Metta or Loving Kindness

Now that I have voiced here Empathy and Hate, it is time for me to say something about how Metta or Loving Kindness affect me.

I was a guy who looked at a situation with either satire or total disgust.

All my life I respected the rule of law or fairness if not the moral code.

To me morality should be an inborn quality.

It should not imposed upon humanity.

I was poisoned three times in my life and I am fortunate enough to have overcome all three to tell the story, here now.

All due to simple jealousy and not for something I have done wrong in my life.  

Of course, I briefly investigated all three and learnes to stay put.

First occasion of I was bit aggressive and went after the guys who planned them.

On the second and third occasions I sort out advice from Venerable Ananda Maithriya Thera and I left this Ceylon within 6 weeks of those episodes.

I developed a techniqe not to react aggressively to the perpetrators.

In fact, I started developing loving kindness, instead.

It started with animals, including, mosquitoes, ants and cockroaches. 

I realized that hate is very destructive but loving kindness is very soothing.

Besides, one go to sleep well.

Finally I ended up with Karaneeya Metta Sutta.

Of course I have now graduated to Somanassa Citta or Happy mind.

Yes, I was happy I was alive after all three episodes. Why should I bring hate and destroy myself within?

I have become proactive.

I left Ceylon 3 years ago.

I knew the current government would come to power.

I voted against the two previous governments and after the election result was declared I openly said so. I knew those government won't come behind me with any vengeance, simply because I did tell anybody to vote for or against a particular party.

It only one vote and does not affect the final outcome.

I also had the scientific analysis who would come to power.

I analysed and got a figure of 45% for Anura.

In fact, he got 44.5%.

I would have voted against him.

But I had the funny feeling I would not be able to say so after the election.

We instead looked at the election results from here.

All of them were very keen to see the final result.

I said Anura will win without an outright of 50% and I slept throughout the counting.

I decided to leave the country 3 years ago.

No voting and nothing to comment after the election.

No emotions.

Even though, I have made my opinion against NPP based on my previous experiences, in my blog peaces, I have no animosity at all except for Ranil. 

In the case of Ranil it is not personal.

I see him as the biggest threat to Free Education in CEYLON.

He is using others for this purpose.

He does not effect my Metta Mode, at all.

It is inbuilt.

I think even if I stayed in CEYLON it would not have affected my composure.

Metta is powerful tool.

This Mara God cannot have any affect on me. 

Metta is the only antidote to Mara and his influence.

I think warring factions in USA, Ukraine, Russia and Israel should read this peace, if they can read English.

War is a waste of time and human lives.

Will we learn that lesson?

Butterfly Effect

12, June 2015
Butterfly Effect
I am one who vent an air
Of protest that
When a few butterflies
Flutter their wings
On my side of the world
Would ignite a chain reaction
On the other side of the world
In the far corners of the globe
In the Arctic or the Antarctic

Come what it may be
In philosophical sense
With a scientific slant
And in an investigative mind
But not to stir up
The potential political undertones
But when I ask myself the question
How clean the clean air?

And when I get the answer
That there are 1000 minute particles
Of dust in every cubic metre density
On this planet
But not in the clear looking Iceland
Or the Antarctic
Gets the credit for
Such an accolade
In this contemporary world
When somebody asks me
Are asking the right question?
Lest you get the wrong answer
Of some sort
By the Coal Power Merchants
Of the modern world
Who continue to discover
The latest technology
To clean my air and breath
Sans how to dispose
The vast amount of ashes and sediment
That get deposited
On this tiny Island Paradise

One who was brought up
With the tradition of zero tolerance
In life and matters of discordance
And purity par excellence
Having forced to go
From macro to micro to nano-tolerance
Of the 21st century macroeconomics
Driving me mad
To go to the outer space
For the safety limits of tolerance
In the Dead Space of my lung
But not the Vital Capacity
Which is fast receding
With time and age

But when I think
Of the virulent fungi
That grow endlessly
In the closed tubes
Of the artificial respiratory tracts
Of the Space Station
I wonder
I could be born again
In another Planet
Outside this Solar System
As an alien being of some sort
Bringing the alien wisdom
To this Island Paradise
 
Is it a wishful thinking of mine?

