Thinking is always suffering compared with not thinking:
In
order to think you must put your mind to work and that is always suffering
because it requires activating force.
Not
to think is always not suffering compared to thinking because your mind is
truly at rest, not working because thinking is work.
Further
if your thinking is unnecessary, frivolous silly dingdong or fantasizing, you
are actually practicing controlled insanity that will end with loss of control
and uncontrollable runaway mad thinking.
Thus
if it is possible for you to walk from here to there without a thought crossing
your mind and far from dumb, it is incomparably saner and peaceful presence of
mind, and you think it is impossible, you have wrong view or are deluded.
If
it is possible to stop thinking and you cannot, you are a slave to thinking,
not a master of thinking.
IF
THINKING IS SUFFERING THAT CAN REACH TORMENTING LEVELS THEN THE PERSON WHO IS A
SLAVE OF THINKING HAS ONLY NON THINKING AS A REFUGE AND ESCAPE AND IF HE DOES
NOT SEEK IT, HE IS HEADED FOR SUFFERING EVEN TORMENT.
Mahathir: 9/11 was staged
KUALA LUMPUR: There is strong evidence that the Sept 11 attacks on the
United States that killed nearly 3,000 could have been “staged” as an excuse to
mount attacks on the Muslim world, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Unless
you saw or knew what you say is true, you are courting certain madness if you
say it. Even if you guessed correct, it will condition you to take bets that
will end in disaster one day apart from certain mad logic and perception that
you know what you didn’t.
THUS
EVEN IF DR M IS CORRECT, IF HE IS SPECULATING, HE IS HEADED FOR MADNESS.
IT
REFLECTS ADVANCED FALSE PERCEPTION AND LOGIC THAT HE REASONS AND PERCEIVES WHAT
IS QUITE FAR FETCHED AND EVEN IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE AND TRUE.
HE
IS NOT MAD YET AND HE DOES NOT REALIZE THE TORMENT OF MADNESS IS TERRIBLE AND
AWAITS HIM.
The folly of “I think”:
Many
people think they have safeguarded themselves from blame when they say, “I
think he did it” meaning they are not sure but they suspect he did it.
IT
IS DELUSION TO THINK THAT YOUR “I THINK” EXONERATES YOU FROM BLAME IF WHAT YOU
SAID TURNS OUT FALSE. REMIND YOURSELF THAT EVERY TIME YOU SPEAK WITHOUT SEEING
AND KNOWING WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE, YOU ARE CONDITIONING YOURSELF TO DOUBT AND
UNCERTAINTY (ONE OF THREE LOWER FETTERS TO FUTURE WOE), IT IS NOT BLAMELESS BUT
BLAMEWORTHY TO VENTURE TO SAY SOMETHING AS IF YOU KNEW WHEN YOU DID NOT.
THUS
IN ORDER NOT TO RISK YOUR HEAD ON THE CHOPPER BOARD (JESUS SAID YOU WILL BE JUDGED
FOR EVERY CARELESS WORD YOU SAY), REMIND YOURSELF EVERY TIME YOU ARE TEMPTED TO
SPEAK AND COVER YOURSELF BY SAYING ‘I THINK’.
Chocolates to die for:
It
is impossible the person meant what he said that the chocolates are worth dying
for but he is foolishly trying to deceive others that the chocolates are so
good it is worth dying for not realizing he may be setting himself for just
that, dying for chocolates.
The
wise person does not make bets and does not say things he know is not true and
it is impossible that he knows he is willing to die for the chocolates as a
result of which he is foolishly setting himself for unnecessary suffering even
death in the future.
SUPPOSE
YOU CAN BE BORN A RAT OR COCKROACH MAKING A BEELINE FOR SOME CHOCOLATES AND YOU
GET KILLED, THEN TRULY AS YOU SAID, THE CHOCOLATES ARE WORTH DYING FOR.
Church attacks orchestrated not acts of passion:
Why
is it possible to conclude that church attacks are orchestrated and not random
acts of passion by disgruntled people?
The
fact that the office of the lawyer of the church who won the case was broken
into and damaged indicates those responsible are not ordinary people but
knowledgeable and want to inflict damage on all those involved in the issue.
Further that there were quite a number of attacks indicate there is either
widespread upset or it is organized by a few well connected people.
THUS
THE FACT THAT THE OFFICE OF THE LAWYER OF THE CHURCH WAS VANDALIZED AND MANY
CHURCHES WERE ATTACKED INDICATES THIS IS AN ORCHESTRATED CAMPAIGN BY PEOPLE
CONVERSANT WITH THE AFFAIR AND TARGETTING PERCEIVED ENEMIES.
YOU
CAN UNDERSTAND EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ATTACKING CHURCHES WHICH ARE VISIBLE BUT HOW
MANY WOULD KNOW THE LAWYER INVOLVED AND WHERE HIS OFFICE IS?
Scurrilous:
The
church attacks could either be the spontaneous unrelated expressions of rage
amongst Muslims or it could be the work of a group who may want to exploit the
issue by uniting the Malays with them, causing a religious schism between
muslims and Christians and in the process blaming the Malays for the fires when
it is not the Malays but these puppeteers who are to blame. There is horrendous
karma for those involved.
There
are no perfect crimes and even without seeing the discerning person can, using
true specific to the occasion reasoning work that it is an orchestrated
campaign with masterminds.
If
they are spontaneous expressions of emotions, the targets will be churches not
the office of the lawyer.
If
on the other hand if there was an orchestrator, he will know the case quite
well and decide to target the lawyer’s office not realizing that it is a
giveaway, exposes that what happened is staged. Few lay people will know who
the lawyers are let alone where his office is.
