Why are people so hard to change?
You have false perception if you think some people are very easy to change. All ordinary people in this world are difficult, even impossible to change in a meaningful way from sin to virtue.
IF YOU AGREE THAT PEOPLE ARE DIFFICULT EVEN IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE THEN WHAT IS IT THAT CAN BE CHANGED AND WHY SHOULD IT BE SO?
WHAT CAN BE CHANGED IN A PERSON IS WHAT AND HOW HE PERCEIVES (SEES, HEARS), THINKS, SPEAKS AND DOES. APART FROM THESE THERE IS NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT CAN BE CHANGED.
THE REASON WHY PEOPLE ARE DIFFICULT TO CHANGE IS BECAUSE WHAT AND HOW THEY PERCEIVE, THINK, SPEAK AND DO ARE NOT FRESH SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION BUT REHASHED SO OFTEN WITH SO MUCH INTENSITY THAT THEY ARE NOW WELL CONDITIONED EVEN PERMANENTLY WARPED TO PERCEIVE, THINK, SPEAK AND DO AS PROGRAMMED BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.
IT IS IN FACT THEIR KARMA THAT THEY ARE DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE BECAUSE THE WAYS THEY BEHAVE IS SUFFERING EVEN TORMENT AND THEY ARE DETAINED IN THIS PRISON OF PERMANENTLY REHASHING THEIR BEHAVIORS.
THUS THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE DIFFICULT TO CHANGE IS PROOF THEY ARE NOT LIVE SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION PEOPLE BUT MINDLESS ROBOTS REHASHING THEIR BEHAVIOR JUST AS A RECORD PLAYER KEEPS PLAYING WHAT IS ON THAT RECORD AND NOTHING ELSE.
Australian Formula One GP posts $40m loss
October 15, 2009 12:28pm
TAXPAYERS have again picked up the bill for Australia's Formula One Grand Prix after the motor race posted a $40 million loss in 2009.
It is likely if not certainly that Malaysian GP will suffer similar losses that are passed on to taxpayers.
IT MAY NOT BE THAT F1 IS SUCH A SUCCESSFUL SPORT BUT BECAUSE OF SUCH SUCKERS (THAT NOW INCLUDE EVEN SUPPOSEDLY SHREWD SINGAPORE) THAT IT REMAINS A RICH SPORT.
AND SO IT IS WHERE HONDA AND BMW EXITED F1, MALAYSIA DEEMS IT FIT TO LAUNCH ITS OWN TEAM.
Two kinds of change:
As difficult as it is for emotional stylish people to change they can change.
There are two ways a person can change:
The first and common way is to reprogram themselves painstakingly by modifying or adding new programs for how to speak, do or think and this is superficial for show change from one robotic act to another robotic act.
There is one true but seldom if ever seen change and that is to transform oneself from a rehashing robot to a person who is not a robot, who composes live specific to the occasion speech and actions. This would be truly to be born again.
YOU CAN MODIFY YOURSELF FROM ONE KIND OF REHASHED SUBSTANCE AND STYLE SPEECH (EG NASTY SPEECH) TO ANOTHER (FULL OF ANXIOUS GENTLENESS) AND THIS WOULD BE FRIVOLOUS FOR SHOW CHANGE OR YOU CAN CHANGE YOURSELF FROM A STYLISH PERSON TO ONE WHO IS DEVOID OF STYLE AND THIS WOULD BE A TRULY MEANINGFUL CHANGE WITH RELEASE FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS, INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE, SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION AND FEAR.
What do you think mankind is doing?
One view is that mankind has made a big mess economically and financially in the past but now, having been stricken, he has seen the light and is taking meaningful measures that will result in recovery in due course, maybe not as fast as the bullish would have it.
Another view is that mankind has not changed at all since the crisis started, it was forced to take measures to ensure survival and is continuing on a path that will bring even further ruin and is on course for totally economic anarchy because it just does not understand what the problem is and what painful measures and sacrifices that must be made. The thieves and crooks are still at the helm and they are still making a lot of money and passing the shit to the people and so it is that sooner or later they will bring the world economy to ruin.
MANKIND IS INCAPABLE OF WORKING FOR THE COMMON GOOD AND THE PEOPLE AT THE HELM OF THE POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM ARE PEOPLE WITH NO CONSCIENCE OR CONCERN AND IT IS TO BE EXPECTED THAT THEY WILL FINALLY BRING EVERYTHING TO COLLAPSE.
JP Morgan may be dishonest:
It was apparently JP Morgan that pushed the Dow past 10,000.
