Hypnotist with a Strong Man

 Posted on June 5, 2011

Hypnotist with a Strong Man

This is just to illustrate even a Hypnotist cannot down a strong man.

But a weak man with legs across the aisle can down a top actor / hypnotist down to the level of concussion.

He was not mindful of himself and how could a man like him help others to be mindful?
 

That is my opening question.

But to make Micky out of all hypnotists, below is a true story acted by none other than 1st year Medical Students of the yesteryear.

Today’s students would take a leaf out of this story, who go for some bizarre training, without critical thinking.

My friend who succumbed to this indignation  is now in Australia in full retirement, if he sees these few lines of recollection, hope he gives me permission to bare the facts but name withheld by consensus.

He was a dignified soul in our batch and was not in our halls of residence.

He was our batch representative popularly elected without a challenge.

I was go between in the plot with diplomatic astute to convince the guy that one of our batch mates could hypnotize anybody with a strong mind.

We practice this in our halls of residence when everybody else is  in deep sleep and the time is usually well past midnight. Suffice to say most of the strong guys in our hall of residence went through this ordeal.

On the day we prepared a room (not mine) for our show.

One of us went and pulled the main plug supplying electricity when the go signal was given.

Slowly but surely show began.

We were dressed in trousers to begin with unlike today and one by one we changed to sarongs surreptitiously and our strong man was in a corner with hands clasped in warship mode.

Since this was the last show of hypnotism we took unusually a long time with lot of blah blah form the performer.

Then the final signal was given to switch on the electricity.

He was not happy at all even though the performer could not hypnotize him.

Why?

He had being worshiping our backsides (sarong raised up) for nearly half an hour in the darkness and he realized only when we switched on the lights.
 

We all had raised our sarong showing our back to him and he was not at all pleased.

He controlled his anger in good stead and we promised him that we will never tell the story to our female medical students and told him he was not the only one who went through this ordeal.

In other words he was baptized in the real world like Japanese karate men who never take the eye off from the focus of attention.

My apology above is if any of my female batch mates sees this now will guess who the guy was but he was not the only guy who was baptized (not hypnotized).

So anybody who closes one’s eye for the wish of any gullible performer would go through this indignation by his or her will.

I wish I could perform this to some of our TV showmen /women and politicians in power who are blinded with ego.

I hope the hypnotist who was the Fall Guy and not mindful to his own steps got the message wide / wild and clear and not to be a Showman to poor souls with weak minds.

Art Buchwald

 

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He has been forgotten’: why humorist Art Buchwald should be remembered

He has been forgotten’: why humorist Art Buchwald should be remembered

This article is more than 2 years old

A new biography celebrates the sharp humour and difficult life of the Pulitzer-winning newspaper humourist, once known as ‘the wit of Washington’

David Smith

David Smith in Washington

Tue 7 Jun 2022 15.29 AEST

On the red carpet at the Kennedy Center in Washington in April, the comedian and activist Jon Stewart was asked if he would ever consider running for political office.

“Show business is a good training ground ego and arrogance-wise for politics,” he told the Guardian, “but the art of compromise and the different transactional natures of what they do is generally antithetical to misanthropes who sit in rooms and write jokes. It’s too tempting to blow up meetings.”

That night, when Stewart received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the presidential historian Jon Meacham said of him: “He likes to say that he’s not an activist, not a player of the arena, but only an observer. Well, Jon, we love you – but you’re really wrong about that.”

The line between player and observer is worth keeping in mind when considering Art Buchwald, the most widely read newspaper humourist of his time, whose memorial service was held at the Kennedy Center in 2007. Dean Acheson, a former secretary of state, called him the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift”.

Buchwald is now the subject of a biography, Funny Business, by the historical researcher Michael Hill, who draws on his most memorable columns and unpublished correspondence. Its dust jacket blurb includes praise from Meacham for an “absorbing, illuminating, and wonderfully entertaining book”.

Columist Art Buchwald costumed as Benedict Arnold. (Photo by Dick Swanson/Getty Images)

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Photograph: Dick Swanson/Getty Images

Buchwald moved in elite circles that included Robert, Edward and Ethel Kennedy, the Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katharine Graham, actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and writers John Steinbeck and Irwin Shaw. But he always regarded himself as an outsider, the court jester who points out that the emperor has no clothes.

Speaking via Zoom from Fredericksburg, Virginia, Hill, 68, says: “He viewed himself as a satirist trying to wake people up about about certain issues. Good political satirists are important if not essential – and I think Buchwald would agree with this – to a healthy democracy. If a bureaucrat is doing something absurd, if a self-involved celebrity is doing something absurd, he felt it was his obligation.

