Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Kolon Thota, Kolon-Wewa and Kolon Nawa
Yakada Yaka
My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe
My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe
My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe is clear.
He was rejected by the general public twice and as an old man he should retire and become an ordinary citizen, again.
He is good for an ornamental political coffin, ideally a political dustbin.
Making him a hero is not good for our politics.
He did not settle any of our long standing loans but delayed payment until 2028.
We have to pay back the loans with accrued interests which is worse than paying it now itself.
He should be treated like any other citizen and he does not deserve any special treatment at all.
If there is a legal provision to prosecute him it should not be delayed. If there is any legal procedure against a politician it is dragged inordinately until that government is out of power. A case against Senior Premadasa came out 12 years after his death.
So far only one minister had seved his sentence and two others went to prison. Ranil should be in this list if he had done punishable deeds politically or otherwise.
Along with Gaminie Lokuge, he was involved in disappearances of Students of the Peradeniya Univesity, when I was young Medical guy working in the university
seconded from the Department of Health.
Equally one my friends Nagahawatta who was an army volunteer officer was killed by NPP/JVP guy in 1987/89 in the university and dumped into Alwis pond.
I was witness to the killing of our vegetable vendor in Digana village.
He was not allowed to come to my clinic which was right across the road. A few children under my care died because they were not allowed to attend my clinic at Digana.
138 bodies were dumped into Manikhinna hospital. They were killed because they were forced to parade against the police in Manikhinna and Digana. Our hospital team was asked to join the parade and I stopped them going, there lest they would be among the 138.
Police dumped several bodies for public display in Digana.
I am not defending neither police nor army.
I did not think Airfoce guys were involved and their training seem to be different.
I was a temporary lecturer (not as officer medical officer but a teacher) in the University and I resigned from my post with two kids to feed when my friend Nagahawatta was killed. He was from the Arts Faculty.
I was without a job for six months and joined the Private sector and ended up at Navaloka Hospital. I worked for Quality Control in Hospital Management and Navaloka was awarded the National Quality award.
Incidentally, J.R.J was warded with terminal illness, I never went to see him but I signed all his reports as part of the Quality Control (there was no need for me to countersign) work.
I signed his last blood report most likely taken after his demise, and I made a verbal comment that this guy ought to be dead.
Sure enough, I saw white flags when I passed Ragama railway station.
Ragama railway station, on my train journeys I have never alighted but has a special memory in my mind. A rouge guy threw a stone at the railway and it hit my forehead narrowly missing my left eye.
Without alighting at Peradeniya, I went to Kandy station and reported this incident. I made sure this guy and several others were caught.
Then, there was a gang of pickpockets who board from Ragama and steal thing from train passengers. After six months of investigation with the help of forensic medical guy we rounded them up.
The number if I remember right were between 25 to 30.
In actual fact, his wrist watch was snatched by these pickpockets at the Panideniya Junction.
Regarding my injury, I went to Peradeniya hospital (the place I was trained and also worked as a teacher) for a X-ray and I was kept until midnight for the wound toilet.
Again a shoddy job.
It took nearly three months for it to heal and the sand particles or the silica particles to come out on their own accord. Had I not taken antibiotics on my own accord (hospital did not dish out any), I could have been dead by a nasty meningitis episode.
Renukane Chanda Wimala and my boss during my internship Dr. S.S. Drahaman were hospitalized along with J.R.J. but neither recovered from the illness. I of course, went to see Dr. Drahaman but he was desperately ill and couldn't recognize me.
Just to say, Private hospitals are no better.
This is just for Sepala to make a note why I am now in Australia but would never come home.
I did my part today for "Australia Clean" and dumped all the rubbish where it belonged, which included recycling material.
Ceylon will never regain its glory of the time of Dudley Senanayake.
I wish not be born again in Ceylon, having seen Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi's YouTube presentation where he had to do the cooking (for his wife), which included cleaning up little fish Salaya.
