Mental force can either act or stir:
A person’s mental forces can either act or stir.
When it acts, it must seize an object and drive it or make it do work. Thus mental force can act by taking control of a person’s vocal apparatus to cause him to speak with or without style.
When mental force stirs, it is not acting on any object but merely stirring and there are only six ways with which the twin opposing mental forces of going against self and self preservation can stir and that is to express or for the person’s consciousness to experience like (attraction), dislike (repulsion), sadness, hurt, agitation or confusion and fear.
WHEN THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE STIRS, IT IS NOT DOING ANY USEFUL WORK AND IT CAN ONLY STIR TO SIX PATTERNS TO PRODUCE THE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCES OF LIKE, DISLIKE, SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION OR FEAR.
WHEN THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE PROLONGS, CHANGES SPEED AND STRENGTH TO PRODUCE THE PERSON’S STYLE IT IS ACTING, SEIZING MUSCLES TO DO WORK. WHEN YOU SWEEP THE FLOOR, THE MENTAL FORCE SEIZES RELEVANT MUSCLES TO PERFORM THE ACT OF SWEEPING THE FLOOR.
Not without reason why only six emotions:
It is not magic or any mystery why there are only six emotions.
When the person’s mental force is stirring attractively without doing any work, the person’s consciousness experiences liking (excitement, thrill, fascination, interest, lust, greed, desire, envy, pride).
When the person’s mental force is stirring repulsively without doing any work, the person’s consciousness experiences disliking (anger, disgust, hate, loathing, jealousy, derision).
When the person’s mental force is prolonging without doing any work the person’s consciousness experiences sadness.
When the person’s mental force is accelerating in speed and strength without doing any work triggered by an event, the person’s consciousness experiences hurt.
When the person’s mental force is stirring in direction, speed and strength in a haphazard manner without doing any work, triggered by an event, the person’s consciousness experiences confusion or agitation.
When the person’s mental force of going against self collapses suddenly in speed and strength as a result of an event whilst his unopposed force of self preservation rises precipitously in speed and strength, the person experiences fear.
BECAUSE MENTAL FORCE CAN ONLY SEIZE AND DRIVE, CAN ONLY STIR IN CERTAIN WAYS LIKE PROLONGING, CHANGE DIRECTION, SPEED AND STRENGTH THERE ARE ONLY A NUMBER OF PERMUTATIONS OF WHAT EMOTIONS THE PERSON CAN EXPERIENCE, ONLY A NUMBER OF EMOTIONS A PERSON CAN EXPERIENCE.
The car analogy regarding mental force:
The working of mental force can be succinctly compared with a car.
When the person is generating and experiencing emotions, it is like a stationary car in neutral gear being revved from mild to intense levels, no useful work is being done and the mental force is senselessly revved for the sake of revving or experiencing the sound effects of its revving.
DON’T YOU THINK IT IS RATHER SILLY, STRESSFUL AND WASTEFUL TO KEEP REVVING YOUR CAR ENGINE SOMETIMES FURIOUSLY SOMETIMES GENTLY WHEN IT IS NOT DOING ANY USEFUL WORK? YET EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY REVVING THEIR MENTAL FORCES TO GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT VOLUNTARILY OR INVOLUNTARILY TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. THIS IS CONTROLLED INSANITY THAT WILL END IN TEARS OR UNCONTROLLABLE INSANITY WHICH IS THE DESTINY OF ALL WHO REFUSE TO GIVE UP THEIR EMOTIONALITY OR CONSTANT REVVING OF THEIR ENGINES IN NEUTRAL GEAR.
When the gear is engaged then the revving engine is put to work that may be useful or useless. If the car is driven to a destination for a purpose then it is useful work, if the car is driven aimlessly around for show to impress how fast or nimble it is, then it is doing useless for show work that will end in insanity.
ONCE GEAR IS ENGAGED, THE REVVING OF THE ENGINE DOES WORK MOVING THE CAR AND THIS WORK CAN BE EITHER MEANINGFUL (EG GOING TO MARKET TO BUY FOOD) OR MEANINGLESS (DRIVING AROUND FOR SHOW TO IMPRESS OTHERS). IN THE SAME WAY, MENTAL FORCE CAN BE PUT TO WORK THAT IS MEANINGFUL (COOKING A MEAL) OR MEANINGLESS (FASHIONING STYLE OR SINGING OR DANCING OR PLAYING GOLF).
False associations:
Just because Volkswagen builds a car that runs on human wastes (dung) and they are known for making a car called beetle does not mean the car in question is a dung beetle or should be mischievously called a dung beetle.
You have to think or fabricate to come up with such an association that is not based on truth but slyness to impress others with your cleverness. This is a false and totally unnecessary association driven by emotion not true understanding targeted at stirring others’ emotions to laugh and that is karma with future suffering due not future happiness due.
CONTRARY TO THE FALSE PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL PEOPLE, HUMOR IS NOT THE WAY TO HAPPINESS BUT IT STIRS MENTAL FORCE MEANINGLESSLY THAT DEGRADES THE MIND AND THE MAN OF HUMOR IS HEADED FOR MIND FAILURE OR INSANITY AND THEN EVEN AN ETERNITY OF PERDITION NOT HEAVEN.
Addictive and you are a robot:
The urge to fabricate to impress others as in calling a VW running on wastes a dung beetle is addictive, with increasing practice a strong even irresistible urge to similarly coin seizes that fool and he is a robot rather than master of himself and rather than unadulterated pleasure it is tormenting to be a robot driven by an urge to be insouciant.
You need to think to be humorous and you are conditioning yourself to think that is always suffering compared with closing shop and stop thinking.
Stiglitz does not understand what is happening:
If the past boom was the result of reckless stimulation of the economy by governments (lower taxes, lower interest rates, etc), reckless lending by banks, gross cancerous pile up of debts by companies and individuals in pursuit of consumption (houses, commercial properties, credit cards), America printing worthless money to buy from the world (living well beyond its means), the destabilizing transfer of wealth from the many (savers have lost their money, many have foolishly indebted themselves) to the few (corrupt politicians, privileged stars in music, sports, people like Bill Gates), too many American companies have deserted the US for offshore production in China in pursuit of maximum profits depriving Americans of employment, the deposition of money in banks have magnified the illusion of wealth (a single million deposited has created many millions in debts and many millionaires through cycles of deposition lending and re-depositing) then there can be no recovery.
IF THE PAST BOOM WAS A CANCER, YOU CANNOT RECOVER TO A CANCER. THE WORLD HAS NEVER BOOMED CONSCIENTIOUSLY AND SO IT IS NOT RECOVERY BUT REFORM THAT IS NEEDED BUT THERE IS LITTLE GUARANTEE OR EVEN IMPOSSIBILITY THAT CONSCIENTIOUS REFORM CAN REPRODUCE THE BOOM OF THE PAST. THE WORLD LIVING CONSCIENTIOUSLY CAN NEVER MATCH THE PARTYING BOOM OF THE PAST. THUS BECAUSE THE PAST WAS ABUSE, THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY TO ABUSE AND TO TALK OF RECOVERY REFLECTS FALSE UNDERSTANDING. EVEN IF THE WORLD SUCCEEDS IN REFORMING WHICH WOULD BE PAINFUL, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE A REFORMED WORLD ECONOMY COULD BOOM AS IN THE ABUSIVE PAST. HENCE THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY AND TO TALK OF RECOVERY REFLECTS DELUSION AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.
IT IS CRAZY FOR GOVERNMENTS THEMSELVES FULL OF DEBTS TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE TO BOOST THE ECONOMY IN SEARCH OF A RECOVERY BECAUSE IT IS LIKE A SHOT OF HEROIN, YOU MAY FEEL GOOD FOR A WHILE BUT LATER THE AGONY IS WORSE.
YOU NEVER SPEND TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY, YOU ONLY SPEND IF THERE IS SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO BUY AND YOU CAN AFFORD IT. IF THERE IS SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO BUY AND YOU CANNOT AFFORD THEN YOU GO WITHOUT.
THUS PROFESSOR STIGLITZ IS TALKING NONSENSE LIKE SO MANY ECONOMISTS.
Why there can be no recovery, it is terminal:
You don’t need to be an economic expert, professor or Fed Reserve chairman, nor are supernatural powers needed to diagnose that there can be no global economic recovery. What you need is discernment, the ability to see things happening truly, as they actually are rather than as deluded experts tell you and what you like or refuse to see.
The past extended boom was due to gross excesses, the squandering of people’s savings, the transfer of wealth from the many to the few, plunder of the earth, useless unproductive excessive investment in commercial and residential properties that people cannot afford, America printing worthless paper money to buy from the world and gross corruption (NINJA property lending and entities like AIG insuring loans without cash backing).
ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM ALWAYS END IN DISASTER AND BECAUSE THE PAST WAS ABUSE RECOVERY MEANS A REVERSION TO THAT ABUSE AND EVEN IF THAT IS POSSIBLE IT MEANS THERE WILL BE AN EVEN MORE TERRIBLE RECKONING WHEN COLLAPSE AGAIN ENSUES AFTER THE BRIEF RECOVERY.
AND SO ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS DOES NOT TALK ABOUT RECOVERY WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE BUT HE TALKS ABOUT REFORMING. NO MATTER HOW WONDERFUL THE REFORM IT WILL NEVER REPRODUCE THE FROTHY BOOM CONDITIONS OF THE BINGING PAST AND SO DON’T KEEP YOUR FINGER CROSSED FOR A REFORMING BOOM.
AND YOU ARE KIDDING YOURSELF IF YOU PERCEIVE MANKIND IS TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF OR CAPABLE OF DOING SO, WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS MANKIND DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR MORE FIRE WOOD TO THROW INTO THE SMOLDERING FIRE THAT THREATENS TO SNUFF OUT.
America Exporting Out Of Trouble Will Be Painful:
Because America owes China a lot of money, if it were to export itself out of trouble it will get nothing for its exports except cancellation of existing debts. Further, America must pay its workers wages for work involved in the exporting and it must buy the raw materials for the exports.
AMERICA MUST PAY WORKERS WAGES AND BUY THE RAW MATERIALS FOR ITS EXPORTS TO CHINA AND YET IT WILL GET NOTHING IN RETURN EXCEPT A CANCELLATION OF PAST DEBTS AND SO IT WILL BE A TALL ORDER FOR AMERICA TO EXPORT ITSELF OUT OF TROUBLE AS IT DELUDES ITSELF.
My take of the boom:
Whilst money was being transferred from the many to the few, abetted by governments and reckless corrupt bankers, decimating savers’ money and saddling many foolish greedy borrowers with crippling debts, the economy boomed, especially when through repeated cycles of depositing, lending, re-depositing and lent again, a single million can spawn millions of debts and create the illusion of many millionaires when there is only one million in the system. When a critical mass of money has been transferred into the hands of the few (by hook or crook) then the system becomes unstable and even gridlocked, there is now too much money in the hands of the few who cannot spend enough to stimulate the economy and there are many now ‘full of debts’ or their savings in banks recklessly lent never to return (because savers’ money is gone, banks have no money to lend so they have to print more to lend) such that they cannot spend to keep the economy healthy. And a lot of the money was spent on useless things that people cannot afford (houses, cars) or perishables that are now gone but the debts remain. Further the filthily rich are not satisfied with putting their money in banks but they invest in hedge funds that trawl all over the world, looking for plunder than further destabilizes the system (eg speculate in oil or short sell BP or VW shares). Add to this, greedy American companies who have moved overseas to manufacture to maximize profits depriving their markets of jobs and America recklessly printing money not marginally but grossly to pay for its imports, you have a recipe for terminal disaster.
Unforgettable Teresa Teng:
Anyone who utters that is guilty of falsity and flirting with insanity.
Nothing is unforgettable but it is forgettable both on a temporary and more permanent basis.
If you say Teresa Teng is unforgettable it means that whoever knows her cannot forget her and that is not true. There are many to whom she is forgettable.
Even the most ardent fan does not remember her 24 hours a day, but there are even days or months when they don’t think of her.
