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Saturday, January 18, 2025

In Defence of Bart Sibert and ME

Bart Sibert made his comments as as a Photographer.

I am going to make my comments as a Doctor in Medicine.

I have a piece here where I have stated why I should not wear a space suit.

Things I failed to mention in that piece is stated here.

Me on the MOON

We are one gravity beings.

It took millions of years for us to evolve.

In spite of that we cannot live in the Himalaya with Oxygen deficient thin air.

Equally we cannot live undersea due to weight of the water taking a tall and also due to lack of oxygen. Nitrogen under pressure enter our blood and if we ascent fast Nitrogen bubbles come fast and clog our blood vessels and instant death.

These are described well in old Medical Physiology books.

Similarly we cannot live in low gravity moon.

Moon is supposed to be one sixth of the Earth Gravity.

Without a space suit we die of anoxia and moon does not have Oxygen with the same pressure as hours.

The space ship has to be light weight. If it is of heavy metal, it would sink on the surface of the moon, like we sink in muddy soil. Assuming it has dust on top with soft soil.

If we pressure the landing vehicle to one gravity, it will have have tough metal covering to withstand the pressure. It would bust like a balloon if the metal is thin and light weight. Additionally it make the vehicle heavy and would sink in the moon soil both due to weight and to landing momentum.

Apart from our physiological limitation we have to overcome all the physical limitations.

The wonder is Americans overcame all these in the first attempt itself.

This should to interpreted with why Russians did not bother to land on the moon.

Perhaps they did not want to sacrifice their top astronauts.

That is my conclusion.

For some unknown reason Joe Rogan tried to defend these American lies.

Perhaps he does not want to lose his ardent spectator base.

That is the very reason I do not watch Joe Rogan.

I have no problem with American's Romantic relationship with the moon.

We Buddhist have religious relationship with the Full Moon Day. We Buddhist in the past observed religious ceremonies. Buddha is supposed to be born on a Wesak (May) Poya day.

Any person or organization who propagate lies is under my radar.

As a Buddhist Lie I consider as a the biggest crime of this Modern World.

All World Media are owned by five big corporations and if the journalists as professionals do not follow rules laid down on them they are unceremoniously removed.

Tucker Carlson is a case in point but he survived.

According to Bill Kazing odds, in 1966 going to the moon was 1 to 10.000.

Many reasons cited.

1. Van Allen Belt.

2. No records old technology.

3. Could not repeat it for another 56 years.

4. Expert People in the command center could not say the Apollo images were real or fake.

5. No independent Media to witness the historical event.

6. Only 3 persons had access to the photos.

7. Of were about 20 murders to shut the mouth of de-bunkers.

Any country who lies to its own people would not hesitate to lie to others.

Kelly Smith says instrument sensors have to be Radiation Free through the Van Allen Radiation belt.

They may have sent experimental animals through this belt. The end result would have been dry charcoal on return. No biological cells left to study carcinogenesis.

It should be true of the astronauts, even with a thick space suits.

I am a retired pathologist who taught effects of radiation to medical students.

Let us just leave the medical facts for academic guys.

Americans were good at lying and C.I.A. was their instrument for both lying and bullying.

Also killing Americans and Non Americans who did not tore the line.

Gus Gruesome was one such unfortunate guy.

The common method is handsome bribes and perks.

Best evidence of faking is in the audio footage.

It takes 2 second for voice from moon to the earth and 2 seconds for a reply back.

4 seconds in total.

During the Recording Session, there is a guy in the background who says TALK after 4 seconds to make Neil Armstrong realize that time is up for him to talk.

Faking photos is another point.

The American flag fluttering on the moon with no atmosphere is classic photo error.

Besides the rocket was not powerful enough to carry such a distance.

Getting all these things right, "First Time Round" and "Always Right" is the biggest American Achievement.

Quality Guru Deming has known to have said only Japanese followed his instructions.

That is also after Hiroshima Bomb.

Russian, Deep Fake Detection Programme of AI can distinguish fake from real photos. That is the bottom line.

We are living in a Faked News World for over 55 years.

TRUTH will be on the future tense never at present tense.

That is my coinage.

Google's Neural Network says moon landing is faked.

I hope President Donald Trump would have a smooth inauguration ceremony.

President Putin last year was under snow during Victory Parade. I think people consider snow as a blessing at least at Christmas Day.

Flying

Flying
Posted on June 7, 2011

I was very fond of flying.
I could have ended up as a good Flying Officer (not a fighter pilot) and I had all the right ingredients but I came close to it.

The day my father took a flight to India on good old Air Ceylon (Avro, I believe) and watched the the take off from the Air Control Tower, I new I was going to fly a lot.
I never told anybody especially my father (he would have never allowed me) but did my own survey and found that it was humanly possible for me to break in without a big connection.
I gave up that idea.
However, even though I did biology I made it a point to offer applied mathematics (I was very good in my mathematics and in fact I beat all the maths students from my biology class) and mathematics, in case one day fortune favours me.

