Experiencing and seeking force:
When a person is experiencing pleasure he is experiencing force, without force there can be no pleasure.
When a person seeks pleasure he is seeking force. And because all beings here even animals seek pleasure be it in food, smells, touch, sounds or sights, they are seeking force that is blind, meaningless and harmful and so they are slaves detained in suffering not masters in charge on themselves.
Only the person who has tuned his mind not to experience pleasures, who ignores and does not seek pleasure does not seek force and thus not seeking force he is released, escapes from pain that is the inevitable shadow of pleasure to a realm wherein there is neither pain nor pleasure nor death for even 60,000 eons.
CALL IT WHAT YOU MAY BUT IF IT IS PLEASURE YOU ARE EXPERIENCING, IT IS FORCE YOU ARE EXPERIENCING. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS YOU ARE EXPERIENCING AS PLEASURE, YOU DON'T KNOW IT IS FORCE, YOU ARE A FOOL WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE EXPERIENCES.
An universal law:
It does not matter who you are, how pious, smart or otherwise you think you are, so long as you are interested in pleasure, you are interested in force and you are trapped in a realm wherein there is pain, even to intense levels.
People speak of intense pleasure but that is partly false perception, partly an acknowledgement that pleasure is based on force because only force has intensity, reason and meaning has no intensity except in your advanced false perception that it is so.
As soon as a person has no interest in pleasure, he is released from the world of force to access a force free world of neither pain nor pleasure and that is never suffering or woe.
Earthquakes not related:
Two earthquakes that devastated Samoa and parts of Indonesia yesterday were unrelated despite both occurring on the Pacific Ocean's notorious 'Ring of fire', says a tsunami expert.
He calls himself an expert. Without seeing it is true, he is a fool to say so.
According to another report in BBC, the tremor patterns at the San Andreas changed to become more frequent smaller tremors after the 2004 Sumatran earthquake.
Common sense will tell you that all the crust on earth is linked and so the shaking of one fault if significant will be transmitted elsewhere and it is emotional bravado touting yourself as expert to say it is not related.
Earthquakes weaken distant faults
The researchers took measurements from the fault over two decades |
The major 2004 earthquake in Sumatra may have weakened the San Andreas fault, 8,000km away in California.
This is according to scientists who took measurements from the fault over two decades.
Reporting in the journal Nature, the team found that small "repeating earthquakes" became more frequent as the San Andreas Fault weakened.
This pattern, they say, could help to forecast earthquakes in the future, something that is currently impossible.
The team, led by Taka'aki Taira, of the University of California at Berkeley, studied a section of the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, which is sometimes called the "earthquake capital of the world".
The area has long been studied by earthquake researchers and it contains a fixed array of seismometers called the high resolution seismic network.
Dr Taira, who was based at Washington DC's Carnegie Institution when he carried out the work, used measurements from these highly sensitive seismometers, some of which are several kilometres below the Earth's surface.
It is possible that the strength of faults and earthquake risk is affected by seismic events on the other side of the world Fenglin Niu, Carnegie Institution |
"The equipment is at depths where the noise level is very low, so it collects very good data," explained Dr Taira.
He and his team studied repeating earthquakes because they provided a "background frequency" against which changes in the fault could be compared.
"These events happen regularly and the size of the event is about the same," he told BBC News.
"But after Sumatra, the frequency changed - it increased - but the magnitude decreased.
"That is a signal of the fault weakening; you only have to push a little bit and the fault fails."
Fenglin Niu from Carnegie, who also took part in the research, said: "So it is possible that the strength of faults and earthquake risk is affected by seismic events on the other side of the world."
The 2004 Sumatran earthquake was magnitude 9.3 - one of the strongest on record - and triggered the tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people.
The 30 September 2009 earthquake along the same fault line was measured at magnitude 7.6.
Padang: city on a fault line
This is a false statement designed to exaggerate.
Padang is near a fault line that lies in the nearby ocean but it is not on a fault line. Without seeing and knowing it is so and you say (because you are stirred by emotion to exaggerate) you are courting future mad perception that what is not (Padang on a fault line), is.
Hitler skull revealed as female:
There is nothing Hitler about any skull but it is a way of putting it not without purpose but to stir emotion.
The truthful way of putting it is ‘skull not Hitler’s’.
He and you do not believe but he is courting a muddled mind that is always torment.
Buddhists to chant for well-being of Malaysians
SEVERAL Buddhist organisations have come together to put up a mammoth mantra chanting session to ward off the A (H1N1) vagary in the country.
It is delusion that chanting which is a ritual can do any good to anyone. It is neither good for them because they are conditioning themselves to rehash as robots and faith in rites according to the Buddha is a fetter to future woe nor for Malaysians because it is ineffective.
If something is meaningful and effective you have to say it once and it will be done, you don’t need to chant it.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT ANYONE CAN SEE THAT THEIR CHANTING WILL BE EFFECTIVE BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE OBJECTIVELY SEEN AS EFFECTIVE AND SO THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING MECHANICALLY BY FORCE WITHOUT KNOWING IT IS TRUE OR WORKS. ANYONE WHO DOES OR SAYS SOMETHING WITHOUT KNOWING IT IS TRUE AND THEREFORE WORKS IS COURTING MADNESS AND WILL GET IT.
Impossible chants work:
It is a reflection of emotional people’s false perception that they perceive that chants work or may work to a certain extent.
If the chant to ward off H1N1 works then there should be no H1N1 cases in Malaysia or no deaths.
If it is your fate to die of H1N1 then nothing can ward off that fate. God can but He is unlikely to intervene, of what use is it to ward off the death of one who is heedless?