‘UNFORGETTABLE’ IS SAID DRIVEN OUT OF EMOTION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING TO EXAGGERATE HOW WONDERFUL SOMETHING IS. IF YOU SAY SOMETHING IS UNFORGETTABLE WHEN IT IS FORGETTABLE THEN YOU ARE TRAINING YOURSELF IN FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
AS THE BUDDHA SAID, TO ONE WHO SEES THERE IS NOTHING, EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD IS FALSE, DECEPTIVE, FORGETTABLE, NOT EVERLASTING, SUFFERING NOT THE PLEASURE MADE OUT TO BE.
Doing work but for what?
This is the HP CEO involved in a sex scandal.
He is doing work not ‘not doing work’. Involuntarily, he is screwing up the muscles around his mouth in reaction perhaps the adverse publicity he is confronted with. It may be he is steeling himself against the mental pain, being ‘stoic’ or putting on a brave face. All these are emotional expressions, the muscles are not doing anything productive except expressing or putting on a show.
IT CANNOT BE DISPUTED THAT SCREWING UP THE MUSCLES SERVE NO PURPOSE EXCEPT FOR SHOW AND BECAUSE IT IS MEANINGLESS ANYONE WHO SCREWS UP HIS MUSCLES IS HEADED FOR INSANITY BECAUSE HE IS PRACTICING WHAT IS MEANINGLESS.
IF YOU USE YOUR HANDS TO PREPARE A MEAL THAT IS USEFUL OR MEANINGFUL WORK, IF YOU USE YOUR HANDS TO EXPRESS YOURSELF FLORIDLY AS YOU SPEAK YOU ARE PRACTICING CONTROLLED INSANITY.
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BECOME INSANE AND BECOME CONSIGNED TO THE SCRAP HEAP OF ETERNITY YOU MUST ENSURE EVERY ACTION OR WORD OF YOURS HAS MEANING THAT IS TRUE OR USEFUL.
SM Goh urges S'poreans to re-think priorities for new S'pore Dream
Anyone who truly understands must understand this is a deluded statement with karma not merit due to the speaker.
Anyone partaking of the Singapore dream is a man who will not deny himself, who is interested in and immersed in his life here and therefore will lose it to return again and again first as animals before taking the human form again.
A dream is a plan however nebulous and you become a slave of that plan or dream and therefore a suffering robot rather than master of yourself. Further if you examine that dream it is likely if not certainly related to material success and pursuits that are bondage to suffering than release.
Disgraced HP boss gets $28 million:
There is nothing graceful or disgraceful about the dismissal of the HP boss accused of sexual misconduct and it is a reflection of false perception on the part of the speaker and emotional people that disgrace is involved. The truth of the matter is this “Dismissed HP boss gets $28 million”.
It is never harmless having false perception but it can even be fatal eg a disgraced man may resort to alcohol, even suicide and homicide driven by his shame.
The fact that people find many situations funny reflects their false perception and understanding of what they see. In truth nothing is funny and it is their falsely unnecessarily stirred mental force that makes what they see or hear funny. The Buddha does not have to suppress his mirth at anything happening because he correctly sees nothing as funny, his mental force is not stirred by whatever he sees so how is he to see or hear it as funny?
THAT EMOTIONAL PEOPLE PERCEIVE MANY THINGS THEY SEE OR HEAR AS FUNNY IS PROOF THEY HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY SEE AS TRUE, THEY TRULY PERCEIVE THAT WHAT THEY PERCEIVE AS FUNNY IS FUNNY.
You are talking about meaningless force:
When you describe someone, the HP boss as being disgraced you are talking about force being stirred not something meaningful because you need stirred mental force to be disgraced or shamed.
IT IS STIRRED MENTAL FORCE (DISLIKE FOR SELF AS BEING SHAMED OR ANOTHER YOU PERCEIVE AS BEING DISGRACED) THAT GIVES RISE TO SHAME OR DISGRACE, WITHOUT STIRRED MENTAL FORCE THERE CAN BE NO DISGRACE OR SHAME AND SO WHEN YOU DESCRIBE SOMEONE AS BEING DISGRACED YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT STIRRED MENTAL FORCE THAT IS MEANINGLESS, HARMFUL AND EVANESCENT. IT IS THE FALSE PERCEPTION OR DELUSION OF THE PERSON WHO TALKS OF DISGRACE THAT MAKES IT MEANINGFUL SO THAT HE SPEAKS IN TERMS OF DISGRACE WHEN THE SUBSTANCE OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE HP BOSS WAS DISMISSED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH STIRRED MENTAL FORCE OR DISGRACE OR GRACE?
It is a sin to look down on others:
It is a sin to look down on others and perceiving someone as disgraced is to look down and outcaste him with karma and future due you rather than merit.
A MAN WHO SEES TRULY SEE CLEARLY WHAT A PERSON HAS DONE WRONG OR IS HARMFUL TO OTHERS, HE DOES NOT SEE HIM AS DISGRACED OR TO BE LOOKED DOWN OR SHAMED. THUS HE PERCEIVES A MAN WHO HAS DONE WRONG AND WHAT THAT WRONG IS BUT HE DOES NOT PERCEIVE THAT MAN AS DISGRACED OR SHAME, HIS MENTAL FORCE IS NOT STIRRED TO PERCEIVE HIM WITH REPULSION OR DISLIKE.
Abuse can only be revived not recovered from:
Many economists, including Stiglitz & Krugman who were eminently critical of the excesses and crass recklessness sustaining the past boom are fondly hopeful of a recovery from the parlous state of the economy today not realizing it shows they have no understanding and have false logic.
If the past boom was caused by abuses and would have collapsed much earlier if not for feckless government interventions all over the world to stoke the excesses (eg keep lowering interest rates, boosting money supply, permitting totally irresponsible lending via credit card and mortgages, keep cutting taxes, tax refunds, money for clunkers, US deceitfully printing money without backing to buy from the world and squandering the world’s money stashed in the US for safekeeping and anything they can think of to stoke spending and keep the economy artificially unsustainably hot) and surely if leftwing economists like Stiglitz and Krugman understood truly that what has happened today reflects the inevitable final collapse from a load of debt finally too heavy to be borne they would not speak foolishly about recovery or engineering a recovery. A person with true logic and understanding will realize there cannot be any recovery from such a final debacle but what remains is reformation which would be painstaking and can never deliver a return to the hot frothy economies of the past.
THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN MANY PAST COLLAPSES OF THE ECONOMY THAT WERE AVERTED OR REVIVED BY GOVERNMENT STIMULATORY MEASURES OF ALL ILKS AND THIS CURRENT COLLAPSE REPRESENTS THE FINAL RECKONING OF WHAT CANNOT BE SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET ANYMORE OR THE WORLD HAS KEPT SWEEPING ITS DEBT PROBLEMS UNDER THE CARPET UNTIL NOW THE CARPET IS SO PREGNANT, NO MORE DIRT CAN BE SWEPT UNDER IT.
THUS ONE SEEING TRULY AND REASONING WITH TRUE LOGIC (AND STIGLITZ AND KRUGMAN BEING DETRACTORS SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND KNOW) WILL CONCLUDE THAT THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY. THE PAST BOOM WAS BASED ON ABUSES AND THERE CAN NEVER BE ANY RECOVERY (ONLY REVIVAL AND DELAYING THE RECKONING BY STIMULATION) FROM ABUSE THAT HAS BECOME CANCEROUS. THE PAST BOOM WAS A MIRAGE NOT SOLID AND YOU CANNOT RECOVER TO A MIRAGE THAT WAS NEVER THERE.
IF THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY, NO WAY BACK, WHAT REMAINS IS WHETHER THE WORLD WILL KEEP SEARCHING EVERYWHERE FOR ANY DROPS OF ALCOHOL TO SUSTAIN ITS ADDICTION OR IT WILL REFORM, TRULY CORRECT THE EXCESSES AND ABUSES OF THE PAST. EVEN IF REFORMS WERE SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT, IT WILL BE PAINFUL AND PROLONGED AND CAN NEVER DELIVER THE FROTHY HOT ECONOMY OF THE PAST. ANYONE WHO THINKS MANKIND IS REFORMING IS KIDDING HIMSELF, DELUDED, EVEN NOW MANKIND IS DIGGING A BIGGER HOLE FOR HIMSELF BY PRINTING MONEY TO STIMULATE.
What Hadi Awang actually said:
The deputy PM praised Awang for championing Malay rights when Awang’s stance may be quite different. Either the deputy PM was brainwashed by the official media or he is trying to sow division in the opposition.
Actually, Hadi was responding to a reporter’s question about his comments on what Tony Pua said -- that there should no longer be a special discount for Bumiputera buyers of luxury homes or expensive houses. And what Hadi said was Tony Pua’s view is his personal view and which was never raised, discussed and agreed by Pakatan Rakyat.
Hadi then went on to say that, granted, the Malays form the majority of Malaysia’s population so the majority of the poor would therefore be Malays. But we can’t just look after the interest of the Malays while ignoring the interest of the other communities who are also poor. It is wrong to just look into the interest of the Malays while ignoring the interest of the others, argued Hadi.
In short, Hadi said that all poor Malaysians, Malays or otherwise, need to be looked after. And the discount on the purchase of houses should be given to all who are eligible, not just to Malays.
Hadi also commented on the implementation issue. The problem is that the economy of the country has been mismanaged and we therefore need to look at this rather than focus on the issue of Malays.
So there you have it. Umno and the mainstream media twisted what Hadi actually said to make it appear like he too is now fighting for Malay rights and privileges. But Hadi made it very clear that we must fight for all needy Malaysians regardless of race and clean up the abuse in the implementation process and address the mismanagement of the economy.
Frank Rich: How to lose an election without really trying:
This is in the NYT and it is an absurd statement with repercussions in suffering to those responsible.
If a person or party did not want to win an election it would withdraw or choose not to run, it must be very rare or bizarre for a candidate or party to run and try to lose and so the premise for his statement is false and nonexistent and renders what he said about trying to lose without even trying absurd and senseless and so he is practicing controlled insanity he thinks is full of meaning.
HOW MANY IF ANY WILL RUN FOR ELECTION HE TRIES TO LOSE? IF HE DID NOT WANT TO WIN, WHY WASTE HIS MONEY AND ENERGY RUNNING UNLESS HE WAS PAID TO DO SO (EG RALPH NADER MAY BE PAID TO RUN AS SPOILER BUT EVEN THEN HE DESIRES TO WIN OR WIN A SIZEABLE VOTE TO BE SPOILER). THUS HE IS TALKING NONSENSE IN TELLING OTHERS HOW TO LOSE AN ELECTION WITHOUT EVEN TRYING AS IF ANYONE IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD WASTE HIS ENERGY, TIME AND MONEY TO RUN IF HE WANTED TO LOSE.
Sweet & good? You perceive falsely:
Whilst there will be some who find her repugnant, most will be attracted by her & their mental forces thus stirred attractively they perceive her falsely as good when it is the opposite.
She is not good except in your false perception because she is stirring considerable prolonging, accelerating in speed and strength mental force that she is radiating which harms herself and others and so she is bad.
ANYONE WHO STIRS AND RADIATES TOTALLY UNNECESSARY FORCE TO DISPLAY EXPRESSIONS TO ATTRACT OTHERS IS NOT GOOD BUT HARMFUL AND EVIL. IT IS AN OBSERVOR’S FALSE PERCEPTION AS A RESULT OF HIS STIRRED BLINDING MENTAL FORCE THAT CAUSES HIM TO PERCEIVE HER AS GOOD, WHOLESOME AND TRUSTWORTHY WHEN IT IS NOT THE CASE.
IF YOU CANNOT TELL IF SHE IS GOOD OR BAD OR YOU PERCEIVE SHE IS SWEET AND GOOD, YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION THAT IF NOT CHANGED WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
SHE IS INVITING YOU TO STIR YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO BE ATTRACTED AND ANYONE WHO INVITES OTHERS TO STIR THEIR MENTAL FORCE IS COMMITTING AN EVIL.
Phillip Booth: History shows self regulation is the best kind of control
Either he is deluded or he is vested, he has vested interests saying so.
You do not need history to show you to know although history shows the opposite, self regulation is an open invitation for anarchy and exploitation, not only must there be regulations but they must be policed stringently.