Then of course moment I passed out and confirmed in service I applied for Volunteer Air force but I was not enlisted.

I had all the qualifications including physical and sports and was sure of getting enlisted.
When final selection came guy who was almost one foot short was selected and I was not even called for the interview.
Then when I did my own search and I found that somebody had a hand in not forwarding my application to the board.

Not only that somebody was enlisted without maths and applied mathematics (he was unceremoniously thrown out later after having being in Uniform for many years). I do not know who instigated his fall but I made a decision I will chuck the Government Service moment I finish my compulsory service, which I did with my father’s vehement protest.

That decision I always cherish and three months after the compulsory service I left the service for good saying myself I will never join it again.
I had been in service I would have ended up in a regrettable high post where corrupt practices are the norm.

The cost of my first flight to UK one way was less than Rs.4000/= and luckily for me by then my brother who scooted off before me without a red cent in his hand was very well settled abroad and not married too.
It took another almost five years for me to get all the training in accident and emergency service to qualify to become a flying doctor (before I changed my course radically to enter academic sphere) and my last job abroad had a quota of flying doctor and doctor for horse racing (I liked horse racing more than flying) if I was not otherwise engaged officially.

But before that I have flown from Northern Hemisphere to Southern Hemisphere on my own money and I never got a free ticket or a free ride but I never could qualify as a frequent flyer like most of the Arabs and American CEOs.

What could not dream here in spite all qualifications I could do it in a foreign country down under.

Funnily enough now I hate flying mainly because of the pricing of the tickets which has not come down in spite of stock market crisis and fall.

I always flew on my own money and never ever taken a red cent (I am entitled) from government coffers unlike our MP who go on entourage (rather pilgrimage) and make a mess out of our foreign affairs.

That is something my family is very proud of.

It is shame to fly on public money and that is a norm today.

Spacesuit and its Occupant

Posted on February 9, 2011

Spacesuit and its Occupant

Bart Sibert made his comments as as a Photographer.

I am going to make my comments as a Doctor in Medicine.

I have a piece here where I have stated why I should not wear a space suit.

Things I failed to mention in that piece is stated here.

Brain is gravity bound and need oxygen and high pressure suits on the moon.
In zero gravity C.S.F fluid flows in opposite direction and effects sleep diurnal rhythm and critical decision making capacity.

Me on the MOON

We are one gravity beings.

It took millions of years for us to evolve.

In spite of that we cannot live in the Himalaya with Oxygen deficient thin air.

These are described well in old Medical Physiology books.

Similarly we cannot live in low gravity moon.

Moon is supposed to be one sixth of the Earth Gravity.

Without a space suit we die of anoxia and moon does not have Oxygen with the same pressure as hours.

The space ship has to be light weight. If it is of heavy metal, it would sink on the surface of the moon, like we sink in muddy soil. Assuming it has dust on top with soft soil.

Apart from our physiological limitation we have to overcome all the physical limitations.

The wonder is Americans overcame all these in the first attempt itself.

This should to interpreted with why Russians did not bother to land on the moon.

Perhaps they did not want to sacrifice their top astronauts.

That is my conclusion.

Mind this is an introduction for anybody who is running short of an idea to write about in WordPress blogging site.

This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.

Have you ever thought of the 50 things that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?

You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.

I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.

Suffice is to say I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).

Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling the up and down movements gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion.

That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.

That is one thing you must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.

Is is worth the experience and the money?

Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space.

They are a dedicated lot and give them the due respect they deserve if you happen to meet anyone of them.

They were the human guinea pigs in space.

I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.

Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.

I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.

1. I hate the space constraint.

This is the feeling one gets if one has to stay in a tiny hotel room in Singapore overnight due to some delay, cancellation or transit. I have had that feeling once or twice traveling by cheap air flights (a budget air line or Mihin -Hemin- Lanka. When you fly on a good wide-body aircraft it is reasonably OK.

2. I hate heights. Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill.

You don’t have a pen torch.

If you are on floor one, you can think of jumping out and breaking your legs but not on 21st Floor.

That is why rooms are cheap as you go up.

Please pay a good some and ask for a room down below. It is better even if you go to Colombo taking a pen torch with you with these high rising development projects.

Born to this earth with feet firmly grounded and ample space to breath pristine air (not now even in Kandy) as an embodiment, getting into a spacesuit is the luxury I do not want to avail myself not even in my incarnation.

3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home.

I can do this since I have learned how to sleep standing on an express bus plying from Kandy to Colombo on a Monday morning. I believe all Sri-Lankans are good at this. Only if you do not have money in your back pocket. There are plenty of pickpockets in this country including politicians who pick our vote without our knowledge.

They are called pick-votters or even better pick-potters (stuffing the ballot boxes).
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now).