According to this article, the worsening credit card and consumer lending is ignored and so its profitability may be hit in the future but they don’t care, as long as they report big profits and fat bonuses now, it is what matters.
Enemy at gates of JPMorgan’s 'fortress balance sheet'
Ian King: Business Commentary
So, with JPMorgan having shot out the lights with its third-quarter earnings statement, many will assume that the good times are back in the City and on Wall Street. The results, along with strong overnight earnings from Intel, the computer chip maker, certainly gave a lift to stock markets both in Britain and the US.
And, in again using his catchphrase “fortress balance sheet”, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, may have coined one of the most memorable expressions of the early post-credit crisis era. Except that isn’t quite the whole story. Yes, the headline earnings at JPMorgan were exceptional, thanks to surging revenue from bond trading, stock and bond underwriting and other investment banking activities.
Since this is where the big bonuses are made, it is natural that this should therefore grab most of the attention in Britain, particularly because investment banking is all JPMorgan does over here.
But look at the rest of the JPMorgan earnings statement and another picture emerges. For example, the bank’s consumer lending arm reported a net loss of $1 billion (£627 million), up from a loss of $659 million in the same period last year — when the financial crisis was at its height — and has had to increase its provision for credit losses from $2 billion a year ago to $3.8 billion.
The bank’s card services division also remains deep in the mire, even if net losses for the quarter, at $700 million, were down on the same period last year. Charge-offs, those loans that the bank has decided it has no chance of seeing repaid, are still rising and, in the quarter, accounted for 10.3 per cent of average outstanding credit card balances owed to the bank.
Worse still, Mr Dimon sees the picture on credit cards continuing to deteriorate, warning: “We know we are going to lose a lot of money in credit cards next year. It could be north of $1 billion the first and second quarter.”
On the same call with analysts, Mike Cavanagh, JPMorgan’s chief financial officer, refused to say that delinquency levels on consumer loans had peaked, something Wall Street had been desperate to hear.
None of this is especially good news. It also helps explain why, despite the entreaties of many in the investment banking world, the media and the public will continue to debate bankers’ bonuses and, in general, take a dim view of them.
For ordinary Americans, many of whom are struggling to repay their credit card debts or to hold on to their homes, the idea of folk on Wall Street coining in this way is deeply repellent — even if they work for banks, such as JPMorgan, that have repaid what they borrowed from taxpayers last year in order to stay afloat.
But Mr Dimon, who now enjoys what one newspaper this week described as “rock star status”, is not known as one of Wall Street’s most risk-averse bankers for nothing. Accordingly, he has tried to show greater sensitivity to the public mood, emphasising how JPMorgan has done its best to prevent mortgage foreclosures where possible. Significantly, he has also put less aside for bonuses in JPMorgan’s investment banking arm than in previous years as a proportion of turnover.
That, in turn, may put pressure on the likes of Goldman Sachs to do the same
Winning the next elections:
This is the title of an article.
The true purpose for participating in an election is not to win but to present your alternative to governing and it is up to voters to decide.
By talking about winning elections, you are unwittingly exposing your dishonesty, your purpose is to win, to gain political power and towards that ends you will employ whatever means, including cheating, lies or empty promises, briberies etc just to win.
THE TRUE PURPOSE OF PARTICIPATING IN ANY ELECTION IS NOT WINNING BUT PRESENTING YOUR ALTERNATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT. IF YOUR PURPOSE IS TO WIN YOU ARE UNWITTINGLY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU ARE IN POLITICS FOR GAINS, WHICH IS WHAT IT HAS DEGENERATED INTO, MONEY AND POWER GRABBING.
Whoever wins has already lost:
The Buddha is not interested in winning anything, neither is Jesus.
Whoever will be first will be last.
Without significant self identity and upholding it you would not desire to win anything and it is precisely because of a significant self identity view and attachment to gains that you want to win.
At the heart of the Buddha’s teachings is the renunciation of all gains, even heaven, for no further becoming and the end of all suffering.
Anyone interested in winning, plotting wins is headed for woe.
Tee Keat: I'm hurt
MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat says he feels hurt by the “change” in the people he considers his friends because of the “influence of political power.” Adding that though he has experienced many setbacks in politics, “what hurts me the most is the change in friendship”.
He is tacitly acknowledging he has false perception, what he perceived previously as true friends are false because they have turned against him. It is impossible these were true friends in the past who have changed to become enemies but even from the beginning they were friends of convenience out for gains and it is an acknowledgement he has poor judgment that he was deceived by these so called friends in the past who have now shown their true colours. He himself may not be blameless, he is as much a sinner as those who have deserted him.