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW IF SOMETHING EG CHANTING WORKS OR NOT AND YET YOU PROCEED, YOU MUST OVERRIDE REASON AND USE FORCE ACCORDING TO A PLAN TO CARRY OUT THE CHANTING THAT CONDITIONS YOU TO DO THE SAME IN THE FUTURE, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CONDITION YOURSELF TO ACCEPT AND SAY AND DO WHAT YOU DID NOT SEE OR KNOW AS TRUE BLINDLY AND THAT IS THE PATH TO DANGER (YOU MAY PAY WITH YOUR LIFE FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW IS FALSE) AND MADNESS (YOU ARE TRAINING YOURSELF TO BE A MINDLESS ROBOT).
What is a person doing when he chants?
No matter who the chanting person is or how holy or efficacious he chants, he is chanting what has been agreed upon or fixed beforehand and so he is robotically mechanically rendering what is written on a piece of paper or in his mind or following the chants of others and that is practicing and conditioning yourself to be a robot that is never harmless but even deadly.
Further because people who are stylish or emotional can never mean what they say, no matter how meaningful the words of the chant is, it can never be truly meant because there is an accompanying style that seriously taints it.
ALL CHANTS MUST BE REHEARSED OR ORGANISED BEFOREHAND AND WHEN SOMEONE CHANTS HE IS MERELY MECHANICALLY REPRODUCING THE CHANT AND IT IS THE FORCE CHANGES OF THE CHANT THAT THEY FIND MOVING AND THEREFORE MEANINGFUL.
The dark secrets of the trillion-dollar oil trade
The price of oil today remains high because speculators are betting prices will rise in the near future with economic recovery and so they buy surplus oil and store them in supertankers in Singapore propping up prices.
Should demand remain weak these speculators may be hit or if they use margin finance, a credit crisis may cause them to force sell and so the oil price may crash in the future should economic recovery fail to materialize.
With a combined capacity for 313,000 tonnes of oil, the Delta Ios and the NS Burgas supertankers were launched two months ago to criss-cross the globe. Instead, the vast vessels were to be found yesterday lying idle off the coast of Singapore after their owners were paid by two of the world's richest and most secretive oil companies to turn them into floating petrochemical warehouses.
At first glance, the decision by Trafigura Group and Vitol Holding BV to charter the newly built ships to do nothing for up to four months in South-east Asia while laden with cargos of diesel worth at least £77m per vessel makes little economic sense.
When this is combined with the fact that the Delta Ios and the NS Burgas are just two ships in an enormous fleet of tankers which are currently being paid about £80m a month by independent oil traders like Trafigura and Vitol, as well as giants such as Shell, to stay anchored around the globe with anything between 50 and 150 million barrels of redundant crude on board, it seem that the ruthless barons of black gold must be losing money as fast as they can make it.
A glut of oil caused by the recession means that crude available for immediate purchase is currently cheaper than that bought on longer-term or "future" contracts – a practice known as "contango". The result is that independent traders have been rushing to buy the cheaper "spot" oil and storing it wherever they can – namely in under-employed tanker fleets – in anticipation of a sharp rise in price as the global economy begins to recover. The resulting profit can be anything between 15 and 20 per cent – tens of millions of dollars – even after the cost of hiring a tanker is deducted.
It is a situation which prompted one senior oil company executive to declare that the spring and summer of 2009 represented "blessed times for trading". Another oil trader told The Independent: "Contango has been a real boon. The independents have become very adept at buying up tanker capacity as cheaply as possible, sitting on the stock and selling it on via arbitrage. They've been as slick as you like."
The deals are part of a world in which discretion and an ability to keep out of the public eye have long been treasured. While the oil majors such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP operate as global corporations, the independents or "jobbers" have thrived in the grey zone of fast trading-room deals and personal contacts that allow access to lucrative oil reserves.
But increasingly the activities of the "big four" independent traders – Trafigura, Vitol, Russian-owned Gunvor (which has consistently denied reports that it is linked to the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin) and the hugely successful Glencore – are coming under scrutiny. Questions are being asked about their role in uniting the oil wealth of some of the world's more unsavoury regimes with the open market.
Trafigura, which until August 2006 was barely known outside the oil trade – despite growing to become one of the world's biggest companies with a turnover of $73bn (£46bn) since it was founded 16 years ago – last week found itself making headlines around the world when it agreed to pay about £30m to thousands of residents of the Ivory Coast port of Abidjan who fell ill after toxic oil waste from a ship chartered by the company was dumped by a sub-contractor near the west African city.
The settlement of the claim brought on behalf of 31,000 Ivorians at the High Court in London after tonnes of foul-smelling sludge were fly-tipped in August 2006 was said by Trafigura to vindicate its position that there was no link between the waste and people who died or suffered serious illnesses.
But the Abidjan pollution disaster shone a light into the nature of the way these multibillion-pound "jobbers" of the oil trade make their money. In the case of Trafigura, the events of August 2006 were just part of a deal conducted across three continents in which a cheap, low-quality form of oil known as coker gasoline bought from a Mexican refinery was further refined in Europe, and the subsequent fuel was sold at a profit of about $7m per cargo.
Oil industry insiders have told The Independent that coker gasoline is just one of a myriad of methods used by independent traders to turn a profit, ranging from "paper" deals struck in the City of London's trading floors, to floating storage, to what is known as "physical trading" – transporting hundreds of consignments of different grades of oil on chartered tankers looking for the best price from dozens of offices across the globe. Executives, who are frequently equity partners in the companies, speak of constant shuttling around the world to close deals and negotiate prices.
By any standards, it is a huge and profitable industry. From a situation 20 years ago where the "majors" dominated the international trade, independents now account for about 15 per cent of world's $2 trillion oil industry.
