Harry Potter and Mind the Matter and Space Travel

Harry Potter and Mind the Matter

I need to make some reference to Harry Potter series of films to begin with.
 

Creative and Imaginative but not Inspiring. 

What we have to do is to inspire children and creativity comes in stages.

I never read any of these fictional books being a man of science. 

Started as pediatrician but ended up as a geriatrician in later life, bringing Fear and Phobias to kid's mind is no good at all  and may cause depression in children who have domestic disharmony..
 

I strongly oppose killing opposing imaginative creatures and witches. 

I do not want to be born like any of those imaginative beings.
 

I sometime I think the author of these books in a previous life form was born as a demon to relive them in this life.
 

I do not mind she living with these miseries in this life but exposing them to young kids is pathological. 

I have no objection adults reading them and become killers themselves in war of some form.

We are one gravity beings with somewhat limited capacity.
We cannot live on the moon with less gravity than on the earth.
We cannot live on Mars with more than one gravity.

No gravity is anathema to all human physiology.

 I do not see that it is difficult to land on Mars but forming colonies there is a another kettle of fish.
We need to design new form of transport which alien beings possess.

Aliens are no gods but advanced humanoids. 

The space vehicles are most likely driven by radiation obtained from elements above 112, may be element 115. 

Elements above 110 are possible in some galaxies.

Now coming to Mind itself.
I have two books on mind one simple and one advanced at Amazon Book Store.
What follows here is a brief introduction.
1. Mind is the best vehicle to travel the Universe.
2. Mind is a mystery.
3. Some meditation techniques can achieve momentary state of  escape from the brain.
However, the mind's attachment to brain is very strong and this escape mode is like an illusion.
This is one reason I oppose any form of meditation.

Live this life in wakeful state.
Be mindful every moment of life.
Be happy.

4. According to Buddhism there are 31 types of celestial beings who live in almost eternal bliss.

5. They have achieved them through vigorous form of meditation and become strongly bonded to these live forms and they believe that state is/are of eternity.
That is a form of delusion worse than living as a human being with all its discomforts and limitations.
 

6. All are temporary states of bliss.
 

7. That brings me to "The Uncertainty Principle".
 

8. That is the entry point to Dhamma.
 

I leave it at that point but "Somanassa Chitta' without attachment is the base to real bliss.

There are 3 other components.
Metta
Karuna
Upekka

 The hidden objective was to keep a copy of 10 precepts for my own reference.

The Ten Precepts
Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
1. I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.
Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

2. I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given.
Abrahma cariya veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

3. I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual activity.
Musavada veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

4. I undertake the precept to refrain from incorrect speech.
Suramerayamajja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

5. I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness.
Vikalabhojana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

6. I undertake the precept to refrain from eating at the forbidden time (i.e., after noon).
Nacca-gita-vadita-visuka-dassana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

7. I undertake the precept to refrain from dancing,singing, music, going to see entertainments.
Mala-gandha-vilepana-dharana-mandana-vibhusanatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

8. I undertake the precept to refrain from wearing garlands, using perfumes, and beautifying the body with cosmetics.
Uccasayana-mahasayana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
 

9. I undertake the precept to refrain from lying on a high or luxurious sleeping place.
Jatarupa-rajata-patiggahana-veramani-sikkha padam samadiyami
 

10. I undertake the precept to refrain from accepting gold and silver (money).

Evolution and Corruption of Buddhism

This is a chapter in my book "Business Enterprise Meditation"

 

I did some  academic work and this book comes after "Vegetarian Saga" and "Linux Essential".

These two books are down to earth, democratic and more useful to a lay person. Both are base on Dhamma should be dished out free and Vegetarianism is good for this planet earth and its survival.

 

Evolution and Corruption of Buddhism
 

Before, coming to nuts and bolts of Dhamma, let me state few historical facts, some related to geography and some to language.
 

Word of Buddha reached China 700 years after Parinibbhana and was memorized in Sanskrit.
It reached Burma and Thailand 1000 or more years later, probably by sea route and was memorized in Pali,
 

Nepal or the Magada State is landlocked and Buddhism did not reach Tibet until 1200 years or more.

One should assume that all these countries had some form of a belief system and were not conducive, if not antagonistic to imported or foreign ideas.
China is a good example.
 

Things were recorded in Matale, Aluvihara in Ceylon 1700 years later, after the passing away of Buddha.
 

My point here is, with passing away of time and cultural influence and errors in memory chain, nothing called Pure Dhamma existed but colossal literature, that include Dhammapada, which gives an insight, to the Teaching of Buddha.
 

What excited me was that the discussion on the Beauty of the Mind and its Behaviour.
Every volitional action is related to the Mind and many years of me studying  Medicine did not prepare me to understand the Mysterious Nature of Mind.
 

Prudently, I postponed digging into Dhamma in my young years.
 

I bought a huge dictionary of Buddhism and it had more than 10 pages on the word Dhamma.      

 

From the very beginning, I knew, most of  the English and French translators got it wrong somewhere down the line, having not studied Pali in depth.
 

However, I have veneration for the German erudite who translated Pali into English and German.  

Not only that they initiated the opening of the  Buddhist Publication Society, in Kandy, Ceylon.
 

The Tibetan approach, I never liked and trying to become a Modern Buddha with the glamour of TV screens is an alien concept. 

After all, I hate China for subduing  Dalai Lama and invading Tibet for no reason other than economic and expanding its Silk Road Initiative.

I think Coronavirus was the befitting curse that befell on China for decades to come and its Silk Road dream of economic strangle will peter out, in real terms and in real time.
 