4. What about food. I won't enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated food-fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table.

My worry is not the quality of food but how am I to partake them in a more sociable way.

Not empty them to my mouth from paper carton after paper carton.

5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and esophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon, in one go..

6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.

7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear.

That is my major worry since I will never master my physiology how ever much I train on earth and mid air.

8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one a week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.

No thank you.

9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me.

In nails, wind pipe, mouth and all of my privates.

10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump.

With these fungi floating around and waiting for a breach, I won’t be able enjoy that luxury.

11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Sri-Lanka with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Sri-Lankans”.

This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave over 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused nay for parliamentarians after the Health bill was bailed out out.

Stux

Stux

Origin: Italy
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment:

Blackbox,

Fluxbox,

KDE,

WindowMaker
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix, Slackware
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 2.0 | June 5, 2007

Stux – a LiveDistro (CD) Linux distribution from Italy which is based on Slackware and Knoppix.

Deployment can automatically load and save configurations and files on writable partitions.

The live system provides a combination of packages of Slackware Linux and kernel, modules and scripts of Knoppix. It includes automatic hardware detection and supports a vast majority of graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

STUX allows a full system configuration and usage through the STUX-Utilities, an unique, easy-to-use graphical interface specifically designed for STUX distribution.

Slackware users can use and configure STUX as they have always done with normal Slackware installations.

STUX GNU/Linux supports i386 platform and features Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and KDE desktop environments on a single CD.

Version 0.5.3 was launched on December 16, 2003, the last version 2.0 was launched on June 5, 2007.

CYBERPARANOIA

CYBERPARANOIA
Tux, STUX, D.E.F.T, M.A.D and C.W.F (Cyberwarfare), Cyberparanoia and Stuxnet
Posted on November 5, 2011

New vocabulary is entering general use with cyber attacks becoming preemptive at international stage. I am not going to be expressive here since hackers (they) might think my IP address is some defense attaché and attack with D.O.S (Denial of Service Attack).
Cyber space is free but it is not is not a fair play ground for a simple academic like me to engage in, who is nearer to the grave by natural causes and do not need any interference to my intellectual exercises unless, incapacitated by natural illness or loss of memory.

I am disturbed by the use of TuX in Stuxnet and this Simple Linux Guy (S.M.G) whom I adore.

His girls are Penny and Gown.

Stuxnet is the Virtual attack that was directed at Iran’s nuclear reactors.

Tux is a penguin character and the official Mascot of the Linux kernel.

Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, Tux is the most commonly used icon for Linux, although different Linux Distributions depict.
Tux in various styles. In video games featuring the character, female counterparts, named Penny and Gown, accompany him.

The character is used in many other Linux programs and as a general symbol of Linux.
STUX
STUX is a bootable CD with a collection of software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and U.S.B devices and other peripherals.
STUX also contains an installation wizard on the Live CD for putting the distribution on a Pendrive and thereby booting from it.

However, a 1GB pen drive is required to do this which is far larger than other U.S.B Linux distributions.
DEFT is a Linux distribution with Digital Evidence and Forensic Investigations tools attached.

It is not at military level but at simple desktop or server level.

I was trying to download (point to point) it and I have failed in 5 attempts now due to abrupt termination of service.

MAD is Mutually assured Destruction
Mutual Assured Destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and National Security Policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.

C.W.F is Cyberwarfare
There are very interesting articles and one who interested in can browse but suffice is to say even an innocent device like Play Station can be used for an attack.
Other interesting point is that proprietary operating system with the O.E.M guys can use a device to send secret message to the company or the country’s National security for spying on your web activities.

This is why I am strongly against Windows 8 attempt to invade and intrusion of One’s Freedom of Use (O.F.U).
Cyberparanoia is the word I coin today to describe this phenomenon from a doctors point of view.
That is my contribution to the jargon and vocabulary.

Can one be anonymous in the Wider Web?

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Can one be anonymous in the Wider Web?

Below was comment (by me) to a dad who was trying to keep him and his son in anonymity which is impossible.

Moment one open page one loses one's privacy and also integrity if one writes something sadistically.

Causing pain to an animal who is defenseless whether at home or in sport is a sadistic behaviour.

I agree with the dad being anonymous for the sake of his son but his I.P. address is known by all and sundry.
One cannot hide it unless one has a virtual network but that again is in relative sense and even the virtual network's outlet is visible.

What I am saying is that the browser watches your every move.

In the web one cannot protect the privacy.
Then there is Cyber crime at global scale.
I have coined a word Cyberpranoia today.

One should not be paranoid to the extent that one shuns the use of Internet and humour.

Like music is essential human ingredient but unfortunately some kids cannot take gross and cruel humour.
No son can give degree to the pain it causes to the animal it is illogical.

Pain is pain whatever the degree.