HE HAS WRONG VIEW AND THERE CANNOT BE ANY DISPUTE AND HE IS HEADED FOR HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB BECAUSE SELF REGULATION IS AN OPEN INVITATION TO ABUSE AND THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE, REGULATIONS MUST BE IMPOSED AND THEY MUST BE POLICED STRIGENTLY. ANYONE WHO SEES TRULY DOES NOT NEED HISTORY TO SHOW HIM AND IT IS ONLY THE BLIND OR IGNORANT WHO NEEDS TO QUOTE HISTORY.
HERE IS A SUPPOSEDLY RESPECTABLE NEWSPAPER, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND IT ALLOWS SUCH FALLACIES TO BE PRINTED AS WORTH CONSIDERING.
Even in heaven there are rules:
According to the Buddha, there is Sakkha, the ruler of the gods and so there must be rules for there to be a ruler of the gods.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODS AND MEN IS THAT GODS CAN BE RULED BUT MEN ARE UNRULABLE CHEATS AND MALICIOUS.
Always liking and disliking:
It may be or is true that emotional people are always liking and disliking.
There are these six basic emotions: like, dislike, sadness, hurt, agitation and fear.
Generally whenever the emotional stylish person experiences sadness, hurt, agitation or fear, his dislike is also aroused although when mild to moderate sadness or fear, his like may be aroused.
THUS THE STYLISH EMOTIONAL MIND MAY EXPERIENCE AN ENDLESS, CEASELESS ALTERNATION BETWEEN LIKE AND DISLIKE, OFTEN THE LIKE IS FAKED TO APPEASE OTHERS AND IN GENERAL, DISLIKE IS THE PREDOMINANT OR MORE PREVALENT MOOD AS STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE ASSAIL HIM AND SAP HIS LIKE FOR THIS WORLD. IN ADDITION, WHENEVER A PERSON EXPERIENCES SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION OR FEAR HIS DISLIKE IS ALSO AROUSED. NEVER A MOMENT GOES BY WITHOUT THE EMOTIONAL PERSON’S MIND BEING ROILED BY LIKE AND DISLIKE AND RATHER THAN A PLEASURE IT IS TOUTED TO BE, IT IS SUFFERING EVEN TO MADDENING HOMICIDAL SUICIDAL LEVELS. A PERSON WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THE INCOMPARABLY SUPERIOR MENTAL STATE OF NEITHER LIKING NOR DISLIKING WHATEVER IS HAPPENING TO HIM AND THE WORLD DOES NOT ENVY THOSE TRAPPED IN PERPETUAL LIKE AND DISLIKE.
Malaysia’s narrow broadband:
Although Streamyx’s 1MB speed download is quite adequate for my purposes, in UK they are talking about 20MB and most get at least a few MB. Thus Malaysia’s broadband speed lags considerably compared with UK.
Celcom’s basic wireless broadband speed of 384 kbps can be found wanting at times and they have upgraded it to 500 kbps but this is still far from lightning fast.
What is he doing?
There are two possible reasons for screwing up your face thus and both are controlled insanity that ends in insanity.
One is that a person is very tired (a form of suffering) and it is his response to tiredness, to summon up mental force to screw up his face and use his hands to forcibly grab his face to forcibly resist the suffering.
Rather than the common wrong understanding that it is understandable for a person to screw up his face because he is tired, it is a totally wrong and inappropriate response. First of all, one should not abuse oneself by pushing oneself until it is painfully tired but he should have desisted long ago and after you have painted yourself into a corner of stress, you do not summon force to drive out the tiredness because the stirred force adds to or compounds the suffering of exposure to force but you must rest to allow the existing force to dissipate.
BY STIRRING UP FORCE IN SCREWING UP YOUR FACE AND USING YOUR HAND TO GRIP YOUR HEAD YOU ARE APPLYING MORE FORCE TO YOUR MIND ALREADY SUFFERING FROM FORCE OVERLOAD AND SO IT IS POURING OIL TO A FIRE RATHER THAN DOUSING THE FIRE AND IT REFLECTS WRONG UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE THAT THEY SEE THE ACTION AS PERFECTLY REASONABLE.
The other possibility is that he is upset, something hurtful has happened and he is grimacing to bear and control the mental anguish and here too he is doing work with his face and hand that is actually meaningless, does no useful work and therefore controlled madness that will end in madness.
GRIMACING OR SCREWING UP YOUR FACE IS A TOTALLY MEANINGLESS USELESS USE OF FORCE THAT AGAIN SUBJECTS YOUR MIND TO FORCE THAT WILL ULTIMATELY DESTROY YOUR MIND AND SO IT IS MAD TO SCREW UP YOUR FACE OR GRASP YOUR FACE IN RESPONSE TO HURT OR SHAME BUT PEOPLE CANNOT HELP IT, IT IS INVOLUNTARY THEIR STRONGLY AROUSED EMOTION SEIZES THEM TO SCREW UP THEIR FACES.
IT IS CRAZY TO STIR FORCE OR SCREW UP YOUR FACE TO TRY TO SHAKE OFF TIREDNESS, IT ONLY EXPOSES YOUR MIND TO MORE FORCE THAT MUST BE DISSIPATED. THE CORRECT RESPONSE IS TO ALLOW THE AROUSED FORCE TO DISSIPATE AND MAKE SURE YOU DON’T PERMIT FORCE TO BUILD UP TO SUCH JAMMED LEVELS THE NEXT TIME.
IT IS AGAIN MAD, USELESS TO SCREW UP YOUR FACE WHEN SEIZED BY HURT BUT THE HURT PERSON IS A SLAVE NOT MASTER OF HIS ACTIONS.
Force is the wrong, foolish antidote to suffering:
Unless you are a fool, you never summon force to counter, resist or drive out suffering because that only exposes your mind to more force that will end in additional suffering.
A PERSON’S MENTAL SUFFERING IS CAUSED BY FORCE ACTING ON HIS MIND AND SO IT IS FOOLISH TO SUMMON FORCE TO DRIVE OUT OR RESIST SUFFERING BECAUSE IT ADDS FURTHER FORCE OR IS POURING OIL INTO THE FIRE.
THE WISE PERSON ALLOWS THE ARISEN FORCE TO DISSIPATE BY ITSELF AND DOES NOT STOKE IT IN ANYWAY AND HE MAKES SURE IN FUTURE HE NEVER ALLOWS FORCE TO BUILD UP TO UNBEARABLE TORMENTING LEVELS.
America destroys roads it cannot afford:
According to Krugman, in some parts of America roads are being destroyed because local authorities cannot afford to maintain them.
It reflects again America was living way beyond its means such that now ambushed, it has to destroy roads to save costs. But the money spent building (and destroying) the roads are money down the drain.
Emotion is an important ingredient:
This is not a passage devoid of emotion but even in its written instead of spoken form, a discerning person can detect emotion. The way it is written indicates the writer is telling you off, ticking uyu off, condescending as if he is very clever and you are stupid.
Quote: So who are all those people at the mall? It's easy to forget (a way of putting it that is driven by emotion to be condescending) that a 9.5 percent unemployment rate means that roughly 9 out of 10 Americans in the workforce are still employed. "Some consumers are probably liquidity-constrained," says Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. These are "the ones who are probably not the ones buying iPads. But 90 percent of Americans do have a job, and maybe 70 percent are confident about them. And maybe half of those have liquidity."
WHAT HE IS TELLING YOU IS THAT THE MALLS ARE FULL BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH UNEMPLOYMENT IS 9.5 PER CENT, 9 OUT OF 10 AMERICANS ARE STILL WORKING AND IT IS THESE WHO ARE STILL BUYING. HOWEVER THE WRITTEN MANNER IS MAKING MUCH OF IT AS IF IT IS A GREAT DISCOVERY OR FEAT OF DISCERNMENT.
ALWAYS PEOPLE WANT TO TRANSMIT EMOTION AND WANT TO STIR EMOTION IN OTHERS IN WHAT THEY SAY OR DO AND THAT IS EVIL AND MEANINGLESS.
Domineering:
The style of presentation indicates the person is domineering and you need force or its proxy emotion, not reason to dominate. What he says is false because it is not as simple as he puts it. Not all the 90% still employed are buying, some of them may be saving or worried about their future or with heavy debt burdens, curtailed their buying. Thus it is simplistic to say that just because 90% are employed, although 10% are unemployed the malls are full. Many may be window shopping. Rather than depressed staying at home they may be just window shopping at the malls.
The speed and efficiency of modern banking is also its nemesis:
The much vaunted speed and efficiency of modern computer based banking is also its nemesis, a killer to the unwary who do not understand they are handling highly explosive volatile TNT. Just as TNT must be handled with extreme care because it is volatile and easily explodes, even so the modern computerised banking is like TNT.
Clearing of funds can be instantaneous today with computers even working 24 hours a day. Where it might take a few days to clear a transaction in the past, today it may be virtually instantaneous.
Thus, because hardly anybody keeps his money out of the banking system, with the advent of 24 hours fast computers, a million dollar deposited can be lent, re-deposited and lent rapidly again for many repeated cycles with demand for credit even much higher because all banks are linked by computers so that the market for borrowers becomes even worldwide where in the past it was restricted to local demand.
NOT ONLY CAN A SINGLE MILLION DEPOSITED IN A BANK SPAWN MANY MILLIONS OF DEBT BECAUSE THE MONEY IS RECYCLED ALMOST IN PERPETUITY BECAUSE VIRTUALLY EVERYONE KEEPS HIS MONEY IN BANKS, THE ADVENT OF SPEEDY COMPUTERS AND INTERLINKED BANKS EVEN GLOBALLY MEANS THE DEMAND FOR BORROWING IS MUCH HIGHER AND SO RAPIDLY EVEN MANY MULTIPLES OF THAT SINGLE MILLION IN DEBT MAY BE SPAWNED. IF THE MONEY HAS BEEN LENT RECKLESSLY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY OR CERTAINLY WILL DEFAULT THEN IT IS A RECIPE FOR A ‘WHOOPING’ COLLAPSE AND CREDIT CRUNCH.
THUS WHEN PANIC SEIZES THE SYSTEM AND JUST A FEW WITHDRAW THEIR MONEY, THE BANKS ARE LEFT WITHOUT MONEY TO LEND BECAUSE THERE WAS ONLY A MILLION IN THE SYSTEM IN REALITY (BACKING MANY MILLIONS IN LOANS) AND SOMEONE HAS NOW TAKEN OUT THAT MILLION IN FEAR.
THERE WAS NEVER SO MUCH CREDIT OR LIQUIDITY IN THE SYSTEM, IT WAS ONLY AN ILLUSION CREATED BY DEPOSITING, LENDING AND THEN RE-DEPOSITING ABETTED BY EFFICIENT COMPUTERISED LINKED BANKING. AS LONG AS MONEY WAS KEPT IN BANKS AND RECYCLED THE SYSTEM HUMMED ALONG, BUT SHOULD THERE BE PANIC WITHDRAWAL, THEN REALITY DAWNS, THERE IS ONLY ONE MILLION IN THE SYSTEM AND IF THIS IS TAKEN OUT, THERE IS NOTHING IN THE BANKS AND THENCE A CREDIT CRISIS.
After All:
Quote: After all, Najib Razak has already declared Malaysia an Islamic state, which he did in July 2007.
“After all” sounds nice and meaningful to emotional people but it is meaningless, a speech appendage copied from others robotically without understanding its meaning or lack of.
What has ‘after all’ got to do with the matter at hand? Do you need to ‘after all’ to arrive at Najib has already declared ‘blah, blah, blah’?
‘AFTER ALL’ IS A MEANINGLESS FOR SHOW APPENDAGE FOR SPEECH THAT IS COPIED FROM OTHERS AND SO THE PERSON IS A REHASHING ROBOT. BECAUSE THE PERSON PERCEIVES IT AS MEANINGFUL AND CHARMING, HE HAS FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
After all signifies resignation:
The meaning of ‘after all’ is not clear cut but nebulous, it is to depict resignation which is about emotion or force never substance or meaning.
Thus ‘after all’ is intended to convey emotion to stir emotion in others.