If you admit you are hurt, it means you are headed for more hurt because only a compromised man pandering to others, depending on others can be hurt and hurt is conditioning such that even this hurt conditions himself further to future hurt that becomes increasingly easy to arouse to intense levels that gets harder to shake until it becomes insane hurt and that is never the way to heaven.
If a person never uses force to accelerate in speed and strength when he speaks or moves, it is impossible he can be hurt, if you must have style, you must use force to accelerate in speed and strength eg through stretched syllables then hurt is like a shadow that will never leave you, will grow longer with age and then swallow you into woe.
Dr Robia: Keep fit during the haj
MUAR: Muslims going to Mecca to perform the haj this year, especially children and the elderly, should keep themselves in good health as a protection against the Influenza A (H1N1).
You and she probably thinks she is right to say that, at least partially.
You and she is deluded and that is the pathway to woe.
It is not fitness, regular exercise, health food, good medicines or whatever that will keep you in good physical and mental health.
It is the avoidance of stress that kills both emanating from self and others that is the mandatory, only key to mental and physical health.
One avoids unnecessary stress due to self by paying attention not to use force that is unnecessary to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness that have equivalents in one’s motion. One avoids stress due to others by seclusion, avoiding others and sources of styled speech and motion from others.
IF YOU THINK KEEPING FIT IS THE KEY TO SURVIVING H1N1 WHEN IT IS NOT, THEN YOU ARE DELUDED AND THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO HEAVEN BUT BACK HERE NOT NECESSARILY AS HUMAN BUT FAR MORE LIKELY AS ANIMALS AND THE BUDDHA SAID THERE IS NOTHING MORE TORMENTING THAN HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB.
Sorry no jobs, this is California:
People read this, may pause to think or work out exactly what it means and they think it probably means that the job situation in California is so bad there are no jobs.
But this is not what the statement means, it means that there are no jobs because this is California and that is an absurd and false statement because there are no jobs available in California, only not enough to meet demand.
IF A STATEMENT IS TRUE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAUSE AND THINK WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN. IT IS ONLY WHEN A STATEMENT IS FALSE, TRYING TO BE MISCHIEVOUS OR TOO CLEVER THAT YOU HAVE TO PAUSE TO THINK OR INTERPRET WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS.
THUS THE PERSON WHO SPEAKS THUS IS SPEAKING FALSELY, IS NOT LETTING HIS YES BE YES ONLY BUT SPEAKING MORE THAT COMES FROM EVIL.
YOU LIKE TO BE WITTY BUT YOU MAY END UP EVEN IN HELL NOT A PARADISE OF WIT AS YOU DELUDEDLY PERCEIVE.
Looking away, a sign of dishonesty:
Looking away as the boy is doing and all stylish emotional people do when under strain is a certain sign of dishonesty and the person has no truth.
This is the child in the case of the faked runaway balloon.
People look away to avoid seeing the truth. Even though they suffer because of their dishonesty that creates tension, they have great aversion for seeing the truth which is why they never see the truth and they are kidding themselves if they think they sometimes see the truth.
Why people look away:
In usual circumstances people have so well perfected their ability to see but not see, to tell a lie or carry out a falsity without flinching or in danger of seeing through their own deceit, they can look into another’s eyes and tell a straight faced lie but there are circumstances where even their limits of pretence are tested and they then have to look away to avoid seeing the uncomfortable truth about their dishonesty or nastiness.
WHAT PEOPLE SEE ALWAYS IS THE FALSITY OR EMOTIONALITY (LIKEABILITY, DISLIKEABILITY, SADNESS, HURT, AGITATIVENESS AND FEAR) OF A SITUATION, THEY NEVER SEE (AS IT ACTUALLY IS) THE TRUTH OF THE SITUATION (EXCEPT IN THEIR DELUSION THEY CAN AND DO), THEY LOOK AT SOMETHING AND YET THEY NEVER SEE THE TRUTH OF SOMETHING BUT THEY ALWAYS SEE THE FALSITY (EG HOW FUNNY OR LIKEABLE OR DISLIKEABLE AN EVENT IS). OFTEN THEY HAVE ALREADY PERCEIVE WHAT IS FALSE/HARMFUL (EG THEIR STYLE) IS TRUE/BENEFICIAL AND IN SITUATIONS WHERE THERE THEIR WILL OR DETERMINATION TO SEE WHAT IS FALSE IS TRUE IS TESTED, THEY ARE ABLE TO STIR GREAT DETERMINATION TO LOOK YOU STRAIGHT IN YOUR EYES AND TELL A STRAIGHT FACE LIE OR DEED. BUT NO MATTER HOW ACCOMPLISHED AND DETERMINED THEY ARE TO NOT SEE THE TRUTH, THERE ARE SITUATIONS THAT DIFFER WITH DIFFERENT LIARS WHERE THEY BECOME UNCOMFORTABLE AND LOOK AWAY IN ORDER TO NOT CONFRONT THEIR FALSITY.