THE
TARGET OF RAGE IS SOMETHING VISIBLE AND OPPOSITE YOUR CREED, AND THAT MEANS
CHURCHES, NOT THE LAWYER’S OFFICE. UPSET PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN LAWYERS,
THEY ARE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING THEIR PERCEIVED ENEMIES OR HATRED AND THAT
MEANS VISIBLE OBJECTS LIKE CHURCHES NOT LAWYERS’ OFFICES HIDDEN UPSTAIRS.
TO
DO SCURRILOUS DEEDS SO THAT MALAYS WILL BE WRONGLY BLAMED FOR IT IS ITSELF
SERIOUS KARMA AND THIS DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND DIVISIVENESS OF RELIGIONS
AND RACE CAN SEND THOSE INVOLVED TO HELL.
China's economy grew by 8.7% in 2009, setting it on course
to become the world's second-largest, behind that of the US.
To
deluded people this is good news, a cue for stocks to surge but the truth may
be it is bad news.
Growth
is not necessarily a good thing and an elephant is much more difficult to
sustain than a mouse. It is the earth that ultimately sustains all life on
earth and it far easier to sustain a mouse than elephant or dinosaur and so the
bigger China’s economy is, the more precarious it is, even if it was not based
on froth but true productivity.
Further,
a lot of the growth may be illusory, reflects asset price inflation and foreign
hot money coming to boost the economy. A lot of the foreign exchange China
earned may not belong to China but multinationals who use it as a base just as
a lot of Malaysia’s export earnings are not truly Malaysia’s.
IF
CHINA'S ECONOMY GREW FROM BEING A MOUSE TO AN ELEPHANT IT IS MORE VULNERABLE TO
SETBACKS THAN IF IT WAS SMALL.
PEOPLE
ARE THRILLED BY SUCH NEWS BUT THRILLING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNDERSTANDING,
IT IS JUST A BLIND HARMFUL STIRRING OF MENTAL FORCE TO LIKE IT.
MCA
Youth slams Lim for not having probe into dragon boat tragedy
BUTTERWORTH: The Bagan division MCA Youth has hit out at Penang Chief
Minister Lim Guan Eng for failing to conduct any investigation into the dragon
boat tragedy which claimed six lives in Macallum Street Ghaut on Sunday.
It
may be right that Lim Guan Eng is incompetent and showing dereliction of duty
not ordering a probe or it may be a knee jerk standard protocol or ritual of
previous governments for the sake of public consumption to announce probes.
THERE
IS NO SUCH AS YOU MUST ORDER A PROBE OR YOU ARE BAD OR IRRESPONSIBLE. YOU ORDER
PROBES TO DISCOVER THE CAUSES AND REMEDIES, NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO, A
LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE THEY ARE ROBOTS, THEY DO THINGS BECAUSE IT IS
EXPECTED OF THEM OR IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE LIKE THIS NOT BECAUSE THERE IS A
SPECIFIC TO THE OCCASION NEED FOR A PROBE.
The first higher state of mind:
If
a person can effortlessly, at will
perceive (see, hear, smell, taste, touch) without using force to stretch or
prolong, change speed and strength, he has attained the first higher state of
mind that the Buddha said is the way to one eon or Age in heaven as an angel.
Anyone
who has achieved fully conscious absence of thinking has achieved the second
higher state of mind which is more blissful than the first and accords that
being two eternities in heaven.
Anyone
who has achieved neither stirring his mental force to be attracted to (like) or
repulsed (dislike) by anything perceived has attained the third higher state of
mind that is higher than no thinking and accords that being four eternities in
heavenly existence.
Anyone
who has further tuned his mind such that he experiences neither pain (only
force can cause pain) nor pleasure (only contact with mild to moderate force
can cause pleasure) has attained the fourth higher mental state that accords
that being 500 eternities in heavenly existence.
There
is ordinary emotional stylish state of mind which is characterized by the
constant unnecessary use of force to prolong, change speed and strength that is
the essence of style, constant thinking, constant liking and disliking,
constant contact with pleasure (less often) and pain (more often, stress,
restlessness and distraction is pain).
THERE
ARE NO OTHER HIGHER STATES OF MIND EXCEPT THOSE DESCRIBED BY THE BUDDHA. ANYONE
WHO DOES NOT USE FORCE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH HAS ACHIEVED THE
FIRST HIGHER STATE, ANYONE WHO CAN FULLY CONSCIOUS NOT THINK HAS ACHIEVED THE
SECOND, ANYONE WHOSE MENTAL FORCE IS NEITHER STIRRED TO LIKE OR DISLIKE HAS ACHIEVED
THE THIRD, ANYONE WHO EXPERIENCES NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE HAS ACHIEVED THE
FOURTH.
Why there are no other higher states of mind:
There
are various gurus and yogins (eg Transcendental meditation by M Yogi) who teach
how to attain bliss and higher states of the mind without achieving any of the
higher states described by the Buddha. For example if the Maharishi speaks with
style or use of force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness, he has
not even achieved the first higher state of mind so how can TM that he
practices and wants to teach others achieve any true higher states of mind?
WITHOUT
PUTTING TO A STOP ALL (UNNECESSARY FOR SHOW) USE OF FORCE TO PROLONG, CHANGE
SPEED, CHANGE LOUDNESS YOU CANNOT ATTAIN FULLY CONSCIOUS NO THINKING LEADING TO
NEITHER LIKING NOR DISLIKING AND FINALLY NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE. WITHOUT
ATTAINING ANY OF THESE CLEARLY DEFINED INDISPUTABLE STATES THERE CAN BE NO
HIGHER STATE OF YOUR MIND EXCEPT IN DELUSION.
