What Is Acting & How People Act (Revised):

What Is Acting & How People Act (Revised):
Acting is what ordinary people do all the time and it is a prison of suffering and hence there are no part time actors but they are all fulltime actors until the day if ever they awake to how they act and put an end to their suffering.
Reflecting that this world is a creation of the consciousness and a prison of the senses trapping sinful beings in which animals are part of a continuum including humans, animals too act like human counterparts. Listen to the loud, insistent harsh calls of birds that stresses themselves and their perverted audience who think it is music. They don't chirp but chirp, chirp, chirp shrilly, loudly mindlessly. Animals engage in sophisticated deception to stalk preys. I have seen on TV a stork like bird collecting bread bits thrown by kids and dipping them into the water in front of him to imitate dropping bread pieces and then staying (or forcing himself to stay) still to wait for foolish fish to come. A specie of orchid has fabricated a flower so like a female bee that male bees prefer to copulate with it. This is deception of a high order.
Acting is the source of all unnecessary internal stresses. It is false and unnecessarily stresses the actor himself and recipients of his acting. Because acting is harmful (stressful) and false, it is sinful and because people act all the time, they are therefore sinning all the time. Because acting is forceful and harmful, it cumulatively warps and degrades the mind leading inevitably to acute and senile restlessness, mania (madness and violent impulses) and depression. All actors must experience regular bouts of restlessness, mad or violent thoughts or actions and depression which they are able to shrug but when they grow old, they will become uncontrollable.
A Definition Of Acting:
Driven by emotions (anger, hate, greed, fear, lust) and stress (distracts and seizes the mind), actors forcefully go against themselves all the time in a controlled way to exaggerate or fake what and how they say, do, perceive and think in the name of deceiving, impressing, pleasing, intimidating and dominating others. Because acting is going against oneself, it has to be constantly subject to forceful restraint or modulation or it will seriously harm the actor. Without restraint, turning back at the brink, actors will burn themselves out quickly.
Because all acting is false and fabricated, tampering with whatever the person wants to say or do, force must be applied to act. Anything that is done or said forcefully, with excessive force, with excessive acceleration of speed and force (instead of even speed or force) is acted. For example many actors speak in an explosive manner caused by a rapid acceleration of loudness and speed of words followed by sudden deceleration instead of easeful smoothly raising the loudness and maintaining the loudness during speech.

How Emotions & Stress Drives Acting:
It is because of greed(an emotion) that people constantly rush such that they are now forced to rush, no longer forcing themselves to rush. Whenever you rush, you must say or do things with excessive force and speed (loud & fast); you cannot be attentive but doing or saying things approximately by rote or well practiced regurgitation mindlessly and therefore acting.
It is because of fear (an emotion) that people learn to behave in falsely respectful ways (act) to authority figures like rulers, officials and parents. Driven by fear of punishment by authority figures, people learn to act submissive or respectful.
Driven by anger (an emotion) people act by shouting (loud, explosive speech) that stresses themselves and their victims in order to dominate or intimidate them.
Acting generates stress that couples with the stress from the bombardment of harsh acting by others. Stress from one's and others' acting causes the mind to be distracted, filled with ill will and restlessness, conditions inimical to not acting. Only when a person is calm, clearly thinking and serene will he not go against himself to act because acting will destroy that. Because actors’ minds have their serenity and clear thinking destroyed, they have forgotten or never tasted true calm serenity, they have learnt to accept their harassed mental states as natural and driven by internal and external stress, they continue to act somnolently.

Three types Of Acting & Act Breakdown:
They are voluntary (conscious) intended acting, involuntary (unconscious) intended acting and involuntary unintended or mad acting. There is further act breakdown people call nervous breakdowns.

Although ordinary people are constant actors, they are called upon to learn new acts all the time. For instance, they get married and have to learn how to act like a husband, a child is born and they have to learn how to act like a father. They are elected president and they have to learn how to act presidential according to what they think a president of the USA should act like.
Hence acting is initially conscious and hesitating or difficult as they learn how to act a new role eg playing tennis in a stylish way to impress others. This is called voluntary intended acting. (It is not that you must forcefully act to fulfill the role of husband or parent but because of social expectations and being an actor, they must act husband instead of being passively, let your yes be yes only a husband)
It is the nature of acting that what is well practiced frequently becomes automatic, can be rendered by rote needing little monitoring. Hence if actors make the successful transition (stress and conflict or anxiety that acting out any role creates is a stumbling block), his new act (eg as president) becomes involuntary (no longer forcing but forced by urge or impulse) intended acting. People smile and stretch their syllables all the time, they are fabricated to please or impress others but they are now done largely unconsciously without realising they are faking and stressful. Easeful not smiling when provoked and not to stretch their syllables are instead difficult if not impossible for actors to do. Though it may be slick and reduces self conscious anxiety, involuntary intended acting is a form of forceful denial, closing one's eyes to falsehood and harm to act, ceding control of oneself to blind forces (emotions, stress, urges, impulses), an act the actor fails to realize will ultimately lead to torment as he will increasingly lose control of his acting to become madly restless, madly violent, madly irrational and sink into irretrievable depression.
Whilst he is still consciously hesitatingly forcing himself to act eg presidential, he still has control and can stop his acting presidential but when he has graduated to become unconscious, automatically rendered acting president, he becomes a sophisticated forceful robot, a slave not master of sin headed for doom as all robots will ultimately disintegrate.

Mad involuntary unintended acting is the final malignant phase of acting getting out of control that initially afflicts actors briefly but will become more severe, prolonged and frequent as the actor's resistance disintegrates either in situational crises or as he ages. Because acting is forcefully going against oneself creating serious stress and conflict, it must generates forceful resentment against self and others that seeks expression but must be forcefully repressed because it would negate acting aimed to deceive, please and impress others if you accidentally scowled as you smiled alluringly. But it is precisely that you force yourself to stressfully smile at others that there must be an urge to be madly nasty, to emit explosive grunts, spits and violent acts (eg slam your fist on the desk out of the blue). When presidential candidate Howard Dean upset his bid by emitting a scream publicly after his primary defeat, he was manifesting involuntary unintended or mad acting beyond his control to act civilized.
Watch actors talking, eg on TV and you will see many poking their tongues out every now & then reflecting that what they say is faked to gain confidence and they are poking their tongues IMPULSIVELY to express hostility.
There is another type of mad acting as when someone emotionally washes his hands because of a fear of germs. In time to come, this urge or impulse to wash his hands becomes mad and he then keeps going to wash his hands obsessively and cannot help himself not to. Many like to believe their chirpy “Good morning” is genuine but they are all faked to get along. Because it is forcefully automated, not passively rendered by choice it sometimes slips the actor’s control to say ‘good morning’ inappropriately eg it is night or after knowingly having said good morning to the person earlier. When he grows old, he may find himself madly saying “good morning!” to himself. Because acting is forceful going against self, it develops a mind of its own that with the slipping of control by the actor becomes madly rendered beyond the actor's control.
Nervous breakdowns are act breakdowns. If a person never acts, never forcefully goes against himself to present a false alluring image of himself that is maintained mentally and physically at all cost, he will not drive himself to nervous breakdown. It is because people are pretentious, have overly unrealistically images that they want the world to believe in (how macho, seductive, intelligent they are) that when they are exposed or think they have lost face, they become shattered and experience a nervous breakdown.