Ong Tee Keat: I will not betray the public trust:
It is always emotion and motive that is behind this statement that is not only totally unnecessary but has potential to incur grievous karma on him should he betray the public’s trust either advertently or inadvertently through pressures exerted by others. Even if UMNO exerts pressure on you and you then betray the public’s trust you have rendered what you promised false with karma attached that is far worse then you realize.
He is ignorant and foolish in not realizing he is putting his head on the chopping board.
There is no reason for anyone to make this extravagant claim that he will never betray the public’s trust and the motive is to falsely impress with his sincerity; that he should be kept as leader.
The facts of the case:
You hear people frequently berating another such, “The facts of the case are such and such” implying you are wrong (and stupid and bad) and I am correct (and smart or good).
WHAT THEY SHOULD SAY CORRECTLYARE THE EMOTIONS OF THE CASE, NOT THE FACTS OF THE CASE WHICH ARE MERELY ANCILLIARY, AN EXCUSE TO LAMBAST OR PUT DOWN ANOTHER. WHEN PEOPLE SPEAK OF THE FACTS OF THE CASE, THEY ARE SPEAKING ANGRILY, AGGRESSIVELY TO ATTACK ANOTHER AND SO IT IS NOT THE FACTS OF THE CASE THAT THEY ARE REFERRING TO BUT THEY ARE CAMOUFLAGING THEIR AROUSED RAGE AND URGE TO ATTACK USING SO CALLED ‘FACTS OF THE CASE’.
IT IS NEVER THE CALM, FORCE FREE EMOTION FREE FACTS OF THE CASE THAT PEOPLE ARE ADDRESSING WHEN THEY SPEAK THUS, BUT IT IS THEIR STIRRED EMOTIONS THAT IS THE DRIVE, EVEN IF THE FACTS OF THE CASE ARE RELATIVELY CORRECT.
Microsoft’s absurdity:
Do you notice that whenever you close Window’s internet explorer a message pops up asking you if you want to close all tabs?
If you did not close the tabs, how can you close the explorer?
The pertinent question should be ‘save all tabs’? but there is no provision for that and so it reflects how silly Microsoft is that it will ask you a silly question. Is it possible to close explorer without closing all tabs? Surely they should ask whether I want to save all tabs.
Obama’s look of hate:
If you know as it is what you are seeing then you should know what you are seeing above.
Obama is mulling, using force to prolong that is the route to sadness thence depression. There is hate in his eyes that may escape the knowledge of fellow sinners.
Anyone with this look in his eyes has ill will or hate which is one of three qualities (greed and delusion) that leads to death according to the Buddha.
It is possible not to harbour hate in your mind but that is not possible if you are a stylish emotional man wielding and exercising mental force constantly to fashion style and emotional expressions.
WHAT HE IS DOING ABOVE IS FOOLISH, HARMS HIMSELF AS WELL AS OTHERS AND THERE ARE STRICT LIMITS AS TO HOW UNDERSTANDING AND WISE HE CAN BE AND THUS THE WORLD IS NOT IN GOOD HANDS.
YOU CAN BLAME OTHERS FOR PROVOKING HATE IN YOU BUT YOU ARE STILL THE OWNER OF YOUR HATE THAT WILL TORMENT AND THEN DESTROY YOU.
Not cute but deadly sin:
You see the picture but you see a cute, ‘loveable’ girl.
I see a mischievous girl who is mis-conducting herself that is the path to pain, suffering, death and a return here not necessarily as humans, which according to the Buddha is a state hard to obtain.
Thus if I am correct, then you perceive but you perceive falsely.
Her scalp was apparently bitten off by a dog and you would perceive that as a terrible fate to befall an innocent lovely girl and you may be wrong again, what happened to her is to be expected of one who mis-conducts herself.
THUS IF YOU APPLAUD HER CONDUCT AS DEPICTED ABOVE, YOU MAY BE HEADED FOR WOE AND DEATH LIKE HER.
Tension not happiness is the cause of her actions:
What she is doing is meaningless, she is exercising mental and physical force for no useful purpose because of significant stirred tension or clashing mental forces in her mind, not because she is happy or what she is doing is natural.