After all may also unfairly exert pressure to accept:
As I said, ‘after all’ does not make true sense and so its meaning may be plural or nebulous. After all may also be intended to exert pressure on the recipient to agree or accede or accept what is proposed. ‘After all’ may mean after a thorough or complete appraisal, it is blah, blah, blah and so you should accept.
IT IS NO ONE’S BUSINESS TO INSIST ANOTHER AGREE AND SO IT IS EXERTING UNRIGHTEOUS PRESSURE (ONLY FORCE CAN PRESSURE) AND SO IT IS AGAIN AN INSTANCE OF CONVEYING FORCE.
After all what?
When a person says ‘after all’ without specifying he is speaking vaguely and whatever is vague is never true. Whatever is true is specific and clearly defined. Does he mean ‘after considering all things’? If that is the case he never said that because you have perception if you think ‘after all’ means ‘after considering all things’. And if what you say is not truly ‘after all’ then you are speaking falsely.
‘AFTER ALL’ ALONE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, YOU MUST STATE CLEARLY ‘AFTER ALL WHAT’. BECAUSE HE NEVER STATED CLEARLY ‘AFTER ALL WHAT’ HE IS SPEAKING FALSELY WITH KARMA TO BE EXPERIENCED AS FUTURE SUFFERING.
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
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Commentary by Laurence Kotlikoff
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.
What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be redesigned to achieve their legitimate purposes at much lower cost and, in the process, revitalize the economy.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund released its annual review of U.S. economic policy. Its summary contained these bland words about U.S. fiscal policy: “Directors welcomed the authorities’ commitment to fiscal stabilization, but noted that a larger than budgeted adjustment would be required to stabilize debt-to-GDP.”
But delve deeper, and you will find that the IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt. Section 6 of the July 2010 Selected Issues Paper says: “The U.S. fiscal gap associated with today’s federal fiscal policy is huge for plausible discount rates.” It adds that “closing the fiscal gap requires a permanent annual fiscal adjustment equal to about 14 percent of U.S. GDP.”
The fiscal gap is the value today (the present value) of the difference between projected spending (including servicing official debt) and projected revenue in all future years.
Double Our Taxes
To put 14 percent of gross domestic product in perspective, current federal revenue totals 14.9 percent of GDP. So the IMF is saying that closing the U.S. fiscal gap, from the revenue side, requires, roughly speaking, an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal-income, corporate and federal taxes as well as the payroll levy set down in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act.
Such a tax hike would leave the U.S. running a surplus equal to 5 percent of GDP this year, rather than a 9 percent deficit. So the IMF is really saying the U.S. needs to run a huge surplus now and for many years to come to pay for the spending that is scheduled. It’s also saying the longer the country waits to make tough fiscal adjustments, the more painful they will be.
Is the IMF bonkers?
No. It has done its homework. So has the Congressional Budget Office whose Long-Term Budget Outlook, released in June, shows an even larger problem.
‘Unofficial’ Liabilities
Based on the CBO’s data, I calculate a fiscal gap of $202 trillion, which is more than 15 times the official debt. This gargantuan discrepancy between our “official” debt and our actual net indebtedness isn’t surprising. It reflects what economists call the labeling problem. Congress has been very careful over the years to label most of its liabilities “unofficial” to keep them off the books and far in the future.
For example, our Social Security FICA contributions are called taxes and our future Social Security benefits are called transfer payments. The government could equally well have labeled our contributions “loans” and called our future benefits “repayment of these loans less an old age tax,” with the old age tax making up for any difference between the benefits promised and principal plus interest on the contributions.
The fiscal gap isn’t affected by fiscal labeling. It’s the only theoretically correct measure of our long-run fiscal condition because it considers all spending, no matter how labeled, and incorporates long-term and short-term policy.
$4 Trillion Bill
How can the fiscal gap be so enormous?
Simple. We have 78 million baby boomers who, when fully retired, will collect benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that, on average, exceed per-capita GDP. The annual costs of these entitlements will total about $4 trillion in today’s dollars. Yes, our economy will be bigger in 20 years, but not big enough to handle this size load year after year.
This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck.
Herb Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President Richard Nixon, coined an oft-repeated phrase: “Something that can’t go on, will stop.” True enough. Uncle Sam’s Ponzi scheme will stop. But it will stop too late.
And it will stop in a very nasty manner. The first possibility is massive benefit cuts visited on the baby boomers in retirement. The second is astronomical tax increases that leave the young with little incentive to work and save. And the third is the government simply printing vast quantities of money to cover its bills.
Worse Than Greece
Most likely we will see a combination of all three responses with dramatic increases in poverty, tax, interest rates and consumer prices. This is an awful, downhill road to follow, but it’s the one we are on. And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece.
Some doctrinaire Keynesian economists would say any stimulus over the next few years won’t affect our ability to deal with deficits in the long run.
This is wrong as a simple matter of arithmetic. The fiscal gap is the government’s credit-card bill and each year’s 14 percent of GDP is the interest on that bill. If it doesn’t pay this year’s interest, it will be added to the balance.
Demand-siders say forgoing this year’s 14 percent fiscal tightening, and spending even more, will pay for itself, in present value, by expanding the economy and tax revenue.
My reaction? Get real, or go hang out with equally deluded supply-siders. Our country is broke and can no longer afford no- pain, all-gain “solutions.”
(Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and author of “Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking.” The opinions expressed are his own.)
The seven treasures according to the Buddha:
When asked what are treasures, the Buddha straightaway without thinking comes out with these seven treasures which are not only all true but there is no treasure that the Buddha has left out, reflecting his nature as he claims of being the seer and knower of all.
Ordinary people when asked to name what are treasures would have to pause and deliberate and they may come up with a list but it is likely to be incomplete and it is unlikely if not certainly that their list of treasures will not correspond with the Buddha’s.
Wealth, sensate enjoyment, power and fame are not treasures or false treasures that are unsatisfactory and lead to suffering even over an extended period of millions of years.
IF IT IS TRUE YOU HAVE MANY PAST LIVES AND HAVE SHED YOUR OWN BLOOD AND WEPT TEARS GREATER THAN THE FOUR GREAT OCEANS BUILDING A PILE OF SKELETON AS HIGH AS A MOUNTAIN OVER AN EON OR AGE AND THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN COUNTLESS EONS, THAT IF YOU DID NOT MAKE YOURSELF NOBLE YOU HAVE SUFFERING THAT IS AS VAST AS AN OCEAN OR THE HIMALAYAS DUE TO YOU THEN WHATEVER QUALITIES OR POSSESSIONS THAT LIBERATE YOU FROM THIS ENDLESS TRAIN OF WOE ARE INDEED TRUE TREASURES AND IT IS JUST THESE SEVEN TREASURES THAT THE BUDDHA ENUNCIATED THAT WILL DELIVER A BEING FORM ETERNAL TORMENT TO ETERNAL BLISS & RESPITE.
NO ORDINARY PERSON WOULD STRAIGHTAWAY COME OUT WITH THIS LIST OF SEVEN TREASURES AND IT IS PROOF THE BUDDHA IS ALL SEEING AND KNOWING THAT HE CAN NAME THE SEVEN TREASURES WITHOUT DOUBT OR HESITANCY & HE IS INVARIABLY CORRECT.
"And what is the treasure of conviction? There is the case where a noble disciple is convinced of the Tathagata's Awakening.
"And what is the treasure of virtue? There is the case where a noble disciple abstains from taking life, stealing, illicit sexual conduct, lying, taking intoxicants.
"And what is the treasure of conscience? There is the case where a noble disciple feels shame at [the thought of engaging in] bodily / verbal / mental misconduct. This is called the treasure of conscience.
"And what is the treasure of concern? There is the case where a noble disciple feels concern for [the suffering that results from] bodily, verbal, mental misconduct.
"And what is the treasure of listening? There is the case where a noble disciple has heard much, has retained what he/she has heard. (Jesus said their eyes they have closed. Many have closed minds, eyes and ears, they have only eyes and ears for material gains and pleasures and so not listening they continue to wallow in the mire)
"And what is the treasure of generosity? There is the case of a noble disciple, his awareness cleansed of stinginess, living at home, freely generous, open handed, delighting in the distribution of alms.
"And what is the treasure of discernment? There is the case where a noble disciple is discerning, endowed with discernment of arising & passing away -- noble, penetrating, leading to the right ending of stress.
These, monks, are the seven treasures.
Whoever, man or woman, has these treasures
is said not to be poor, has not lived in vain.
(Can you say what the Buddha said above? How can you call him a fake or no better than you?)
Why the Buddha does not stutter or falter:
It is impossible for emotional stylish people to successfully complete without stuttering or faltering what the seven treasures are unless they rehearse obsessively until they can reel it off slickly from their mental jukebox. Even then they are vulnerable to distractions by others or if their emotions become suddenly aroused, they might block the rendition.
The difference between the Buddha and ordinary people is that he has a totally concentrated mind that cannot be disrupted by others. Once he visualized what he wants to say, he is fully attentive to what he wants to say, is aware what he just said, is saying and will be saying next and therefore he does not falter or stutter. Should someone interrupt whilst he speaks, he does not continue nor become annoyed but he remains silent, even his thinking is shutdown so how can he be provoked?
IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO THINK TO SPEAK AND WHAT THEY SAY IS REHASHED FROM A MENTAL COPY THAT THEY CAN STUTTER AND FALTER WITH WHAT THEY SAY ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE DISTRACTED OR INTERRUPTED BY OTHERS OR IF THEIR EMOTIONS BECOME AROUSED.
WHAT THE BUDDHA SAYS, NO MATTER HOW COMPLICATED OR EXTENDED IS BASED ON CLEARLY SEEING WHAT THE SITUATION IS, WHAT HE WANTS TO SAY THAT IS THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THE SITUATION AND HE POSSESSES EFFORTLESS TOTAL CONCENTRATION SO THAT HE CANNOT BE DISTRACTED BY OTHERS BUT HE IS ATTENTIVE TO WHAT HE HAS JUST SAID, IS NOW SAYING AND WILL NEXT SAY. SHOULD HE BE INTERRUPTED RUDELY, HE DOES NOT GET ANGRY BUT HE REVERTS TO SILENCE BOTH IN SPEECH AND THOUGHT.
Impossible for emotional people to give long discourses:
The Buddha gave many different long complex (sublime) discourses over the course of his life.
It is impossible for ordinary emotional people to emulate the Buddha because firstly it is impossible they are capable of sustaining such long compositions and even if they could, their emotionality and distractibility is such that any delivery is likely to be marred by episodic forgetting of what they have said or are going to say, mistakes of delivery, ‘accidental’ repeat of what they have already said or they have to correct themselves.
The only way emotional people can deliver long discourses is if they were to painstakingly practice or rehearse what they want to say until the rendition is very slick.
In contrast, the Buddha makes no mistakes in delivery, he does not absentmindedly repeat himself, forget what he is saying or going to say because his mind is fully concentrated, fully understanding of what he wants to say.
THUS EVEN THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THE BUDDHA DELIVERED MANY LONG, COMPLEX EVEN SUBLIME DISCOURSES THAT ARE TRUE INDICATES HE IS SOMEONE OF EXCEPTIONAL MENTAL FACULTIES. FOR EXAMPLE HE CLEARLY TAUGHT CAUSALITY; FROM IGNORANCE AS A CAUSE COMES FABRICATIONS, FROM FABRICATION AS A CAUSE COMES CONSCIOUSNESS, FROM CONSCIOUSNESS AS A CAUSE COMES NAME AND FORM, FROM NAME AND FORM AS A CAUSE COMES SENSORY MEDIA, FROM SENSORY MEDIA AS A CAUSE COMES CONTACT, FROM CONTACT COMES FEELINGS, FROM FEELINGS COME CRAVING, FROM CRAVING COMES CLINGING, FROM CLINGING COMES BECOMING, FROM BECOMING COMES BIRTH, FROM BIRTH COMES AGING, DEATH, SORROW, PAIN, DISTRESS AND DESPAIR.
A person’s mental forces can either act or stir.
When it acts, it must seize an object and drive it or make it do work. Thus mental force can act by taking control of a person’s vocal apparatus to cause him to speak with or without style.