How People Act:
They exaggerate what they speak:
They say extra words, extra sentences, beat around the bush unnecessarily to exaggerate. Eg they say ‘yes, yes, yes’ or ‘come, come, come’ instead of a single ‘yes’ or ‘come’. Many people do not realize they exaggerate, so used are they to their constant exaggeration.
For instance, this person uttered emotionally, “Nowadays even the nuns are late!” This is a form of exaggeration implying that it is so terrible nowadays; (what more lesser souls) even nuns do not keep their appointments. What is the big deal about nuns being late? Are nuns made of special stuff that they must be on time? How many nuns does he know and has he done a survey to show even nuns are late nowadays compared to the past? They may be late because of a traffic jam, not because they are deliberately being truant. Actually she was not late but the speaker failed to ascertain beforehand when she was supposed to turn up and was impatient for proceedings to start. When I told him (calmly) that there is karma disparaging the nun, he became upset (overreaction or exaggerated reaction). I did not scold him but told him calmly what he said has karma, so why should he become emotionally defiant? (If what I said is false, why get crossed over something that is not true or is he crossed because he is sensitive or proud, a defilement?)
Even if all nuns are being miscreant in deliberately arriving late, you are sinning disparaging them. You can say you are annoyed by their late coming but to disparage anyone is to sin and foolishly creates karma for yourself.
Many people utter ‘so’ emphatically without thinking to exaggerate, eg ‘sooo nice’, ‘sooo sweet’, ‘soooo terrible’. It is not enough for them to say it is nice, it is terrible, but they must mindlessly say ‘so terrible’ or ‘lotsa’ fun.
Watch yourself speaking and if you are honest (and discerning), you will find yourself reflexively, emotionally exaggerating far more than you concede. Whatever you might say, if you exaggerate, you will stress yourself and others and depression will be your companion and you will go to perdition.
When you say; “Wow! Look at him go!”, the ‘wow’ is said emotionally, unnecessarily to exaggerate. Suffice to say, “Look at him go. (without exclaiming)”. People say, “Look! I want you to know this” when it suffice to say, “I want you to know this”.
They exaggerate how they speak:
Many ordinary people speak too loud and fast than is necessary because they put too much force into how they speak. Whoever speaks loud and fast stresses himself (therefore goes against himself) and others. Not only do they speak loud and fast, they speak EXPLOSIVELY with exaggerated acceleration (and deceleration afterwards) of the loudness and speed of what they say. When you speak loudly with exaggerated volume (loud) and speed (fast) you are exaggerating how you speak.
Similarly, if you speak excessively softly (whisper) you are speaking with exaggerated volume and hence again exaggerating how you speak. When you whisper to try to seduce, you have to forcefully lower your voice and keep it lowered for an extended period creating stress.
Many people stretch their syllables all the time to be nice, to act concerned, to intimidate (eg Aiie wiilll kkillll youuu!!!) and this is exaggerating how you speak.
Instead of ‘please’ they say, “pplleeaassseee!”. Instead of “John Doe” they say “Jjohnnn Ddooee!”
They fake how they speak:
However earth shaking whatever you want to say, it can be said clearly and calmly without losing the message but you fake how you speak by speaking in an excited or dramatic way (popping eyes, grimacing face) to falsely impress others what you are saying is so interesting, so wonderful when often it is ho hum.
When something is not exciting (nothing will excite a Buddha, if you must be excited, you must suffer) and you say it in an excited way, you are faking how you speak, not exaggerating how you speak.
They fake what they speak:
When you tell a lie, spin a yarn or give an excuse (eg why you couldn’t attend) you are faking what you speak. When you engage in idle chatter, telling jokes, you are faking what you say. All jokes are false. If it was the truth, it wouldn't be called a joke. So whenever you tell a joke, what you say is faked. Usually when people fake what they say, they also exaggerate it, they fake in an exaggerated way.
They exaggerate how they do things:
If you do something with more force than is necessary (exaggerated force) you are exaggerating how you do something.
They exaggerate what they do:
When you write or sign your signature with flowery loops that are not necessary in order to communicate your thoughts to others, you are exaggerating your writing, exaggerating what you do.
People write with greater force or exaggerated feebleness (fine willowy lines) than necessary. They type with great unnecessary force plus individual style or exaggerated daintiness to impress others (or themselves) how great typists they are.
When someone walks, his intention is to move from one place to another. Anything more is not letting your yes be yes only but comes from evil (according to Jesus) and walking in an acted exaggerated way eg walk with increased force, walking with excessive & forceful swing of legs and arms, unnecessarily puffed up chest or hunched chest, walking like a gunslinger, disrespectful hopping and skipping, walking as if exhausted (no matter how exhausted, a noble person will not act out his exhaustion but just walk)
In order to walk sexily, you must not merely walk but you must sway or gyrate your hips (it is simple, watch and imitate fellow female goats everywhere). In order to walk impressively, you learnt to walk briskly with propped up chest, swing your arms and legs with more range (longer) and more force than is necessary.
A golfer exaggerates the length and path of his swing, exaggerates his posture to impress anyone who will care to be impressed (including himself) what an accomplished golfer he is.
In order to smoothen or equilibrate a sand bag he is filling, it may be necessary to only shake it up & down once but the nice guy will shake it forcefully three times reflecting his inability to merely let his yes be yes only.
Actors do not sound the horn ‘toot’ they either sound their horns impatiently thus “tooooot!” or mindlessly, rapidly, “toot, toot, toooot!”
All facial expressions eg smiling, winking, frowning, scowling, rhythmic jerking of head, blinking eyelids, gesticulating with hands in tandem with speech is faked to exaggerate what people say.
They fake what they do:
All smiles and laughter are in truth faked. They can be totally faked (they smile to fake they are not hurt, happy when they are hurt or sad) to be nice or be emotionally triggered by stimuli, eg many cannot resist smiling when someone smile to them, a lustful man cannot help smiling at a pretty girl, a money obsessed man smiling whenever he sees money. These are not natural but they are involuntary well practiced faking that have become impulsive, cannot be resisted driven by greed or delight for gain. Girls giggle when provoked not because it is natural but they are now impulsive slaves to emotions such that they compulsively, pretentiously giggle eg to act bashful when confronted by a man provocatively gyrating mischievously with a bra across his chest.
An actor may swiftly pretend to look at some magazine when he sees someone he does not wish to greet. When asked a question he heard quite well, he may automatically fake, “I beg your pardon???”
Actors routinely cross their legs seated in conversation towards another to fake friendliness or empathy.
They exaggerate how they think:
If actors watch themselves thinking, they never think matter of fact but their thoughts are forceful, rapid, haphazard and filled with emotions. They keep thinking over and over again the same things to exaggerate. They think over and over again their championship victory.
When you think with force, with emotion, with stretched mental syllables, you are exaggerating what you think.
They fake what they think:
When you indulge in fantasies, you are faking. Eg when you fantasize you’ve won a lottery, got a Ferrari, lust after a girl, you are faking your thoughts. Whenever you are not as rich as you make believe tell yourself mentally, you are faking what you think. When what you say or do is false but you tell yourself forcefully it is true, you are faking what you think.
When you indulge in fantasy how you will extract revenge, eg you are spiderman and will stalk him, you are faking. All fantasies are never passive but forceful and emotional, batters the mind and reinforces the mind to become hooked on fantasy and make belief.
You imagine you are a doctor when you are a clerk, you imagine you are a successful man living in an exclusive suburb when you are a nobody living in a slum.
They exaggerate what they perceive:
Actors stare or forcefully keep their eyes open for longer than necessary to intimidate others or falsely convey their sincerity. To apply force and keep your eyes open longer than comfortable is to exaggerate your seeing or perception.
Some actors look permanently through slit like peering eyes perhaps to disguise their dishonesty. They want to see others but they do not want others to see how they are looking or the evil intentions reflected in their eyes. Many people routinely regularly close their eyes as they speak, not to reflect thinking but to close their eyes to the dishonesty of what they speak. They dishonestly look through the corner of their eyes to feign or fake they are not looking or not interested when they are looking and interested. Their eyes dart restlessly reflecting the dishonesty of what they say or to survey if there is anything of gain eg a thief surveys anything around worth stealing.
When you (emotionally) see a girl and think she is the prettiest girl you ever saw when she is only reasonably attractive, your perception of beauty is exaggerated. When the girl is quite drab and you (emotionally) perceive her as out of this world, your perception may be false.
Actors don't just listen passively to everything that impinges on their ears. They only want to hear things they want to hear the way they want it. Some people want to hear only loud music played forcefully not soothing music. Actors eat with force, taste with force (exaggerated taste). Everything they perceive (see, hear, touch, taste) must be forced, forceful or they may refuse to take notice or pretend not to perceive. You must speak loudly, shout before they will pretend to hear you.
Many motorists have exaggerated perceptions of safe maneuvers. For instance, not just women but men sometimes hesitate and do not join traffic when it is clearly safe to do so and sometimes they attempt to merge when it is clearly sucidal. They do not cross the road or overtake when it OK, impeding others behind or they cross or overtake when it is suicidal to do. They have poor judgment or exaggerated judgment of what is OK or not OK that does not reflect reality. Poor judgment is not blameless but reflects an artificial, rigid or mechanical acting person.
They fake what they perceive:
What you see things that aren’t there you are faking. People see a face in a cloud (imagination is fabricated vision, it would be presumptuous to think a Buddha will similarly see a face in a cloud because he does not fabricate and to see a face in a cloud when it is only a cloud is to fabricate because of desire or pretense), they see a figure or ghost or hear noises when they aren’t. People hear virtual or faked music in the head when there isn’t; they hallucinate visually and aurally. Alcoholics see elephants, some people complain of pain or ants crawling over them when there is medically nothing wrong. Amputatees imagine or fake perceive their (phantom) limbs are still there.
All actors must suffer from:
Stress, conflict & restlessness: Because acting is constantly forcefully going against oneself unnecessarily to exaggerate and fake with speech, body, mind and perception, it must create stress and conflict (anyone who is going against himself must experience conflict) and because he keeps acting, the stress and conflict is insoluble and leads to restlessness. Further, the stress and restlessness thus generated by acting keeps the mind distracted and irritable, a condition conducive to continued acting and inimical to the arising of not acting.
Emotions: Emotions drive acting and acting creates emotions that maintain acting. Anyone who is constantly stressfully going against himself to exaggerate and fake must experience anger and hate for himself for going against himself and anger and hate for others he feels obliged to please or impress. Anyone who goes against himself to please or impress others must harbor shame because he is prostituting himself and this shame must be repressed and countered by an inordinate pride. Anyone who acts must be emotionally, irrationally stubborn because acting is harmful and in order to keep harming yourself, you must be stubborn, you must be a goat.
Mad & Violent Thoughts: Anyone who is constantly forcefully going against himself to exaggerate or fake what and how they say, do, think or perceive must be at least a bit mad, must harbor silly or violent thoughts and impulses.
Depression: Because acting is unnecessary going against oneself to produce unnecessary stress and conflict and the actor keeps acting generating insoluble stress and restlessness for himself, he must feel despair and become depressed.
Ultimate Restlessness, Mania and Depression: Because acting is forceful, emotional and stressful, it is constantly battering the mind to slowly warp and degrade it. Whilst he is still young, the actor is able to withstand the abuse he heaps on himself but with age, his resistance weakens and he succumbs to increasingly severe restlessness, madness (mad thoughts and violent impulses) and depression that seem to arise ‘out of the blue’.
Headaches & Dizzy Spells: Headaches and dizzy or giddy spells are not part and parcel of existence but they are part and parcel of sinful, forceful acting. If one is always passive, never applies excessive force in whatever and how one thinks, perceives, says or does, one is never stressed or emotional, one will not subject one’s mind to constant battering that inevitably results in headaches and giddiness which are reflections the mind is being insidiously harmed. It is because the mind has reserves and powers of recovery, just as it usually recovers from drunken abuse, it usually recovers from the headaches and giddiness resulting from acting abuse. But this state of affairs will not necessary remain so and a day will come when the mind is finally permanently shattered by heedless lifelong abuse.
Dazes: Acting itself is a daze that actors put themselves into because most actors are unaware, they are in a daze or mesmerized that they are not acting when they are. Often in a day, an actor may lapse involuntarily in a daze when he is detached from reality, daydreaming. A Buddha does not daydream. Such dazes are involuntary but arise suddenly under provocation (something happen, eg husband killed) and seizes the actor helplessly. Because it is a private reality, does not correspond to physical reality, dazes are false states of minds that that mind lapses into and as he ages, such dazes become more frequent until at death he is swallowed permanently into his private false dazed world to head for perdition. A person who is not attached to his self (self identity views one of three fetters to states of woe) will not fall into dazes but he will be rooted in reality, the present world he is in.
Watch ordinary people speaking and in the midst of speaking or reminiscing, they may suddenly stop and stare vacantly as they lapse into a daze. Such dazes are not voluntary but involuntary, seizing them helplessly and reflects they are not masters but slaves, can be seized and fall into woe.
Mental & Act Blocks: Actors are prone to suffer mental blocks, they forget what they are thinking about, going to say or do. This reflects that what they say or do is going against themselves and complicated and there is forceful internal resistance that sometimes stop them in their tracks. What is not going against self is not forceful and straight forward and there is no mental or act block.