The situation she is in is provocative, stirs mental forces that clash causing tension and her expressions are the product of that tension.
WHAT SHE IS DOING IS REHASHED, SHE HAS DONE THE SAME MANY TIMES BEFORE AND IT IS LIKELY CONDITIONED IN HER BY PARENTS. IT IS STIRRED TENSION OR CLASH OF MENTAL FORCES IN HER THAT DRIVES HER TO IRRESISTIBLY REHASH THUS IN THE FACE OF PROVOCATIVE SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND IT IS ALWAYS SUFFERING EVEN TORMENTING NEVER THE PLEASURE IT IS FALSELY PERCEIVED TO BE.
IT IS CONTROLLED INSANITY BECAUSE SHE IS DOING A LOT OF WORK THAT HAS NO PURPOSE.
Proton Savvy rated poorly by Mark Webber:
I just watched a video of Mark Webber F1 driver, driving the Savvy, Kia Picanto and Fiat Panda.
He thinks the Savvy has poor handling, under steers badly is unstable at high speed.
The Picanto is very refined even better than the expensive Fiat.
What recession? Apple’s profits soar 74%
He is cultivating false logic that will end in mad logic and one day his false logic may kill him.
Just because Apple’s profit has soared 74% does not mean there is no recession and the two have nothing to do with each other and because he perceives that because Apple’s profits have soared there is no recession he is training himself to make false conclusions that he may have to pay even with his life. If something is dangerous and you reason it is not, you can get killed.
WHAT HE SAID IS NOT BASED ON TRUTH OR UNDERSTANDING BUT DRIVEN BY EMOTION TO RIDICULE THE RECESSION.
Obama’s anguish:
Obama’s expression on his face is involuntary, seized by the intense arousing of mental force beyond his control, he cannot help his facial expression which is a complex of anger, even hate, pain, maybe sadness and bitterness.
ALL EMOTIONAL STYLISH PEOPLE ARE ONLY CONTROLLING THEIR MENTAL FORCES AND EMOTIONS WITH GREATER OR LESSER SUCCESS. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THEIR CONTROL IS STRAINED TO THE LIMITS OR THEY LOSE CONTROL AND GO BERSERK WHICH IS THEIR FINAL DESTINATION.
THE PERSON WITH NO STYLE OR EMOTION HAS NO WILD HORSES TO RESTRAIN UNDER HARNESS, IS NEVER IN DANGER OF BEING SWEPT AWAY BY AROUSED EMOTIONS THAT THEY MOMENTARILY CANNOT CONTROL AND THAT IS NEVER SUFFERING BUT EFFORTLESS PEACE OF MIND THAT LEADS TO HEAVEN AND THE DEATHLESS.
Obama is essentially hurt:
What Obama is essentially exposing beyond his control is his hurt.
There are only six emotions that may arise separately or together and they are like, dislike, sadness, hurt, agitation or confusion and fear.
Something has occurred or presented in his mind that causes his emotion of hurt to rise inexorably beyond his control not to show it publicly and faced with hurt the natural reaction of emotional people is to rebel or attack or stir hate or anger which he is also showing.
WHATEVER THE EMOTION OR EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION A PERSON IS SHOWING CAN ONLY BE SINGULARLY OR A MIXTURE OF SIX EMOTIONS, LIKE, DISLIKE, SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION AND FEAR.
IF YOU MUST HAVE STYLE, YOU MUST PLEASE AND IMPRESS OTHERS, YOU MUST GET HURT AND THAT IS ALWAYS PAINFUL NEVER HAPPINESS. WHERE THERE IS NO PLEASURE THERE IS NO HURT BECAUSE YOU NEED MILD FORCE TO EXPERIENCE PLEASURE AND THAT SAME FORCE THAT WHEN MILD IS PLEASURE IS ALSO THE SAME FORCE THAT WHEN INTENSE IS PAIN OR HURT. THUS WHOEVER YOU ARE, NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE IS A HIGHER PAIN FREE STATE OF EXISTENCE.
Stabbed by one’s own mental force:
Feeling hurt is just being stabbed by the accelerating speed and strength of one’s mental force triggered by something happening beyond one’s control.
Because accelerating speed and loudness is perceived as desirable by society, beings in this world have trained themselves to accelerate in speed and strength in whatever they say or do in order to impress and please others. As a result of this constant training of their mental force to accelerate in speed and strength in whatever they say or do, their mental forces have a strong automatism to accelerate in speed and strength that they must control.
But every now and then there occurs events idiosyncratic to that person that triggers their mental forces to accelerate in speed and strength beyond their control and that is experienced as ‘hurt’.