Why
is it that there can be no other higher states of the mind except these
described by the Buddha?
However
wonderful you might (falsely) perceive existence is, it boils down to these
four things that the Buddha taught, namely perceiving (seeing, hearing,
smelling, tasting and touch), thinking, speaking and actions.
THUS
THERE ARE FOUR ACTIVITIES OF THE MIND, NAMELY PERCEIVING, THINKING, SPEAKING
AND DOING AND IT IS FORCE ACTING ON THE PERSON’S MIND VIA THESE ACTIVITIES THAT
DETERMINE THE STATE OF THE BEING’S MIND. THE MORE AND UNNECESSARY FORCE ACTING
ON THAT BEING’S MINDS OR ACTIVITIES, THE LOWER HIS STATE OF MIND AND IT IS THE
PROGRESSIVE LIFTING OF FORCE IN STAGES THAT DETERMINE HIS ESCAPE TO THE HIGHER
STATES OF MIND.
Thus
the mind that is characterized by rampant constant totally unnecessary use of
force to fashion style (prolonging, changing speed and strength) that is for
show to impress, please, deceive, intimidate and dominate is the lowest of the
lot and the most under the spell of blind harmful force.
If
a person can stop all use of force to fashion style, he has attained the first
higher state, if he can stop thinking (driven by force, uses force), he has
attained the second state, if his mental force is neither stirred to be
attracted or repulsed by whatever happens, he has achieved the third and finally
if he has tuned his consciousness to experience no force, neither pain nor
pleasure he has fully liberated himself from force and has attained the highest
state.
IT
IS FORCE ACTING ON A CONSCIOUSNESS (AND NOTHING ELSE) THAT DETAINS IT, CAUSES
SUFFERING AND THE MORE FORCE MORE CONSTANTLY ACTING ON THAT MIND, THE LOWER IT
IS AND THEREFORE THE LESS FORCE LESS CONSTANTLY ACTING ON THAT MIND, THE HIGHER
THE STATE OF THAT MIND.
BECAUSE
IT IS FORCE ACTING ON THE MIND THAT INFLUENCES ITS MENTAL STATE AND THE FORCE
LIFTED PROGRESSIVELY FROM THAT MIND THAT DETERMINES ITS ELEVATION AND ESCAPE
FROM SUFFERING, THERE CAN BE NO OTHER (TRUE) MENTAL STATES EXCEPT THOSE
DESCRIBED BY THE BUDDHA.
Smoking pot to achieve higher states of the mind:
People
smoke pot (marijuana, LSD, use heroin), consume various wild mushrooms to
achieve higher states of the mind but these are delusion because these are all
chemicals and chemicals can only act by chemical reactions with the brain cells
and chemical reactions are force releasing reactions and so using LSD, heroin
is subjecting the mind to force that detains and harms it, what they call
higher states are hallucinations or false perceptions of reality induced by
force by these chemicals like LSD.
HIGHER
STATES OF THE MIND CAN NEVER BE INDUCED BY USING CHEMICALS LIKE LSD BECAUSE
THESE ACT BY CHEMICAL REACTIONS THAT ARE FORCE REACTIONS OR FURTHER SUBJECTING
THAT MIND TO FORCE WHICH IS BLIND AND BLINDING.
Again
there are deluded people like those who practice yoga and taichi who think they
can achieve emancipation from suffering and higher mental states by putting
their bodies to various contortions or ritualized patterns of motion. All these
are subjecting the mind to force that is detention rather than release.
Yet
again there are those who chant various mantras that are useless. Not only are
these mantras useless, they are always chanted with constant use of force to
stretch, change speed and loudness and that is precluding even the first higher
state of mind.
BECAUSE
THERE ARE ONLY FOUR ACTIVITIES OF ANY MIND (PERCEIVING, THINKING, SPEAKING AND
DOING) AND IT IS FORCE (AND NOTHING ELSE) ACTING ON THE MIND (ONLY FORCE CAN
ACT, WITHOUT FROCE THERE CAN BE NO ACTION) OR CONSCIOUSNESS THAT DETERMINES THE
STATE OF THE MIND, ANY RELEASE OF THE MIND TO PROGRESSIVELY HIGHER STATES MUST
COME THROUGH THE PROGRESSIVE WEANING OFF FORCE FROM ITS USAGE IN THE FOUR
ACTIVITIES (PERCEIVING, THINKING, SPEAKING AND DOING), IN STOPPING THOSE
ACTIVITIES (NO THINKING), IN STIRRING LIKE AND DISLIKE AND IN TUNING OUT NOT TO
EXPERIENCE ANY FORCE (NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE).
Higher states must confer less suffering:
Of
what use is any higher state of the mind if it does not confer appreciably less
suffering and improves the seeing so that the being sees more and see things
clearly as they are?
OF
WHAT USE IS ANY POSSIBLE HIGHER MENTAL STATE IF IT DOES NOT CONFER LESS
SUFFERING AND IMPROVES SEEING?
And
it is force and nothing else that can detain a being in suffering and force
distorting the being’s perceptions that make him unable to see things clearly
as they truly are and see much fewer things. It is force through like and
dislike that makes him see selectively, prejudicially things that he likes and
avoid or refuse to see things that he dislikes or hates.
THEREFORE
ANY POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE HIGHER STATES OF THE MIND MUST ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF
FORCE ACTING ON THAT MIND.
NEITHER
PAIN NOR PLEASURE IS THE HIGHEST STATE BECAUSE EVEN THE PERCEPTION OF FORCE
THAT IS REQUIRED TO EXPERIENCE PAIN AND PLEASURE HAS BEEN TUNED OUT.