Manjaro Linux

Manjaro Linux 

Thank YOU Manjaro Developer Girls and Boys. 

After long lay off I installed Manjaro and it is pretty good. 

This is posting from Manjaro instance. 

I used to use Gnome Software for installing additional packages.

Gnome Software is taken as an application and it has a limit for its application install. I do not like flatpak which is bulky and Gnome Software has a common library. I could not Install GIMP. I could not install Gnome Box.

But Manjaro Software let me install Box as flatpac.

My advice is use ONLY Manjaro Software.

Manjaro is a superb distribution and my finicky Gnome behavior is the fault. 

In any case gnome is going to be a new distribution on its own and I am watching its development in the future.

I am a Debian Guy and Gnome comes on top of Gnome.

I have no intention of leaving Debian. 

 

Mara Strategy and Ploy

 This pieces is in evolution and please take it on a philosophical level.

I have just posted a piece on brief history of philosophy and refer that piece for details.

Mara Strategy and Ploy

I call this the Mara strategy. 

His simple strategy is to create division and war so that Dhamma does not get established.

Mind you, Mara is a God.

It is historical and permeate human history from Mayan to Aztecs to Assyrians.

So civilizations come in and disappear in a flash from this planet earth.

We are on stage for a such a catastrophe.

Call it World War III.

I say it has already commended and President Trump has only to authorize and deliver them to that Mad or Maraya Guy Zelensky.

Mind you President trump is the most unstable president in modern history after Hitler.

We have to thank GOD and President Putin does not get provoked but he is ready with his arsenal Oreshniks.

He is a godly human being but do not provoke the Russian Bear.

 

This division goes like this.

1. Black and white

2. Ying and Yang

It is based on Chines war philosophy.

Us and they in war.

3. West and East 

4. South and North

5. English and Other languages

6. War games in computers

Win bonus points lose restart.

7. Victory and Defeat

All these causes endogenous Encephalin release and high state of alert.

Induce anxiety and inability make decisions

On cannot sleep

Good ploy by doctors to make money.

Sinister Political Program to Destroy Buddhism

Sinister Political Program to Destroy Buddhism

 

Yes, there is a Sinister Political Program to Destroy Buddhism.
 
It was spearheaded by the Catholic Church in the past.
 
This all started somewhere around 1962.
 
It was named "Catholic Action", then.

There was a hidden rule that determined that nobody gets a job unless he or she was a Catholic.

This theme has come back to haunt us (Ceylon) again.
 
It was L.H. Mettananda who brought forward the case for Buddhism in Ceylon.
He was Principle of Nalanda College, Dharmaraja College and Ananda College.
 

All these schools including Mahinda College in Galle were established by Sir Colonel Alcott, during the turn of the 20th century.
 
Ana Blastikova a Russian aristocratic lady also came into the foray promoting Theosophy at about the same time.

I have not listened to L.H. Mettananda but as a young guy under 5 years I knew that somebody was making a huge impact on Ceylonese Buddhist Community.

I used to stay overnight at A.C.B.C. building in Fort and I used to have a good Rice Meal, whenever, I come to Colombo.
 
Of course, I moved to more elegant Green Cabin (not The Indian Green Cafe), and stay over weekend and beyond (in Collpetty) for a hopper meal.
 
DhunTel Bath or Oiled Rice (not the Chinese fried rice which I HATE now), on banana leaves was top class delicacy with ice cream to top up (I will make a piece on ice cream later).

Nothing to beat Masala and Dhal Wade at Green Cafe at Dehiwala.

He was London Educated Educationalist.
 
He was a member of the "Buddhist Committee of Inquiry" of the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress.

Yes, I did formal education in a school where they still train Catholic Priests.
 