“Buchwald made it his goal to always be anti-establishment. He was against anything that he perceived to be the establishment, but particularly the absurdities of the establishment. He didn’t care what political party it was: he was going to go after them. He felt very strongly about freedom of satire and freedom of speech and he was never going to be muzzled.”

Just after Bill Clinton’s election as president in 1992, for example, a friend approached Buchwald at a party in Georgetown and remarked that, now a Democrat was in the White House for the first time in 12 years, Buchwald would presumably go easy. Hill adds: “Buchwald said, ‘What are you talking about? This is my job you’re talking about. This is what I do.’”

Born in New York in October 1925, Buchwald had a wretched childhood. He almost never saw his his mother, Helen, an immigrant from Hungary, who was admitted to a mental hospital a few weeks after his birth and confined for the remaining 35 years of her life. With his father struggling to pay bills, Buchwald and his sisters were sent to foster homes.

“It left a horrible, dark impression upon him, which is part of the reason that he battled depression for the rest of his life,” Hill explains. “But the positive side of that, if there is one, was that he became very independent early on and he also realised that the only way he was going to be able to survive all the crap life was throwing at him was to be funny, be the class clown, which is what he did. He decided that I’m going to be a funny guy. So that became his goal.”

In the 1940s Buchwald dropped out of high school, joined the marines and served in the second world war. He got wind of an opportunity for veterans to go to Paris and study so bought a one-way ticket to Europe and talked his way into a job at the New York Herald Tribune.

He became the quintessential American in Paris, mingling with Ernest Hemingway and others, and writing popular columns such as “Paris After Dark”, “Mostly About People” and “Europe’s Lighter Side”.

Art Buchwald on Set of Mannix

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Art Buchwald on the set of Mannix. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

Hill continues: “He said later that those 14 years he spent there were the happiest years of his life. A lot of his friendships that were started in Paris carried over for the rest of his life, particularly Ben Bradlee, who was without doubt one of his closest friends and defenders.”

Some friends advised Buchwald against leaving the high life in Paris but he returned to the US in 1962. He soon established himself through a Washington Post column syndicated in 500 newspapers worldwide. In 1982 he won a Pulitzer prize for outstanding commentary.

Hill explains: “He was able to tap into the beginning of anti-establishment fervour and then, of course, with Watergate, you had a whole new period of not only rebellion but disillusionment.

“He helped people keep their sanity and laugh at things, laugh at the absurdity of politicians and what they were doing. It was a respite from the grim headlines of Vietnam and Watergate and so forth. People were able to take a break and read Buchwald.”

But the brand of humour was less crass or savage than some of Buchwald’s comic heirs. “He said at one point, ‘I don’t go for the jugular’. There was a line that he didn’t cross. He could be sharp, he could be pointed, he wasn’t afraid to go at it but he wasn’t mean-spirited or profane about it.”

Buchwald himself once explained that the key to his humour was to “treat light subjects seriously and serious subjects lightly”. No topic was too big or too small or too esoteric.

Hill continues: “If somebody wanted to have a fun offbeat way to understand the political, cultural, social issues of the 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s, go back and read Art Buchwald’s columns. He talked about everything. It was not only politicians and bureaucrats but it was celebrities, miniskirts, baggage claims at airports. He touched on everything.”

Hill’s favourite column is from 1964 and entitled “J Edgar Hoover Just Doesn’t Exist”, suggesting that the FBI director was a “mythical person thought up by Reader’s Digest”. It sparked a debate across the country about whether the assertion was actually true. Hoover and the FBI did not see the funny side.

Buchwald’s numerous columns mocking President Lyndon Johnson’s conduct of the Vietnam war ruffled so many feathers that the National Security Agency put him under surveillance. As the conflict worsened, Buchwald proposed sending in superheroes Batman and Robin (the Batman star Adam West saw the column and wrote to Buchwald promising to rush to his rescue if Johnson retaliated).

Naturally “the wit of Washington” also had a field day with President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. “He said he wished Nixon would run for a third term because he was providing such great material.

Art Buchwald in 1977

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Art Buchwald in 1977. Photograph: Mikki Ansin/Getty Images

“He said he’d go after both sides but going after the left was a little bit more delicate because, if he did, they would say, ‘Aren’t you one of us? Why are you doing this?’ It didn’t deter him but he said it took a little bit more courage to take a whack at the left.”

Some of the columns are now eerie historical rhymes. In 1976 he offered “Art’s Gun Control Plan”, demanding a federal mandate to cut off “everybody’s trigger finger at birth” in an effort to curb gun violence in America. “The constitution gives everyone the right to bear arms,” he writes. “But there is nothing that says an American has to have ten fingers.”