ALL ACTORS ARE DICING WITH AND WILL SUCCUMB IN VARYING DEGREES IN OLD AGE TO MAD RESTLESSNESS, MAD THOUGHTS AND VIOLENCE AND DEPRESSION.

ANYTHING DONE, SAID AND THOUGHT WITH GREATER FORCE THAN IS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH IT IS ACTED. IT IS EMOTIONS THAT IS BEHIND THIS HAMFISTED EXCESSIVE FORCE THAT BESET EVEN DAINTY GIRLS WHO ARE NOT GENTLE BUT FORCEFULLY GENTLE. IT IS THIS EMOTION DRIVEN FORCEFULNESS WHICH HARMS SELF AND RECIPIENTS THAT WILL IN TIME FINALLY OVERPOWER THE TOUGH MIND THAT FORCEFULLY FABRICATE SO THAT IT WOULD GO MAD, GO UNOPPOSED AGAINST ITSELF, DESTROY ITSELF BY ITS OWN EMOTIONAL CONCEIT AND DECEIT.
The occurrence of intermittent bouts of depression is a warning sign the person is acting, emotionally exaggerating and faking all the time. Whilst his vitality is intact, he can suppress and temporarily overcome the enclosing depression to return to his forceful, faked cheerful acting. With time his depressions becomes deeper, more prolonged and harder to shake off and he is headed for doom, even hell. Anyone vulnerable to bouts of depression would be wise to abandon all earthly pursuits, stop smiling, stop stretching his syllables, stop denying he is depressed (by smiling and humming tunes to drive away the blues), stop exaggerating and faking and devote time to meditate to impose calm on his mind until calm is the default state of his mind. Until you are free of emotions, free of acting, you will never be free of depression and you are headed for doom.

THERE IS A SERENE, CLEARLY THINKING CENTERED STATE CALLED NON ACTING AS OPPOSED TO THIS WORLD OF UBIQUITOUS STRESSED, EMOTIONAL AND MENTALLY DISTRACTED OR SCATTERED ACTORS. THESE TWO STATES ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE; YOU CANNOT CHOOSE TO BE BOTH AN ACTOR AND NON ACTOR OCCASIONALLY AT WILL.

BECAUSE ACTING IS WHAT BEINGS IN THIS WORLD INDULGE IN OR ARE MESMERISED IN CLUELESSLY ALL THE TIME, IT IS STRESSFUL & MIND WARPING TO SELF AND OTHERS (STRESS KILLS) & IT IS FALSE (EXAGGERATING AND FAKING) A BEING HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO WAKE UP AND STOP ACTING IF HE IS TO DEPART RESTLESS, MAD, VIOLENT AND DEPRESSING SINFUL ACTING TO BLISSFUL, SERENE, CLEARLY THINKING, SINLESS NON ACTING.
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ONE TO REMAIN IN ACTING AND STILL BE SINLESS, CLEARLY THINKING, SERENE, PASSIVE, FREE FROM RESTLESSNESS, MAD VIOLENT IMPULSES AND DEPRESSION.
What the counselor must do:
Jesus said the counselor will bring you advantage. He will convince the world (not just Christians) regarding sin, righteousness (virtue) and judgment.
If it is true there was a liberating consciousness change in 1977 (that still continues), if it is true that beings in this world are all acting all the time when it is possible to not act (let your yes be yes only), when acting is stressful and tormenting to self and others, is false and bad, never good, then the counselor that Jesus described must also cause this liberating consciousness change, dwell on acting and advice against acting because this consciousness change and acting crucial to any being's wellbeing.

Jesus Promises One Eternity Or Age In Heaven:

One denarius may signify one Age in heaven, all laborers are rewarded one Age in heaven, no matter how long they worked in the vineyard. Thus, after they have spent their denarius, they may be on their own again to grapple with their past karma. Perhaps if you became a householder yourself instead of being a laborer, you may stay longer in heaven.
Jesus: For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius (one Age or eon in heaven) a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place; and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.' And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward (manager), 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled (though they may be filled with loving kindness, they are not freed of greed or dissatisfaction) at the householder, saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' So the last will be first, and the first last." (A laborer cannot be rewarded with more than one Age in heaven. If he wants more, he may have to convert himself from laborer to a householder.)


What Jesus said above is echoed by what the Buddha said below:

Puggala Sutta: Persons
"Here, bhikkhus, a certain person abides with his heart imbued with loving-kindness extending over one quarter, the second, the third, the fourth quarter, and so above, below, everywhere, and to all as to himself; he abides with his heart abundant, exalted, measureless in loving-kindness, without hostility or ill-will, extending over the all-encompassing world.
"He finds gratification in that, and looks to it for his well-being; steady and resolute thereon, and if he dies without losing it (Jesus said that he who endures till the end will be saved), he reappears among the gods of a High Divinity's retinue. (Hence the wise person will pay attention to keep loving-kindness always in sight in his mind. The more one resides in loving kindness the easier it is to access it, the stronger it becomes and more difficult to lose.)
"Now the gods of a High Divinity's retinue have a life-span of one aeon (enough time for a being to create a mountain of skeletons transmigrating). An ordinary person [who has not attained the Noble Eightfold Path] stays there for his life-span; but after he has used up the whole life-span enjoyed by those gods, he leaves it all, and [according to what his past deeds may have been] he may go down even to hell, or to an animal womb, or to the ghost realm. But one who has given ear to the Perfect One stays there [in that heaven] for his life-span, and after that he has used up the whole life span enjoyed by those gods, he eventually attains complete extinction of lust, hate and delusion in that same kind of heavenly existence (beings in heaven are not completely but mostly freed of lust, hate and delusion).
ORDINARY & EXTRAORDINARY ANGELS:
The Buddha said that after exhausting his lifespan of an eon (Age) in heaven, the ordinary person imbued with loving kindness may go down even to hell depending on his past sins whereas the noble person who has given ear to the Perfect One and put in practice the Noble Eightfold Path, with the complete extinction of lust, hate and delusion, is not born anywhere anymore.
Ordinary people, even professional Buddhists almost invariably will have only a superficial or cursory or pedantic not complete appreciation of the meaning of what the Buddha taught and the noble eightfold path and hence may not understand why someone who has given ear to the Perfect One has a very different fate compared to the ordinary person after exhausting his lifespan in heaven. If people who do not give much credence to or who do not think much of the Noble Eightfold Path were to match themselves to it, they are likely to find themselves falling quite short of the exhortations therein.
APART FROM LOVING KINDNESS SHARED BY ALL ANGELS, THE NOBLE DISCIPLE OF THE BUDDHA IS IMBUED WITH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STRESS AND THE ULTIMATE DISSATISFACTORINESS OF ALL EXISTENCE (even in heaven), HE IS IMBUED WITH RENUNCIATION (Loving kind beings do not necessarily renounce their rights), IS FREED FROM ALL ILL WILL (DISLIKE THAT MUST ALWAYS EXIST AS THE COUNTERPART TO LIKE, IS A FORM OF ILL WILL), IS SKILFULL IN MINDFULNESS AND THE ATTAINMENT OF ALL THE MEDITATIVE STATES (ordinary angels may not be able to stop thinking and attain purity of equanimity) ESSENTIAL TO BECOMING ENLIGHTENED.
The person who has lent ear to the Perfect One is endowed with right mindfulness (attention) and right concentration; the ability to attain the four successive meditative states (the first absorption with discursive thinking, the second absorption where thinking has ceased, the third absorption where he is equanimous and mindful, the fourth absorption with purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain). Even professional Buddhists on earth who meditate cannot have attained these states because they continue to display sinful acting. Hence right concentration is not merely a super refined version of the same concentration that Tiger Wood applies when he drives his golf ball but something beyond the ken or knowledge and experience of ordinary beings here and even in heaven.
The Buddha said there are four determinants that define a being: his virtue (goodness), discernment (ability to differentiate what appears true but is false), his concentration (mastery of his mind, not to be disrupted by external forces and achievement of the four trances) and his selflessness. Just because a being is loving kind, who has stopped wicked acting, who has been born in heaven does not mean he has reached the perfection in discernment, concentration and selflessness (For example there was an incident where the disciples jostled for the right to sit beside Jesus in the throne and laborers who worked longer in the vineyard wanted more reward)
Even the being who is imbued with loving kindness is subject to external stress from the bombardment of stressful acting and niceties by others. If he does not develop concentration or discipline of his mind through meditation (a factor in the noble path) to elevate his consciousness to a serene mindful detachment, he will be stressed to become restless and may then lash out.
Just because a being is imbued with loving kindness does not mean he is able to endure heat, cold, hunger, thirst, the touch of mosquitoes, wind, sun and creeping things, abusive language: he has grown to bear bodily feelings which are painful, severe & deadly. It does not necessarily mean he is purged of all impurities of attachment, aversion and confusion, he is worthy of respect and homage, an unsurpassed field of merit in the world. Only a being who has lent ear to the Buddha will be endowed with these qualities in addition to loving kindness.
Beings in heavens are not homogenous but have different maturities and propensities (perhaps what differentiates them from beings here is their ability to see and accept truth, their absence of evil or malice that afflict all humans because acting is evil and malicious); they are male and female whose beauty far surpasses maidens on earth. There was an incident where a junior angel said she was afraid to approach the Buddha because he was always surrounded by powerful deities. The Buddha alluded to minds with delusion, minds without delusion, excelled and unexcelled minds. Jesus spoke of men who were entrusted according their abilities five, two and one talents and how they were rewarded according to their abilities. Every branch that does bear fruit the Father prunes, that it may bear more fruit, suggesting beings in heaven are not perfect, have their desires and attachment to pleasures. Hence, at the close of the Age, these beings of disparate characteristics may go their own ways depending on their past karma and only those beings who have lent ear to the Perfect One and it to practice are exempt from destinations of woe.
The passage below indicates that beings imbued with loving kindness can still be petty, self centered and jostle for position:
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom." But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him, "We are able." He said to them, "You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
JESUS SAID HEAVEN MAY DISAPPEAR SO HEAVEN MAY NOT BE THE BE ALL, END ALL BUT ENLIGHTENMENT MAY OR IS THE FINALITY OF ALL EXISTENCE AS A BEING; GOING TO HEAVEN IS ONLY PART OF THE WAY TO FINAL TAINTLESS PERFECTION AND THE BUDDHA POINTS THE WAY TO TOTAL PERFECTION. THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH ENDOWS THE PERSON WITH MUCH MORE THAN LOVING KINDNESS BUT WISDOM, MASTERY OF HIS MIND AND TOTAL SELFLESSNESS.
TO THOSE DISCERNING, THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATHWAY IS A SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENT ON LOVING KINDNESS.
What Jesus says below implies that ordinary beings have differing maturity or capacity to discern the truth and be good. There are one, two and five talent men. The Buddha said there are male and female angels (devas) and Kings who rule them, and there are Brahmas who are even loftier. If you want to stay in heaven longer than one Age, perhaps you may have to develop or mature to become a Brahma.