When mental force stirs, it is not acting on any object but merely stirring and there are only six ways with which the twin opposing mental forces of going against self and self preservation can stir and that is to express or for the person’s consciousness to experience like (attraction), dislike (repulsion), sadness, hurt, agitation or confusion and fear.
WHEN THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE STIRS, IT IS NOT DOING ANY USEFUL WORK AND IT CAN ONLY STIR TO SIX PATTERNS TO PRODUCE THE CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCES OF LIKE, DISLIKE, SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION OR FEAR.
WHEN THE PERSON’S MENTAL FORCE PROLONGS, CHANGES SPEED AND STRENGTH TO PRODUCE THE PERSON’S STYLE IT IS ACTING, SEIZING MUSCLES TO DO WORK. WHEN YOU SWEEP THE FLOOR, THE MENTAL FORCE SEIZES RELEVANT MUSCLES TO PERFORM THE ACT OF SWEEPING THE FLOOR.
Not without reason why only six emotions:
It is not magic or any mystery why there are only six emotions.
When the person’s mental force is stirring attractively without doing any work, the person’s consciousness experiences liking (excitement, thrill, fascination, interest, lust, greed, desire, envy, pride).
When the person’s mental force is stirring repulsively without doing any work, the person’s consciousness experiences disliking (anger, disgust, hate, loathing, jealousy, derision).
When the person’s mental force is prolonging without doing any work the person’s consciousness experiences sadness.
When the person’s mental force is accelerating in speed and strength without doing any work triggered by an event, the person’s consciousness experiences hurt.
When the person’s mental force is stirring in direction, speed and strength in a haphazard manner without doing any work, triggered by an event, the person’s consciousness experiences confusion or agitation.
When the person’s mental force of going against self collapses suddenly in speed and strength as a result of an event whilst his unopposed force of self preservation rises precipitously in speed and strength, the person experiences fear.
BECAUSE MENTAL FORCE CAN ONLY SEIZE AND DRIVE, CAN ONLY STIR IN CERTAIN WAYS LIKE PROLONGING, CHANGE DIRECTION, SPEED AND STRENGTH THERE ARE ONLY A NUMBER OF PERMUTATIONS OF WHAT EMOTIONS THE PERSON CAN EXPERIENCE, ONLY A NUMBER OF EMOTIONS A PERSON CAN EXPERIENCE.
The car analogy regarding mental force:
The working of mental force can be succinctly compared with a car.
When the person is generating and experiencing emotions, it is like a stationary car in neutral gear being revved from mild to intense levels, no useful work is being done and the mental force is senselessly revved for the sake of revving or experiencing the sound effects of its revving.
DON’T YOU THINK IT IS RATHER SILLY, STRESSFUL AND WASTEFUL TO KEEP REVVING YOUR CAR ENGINE SOMETIMES FURIOUSLY SOMETIMES GENTLY WHEN IT IS NOT DOING ANY USEFUL WORK? YET EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY REVVING THEIR MENTAL FORCES TO GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT VOLUNTARILY OR INVOLUNTARILY TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. THIS IS CONTROLLED INSANITY THAT WILL END IN TEARS OR UNCONTROLLABLE INSANITY WHICH IS THE DESTINY OF ALL WHO REFUSE TO GIVE UP THEIR EMOTIONALITY OR CONSTANT REVVING OF THEIR ENGINES IN NEUTRAL GEAR.
When the gear is engaged then the revving engine is put to work that may be useful or useless. If the car is driven to a destination for a purpose then it is useful work, if the car is driven aimlessly around for show to impress how fast or nimble it is, then it is doing useless for show work that will end in insanity.
ONCE GEAR IS ENGAGED, THE REVVING OF THE ENGINE DOES WORK MOVING THE CAR AND THIS WORK CAN BE EITHER MEANINGFUL (EG GOING TO MARKET TO BUY FOOD) OR MEANINGLESS (DRIVING AROUND FOR SHOW TO IMPRESS OTHERS). IN THE SAME WAY, MENTAL FORCE CAN BE PUT TO WORK THAT IS MEANINGFUL (COOKING A MEAL) OR MEANINGLESS (FASHIONING STYLE OR SINGING OR DANCING OR PLAYING GOLF).
False associations:
A Volkswagen That Runs on Human Waste
“Call it the dung Beetle,” writes MacGyver.Just because Volkswagen builds a car that runs on human wastes (dung) and they are known for making a car called beetle does not mean the car in question is a dung beetle or should be mischievously called a dung beetle.
You have to think or fabricate to come up with such an association that is not based on truth but slyness to impress others with your cleverness. This is a false and totally unnecessary association driven by emotion not true understanding targeted at stirring others’ emotions to laugh and that is karma with future suffering due not future happiness due.
CONTRARY TO THE FALSE PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL PEOPLE, HUMOR IS NOT THE WAY TO HAPPINESS BUT IT STIRS MENTAL FORCE MEANINGLESSLY THAT DEGRADES THE MIND AND THE MAN OF HUMOR IS HEADED FOR MIND FAILURE OR INSANITY AND THEN EVEN AN ETERNITY OF PERDITION NOT HEAVEN.
Addictive and you are a robot:
The urge to fabricate to impress others as in calling a VW running on wastes a dung beetle is addictive, with increasing practice a strong even irresistible urge to similarly coin seizes that fool and he is a robot rather than master of himself and rather than unadulterated pleasure it is tormenting to be a robot driven by an urge to be insouciant.
You need to think to be humorous and you are conditioning yourself to think that is always suffering compared with closing shop and stop thinking.
Stiglitz does not understand what is happening:
Stiglitz Says U.S. Faces ‘Anemic Recovery,’ Needs More Stimulus
Anyone who talks of recovery is deluded, does not understand what has happened to the world economy and finances.If the past boom was the result of reckless stimulation of the economy by governments (lower taxes, lower interest rates, etc), reckless lending by banks, gross cancerous pile up of debts by companies and individuals in pursuit of consumption (houses, commercial properties, credit cards), America printing worthless money to buy from the world (living well beyond its means), the destabilizing transfer of wealth from the many (savers have lost their money, many have foolishly indebted themselves) to the few (corrupt politicians, privileged stars in music, sports, people like Bill Gates), too many American companies have deserted the US for offshore production in China in pursuit of maximum profits depriving Americans of employment, the deposition of money in banks have magnified the illusion of wealth (a single million deposited has created many millions in debts and many millionaires through cycles of deposition lending and re-depositing) then there can be no recovery.
IF THE PAST BOOM WAS A CANCER, YOU CANNOT RECOVER TO A CANCER. THE WORLD HAS NEVER BOOMED CONSCIENTIOUSLY AND SO IT IS NOT RECOVERY BUT REFORM THAT IS NEEDED BUT THERE IS LITTLE GUARANTEE OR EVEN IMPOSSIBILITY THAT CONSCIENTIOUS REFORM CAN REPRODUCE THE BOOM OF THE PAST. THE WORLD LIVING CONSCIENTIOUSLY CAN NEVER MATCH THE PARTYING BOOM OF THE PAST. THUS BECAUSE THE PAST WAS ABUSE, THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY TO ABUSE AND TO TALK OF RECOVERY REFLECTS FALSE UNDERSTANDING. EVEN IF THE WORLD SUCCEEDS IN REFORMING WHICH WOULD BE PAINFUL, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE A REFORMED WORLD ECONOMY COULD BOOM AS IN THE ABUSIVE PAST. HENCE THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY AND TO TALK OF RECOVERY REFLECTS DELUSION AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.
IT IS CRAZY FOR GOVERNMENTS THEMSELVES FULL OF DEBTS TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE TO BOOST THE ECONOMY IN SEARCH OF A RECOVERY BECAUSE IT IS LIKE A SHOT OF HEROIN, YOU MAY FEEL GOOD FOR A WHILE BUT LATER THE AGONY IS WORSE.
YOU NEVER SPEND TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY, YOU ONLY SPEND IF THERE IS SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO BUY AND YOU CAN AFFORD IT. IF THERE IS SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO BUY AND YOU CANNOT AFFORD THEN YOU GO WITHOUT.
THUS PROFESSOR STIGLITZ IS TALKING NONSENSE LIKE SO MANY ECONOMISTS.
Why there can be no recovery, it is terminal:
You don’t need to be an economic expert, professor or Fed Reserve chairman, nor are supernatural powers needed to diagnose that there can be no global economic recovery. What you need is discernment, the ability to see things happening truly, as they actually are rather than as deluded experts tell you and what you like or refuse to see.
The past extended boom was due to gross excesses, the squandering of people’s savings, the transfer of wealth from the many to the few, plunder of the earth, useless unproductive excessive investment in commercial and residential properties that people cannot afford, America printing worthless paper money to buy from the world and gross corruption (NINJA property lending and entities like AIG insuring loans without cash backing).
ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM ALWAYS END IN DISASTER AND BECAUSE THE PAST WAS ABUSE RECOVERY MEANS A REVERSION TO THAT ABUSE AND EVEN IF THAT IS POSSIBLE IT MEANS THERE WILL BE AN EVEN MORE TERRIBLE RECKONING WHEN COLLAPSE AGAIN ENSUES AFTER THE BRIEF RECOVERY.
AND SO ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS DOES NOT TALK ABOUT RECOVERY WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE BUT HE TALKS ABOUT REFORMING. NO MATTER HOW WONDERFUL THE REFORM IT WILL NEVER REPRODUCE THE FROTHY BOOM CONDITIONS OF THE BINGING PAST AND SO DON’T KEEP YOUR FINGER CROSSED FOR A REFORMING BOOM.
AND YOU ARE KIDDING YOURSELF IF YOU PERCEIVE MANKIND IS TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF OR CAPABLE OF DOING SO, WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS MANKIND DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR MORE FIRE WOOD TO THROW INTO THE SMOLDERING FIRE THAT THREATENS TO SNUFF OUT.
America Exporting Out Of Trouble Will Be Painful:
Because America owes China a lot of money, if it were to export itself out of trouble it will get nothing for its exports except cancellation of existing debts. Further, America must pay its workers wages for work involved in the exporting and it must buy the raw materials for the exports.
AMERICA MUST PAY WORKERS WAGES AND BUY THE RAW MATERIALS FOR ITS EXPORTS TO CHINA AND YET IT WILL GET NOTHING IN RETURN EXCEPT A CANCELLATION OF PAST DEBTS AND SO IT WILL BE A TALL ORDER FOR AMERICA TO EXPORT ITSELF OUT OF TROUBLE AS IT DELUDES ITSELF.
My take of the boom:
Whilst money was being transferred from the many to the few, abetted by governments and reckless corrupt bankers, decimating savers’ money and saddling many foolish greedy borrowers with crippling debts, the economy boomed, especially when through repeated cycles of depositing, lending, re-depositing and lent again, a single million can spawn millions of debts and create the illusion of many millionaires when there is only one million in the system. When a critical mass of money has been transferred into the hands of the few (by hook or crook) then the system becomes unstable and even gridlocked, there is now too much money in the hands of the few who cannot spend enough to stimulate the economy and there are many now ‘full of debts’ or their savings in banks recklessly lent never to return (because savers’ money is gone, banks have no money to lend so they have to print more to lend) such that they cannot spend to keep the economy healthy. And a lot of the money was spent on useless things that people cannot afford (houses, cars) or perishables that are now gone but the debts remain. Further the filthily rich are not satisfied with putting their money in banks but they invest in hedge funds that trawl all over the world, looking for plunder than further destabilizes the system (eg speculate in oil or short sell BP or VW shares). Add to this, greedy American companies who have moved overseas to manufacture to maximize profits depriving their markets of jobs and America recklessly printing money not marginally but grossly to pay for its imports, you have a recipe for terminal disaster.
Unforgettable Teresa Teng:
Anyone who utters that is guilty of falsity and flirting with insanity.
Nothing is unforgettable but it is forgettable both on a temporary and more permanent basis.
If you say Teresa Teng is unforgettable it means that whoever knows her cannot forget her and that is not true. There are many to whom she is forgettable.
Even the most ardent fan does not remember her 24 hours a day, but there are even days or months when they don’t think of her.