I think me moving to a Buddhist school had a direct relationship to Buddhist Renascence.

This place is out of bounds to an average Ceylonese Citizen.
 
I think CIA have moles there.
 
I have had first hand experience, no need to elaborate.

I do not agree with Chapa Bandara in many respects but he seems to have a better understanding of this project coming from a Christian dominated background, in Wennappuwa.

I did work in Negambo but I never felt that the Christians there had a hidden program.

In fact, I made a lot of friends there as a doctor.

The first part of this piece is about my entry into real Dhamma.

The sinister part I would list at the end.

Be patient.

This is not written for the sake of vituperation.

I'll dish out only the snippets here but the theme, I highlight here has enough facts.

The facts are enough for a book for someone who wants to venture deeper.

BPS
I will start with Buddhist Publications Society and Bhikku Bodhi.

He has a PhD in physics.

He was the editor there and he left Ceylon to take up a post in America.

His last piece was "Buddhism at Cross Roads".
 
It is a small piece but this piece was identifying the impending danger to Dhamma.
 

It is well worth reading.

My mother wanted me to become a Buddhist Monk.
 
Good that I did not.
 
One of my maternal uncles was an erudite Pali Monk.
 
He interviewed me and agreed that I should become a doctor.
 
I promised him, I would study Buddhism when I am mature, enough.

I did help him to build a Temple in Colombo when I was working as a doctor in Colombo General Hospital.
 
Of course,  Senior Premadasa and his Private Secretary Mr. Gamage were of immense help.

His only (my uncle monk) weakness was his English.

He was the one who headed the Ceylonese Team in Burma (Myanmar) Buddhist Council (Symposium), in 1956.

BPS
BPS was established by two German Monks.
 
I was NOT fortunate enough to meet any of them in real life but the posthumous collection of books on Dhamma canonized there at BPS is a treasure trove.
 
A living monument to their dedication to Dhamma.
 
Buddhism is about deep knowledge and is not about beliefs.
 
They were imprisoned in Ghova and that is where they started translating Pali to English.

Most Reverend Gnanathiloka is the elder monk who stayed in the forest reserve (I never visited it) of Uda Watta Kelle.

The location where BPS is currently situated was the dispensary where  Dr. Dharmasena practiced.

He was my Family Doctor.
 
Do not misidentify him with the terrible Professor Dharmasena.

He donated his dispensary,  to the BPS for it's Library where "Satara Sathipattana" famous most Reverend Gnanapoinika Thera built an enormous collection of Buddhist Sutra Pitakayas.

His plan was to translate them to English.

Bhikku Bodhi of course was one I associated with but not very closely but he was crystal clear in his writing.

One can Google and order any book from BPS in Kandy.

He was a man of few words.
A real physicist.
If I have question, I pose him the question.
He selects me a book and say come back after reading this.
 
Which I did until I left Ceylon.
 
One of my dear friends who is a retired Bank Officer, does the book keeping of this institute. If I do not have a book I need, I request him to find one. He would do a research and find one for me, from any location in Ceylon, if it is available in Ceylon.
He is a dedicated guy.
If not found he would order a few copies to be printed.
Printing costs a lot and stocking books not read or moving is not commercially viable in the digital age. 

As a banker he knows this well.

What one can do is to donate some money to print the tiles not available currently.

These early publications were called "Bodhi Leaves".

My father had a lovely collection of Buddhist Texts which I could not save (I was in UK when he died), including Astrology (which I hated).
 
They were vandalized (stolen) within 10 days of his demise.
 
I of course build a New Collection with new Editions.

I settled down to Dhammpada,  Satara Sathipattana and of course the Vissuddhimagga.
 
Later of course I added Brahmajala Sutta and Kalama Sutta.

Karaneeya Metta Sutta was my base..
 
I have translated it into English Verse and posted here for perusal.
 
No one would guess it is really coming from this Sutta.

I have made the English translation very simple.

