Friday, July 4, 2025

Buddha Spent 7 weeks after Enlightenment

 Below is how Buddha spent 7 weeks after Enlightenment
1. First seven days.
Under the Bodhi tree.
 

2. Second seven days
He stood at a certain distance gazing at the Bodhi tree with motionless eyes for one whole week.3
 

3rd week
Did not give up the temporary residence at the Bodhi tree
 

4th week
The fourth week he spent in a jeweled chamber (ratana-guhara)5 contemplating the intricacies of the Abhidhamma.
 

5. Fifth week
Under the Ajapala Banyan tree
Enjoyed the bliss of emancipation (vimutti-sukha)
 

6. Sixth week
Mucalinda tree
Here arose an unexpected great shower, Mucalinda, the serpent-king,9 came out of his abode, and coiling round the body of the Buddha seven times, remained keeping his large hood over the head of the Buddha so that he was not affected by the elements.
 

7th week
Rajayatana tree
Experiencing the bliss of Emancipation and Enlightenment.

Discipline or Sila

  Discipline or Sila
 
Small Disciplines or Culasila

1. Killing (no option but to be a vegetarian if one is practicing Dhamma)

2. Stealing (honesty is the only way)

3. Sexual misconduct including homosexuality (chastity as a virtue)

4. False speech and faked news (utter only the Truth)

5. Slander and political speech (Reconcile, conduce to concord for politicians)

6. Hash speech (again for political shows in TV and Media)

7. Idle or frivolous chatter (those new guys who would intend to contest presidential elections)

8. Musical shows (this applies mainly to Maharaja Organization)

9.Wearing garland (mainly to film stars)

10.Accepting gold and silver (Maligawa and Politicians around that Palace)

11. Elephant trade (Mahinda Mama and some monks)

12. Running messages (one version of Bodu Bala Sena)

13. Buying and Selling (Perpetual treasuries)

14. Bribery, deception and fraud (Finance ministry with P.M as head and the various parliament committees)

15.False measures and weights (Gold and Silver, Suwarnavahini included-not for bread and butter)

2. Come to Middle Order Disciplines (Majjhimasila)

1.Lottery
 
2. Buying and selling MP Vehicles

3. Gambling stalls

4. Massaging stalls (Chinese and Thai investments)

5.Games including cock fights, bull fights and elephant fights

6. Boxing, wrestling and karate

7. Cricket, football (Pirith Nula before championship tournaments, is a case in point)

8. Running errands for kings and politicians

9. Debating and wrangling arguments

10. Scheming and talking

3. Now the Long and the Mahala is intriguing
1. Palmistry
2. Astrology and Astronomy
3. Interpreting dreams (my putative specialty)
4. Predictions and Omens (good and bad)
5. Auspicious Times (for elections, financial dealings, weddings)


6.
Fortune telling (at Anuradhapura and various temples in India)

7.
Weather forecasting (BBC is found fault with giving wrong prediction for Ceylon, before cricket matches)

8.
Poison Craft

9.
Snake Craft

10.
Scorpion Craft

11. Bird craft (my specialty-no fruit trees for them)
12. Predicting tsunamis
13. Predicting earthquakes
14. Predicting meteorites
15. Gifts for deities
16. Miscarriages or abortions
17. Virility and impotence
18. Fire sacrifices and fire goods
19. Ointments, medicine and surgery
20. Accounting, computing, calculation, and writing using Free Linux software.
 
It covers everything except for begging for food for monks.
 
Yes, I did all this for nearly one year except for begging for food but only a single meal (no coffee, cola and tea).

Yes I slept well without nasty dreams but I started even forgetting my bank PIN numbers.

So because this PIN number problem I gave it up and back to blogging but sparingly now.

Abhinna

 Abhinna

1. Iddhividha
Flying through the air, walking on water, diving into earth, creation of forms etc. belongs to this category.

2. Dibbasota
Is the celestial ear, also called clairaudience, which enables one to hear subtle or course sounds far and near.

3. Paracittavijanana
Is the power to discern the thoughts of others.

4. Pubbanivasanussati
Is the power to remember the past lives of oneself and others. This is the first supernormal vision the Buddha developed during the first watch on the night He attained the enlightenment.
With regard to this knowledge the Buddha’s power is limitless while in the case of others it is limited.

5. Dibbhacakkhu
Is the celestial or divine eye also called clairvoyance which enables one to see heavenly or earthly things far or near which are imperceptible to the physical eye.
This was the second knowledge the Buddha developed during the second watch on the night of his enlightenment.
These five kinds of supernormal visions are worldly, to this be added the sixth supernormal knowledge Asavakkhayannana knowledge with regards to the extinction of passions which is supermundane or the Nibbana.
 

The first kinds may be developed at any period but the last only during a Buddha cycle of about 2500 to 5000 years (my interpretation).