"For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; to one he gave five talents, * to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time (close of the Age) the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
Magga-vibhanga Sutta:An Analysis of the Path
The Blessed One said, "I will teach & analyse for you the Noble Eightfold Path."
The Blessed One said, "Now what, monks, is the Noble Eightfold Path? Right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
"And what, monks, is right view? Knowledge with regard to stress, the origination of stress, the stopping of stress, the way of practice leading to the stopping of stress. (Just because a person is consummate in loving kindness does not mean he is wise regarding the nature of existence and the origin, stopping and the practice leading to the cessation of stress, which the person who lends ear to the Buddha will have)
"And what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, freedom from ill will. (Renunciation is renouncing oneself, one’s rights to pleasures and ill will, which runs a spectrum from dislike, hate and malice. Ordinary people with loving kindness do not necessarily renounce themselves or their desires for pleasures)
"And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, divisive speech, abusive speech, idle chatter.
"And what, monks, is right action? Abstaining from taking life, stealing, sexual intercourse.
"And what, monks, is right livelihood? A noble disciple, having abandoned dishonest livelihood, keeps his life going with right livelihood.
"And what, monks, is right effort? There is the case where a monk generates desire, activates persistence & exerts his intent for the non-arising of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen, the abandonment of evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen, the arising of skillful qualities that have not yet arisen, the maintenance, development, & culmination of skillful qualities that have arisen.
"And what, monks, is right mindfulness? (i) There is the case where a monk remains focused on the body putting away greed & distress. (ii) He remains focused on feelings. (iii) He remains focused on the mind -- putting away greed & distress. (iv)He remains focused on mental qualities in & of themselves. (Just because a being is endowed with loving kindness does not mean he is skillful at examining his feelings and mental qualities)
"And what, monks, is right concentration? (i) There is the case where a monk -- quite withdrawn from sensual pleasures, unskillful (mental) qualities -- enters & remains in the first jhana. (ii) With the stilling of directed thought & evaluation, he enters & remains in the second jhana. (iii) With the fading of rapture, he remains in equanimity, mindful & fully aware, and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana.' (iv)With the abandoning of pleasure & pain he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. (Just because an ordinary person is imbued with loving kindness does not mean he can stop thinking at will, remain mindfully in equanimity, the purity of equanimity, neither pleasure or pain.)
HENCE, THE NOBLE DISCIPLE WHO LENDS EAR TO WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT HAS WELL DEFINED DISTINCTIONS AS COMPARED TO ORDINARY BEINGS IN HEAVEN.
APART FROM LOVING KINDNESS, THE NOBLE DISCIPLE OF THE BUDDHA IS IMBUED WITH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STRESS AND THE ULTIMATE DISSATISFACTORINESS OF ALL EXISTENCE, IMBUED WITH RENUNCIATION (Loving kind beings do not necessarily renounce their rights), IS FREED FROM ALL ILL WILL (DISLIKE IS A FORM OF ILL WILL), IS SKILFULL IN MINDFULNESS AND ATTAINMENT OF ALL THE MEDITATIVE STATES ESSENTIAL TO BECOMING ENLIGHTENED.
YOU MAY FOOLISHLY DISPARAGE WITHOUT KNOWING ENLIGHTENMENT, WHICH IS BEYOND CONJECTURE, THE DESIRABILITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT BUT THE BUDDHA SAID ENLIGHTENMENT IS INCOMPARABLE RELEASE FROM SUFFERING BETTER THAN HEAVEN. MEN STUBBORNLY REFUSE TO WAKE UP FROM THEIR NIGHTMARES BUT NO MAN WHO HAS AWOKEN BACK TO SANITY FROM A NIGHTMARE WANTS TO RETURN TO HIS NIGHTMARE, NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO REVERT TO THE TORMENTING EXISTENCE BEFORE 1977. NO MAN WHO HAS BEEN ENLIGHTENED HAS RETURNED TO BE UNENLIGHTENED.

An Extraordinary Global Consciousness Change:

There was a revolutionary, never before unmistakable change in the consciousness of the world that occurred after 1977 and it is arguably the best thing that ever happened to anyone (it certainly was objectively to me) because it liberated them from previously tormenting unremitting consciousness shackles in a way nobody dreamt could be possible or conceivable or existed.
The person I am today, serene, clearly thinking, self sufficient and effortlessly self assured is unthinkable, inconceivable and impossible before 1977, nor reflecting that they too have changed but still acting are the appearances and behavior of everyone today possible before 1977.
This consciousness change did not occur spontaneously in everyone nor did it occur effortlessly without a protracted struggle but it started with an individual who in a flash, as if awakening or a dawning, caught a glimpse of an incomparably superior consciousness state in which to exist in and thus inspired, he would not be denied anymore but he doggedly strove to retain this wonderful, miraculous state of mind by countering formidable depressive forces that kept trying to repossess his mind until he was quite sure this incomparably exhilarating way to exist was established and irrevocable.
In order to accomplish the consciousness change that occurred in 1977, the person would have to mentally glimpse a previously unknown, well concealed blissful mental state shielded by an intimidating, hard to penetrate depressive shroud and once glimpsed, he must be filled with conviction that cannot be denied to destroy that resisting depressive shroud until he saw clearly and completely exposed that wonderful suffer free state.
It is impossible that an ordinary person can initiate this change because despite tormenting suffering, ordinary people are quite happy to engage each other in a tormenting embrace of mutual deceit, to get along by suffering and making others suffer and die for it. Even today, after changes upon changes, when it is now possible to exit this torment of mutual deceit called acting, people who consider themselves good and intelligent still stubbornly continue to act, they have only modified their acting. Despite repeated demonstrations of what constitutes acting, despite not acting being blissful and acting being torment, ordinary people all persist in acting, what more that they can by themselves maneuver themselves so that they glimpse this previously unknown blissful consciousness state I discovered in 1977 that they must then strive to define, refine and nurture against depressive forces that threaten to reclaim it? Even when not to smile and stretch syllables (forms of acting) is an incomparably saner and blissful way to conduct oneself, those who call themselves good and intelligent still continue to smile and stretch syllables after being told, what more that they should spontaneously awaken that their pretentious smiles and stretched syllables are the root to their mental torment? What more that ordinary people should be capable of spontaneously bringing about the consciousness change in 1977 when they are quite content to keep suffering by acting, by smiling and stretching their syllables?
THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE THAT OCCURRED IN 1977 WAS ESSENTIALLY ABOUT ME HAVING HAD ENOUGH OF SUFFERING, OF REFUSING TO SUBJECT MYSELF TO SUFFERING AND NONSENSE FROM OTHERS ANYMORE AND WANTING TO BE TOTALLY TRUE TO MYSELF, NOT PLEASING OTHERS ANYMORE. BECAUSE FALSEHOOD IS SUFFERING AND NONSENSE AND TRUTH IS THE OPPOSITE, THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE WAS ESSENTIALLY ABOUT TRULY NOT SHAM UPHOLDING TRUTH AND REPUDIATING FALSEHOOD.
EVEN TODAY ORDINARY PEOPLE APPEAR NOT TO HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF SUFFERING, ARE QUITE WILLING TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO SUFFERING AND NONSENSE FROM OTHERS AND ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BEING PARTICULARLY TRUE TO THEMSELVES (EXCEPT IN THEIR DELUSION), WANT TO KEEP PLEASING & IMPRESSING OTHERS. SO HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLE STUMBLE ON AND BRING TO MATURITY THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE IN 1977?
ACTING, SMILING AND STRETCHING SYLLABLES ARE CONSTANT NOT OCCASIONAL INDULGENCES BY ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE AND THEY ALWAYS STRESS AND HARM THE PERSON HIMSELF AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY, EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH. THAT PEOPLE EVERYWHERE I SEE TODAY CONTINUE TO ACT, CONTINUE TO STRETCH THEIR SYLLABLES AND SMILE, REFLECTS THAT THEY HAVE NO EYE FOR TRUTH, NO EYE FOR THE TRUTH THAT THEIR ACTING, SMILING AND STRETCHING SYLLABLES IS THE INFALLIBLE ROOT TO THEIR SUFFERING, WHAT MORE THAT THEY COULD SPONTANEOUSLY STOP ACTING THEMSELVES, STOP SMILING AND STRETCHING SYLLABLES THEMSELVES, INITIATE THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE IN 1977?
The change in 1977 was not static and in recent years there have been further progressive consciousness awakening in everyone including the most evil ones. However, people continue to stubbornly act and therefore suffer. People do notice changes in the appearances, attitudes and behavior of others. When everyone is sitting down and suffering and they then see a few can stand up and seem to suffer less, they too stand up but not knowing exactly what is going on or why it is that they should stand up.
Today’s suffering due to stubborn acting is more direct, immediate and explosive. People continue to act but in more subdued fashion, they do not act as rabidly as they did in the past but they have only collectively turned down the volume of their acting, do not know how or will not switch it off, see little wrong with their behavior nor how it is linked to their stresses.