‘UNFORGETTABLE’ IS SAID DRIVEN OUT OF EMOTION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING TO EXAGGERATE HOW WONDERFUL SOMETHING IS. IF YOU SAY SOMETHING IS UNFORGETTABLE WHEN IT IS FORGETTABLE THEN YOU ARE TRAINING YOURSELF IN FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
AS THE BUDDHA SAID, TO ONE WHO SEES THERE IS NOTHING, EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD IS FALSE, DECEPTIVE, FORGETTABLE, NOT EVERLASTING, SUFFERING NOT THE PLEASURE MADE OUT TO BE.
Doing work but for what?
This is the HP CEO involved in a sex scandal.
He is doing work not ‘not doing work’. Involuntarily, he is screwing up the muscles around his mouth in reaction perhaps the adverse publicity he is confronted with. It may be he is steeling himself against the mental pain, being ‘stoic’ or putting on a brave face. All these are emotional expressions, the muscles are not doing anything productive except expressing or putting on a show.
IT CANNOT BE DISPUTED THAT SCREWING UP THE MUSCLES SERVE NO PURPOSE EXCEPT FOR SHOW AND BECAUSE IT IS MEANINGLESS ANYONE WHO SCREWS UP HIS MUSCLES IS HEADED FOR INSANITY BECAUSE HE IS PRACTICING WHAT IS MEANINGLESS.
IF YOU USE YOUR HANDS TO PREPARE A MEAL THAT IS USEFUL OR MEANINGFUL WORK, IF YOU USE YOUR HANDS TO EXPRESS YOURSELF FLORIDLY AS YOU SPEAK YOU ARE PRACTICING CONTROLLED INSANITY.
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BECOME INSANE AND BECOME CONSIGNED TO THE SCRAP HEAP OF ETERNITY YOU MUST ENSURE EVERY ACTION OR WORD OF YOURS HAS MEANING THAT IS TRUE OR USEFUL.
SM Goh urges S'poreans to re-think priorities for new S'pore Dream
Anyone who truly understands must understand this is a deluded statement with karma not merit due to the speaker.
Anyone partaking of the Singapore dream is a man who will not deny himself, who is interested in and immersed in his life here and therefore will lose it to return again and again first as animals before taking the human form again.
A dream is a plan however nebulous and you become a slave of that plan or dream and therefore a suffering robot rather than master of yourself. Further if you examine that dream it is likely if not certainly related to material success and pursuits that are bondage to suffering than release.
Disgraced HP boss gets $28 million:
There is nothing graceful or disgraceful about the dismissal of the HP boss accused of sexual misconduct and it is a reflection of false perception on the part of the speaker and emotional people that disgrace is involved. The truth of the matter is this “Dismissed HP boss gets $28 million”.
It is never harmless having false perception but it can even be fatal eg a disgraced man may resort to alcohol, even suicide and homicide driven by his shame.
The fact that people find many situations funny reflects their false perception and understanding of what they see. In truth nothing is funny and it is their falsely unnecessarily stirred mental force that makes what they see or hear funny. The Buddha does not have to suppress his mirth at anything happening because he correctly sees nothing as funny, his mental force is not stirred by whatever he sees so how is he to see or hear it as funny?
THAT EMOTIONAL PEOPLE PERCEIVE MANY THINGS THEY SEE OR HEAR AS FUNNY IS PROOF THEY HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY SEE AS TRUE, THEY TRULY PERCEIVE THAT WHAT THEY PERCEIVE AS FUNNY IS FUNNY.
You are talking about meaningless force:
When you describe someone, the HP boss as being disgraced you are talking about force being stirred not something meaningful because you need stirred mental force to be disgraced or shamed.
IT IS STIRRED MENTAL FORCE (DISLIKE FOR SELF AS BEING SHAMED OR ANOTHER YOU PERCEIVE AS BEING DISGRACED) THAT GIVES RISE TO SHAME OR DISGRACE, WITHOUT STIRRED MENTAL FORCE THERE CAN BE NO DISGRACE OR SHAME AND SO WHEN YOU DESCRIBE SOMEONE AS BEING DISGRACED YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT STIRRED MENTAL FORCE THAT IS MEANINGLESS, HARMFUL AND EVANESCENT. IT IS THE FALSE PERCEPTION OR DELUSION OF THE PERSON WHO TALKS OF DISGRACE THAT MAKES IT MEANINGFUL SO THAT HE SPEAKS IN TERMS OF DISGRACE WHEN THE SUBSTANCE OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE HP BOSS WAS DISMISSED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH STIRRED MENTAL FORCE OR DISGRACE OR GRACE?
It is a sin to look down on others:
It is a sin to look down on others and perceiving someone as disgraced is to look down and outcaste him with karma and future due you rather than merit.
A MAN WHO SEES TRULY SEE CLEARLY WHAT A PERSON HAS DONE WRONG OR IS HARMFUL TO OTHERS, HE DOES NOT SEE HIM AS DISGRACED OR TO BE LOOKED DOWN OR SHAMED. THUS HE PERCEIVES A MAN WHO HAS DONE WRONG AND WHAT THAT WRONG IS BUT HE DOES NOT PERCEIVE THAT MAN AS DISGRACED OR SHAME, HIS MENTAL FORCE IS NOT STIRRED TO PERCEIVE HIM WITH REPULSION OR DISLIKE.
Abuse can only be revived not recovered from:
Many economists, including Stiglitz & Krugman who were eminently critical of the excesses and crass recklessness sustaining the past boom are fondly hopeful of a recovery from the parlous state of the economy today not realizing it shows they have no understanding and have false logic.
If the past boom was caused by abuses and would have collapsed much earlier if not for feckless government interventions all over the world to stoke the excesses (eg keep lowering interest rates, boosting money supply, permitting totally irresponsible lending via credit card and mortgages, keep cutting taxes, tax refunds, money for clunkers, US deceitfully printing money without backing to buy from the world and squandering the world’s money stashed in the US for safekeeping and anything they can think of to stoke spending and keep the economy artificially unsustainably hot) and surely if leftwing economists like Stiglitz and Krugman understood truly that what has happened today reflects the inevitable final collapse from a load of debt finally too heavy to be borne they would not speak foolishly about recovery or engineering a recovery. A person with true logic and understanding will realize there cannot be any recovery from such a final debacle but what remains is reformation which would be painstaking and can never deliver a return to the hot frothy economies of the past.
THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN MANY PAST COLLAPSES OF THE ECONOMY THAT WERE AVERTED OR REVIVED BY GOVERNMENT STIMULATORY MEASURES OF ALL ILKS AND THIS CURRENT COLLAPSE REPRESENTS THE FINAL RECKONING OF WHAT CANNOT BE SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET ANYMORE OR THE WORLD HAS KEPT SWEEPING ITS DEBT PROBLEMS UNDER THE CARPET UNTIL NOW THE CARPET IS SO PREGNANT, NO MORE DIRT CAN BE SWEPT UNDER IT.
THUS ONE SEEING TRULY AND REASONING WITH TRUE LOGIC (AND STIGLITZ AND KRUGMAN BEING DETRACTORS SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND KNOW) WILL CONCLUDE THAT THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY. THE PAST BOOM WAS BASED ON ABUSES AND THERE CAN NEVER BE ANY RECOVERY (ONLY REVIVAL AND DELAYING THE RECKONING BY STIMULATION) FROM ABUSE THAT HAS BECOME CANCEROUS. THE PAST BOOM WAS A MIRAGE NOT SOLID AND YOU CANNOT RECOVER TO A MIRAGE THAT WAS NEVER THERE.
IF THERE CAN BE NO RECOVERY, NO WAY BACK, WHAT REMAINS IS WHETHER THE WORLD WILL KEEP SEARCHING EVERYWHERE FOR ANY DROPS OF ALCOHOL TO SUSTAIN ITS ADDICTION OR IT WILL REFORM, TRULY CORRECT THE EXCESSES AND ABUSES OF THE PAST. EVEN IF REFORMS WERE SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT, IT WILL BE PAINFUL AND PROLONGED AND CAN NEVER DELIVER THE FROTHY HOT ECONOMY OF THE PAST. ANYONE WHO THINKS MANKIND IS REFORMING IS KIDDING HIMSELF, DELUDED, EVEN NOW MANKIND IS DIGGING A BIGGER HOLE FOR HIMSELF BY PRINTING MONEY TO STIMULATE.
What Hadi Awang actually said:
The deputy PM praised Awang for championing Malay rights when Awang’s stance may be quite different. Either the deputy PM was brainwashed by the official media or he is trying to sow division in the opposition.
Actually, Hadi was responding to a reporter’s question about his comments on what Tony Pua said -- that there should no longer be a special discount for Bumiputera buyers of luxury homes or expensive houses. And what Hadi said was Tony Pua’s view is his personal view and which was never raised, discussed and agreed by Pakatan Rakyat.
Hadi then went on to say that, granted, the Malays form the majority of Malaysia’s population so the majority of the poor would therefore be Malays. But we can’t just look after the interest of the Malays while ignoring the interest of the other communities who are also poor. It is wrong to just look into the interest of the Malays while ignoring the interest of the others, argued Hadi.
In short, Hadi said that all poor Malaysians, Malays or otherwise, need to be looked after. And the discount on the purchase of houses should be given to all who are eligible, not just to Malays.
Hadi also commented on the implementation issue. The problem is that the economy of the country has been mismanaged and we therefore need to look at this rather than focus on the issue of Malays.
So there you have it. Umno and the mainstream media twisted what Hadi actually said to make it appear like he too is now fighting for Malay rights and privileges. But Hadi made it very clear that we must fight for all needy Malaysians regardless of race and clean up the abuse in the implementation process and address the mismanagement of the economy.
Frank Rich: How to lose an election without really trying:
This is in the NYT and it is an absurd statement with repercussions in suffering to those responsible.
If a person or party did not want to win an election it would withdraw or choose not to run, it must be very rare or bizarre for a candidate or party to run and try to lose and so the premise for his statement is false and nonexistent and renders what he said about trying to lose without even trying absurd and senseless and so he is practicing controlled insanity he thinks is full of meaning.
HOW MANY IF ANY WILL RUN FOR ELECTION HE TRIES TO LOSE? IF HE DID NOT WANT TO WIN, WHY WASTE HIS MONEY AND ENERGY RUNNING UNLESS HE WAS PAID TO DO SO (EG RALPH NADER MAY BE PAID TO RUN AS SPOILER BUT EVEN THEN HE DESIRES TO WIN OR WIN A SIZEABLE VOTE TO BE SPOILER). THUS HE IS TALKING NONSENSE IN TELLING OTHERS HOW TO LOSE AN ELECTION WITHOUT EVEN TRYING AS IF ANYONE IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD WASTE HIS ENERGY, TIME AND MONEY TO RUN IF HE WANTED TO LOSE.
Sweet & good? You perceive falsely:
Whilst there will be some who find her repugnant, most will be attracted by her & their mental forces thus stirred attractively they perceive her falsely as good when it is the opposite.
She is not good except in your false perception because she is stirring considerable prolonging, accelerating in speed and strength mental force that she is radiating which harms herself and others and so she is bad.
ANYONE WHO STIRS AND RADIATES TOTALLY UNNECESSARY FORCE TO DISPLAY EXPRESSIONS TO ATTRACT OTHERS IS NOT GOOD BUT HARMFUL AND EVIL. IT IS AN OBSERVOR’S FALSE PERCEPTION AS A RESULT OF HIS STIRRED BLINDING MENTAL FORCE THAT CAUSES HIM TO PERCEIVE HER AS GOOD, WHOLESOME AND TRUSTWORTHY WHEN IT IS NOT THE CASE.
IF YOU CANNOT TELL IF SHE IS GOOD OR BAD OR YOU PERCEIVE SHE IS SWEET AND GOOD, YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION THAT IF NOT CHANGED WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
SHE IS INVITING YOU TO STIR YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO BE ATTRACTED AND ANYONE WHO INVITES OTHERS TO STIR THEIR MENTAL FORCE IS COMMITTING AN EVIL.
Phillip Booth: History shows self regulation is the best kind of control
Either he is deluded or he is vested, he has vested interests saying so.
You do not need history to show you to know although history shows the opposite, self regulation is an open invitation for anarchy and exploitation, not only must there be regulations but they must be policed stringently.