  1st Jhana State
One attains
1. Vittakka (thought conception and attention to thought-thinkink)
2. Vichara (reflecting or on inner speech or discursive thinking)
3. Piti (rapture)
4. Sukha (joy)
5. Ekaggata (one pointedness)

2nd Jhana State
Vittaka is dropped.
1. Vicara
2. Piti
3. Sukha
4. Samadhi are accompaniments

3nd Jhana State
1. Piti
2. Sukha
3. Samadhi

4th Jhana State
1. Sukha
2. Samadhi

5th Jhana State

1. Equanimity
2. Samadhi
 

One has special powers when born with this Jhana (Five in number).



Citta and Mental Formation (Cetasika)

 Friday, June 15, 2018
Citta and Mental Formation (Cetasika)
 
A Summary

Citta and Mental Formation (Cetasika)
 
1. Akusala
Loba 8
Dosa 2
Moha 2
Total 12

2. Kusala
Loba 8
Kusala/Akusala = Total 20

3. Vipaka
Akusala 7
Kusala   8
Kusala / Akusala Total = 15

4. Kriya
Akusala 3
Kusala 8
Kusala /Akusala Total =11
 
Total 20 + 15 +11= 46

3. Sasankharika Kusala Vipaka Ctita (prompted)
4

4. Asankharika Kusala Vipaka Ctita (spontaneous)
4
Total 46 + 8 = 54

5. Sahetuka Meaning there are antecedent roots
24 (all Kusala)in the Kamavacara World

6. Ahetuka Meaning there are no antecedent roots
7+8+3=18
7 Akusala
8 Kusala
3 Kriya

5. Domanassa
2 under Dosa (I need to be corrected here.

6. Somanassa (only Kusala implied)
Kusala 8
Vipaka 8
Kriya 8
Total 24

7. Jhana
5
Please note Rev Anda Maithriya states 4 but I have found five according to my Dhamma literary search.

8. Magga
4 Four Paths of Knowing the suffering

9. Pala
(that are cultivated by meditation)

Ekaggata- One Pointedness
1. Vitakka
2.Vicara
3. Piti
4. Sukha
5. Sati
6. Passadhi
7. Samadhi
8. Upekkha

What one has to know is as one progresses higher one is left with two states of Samadhi and Upekkha (the highest level)

10. Ultimate Goal is Panna or Wisdom

 

Monday, December 19, 2022

No Entry 

Thanks to Organizers who did a excellent job by staging it in the Middle east.

I did not watch football at all except the match of Portugal and Morocco where a young football star Ramos displayed his skill well ahead of Renaldo.

Lionel Messy is my favorite and my gut feeling was Argentina will win not by penalty kicks but by a single goal.

It is painful to  watch football match for over 90 minutes and not see a goal.

I wanted the French to lose just like UK for secretly helping that mad guy in Ukraine who is a drug addict and an embezzler par excellence. 

British, French and more importantly Germans are "currently" slimy guys.

One cannot believe what the say and what they do like blasting the pipeline and blaming Russia.

Poland also has fallen into the ditch American have dug for them.

Angela Merkel's "spit" or 'vomit"epitomizes the Western duplicity, in politics and sports.

This War will drag on till 2024 Elections in USA and the West will have this winter better than the next.

It is a slow but steady meat grinder for the West.

Banning Russia in sports is not real cricket.

All these scenarios made me to quit all sports for good. 

But nobody should take the credit out the Argentinians who deserver te victory.

My only wish was if only  Deo Maradona lived for few more months to see the match.

He probably would have watched the match from heaven! 

Hope you enjoy the dream of a dog below.

He is not in heaven but has attained Nibbhana by "NO Entry" plea!

No Entry For Football

Posted on January 9, 2011

World Cup Football (fever) is over and the Maha Brahma (really his assistant) tells me that few of the earthly beings ended up in his salvo with request to change the honor’s list which he declined until such time the inquiry into the head butting is over. 

He was annoyed that he gave a big brain to the humans expecting them to use it wisely but not in combat as in head butt. He has set up a commission to investigate how to reduce the brain to a size (manageable in sport) needed for the current century that man including politicians can use  prudently.

Maha is also worried about the free entry of politicians including French Presidents to sport events which they do not have a clue in administering let alone enjoying.

Until such time I have to pen down a current story circulating in the heaven.

It is about a stray (Paraya) Dog of Ceylon.

This Paraya Dog of course is a resident of Kandy.

He had been frequenting a large temple, a doctor’s clinic and a lawyer’s residence in his active life. In actual fact he was visiting the rubbish heaps of those concerned.

Unfortunately he is terminally ill from a disease he contracted from the doctor’s rubbish dump.

I am not sure whether it was a dog’s dream or in fact a divine story but it goes on like this.