My dog hate even the slightest of pain.
I have never hit him or punish him.
He has learned what is good and what is bad and unlike human behave more appropriately.
Lapses are very rare.
Nobody at my home ill treat him and he grew up with them.
From the time he inhabited our house there had not been any violent arguments.
He takes the side of the oppressed and has become our trusted and good referee.
He hates pain (every living being's entitlement) and violent arguments.
Visit my site parafox and asokaplus for Cyber crimes (posted today).

Friday, January 17, 2025

A book on Current Global Medical Practice

A book on Current Global Medical Practice

Yes, I have decided to write a book exposing some of the sordid methods medical guys and girls dish out.

For over 25 years I have refrained from practicing medicine.

I have collected large number of first hand information.

Some cardinal cases are in my books at Amazon's. I do not think a practicing doctor would never do.

It is bit like a Big Mafia, in general sense.

However, there are lot of good doctors.

They do work in Government O.P.D. outlets day in and day out

These guys working in government outlets deserve accolades.

I can remember one of my students (female) who was dedicated to these patients and even neglect her own health.

I had to intervene and refer her to a consultant and told her that she should take some break and well deserved rest.

I am not referring to them.

I am referring to the guys who are inclined to make money in the side. Ones who say the dispensary does not have the medicine in stock (putting the blame on the Government) and request the patients to come to his / her residence for proper medicine (of course pilfered from the O.P.D).

There are also poorly trained Meditation guys doing similar business things.

This is a global problem.

Idea is to make a fast buck like in the stock market.

Let me start with me.

I developed a huge renal stone.

When the repeat X-Ray was done there was a Genio-Urinary Guy in the hospital who wanted to operate immediately. He was a young guy. I told him I want come to you and know better guys. I had second opinion and we decided to sit on it.

It eventually passed out without complications, not even urinary infections.

I did a survey on the young guy mentioned above and found that he was collecting cases to practice for his MD examination.

He did not last in the University Unit.

The second case is Coronavirus vaccination.

Within 10 days of the first dose of vaccination, I developed nasty myocarditis.

This is Moderna Vaccine.

Not only that it affected all my skeletal muscles. The adjuvant they used caused the side effects.

I immediately published a book on Coronavirus Vaccine Side Effects.

Each symptom and sign I recorded on this blog site including the stress ulcer on my forearm. I have many pieces on coronavirus on this blog site.

All due tho me believing this Anthony Fausi Guy.

I believe he should be prosecuted for medical negligence including his co-workers.

I have even published a book on Cytokines and Interleukins).

This vaccine exited these Cytokines.

Over 20 million died globally as a result of the Vaccine.

WHO has hushed up this issue.

There is a rigid protocol for new vaccines.

It takes nearly 20 years for a safe vaccine to be produced.

It is an uphill task.

AI or a computer software cannot do it in a hurry.

Medicine is a Hard Ball Game.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Buddha and the Alien Races

Buddha and the Alien Races

Buddha was an Enlightened Human Being.

Buddhism does not exclude possibility of traveling Space and Time.

In fact, Buddha had visited Thusita Heaven to recite Dhamma to his mother Maha Maya.

Buddhist Cosmology is different from Hindu Cosmology.

In Buddhism Devas or Gods are those who have obtained Jhana States above 4. That is from 5 to 8.

Humans can attain Jhana states up to 4 which are transient blissful states,

somewhat of the Tibetan Tradition of Meditation.

One does not need to understand the Dhamma Principles to attain these states.

In my opinion, these meditation states are total waste of time.

I have discussed them in my book coming soon in print not digital " Business Enterprise of Meditation ".

The Dyana Pala they consume are above 4 are real blissful states of happiness. These blissful states are transient and as if one has consumed his or her credit score, (Fixed Deposits), they fall back to animal life and very rarely come back to human world as humans.

Being born as a human is a incredible state but many of us do not use this less than 100 year time period for good use.

Be mindful of that fact.

This piece is not related to Dhamma but to types of beings of our contemporary history of about 5000 years.

In Hindu Culture there are three Gods.

Rama

Ravana

Vishnu

In Ceylonese Buddhist Culture they are

Yaksha

Naga

Deva

Ordinary Devas

These Devas are up to 6 in our rendering and they are born of Good Karma but do not have Dyana States mentioned above.

They are actually jealous of the Real Devas mentioned above who have only a trace of jealousy among themselves.

Real Devas do not fight among themselves, but respect the hierarchical system.

They live for aeons and only when the total Good Kamma is consumed and when one is moved down the Rebirth Cycle, that next in line takes the command that is left by the predecessor.

This is very complicated system and I wish not be born as a Deva in my next life.

Coming to our Commoner Garden Devas they are almost like alien beings.

They love to posses a tree, a mountain range, a water body and some even flaming forests.

That is they would like to exercise their power and their greed, just like humans.

Inferiority complex of some sort.