In 1989, the celebrity tycoon Donald Trump launched an ill-fated airline with characteristic bluster and invited Buchwald to fly on it. Buchwald replied in a letter: “… thanks for all the free mileage you are handing out. As I understand, if you say the word ‘Trump’ in a gathering of over twenty people, you get forty-three miles of credit on your OnePass account.”

So what would Buchwald have made of Trump the president? Hill reckons: “He would have had the time of his life and maybe he might have been a little bit sharper with him.

“Buchwald would have fared pretty damn well in the social media Twitter age because he had a wonderful off-the-top-of-his-head wit. If he were alive today, he could win an all-out Twitter war with anybody. Like any great satirist, he could throw a good punch, he could take a punch and then he could throw a good punch back.”

Buchwald, who had three children, enjoyed playing chess and poker and smoked six to eight cigars a day – his “pacifier” – until quitting in 1988 on doctor’s orders. In the 1990s he finally went public about his long-held “dark secret” in a series of interviews revealing his lifelong struggle with depression.

He even went on tour with two friends, novelist William Styron and broadcaster Mike Wallace, who also battled the condition. They called themselves the “Blues Brothers” as they shared their stories in the hope of providing comfort.

Hill reflects: “He went public because he wanted to try and help other people deal with it. I know he heard from a lot of people who said him going public helped a lot. It was something he battled all of his life but again that’s part of what’s great about Buchwald: from early on he was always beating the odds. He wasn’t afraid of anybody.”

At one point Buchwald was everywhere with a radio show, a slot on the TV current affairs show 60 Minutes, a Broadway play, lectures all over the country and bestselling compilations of his columns. Yet 15 years after his death at the age of 81, as the torch passed to a new generation including Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and John Oliver, his fame has dwindled faster than expected.

“He’s dropped from the public consciousness and it’s a shame,” Hill laments. “He has, unfortunately, been forgotten. I hope this book will bring him back to life. I hope people in this tough time might get some laughs out of it too.”

My Objection to NPP and JVP

My Objection to NPP and JVP

Yes, my objection to NPP and JVP is based on "Buddhist Way of Life" and not based on hate but on persuasion of right thinking (Summa Dhitti) based on Ariya Ashtangika Margaya (Eightfold Path to Emancipation).

1. To begin with there was no need for Wijeweera to incite young blood and raise a revolution in Ceylon when the life and politics was peaceful in our mother Lanka..

It was taken up by L.T.T.E and made this country a living hell aided by RAW and Indira Gandhi who thought Ceylon was a Province of India an Modi still believes his mythology of Modi's MAD Maha Barath.

Current Government has taken a contract to please Tamil Diaspora and belittle our Army and especially Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. 

I do not carry a brief to Rajapaksas but one decimate L.T.T.E propaganda and the other saved us from Coronavirus.

2.  We have a constitution where Buddhism is enshrined (If USA can enshrine Christianity in its constitution what is wrong if it is done in Ceylon) with equal opportunity for all other religions big and small.

For that matter if somebody wants a Gus Gemmba (a tree frog) to be his religious leader s/he can do that in his or her own private life not on YouTube.

3. My biggest objection is using Month of MAY which Buddha was supposed to be born in which Buddhists devote entirely for Dhamma after the New Year festival.

It was USED for POLITICS by ANURA and His NIRAGAMIKA CLAN.

I blame Maha Nayakyaka and Diyawadena Nilmae for agreeing to "Dalada Exposition' for political propaganda.

This should never happen again.

Yes, Mahinda Rajpaksa and his clan did politicized Buddhism in Ceylon.

That includes Champika Ranawaka, too.

They are reaping the benefit completely thrown out of the main stream.

We do not need a second innings by Anura and the clan.

My prediction is NPP/JVP also will be thrown out unceremoniously, if they continue on the same footsteps.

The average citizen needs a equitable life stream and nothing more.

System change was bizarre slogan!

Dhamma is for the MIND and not for Body Politics "is my slogan".

4. I have nothing against Nirgamika theme and according to Brahmajala Sutta there are 64 or 68 views about World Views.

5. These guys in JVP/NPP has never red a single verse in Dhmmapada representing Ceylon in a Wesak Ceremony in Vietnam is also political and an antithesis to me.

We know J.R.J who published a postage stamp by the name Dharmista Samajaya and subsequently made it a living hell for our brethren Tamil Community.

It is still in my living memory.

I was fortunately away from this country and I did take no part in that scheme.