In his deja-vu state he happened to address the Brahma and the Brahma politely asked him what he wants to be in his next life. 

The Sandy (the adopted name for this canine specimen because of his muddy color) of course asked can I be a High Priest in my next round.

The Brahma asked why you want to attain high goals?

Sandy promptly said no Sir, judging by the type of food he eats, his liking is no different from mine he said. Then Brahma said that is not what was intended by the Buddha if you want to be a high priest the minimum code is Dasa Sil and higher and listed all the prerequisites.

Then Sandy declined saying that I was so faithful in my life I cannot do that.

What about a doctor he asked. That is OK but there is a problem. The doctors have a Code of Conduct and they also tell you don’t eat this and that (cholesterol), don’t drink alcohol, don’t smoke and don’t have sex without a condom.

“But my experience is different” by the doctor I was frequenting and Maha promptly said that is typical of Ceylonese doctors and they do not practice what they preach just like others.

Then Sandy asked why not a lawyer?

It is OK but there is a hitch. He went on elaborating that lawyers have to frame and pass laws to combat all the vices the doctors and high priests claim and he is inundated with such claims and there are pressure groups claiming that some are violating human as well as animal (if a man want to be an animal like Zidene  Zidane be that so) rights.

Life is not easy on this sunny island he said.

Then Sandy asked can I be your assistant?

Well that is no problem but there is a bit of a problem. As soon as you come here I have to take leave and you are in charge and you have to wait till the Maha comes from his leave of absence.

I thought you are the Maha.

No I am his assistant and I was a Pedigree Dog not worldly wise like you and I promptly accepted his offer as an assistant. Moment I came here he went on vacation but you must know that the vacations here are counted in eons and not in days.

So you are stuck with your faith of the master!

In that case can you cancel my life entry and no entry at all for next round like the next world cup?

It is possible but there is a long waiting queue and you have to wait for at least the next Poya.

Is that OK?

Then Sandy asked why such a delay?

I am in a hurry.

You know I have to check each entry carefully and especially the CVs of all Ceylonese applications. There are lot of errors and false declarations, it is some what of a dull job. 

To tell you the truth even my entry had a long list of Pedigree dogs and Maha Brahma had to scrutinize each generation and told me “you not that pure as it claims”.

I told him it is not my fault it is the fault of the master.

He promptly accepted my innocence.

How long is your CV?

Only 4 entries in all Sandy told the Maha’s assistant.

How come?

Paraya, Paraya, Paraya and Faithful are the only entries.

I am sure of my mother but not sure of the father.

Why the hurry?

In a short while the Kandy Perehara is due we would be rounded up and sent to hell by the Kandy Municipality.

Brahma’s assistant asked no more questions and the Sandy’s request was granted promptly and he successfully attained Nibbana.

Who says an intelligent, faithful and trustworthy dog cannot attain Nirvana.

This is not the first in record, the Brahma’s assistant tells me.

PS. Zidane name was incorporated to celebrate the French Independence and no offense to him or France was intended.

14th July 2006

Why I DO NOT Watch Wikipedia- Everything Faked on Moon Landing

Yes, Wikipedia is all "Faked News" about Moon Landing.
1. Rocket was not big enough reach moon
2. Voice Delay of 4 second is inappropriate.
3. Effortless upward thrust of moon lander without disturbing it's dust 
4. Micrometeorite impact is disregarded 
5. Above all 250 degree temperature on surface mitigated without much a do.
6. All data were lost mysteriously.
7. Getting it right on the first attempt 
8. Russia never attempted it 
9  Russu attempted it and failed.
10. Americans paid a Big Ransom to Russia to keep it's mouth shut.

Besides this I checked it's publications on Buddhist Cosmology and could all incorrect and bizarre jargon.
I ended up doing much own research on Theravada and Published a book Buddhist Cosmology in Amazon Books.
Mahayana and Vijrayana accounts are cock and bull stories.
This Dalai Lama guy is a paid up expert.
I have nothing against Tibetian culture which is destroyed by Chinese and nobody raise any objective to Chinese vandalism.

I said Good Bye to Debian 12 for Serious 13

Please note that /root partition needs at least 25GB.
Yes, I said Good Bye to Debian 12 for 13 series.
Debian had already given me their DVD1 and it is fully updated.
Problem was with Gnome Testing Image which did not have Synaptic Package Manager. It (Gnome 13) still does not have it and there is no synchronization with Debian repository.
So I kept the 12 series Gnome until today.
I erased 12 series Gnome.

Debian 13 has gone Snappak and Synaptic Package Manager comes as an application.
Few of the applications in Synaptic have been depriciated.
Thankfully AbiWord is still there my favorite Word Processor.
I do not us LibreOffice since it is as bulky as Microsoft Words.
This is all due to multilanguage support.

I am going to miss Stacer but there are alternative applications.