Glencore, founded in 1974 by the controversial trader Marc Rich – who was indicted for tax evasion and later pardoned by President Bill Clinton – is estimated to supply 3 per cent of the world's daily oil consumption. The company is no longer involved with Mr Rich.
Between them, the "big four" had turnovers last year of about $415bn – equivalent to the GDP of Austria. Because the companies are privately owned, comprehensive profit figures are hard to come by, but Glencore announced a profit of $4.75bn for 2008. Trafigura made $440m last year.
In an industry which deals with a commodity for which many countries have gone to war, insiders say it is inevitable that traders will find themselves dealing with authoritarian oil-rich regimes and dabbling in controversial schemes. On at least one occasion, three of the big four – Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol – have been found to have crossed the line between incentives and kickbacks through their involvement in the United Nations' oil-for-food scheme to help Saddam Hussein's Iraq buy humanitarian supplies.
In the UN's Volcker report, all three companies were cited for paying surcharges demanded by Saddam's regime to win oil supply contracts. In 2007, Vitol pleaded guilty in America to paying $13m in surcharges, and the Swiss arm of Trafigura forfeited $20m. Both companies insisted that the deals had been handled in good faith via third parties. Glencore, which was cited for paying $6.6m in surcharges, denied any wrongdoing.
Glencore was also named in a 2005 High Court judgment as one of the companies which handled shipments of oil sold by the state-owned oil company of Congo-Brazzaville in central Africa. It was subsequently shown that cash derived from the shipments was used by the son of the country's President to pay credit card bills for shopping sprees in Paris. There was no suggestion that Glencore acted improperly.
All of the "big four" point out that they operate in accordance with international law and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines on business conduct. But campaigners complain that a lack of transparency in the industry means that proper scrutiny of the oil-rich governments in Africa and the middlemen they deal with is impossible.
Gavin Hayman, director of campaigns for Global Witness, said: "These companies play a major role in selling Africa's oil and their operations are notoriously opaque. It would be legitimate to ask: 'How do they get these contracts, do they sell the oil for its proper price, and do they send the money back to the correct place?'
"This lack of transparency creates a big risk that corrupt officials can siphon off some of the profits and deprive ordinary citizens of their rightful benefit from natural resource wealth."
Criminal speculators:
Suppose these speculators were absent, the price of oil could be much lower than it is. Their presence and greed causes consumers to have to pay more for oil than they have to.
Should they get burnt in the future by a recovery that did not materialize it may cause a crash in oil price or prices will revert to more normal supply and demand.
These speculators are like gangsters who are for profit and that can only come from consumers.
Why no photos of Altanturya with Najib?
According to RPK, Altanturya feared she may be killed and handed a dossier of documents including incriminating photos taken at a hotel in Singapore to her father before she left Mongolia.
The father made the mistake of handing over the dossiers to the Mongolian charge de affair because he handed them to the police without making photocopies of them.
So now all the documents and photos are in the hands of the police who are quite happy to keep mum.
The Buddha’s train of thought:
One thing leads to another and it ends in a mass of suffering that is as vast as an ocean and as long as an eternity. There are things that are possible and things that are impossible as the Buddha said. If you think otherwise, you may have wrong view:
No one speaks like the Buddha below and as he said, he is the highest teacher and if you disagree you may be right or have wrong view that has fruits in demerit.
Bhikkhus, the shameless one without remorse becomes negligent It is not possible for the negligent one to dispel direspect, unruliness and evil friendship. It is not possible for the one associating evil friends to gain faith, dispel stinginess and laziness. It is not possible for the lazy one to dispel excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues. It is not possible for the unvirtuous one to dispel the dislike to see noble ones, to hear the teaching of the noble ones and dispel the reproaching mind. It is not possible for one with a reproaching mind to dispel forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and the derangement of mind. It is not possible for one with deranged mind to dispel unwise attention, practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility. It is not possible for one with a sluggish mind to dispel the view of a self, doubts, and grasping virtues as the highest aim. It is not possible for the doubting one to dispel greed, hate and delusion. Without dispelling greed, hate and delusion it is not possible to dispel birth, decay and death.
Bhikkhus, the shameful one with remorse becomes diligent It is possible for the diligent one to dispel direspect, unruliness and evil friendship. It is possisble for the one associating spiritual friends to gain faith, dispel stinginess and laziness. It is possible for the one with aroused effort to dispel excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues. It is possible for the virtuous one to dispel the dislike to see noble ones, to hear the Teaching of the noble ones and dispel the reproaching mind. It is possible for one without a reproaching mind to dispel forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and the derangement of mind. It is possible for one without deranged mind to dispel unwise attention, practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility. It is possible for one with a mobile mind to dispel the view of a self, doubts, and grasping virtues as the highest aim. It is possible for one without doubts to dispel greed, hate and delusion. Dispelling greed, hate and delusion it is possible to dispel birth, decay and death.
Greed, hate and delusion:
Unless you enjoy disease, death and suffering you must seek the deathless which exists.
Without shedding without remainder greed, hate and delusion you cannot reach the deathless, the end of all meaningless useless suffering.
Greed is desire to possess, obtain material objects (money, houses, cars, property), beings (wives, children, cattle) & sensate pleasures. It is basically a stirring of the mental force attractively at the sight of objects deemed desirable driving the person to move to possess it.
Hate is merely the opposite stirring of mental force to be repulsed by objects or beings seen or heard.
Delusions are beliefs held as true what are false. All delusions are plans driven by force and so anyone who is deluded is a robot slave of his delusions. A lot of things people accept as true are actually delusions, either commonly shared by society or himself or a particular group.
ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA IT IS ULTIMATELY GREED, HATE AND DELUSION (AND NOTHING ELSE) THAT BLOCKS ACCESS TO THE DEATHLESS.