I advice him to take protein rich diet to regain his composure. He looks deficient in B Vitamins.
Cooking is far better than making a YouTube presentation to grab some money from gullible viewers.
Ravana Curse would Befall on Indians and Ceylonese who help Indians
Gods and Humans
I am good in my mathematics and I could not count the 31 (4 of the Arupavatara without physical bodies need not have a world to manifest themselves, in other words Mind only beings) Gods, having referred to the Buddhist Dictionary of Reverend Nyanathiloka.
I have counted only 22 (6 in this world, 12 in fine material worlds and 4 in immaterial worlds) Gods in total.
I have 9 Gods not accounted for.
So if I add six (6 ) of the Hindu Gods in all six directions, I still get 3 more gods unaccounted for.
I think Buddhist monks are bad in mathematics.
That is not the point, I want to drive here.
Being born as a human is supreme.
Buddhas are born only in human worlds.
Hitler's are also born in this world.
We have both good and bad.
Buddha has often repeatedly said being born in a heavenly world is a waste of time and waste of good Kamma.
He also has stated those heavenly beings fall to lower realms when they die at the end and when the good Kamma expires.
So worshiping gods and trying to become a god is waste of human energy.
It is high time we act as humans and save lives of human beings involved in futile War.
I am not going to take a side in this War.
War always has a beginning but it's end is often blurred.
Very rarely we get a chance to be born as humans and if we waste that human life in War, one is most likely to be dead and be born again in hell as a demon.
Humans can become demons as well as gods in this world.
Coming back to Buddhist Cosmology;
If I count OUT, 4 of the immaterial worlds, I get 18 gods (18 worlds), in total.
Not worth being in one of them.
Be human!
Rarity of Humanoids
Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.
The assumption here is there are only 5 types of humanoids in only five planets.
Sinister Attempt NOT to hoist the National Flag and recite the National Anthem
Why I do not use a Raspberry Pie?
Why I do not use a Raspberry Pie?
With Microchip Industry at its peak it is not worth investing on technical gadgets.
If I am given the chance, instead of a Raspberry Pie, I would have made my Mini Computer on a Simple Keyboard by integrating the CPU and RAM of my NUC on the keyboard base.
Just stick the NUC circuit board and mini RAM to the keyboard.
Instead of a TV monitor, a Liquid Crystal Display would function as my digital reader cum monitor, ideally folded into two halves.
It is humanly possible to make, such a device and it would be much cheaper but these Corporate Giants would never consider such a venture.
By the way, the keyboard would be bit bigger, thicker and heavier.
The Corporate Giants target is profits.
I started with 4MB Video RAM and 128MB chip RAM to begin with.
Full sketch of my "Globe Trotter" design would be given in my book "Linux Essentials".
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Cell Cycle Events
Cell Cycle Events
1. Man and many advanced animals have 50 cell cycles in their life time.
2. Up to 42 cycles are used up by the age of 18 months of age.
3. About 42 to 45 are cycles are consumed by about 15 years of age.
That means for puberty 3 cycles are used up.
4. After puberty one is left with only 5 cycles.
3. There is a condition called progeria where babies are born in advanced stage of cell cycle and rapidly age and die young.
4. If we take a somatocyte from (with mutated genome) a case of this condition one can modulate few more cell cycles to be advanced by culturing under correct conditions with sexual maturation and bald head.
3 Words of Buddha, Truth, Action and Verification
3 Words of Buddha, Truth, Action and Verification
Words of Buddha
These Three were stated in the first sermon of Buddha after attainment of Enlightenment.
Tools of Wisdom
Tools for Human Survival
Tools for Human Survival
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War and Artificial Intelligence
War and Artificial Intelligence is not the End Game.
This piece is to highlight that the "War of Attrition" has no currency when AI is at work. Nobody seems to have understood this precarious situation.
I do not think even China has given credence to this evolving situation.
China is obsessed with AI.