That helped me in my Simple English.

But I loved books of most Reverend Narada Thera.
 
He was the one who formerly introduced me to Buddhism before I left to UK.

Buddhism with a Smile is a classic for Children.

He was one of my regular patients in Colombo General Hospital.
 
One must say, I was fortunate enough to meet him in real life.
 
Then, Rev. Madhihe Pangnaseeha and Piyadassi Thera were veterans in Dhamma Deshana.

Reverend Rerukane Chandhawimsla had some simple Sinhala books on Buddhism. 

They ought to be translated to English.
I did not know him at all.
I saw his dead body in Navaloka Hospital along with J.R.J.
I signed J.R.Js final blood report but for some unknown reason I did not see a single blood report on this Thera. 

He may have given special instructions not to do any unnecessary tests or prolong his life.

But I entered into Dhamma after the death of my mother.

I thought, I would make a book on Dhamma on her behalf, on her 3 months Dhana Ceremony.

That ended up in many books at Amazon Book Store not only Buddhism but in Linux,too.

Snippets of Betrayal of Buddhism
 
USA and India Combo, The CIA and The RAW are directly involved in this sinister project.

The current government is the culmination of this Long Term Project.

They tried the CIA method (infiltrate the Sasana) and failed and now using the
 
"Niragamika Theme" (No religion) of the current PM / President Combo.

"Jayamangaka Gatha" was banned in the parliament BUT the full the Full Christmas Thamasha was dished out.

Jayamangaka Gatha is for the blessing of the Entire World not only Ceylon.

War of Ukraine is an antithesis to Dhamma.

Karaneeya Metta Sutta is the first Sutta one should recite.

If you are Buddhist and over 50 years, You should become a Vegetarian Buddhist which I call the Eggotarians (unfertilized egg) clan of Buddhists.
 
If you do that one can say that one is a True Buddhist.

Monks should go for "Vegetarian Dhana".

That is only the beginning to stop this subtle betrayal.
 
There is one Heart Specialist in Colombo who had a full "Vegetarian Wedding" for his daughter.
 
I forget his name.
 
He came after Walupillai.

1. In Kandy opposite the BPS they made a Missionary Hospital to promote Christianity.
 
This was near a Buddhist Girl's School.

I was taken there as a kid. 

As a kid I could feel that the doctors there were poorly trained.
 
On my retirement, one of my Catholic friends wanted me to raise it's standards but I gave up after one week.

There main aim is to promote Christianity through Medical Practice.

They have NO belief in medicine they dispense.

2. Number two is to enter Sasana and introduce moles.

Kiribathgoda Baththara Mulla is number 1.

Number two is the homosexual Sanatha Budda of Mahamewna saffron Guy.

Antidote is Do Not donate money to these guys.

Let the Catholic Church to fund them.

3. Translate Pali Verses into Sinhala and distort the contents and the meaning.

Antidote read Dhammapda.
 
The Dhammpada is out of production.
 
Donate some money to BPS to print new copies.
 
I bought all of them and posted them to my friends left in Ceylon.

Just grasp one or two verses that suits one's heart's content.

4. Dalada Wadena Nilame is the most corrupt Guy.
 
There was a branch of BPS at the rear side of the Maligawa, before he became the big guy.
 
First thing he did was to close this print outlet of BPS.

I made a vow not to visit Maligawa until he is eliminated from this post.

5. Meditation has become a business.
 
There is a book by me coming soon.

Dr. Steven Greer is in this game.

6. I am ambivalent of Wesak Celebrations.

As a kid I can remember one of my less bright uncles made a Wesak Lantern with Baby Lanterns. We could not take it out intact from the main door. We had to separate them and hang them in different locations.
 
For me, it was an experiment in physics.

Do not be a megalomaniac.

A few buckets and a few coconut oil lamps would do during Wesak.

"Olu Bukko Wigadama" should be stopped.

The buckets will burn showing the "Uncertainty Principle" of Buddhism.