Jesus Promises The Counselor:

Jesus Promises The Counselor:
Jesus: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor (like Jesus was a counselor, a person who came), to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive (if the great majority of people are good and therefore truthful they would have received truth or perhaps this is a world of falsity where people are all acting and being poisonously nice, not good to each other), because it (the world or the great majority) neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.
"These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit (The counselor is the Holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things (he will cover a broad range of subjects), and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (if the church has brought you remembrance of what Jesus taught, it would be redundant).
But when the Counselor comes (he will not come immediately), whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father (Jesus said he came from the Father, just as he says the counselor comes from the Father. Jesus said he was the Son of man, surely not because men are his father but there may be another son who is not of man), he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (The counselor must bring you advantage as no man has done)
And when he comes, he will convince the world (if the counselor was a voice in the minds of Christians, how can he convince the world instead of just Christians?) concerning sin and righteousness (goodness) and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. (When the counselor comes, it will be time for mankind to be judged)
"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (Perhaps a consciousness change that the counselor will initiate would be enabling) When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak (if the counselor knows everything, he will not need to hear and then speak) and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you (if the church and Christians have glorified Jesus, there would be no need for a counselor to do so. If What the counselor speaks is similar to the Church, there would be no need for a counselor to speak). All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.


Why Blasphemy Against The Spirit Will Not Be Forgiven:
Jesus: Therefore I tell you, every (not some) sin and blasphemy will (not may) be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against (blasphemes) the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against (blasphemes) the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Blasphemy is profane talk or slander (a malicious or false statement about a person). It is treating what is sacred with irreverence or disregard. It is to violate or corrupt what is entitled to respect. As the Buddha said, the noble ones are worthy of respect, worthy of gifts.
Hence blasphemy is sin performed through speech or thought or attitude against what is sacred.
You can only speak against or blaspheme something or somebody you can perceive, somebody who speaks and is a target. You cannot blaspheme against somebody you do not know or you cannot perceive or did not say or do anything. Hence the Holy Spirit must be someone like Jesus who is visible, who speaks and is a target.
Jesus said the counselor is the Holy Spirit and hence the Spirit is not airy fairy but a person or being who will come (whom the Father will send in my name and he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you).
If what the counselor says is essentially the same as what Jesus said, then it would make no sense or reflect whimsicalness to say that whoever says a word against (blasphemes) the Son of man will be forgiven but not those who speak against (blasphemes) the Holy Spirit. If what the Holy Spirit says is sufficiently distinct from what Jesus said then the statement is understandable.
As Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak.
This indicates that what the Holy Spirit will say that people may speak against are the many things Jesus did not say because you could not bear it then. Jesus said the counselor will take what is his and declare it to you. He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that Jesus said to you. He will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.
People did not or were unable to comprehend fully what Jesus said, they were perhaps living under constraints and they will be forgiven if they said a word against him but if the counselor takes what is Jesus’ and declares it to you, if you speak against the truth after it has been plainly explained to you, then you will not or cannot be forgiven. If what he said should convince the world regarding sin, righteousness and judgment and you are not convinced or refuse to be convinced, you are speaking against him and will not be forgiven. If the counselor brings you advantage and you speak against him, then you may be guilty of being ungrateful and will not be forgiven.
(Suppose people everywhere in this world are in truth not genuine as they delude themselves but they all actors who forcefully, emotionally go against themselves all the time in a controlled manner to exaggerate and fake in the name of deceiving, pleasing, impressing, intimidating, dominating others, for example they smile, stretch their syllables and gesture effusively, falsely to be nice not good, in the process creating insoluble stress leading to restlessness, mad & violent impulses and depression that they can only restrain never eliminate, will exacerbate with time, is harmful to themselves and others. You disagree and speak against what is declared to you. You defiantly scoff and insist you are not acting but being yourself, you are benefiting yourself and your recipients who only act emphatically they are grateful not truly grateful to you for your acting and niceness. Should you or can you be forgiven if you indeed act and harm others?)
If this world is blamelessly scientific, self existent (instead of a creation that can be uncreated), there is nothing intrinsically good or evil, there is no God (The Great Brahma) or Satan (Mara), good is not ascendant but equal or less when compared to evil, good is suffering and evil can be happy & fulfilling, then blasphemy cannot and does not exist.
It is because it is the (true) nature of existence that this world is never blameless but entirely blameworthy (this is a world of sin), all beings here exist not blamelessly but dependant on and at the expense of the death and suffering of others (that they refuse to accept), beings are responsible for each others’ woes and death, they torment each other to death either directly or with sugar laced poison called bittersweet (emotional) ‘love’, there is good and bad, right and wrong, sin is always tormenting, leads to greater torment later and then even hell, the animal or ghost worlds but there is a way out, objective truth exists and it is possible to live in truth that there is blasphemy.
Truth exists but is more exotic, more rarely seen than people think (the Buddha said the truth is hard to see); what ordinary people call truth is fabricated or acted truth. Truth is never suffering, has power over falsehood and is the only way out of suffering.
BLASPHEMY IS SPOKEN AND DIRECTED AGAINST GOOD, TRUTH, GOD AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR. TO PERSECUTE FELLOW SINNERS IS ITSELF SINFUL BUT TO PERSECUTE TRUTH AND THE BLAMELESS IS OUTRAGEOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS.
Sin is the breaking of a divine or moral law. Sin can either be spoken or by bodily deed. You can lie with words or you can lie with your body (eg lie with your face by smiling to say you like someone when you dislike him, cross your leg towards someone to say you like him when you don’t).
Telling lies, stealing, killing, covetousness, jealousy, envy, illicit sex, drinking, pride, anger, foolishness, ill will, malice (wish to harm others, not necessarily kill), hypocrisy, presumption, gossip, idle chatter are all forms of sinful conduct with body or speech.
SIN CAN EITHER BE VERBAL OR BODILY DEEDS DIRECTED AT FELLOW SINNERS. IT IS ALWAYS FORCEFUL, EMOTIONAL AND DISTURBS THE FOOLISH MIND THAT CHOOSES TO DISREGARD IT IN FAVOR OF SENSUAL GRATIFICATION, DISTURBS THE MIND AFTERWARDS AND HARMS SELF AND OTHER.
The Holy Spirit & The Son of Man:
Jesus said the counselor or Holy Spirit comes from the Father and refers to him in masculine.
The Holy Trinity comprises the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Hence, the Holy Spirit and The Son may be the sons of the Powerful One that the Buddha speaks of.
The Buddha in one sutta mentions the Powerful One has two sons (not daughters) thus:
Subrahma and Paramatta Brahma,
together with sons of the Powerful One,
Sanankumara and Tissa:
They too have come to the forest meeting.
Great Brahma (the Father), who stands over 1,000 Brahma worlds,
who arose there spontaneously, effulgent:
Prestigious is he, with a terrifying body.
And ten brahma sovereigns, each the lord of his own realm --
and in their midst has come
Harita Brahma surrounded by his retinue."
Jesus is Isa in Arabic and Yishua in Aramaic, hence Tissa may be Jesus.

Mangled Self Serving Dangerously Simplistic Logic:

Mangled Self Serving Dangerously Simplistic Logic:
Quote: "I just traveled on the bus with workers who told me they were nervous about their future," Mr Bush said.
"They're concerned. I am, too, and therefore we must have a president who understands that in order to keep jobs at home, America must be the best place to do business."
(It is not America must be but work must be done, America must be made the best place to do business. It is not that Bush must be president but ideally he must prove why he must be made president)
Comment: Bush is saying or does not realize he is saying that if he did not share workers’ concerns about their job security then we shouldn’t have a president who understands that but because he is concerned about job security just as they are concerned, we must therefore have a president who understands that (because he fits the bill perfectly).
How unabashedly or witlessly self-serving and dangerously simplistic a logic for a president? This is not a blip but there is a clear and consistent pattern even before he came to power. It redounds on or reflects negatively on America that he was elected president and is still very popular. I saw the movie Fahrenheit and he was clearly alarmed but frozen as if he did not know what to do when an aide whispered to him news of the 9/11 attack. Despite visible attempt to suppress, his face betrayed expressions of alarm and indecision, so he picked up a book and pretended unconvincingly to read whilst his demeanor suggested his mind was somewhere else.
To Demand To Be Noticed Is A Sign Of An Actor:
There was a scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 where he was shown hitting a golf drive and he eagerly turned to the press gallery to cajole, “Did I hear anyone say ‘good shot’?” and then acted as if he was straining to hear a reply. A pressman must have obliged because he turned away nodding as if pleased. To demand to be appreciated is a sign of an actor who wants to impress others.
His unabashed message is to vote for him rather than genuine empathy for workers. He does not dwell on or articulate the workers’ plight but after the cursory platitude that he too is concerned, he immediately launches into a self-serving suggestion that therefore we must have a president who understands that. Who cares whether Kerry also fits the bill or fits it even better?
He is a hypocrite who says one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience. In the film Fahrenheit, he was shown dressed in his evening best, pleased or smug with himself as he addressed a fund raising dinner function with a parody of the theme of the ‘haves & have nots” saying “There are the haves and the have mores … (dramatic acted pause) I call you (the have mores) my base” Why does he not say that to the workers? If the ‘have mores’ are his base, the workers cannot be his base; if everyone is your base, why have a base?
THE COMING US ELECTION IS NOT A CONTEST BETWEEN WHO IS A LAIR AND WHO IS NOT BUT BETWEEN WHO IS THE MORE DANGEROUS & RECKLESS LIAR AND THE ANSWER SHOULD BE OBVIOUS. AMERICA IS THE SPOILS OF CONQUEST AND BEHIND THE SCENES THERE ARE WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS WHO WILL CHEAT, SMEAR AND SLANDER THEIR WAY TO PLACE THEIR PROXY IN POWER TO BENEFIT THEM LATER. THE WORLD IS NOT AND NEVER WAS IN GOOD HANDS, AMERICA IS LITTLE DIFFERENT IN SUBSTANCE FROM THE ROMANS. MANKIND WILL RUN THE EARTH TO THE GROUND AND THERE WILL BE DISASTER WHEN THE EARTH IS DESTABILIZED. AS I UNDERSTAND KARMA, AMERICA MAY BE CALLED UPON TO SUFFER MORE (EARTHQUAKES, FAMINE) SHOULD APOLCALYPSE ARRIVE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LEADERS OF THE PACK OF HEEDLESSNESS AND ‘ENJOYED’ THE MOST.
Acting Robots Who Think They Are Real Time People:
Actors are actually preprogrammed people with a variety of learnt and repeatedly practiced alternative responses to a given situation that have to be forcefully and emotionally executed against personal resistance because it is stressful. Because there is a variety of choice of responses for a given situation, they are fooled to think they are real people, not actors.
Those who like to hog the limelight usually have more sophisticated, more confidently rendered and more variety of responses he can call upon for a situation. Because he has rendered that response so often, it is rendered with slickness, he and observers are fooled to think he is genuine when he is forcefully faking it to keep up with appearances.
This illusion of flexibility and genuineness is usually well maintained in daily life but there will be occasions when the actor is stumped because he has not learnt to cope with a situation.
Because Bush is a rigid actor rendering from his repertoire of standard responses, when he was confronted by a situation he has never dealt with before, planes crashing on the WTC, what are your responses Mr President, he does not know what to do, because he has never acted that situation before and for fear of making a hesitant fool of himself, he is frozen stiff and panicked.
THE DILEMMA FOR ACTORS IS WHETHER THEY CONTINUE TO BE ACTING ROBOTS OR RECLAIM THEMSELVES FROM THE ACTING SOFTWARE THAT RUNS THEM.
What’s So Great About The Buddha?
Then the Blessed One, having understood Brahma's invitation, out of compassion for beings, surveyed the world with the eye of an Awakened One. As he did so, he saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace and danger in the other world. (many may be beyond redemption)
Having seen this, he answered Brahma Sahampati in verse:
Open are the doors to the Deathless
to those with ears.(not those without ears)
Let them show their conviction.
Perceiving trouble, O Brahma,
I did not tell people the refined, sublime Dhamma.
There may be those who are foolish, without finding out or understanding what the Buddha stands for or having swiftly forgotten what he stood for, would utter “what’s so great about the Buddha?”
The Buddha said ordinary people (exclude yourself at your own risk) have sufferings due to them like an ocean compared to the few drops remaining in one who is noble. Without him telling you this, will you have realized it yourself? Even after you have been told, do you believe that? Because you do not believe that, you will continue to defile yourself, experience insoluble stress that is a sign of sin and head for eternal habitations as Jesus said.
The Buddha also said that like the dust on his finger tip compared to the great earth, few are they reborn as men, far more are reborn elsewhere and therefore you should live heedfully. Jesus spoke of resurrection, hence after you die, you are likely to wander in hell, ghost or animal realms until judgment day. You may get only one chance per eon or Age to be a human which is why the Buddha also said that faster than the man who can catch four falling arrows, faster than the sun & moon, faster than the angels, the force of a man’s life comes to an end because the next time you return here as a man may be millions of years later.
The Buddha said idle chatter and gossip leads to hell or the animal womb. Killing animals lead to hell or the animal womb. If he did not tell you so, would you have realized that idle chatter, gossip and killing animals can send you to hell? Now that he has told you so, do you still nevertheless chatter gossip and hunt (snuff off insects nonchalantly)? You have nobody to blame now but your heedlessness, should you find yourself in hell.
The Buddha said that for a being to wander on for an eon (Age), he will accumulate a pile of skeletons as high as a mountain. The earth is 4 billion years old and we have record of life only for about a billion years. Animals in the past including dinosaurs, saber tooth tigers and mammoths very much bigger than those today and hence it may be no exaggeration that you will create a pile of skeleton as high as a mountain before you come back here again. Jesus said the goats will be banished to eternal punishment. Jesus spoke of this age and the age to come. The Buddha spoke of many eons of cosmic expansion and contraction. If the Buddha did not tell you that, will you have realized it yourself?
Doing Things Grudgingly Is Acting:
Whenever anyone does or say anything in a grudging manner, he is always acting. A non actor either does or says something passively without force or he does not do or say it. To force yourself to do or say anything grudgingly is not to mean it and therefore act. To do or say something grudgingly is to not let one’s yes be yes only but more, grudgingly which comes from evil, not good.
Doing Things The Hard Way With Motive:

His entire facial and bodily expression is actually totally unnecessary to achieve his intended task (throw the ball to his teammate) and involves the waste of much force and energy, creating considerable stress as visible on his face.
He can accomplish his task just as well if not better if he was relaxed (not tensed as he is), without screwing up his face and straining his body in a stylishly exaggerated masculine posture but he needs to not only throw the ball but also put on a show because he needs to impress observers what a fine footballer he is, how committed he is, to exaggerate how tough he is to intimidate opponents and to disguise his intention who he will throw the ball to (he pretends to signal with body language he intends to throw to A but actually wants to throw to B. This is called deception and is sinful).
It is because he is experiencing serious stress that his face is all knotted up but because he has knotted up his face, he has unwittingly intensified his stress more than it otherwise will be. Trying knotting up your face or grimacing and see if stress is not conjured just by your act where there wasn’t before?
Forcing Others To Switch Off:
Whenever ordinary people are told, “Life used to be rat race before I was paralyzed” they will (force themselves to) smile and may (force themselves to) say, “Hmmm!” as if they are appreciative when it is only faked because it never registers in their minds or is soon forgotten.
When the person later says, “Life was so wonderful then”, they again smile and may utter something like “Oh yeah?” sarcastically to act as if they appreciate when it again does not registers or is soon forgotten, which is why they often fail to realize the contradiction of what they have been told previously. In other words, even though they may not be aware what others say is nonsense or contradictory, they have blanket switched off themselves and are only pretending as realistic as possible they are listening and they understand.
Isn’t it harmful to want others to believe that life previously was both a rat race and most wonderful? It is impossible to believe both and most people resolve that by switching off, they are only faking they are listening or if they sense the contradiction, they are forced to rationalize (fabricate the reason for) the contradiction eg she is not in her right mind because of anti-depressants.
Forcing oneself to switch off is always an act and if you speak fickle nonsense that forces others to switch off, you are harming others. Suppose this switched off person is told there is a tiger behind him and he is harmed because he acknowledges what you said but he did not register the message.
Internal Stress Is Unnecessary & Totally Blameworthy:
A person is not responsible for stress he experiences from external sources because it is created by others. Internal stress is totally unnecessary and only occurs because a person goes against himself to act. If a person never went against himself to act, needing further stress to forcefully control his acting, he would not experience internally generated stress. Hence internally sourced stress is entirely blameworthy and sinful and since you yourself are constantly unnecessarily creating stress for yourself, does it not serve you right if you become seized madly by the stress that you so loved to create for yourself?
IF YOUR OWN MENTAL VOICE BECOMES A GNAWING, NAGGING DRUDGE GETTING ON YOUR NERVES, YOU CANNOT IT SWITCH OFF BUT IF THE TV GETS ON YOUR NERVES, IT IS SIMPLE TO JUST SWITCH IT OFF. A SAINT CAN SWITCH OFF HIS THOUGHT PROCESSES JUST AS HE CAN DETERMINE WHEN HE WILL PASS AWAY OR JESUS SAID IF YOU HAVE FAITH YOU CAN TELL THE MOUNTAIN TO GO TO THE SEA AND IT SHALL BE DONE, BUT THEN YOU ARE NO SAINT, A SLAVE NOT MASTER OF YOURSELF.
The Folly Of Toughing It Out:
When confronted by stress building up, for example the blaring from the TV, the actor’s response is not to preserve himself by retreat eg switching off the sound but he forces himself to bear the assault on his ears so that he develops an increasing capacity to tolerate stress and self abuse.
What he does not realize is that like the alcoholic who develops an increasing capacity for alcohol that increasingly harms him irreversibly and he finds increasingly hard to exit, he is developing imperceptibly an increasing capacity to tolerate stress that increasingly harms him and he finds it increasingly difficult to exit his masochistic dependence on stress even though it becomes increasingly tormenting.
Just as alcoholics cannot see alcohol will ultimately torment and kill them until it is too late to withdraw, similarly actors cannot see the stress and abuse they force themselves to bear, are proud to bear will later torment and kill them until it is too late for them to withdraw from their commitment to stress.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO INITIATE THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE IN 1977 OR TO SPONTANEOUSLY AWAKEN FROM THEIR ACTING BECAUSE THEY ARE QUITE CONTENT TO TOUGH IT OUT, TO SOCK IT TO OTHERS AS GOOD AS THEY GET SOCKED WHILST PRETENDING THEY ARE UNPERTURBED & ENJOYING THEMSELVES. WHEN THE STRESS BECOMES TOO TOUGH FOR THEM TO BEAR, THEY RUN AMOK OR COMMIT SUICIDE.
Stress And Restlessness Is Immediate:
The onset of stress and restlessness is actually immediate; as soon as one starts acting, stress and restlessness rises and its intensity increases according to the intensity and how outrageous the acting is. Further, there is a lag, after acting is reduced, the stress and restlessness lingers for some time. Acting has momentum that is difficult to stop because it creates stress and restlessness immediately and these two forceful qualities block the way to non acting and drives continued acting. A calm and clear mind is inclined not to act; a stressed and restless mind is inclined to lash out by continued acting.
Hence, because actors never truly exit acting, stress and restlessness are their constant companions that they have become used to; only the intensity varies according to the tempo of their acting.
STRESS AND RESTLESSNESS STARTS THE MOMENT ANYONE STARTS CONTRACTING HIS EYEBROWS WHEN HE SPEAKS AND IT BUILDS UP RELENTLESSLY UNTIL IT BECOMES UNCOMFORTABLE AND HE THEN IS FORCED TO CURTAIL HIS EYEBROW CONTRACTION AND THEN EXIT SPEAKING, EG DO SOME DESK WORK BY HIMSELF TO RECUPERATE. THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN HE IS PUSHED TO THE BRINK, DETAINED IN TALKING LONGER THAN HE WISHES OR SOMEONE INTERRUPTS HIS RESPITE BY APPROACHING HIM. THEN HE WILL BE PUSHED OVER THE BRINK.
TALKING IS ALWAYS UNNECESSARILY AND SIGNIFICANTLY LABORED OR DIFFICULT (THAT THEY ALWAYS TRY TO HIDE EG BEHIND A SMILE TO SAY THEY ARE AT EASE WHEN THEY ARE NOT) BECAUSE ACTORS MUST ALWAYS SPEAK THE HARD WAY, FULL OF JAZZ, FULL OF FORCE, STRETCHED SYLLABLES AND EXPLOSIVE PHONATIONS.
AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR MOST IF NOT ALL ACTORS EVEN TODAY IS A CONSTANT SIGNIFICANTLY AGITATED OR EXCITED OR NERVOUS OR KNIFE EDGED GOING AGAINST THEMSELVES THAT THEY FREQUENTLY STRUGGLE TO CONTROL OR RESTRAIN THEMSELVES.
Low Mok Kuan:
This is a Chinese name and phonates in Cantonese similar to old (Low) wooden (Mok) pole (Kuan). Nice people may laugh at it, think it funny and they are friendly and seeing the funny side of things to imagine someone’s name mocks them as an old wooden pole. This is actually sin, never friendly and whoever thinks it is funny is not a master of himself but a slave to emotions that drives him helplessly to see the funny side of things. Laugh and you might end up in hell. If I did not tell you this, would you have realized it? Now that I have told you, how many people believe? The Buddha told you that you have suffering as vast as the ocean. Because you cannot see you are mischievous, you have a perverted sense of what is fun or pleasure, you will return here to suffer, not enjoy yourself.
Even if you do not think it is sin seeing the funny side of things, it takes effort and energy to stir your mind and body in order to appreciate the funny side of things compared to the serenity of mind and body of one who sees nothing funny. It is because you have been seeing the funny side of things for so long the urge is now overwhelming and you believe you are being yourself, you are naturally a humorous guy when you are a fool, a slave to external provocations. When you are suffering from terminal cancer let me see you see the funny side of “Low Mok Kuan”. If you will not wipe off the smile of mischief from your face, karma ultimately will and you will not like it one bit then. It is infinitely better to wipe it off yourself because you suffer less now (humor agitates) and suffer even much less later.