There is lot of talks about Devas when Buddha was trying to gain enlightenment.

I have outlined them in my book Buddhist Cosmology having perused Abhidhamma texts.

You are free to read them and I am not an expert on Gods but I have extracted them from old Buddhist texts.

Yaksha

Ravana come to my mind.

He of course kidnapped Sita.

Now Buddha had visited Ceylon many a times to stop warring factions of Yakha, Naga and Deva is common folklore.

Naga

This piece is really about Aliens of the Reptilian Type.

They are among us.

If one look at previous Presidents of USA one gets a real preview.

I won't name them but they are basically War Mongers.

Jimmy Carter is not one of them but was one who worked hard for peace among humans.

DRACO the Lizard People who live in Dulce Base. They are the ruling Class.

Did genetic experiments and created Hybrid People.

I think, if President Donald Trump emulates Jimmy Carter, I will place him and pass him as a real human being.

When we come to British Prime Ministers most of them are Reptilians by nature and in genetics.

I will leave it at that.

Less I talk about Germans, Belgians and Europeans it is better for the Human race.

Just remember what they did to Africans.

I would finish with one statement which would make Sinhalayas very angry with me.

That is necessary for the sake of completeness.

We descended from Lions is a mythology.

As far as we know there were no Lions' artifacts in Ceylon.

Of course, we have had many types from the Cat Family and some of them are of indigenous.

The term Hela (mountain) had become Si-Hela and Sinhaya and Sinhalaya.

Si probably meaning far away or in the distant hills.

It may be from Sri, the term we adopted from Hindu Culture.

It is like Kanda (mountain) becoming Kandy.

History, by all means and purposes is a cock and bull story.

It is not worth wasting time on history.

History is always written by the victors but our ancient kings did not erase the name of Elara.

Tamils were fully integrated in our culture (look at the names of food and articles (Kudei), many coming from Tamil and the food habits), until British invaded us and used the divide and conquer rule.

We fell into British Trapping.

Our last king was a Tamil King.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry-Kalama Sutta

Posted on 08-02-2012

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry-Kalama Sutta

If I have not read Kalama Sutta by the age of 16 years, I may have, to begin with, would have been caught up and swallowed by the rationalist (almost nonfunctional today in this irrational country Sri-Lanka) deliberates.

There are 13 qualifications, one has to apply if one is an open inquirer.

So read Kalama Sutta before reading this.

I ended up as an independent thinker, never believing anything what the white man said.

We were under 500 years of foreign invader influence, it is probably inbuilt in my system not to believe them and probably many Sri-Lankan of today have lost that inbuilt defense we had, especially the politicians (Ranil Wicramsinghje is the best example) and political refuges who leave and become prisoners of conscience.

I can dispense with British easily.

In about 6 months in Britain, I realized that what they say is not what they mean.

That included medical men, too.

This is at ground zero level where most of us end up in Britain.

In diplomatic level they do it in a professional manner and unlike the ordinary British who survive on a meager salary, they are paid very well.

How better or brazenly one can lie while blazing a blue-collar and tie is the standard of British Diplomacy, at all levels.

They do not mean what they say.

Only people who can beat them in the game are Americans.

(Compare President Bush and PM Blair relationship)

I have had limited association with the Americans and it took many years of rational and independent analysis, only after leaving them though, to get the correct assessment and true picture of what they really meant.

See how Obama came into power with full-scale liberal views and end up as a stubborn personality and not listening to people power but continuing what Bush did better than what Bush would have figured it out but pretend to the whole world he is different.

Unlike British there are some genuine and stupid Americans, too.

Otherwise they would not have elected him for the first time.

If they elect him for second time my above genuine analysis would be confirmed without any doubt or contention.

Polls as at present prove that I am right at this point of time.

Unlike British they pay well for your services.

I do not know how one is paid under President Obama.

I am not interested who should become the next American President, let the stupid and brilliant Americans decide it.

But they are well advised by me to read the Kalama Sutta before voting next time round.

Coming back to America and American politics, they are not a benevolent society.
Obama pretended to be benevolent to the masses but he is truly benevolent to the rich.

Chrysler bail out is one object lesson.

They have the capitalist mentality at all levels and success depends on how much one is prepared to get returns for initial investment.

Good examples are Microsoft and Speculators.

Now that Microsoft is having a nose dive, Apple is trying to get into that niche.

I-pads and educational material that they are planning to copyright are trying to swallow the stupid Americans in one stroke.

They propagate the universal truth which a myth by all standards, more educated one is and more one spends on education, more productive one is when employed.

But no education standards were necessary to get the bail outs.
The standard is how bad an American fails in his or her business.

What ever the voters may say they always win and many a small Americans will have to foot the bill.

In this context, Amazon did an amazing and wonderful thing by introducing Kindle Fire (selling below cost price) and creating http://www.createspace.com, in this big business world of Education and the hold that the publishers have on writers.

