLEARLY AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU LIKE OR DISLIKE THEM AND WISDOM THAT IS THE PUTTING TOGETHER OF WHAT YOU DISCERN TO GET A TRUE PICTURE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TOO IS NOT A MECHANICAL PROCESS BUT A SEEING AND REASONING PROCESS THAT MUST BE LIVE SPECIFIC TO EACH OCCASION.

THUS DISCERNMENT AND WISDOM ARE TO BE WORSHIPPED, TO BE DESIRED RATHER THAN SUPERIOR MEMORIZATION OR INTELLIGENCE. AN INTELLIGENT PERSON IS MERELY A SUPERIOR ROBOT WITH A BIGGER LIBRARY OF FACTS THAT MAY BE FALSE THAT HE CAN RETRIEVE MORE RAPIDLY AND SEEMINGLY APPROPRIATE TO THE SITUATION AT HAND.

TRUE EFFORTLESS PASSIVE CALMNESS AND CONCENTRATION OF THE MIND TOO ARE NOT MECHANICAL PROCESSES BUT A STATE OF SEEING UNIFICATION OF THE MIND THAT IS NOT RESTLESS, NOT DESIRING CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE OR MINDLESS CHANGE.

Anyone who mistakes force for reason is a fool:

Force is meaningless, harmful, painful, conditioning (seizing) and will end in madness thus anyone who mistakes force for meaning, benefit, pleasure is a fool, cannot be very wise and because all ordinary people mistake force for meaning, they are foolish, never wise.

In what ways do people mistake force for reason?

They mistake the style in them and others as meaningful when it is nothing more than the use of force to stretch, change speed and strength of force.

They mistake their like and dislike for whatever happens to them a meaningful when it is nothing more than a meaningless not everlasting stirring of their mental forces to be attracted to or repulsed by what happened.

They mistake their smiles and expressions with face and body as meaningful when they are just the use of force to activate the muscles concerned that is meant to be seen and achieves no meaningful physical tasks.

They see their dances, tai chi and yoga as meaningful, even the way to the gods when they are meaningless exercises of their muscles that achieves nothing physical.

FORCE IS BLIND OR INDISCRIMINATE AND MERCILESS, IT WILL DRIVE, ABUSE AND KILL ANYBODY WHO ALLOWS HIMSELF TO BE SUBJUGATED BY FORCE. THUS THE WISE PERSON WILL LEARN TO DISSOCIATE HIMSELF WITH FORCE AND ASSOCIATE HIMSELF WITH FORCE-FREE REASON FOR NO FURTHER TORMENT AND DEATH.

Memory may be perfect:

Even if you don’t remember many of things you did or said or happened to you, you don’t remember your past lives, there may be an indelible and perfect record of whatever happened to you not just in this life but in all previous lives even eons or Ages ago.

The Buddha said that the person who is enlightened can recollect all his past lives; he recounted countless Ages or eons which means that whatever ever happened in existence has a perfect record. All beings come from SUCH and there may be a record in SUCH as to all that ever happened.