The Vital Difference Between Internal & External Stress:

The Vital Difference Between Internal & External Stress:
Internal & external sourced stresses are not the same but there is a vital difference.
Internal stress is worse, intractable (insoluble) whilst external stress is isolable and can be immediately and effectively addressed. If blaring from the TV stresses you, it is a simple and immediate expedient to switch off the sound (although greedy masochists subject themselves to the onslaught and have nobody to blame if they become stressed). If your own harsh, dragging nagging mental voice stresses you, you cannot switch it off, you cannot tell yourself to shut up (not if you are a sinner who does not listen to your body’s protests and the body therefore does not listen to your protests either).

In the past you had no choice but to put up with intractable self torment but now it is possible to put away self generated stress by recognizing and exiting acting. Still, as I see it, even those who call themselves good, who have heard me, decline to exit acting, cannot shed their pretense and are still quietly acting, only turning down the volume of their acting. They may rue in regret & torment even for an eternity. It is true, heaven can wait (for you) but hell is waiting. Jesus said maidens who came to meet the groom without bringing oil will not be admitted even if they then brought oil. Many are so mesmerized by their whispered, hushed, anxious, dulcet toned, stretched syllabled concern for others to believe they are good when they are manipulative, dishing out sugar laced poison. This is monumental delusion.

Internal stress is created by one’s own acting (forcefully going against oneself to exaggerate and fake creating stress) and the stressful constant need to control or restrain one’s harmful acting.

External stress results from the impact of others’ harsh acting.

Provided one is not an actor (masochistically creating unnecessary stress for oneself), one will be united, not conflicted in countering external stress with simple but effective measures like seclusion (turning off the sound of the TV, going to a quiet place) or through meditation to develop a serene, clear mental state that can filter out the harshness from others’ acting and can be maintained even when interacting with actors.
Internal stress created by one’s own acting creates insoluble conflict in oneself. One part is going against oneself creating stress and the other part is trying to grapple with the stress constantly churning up, there can only be disarray; it is a doomed, maddening, vexatious cause trying to eliminate stress whilst one keeps acting. One can never run away from internally generated stress because one cannot run away from oneself.
Internal stress is two fold, first by one’s acting (one’s false charming smiles, forcefully stretched syllables and explosive speech/actions) mandates second further stress to control in vain that stressful incessant self abuse. Internal stress is insoluble, makes one powerless or checkmated and leads to restlessness, despair (depression), mad impulses and thoughts.
The actor is in big trouble because he is besieged on two fronts (internal & external stress) with his hands tied because he is opposing himself and as troubles inevitably pile up, he is headed for breakdown (mania, madness, depression). The non actor is not in big trouble but has manageable troubles because his troubles are only external stress, can be isolated and because he is no masochist, he does not open his door to welcome external stress. He stops external stress at his doorstep.
Fickleness Is Not Innocent But Self Serving:
Fickleness is seldom if ever innocent or an unintended random hazard of feeble human minds but it is the consequence of systemic or global pretense and usually has furtively suppressed self-serving motive the perpetrator refuses to see and the sympathetic audience turns a blind eye to.

Many ordinary people habitually change their views or utterances even to the diametric opposite according to their perception of shifts in prevailing winds.
Quote: “Life (before becoming paraplegic) used to be a rat race. Everything was about being better than everyone else, and I was never contented with what I had.
Comment: Her motive in saying that may be that there are unexpected benefits of being a paraplegic (no more rat races); it is not all bad so it is not that bad being paraplegic. If this is her intention, she did not say this, but was hinting or alluding to, a sin.
Quote: “Before becoming paralyzed, I was riding high on life and having the most wonderful time. So when it happened, I went bonkers, big-time.”
Comment: Now her sentiment may have changed and depressed by awareness of her present plight, she may be driven to wishfully brag how wonderful life (falsely) used to be for her.
It is because people never mean what they say or say what they mean that they end up saying things that contradict. If you meant what you said that life was a rat race then, how is it possible for you to turn around and say you were having a most wonderful time then?
Even she herself may be unaware or only vaguely aware of her motives in contradicting herself so swiftly in the same interview, so well and emotionally forceful is her denial of her deceitful intentions. Even though she is unaware of her intentions (she is in effect contradicting herself), the conflict or tension is still experienced viscerally in her but it is now disembodied; because she refuses to see that she is dishonest or lying but she adamantly believes she is such a genuine person, she now suffers blindly, clueless because she cannot or refuses to see the connection between the tension she must experience and her fickle contradictory utterances aimed at impressing others.
Whatever people say or utter, even though they appear mad or puzzling, actually have understandable motive but because the motive is unsavory or embarrassing, actors have learnt so well so forcefully to repress awareness of their true motive and instead tell themselves and others they have no motives or a fabricated motive.

This face is not expressionless but there is an expression or fabrication and it is intended to convey a message. Actors’ faces are never free of expressions, they are never passively impassive but even their impassivity is forced, has force or sternness in it.
The expression is a conflict generating cross that can be described as a half smile and half falsely humble anxious grimace together with a dazed or ‘controlled restlessness’ stare. He is trying to convey an anxious, harmless, humble concern and friendliness but beneath the veneer lurks toughness and long unforgiving fangs.
Many people not only act, they often try to act two different or opposite false emotions eg anger with laughter or they try to express acted friendliness by smiling and at the same time try to express pain by grimacing because they think if they express pain for you, it means they feel for you. They are setting themselves up for madness, irresolvable conflict because it is maddening to act happy and sad at the same time.