They are all out to kill this experiment.

Amazon is a successful business empire.

There is nothing wrong with it.

But at least in education Amazon’s vision is somewhat benevolent.

In American politics who ever who becomes the next president would try to kill this endeavour, in its budding stage.

I hope I have not jumped or triggered the America gun mentality.

Time will tell what I say now will be right or wrong.

It is tilted towards ipad and Big Apple and not towards Amazon’s efforts.

If Apple wins it is a disaster for the entire world of education.

Elephant Bath

Elephant Bath

Elephant bath, it was where everybody who visits Kandy go to see elephant when it is not the Pereharas season.

Botanical garden and Elephant bath were two landmarks of visit to the city.

Now no more thanks to development projects like Polgolla dam to divert water to the dry zone.

I must address an issue that this dam caused after its opening I must retell this story for the present engineers to understand the need to release water downstream regularly to avoid similar episodes.

The downstream water spilled over the dam was not enough to cover the river bed.

Soon water pools begin to form and the mosquitoes started breading in them.

For the first time we started detecting Malaria in Kandy. Any place under 4500 feet Malaria mosquito can breed.

Then water samples collected with mosquito larvae confirmed that Malaria mosquito was breeding in Kandy for the first time.

Now the remedy was to spray DDT on the river bed.

This was actually the consolidation phase of Malaria campaign and we prematurely relaxed spraying with the recommendation of the WHO.

Story circulating at that time was that the resident Malaria Campaign Officer who was a foreigner, fearing his job would be axed if we successfully completed the campaign gave wrong signal to withdraw spraying prematurely.

In any case by the time of the opening of the Polgolla Dam in 1976, the malaria had spread all over and Kandy was relatively immune.

Now spraying the river bed was no feasible with people using it for bathing.

Our public officers gave the Mahaweli an order to intermittently release the water giving them correct instruction considering the life cycle of the Malaria larvae, so that the larvae get destroyed before they become mature mosquitoes.

This was a simple remedy but was very effective to arrest malaria spread in Kandy.

I do not think they still practice this simple remedy.

One visit to Earl’s Reagent Hotel is enough to witness whether they are practicing common sense.

Now it was only yesterday I went to Kandy to buy something double sided sticker to stick the Telephone box to the wall. I was going from from one conner of the city to the other corner find the same without any success.

At one point the cross road and the main were blocked and people were getting ready (some Bank organizing the thing) a procession.

Very young elephant with soaring sun beating down was covered with a decorated overcoat and was kept waiting till the men and the retinue got ready.

This poor animal while baking himself in the sun was trying to lift foot/feet in rotation, giving some respite to the burning feet (it was like the restless feet of old people who suffer from a similar burning but less distressful to the owner).

It was a pathetic sight to watch and mahout was nonetheless not bothered about the young animals welfare.

They are only exhibits without real life away from the jungle habitat.

Mind you, I am one is totally against domesticating these majestic creatures.

Ill treatment is totally unacceptable.

Not only they have lost a place for bathing they have lost all sense of wellbeing under human care in this Buddhist country.

These majestic animals love water and water is a sport for them and that is how they keep them cool under a thick skin.

With global warming and even in Kandy temperature going above 95 degrees Fahrenheit, they have no comfort zone.

It is criminal. Not only humans even animals need water for survival and that water has to be good for drinking.

Which is not true today.

“5 S” Strategy for Linux and a Businss Model

18-09-2010

“5 S” Strategy for Linux and a Business Model

For the future of Linux Community of Developers we should have a strategy in ISO style.

1. Sort.

2. Set

3, Shine or Refine

4. Standardize.

5. Sustain

I looked at the the successful companies and found No Linux derivatives there.

This is the failure of Linux.

We do not have a Business Model to boast about.

We have a Logo and a Mascot where are they standing at present?

If you look at the list in the first 20 we have IBM, Google, Microsoft and Intel and Yahoo at 66 but no Linux.

Like Coca Cola we should be in the Number One.

The simple reason is we do not know to market our products.

Do not merge with the big companies.

Look at Yahoo having merged it is in the 66th place whereas Microsoft is in the top 5.

Why?

1. Embrace

2. Expand

3. Extinguish or Explode

We call EXPLODE it in this country since we a firecracker happy nation (to show politicians are in the vicinity) to Explode at any moment.

We knew for over 30 years how to avoid and escape from bombs now we have to escape from (all powerful but impotent in deeds) politicians.

Unfortunately we do not know how to escape from the stranglehold they are imposing on us.

So merging with big companies or the politicians (Obama and his expensive social program) is not the way forward.

The way forward is to scrutinize the activities and put them the Acid Test of “5S”.

First of all we have to SORT all the Models.

I will do it in my way but my analysis also a Primitive Model to work with.