Here is a delusion for you:
It was just a few months ago when I wrote about how social networking has taken our world by storm, the fact that now every Tom, Dick and Harry has either an account on a particular social network or, like most trend followers, owns several active accounts in various networks and are practically hooked onto the Internet 24-7.
Here is a delusion that he is speaking the truth.
It is impossible that social networking has taken our world by storm or every Tom Dick & Harry has an account (I don’t). You wouldn't have accounts if you are not greedy.
THUS DELUDED, HE IS NOT GOING TO THE DEATHLESS BUT TO DEATH AND TORMENT.
Cannot regurgitate, let alone speak like the Buddha:
It would be laborious and with great difficulty for most stylish emotional people to memorize to regurgitate what the Buddha said below let alone for them to speak spontaneously unrehearsed specific to the occasion what the Buddha said.
These thoughts never occur to ordinary people and if they tried to regurgitate or say what the Buddha said, it is likely their train of thought will become dishevelled or they will lose sight of what they wanted to say:
76. Bhikkhus, if these three things were not evident, the Thus Gone One rightfully enlightened would not have been born in the world. The discipline declared by the Thus Gone One would not have taken root. What three?
Birth, decay and death- Bhikkhus, if these three things were not evident in the world, the Thus Gone One rightfully enlightened, would not have been born in the world. The discipline declared by the Thus Gone One would not have taken root. Bhikkhus, since these three things are evident in the world, the Thus Gone One rightfully enlightened is born in the world. The discipline declared by the Thus Gone One has taken root.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel birth, decay and death. What three? Greed, hate and delusion. Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel birth, decay and death.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel greed, hate and delusion. What three? View of a self, doubts and grasping virtues as the highest aim. Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel greed, hate and delusion.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel the view of a self, doubts and grasping virtues as the highest aim.What three? Unwise attention, practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel the view of a self, doubts and.grasping virtues as the highest aim.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel unwise atttention practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility. What three? Forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and derangement of mind..Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel unwise attention, practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and derangement of mind..What three? Dislike to see noble ones, dislike to hear the noble Teaching and the reproaching mind..Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and derangement of mind.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel the dislike to see noble ones, to hear the noble teaching and the reproaching mind. What three? Excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel the dislike to see noble ones, to hear the noble Teaching and the reproaching mind.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues. What three? Lack of faith, stinginess and laziness. Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel lack of faith, stinginess and laziness. What three? Disrespect, unruliness and evil friendship. Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel lack of faith, stinginess and laziness.
Bhikkhus, without dispelling three things, it is not possible to dispel disrespect, unruliness and evil friendship. What three? Lack of shame, lack of remorse and negligence. Bhikkhus, without dispelling these three things, it is not possible to dispel disrespect, unruliness and evil friendship.
Bhikkhus, the shameless one without remorse becomes negligent It is not possible for the negligent one to dispel direspect, unruliness and evil friendship. It is not possisble for the one associating evil friends to gain faith, dispel stinginess and laziness. It is not possible for the lazy one to dispel excitement, lack of restraint and evil virtues. It is not possible for the unvirtuous one to dispel the dislike to see noble ones, to hear the teaching of the noble ones and dispel the reproaching mind. It is not possible for one with a reproaching mind to dispel forgetfulness, lack of mindful awareness and the derangement of mind. It is not possible for one with deranged mind to dispel unwise attention, practising in the wrong path and the mind's immobility. It is not possible for one with a sluggish mind to dispel the view of a self, doubts, and grasping virtues as the highest aim. It is not possible for the doubting one to dispel greed, hate and delusion. Without dispelling greed, hate and delusion it is not possible to dispel birth, decay and death.
Interpretation of what the Buddha said:
A person without conscience (shame) lacks concern for self and others The person without concern becomes disrespectful, unruly and falls into the arms of evil friends. A person who is disrespectful, unruly and mixes with evil friends lacks faith and is lazy (dislikes work). A person who lacks faith and is lazy cannot resist the lure of excitement, heedlessness and bad habits (gambling, drinking, womanizing). A person who cannot resist sensuality is hostile to the teachings of the noble ones.
Anyone who identifies with his body is heading for woe:
Whether you like it or not the Buddha tells you your body is not self, it is a source of suffering not pleasure (even whatever pleasure it may give is suffering because only force that harms can give pleasure).
Thus whoever exults in his body, how handsome or pretty she is, is headed for woe.
Thus whoever exults in his body, how handsome or pretty she is, is headed for woe.
As Jesus said, do not go after food that is perishable. Your body is perishable and so if you pursue your body you too will perish.
And the Blessed One thus spoke to the five bhikkhus: `The body (råpa), O bhikkhus, is not the self if the body, O bhikkhus, were the self, the body would not be subject to disease, and we should be able to say: "Let my body be such and such a one, let my body not be such and such a one." But since the body, O bhikkhus, is not the self, therefore the body is subject to disease, and we are not able to say: "Let my body be such and such one, let my body not be such and such a one."
39-41. `Sensation (vedanà), O bhikkhus, is not the self (&c. (35)) perception (sa¤¤à) is not the self . . . the saïkharas (36) are not the self . . . consciousness (vi¤¤àna) is not the self (&c. (37))
42. `Now what do you think, O bhikkhus, is the body permanent or perishable?'
[\q 101/] `It is perishable, Lord.'
`And that which is perishable, does that cause pain or joy?'
`It causes pain, Lord.'
`And that which is perishable, painful, subject to change, is it possible to regard that in this way. `This is mine, this am I, this is my self?' `That is impossible, Lord.'