HURT IS MERELY THE INVOLUNTARY TRIGGERING OUT OF CONTROL OF THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE TO ACCELERATE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH CAUSED BY SOMETHING HAPPENING.
IF YOU NEVER TRAINED YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO CONSTANTLY ACCELERATE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT IT WOULD ON ITS OWN VOLITION WANT TO ACCELERATE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH. IF YOU CONSTANTLY TRAIN YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO ACCELERATE IN SPEED AND STRENGTH INSTEAD OF MAINTAINING CONSTANCY OF SPEED AND STRENGTH THEN HURT OR THE SHARP STAB OF YOUR ACCELERATING MENTAL FORCE IS YOUR LOT.
The world is a rope mankind is relentlessly cutting:
The world economy and world itself can be compared to a tough rope and mankind is relentlessly cutting at that rope.
Although there are tremors as the rope is near snapping, nothing much happens until the rope finally snaps and when it does, ‘all hell breaks loose’.
AND SO IT IS THAT ALL MAY APPEAR WELL OR THERE MAY BE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE DISASTER, ECONOMICAL OR ECOLOGICAL ENSUES BUT THE ROPE MAY BE CLOSE TO SNAPPING AND WHEN IT DOES SUDDENLY SNAP, IT WILL UNLEASH A FEROCIOUSNESS OF CHANGE THAT WILL STUN HEEDLESS GOATS. THAT TIME MAYBE FAR CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.
All it takes is a super-volcano eruption:
There are volcano and super-volcano eruptions which are very rare. Yellowstone Park in the US is on a super volcano site.
Lake Toba in Sumatra is the remains of a super-volcano eruption 10,000 years ago that nearly wiped out mankind.
As a result of melting ice (due to mankind not God’s wrath), the weight distribution is shifting such that the tectonic plates are moving and this may cause a new crack to appear or a super-volcano to erupt and that will swiftly change the scenario with earthquakes everywhere and the sun and stars will refuse to shine.
In the face of such uncertainty of the future, how does one protect oneself?
Pabbatopama Sutta: The Simile of the Mountains
Then King Pasenadi Kosala approached the Blessed One in the middle of the day. The Blessed One said to him: "Well now, great king, where are you coming from?"
"Just now, lord, I was engaged in the sort of royal affairs typical of head-anointed noble-warrior kings intoxicated with the intoxication of sovereignty, obsessed by greed for sensual pleasures, who have attained stable control in their country, and who rule having conquered a great sphere of territory on earth."
"What do you think, great king? Suppose a man, trustworthy, were to come to you from the east and say: ' I saw a great mountain, as high as the clouds, coming this way, crushing all living beings [in its path]. Do whatever you think should be done.' Then a second man were from the west... a third man from the north... a fourth man from the south and say: ' I saw a great mountain, as high as the clouds, coming this way, crushing all living beings. Do whatever you think should be done.' If, your majesty, such a great peril should arise, what should be done?"
"If, lord, such a great peril should arise, what else should be done but Dhamma-conduct, right conduct, skillful deeds, meritorious deeds?"
"I inform you, great king,: aging and death are rolling in on you. Great king, what should be done?"
" In this royal court there is abundant bullion stored in vaults, and with such wealth we are capable of buying off enemies when they come; but there is no use, no scope for them, when aging and death are rolling in.
"So it is, great king! As aging and death are rolling in on you, what else should be done but Dhamma-conduct, right conduct, skillful deeds, meritorious deeds?"
That is what the Blessed One said. He further said this:
Like massive boulders,
mountains pressing against the sky,
moving in from all sides,
crushing the four directions,
so aging and death come rolling over living beings:
noble warriors, priests, merchants,
workers, outcastes, & scavengers.
They spare nothing. They trample everything.
Here elephant troops can hold no ground,
nor can chariots or infantry,
nor can a battle of wits or wealth win out.
So a wise person, seeing his own good,
steadfast, secures confidence
in the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha.
One who practices the Dhamma
in thought, word, & deed,
receives praise here on earth
and after death rejoices in heaven.
How do you perceive?
Faced with someone smiling like this, what do you perceive or understand what you are perceiving?
If you say you don’t know what it is that you are perceiving then you are a fool who does not know what he perceives.
If you perceive her smiling as meaningful, she is expressing her happiness or friendliness then you may be right or wrong.
I say her smile is not only a meaningless rehashed exercising of her mental force and facial muscles, it sinfully incites others to stir their mental forces to be attracted (or repulsed, there will be some who will hate her smile), it creates stress, restlessness and distraction for herself and is the path to certain insanity.