CONSTANTLY
STYLISH IS THE LOWEST STATE IN WHICH FORCE IS CONSTANTLY UNNECESSARILY ABUSED
TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH AUTOMATICALLY IN EVERYTHING THE PERSON
PERCEIVES, THINKS, SPEAKS AND DOES.
The hierarchy of fabrications:
There
are four fabrications of the mind namely perceiving, thinking speaking and
doing.
Of
these, perceiving is primary or the highest with thinking next which precedes
speaking and doing which are the lowest or most base of all the fabrications of
the mind. Thinking precedes speaking and doing and the person who can cease
thinking can cease doing and speaking.
Thus
the first fundamental step in exiting the world of suffering or achieving the
first higher state of mind is to eliminate all the totally unnecessary for show
mindless incessant use of force to fabricate style or prolonging, changing
speed and strength of force in all that being’s perceptions, thinking, speaking
and doing.
Because
thinking is lower than perceiving and it is the forebear of speaking and doing,
the next significant step in the exiting from suffering is the ability to stop
thinking that presages speaking and doing. Once the person is capable of
stopping thinking, what remains is his perceptions.
His
remaining perception can still stir his mental force to be attracted to or
repelled and thus the next significant step away from suffering is to eliminate
all stirring of his mental force to his perceptions, namely neither liking nor
disliking.
After
eliminating liking and disliking, he can still experience force in his
perceptions as pain and pleasure and so the final divorce from force is to tune
his perception such that it no longer receives force, he perceives without pain
nor pleasure.
Tkl
For
God's sake, blog!, pope tells priests
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - For God's sake, blog! Pope Benedict told priests on
Saturday, saying they must learn to use new forms of communication to spread
the gospel message.
It
is NEVER for God’s sake that you should blog but it is for people’s sake that
you should blog.
If
you perceive there is no difference between my version and the alleged pope’s
version then you may be right or have false understanding.
IF
YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND, HOW COME YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AND
HEARING?
What do you mean by sake?
When
you speak of sake, you should understand what you are talking about. So what do
you mean by God’s ‘sake’?
By
sake it is meant benefit or wellbeing. God does not need benefit or wellbeing
but people are suffering and need benefit and wellbeing and so one
understanding speaks of people’s sake rather than God’s sake.
It
sounds moving or touching ‘for God’s sake’ but it is false. Did God tell you it
is for His sake that you should blog?
The Buddha taught for the world’s sake:
When
a brahma (heavenly being higher than angels) saw that the Buddha newly
enlightened was inclined on seclusion, not to teach, he appeared before the
Buddha and implored the Buddha three times to teach, for the world is lost.
When
the Buddha agreed to teach he said open are the doors to the deathless, He
taught not for the sake of himself, not for the sake of God but for the sake of
beings who are perishing and tormented.
WITHOUT
ASKING GOD AND GOD SAYING IT IS FOR HIS SAKE YOU SHOULD BLOG, A PERSON SPEAKING
RIGHTFULLY SHOULD NOT SAY SO BUT LOGICALLY SPEAKING, IT IS FOR THE PEOPLE’S
SAKE THAT YOU SHOULD BLOG TO TEACH.
For God’s sake, hurry!
What
the person mean (that he never said) is that he is angry and wants to mock at
being kept waiting and he did not mean what he said that it is for God’s sake
that you should hurry.
YOU
MIGHT THINK IT APT AND APPROPRIATE BUT A PERSON WHO SPEAKS THUS NEVER MEANS
WHAT HE SAYS (THAT YOU SHOULD HURRY FOR GOD’S SAKE), NEVER SAYS WHAT HE MEANT
(HE IS UPSET AND WANTS TO MOCK) AND IS HEADED EVEN FOR PERDITION NOT HEAVEN.
AND
SO YOU MAY SEE THAT TRUTH IS NOT SOMETHING EXOTIC THAT PEOPLE CANNOT SEE BUT IT
IS EVERYDAY SIMPLE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES AND EARS THINGS PEOPLE SAY AND
DO THAT THEY PERCEIVE AND UNDERSTAND AS TRUE WHEN IT IS FALSE.
Delaying & worsening the reckoning:
There
may be a parallel between what is happening at Manchester United debt wise and
the world economy.
Manchester
United is under pressure because of its serious debts that it cannot pay and
must refinance which is piling on further debts (£54 million in fees) on top of
the existing debt.
What
is happening is delaying the reckoning in the hope that the means will found in
the future to solve the debt problems. What if income collapses as a result of
recession then the mounting debts is like a tightening noose.
THE GLAZER family
are planning to spend another £54million of Manchester United's cash to fight
their huge debt.
The figure represents fees and charges incurred as part of an
operation to raise £500m through a bond issue to give the club breathing space.
The unpopular owners had to pay £15m to investment bankers and
lawyers just to set up the bond issue.
They then had to splash another £39m as a charge for
effectively refinancing their debt.
The figures come with the club having recently announced they
are £716m in debt.
This £54m just adds to that, with the club having to find an
initial £11m payment off this new bill while the rest has been deferred.
News in the bond prospectus that the Glazers could sell Old
Trafford and their Carrington training base sparked another wave of fans'
protests.
There were anti-Glazer banners and chants of "Glazer
out" during Saturday's 4-0 win over Hull.
Some fans also had green and gold scarves and banners, which
are the colours of the new protest movement. They represent colours the club
had in its original form as Newton Heath.
United boss Alex Ferguson addressed fans in his programme
notes.
Fergie said: "The family of Manchester United is now
under pressure as a result of the issues surrounding the ownership and
financial situation.