43. `Is sensation permanent or perishable?' (&c. (38))
44. `Therefore, O bhikkhus, whatever body has been, will be, and is now, belonging or not belonging to sentient beings, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, distant or near, all that body is not mine, is not me is not my self: thus it should be considered by right knowledge according to the Truth.
45. `Whatever sensation (&c. (39)).
46. `Considering this, O bhikkhus, a learned noble hearer of the word becomes weary of body, weary of sensation, weary of perception, weary of the saïkharas, weary of consciousness. Becoming weary of all that, he divests himself of passion; by absence of passion he is made free; when he is free, he becomes aware that he is free; and he realises that re-birth is exhausted; that holiness is completed; that duty is fulfilled; and that there is no further return to this world. (40)
47. Thus the Blessed One spoke; the five bhikkhus were delighted, and rejoiced at the words of the, Blessed One. And when this exposition had been [\q 102/] propounded, the minds of the five bhikkhus became free from attachment to the world, and were released from the àsavas (41).
US economic power declining:
The person who said and those who see nothing wrong is practicing unwitting controlled madness that will end in madness.
Why is that the statement is meaningless, a waste of time and thought?
You don’t take declining or increasing economic power into consideration in what you do but your declining or ascending economic power comes as a result of your actions. If you do things to arrest your decline or boost your standing then you are tampering, artificially intervening just to maintain your ascendancy.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT HE CAN SEE IT IS TRUE BUT HE IS SPECULATING DRIVEN BY EMOTION EG FEAR OR AGITATION.
WHETHER US ECONOMIC POWER IS DECLINING IS OF NO CONCERN FOR ANYONE OR SHOULD ANYTHING BE DONE ABOUT IT. YOUR ASCENDANCY SHOULD COME FROM YOUR ECONOMIC ENDEAVORS AND PRODUCTIVITY, NOT FROM ANY MEASURES OR BOOSTS TO MAKE THE US TOPDOG.
IF US ASCENDANCY SHOULD COME AS A MATTER OF FACT AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT NOR SHOULD ARTIFICIALLY FALSELY DO TO PROP IT UP, WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME AND OTHER PEOPLE’S TIME DRAWING ATTENTION TO IT? IT IS BECAUSE YOU THINK ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN (ARTIFICIALLY) OR SOMETHING MIGHT BE DONE ABOUT IT (BY HOOK OR CROOK) THAT YOU SPEAK ABOUT IT.
THUS HERE AS IN MANY PLACES, PEOPLE THINK THEY SPEAK FULL OF MEANING, THEY THINK THEY HEAR SENSE BUT THEY SPEAK AND HEAR NONSENSE. US ECONOMIC ACENDANCY SHOULD COME NATURALLY, NOT THROUGH ACTIONS DESIGNED TO MAINTAIN ITS DOMINANCE AND SINCE NOTHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT, US IS TOPDOG BY MERIT, IT IS NO LONGER TOPDOG ALSO BY DEMERIT AND SO WHY WASTE YOUR TIME TALKING ABOUT IT?
Med-style diet 'can battle blues'
Following a Mediterranean diet may help prevent depression, a Spanish study of more than 10,000 adults suggests.
Why is the above statement deluded and the only cause of sadness that descends to depression is the being’s incessant use of force to prolong eg syllables and units of motion?
There may be those think that even if the use of force to prolong is the cause, there may be other causes like chemical damage to the brain by alcohol, drugs or even traumatic head injury but they are exhibiting false logic.
The truth may be that sadness (and its more intense counterpart depression) is the consciousness experience of its mental force wilfully prolonging to express style that is just for show or to carry out an activity that actually does not require prolonging.
WHENEVER A PERSON IS EXPERIENCING SADNESS HE IS EXPERIENCING HIS MENTAL FORCE PROLONGING HELPLESSLY OUT OF HIS CONTROL FOR NO PURPOSE. IN OTHER WORDS SADNESS IS EXPERIENCED EVERYTIME THE MENTAL FORCE IS PROLONGING OUT OF CONTROL BY ITSELF FOR NO PURPOSE BECAUSE OF THE LIFELONG INCESSANT UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE TO PROLONG TO FASHION STYLE THAT RENDERS THE MENTAL FORCE AUTOMATICALLY ALWAYS WANT TO PROLONG.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR DRUGS OR FOOD SUBSTANCES, TRAUMA, ETC TO CAUSE THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG BY ITSELF OUT OF CONTROL BUT IT IS THE LIFELONG USE OF FORCE TO PROLONG IN THE NAME OF FASHIONING STYLE THAT IS FOR SHOW TO IMPRESS, PLEASE THAT IN TIME FIRST BRIEFLY THEN REGULARLY THE MENTAL FORCE LAPSES INTO LOSS OF CONTROL TO AUTOMATICALLY AIMLESSLY PROLONG THAT IS EXPERIENCED AS SADNESS THAT THE BEING INCREASINGLY STRUGGLES TO SHRUG OFF.
It is actually very simple to prove that force prolonging is the cause of sadness. All you have to do is to conscientiously pay attention to not use force to prolong for a period of time and experience an absence of sadness.
The trouble is stylish emotional people are slaves of prolonging not masters, they severely underestimate the extent and intensity of their prolonging, they are see and hear themselves using force to prolong let alone choose to either prolong or not.
I KNOW THE USE OF FORCE TO PROLONG IS THE CAUSE OF SADNESS BECAUSE BY ELIMINATING PROLONGING I HAVE ELIMINATED ANY TENDENCIES TO SADNESS WHERE PREVIOUSLY ANY ATTEMPTS TO ELIMINATE SADNESS WAS FUTILE.