HE HAS WRONG VIEW AND THERE CANNOT BE ANY DISPUTE AND HE IS HEADED FOR HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB BECAUSE SELF REGULATION IS AN OPEN INVITATION TO ABUSE AND THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE, REGULATIONS MUST BE IMPOSED AND THEY MUST BE POLICED STRIGENTLY. ANYONE WHO SEES TRULY DOES NOT NEED HISTORY TO SHOW HIM AND IT IS ONLY THE BLIND OR IGNORANT WHO NEEDS TO QUOTE HISTORY.
HERE IS A SUPPOSEDLY RESPECTABLE NEWSPAPER, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND IT ALLOWS SUCH FALLACIES TO BE PRINTED AS WORTH CONSIDERING.
Even in heaven there are rules:
According to the Buddha, there is Sakkha, the ruler of the gods and so there must be rules for there to be a ruler of the gods.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODS AND MEN IS THAT GODS CAN BE RULED BUT MEN ARE UNRULABLE CHEATS AND MALICIOUS.
Always liking and disliking:
It may be or is true that emotional people are always liking and disliking.
There are these six basic emotions: like, dislike, sadness, hurt, agitation and fear.
Generally whenever the emotional stylish person experiences sadness, hurt, agitation or fear, his dislike is also aroused although when mild to moderate sadness or fear, his like may be aroused.
THUS THE STYLISH EMOTIONAL MIND MAY EXPERIENCE AN ENDLESS, CEASELESS ALTERNATION BETWEEN LIKE AND DISLIKE, OFTEN THE LIKE IS FAKED TO APPEASE OTHERS AND IN GENERAL, DISLIKE IS THE PREDOMINANT OR MORE PREVALENT MOOD AS STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE ASSAIL HIM AND SAP HIS LIKE FOR THIS WORLD. IN ADDITION, WHENEVER A PERSON EXPERIENCES SADNESS, HURT, AGITATION OR FEAR HIS DISLIKE IS ALSO AROUSED. NEVER A MOMENT GOES BY WITHOUT THE EMOTIONAL PERSON’S MIND BEING ROILED BY LIKE AND DISLIKE AND RATHER THAN A PLEASURE IT IS TOUTED TO BE, IT IS SUFFERING EVEN TO MADDENING HOMICIDAL SUICIDAL LEVELS. A PERSON WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THE INCOMPARABLY SUPERIOR MENTAL STATE OF NEITHER LIKING NOR DISLIKING WHATEVER IS HAPPENING TO HIM AND THE WORLD DOES NOT ENVY THOSE TRAPPED IN PERPETUAL LIKE AND DISLIKE.
Malaysia’s narrow broadband:
Although Streamyx’s 1MB speed download is quite adequate for my purposes, in UK they are talking about 20MB and most get at least a few MB. Thus Malaysia’s broadband speed lags considerably compared with UK.
Celcom’s basic wireless broadband speed of 384 kbps can be found wanting at times and they have upgraded it to 500 kbps but this is still far from lightning fast.
What is he doing?
There are two possible reasons for screwing up your face thus and both are controlled insanity that ends in insanity.
One is that a person is very tired (a form of suffering) and it is his response to tiredness, to summon up mental force to screw up his face and use his hands to forcibly grab his face to forcibly resist the suffering.
Rather than the common wrong understanding that it is understandable for a person to screw up his face because he is tired, it is a totally wrong and inappropriate response. First of all, one should not abuse oneself by pushing oneself until it is painfully tired but he should have desisted long ago and after you have painted yourself into a corner of stress, you do not summon force to drive out the tiredness because the stirred force adds to or compounds the suffering of exposure to force but you must rest to allow the existing force to dissipate.
BY STIRRING UP FORCE IN SCREWING UP YOUR FACE AND USING YOUR HAND TO GRIP YOUR HEAD YOU ARE APPLYING MORE FORCE TO YOUR MIND ALREADY SUFFERING FROM FORCE OVERLOAD AND SO IT IS POURING OIL TO A FIRE RATHER THAN DOUSING THE FIRE AND IT REFLECTS WRONG UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE THAT THEY SEE THE ACTION AS PERFECTLY REASONABLE.
The other possibility is that he is upset, something hurtful has happened and he is grimacing to bear and control the mental anguish and here too he is doing work with his face and hand that is actually meaningless, does no useful work and therefore controlled madness that will end in madness.
GRIMACING OR SCREWING UP YOUR FACE IS A TOTALLY MEANINGLESS USELESS USE OF FORCE THAT AGAIN SUBJECTS YOUR MIND TO FORCE THAT WILL ULTIMATELY DESTROY YOUR MIND AND SO IT IS MAD TO SCREW UP YOUR FACE OR GRASP YOUR FACE IN RESPONSE TO HURT OR SHAME BUT PEOPLE CANNOT HELP IT, IT IS INVOLUNTARY THEIR STRONGLY AROUSED EMOTION SEIZES THEM TO SCREW UP THEIR FACES.
IT IS CRAZY TO STIR FORCE OR SCREW UP YOUR FACE TO TRY TO SHAKE OFF TIREDNESS, IT ONLY EXPOSES YOUR MIND TO MORE FORCE THAT MUST BE DISSIPATED. THE CORRECT RESPONSE IS TO ALLOW THE AROUSED FORCE TO DISSIPATE AND MAKE SURE YOU DON’T PERMIT FORCE TO BUILD UP TO SUCH JAMMED LEVELS THE NEXT TIME.
IT IS AGAIN MAD, USELESS TO SCREW UP YOUR FACE WHEN SEIZED BY HURT BUT THE HURT PERSON IS A SLAVE NOT MASTER OF HIS ACTIONS.
Force is the wrong, foolish antidote to suffering:
Unless you are a fool, you never summon force to counter, resist or drive out suffering because that only exposes your mind to more force that will end in additional suffering.
A PERSON’S MENTAL SUFFERING IS CAUSED BY FORCE ACTING ON HIS MIND AND SO IT IS FOOLISH TO SUMMON FORCE TO DRIVE OUT OR RESIST SUFFERING BECAUSE IT ADDS FURTHER FORCE OR IS POURING OIL INTO THE FIRE.
THE WISE PERSON ALLOWS THE ARISEN FORCE TO DISSIPATE BY ITSELF AND DOES NOT STOKE IT IN ANYWAY AND HE MAKES SURE IN FUTURE HE NEVER ALLOWS FORCE TO BUILD UP TO UNBEARABLE TORMENTING LEVELS.
America destroys roads it cannot afford:
According to Krugman, in some parts of America roads are being destroyed because local authorities cannot afford to maintain them.
It reflects again America was living way beyond its means such that now ambushed, it has to destroy roads to save costs. But the money spent building (and destroying) the roads are money down the drain.
Emotion is an important ingredient:
This is not a passage devoid of emotion but even in its written instead of spoken form, a discerning person can detect emotion. The way it is written indicates the writer is telling you off, ticking uyu off, condescending as if he is very clever and you are stupid.
Quote: So who are all those people at the mall? It's easy to forget (a way of putting it that is driven by emotion to be condescending) that a 9.5 percent unemployment rate means that roughly 9 out of 10 Americans in the workforce are still employed. "Some consumers are probably liquidity-constrained," says Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. These are "the ones who are probably not the ones buying iPads. But 90 percent of Americans do have a job, and maybe 70 percent are confident about them. And maybe half of those have liquidity."
WHAT HE IS TELLING YOU IS THAT THE MALLS ARE FULL BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH UNEMPLOYMENT IS 9.5 PER CENT, 9 OUT OF 10 AMERICANS ARE STILL WORKING AND IT IS THESE WHO ARE STILL BUYING. HOWEVER THE WRITTEN MANNER IS MAKING MUCH OF IT AS IF IT IS A GREAT DISCOVERY OR FEAT OF DISCERNMENT.
ALWAYS PEOPLE WANT TO TRANSMIT EMOTION AND WANT TO STIR EMOTION IN OTHERS IN WHAT THEY SAY OR DO AND THAT IS EVIL AND MEANINGLESS.
Domineering:
The style of presentation indicates the person is domineering and you need force or its proxy emotion, not reason to dominate. What he says is false because it is not as simple as he puts it. Not all the 90% still employed are buying, some of them may be saving or worried about their future or with heavy debt burdens, curtailed their buying. Thus it is simplistic to say that just because 90% are employed, although 10% are unemployed the malls are full. Many may be window shopping. Rather than depressed staying at home they may be just window shopping at the malls.
The speed and efficiency of modern banking is also its nemesis:
The much vaunted speed and efficiency of modern computer based banking is also its nemesis, a killer to the unwary who do not understand they are handling highly explosive volatile TNT. Just as TNT must be handled with extreme care because it is volatile and easily explodes, even so the modern computerised banking is like TNT.
Clearing of funds can be instantaneous today with computers even working 24 hours a day. Where it might take a few days to clear a transaction in the past, today it may be virtually instantaneous.
Thus, because hardly anybody keeps his money out of the banking system, with the advent of 24 hours fast computers, a million dollar deposited can be lent, re-deposited and lent rapidly again for many repeated cycles with demand for credit even much higher because all banks are linked by computers so that the market for borrowers becomes even worldwide where in the past it was restricted to local demand.
NOT ONLY CAN A SINGLE MILLION DEPOSITED IN A BANK SPAWN MANY MILLIONS OF DEBT BECAUSE THE MONEY IS RECYCLED ALMOST IN PERPETUITY BECAUSE VIRTUALLY EVERYONE KEEPS HIS MONEY IN BANKS, THE ADVENT OF SPEEDY COMPUTERS AND INTERLINKED BANKS EVEN GLOBALLY MEANS THE DEMAND FOR BORROWING IS MUCH HIGHER AND SO RAPIDLY EVEN MANY MULTIPLES OF THAT SINGLE MILLION IN DEBT MAY BE SPAWNED. IF THE MONEY HAS BEEN LENT RECKLESSLY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY OR CERTAINLY WILL DEFAULT THEN IT IS A RECIPE FOR A ‘WHOOPING’ COLLAPSE AND CREDIT CRUNCH.
THUS WHEN PANIC SEIZES THE SYSTEM AND JUST A FEW WITHDRAW THEIR MONEY, THE BANKS ARE LEFT WITHOUT MONEY TO LEND BECAUSE THERE WAS ONLY A MILLION IN THE SYSTEM IN REALITY (BACKING MANY MILLIONS IN LOANS) AND SOMEONE HAS NOW TAKEN OUT THAT MILLION IN FEAR.
THERE WAS NEVER SO MUCH CREDIT OR LIQUIDITY IN THE SYSTEM, IT WAS ONLY AN ILLUSION CREATED BY DEPOSITING, LENDING AND THEN RE-DEPOSITING ABETTED BY EFFICIENT COMPUTERISED LINKED BANKING. AS LONG AS MONEY WAS KEPT IN BANKS AND RECYCLED THE SYSTEM HUMMED ALONG, BUT SHOULD THERE BE PANIC WITHDRAWAL, THEN REALITY DAWNS, THERE IS ONLY ONE MILLION IN THE SYSTEM AND IF THIS IS TAKEN OUT, THERE IS NOTHING IN THE BANKS AND THENCE A CREDIT CRISIS.
After All:
Quote: After all, Najib Razak has already declared Malaysia an Islamic state, which he did in July 2007.
“After all” sounds nice and meaningful to emotional people but it is meaningless, a speech appendage copied from others robotically without understanding its meaning or lack of.
What has ‘after all’ got to do with the matter at hand? Do you need to ‘after all’ to arrive at Najib has already declared ‘blah, blah, blah’?
‘AFTER ALL’ IS A MEANINGLESS FOR SHOW APPENDAGE FOR SPEECH THAT IS COPIED FROM OTHERS AND SO THE PERSON IS A REHASHING ROBOT. BECAUSE THE PERSON PERCEIVES IT AS MEANINGFUL AND CHARMING, HE HAS FALSE PERCEPTION THAT WILL END IN MAD PERCEPTION.
After all signifies resignation:
The meaning of ‘after all’ is not clear cut but nebulous, it is to depict resignation which is about emotion or force never substance or meaning.