"Some of our fans are unhappy with our financial
position, but we mustn't allow the situation to become divisive.
"The danger is that we could be presented as being split,
which would be harmful and inaccurate. The vast majority of fans are behind
us."
Why I love older women:
The
person is speaking falsely and deluded.
It
is not because a woman is older or younger or whatever that she is lovable. The
only true reason she is lovable is because she is lovable and what he is
talking about is fascination, attraction, lust not love.
Just
because a woman is old does not make her lovable to anyone including the
speaker. It is not age that makes a person lovable and if you think that older
women are more lovable you may have false perception that will end in mad
perception. What he has is a fetish just some men have fetishes for rubber or
leather or panties.
Non
specific and about qualities:
When
people say they love older women, they are saying they love certain qualities
in women, in this case, age, not a woman specifically.
If
you love a woman specifically for whom she is, then aren’t you silly to speak
in general about loving older women?
WHEN
A PERSON SPEAKS ABOUT LOVE FOR OLDER WOMEN, HE IS SAYING HE IS LOOKING FOR
CERTAIN QUALITIES, IT IS NOT A WOMAN IN PARTICULAR THAN HE LOVES BUT IT IS
CERTAIN QUALITIES EG BEAUTY AND IN THIS CASE AGE THAT IS THE ATTRACTION THAT IS
BLIND FORCE STIRRING THAT CANNOT LAST AND IS FICKLE.
You can only love a person not qualities:
You
can only love a person, not qualities and old age is a quality.
You
can only be attracted to qualities and old age is a quality that some men are
attracted to and so what he called love is not love but attraction or fetish.
THUS
A PERSON CAN RIGHTFULLY SAY, ‘WHY I LOVE SO AND SO’ AND THE REASONS HE GIVES
MAY BE UNDERSTANDABLE OR NOT BUT IT IS ALWAYS FALSE TO SAY ‘WHY I LOVE OLDER WOMAN’
WHICH IS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO QUALITIES NOT LOVE FOR A PERSON.
Words can be unbelievably expensive:
Here
is one occasion when ‘unbelievable’ is said truly because people cannot see and
they cannot believe that anger and wicked words uttered against noble ones, in
this case the Buddha’s deputies can result in incarceration in the deepest hell
for a very long time.
According
to what the Buddha said below there are various hells of varying severity and
fixed durations of jail term.
The
lowest hell is Abuda hell and it has a jail term that can be compared with the
time taken to release one sesame seed every 100,000 years from a caravan with a
load of twenty Kosala measures of seeds.
The
highest hell called Paduma hell to which Kokalita is destined for slandering
the Buddha’s deputies is millions of times longer than the Abuda hell.
The
Buddha said the man who has gambled all his wealth and himself is better than
the man born with a dagger in his mouth stabbing others.
SO
YOU MAY DOUBT IF THERE IS HELL OR IT WOULD BE BEARABLE AND JUST A REASONABLE
SOJOURN BUT IF THE BUDDHA IS CORRECT THERE ARE MANY HELLS OF DIFFERING SEVERITY
IN TORMENT AND LENGTH OF SENTENCE THAT CAN REACH BILLIONS EVEN TRILLIONS OF
YEARS.
15. The Blessed One at the
end of that night addressed the bhikkhus: ßBhikkhus, when last night was waning
Brahma Sahampathy illuminating the whole of Jeta's
grove approached me, worshipped and stood on a side.
ßThen Brahma Sahamkpathy
said: `Venerable sir, bhikkhu Kokàlika died, and is born in the Paduma Hell on
account of anger in the mind for Sàriputta and Moggallàna.' Saying this
worshipped and circumambulated me and disappeared from there.û
16. When this was said a
certain bhikkhu asked the Blessed One: ßVenerable sir, how long is the life
span in the Paduma hell?û
17. ßBhikkhu, the life span
in the Paduma hell is long and cannot be calculated as it's this much, hundred
years, this much thousand years or this much hundred thousand years.û
18. ßVenerable sir, could a
comparison be given?û
19. ßBhikkhu, a comparison
could be given. `There is a caravan with a load of twenty, Kosala measures of
sesame. From it a man releases one seed of sesame, at the end of a hundred
thousand years. When released in this manner, the sesame seeds come to an end
quickly but not the years in the life span of the Abuda hell. And bhikkhu,
twenty life spans in the Abuda hell is equal to one Nirbuda hell life span.
Twenty life spans in the Nirbuda hell is equal to, one Ababa hell life span.
Twenty life spans in the Ababa hell is equal to one Añaña hell life span Twenty
life spans in the Añaña hell is equal to one Ahaha hell life span. Twenty life
spans in the Ahaha hell is equal to one Kumudu hell life span.Twenty life spans
in the Kumudu hell is equal to one Sogandhika hell life span. Twenty life spans
in the Sogandhika hell is equal to, one Uppala hell life span. Twenty life
spans in the Uppala hell is equal to, one Pundarika hell life span. And twenty
life spans in the Pundarika hell is equal to, one Paduma hell life span. It's in
Paduma hell that bhikkhu Kokàlika is born for bearing an angry mind for
Sàriputta and Moggallàna.û
20. The Blessed One the
Teacher further said these stanzas:
ßTo
man when born, a dagger is born in the mouth,
As though cutting himself the fool says hurtful words.
Praising the blameworthy or blaming the praiseworthy,
He accumulates evil with his mouth.
With that ill luck he does not feel pleasant.
By gambling if someone looses all his wealth together with himself
It's nothing much, when compared to this
That is making his mind hurtful towards the well gone ones.