THUS IT REFLECTS THE DELUSION OF MANKIND THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING WHEN THEY ARE SAD (THEIR MENTAL FORCES PROLONGING OUT OF CONTROL AIMLESSLY), THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THEIR SADNESS (THE CONSTANT USE OF FORCE TO PROLONG SYLLABLES TO IMPRESS OR PLEASE OTHERS) AND THUS NOT SEEING THEY ARE DELUDED TO PURSUE CURES FOR SADNESS THROUGH DIETS, EXERCISES (YOGA), MEDICINES, ETC.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT A PERSON WHO TRULY DOES NOT USE FORCE TO STRETCH SYLLABLES CAN BE SAD. IF YOU CAN BE SAD AND YOU PERCEIVE YOU DO NOT STRETCH SYLLABLES, LET ME SHOW YOU HOW DIFFERENT YOUR SPEECH IS LIKE WITHOUT STRETCHING.
ALTHOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE TO SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, I HAVE YET TO MEET SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT STRETCH HIS SYLLABLES WHICH IS WHY THEY MUST ALL SUFFER SADNESS.
Oil states say no talks on replacing dollar
Suppose settlement for oil purchases international was done through the ringgit, you need to buy ringgit to pay for your oil, then considering the vast volume of oil sold international it would be a boon for the ringgit and hence Malaysian economy.
And so it is that America reap considerable economic benefits just by having its currency as the currency of settlement for trade despite what America might hypocritically say is a burden.
You can expect America to fight any moves to use other currencies or to bully. Take away America’s role as reserve currency and it will be much poorer than it pretends to be.
Tue Oct 6, 2009 5:37am EDT
By Simon Rabinotvitch and Wayne Cole
ISTANBUL/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Big oil producing nations denied on Tuesday a British newspaper report that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil.
The U.S. dollar eased in response to the report, which was written by The Independent's Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk and cited unidentified sources in Gulf Arab states and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong.
It said the proposal was for trade in crude oil to move over nine years to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
But top officials of Saudia Arabia and Russia, speaking on the sidelines of International Monetary Fund meetings in Istanbul, denied there were such talks.
Asked by reporters about the newspaper story, Saudi Arabia's central bank chief Muhammad al-Jasser said: "Absolutely incorrect." He repeated the same response when asked whether Saudi Arabia was in such talks.
Russia's deputy finance minister Dmitry Pankin said: "We did not discuss this at all."
Algerian Finance Minister Karim Djoudi told Reuters: "Oil producing countries need to stabilize revenues but...I don't see a need for oil trade to be denominated differently.
"But we are at the IMF conference where all sorts of subjects are raised and discussed," he added.
SLIP
The U.S. dollar slipped in the wake of the newspaper story. The euro edged up as high as $1.4749 in European trade from $1.4662 before the story appeared.
The euro fell back to $1.4701 when the Saudi Arabian and Russian officials denied the story, but it subsequently resumed strengthening because of the currency market's continued concern over the dollar's trend.
Russia has in the past publicly raised the idea of shifting its oil trade away from the dollar because of the weakness and volatility of the currency, which has been undermined by the U.S. trade and budget deficits.
China, holder of the world's biggest foreign exchange reserves, has suggested that in the long term, the dollar should lose its role as the globe's top reserve currency.
A main focus of the talks among global finance officials in Istanbul has been correcting big trade imbalances that can destabilize the world economy. Many economists think the dollar may have to weaken further to reduce the imbalances.
However, analysts said that while individual countries would find it relatively easy to stop using the dollar in settling their oil trades, as Iran has already done, replacing the currency in which oil is priced would require a massive effort.
The newspaper story did not make clear how the change would work, and many analysts doubted it would occur any time soon.
"I don't think we will see much concrete action coming out of such discussions because even when the dollar is weak, it doesn't mean that commodities are undervalued," said David Moore, commodities analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
"In fact, when the dollar weakens, commodities prices tend to increase by a higher ratio."
And apart from the strong political links between Gulf nations and the United States, the lack of convertibility for many Gulf currencies and the yuan tops the list of practical hurdles to making such a shift. Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf states now peg their currencies to the dollar.
"First, they will need to select a basket of currencies, and issues surrounding that are: which are the currencies to be included in the basket and what ratios to use," said Victor Shum, energy analyst at Purvin & Gertz Consultancy in Singapore.
"It's already a big hurdle just to move oil from one currency to another, let alone a basket of currencies. If there was already a significant proportion of global oil trade being priced in non-U.S. dollar now, than perhaps there would be more pressure to price crude in another currency. But we're still far from that."
Sources with refiners in Japan, China and South Korea all said they had not been approached by any oil suppliers about changing the terms of their settlement for crude oil purchases.
SECRET MEETINGS
"Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars," said the newspaper story, adding that France had also been involved in the talks.
The Independent said U.S. authorities were aware that the meetings had taken place but had not discovered the details and were "sure to fight this international cabal."
Only one cause of sadness:
Without a person’s mental force prolonging out of control a person cannot experience sadness and it is the constant use of mental force to prolong that with incessant abuse has a tendency to automatically activate without purpose that is the only cause of sadness.
People use force to prolong syllables to fashion style that is for show to impress, please, intimidate and dominate others.
As a result of constantly using force to stretch to fashion style, the person’s mental force develops a tendency to automatically prolong even when there is no style to fashion to impress others and this is sadness.
EVEN THOUGH STYLE IS MEANINGLESS OR FALSE, IT IS INTENDED TO IMPRESS OR PLEASE OTHERS AND THUS USING FORCE TO PROLONG TO FASHION STYLE IS A PURPOSEFUL USE OF FORCE EVEN IF IT IS FALSE.