I hate Mao Zedong and Carl Marx for destroying thousands of years of Chinese Culture.
In that case,  President Putin is much wiser, who sticks to Orthodox Church.

The long preamble is essential and many Mahayana and Hinayana traditions are a utter waste.

Swindling by Default

This was a dream where a guy who is a Ceylonese crook in Colombo who organized a Grand Auction type of episode and sells contracts big and small on open bid. 

The swindle occur before the auction. 

The bidder has to keep a big security which is refundable only if he/she secures the deal. 

In reality there are no deals. 

He scoops and vanishes. 

This episode the guy falls from high rising building. 

I was not sure he was pushed or he jumped.

I woke up.

Now that I am away from City of Kandy. 

I would relate some facts about Original Doctors of Kandy.

I had gone to all of them and all of them are gone.

 

1. CDL

 

2. Rajendra (not Tamil) - Samadara Dispensary 

 

3. Dr. Nihal Karunatatne 

 

4. Dr. Nadesan

 

5. ? Dr. Katawala 

 

6. There was another one near Kandy Peradeniya road. 

He was the Secretary of Health (after retirement).

 

7. Another guy of no significance

 

8. Another bogus skin guy

 

9. There is another guy who had very bad reputation in New Zealand.

 

10. There was another dispensary in front of the Clock Tower.

Ended up as my Barber Saloon and rest of the premises belonged to Bank of Ceylon. 

British Council Library in Kandy was there for sometime. 

This is where I used to meet my makeshift friends, everyday of my Kandy visit after retirement.

My Guess Work is this doctor had taken a big loan from the bank and he could not pay back. Banks are clever to catch gullible doctors but bank subsequently developed the property to good standard but no restaurant in the premise.

 

You know why?

Bank only wants work from its workers who invariably get duodenal ulcers. 

 

I have treated many in my life.

Profit is their goal.

This is why bankers become drunkards.

CDL was the first to go. 

His clinic became a mini shopping complex. 

This was in the early 1980s when TVs were novelty. There was an TV antenna shop there. There was also a pharmacy, watch repair (man) shop and a few other tiny shops.

Pharmacy outlet is mandatory if there is no second generation doctor to take over the business.

Dispensary is a business by all means. 

The Municipality depends on business taxes and I think the taxes are very high. 

 

This is in addition to b-tax form that owner has to fill and  pay tax on behalf of each employee who is more than six months in service.

 

I never work in a place where this tax is not paid. 

The nursing hands are never made permanent due to this reason.

I end up in courts or prison, years later. 

This not an easy business.

 

I managed a hospital in Negambo belonged to another doctor under his supervision.

When joined in it had lot of arrears.

 Settled everything in six months well before leaving to New Zealand.

I do not know its status now.

Dr. Nihal Karunatatne 

It became a nice restaurant where I used to go for Kottu. 

I am not sure there is a pharmacy there. I do not think Dr. Karunatatne violated this principle. There ought to be one which I could not locate in my brief visits. 

It also dished out good Aappa or hoppers.

Dr. Nadeson 

KPH hospital 

 

Dr. Nadeson was my family doctor and he suddenly disappeared from Kandy.

Now come to a real story.

I met Dr. Nadeson years later.

He had come from UK. 

I was back in Ceylon but without a job. 

He offered me to run KPH. 

I flatly refused but asked him what the problem was. 

He said he needs his legal possession of the property.

I asked him are going to stay back.

He said NO.

I told him you looked after me as a kid. 

I have the return the favour. 

I do not need any money.

I told him my methods are bit crude and productive.

Would you give me free hand.

One day, I walked into KPH and encountered the said doctor.

I said, I am in charge of this case now, if he does not settle this within a month, nasty things may happen.

It was settled in no time.

That was the end of it and I said Good Bye to Dr. Nadeson and he went to UK happily.

 

But little bit is left.

After this he asked me to help in Dr.Rajendra's Samadara Dispensary. 

I knew about this. In fact, I was interested in it after he left to UK. 

He was a complicated guy with some matrimonial conflict in addition. 

It was complicated by legal battles and Dr. Rajendra had died in England. 

He of course did not have financial problems. 

There was another doctor guy in Kandy who tried to possess this but he failed. Legally one cannot close a Medical Unit. 

Only the pharmacy functions now in the name of the Samadara Dispensary.

There is another medical outlet run by another guy.

Anohter story.

He was an obstetrician who used to do locum at Peradeniya Medical Faculty. 

He was a very nasty guy. 

He had a piece of land near the current Consultation Practice.

He tried to open his own unit but could not due to Influence of the other guy.

 

I think he sold that land  to a guy who was dealing with Computers. My interest in the city was computers but I never visited this joint.

There was a dispensary and a few of the legal outlets in front of the Maligawa belonging to the Temple.

They were evicted after the lease periods were over. 

I do not know the current situation. 

 

My lawyer late Mr. Arudusothy passed away and I stopped visiting this place. 

The previous lady lawyer committed suicide why I do not know.

Mr. Arudusothy took over the cases.

After about 15 years I got my problem sorted out with the help of                          Mr. Arudusothy. 

This included a permanent injunction against Municipality of Kandy. 

 

This is during JVP Bheeshanya and Thuggery.

 

I was told not to appear for my case by JVP sympathisers.

I took the risk and I kept my legal rights.

 

Another reason I hate JVP.

Long time ago with the help of JRJ I got rid of a Registrar of the Court and his ally the Judge was sent on compulsory retirement.

I can say this freely since I do not intend to visit Ceylon in this life.