Oils would burn out but the light of Dhamma shines.

7. Wearing a Cross is Christian but do not wear any symbol of Dhamma.

Dhamma is for your Brain.

Digest the meaning.

There are many other distortion and vagaries.

Be mindful of every action

I hope you become a down to earth Dhamma Guy.

Be very simple and transparent.

Non interventional to begin with.

Politics of CIA and RAW are always interventional.

They got a good ally.

That is NPP/JVP Combo.

BEWARE.

 

Buddhism Becoming an Academic Exercise

Buddhism Becoming an Academic Exercise

It "Kalena Dhamma Sakachcha" is good but distorting Dhamma is not a good.

This may be my last piece I would do on this subject.

 

As I have said repeatedly, the guys who destroy a language is one who belongs to it and using the very same language.analogy

Current YouTube guys are a very good example. They destroy our language.

 

My judgement and observation is that rule applies to Buddhism,too. 

It is the Buddhists with political intention who is destroying Dhamma.

 

This applies to Indika Totawatta and his associates.

 

I would not talk about the monks who are causing enough damage to Dhamma if not Buddhism.

 

1. Dhamma is not a philosophy.

 

2. Dhamma in my way of thinking is not a religion as it is practiced globally.

Religion is fast becoming a Modern Cult Feature and Buddhism has fallen into this trap.

 

3. Buddhism is a way of life.

To practse it one has practice Sila and one should respect, Buddha, Dhamma and Sanga.

It is OK writing on Dhamma issues but TV Model Discussions in my opinion is destroying it.

What matters is not theory but the practice of Dhamma and trod on that path of emancipation.

It is all about Mind Control without Hate and Gossip.

 

Nobody would achieve any of the Phala or Effects by having a TV show.

 

It is self centered, an individualistic exercise.

Meditation is the simple way, forward not any acdemic exercise.

 

Monks discussing among themselves in the Temple Setup is correct way and is OK.

Well accomplished people (not J.B.D. or JVP type or Debidi Type, while killing fellow citizens for no reason and praying to Buddha-1971 and 1989) should run these Dhamma discussion forums (at least well read if not digested the essence).

 

4. Laymen discussing on Dhamma in their own space (not TV ) or a local club or in a pub over alcohol, I have no problem.

 

5. Then having a healthy discussion on a Poya Day with the monk and laymen in the temple should be the correct way.

 

It should not be like Sajith Premada handing over free handouts as a political Bribe.

 

Let the Capital MahaRaja Organization and TV channels dispense their ill gotten money of CIA through India!

 

TV should not be a substitute for temples and discussion forums.

 

TV for me is an antithesis.

 

Apart from news, sports and films TV has no place for attaining higher goals.

Also TV is no substitute for practice of proper guided meditation.

 

Going to the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy and contributing to its print cost should be another way.

 

I am against Buddhist Literature and for me Jathaka Katha is actually Buddhist Literature, according to one of my friends who is well versed in Dhamma (I learned the basic concepts from him but I had to dispesne some alcohol afterword for his consumption).

 

Buddha stories if one believes in immense rebirth potentiality cannot be be 550 and it stopped abruptly (the author would have died) but should RUN inbto of Millions of Life (Jataka stories) episodes of Buddha.

 

Ten Parmitha is also is part of this literature.

 

One has to try more than millions and millions of time to become a Buddha.

 

PaseBudhu should be analyzed in this context.

 

Those past lives do not matter a little bit to our current predicament (sinister attempt to destroy Buddhist way of life (Avihinsa - JVP is an antithesis to Avihinsa and they carry weapons of mass destruction) and to our future emancipation.

Not a bit in my belief.

 

However, The Birth of Buddha should be celebrated as nothing to compare with.

 

That is Wesak Poya Day.

 

Please shorten the Sansara Track  and do not extend it by TV shows.

 

What about people who do not have a TV but most of them have a radio in their cellphone at least.

We used to have very good radio discussion when I was a kid.