THUS IF YOU PERCEIVE DIFFERENTLY FROM ME THEN IF I AM CORRECT YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION OF WHAT IS EVIL IS GOOD AND PERCEIVING FALSELY YOU UNDERSTAND FALSELY AND THEREFORE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
WHAT SHE IS DOING, SMILING IS MEANINGLESS, NEITHER GOOD FOR HERSELF OR OTHERS BUT INSTEAD HARM HERSELF AND OTHERS AND SHE IS HEADED FOR WOE.
It is possible not to stir one’s mental force:
It is possible to train and develop one’s mind or concentration such that one’s mental force is not stirred at all by whatever is happening and this is the consciousness state wherein there is neither pain nor pleasure and rather than boredom it is the incomparable release from suffering of constant pain and pleasure.
Nowadays I can centre my mind such that I can hear the roar of traffic and not be perturbed or pained or distressed by it. I still hear and see but what I hear and see causes no distress nor pleasure and it is a blissful assured state of mind that I prefer compared to the past roiling of pain and pleasure.
Pleasure is scant reward, even suffering itself compared to the pain that can and will reach intense, excruciating proportions that you cannot avoid as a result of your pursuit of pleasure.
PLEASURE CAN NEVER REACH GREAT INTENSITIES BECAUSE IT IS MERELY MILD FORCE THAT GIVES PLEASURE AND NO MATTER HOW MILD, IT CAN ONLY GIVE SO MUCH SHALLOW PLEASURE.
BY CONTRAST BECAUSE IT IS INTENSE CONCENTRATED FORCE THAT GIVES PAIN, THERE IS VIRTUALLY LIMITLESS INTENSITY TO WHICH PAIN CAN REACH AND SO THE WISE PERSON WILL GLADLY FORSAKE PALTRY PLEASURES FOR NO FURTHER PAINS.
PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE STATE OF MIND WHEREIN THERE IS NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE AND SO THEY DO NOT REALIZE IT IS AN INCOMPARABLY SUPERIOR SANER MODE OF EXISTENCE THAN PAIN AND PLEASURE EXISTENCE.
Are you a slave or master of your mental force?
If you have mental force and you do not see or realize it then you are a great fool.
If you can perceive you have mental force and you think you are its master when you are the slave then you are deluded.
No one is a master of his mental force but he is the slave. It is mental force that dictates and pulls the puppet strings on those who harbour and worship their mental forces that they treat as their greatest friend when it will seize them painfully and finally kill them mercilessly.
IF YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR MENTAL FORCE, HOW COME YOU CANNOT HELP IT BEING STIRRED BY THINGS HAPPENING TO BE ATTRACTED, REPELLED, SAD, HURT, AGITATED OR FEARFUL? IF YOU ARE TRULY THE MASTER THEN IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DECIDE THIS TIME I WILL BE STIRRED, NEXT TIME I WILL NOT.
NOT ONLY CAN THEY NOT HELP EXPERIENCING FORCE (AS PLEASURE AND PAIN), THEY CANNOT HELP THEIR MENTAL FORCES STIRRED BY THINGS TO LIKE, DISLIKE, BE SAD, HURT, CONFUSED AND FEARFUL, THEY FURTHER CANNOT HELP AUTOMATICALLY EXERCISING THEIR MENTAL FORCES TO STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
THUS IF YOU PERCEIVE YOU ARE A MASTER OF YOUR MENTAL FORCE AND IT IS YOUR SLAVE YOU MAY BE RIGHT OR YOU ARE A FOOL WITH FALSE PERCEPTION. YOUR MENTAL FORCE IS NO FRIEND, IT IS EVIL AND BLIND, WILL TORMENT YOU AND FINALLY KILL YOU WITHOUT MERCY.
Crossing is very difficult and very few cross to safety:
85. Few among men are those who cross to the farther shore. The rest, the bulk of men, only run up and down the hither bank.
86. But those who act according to the perfectly taught Dhamma will cross the realm of Death, so difficult to cross.
What the Buddha is saying above that you ignore at your own peril is that crossing to the deathless is very difficult and most men just run up and down this side of death.
96. Calm is his thought, calm his speech, and calm his deed, who, truly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise.
97. The man who is without blind faith, who knows the Uncreate, who has severed all links, destroyed all causes (for karma, good and evil), and thrown out all desires -- he, truly, is the most excellent of men.
British Airways boss says people only fly because they have to
This is an unnecessary and false statement that many reading accept as valid.
Even in today’s economic climate, there will still be people who fly not because they have to.