Russia in my belief does not believe in efficiency of the AI operations. It may be useful in a battle situation where surprise is intended. They still believe in human intelligence supervising the AI drones.
I do not want to use the term AI spy agents.
They have boots on the ground.
If AI is given the full control what evolves has no logic or algorithm. Americans do not have reliable boots on the ground and depend heavily on AI gathered intelligence.
At best AI stops at 95% efficiency.
The outlier of 5% is the one which leads to catastrophe in a AI battle of supremacy. The End Game has no logical endpoint but depends on the redundant data set of uncertainty. It is presumed be an infinity but infinity has a different physical connotation.
As for knee jerk reaction, I think we have to worry and suspect Americans who would jump the gun prematurely, on a preemptive strike.
Beware.
By the way, this is an American manufactured war. Russia never wanted a war in Ukraine but they preferred negotiations. It was the war monger, Boris Johnson who coaxed Zelensky into war path. Already one million Ukrainians have scarified their life to war of attrition.
It is easy to start a War.
It is very difficult to stop a particular War.
In human terms at this point of time, diplomacy, may or may not work.
The stakes are very high.
Then man made devices are used preemptively.
We have examples in history and the Atomic Bomb in Japan did end the World War II.
Unfortunately, we never managed to come to term with Strategic Arms Control for a sustainable period of time in our history. The Treaty for Nuclear Arms Control ends in 2025.
There is no attempt to reactivate this Treaty.
Due to Presidential election in USA, no attempt to end this war was envisaged.
Status quo remains fragile.
Democratic mechanisms may fail in this type of scenario.
One man rule like in China may fail.
Dialogue may fail.
We have a vulnerable president in power, at a time where diplomacy is at zero strength.
The end game or end point is in "a state of flux".
When we have unstable leaders who do not have mature advisers to lead them, the tendency to rely on AI is realistic. Paradoxically guys who may be eyeing for a regime change in USA may become proactive.
This was regime change in reverse gear.
The man who envisaged Regime Change in Russia will be a victim of his own devises.
The pendulum swings from war to no war.
Putting the finger on the AI button, is a realistic probability.
It is literally called the "Panic Button".
This is an example of “Uncertainty Principle”, hard at work.
Victory is uncertain but stale mate factual.
Rebirth in Essence
Rebirth in Essence
Abhidhamma Explanation
Kamma Nimitta
Depends on the Individual.
Buddha and Arhants, with no remaining Kamma, ends up with no Rebirth.
Ananthariya Kamma that invariably produce results, such as hurting Buddha by Devadhatta would result in almost unrecoverable bad effect or Kamma Vipaka.
Others fall in between have many degrees of Janaka Kamma that may result in higher (Devas) to the lower (animal kingdom) to the humans.
Human birth is very rare.
Gati Nimitta is the ability to foresee the impending birth in a momentary, flash like instance.
Janaka Kamma
The mind or the Vinnana having tremendous speed far exceeding that of speed of light, in a moment to moment of its expression is inherently unpredictable.
It is far better to forget about the time frame in human reference which is a human construction of an arbitrary value (it is a kind of concept). In physics time is not a substantial entity of nature but is comparatively relative to the solar system one inhabits.
In a moment of time, many, many mind instances occur, in high frequency, so an analogy, is impossible.
The life span of a Citta is termed, in the Abhidhamma, a mind moment (Cittakkhaṇa).
This is a temporal unit of such brief duration that, according to the commentators, in the time that it takes for lightning to flash or the eyes to blink, billions of mind moments pass by. What it means is that the frequency of Citthais tremendously fast and one cannot hold onto any one instance since one fades into another, instantly.
In Abhidhamma, if my memory stands correct, it states in a mind moment, there are 17 to 18 (I am puzzled how it was calculated) thought moments exist.
In my opinion, it is an arbitrary figure which cannot be counted as such.
These thought moments have the Chethana base as a component and they are continuous and spontaneous and one cannot grab and hold onto one instance by will power.