With that evil intention and evil thoughts, blaming noble ones
He is born in hell for a long period
A hundred thousand Nirabuda hells,
And five times six thousand Abudani hell periods.û
The suffering due to ordinary people:
Again
below the Buddha compared the suffering due to ordinary people who do not have
right view and have not penetrated his teaching as compared to noble disciples
as like the Himalayan mountains compared to 7 mustard seeds.
You
may read what I say but if you have not penetrated the meaning, do not
understand then you have a Himalaya of suffering in front of you.
2. ßA man mounts seven
pebbles of the size of mustard seeds on top of the Himalayas. Bhikkhus, which
is bigger in size, the seven pebbles of the size of mustard seeds or the great
Himalaya mountains?û
ßVenerable sir, the Himalaya
mountains are indeed bigger than the seven pebbles of the size of mustard
seeds. It cannot be reckoned, it does not come up to one hundredth portion of
the Himalaya mountains not even the one thousandth portion, and not even the
one hundred thousandth portion, compared to the Himalaya mountains.û
4. ßIn the same manner
bhikkhus, the unpleasantness already scattered and exhausted by the noble
disciple who has come to righteousness of view, has penetrated the Teaching is
very much more and it is only a little that remains to be exhausted, not even
the one hundred thousandth portion and certainly not more. The unpleasantness
that remains to be exhausted is the unpleasantness of seven lives the maximum.
How long is a world cycle?
. Sitting on a side the monk
said to the Blessed One: ßVenerable sir, how long is a world cycle?û
4. ßMonk, a world cycle is
very long and it is not easy to innumerate it as, `it's this amount of years'
or `this amount of hundred years,' or `this amount of thousand years,' or `this
amount of hundred thousand years'.û
5. ßVenerable sir, is it
possible to give a comparison?û
6. The Blessed One said:
ßPossible. Monk, in a poor city there is a block of mustard seeds seven miles
by the length, breath and the height bound together by the roots. After the
lapse of one hundred years a man comes and takes out one of the seeds. By this
method the mustard seeds diminish and vanish but the world cycle does not come
to an end.
7. ßMonk, so long is the
world cycle. Many of these world cycles make a several world cycle and a
collection of a hundred of the several world cycles make a several hundred
world cycle and a collection of a thousand of the several world cycles make a
several thousand world cycle and a collection of a hundred thousand of the
several world cycles make a several hundred thousand world cycle.
8. ßWhat is the reason?
Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed
out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one
existence to another.
ßMonks, it is suitable that
you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û
Yow yi nien:
There
is a Chinese New Year song that begins with those words that simply say “It is
yet another year”.
The
substance of what is said is just “It is another year” but there is always
accompanying emotional baggage that is more important or is the motivation of
the words which is to stir sadness and longing in a way as if it is fun or
likeable.
THE
PERSON NEVER SAID WHAT HE MEANT BECAUSE IF HE SAID WHAT HE MEANT HE SHOULD SAY,
“I WOULD LIKE TO STIR YOUR PIOGNANCY AS IF IT IS LIKEABLE OR ENJOYABLE THAT IT
IS AGAIN ANOTHER YEAR”
WHOEVER
YOU ARE, IF YOU MUST CELEBRATE, YOU MUST LONG AND BE SENTIMENTAL, YOU ARE A
FOOL DOOMED TO FUTURE SUFFERING THAT IS FAR MORE INTENSE AND EVERLASTING THAN
YOU EVER DREAMT POSSIBLE.
NOWADAYS
CHINESE NEW YEARS OR WHATEVER DO NOT MEAN A THING TO ME. IF YOU ARE HAPPY
EVERYDAY IS A GOOD DAY SO WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT CHINESE NEW YEAR?
Meaningless conveying and stirring of force:
If
the purpose of saying ‘yow yi nien’ is not to tell the other person it is yet
another year but to convey emotion (longing, sadness, humour) and stir emotion
in the recipient then your purpose in saying so is to transmit and stir force
that is blind, meaningless and perishable (food that perishes according to
Jesus). Because your purpose is stirring blind meaningless force, you are
practicing controlled madness that will end in uncontrollable madness.
EXACTLY
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOU SAYING OR DOING SOMETHING CAN BE KNOWN. IF IT IS NOT
AS MEANT BUT TO STIR FORCE THEN YOU ARE PRACTICING CONTROLLED MADNESS THAT WILL
END IN UNCONTROLLABLE MADNESS, WHOEVER YOU ARE.
THUS
KEEP ON STIRRING EMOTION IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS AND REFUSE OR CANNOT SEE IT BUT
IF THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU ARE CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY STIRRING EMOTIONS,
YOU ARE HEADED FOR INSANITY.
The folly of outsourcing:
How India's aviation industry is soaring
If
a few companies outsource (to take advantage of cheap labour and antipollution
laws) then the consuming economy can sustain it but if ‘everyone jumps on the
outsourcing bandwagon’ then it becomes a disaster because rich consuming
countries will be deprived of the jobs necessary to provide income to sustain
consumerism.
IT
IS SUICIDAL FOR MANY COMPANIES TO JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON TO OUTSOURCE (NIKE PAYS
INDONESIAN WORKERS US$1 A DAY) TO SELL TO RICH COUNTRIES BECAUSE WHEN
WIDESPREAD, IT WILL TAKE AWAY ENOUGH JOBS IN RICH COUNTRIES TO DEPRESS DEMAND
BECAUSE JOBS ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM THESE RICH CONSUMERS.
EVERYONE
JUST WANT TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS BUT IF EVERYONE OUTSOURCES TO POORER COUNTRIES AS
IS THE CASE NOW, THEN THERE WILL BE A SERIOUS EVEN FATAL MISMATCH, TOO FEW JOBS
IN RICH COUNTRIES SO THAT THEY ARE JOBLESS AND CANNOT AFFORD THE GOODS.