He can rightfully say that passenger numbers are down, people don’t fly as much as they used to but to ascribe a reason, that they only fly if they have to is speaking without knowing what you say is true because it is impossible to ascertain that people are flying now because they need to and it is impossible that all people flying today fly because of necessity.
A LOT OF TRAVEL TODAY AS IN THE PAST IS UNNECESSARY, ON FLIMSY OR FALSE REASONS AND SO IT IS ALWAYS FALSE TO SAY THEY ARE FLYING BECAUSE THEY NEED TO.
SUCH REASONINGS ARE NOT HARMLESS BECAUSE EACH TIME YOU DO SO, YOU ARE TRAINING YOURSELF TO EXPLAIN THINGS FALSELY THAT MAY BE FATAL FOR YOU ONE DAY. WRONG EXPLANATIONS CAN KILL YOU.
Teoh inquest: 80pc chance of homicide, says Thai expert (Update)
(Either she is being diplomatic or lying or she has false perception because it is either homicide or not. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, the bizarre hours of interrogation, the past gross abuses of other detainees and it is extremely unlikely Teoh would be in such haste to commit suicide that he cannot wait to go home to do it, and the fact that there are blunt injuries to his head, strangulation neck marks and anal injuries not sustainable in a fall, the conclusion must be foul play not 80% homicide. Why would Teoh want to penetrate his anus before his fall?)
SHAH ALAM: There is an 80% chance that the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock was caused by homicide, the coroner’s court was told Wednesday.
Based on her examination of the autopsy reports and pictures of the site, Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand said she believed there is only a 20% chance that Teoh had committed suicide.
Testifying at the inquest into Teoh’s death, Dr Pornthip said that not all injuries on the body were consistent with a fall from a height.
She said that marks around his neck could mean that he was strangled, while the injury to his anus was caused by penetration with an object before his fall.
His skull fracture was not typical of an injury from a fall but was more compatible with blunt force being applied directly to the skull, she said.
She said that Teoh was probably alive when he hit the ground but may have been unconscious before the fall.
Dr Pornthip told court she has conducted more than 10,000 autopsies, of which about 100 dealt with fatal falls from a high place.
She put the time of death at between 6am and 8am, July 16.
Why it must be not may be homicide:
Is it true there are blunt skull injuries, neck strangulation marks and anal injuries present?
Can these injuries be explained by the fall?
If it is not possible for the fall to explain these separate injuries, it is highly unlikely if not impossible that three different injuries inconsistent with a fall should occur at the same time as a fatal fall to explain Teoh’s death.
THESE INTERROGATORS ARE WORSE THAN ANIMALS, THERE IS NO CALL TO MANHANDLE ANYONE LIKE THIS, SUBJECT HIM TO ANAL ASSAULT IN THE NAME OF EXTRACTING CONFESSIONS OF CORRUPTION. REMEMBER PRISON WARDENS FORCING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO MASS MASTURBATE EACH OTHER IN PUBLIC AND THE EXTENT OF DEBAUCHERY IN THIS SO CALLED CIVILISED COUNTRY WILL BE REALIZED.
How Citibank made a profit:
Quote: The bank was able to report a small profit for the three months to September 30 because of an $851 million gain from turning $25 billion of its $45 billion government bailout into a 34 per cent taxpayer-owned stake in the bank.
It is something like the profit from underwriting the conversion of government money into shares in the bank.
German 'Wise Men' fear credit crunch in 2010
Germany's leading institutes have warned that the pace of economic recovery is "unsustainable" and that the country's banks may face a fresh crisis over the next year as bad debts surface in earnest.
'There is still a significant risk of further shocks to the international financial system,' said a joint report by the five 'Wise Men', a panel that advises the government.
Emergency action by the European Central Bank and authorities worldwide "averted a looming collapse" of Germany's banks over the Winter but lenders are still too frail to renew normal lending.
"Credit to non-financial firms has clearly been declining. Financial conditions are likely to worsen further. Banks are facing large write-offs on toxic debt and a rising toll of company insolvencies," it said.
The report said it was a serious error to pressure banks to raise capital ratios in the middle of a downturn, causing them to tighten lending standards. "There is a major danger that already tight financing conditions could lead to a credit crunch next year," it said.
The first round of the financial crisis hit the big banks and state Landesbanken, which had portfolios on US sub-prime debt and other traded assets,. The next wave of victims may be the country's savings banks faced with the 'slow-burn' losses of loan defaults.
Large companies can raise money on the bond markets but smaller Mittelstand family firms are facing serious problems rolling over debt.
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