I am glad we did not have TV as kids.

Had we had TVs as a children,  I would have been spoiled a lot and would not have become a doctor and a voracious reader and a writer.

 

It is very difficult to find good books due to TV and Digital Media.

 

Very soon we will have AI Buddha's.

 

That is the way we are heading.

I have more interest in philosophy than religion now.

It is the first order discipline and religion is always second order discipline and always man-made, including Dhamma(no sly intended to Words of Buddha).

 

Philosophy is a natural tendency just like evolution in the biological world.

 

More and more pristine themes of philosophy is the way forward for mankind.

Since I have not achieved any Marga Phala, I wish myself to be remembered as an emerging or budding philosopher who abhor violence including to animals and any form of WAR.

Read Dhmmapada verses every day of the week to remind hate is not and gossip is not the way forward.

 

Lies are good for politicians but not for True Buddhists

All these TV channels should be named as Gossip TNL, or Gossip - Sirasa, Gossip-Rupahavini and Gossip  -ITN.

Kumara Chapa Bandara is by his own "Beginning and Tradition" does fall into this category of  Gossip by default.

 

But it is his craft and way of life which he is entitled to.

 

We should not get stuck in the corridors of religion but venture into the wider universe as it is.

 

What I hate is the Word Niragamika which comes from JVP cookbook which I have never read or heard in my life,

 

Until this guy Anura addressed the opening of the sessions of the parliament.

 

There are two English words  Atheist (do not believe in god) and Agonist (a very confusing English word) which has no proper word for word translation in Sinhala. It is not in Eastern tradition but found in the West.

 

I think when we talk about Dhamma we should use only Pali words and not psedo or new Sinhala adapted words, like Aragalaya and Niragamika.

 

These words I think JVP and NPP brought into our polity.

 

They are going to stay in politics but should not be in Dhamma traditions.

 

It sickens me when people use inappropriate or bull shit words with no meaning that were picked up from JVP/NPP vocabulary.

It is alright for their grassroot convicts and also for Nirmal Ranjith for his daily discussions, which are becoming boring now.

 

JVP has not got any new theme except violence against the established system.

 

This  system change and Aragalya (illegal word to mean an opposition to the established system which should  in reality be legally prosecuted).

Anything which goes against the established law should be punishable unless the law is modified in accordance with the parliamentary traditions.

It is the beginning of anarchy or destruction of democratic way of governance,

which JVP/NPP has been guilty of violating over 50 years.

 

They are mad hatters in evolution not revolution.

 

Democratic System and other political systems did not come about overnight.

 

They evolved gradually.

 

JVP/NPP is an antithesis to systematic evolution of politics.

 

I do not know why Ceylonese do not question their approach.

Timidity brings on demolition of established system and that is what JVP and NPP wants.

 

We are slowly heading for a dictatorship. 

Just look at Latin America.

  

Do not give them majority in the provincial council election.

 

Defeat their new theme of Niragamika lest we won't be able to change thevsystem drifting into either anarchy, mayhem or one man dictatorship.

 

Be mindful always.

 

Their  hidden agenda is unpredictable.

 

Sorry drifting into politics

 

Dhamma is also dragged into politics by India and the Anura Gang.

 

Indika Totawatta is very unstable and changes his political  thinking at the drop of a hat.

 

What has happened to his independent philosophy?

 

I think monks are using him for their own popularity on TV and Image building.

 

This is the Very  Dander I see and want it to be avoided to save "What is left of the Teaching of Buddha".

 

There is already two traditional themes let them remain as such BUT PLEASE do not add anymore of peudo-themes.

 

Two is confusing enough and three or more TV Schemes is a disaster for Dhamma.

In summary

Sila

Samadhi

Pagna

Metta

Karuna

Muditha

Upekka.

My comments are based on the last of all which is supreme.

Upekka or looking at a problem without political (collective) or individual (private) attachment.

Rember Dhamma is Global and it did not belong to even Buddha himself.