Thus ‘after all’ is intended to convey emotion to stir emotion in others.
After all may also unfairly exert pressure to accept:
As I said, ‘after all’ does not make true sense and so its meaning may be plural or nebulous. After all may also be intended to exert pressure on the recipient to agree or accede or accept what is proposed. ‘After all’ may mean after a thorough or complete appraisal, it is blah, blah, blah and so you should accept.
IT IS NO ONE’S BUSINESS TO INSIST ANOTHER AGREE AND SO IT IS EXERTING UNRIGHTEOUS PRESSURE (ONLY FORCE CAN PRESSURE) AND SO IT IS AGAIN AN INSTANCE OF CONVEYING FORCE.
After all what?
When a person says ‘after all’ without specifying he is speaking vaguely and whatever is vague is never true. Whatever is true is specific and clearly defined. Does he mean ‘after considering all things’? If that is the case he never said that because you have perception if you think ‘after all’ means ‘after considering all things’. And if what you say is not truly ‘after all’ then you are speaking falsely.
‘AFTER ALL’ ALONE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, YOU MUST STATE CLEARLY ‘AFTER ALL WHAT’. BECAUSE HE NEVER STATED CLEARLY ‘AFTER ALL WHAT’ HE IS SPEAKING FALSELY WITH KARMA TO BE EXPERIENCED AS FUTURE SUFFERING.
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
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Commentary by Laurence Kotlikoff
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.
What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be redesigned to achieve their legitimate purposes at much lower cost and, in the process, revitalize the economy.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund released its annual review of U.S. economic policy. Its summary contained these bland words about U.S. fiscal policy: “Directors welcomed the authorities’ commitment to fiscal stabilization, but noted that a larger than budgeted adjustment would be required to stabilize debt-to-GDP.”
But delve deeper, and you will find that the IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt. Section 6 of the July 2010 Selected Issues Paper says: “The U.S. fiscal gap associated with today’s federal fiscal policy is huge for plausible discount rates.” It adds that “closing the fiscal gap requires a permanent annual fiscal adjustment equal to about 14 percent of U.S. GDP.”
The fiscal gap is the value today (the present value) of the difference between projected spending (including servicing official debt) and projected revenue in all future years.
Double Our Taxes
To put 14 percent of gross domestic product in perspective, current federal revenue totals 14.9 percent of GDP. So the IMF is saying that closing the U.S. fiscal gap, from the revenue side, requires, roughly speaking, an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal-income, corporate and federal taxes as well as the payroll levy set down in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act.
Such a tax hike would leave the U.S. running a surplus equal to 5 percent of GDP this year, rather than a 9 percent deficit. So the IMF is really saying the U.S. needs to run a huge surplus now and for many years to come to pay for the spending that is scheduled. It’s also saying the longer the country waits to make tough fiscal adjustments, the more painful they will be.
Is the IMF bonkers?
No. It has done its homework. So has the Congressional Budget Office whose Long-Term Budget Outlook, released in June, shows an even larger problem.
‘Unofficial’ Liabilities
Based on the CBO’s data, I calculate a fiscal gap of $202 trillion, which is more than 15 times the official debt. This gargantuan discrepancy between our “official” debt and our actual net indebtedness isn’t surprising. It reflects what economists call the labeling problem. Congress has been very careful over the years to label most of its liabilities “unofficial” to keep them off the books and far in the future.
For example, our Social Security FICA contributions are called taxes and our future Social Security benefits are called transfer payments. The government could equally well have labeled our contributions “loans” and called our future benefits “repayment of these loans less an old age tax,” with the old age tax making up for any difference between the benefits promised and principal plus interest on the contributions.
The fiscal gap isn’t affected by fiscal labeling. It’s the only theoretically correct measure of our long-run fiscal condition because it considers all spending, no matter how labeled, and incorporates long-term and short-term policy.
$4 Trillion Bill
How can the fiscal gap be so enormous?
Simple. We have 78 million baby boomers who, when fully retired, will collect benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that, on average, exceed per-capita GDP. The annual costs of these entitlements will total about $4 trillion in today’s dollars. Yes, our economy will be bigger in 20 years, but not big enough to handle this size load year after year.
This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck.
Herb Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President Richard Nixon, coined an oft-repeated phrase: “Something that can’t go on, will stop.” True enough. Uncle Sam’s Ponzi scheme will stop. But it will stop too late.
And it will stop in a very nasty manner. The first possibility is massive benefit cuts visited on the baby boomers in retirement. The second is astronomical tax increases that leave the young with little incentive to work and save. And the third is the government simply printing vast quantities of money to cover its bills.
Worse Than Greece
Most likely we will see a combination of all three responses with dramatic increases in poverty, tax, interest rates and consumer prices. This is an awful, downhill road to follow, but it’s the one we are on. And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece.
Some doctrinaire Keynesian economists would say any stimulus over the next few years won’t affect our ability to deal with deficits in the long run.
This is wrong as a simple matter of arithmetic. The fiscal gap is the government’s credit-card bill and each year’s 14 percent of GDP is the interest on that bill. If it doesn’t pay this year’s interest, it will be added to the balance.
Demand-siders say forgoing this year’s 14 percent fiscal tightening, and spending even more, will pay for itself, in present value, by expanding the economy and tax revenue.
My reaction? Get real, or go hang out with equally deluded supply-siders. Our country is broke and can no longer afford no- pain, all-gain “solutions.”
(Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and author of “Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking.” The opinions expressed are his own.)
The seven treasures according to the Buddha:
When asked what are treasures, the Buddha straightaway without thinking comes out with these seven treasures which are not only all true but there is no treasure that the Buddha has left out, reflecting his nature as he claims of being the seer and knower of all.
Ordinary people when asked to name what are treasures would have to pause and deliberate and they may come up with a list but it is likely to be incomplete and it is unlikely if not certainly that their list of treasures will not correspond with the Buddha’s.
Wealth, sensate enjoyment, power and fame are not treasures or false treasures that are unsatisfactory and lead to suffering even over an extended period of millions of years.
IF IT IS TRUE YOU HAVE MANY PAST LIVES AND HAVE SHED YOUR OWN BLOOD AND WEPT TEARS GREATER THAN THE FOUR GREAT OCEANS BUILDING A PILE OF SKELETON AS HIGH AS A MOUNTAIN OVER AN EON OR AGE AND THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN COUNTLESS EONS, THAT IF YOU DID NOT MAKE YOURSELF NOBLE YOU HAVE SUFFERING THAT IS AS VAST AS AN OCEAN OR THE HIMALAYAS DUE TO YOU THEN WHATEVER QUALITIES OR POSSESSIONS THAT LIBERATE YOU FROM THIS ENDLESS TRAIN OF WOE ARE INDEED TRUE TREASURES AND IT IS JUST THESE SEVEN TREASURES THAT THE BUDDHA ENUNCIATED THAT WILL DELIVER A BEING FORM ETERNAL TORMENT TO ETERNAL BLISS & RESPITE.
NO ORDINARY PERSON WOULD STRAIGHTAWAY COME OUT WITH THIS LIST OF SEVEN TREASURES AND IT IS PROOF THE BUDDHA IS ALL SEEING AND KNOWING THAT HE CAN NAME THE SEVEN TREASURES WITHOUT DOUBT OR HESITANCY & HE IS INVARIABLY CORRECT.
Dhana Sutta: Treasure
"Monks, there are these seven treasures. Conviction, virtue, conscience, concern, listening, generosity, discernment."And what is the treasure of conviction? There is the case where a noble disciple is convinced of the Tathagata's Awakening.
"And what is the treasure of virtue? There is the case where a noble disciple abstains from taking life, stealing, illicit sexual conduct, lying, taking intoxicants.
"And what is the treasure of conscience? There is the case where a noble disciple feels shame at [the thought of engaging in] bodily / verbal / mental misconduct. This is called the treasure of conscience.
"And what is the treasure of concern? There is the case where a noble disciple feels concern for [the suffering that results from] bodily, verbal, mental misconduct.
"And what is the treasure of listening? There is the case where a noble disciple has heard much, has retained what he/she has heard. (Jesus said their eyes they have closed. Many have closed minds, eyes and ears, they have only eyes and ears for material gains and pleasures and so not listening they continue to wallow in the mire)
"And what is the treasure of generosity? There is the case of a noble disciple, his awareness cleansed of stinginess, living at home, freely generous, open handed, delighting in the distribution of alms.
"And what is the treasure of discernment? There is the case where a noble disciple is discerning, endowed with discernment of arising & passing away -- noble, penetrating, leading to the right ending of stress.
These, monks, are the seven treasures.
Whoever, man or woman, has these treasures
is said not to be poor, has not lived in vain.
(Can you say what the Buddha said above? How can you call him a fake or no better than you?)
Why the Buddha does not stutter or falter:
It is impossible for emotional stylish people to successfully complete without stuttering or faltering what the seven treasures are unless they rehearse obsessively until they can reel it off slickly from their mental jukebox. Even then they are vulnerable to distractions by others or if their emotions become suddenly aroused, they might block the rendition.
The difference between the Buddha and ordinary people is that he has a totally concentrated mind that cannot be disrupted by others. Once he visualized what he wants to say, he is fully attentive to what he wants to say, is aware what he just said, is saying and will be saying next and therefore he does not falter or stutter. Should someone interrupt whilst he speaks, he does not continue nor become annoyed but he remains silent, even his thinking is shutdown so how can he be provoked?
IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO THINK TO SPEAK AND WHAT THEY SAY IS REHASHED FROM A MENTAL COPY THAT THEY CAN STUTTER AND FALTER WITH WHAT THEY SAY ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE DISTRACTED OR INTERRUPTED BY OTHERS OR IF THEIR EMOTIONS BECOME AROUSED.
WHAT THE BUDDHA SAYS, NO MATTER HOW COMPLICATED OR EXTENDED IS BASED ON CLEARLY SEEING WHAT THE SITUATION IS, WHAT HE WANTS TO SAY THAT IS THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THE SITUATION AND HE POSSESSES EFFORTLESS TOTAL CONCENTRATION SO THAT HE CANNOT BE DISTRACTED BY OTHERS BUT HE IS ATTENTIVE TO WHAT HE HAS JUST SAID, IS NOW SAYING AND WILL NEXT SAY. SHOULD HE BE INTERRUPTED RUDELY, HE DOES NOT GET ANGRY BUT HE REVERTS TO SILENCE BOTH IN SPEECH AND THOUGHT.
Impossible for emotional people to give long discourses:
The Buddha gave many different long complex (sublime) discourses over the course of his life.
It is impossible for ordinary emotional people to emulate the Buddha because firstly it is impossible they are capable of sustaining such long compositions and even if they could, their emotionality and distractibility is such that any delivery is likely to be marred by episodic forgetting of what they have said or are going to say, mistakes of delivery, ‘accidental’ repeat of what they have already said or they have to correct themselves.
The only way emotional people can deliver long discourses is if they were to painstakingly practice or rehearse what they want to say until the rendition is very slick.
In contrast, the Buddha makes no mistakes in delivery, he does not absentmindedly repeat himself, forget what he is saying or going to say because his mind is fully concentrated, fully understanding of what he wants to say.
THUS EVEN THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THE BUDDHA DELIVERED MANY LONG, COMPLEX EVEN SUBLIME DISCOURSES THAT ARE TRUE INDICATES HE IS SOMEONE OF EXCEPTIONAL MENTAL FACULTIES. FOR EXAMPLE HE CLEARLY TAUGHT CAUSALITY; FROM IGNORANCE AS A CAUSE COMES FABRICATIONS, FROM FABRICATION AS A CAUSE COMES CONSCIOUSNESS, FROM CONSCIOUSNESS AS A CAUSE COMES NAME AND FORM, FROM NAME AND FORM AS A CAUSE COMES SENSORY MEDIA, FROM SENSORY MEDIA AS A CAUSE COMES CONTACT, FROM CONTACT COMES FEELINGS, FROM FEELINGS COME CRAVING, FROM CRAVING COMES CLINGING, FROM CLINGING COMES BECOMING, FROM BECOMING COMES BIRTH, FROM BIRTH COMES AGING, DEATH, SORROW, PAIN, DISTRESS AND DESPAIR.
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