In other words Rebirth is instantaneous and holder of the Kamma (unless one is an Arhant) has no control over the next birth.
In that sense the term Antharbhava is superfluous and has no meaning.
I am stating it as a man with a good understanding of physics.
Chethnaham Bhikkuve Kammam Vadhami.
Gathi Nimittha
So the last Chethana or Kamma Nimitta (Nimitta means impending event that has not yet come to being/fruition) of this life would take us to the next birth instantaneously.
Chuti Cittha
Chuti Citthais the last mental formation in any life form.
Patisandhi Cittha
Patisandhi Citthais the re-linking mental formation
Chuti Cittha (ending of one life) gives way to the Patisandhi Cittha (beginning of next life) of the immediately following life, a natural process.
Gathi Nimittha is the momentary flash of seeing what is coming next and is not an event of any significance in Rebirth Phenomenon.
These Pali words unlike Sinhala or English have subtle but not precise meanings.
So knowing the Pali meaning is NOT knowing the Dhamma in essence.
Dhamma has much bigger and subtle meaning which I have not yet understood.
That is the bottom line and it is not an academic exercise.
Mahayana Buddhism is Antithetical to Deliverance
In my opinion, of Mahayana Buddhism is that, it is the degeneration of Original Buddhist Concepts into regional cultural practices.
Mahayana has added many regional philosophical contents into Buddhist practice outside the main realm. It is actually the Hindu mysticism that has degenerated the Original Buddhist Concepts. Anything that prolongs Samara or the recurring Birth Cycle is antithetical to Buddhist Thinking.
Theravada has one path
1.Ekayana Maggo
Satara Sathipattanais its goal.
2.Uppamado Amata Padan.
Strive hard with diligence on the path of deliverance.
One is truly one's own protector and saviour.
Do not delay the goal i.e; the emancipation.
One might not get another chance.
Human life is extremely rare.
Whereas, Mahavansa willfully delay emancipation by aspiring to become a Bodhisattva.
It is trying to take many paths, mostly rituals, reciting stanzas and asceticism instead of the real meditation or the concentration on the path of deliverance.
One common thread should be meditation for the ultimate emancipation. They are willfully meditating to delay the emancipation or escape from Rebirth Cycle.
It is an antithesis to Uppamado Amata Padan.
Strive hard as, if there is no second chance is the true wayfarer's goal.
Dhammapada Verse 21 is Appamada Vagga
Appamado amata padam
pamado maccuno padam
appamatta na meeyanthi
ye pamatta yatha mata
Appamada is “ without delay” and pamada is being delayed.
Mata is death, and amata is deathless.
Nibbana is so called because those who attain it are freed from the cycle of repeated birth and death. Maccuno is also dead and so is meeyanthi.
Appamatta is not delayed, pamatta is one who is delayed. Yatha is “the true status”.
Heedfullness is the path to the deathless, heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful do not die, the heedless are already dead.
Ravana Episode in Development Mode
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Animal Mutilation
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Heckel
Helena Blavatsky
Mythical homeland of 7 races of Humanity.
Limas and Lemuria.
Continental Drift
Sircorn
Supercontinents
Pangaea 300 million years ago.
Antarctica is the remnant of lost continent.
Gondwana 500 million years ago.
The hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the presence of lemur fossils on Madagascar and the Indian subcontinent but not in continental Africa or the Middle East.
Occultist and founder of theosophy Helena Blavatsky, during the latter part of the 19th century, placed Lemuria in the system of her mystical religious doctrine, claiming that this continent was the homeland of the human ancestors, whom she called Lemurians.
Theories about Lemuria became untenable when, in the 1960s, the scientific community accepted Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, presented in 1912, but the idea lived on in the popular imagination, especially in relation to the Theosophist tradition.
Lemuria was hypothesized as a land bridge, now sunken, which would account for certain discontinuities in biogeography.