1. SORT

Sort all the essentials (LIVE CDs, Servers, Desktops, Netbooks most importantly O.E.M.s).
Sort the Origin
Debian series,
Knoppix and Live CDs series,
Puppy series.
Ubuntu series,
Redhat and Centos Series…
Mandriva series,
Slackware series,
Gentoo series etc.

I am almost finishing with the Live CDs with subcategories named after our ancestral mammals the Apes (Light Weight, Middle Weight, Heavy Weight type of apes and monkeys) with x-Windows to go with it.

2. SET

Set a business Model with a strong Logo for Live CDs, Desktops and Server and O.E.M.s (that will be the future netbooks).

Target is to get within the first 10 if not it is not marketable.

3. SHINE rather REFINE the most essential basics for each category worth marketing.

4. Standardize

Linux is standard based operating system and this should not be a problem.

5. Sustainability

This is the difficult part without a strong Business Model.

This is only possible if all the Linux derivatives in each category pass a gold mark or the gold standard (for Live CD I have chosen PCLinux as the Gold Standard of usability) and move up the ladder in the 100 in each category.

That is my wishful thinking.

When I did my survey (now the time for a research) I found a lot of good stuff has gone into dormancy because of lack of support like a business model would have.

To name a few are MYAH, Linux Console, ADIOS, O.L.P.S and many more.

It is a shame that the good work of dedicated developers are now in the attic instead of in the classroom or in the living room.

I have shown the way.

We must revive and take Linux out of the doldrums and develop some marketable products.

I will be willing to work with even the devil if my suggestions are taken to heart by Developers but not business crooks.

Please make some critical comments.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Nihalsingha is No More

Friday, April 22, 2016
Nihalsingha is No More

But he has left landmarks and milestones in our cinematic history.
One of Sri Lanka’s foremost filmmakers, D. B. Nihalsingha passed away yesterday afternoon after a brief illness.

He was 77.

Nihalsingha was the only Sri Lankan to be honoured with the title, ‘Professor in Cinema and Television’

Having made several award winning movies including

Welikathara,

Maldeniye Simion,

Ridee Nimnaya and

Kelimadala Nihalsingha made the country’s first Tele Serial ‘Dimuthu Muthu’ and followed it up with ‘Rekha.’

The cinema veteran was the founding CEO and General Manager of the National Film Corporation from 1972 to 1978.

Nihalsingha’s parents were veteran journalist D.B. Dhanapala and the late Rathi Dhanapala.

His brother was veteran photo-journalist D.B. Suranimala.

My Theory of Our Solar System

My Theory of Our Solar System

I have a theory of my own, having observed pictures of the Universe.

What we see in any image is the past and never the the present moment.

This thinking has some relevance to Buddhist Meditation.

We can only see the present moment never the past (already gone) and the future (not yet come).

This is real Physics.

1. Light take Light Years to reach US from a distant point in our galaxy.

2. We cannot see any point beyond the distance the light can travel and grace us.

It does not mean it is the limit of the Universe.

Rest of the light rays are still traveling and have not reach us.

What it means is we can only see a moment of the past and never the present moment at that point.

There is a delay in the sense of timing of an event.

By the way, time is a concept buy nothing substantial.

If one does not get this point of view one would not grasp my theory expounded here about our galaxy.

3. Universe is expanding and every moment we are losing certain amount of what we call the space in our Universe.

My Theory

We were a binary star System is my theory.

The reason for my theory is for some unknown reason our system is considerably stable.

It was probably very unstable when the other big star was active.

It died a natural death but it still has a tremendous gravitational pull.

This gravitational pull is the one that resists the expanding nature of our Universe.

I have to guess where it location is.

There is one way of testing this hypothesis.

If we send a series of orbiters to the space one after other with a specified interval between them we may have a reliable guess.

4. This postulated large dead sun with tremendous gravitational pull will gobble all our orbiters moment they reach its gravitational sphere.

In other words we can see only the planets on our side of the sphere of influence.

Anything beyond cannot be seen using an orbiter.

All orbiters will be goggled by this putative binary star proposed which is dead but has a stabilizing effect on our Solar System to begin with and also to our Galaxy.

That is my theory in essence.

Besides, there is a limit humans can perceive and we have to accept that limitation.

Of course, we as humans have the liberty to postulate many more theories and test their validity to refine our present knowledge.

My theory should excite like minded guys and girls.

Kinds of Insight Knowledge

This is Abhidhamma terminology

Kinds of Insight Knowledge

There are 18 kinds of insight knowledge that can be used as objects of Vipassana Meditation.

It is Knowledge or Truth or Dhamma based meditation as opposed to Samatha Meditation.