WHEN THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE DEVELOPS A TENDENCY TO AUTOMATICALLY PROLONG EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO STYLE TO FASHION, THE PERSON HAS LOST CONTROL AND IS EXPERIENCING SADNESS THAT NEVER REMAINS THE SAME BUT BECOMES EASIER TO AROUSE TO MORE INTENSE LEVELS THAT WILL DESCEND EVEN TO SUICIDAL DEPRESSION LEVELS.
NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE USE FORCE TO STRETCH SYLLABLES AND UNITS OF MOTION, THEY USE FORCE TO DELAY OR PROLONG PLEASANT EXPERIENCES (SLOWLY SAVOUR FOODS THEY LIKE OR PROLONG A PLEASURABLE SEXUAL EXPERIENCE OR LINGER ON A BEACH TO WATCH A PLEASANT SCENERY), THEY USE FORCE TO PAD UP THEIR SPEECHES AND ACTIONS WITH JUNK TO BE IMPRESSIVE.
WHENEVER A PERSON PROLONGS, HE MUST USE FORCE AND HE IS CONDITIONING HIS MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG THAT IN TIME DEVELOPS A STRONG TENDENCY TO PROLONG EVEN WITHOUT PURPOSE AND THAT IS SADNESS THAT THEN IS SELF REINFORCING TO END IF UNTREATED TO EVEN SUICIDAL DEPRESSION.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PERSON WHO NEVER USES FORCE TO PROLONG ANYTHING, NEVER PROLONG SYLLABLES TO EXPERIENCE SADNESS.
WITHOUT A PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE PROLONGING THERE CAN BE NO SADNESS AND SO UNLESS EXTERNAL AGENTS CAN CAUSE A PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG, IT CANNOT CAUSE SADNESS.
It is foolishness and greed that causes a person to prolong a pleasant experience:
It is a person who is foolish and greedy to maximize his pleasurable experience that drives him to prolong or extend the pleasurable experience be it good food or sex. As a result of using force to prolong, he is training his mental force to prolong that becomes increasingly automated and he is doomed to cancerous sadness.
Why does a breeze cause pleasure? It is the gentle force conveyed by the wind that is experienced as pleasure.
Similarly it is the combination of chemical forces impacting on a person’s taste and smell sensors that causes food pleasure.
No matter what they might deny, the pleasure of sex is the pleasure of force impacting through touch and motion.
THUS IT IS FORCE RECEIVED THAT WHEN MILD TO MODERATE IS THE INDISPENSABLE INGREDIENT OF PLEASURE AND WHATEVER THAT IS PLEASURABLE NECESSITATES EXPOSURE TO FORCE THAT IS MEANINGLESS AND ULTIMATELY HARMFUL AND SO ANYONE WHO WILL USE FORCE TO PROLONG OR EXTEND A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE IS A FOOL BECAUSE HE IS USING FORCE TO PROLONG (THAT LEADS TO SADNESS) AND HE IS PROLONGING PLEASURE THAT IS PROLONGING EXPOSURE TO FORCE THAT CAUSES PLEASURE.
WITHOUT BEING GREEDY THE PERSON CANNOT DESIRE TO EXTEND HIS EXPERIENCE OF PLEASURE. IT IS A GREEDY PERSON WHO WILL MAXIMIZE AND EXTEND HIS PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE.
NO MATTER HOW MEANINGFUL YOU INSIST IT IS TO USE FORCE TO EXTEND OR PROLONG A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE, IT REQUIRES TRAINING YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG LIKE TRAINING A MONKEY TO CLIMB A COCONUT TREE SUCH THAT IN TIME THE MONKEY CLIMBS UP EVEN WITHOUT YOU TELLING IT AND IF THAT CLIMBING UP COCONUT TREE IS SADNESS THEN THAT IS THE FRUIT YOU FOOLISHY BEQUEATHED YOURSELF IN YOUR GREEDY HASTE TO PROLONG YOUR PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCES.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO GO THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT USING MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG ANYTHING, BE IT SYLLABLES, UNITS OF MOTION OR PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCES. IF YOU DO SO, YOU ARE TRAINING YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO PROLONG THAT IS THE PATH TO SADNESS THENCE DEPRESSION.
Microsoft phones hit the market:
Microsoft phones enter the market and cannot hit the market which a style of saying it that conveys force that the person finds attractive.
It is not harmless but it is courting false perception that the phones can hit the market when it is impossible.
YOU AND HE SEES NOTHING WRONG BUT HE IS SPEAKING FALSELY AND IS COURTING MAD PERCEPTION THAT THE PHONES CAN HIT THE MARKET WHEN IT ENTERED.
Right concentration:
Right concentration is one of the eight factors of the noble eightfold path taught by the Buddha. Even top Buddhists today do not possess right concentration, so how could they have understood and derived the immense benefit of its realization? Any praise they make of right concentration is hollow (because they have not tasted it) and if they were to downplay its relevance they speak without qualification or right.
To have right concentration your mind and body must at minimum experience serenity and composure with discursive thinking, you can stop thinking effortlessly when you want and further your mental force cannot be stirred to like (attracted) or dislike (repulsed) and finally you can tune your mind to experience neither pleasure (derived from force) nor pain (also derived from force).
BECAUSE ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE, EVEN DEVOUT BUDDHISTS AND THEIR LEADERS CANNOT ACHIEVE SERENITY OF MIND AND BODY WITH DISCURSIVE THINKING LEADING TO CESSATION OF THINKING THENCE EQUANIMITY (NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE) AND FINALLY A MENTAL STATE OF NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE, THEY HAVE NOT SUCCESSFULLY PUT INTO PRACTICE WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT REGARDING RIGHT CONCENTRATION AND THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DISMISS IT AS WITHOUT OR HAVING LITTLE MERIT WHEN IN TRUTH IT IS OF THE HIGHEST MERIT.