Those who understand acting know that her smile is not natural but forced; she is going against herself to please others. Hence the accompanying mental state of this smile is not happiness as foolish people believe but stress, conflict, anxiety and nervousness that must be hidden from view. Even though she may be unaware she is going herself by smiling, because it is going against herself, it must generate stress and conflict that lead to tension, restlessness, anxiety and nervousness that again must be painfully hidden from view otherwise it would mar her immaculately acted deceitful charm.
ACTING IS LIKE A MESMERIZING SPELL THAT ACTORS CANNOT OR STRUGGLE TO SEE THROUGH OR AWAKE FROM. THERE ARE TOTALLY BLIND AND EVIL ACTORS WHO HAVE NO CAPACITY TO SEE THAT THEY ARE ONLY ACTORS. THERE ARE THOSE WITH SOME CONSCIENCE AND CONCERN, SOME DISCERNMENT BUT EVEN THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY DISCERNING THE TRUE EXTENT OF THEIR AND OTHERS’ ACTING IN ORDER FOR THEM TO EXIT ACTING’S MESMERIZING SPELL.
JUST AS TENNIS PLAYERS GET BETTER AND BETTER THE MORE TENNIS THEY PLAY BUT ULTIMATELY THEY WILL ALL DEGENERATE AS THEY BECOME DECREPIT WITH POOR EYESIGHT, SLOWER RESPONSES AND RICKETY FRAMES HARBORING OLD INJURIES, THE ACTOR IS COMPLACENT AS HIS ACTING PROWESS IMPROVES EARLY IN HIS ACTING CAREER AND HE THINKS HE WILL ALWAYS BE GOOD & MAINTAIN CONTROL OVER HIS SOPHISTICATED ACTING WHEN HIS ACTING PROWESS WILL ULTIMATELY PEAK AND THEN DECLINE INEXORABLY TOWARDS MAD DISINTEGRATION.
FURTHER, THE LONGER HE PERSISTS IN ACTING AND THE BETTER HE IMPROVES HIS ACTING, THE MORE DIFFICULT IT BECOMES FOR HIM TO EXIT ACTING TO SAFETY BECAUSE HE HAS NOW STRAYED VERY FAR AND HE IS DETAINED BY STRONG, AUTOMATIC ACTING FORCES. THOUGH HE MIGHT SMUGLY CONGRATULATE HIMSELF, HE HAS UNWITTINGLY SET A BETTER & STRONGER TRAP OF TORMENT FOR HIMSELF.
IN ORDER TO BE AN ACCOMPLISHED ACTOR, YOU HAVE TO DEVOTE YOURSELF OR GIVE YOURSELF UP ENTIRELY TO ACTING. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO JUST STRESSFULLY FORCE YOURSELF TO ACT BUT YOU MUST ACT WITH GREAT CONVICTION AND GRIM WILL NO MATTER THE TORMENT YOU EXPERIENCE THAT YOU DO NOT ACT, ARE NOT ACTING BECAUSE ACTING IS FAKING AND FALSELY EXAGGERATING AND TO BE CONSCIOUS YOU ARE ACTING IS TO BE CONSCIOUS THAT YOU ARE A FAKE AROUSING SHAME & DOUBT THAT WILL UNDERMINE ACTING CONFIDENCE. IT IS TESTIMONY TO HOW WELL ACTORS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THIS TASK OF DENIAL THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER CONSCIOUS THEY ARE ACTING, THEY ARE BEING FALSE BUT INSTEAD THEY FIRMLY BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING TRUE, THEIR (ACTED) CONDUCT IS GOOD FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.
IF EVERYONE INCLUDING YOURSELF IS FAKING AND ACTING, IT PAYS AND FACILITATES GETTING ALONG TO TURN ONE OR BOTH EYES BLIND TO THE DECEIT GOING ALL AROUND YOU OTHERWISE IT MAY MAKE GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS EMBARASSING AND MORE CONFRONTATIONAL. FROM A VERY EARLY AGE PEOPLE HAVE LEARNT TO PRETEND, TO LOOK DOWN OR LOOK AWAY, TO FORCE THEMSELVES TO ACCEPT OR PRETEND AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE TO ACCEPT DECEIT AND HURT FROM OTHERS JUST TO GET ALONG SUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW BLIND, THEIR ABILITY TO SEE TRUTH HAS ATROPHIED TO A FEEBLE OR DIM LEVEL. WHENEVER PEOPLE INTERACT THEY ARE NOT MERELY EXAGGERATING BUT THEY ARE BEING FALSELY NICE, FAKING AND PUTTING ON AN ELABORATE DECEITFUL SHOW. ONLY A FOOL IS BLIND ENOUGH TO BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE TRUE TO EACH OTHER.
EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD HAS EXPERIENCED HURT AND BETRAYAL FROM OTHERS THAT ENRAGED THEM MAKING THEM SWEAR REVENGE, TO GET EVEN AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO GET EVEN THAN TO PUNISH OTHERS BY DECEIVING OTHERS BY PUTTING ON A SHOW. TRUTH CANNOT HURT OR BETRAY OTHERS, ONLY THOSE WHO ARE FALSE AND THEIR CHICANERY EXPOSED ARE HURT BY TRUTH. IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE UNFORGIVING, EVEN THOUGH THEIR INITIAL RAGE HAS SUBSIDED, THEY STILL HARBOR REVENGE THAT DRIVES THEM AT COST OF PERSONAL STRESS TO DISH DECEITFUL ACTING TO OTHERS AS THEY ARE DISHED THE SAME. NOT TO ACT, NOT TO BE NICE IS TO BE TRUE, TO FORGIVE OTHERS AND BECAUSE ORDINARY PEOPLE CANNOT FORGIVE OTHERS, THEY ENGAGE IN TIT FOR TAT, YOU ACT IN THAT WAY, I ACT IN THIS WAY.
ORDINARY PEOPLE’S FACES ARE LIKE ACTIVE LIVING MASKS AND IF THAT MASK HIDES LONG SHARP FANGS, YOU CANNOT DROP THAT MASK BUT MUST KEEP THAT MASK ON AT ALL COST. IF THE FANGS ARE SHORT AND NOT SO SHARP THEN YOU MIGHT PERMIT YOUR MASK TO DROP.
ANOTHER FACTOR THAT MAINTAINS ACTING IS BRAINWASHING. MANY PEOPLE ARE BRAINWASHED TO BELIEVE THAT UNLESS THEY APPLY FORCE, EFFORT TO WHAT THEY SPEAK OR DO, UNLESS THEY CONVEY ANXIETY AND PAIN WHEN THEY SPEAK OR DO ANYTHING, THEY ARE NOT SINCERE. THEY MUST ALWAYS CONVINCE OTHERS OF THEIR SINCERITY AND END UP ALWAYS A FAKE OR FABRICATOR. THEY ARE BLIND OR REFUSE TO SEE THAT THE MORE FORCEFUL OR ANXIOUS OR PAINED THEY SPEAK, THE MORE STRESS THEY IMPART ON THEMSELVES AND THE LISTENER, WITH KARMA ATTACHED, NOT MERIT. AS SOON AS ANYONE IMPARTS FORCE, EFFORT & PAIN INTO WHATEVER THEY SAY OR DO, THEY HAVE FALLEN INTO ACTING.
SEEING HOW DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE IT IS FOR ACTORS TO EXIT ACTING, DO I ENVY ACTORS? NOT A BIT BECAUSE I AM SERENELY CALM, SELF ASSURED THAT I COULD NEVER EXPERIENCE WHEN I WAS AN AMATEUR ACTOR AND KNOW PROFESSIONAL ACTORS ARE ALL SUFFERING, EVEN TORMENTED, THEIR MINDS ALREADY PERMANENTLY WARPED AND DEGRADED BY ACTING.
Jesus said there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. Unless you believe beings in heaven are fakers and exaggerators as they are on earth, the implication of that statement is that repenting is a significant rarity; it is very hard for beings to repent otherwise why would angels be so joyful if sinners are repenting themselves easily all the time?
Because evil & falsehood always leads to terrible suffering that lasts even for an eon, it is foolishness & the inability to see how one’s suffering is linked to one’s acting that one is maintained in falsehood and evil. That it is possible for beings to repent implies that nobody is forever evil. The Buddha’s deputy Ven Moggalana was reputed to be Satan or Mara for one eon and hence no matter how evil or foolish an evil person, he is still your brother in existence which is why Jesus said turn your other cheek if your brother wants to slap you.
The Great Benefit Of Stopping Acting:
When one truly puts a stop to acting, one not only enjoys the benefit of putting down forever the terrible burden of acting but one will then be better able to cope with the bombardment of acting from others. The impact of stressful acting by others on him is attenuated compared to those who are actors.
When one stops acting, one stops stressfully going against oneself all the time and stops the constant stressful controlling of the going against oneself. One stops walking the tightrope between going against oneself and the need to forcefully restrain oneself.
Further, when one stops harming oneself, one will also not permit oneself to be harmed by others. It is because actors themselves harm themselves that they also close one or both eyes to permit others to harm them. Hence when one stops acting, stops harming oneself, one will be sensitive to stress and will immediately trace the stress one experiences to its source. When one recognizes that the stress one experiences is exogenous, eg due to someone’s provocative smiling or his stretched syllables, one learns not to embrace it but keep it at arm’s length. Because an actor cannot see through his own acting, he is also blind to the harmful acting of others and foolishly embraces and upholds others, opens his heart to sugar laced poison from others. A person who has stopped acting recognizes acting in whatever guise and keeps the door to his heart shut to such poison.
Because a person who does not act experiences considerably less stress, conflict and tension in him, his mind is calm and clear and he resides on a higher mental plane that makes him more immune to external stress. It is as if he resides upstairs where he is buffered from trouble calling whereas actors all reside downstairs and when trouble comes looking for them, they cannot help getting entangled.
The Buddha Did Not Intervene:
The Buddha did not intervene by himself to teach the world but he was beseeched by a Brahma on behalf of the world to teach the lost world.
Ayacana Sutta:The Request
When the Blessed One was newly Self-awakened, staying at Uruvela on the bank of the Nerañjara River, at the foot of the Goatherd's Banyan Tree. Then, this line of thinking arose in his awareness: "This Dhamma that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, beyond the scope of conjecture, to-be-experienced by the wise. But this generation delights in attachment, is excited & enjoys attachment. For a generation delighting in, excited by, enjoying attachment, this/that conditionality and dependent co-arising are hard to see. And if I were to teach the Dhamma and they would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me."
Just then these verses, unspoken in the past occurred to the Blessed One:
Enough now with teaching
what only with difficulty I reached.
This Dhamma is not easily realized by those overcome with aversion & passion.
What is abstruse, subtle, deep, hard to see,
going against the flow --
those delighting in passion,
cloaked in the mass of darkness, won't see.
Then Brahma Sahampati, having known with his own awareness the thinking in the Blessed One's awareness, thought: "The world is lost. The mind of the Rightly Self-awakened One inclines to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma." Then, Brahma Sahampati appeared in front the Blessed One. He knelt down saluted the Blessed One with his hands before his heart, and said to him: "Lord, let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma. There are beings with little dust in their eyes who are falling away because they do not hear the Dhamma. There will be those who will understand the Dhamma."
In the past there appeared among the Magadhans
an impure Dhamma devised by the stained.
Throw open the door to the Deathless.
Let them hear the Dhamma realized by the Stainless One.
Just as one standing on a rocky crag
might see people all around below,
So, O wise one, with all-around vision,
ascend the palace fashioned of the Dhamma.
Free from sorrow, behold the people
submerged in sorrow, oppressed by birth & aging.
Rise up, hero, victor in battle.
O Teacher, wander without debt in the world.
Teach the Dhamma, O Blessed One:
There will be those who will understand.
Then the Blessed One, having understood Brahma's invitation, out of compassion for beings, surveyed the world with the eye of an Awakened One. As he did so, he saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace and danger in the other world.
Having seen this, he answered Brahma Sahampati in verse:
Open are the doors to the Deathless
to those with ears.
Let them show their conviction.
Perceiving trouble, O Brahma,
I did not tell people the refined, sublime Dhamma.
A key message of Jesus is that there will be a close of the age (there will be the start of another new age, endlessly) and it shouldn’t be too long after (the master is delayed) he departed and he implied he could stay on permanently but “it is to your advantage that he should go otherwise the counselor will not come”.
The Buddha spoke of many eons of cosmic expansions and contractions (an eon being so long a transmigrating being will accumulated a pile of skeletons as high as a mountain) implied that he could stay on until the end of the age if he was beseeched but Ananda did not beseech him to stay and he made up his mind to pass away in three months’ time.
And the Blessed One said: "Whosoever, Ananda, has developed, practiced, employed, strengthened, maintained, scrutinized, and brought to perfection the four constituents of psychic power could, if he so desired, remain throughout a world-period or until the end of it. [21] The Tathagata, Ananda, has done so. Therefore the Tathagata could, if he so desired, remain throughout a world-period or until the end of it." (The Buddha is saying this world is not immutable but there are world periods just as Jesus said there will be a close of the Age)
4. But the Venerable Ananda was unable to grasp the plain suggestion, the significant prompting, given by the Blessed One. As though his mind was influenced by Mara, [22] he did not beseech the Blessed One: "May the Blessed One remain, O Lord. May the Happy One remain, O Lord, throughout the world-period, for the welfare and happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world, for the benefit, well being, and happiness of gods and men."
5. And when for a second and a third time the Blessed One repeated his words, the Venerable Ananda remained silent.
6. Then the Blessed One said to the Venerable Ananda: "Go now, Ananda, and do as seems fit to you."
"Even so, O Lord." And the Venerable Ananda, rising from his seat, respectfully saluted the Blessed One, and keeping his right side towards him, took his seat under a tree some distance away.