1. Annitta                Contemplation of impermanence

2. Dukkha                Contemplation of unsatisfactoriness (suffering)

3. Anatta                   Contemplation of non self

4. Nibbhidana           Contemplation of disinclination or aversion

5. Viraga                    Contemplation of dispassionateness

6. Nidodha                Contemplation of extinction or cessation

7. Patinissangga       Contemplation of of abandonment

8. Khayanu                Contemplation of body

9. Vayanu                    Contemplation of state vanishing

10. Viparinama        Contemplation of state change

11. Animitta                Contemplation of state of conditionlessness

12. Apanihita            Contemplation of state desirelessness

13. Sunnatta               Contemplation of state of emptiness or void

14. Adhipanna            Contemplation based on higher knowledge

15. Yathabhuta           Contemplation based on knowledge and vision of reality

16. Adhinavana          Contemplation of misery

17. Patisankha            Reflecting or thinking on contemplation

18. Vivatta                   Absence of cycle of existence

Nirodha samapatthi

Basic Tenets of Dhamma

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Basic Tenets of Dhamma

The inclement weather made me to be home bound and compose myself to investigate the three words in our discussion and find the closest English rendition (as much as Sinhala cannot translate them correctly, English fare much worse).

As I write this there is a YouTube session on the Internet on, and an American Lady (lay person but taken the role of a preacher) is having a talk show and stating that there is an anti-universe and in there life of beings is eternal and there is no death but permanent existence.

What a hoax?

To her my prediction is that even the anti-universe is subjected to state of flux and extinction and another round of universe and anti-anti universe would come into existence.

But our discussion here is on mind and its behavior which can grasp or cling into both the micca diiti (wrong view) and samma ditti (right view).

The bottom line is we should not corrupt the Pali Terminology.

1. Animitta          Condition-less (without a focus of attention)

2. Apanahita        Desire-less     (without attachment)

3. Sunatta            Emptiness or Void (null)

What I find to my surprise is that they are the three of the 18 contemplative states described for monks with correspondingly higher states that can be attained in Vipaasana Meditation.

Suffice is to say these are very difficult to accomplish by an ordinary layperson.

My subsequent investigation leads me to the following summary.

The base line technique which is easy and useful for focusing the mind is nothing but Ana Pana Sati.

What is the objective?

Attainment of Dyana is the correct term for the commonly used term Jhanas (4 to 8 in number) that could be attained momentarily.

These states are not the same but similar to the psychological effects of psychedelic drugs.

These are very addictive states and bring out rapture and happy states and have the proclivity for more of the same arousal tendency, craving and delight in essence.

That should not be the attitude of the meditator but is a hindrance to upward mobility.

They are not permanent and subjected to change.

That is why one should contemplate the Anitta, Dukkha and Anatta principles in these state of arousal.

As one ascends through higher Dyana levels the technique is to drop the mental states that are hindrance to the next level and finally achieve the highest level which is Upekka or Equanimity.

The next stage is to contemplate on detachment, abandoning and extinction leading to Nirodha.

I have summarized the states achieved in the first 4 levels, below.

The seven elements of Enlightenment are

1. Sati or Mindfullness

2. Dhamma vicaya or the Truth Principle.

3. Viriya or Energy

4. Piti or Rapture

5. Passadhi or Tranquility

6. Smadhi or Concentration

7. Upekkha or Equanimity

The seven states of enlightenment developed and frequently practiced leads to Wisdom and Deliverance (Vijja-vimutti).

Samadhi or the Concentration
In other words the attainment of four to five Jhana absorptions.
In Jhana Absorptions, there is complete but temporary detachment from all five sensual spheres and of five hindrances or the

Nivarana
They are
1. Kamacchanda (Loba)
2. Vyapada(Dosa)
3. Tina Middha (sloth and torpor)
4. Uddhakka-kukkussa(restlessness)
5. Vicikiccha (doubt)

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.

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

4th Jhana State
1. Sukha
2. Samadhi

5th Jhana State
1. Equanimity
2. Samadhi

Beings of other planets have attained the next four levels (5 to 8) of higher mental states and for lack of proper terms they could be called Divine Entities.

The four Jhana states practiced and attained at Patisnandhi state of mind would cause births in better worlds higher than the earth.

Unfortunately in these states they are unable to acquire new Kusala Kammasa and it is practically a dead end and once the Kamma is consumed, they fall into lower levels including birth in world system like ours.

It is just like one who has a big saving account and he/she withdraws money little by little before full maturity and empties it in no time.

Full maturity should be taken as Nirodha Samapatti.

Pangna or Wisdom
This is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths, the suffering, the origin of suffering, the path for cessation (Nirodaya) of suffering and the cessation of suffering.

This is the more difficult and is the intellectual pursuit of Vipassana Meditation.

The Samatha Meditation is the more practical and easy way of meditation.

There are about 40 objects for Samatha Bhavana (Vissudhi Magga has over 1000 objects) and one should select one which suits the personalty.

Objects of Insight Mediation
There is lot of commercial advertisement to meditation, I thought of giving a little resume for the novice.

Nirodha samapatthi