The Noble Eightfold Path:
The truth may be there is life after death and beings here are facing ruin, suffering as vast as an ocean if they do not substantially heed the Buddha’s teaching.
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM OR WHATEVER, AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT SUBSTANTIALLY PUT INTO PRACTICE WHAT THE BUDDHA DESCRIBED IN HIS NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH, YOU ARE HEADING FOR SUFFERING AS VAST AS AN OCEAN AND AS LONG AS AN ETERNITY.
WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE EIGHTFOLD PATH IS, WITHOUT PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE TO FIND IT WORTHLESS, IF YOU DISMISS IT YOU ARE PRESUMPTUOUS AND ASKING FOR JUDGMENT FOR BEING HAUGHTY OR BIASED (BIAS IS DRIVEN BY FORCE NEVER GUIDED BY REASON) AND THE PENALTY IF WRONG IS DEADLY.
The truth is, even Buddhists, even its leaders have not put even one factor of the path in true practice eg even the livelihood of priests is not in accordance with what the Buddha taught because they accept money, they hoard food, conduct blessing ceremonies and other things the Buddha had said monks should refrain from.
Right view: Not only is there wrong & right view but the views of emotional stylish people are substantially & extensively wrong and the destination of wrong view is hell or the animal womb not heaven according to the Buddha. People are in truth not masters of their views but they are slaves of their views that are plans which they have well recorded and identify emotionally as true and good when it is deluded. Thus it is not just a matter of exposing a person to right view, great effort must be taken by the person to erase his wrong views and many cannot or refuse to alter their wrong views of what things should be.
Thus to view that smiling, laughing, being stylish and joking is fun, good is wrong view because they lead to stress, restlessness and distraction and thence insanity.
To view that ‘Microsoft phones hit the market’ is correct is wrong view because Microsoft phones can only enter not hit the market.
Investing is gambling, wanting to use your money to make money without effort and it is sin never merit. There is a difference is ‘investing’ money to start a business and ‘investing’ money in shares and property hoping to gain from price increases. It is because so many people have greedily invested in multiple houses in order to reap future value gains that the market has been more bullish than it should actually be and the world economy is facing a crisis of loan defaults.
Right mindfulness or attention:
People in this world pay attention to the wrong things and ignore the right things far more than they realize.
For example they pay attention to how charming or stylish their speech is but pay no attention to how they are using force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness and how stress, restlessness and inability to concentrate is inexorably rising as a result. They do not pay attention to the falsity or nonsensicality of what they say so charmingly.
Right resolve:
Before you can change you must resolve or plan of what you want to change and keep referring to the plan to carry it out until you have succeeded. Therefore it is important to have right resolves eg not to speak harshly, not to tell lies or cheat or steal or obstruct others.
Resolving to harmlessness and relinquishing or letting go is right resolve.
Right effort:
Having made the right resolves then you need right effort or persistence to carry it out successfully. Having resolved not to scold others you must make right effort until you no longer have desire to scold anyone.
Right speech:
Harsh speech is wrong speech and leads to hell or the animal womb. Any speech with constant use of force to stretch, change speed and loudness is harsh. Telling lies, joking, being sarcastic, divisive speech, idle chatter (gossip) is wrong speech.
Right action:
Stealing, killing, drinking alcohol, smoking, harming even sex is wrong action.
Right livelihood:
To make a honest living using the sweat of your work is right livelihood. To invest or use money to make money (buying shares, trading in oil or commodities without use for them, trading properties) is wrong livelihood.
There are certain professions that are appropriate, certain that are not (eg slaughtering animals).
Right concentration:
Finally and not least there is right concentration is very rarely achieved by ordinary people even those at the top of the Buddhist hierarchy.
WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY PUTTING INTO PRACTICE THE OTHER 7 FACTORS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE RIGHT CONCENTRATION AND SO IF YOU HAVE RIGHT CONCENTRATION, YOU MUST HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE OTHER FACTORS TO A GREAT EXTENT.
In order to have right concentration you must reside with your mind and body in calm clear thinking serenity progressing to an ability to stop thinking even when going about daily activities (eg pay full attention to your driving with not a thought intruding), then equanimity (neither stirring your mental force to like nor dislike) and finally elevating your state of mind to a plane where there is no force, you feel neither pain nor pleasure.
RIGHT CONCENTRATION IS A TALL ORDER EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES BUDDHIST AND IT IS RIGHT CONCENTRATION THAT DELIVERS A PERSON FROM SUFFERING BOTH HERE AND THEREAFTER EITHER TO HEAVEN WHERE THERE IS NO DEATH OR EVEN FULL ENLIGHTENMENT.
The homeless life:
The Buddha had in many places spoke of the homeless life. Some may think they understand what the Buddha said but it is lip service.
By homeless life, the Buddha means life without a home.
You have a home and no matter how you may deny, you are dependent on and attached to that home, however humble or ramshackle it is.
The Buddha has no home, he can spend his night anywhere eg under a tree or even in a cemetery.
The reason he spends a night in a cemetery is because it is a secluded place where there is no disturbance, no human interference.
IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED THE HOMELESS LIFE, ARE UNABLE TO COPE WITH A HOMELESS LIFE AND YOU THINK YOU ARE THE BUDDHA’S EQUAL, YOU ARE ASKING FOR JUDGMENT.
IT TAKES SOMEONE OF EXCEPTIONAL NOBILITY TO GIVE UP HIS PRINCELY LIFE TO BECOME HOMELESS IN PURSUIT OF TRUTH AND AN END TO SUFFERING AND IF YOU YOURSELF CANNOT DO SO AND YOU BELITTLE THE BUDDHA, YOU ARE ASKING FOR JUDGMENT.
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