THIS
IS A STRUCTURAL PROBLEM AND IT MAY HAVE ALREADY REACHED CRITICAL PROPORTIONS
THAT THREATEN THE VIABILITY OF RICH CONSUMING COUNTRIES.
THE
RATIONALE BEHIND PRODUCING IN POOR COUNTRIES TO SELL TO RICH COUNTRIES MAY BE
ENTICING BUT IF ENOUGH COMPANIES DO SO, THE JOB LOSSES IN RICH COUNTRIES WILL
CRIMP EVEN CRIPPLE THEIR CONSUMPTION SO THAT EVERYBODY DIES, THE WORKERS IN
POOR COUNTRIES, THESE MULTINATIONALS AND JOBLESS CONSUMERS IN THE WEST.
Outsourcing and hot money like nooses around world economy:
Do
not underestimate the impact of outsourcing and hot money (foreign money
rushing into and out of currencies and nations in pursuit of maximal returns)
for they are of significant scale to wreak damage on the global economy like a
noose that has already tightened significantly and will not relent because
nobody has the wisdom to take curative action.
OUTSOURCING
MAY HAVE REACHED A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION TO CAUSE A SERIOUS MISMATCH OF RICH
CONSUMERS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH NO JOBS TO SUPPLY INCOME FOR SPENDING AND
THE HOT MONEY RUSHING IN AN OUT OF ECONOMIES IN SEARCH OF RETURNS MAY BE
CREATING HAVOC JUST AS HOT MONEY IS BOOSTING THE CHINESE AND AUSTRALIAN
ECONOMIES. WHEN THE HOT MONEY RUSHES OUT THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES LIKE CINDERELLA
WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Therefore
the prospects for recovery for the world economy is not good if it is not
already doomed.
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in the Year of the Tiger on Feb 14.
It
is perceived as meritorious advice but it may be the opposite.
When
the hatchet is buried it is still there and available to be taken up to hack
and so the person is advocating make belief, coexisting in tension even if ill
will exists between the parties.
YOU
DON’T BURY THE HATCHET THAT MAY DECEIVE SOME WITH EVEN FATAL CONSEQUENCES BUT
YOU MINDFULLY ARE AWARE THERE IS A HATCHET AND WHERE IT IS PLACED AND MINDFUL
ABOUT THAT HATCHET YOU GO ABOUT DOING BUSINESS THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED.
THE
PERSON WHO ADVOCATES BURYING THE HATCHET IS ADVOCATING FORGETTING, CLOSING AN
EYE TO REALITY AND COURTING INSANITY.
Prashanth Shanmugan Being Australian is not
a race but an attitude
What
is said is nonsense and it reflects common delusion that so called responsible
newspapers allow such nonsense to be published.
It
is not possible that being Australian is an attitude of mind but there are many
other factors apart from an attitude. There is no single attitude that defines
an Australian, different Australians have different attitudes. It reflects self
identity view to cherish being Australian and that is the path to future woe
says the Buddha.
In
any case, attitude is nothing to be exalted because in order to have an
attitude, you must memorize it and conform to it and so the person with
attitude is a robot of that attitude and that is always suffering that will end
in insanity.
ANYONE
WHO IS A CITIZEN OF AUSTRALIA IS AUSTRALIAN AND THAT IS WHAT BEING AUSTRALIAN
IS. PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CULTURE AND TRADITIONS AND THAT IS NOT BEING AUSTRALIAN
BUT TRULY BEING AUSTRALIAN MEANS BEING AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN, IT DOES NOT EVEN
MEAN BEING BORN THERE. THERE IS NO GREAT DEAL, I WOULD NOT BE THRILLED NOR WANT
TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN.
Ploughing back profits:
WOULD
IT NOT BE INVITING DISASTER IF YOU REAPED PROFIT FROM A FIELD BY PLANTING CROPS
WITHOUT PLOUGHING BACK FERTILISERS AND HOEING THE SOIL?
ISN’T
OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION TO ANOTHER LOCATION BECAUSE OF COST AND SELLING AT A
LOCATION THAT CAN PAY MORE SIMILAR TO REAPING PROFIT WITHOUT PLOUGHING BACK?
JUST
AS THE FIELD WILL BECOME BARREN BEFORE LONG, IN THE SAME WAY THE RICH CONSUMER
SOCIETY TOO WILL BECOME BARREN WITHOUT PLOUGH BACKS.
SO,
TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE SCALE AND WIDTH OF OUTSOURCING IN THE MODERN
WORLD, MIGHT THE GREAT CONSUMER MARKETS OF THE WEST BECOME BARREN?
HOW
COME HUMANS WITH SUCH GREAT TRUE UNDERSTANDING FAILED TO GRASP THAT?
EMOTIONAL
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, CLEARLY OUTSOURCING IS NOT SUSTAINABLE.
Everybody will die:
If
you asked all these multinationals, big and small to relocate back to where
they sold their products, the answer would be a resounding ‘NO WAY!’, yet this
might be foolish committing suicide and with it everybody dies.
BY
REFUSING TO RELOCATE BACK TO THEIR HOME TURF, THE GREAT CONSUMER SOCIETIES WILL
BECOME BARREN BECAUSE OF MASS UNEMPLOYMENT.
THE
PRODUCING COUNTRIES WHO ARE PAID PITTANCES (NIKE PAYS INDONESIAN WORKERS US$1
PER DAY) DO NOT HAVE CONSUMER POWER TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF THE BARREN WEST AND
SO IN THE END THESE MULTINATIONALS TOO WILL DIE.
IT
SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA OUTSOURCING TO LOWER PRODUCTION COST BASES BUT IN
LONGER TERM IT IS SUICIDAL AND NOW THAT THE RICE HASS BEEN COOKED THERE IS NO
WAY THESE MULTINATIONALS WILL RETURN TO THEIR ROOSTS AND THEY TOO WILL DIE
BECAUSE DEMAND FOR THEIR PRODUCTS WILL DIE.
Why China cannot be world’s saviour:
The
average Chinese worker is not on fat wages but they are paid lowly churning out
cheap goods for the West and so do not expect them to consume the world out of
the slump. Further China does not print a world reserve currency that it can use
liberally to pay for its purchases like the US. China may not be as healthy
economically as appears, it too has many structural and financial problems that
the world has ignored and its economy may be artificially boosted by hot money
coming in to drive up property and share markets to unrealistic levels and much
of the money may belong to foreigners just like a lot of Malaysia’s export
earnings does not belong to Malaysia but foreign exporters like Intel using Malaysia
as base.
Not also ploughing in profits:
It
is the recent trend of many companies to set up offices offshore to escape
taxes and it was not that long ago that the US government offered a tax amnesty
on American companies to repatriate their profits stashed overseas.
THUS
NOT ONLY DO AMERICAN COMPANIES NOT PLOUGH IN SOME RETURN IN PROVIDING
MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POPULACE FROM WHICH IT EXTRACTS PROFITS BUT
THE PROFITS MADE ARE KEPT OVERSEAS (PERHAPS THROUGH PAYMENTS OVERSEAS FOR GOODS
RECEIVED) THUS DRAINING PROGRESSIVELY THE SYSTEM OF MONEY THAT IF KEPT LOCALLY
COULD BE USED TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.
IT
IS GREED TO MAXIMIZE GAINS THROUGH LOWERING COSTS AND AVOIDING TAXES THAT MAKE
COMPANIES COPY EACH OTHER TO SET UP MANUFACTURING OVERSEAS AND ALSO STASH THEIR
PROFITS OVERSEAS TO AVOID TAXES. THE NET RESULT IF MANY COMPANIES APE IS THAT
THE RICH CONSUMING COUNTRY BECOME DEPRIVED SIGNIFICANTLY OF EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES NEEDED FOR SUSTAINED CONSUMPTION WHILST MONEY IS DRAINED OUT OF
THE SYSTEM THROUGH PAYMENT OVERSEAS.
Culture is about being a robot:
Humanity
exalts culture, promote culture not realizing or understanding that a lover and
practitioner of culture is a robot of culture.
The
Buddha said you should abandon everything and Jesus said you must deny yourself
and so anyone who adulates culture is detaining himself in this world of
suffering and deluded.
If
culture is the history of a country or race then you must commit to memory that
history and regurgitate it repeatedly in order to practice that culture.
Apart
from its history the culture of a race or country is what and how something is
said and done in that country that is stereotyped and consistent that differs
from other cultures and so it too means that you must practice rituals and be a
robot in order to partake in a certain culture. Thus if it is in the culture of
a certain race to eat and drink certain things in certain ways then in order
for you to practice that culture you must memorize and rehash eating and
drinking certain things in certain ways (eg Japanese tea drinking ceremonies).
THUS
THERE IS NOTHING WONDERFUL IN CULTURES, ANYONE WHO BELIEVES AND EXALTS CULTURE
BELIEVE IN COMMITTING HIMSELF TO BE A ROBOT THAT WILL END IN INSANITY.
Avatar top grossing film ever:
Animals
look like this and the coloured skin, ears and markings on face are copied from
animals, nothing innovative and yet reflecting human delusion they are
fascinated by the film.
As
Jesus said, what is exalted by mankind is an abomination in the sight of God
and this film may be one abomination.
It
seems some viewers were so entranced by the ‘paradise’ depicted they wanted to
commit suicide to access that ‘paradise’. It is impossible that it is a
paradise but it is delusion.
Beings are not equal:
The
Buddha said for the noble disciple who has come to the righteousness of view,
what remains is at most seven lifetimes and yet he said he was the holder of
power for seven eons, he was ruler of the gods for many times that would appear
to contradict his statement.
There
may be no contradiction because the nature of beings is different, they are not
all the same, not everyone is destined to be the Father or holder of power. As
the Buddha said, it is impossible for a female to be Satan or the Father or
even brahmas who are higher than angels. Even his deputies could not attain
enlightenment by themselves and had to depend on the Buddha to guide them to
enlightenment. Therefore not every being can fully self awakened by themselves,
it takes a special being to fully self awaken and the Buddha is this eon’s
Fully Self Awakened One.
The
Buddha said that some beings are destined to unbind after they exhausted their
lifespan as angels in heaven and so these beings, including males are not
destined to become formless brahmas.
The
karma of beings too are different. A trivial misdeed can send one man to hell
whilst the suffering for another does not last a moment because he has a vast
reservoir of merit.
Even
in enlightenment, Sariputta and Moggalana, the Buddha’s deputies are said to
differ in their nature and Kassapa an Elder said He and the Buddha are foremost
in discipline or restraint. The Buddha said he is foremost amongst all beings.
THUS
EXISTENCE IS A COMMUNITY OF BEINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT EQUAL IN NATURE, NOT
EVERYONE IS DESTINED TO BE A SELF AWAKENED BUDDHA, FATHER OR SATAN. FOR MANY,
THEY ARE DESTINED TO MAKE A PERMANENT END TO SUFFERING AS AN ANGEL IN HEAVEN.
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