The diaspora in UK is still working against US and undermining our sovereign state.

That is the reality of our politics.

Once a bad thing is done it cannot be undone by visiting temples and sacred places.

If an action is not sacred it remains so in history.

Hitler is a good example and very soon Israel's history will be be worse than Hitler and a name tag to go with it.

President Trump's unwavering support for Israel is no brainier by itself. 

Buddhism and its Contemporary Application

 Buddhism and its Contemporary Application
If anybody wants to dispute that Buddhism has no relevance today, this short chapter is to dispel that myth.

Now that the fundamentals of Dhamma are addressed in its own context what relevance has it for today, tomorrow and in the future generations?

Only when we have addressed this question can one say that justice is done to the original tenet of Dhamma.

Dhamma originated in India when animal sacrifices were the normal cult. Some elaborate rituals based on the belief that god has to be satisfied to derive ultimate salvation of human beings was the order of the day. By these rituals some form of union with god in a metaphorical sense was expected. The fact that these sacrifices can only be done by a chosen caste is also another prerequisite. The head of the Kovil can only be chosen from a particular caste put final nail to the democratic representation in front of the gods. Only a chosen one can be the go between the gods and the Harijans. An arbitrator has to be chosen for the benefits of less fortunate.

It is here Mr. Ambekkar have had misgivings with Mr. Mahathma Gandhi in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Even though, Mr. Ambekkar ended up as the Minister of Law, Indian Constitution failed to address the deep rooted division created by caste consciousness. Even after 50 years of independence the root cause of discrimination was not rooted out. By becoming a Buddhist in his later years Mr. Ambekkar showed the way forward for Harijans in India. It is pertinent as to what made him to change course and lead the freedom path for the less fortunate.

Mr. Gandhi used the Buddhist Avihinsa theme for the freedom struggle but failed to gear it for the greater cause which was Mr.Ambekkar’s vision for his fellowmen. His sacrifice of the Hindu religion has caused greater stir than the freedom struggle that ended. Even after 50 years this rumbling is in the air.

Dhamma is not a dogmatic system of adherence or an elaborate system of rituals and prayers. It is a way of life. It talks about the purity of thinking, speaking and acting accordingly. It is a religion of kindness, compassion and equality of all including the sexes.

In one central theme of Avihinsa three objectives were satisfied, from the very beginning. All beings are treated equally including animals and there is no need for a superior caste to make rituals in animal sacrifices. Animals were free to live and they were not considered food items. This was one of the reasons why Buddhism did not last long in India and for the success of Moguls in India.

The change from hunter, chaser to a food gather was effectively made.

Dhamma doubts the existence of a super race, super caste and lesser caste. Deep divisions still continues in India. Strangely enough this division is seen in Sanga in Sri-Lanka.

The third offshoot was the evolution of Vegetarianism in India even among the Hindus. The cow becomes a sacred animal. Instead of animal sacrifices food items especially fruits and flowers became the form of offerings which we continue even today.

These are the three positives.

The western scholars have failed to grasp and highlight this aspect of Dhamma which is a peaceful way of life and existence. They went on scholarly exercise to illustrate the Dukka (should be unsatisfactoriness) and the Suffering theme and focused on what is called the negative aspect of Dhamma. By looking at a Buddhist monk who renunciate all worldly things and belongings and stating that the Dhamma way is negative in outlook is the biggest mistake western scholars have made.

It is positive in many ways and promotes peace and harmony in this world where anger, hate, mistrust and violence are the bane.

One does not need to be a monk to preach non-violence. There is no room for division and war in a civil society that follows simple way of Buddhist life.

That is why Dhamma is more relevant in the 21st century world outlook.

We have not changed the way the world shaped itself from one political upheaval to another after the Second World War. Instead of large scale war based on super race (Aryans) and the discrimination of the Jews, we have small scale perennial wars and terrorist based activities inundating the world order.

Even outside the ethnic war there are sentiments of caste and this is where the Buddhism has failed in Sri-Lanka to strike a chord of balance in thinking in Tamil Diaspora.

Some sense of supremacy is tagged with the race, religion, colour, caste, rich, poor and even amongst the priests and monks.

There is ascendancy for the rich in front of the gods but not for the poor.

Like jealousy supremacy is a disease.

There is also a treatment in Dhamma for this disease.

 Dhamma addresses the many forms of wrong views (Mitthya Ditti) that include the myth of supremacy.

Only those who attained higher states of mind can shed all these misconceptions.

Anybody who says Dhamma has no application or relevance in this modern world is the one who is misguided.

Linux Distribution Passwords

Linux Distribution Passwords

'I think it is absurd to ask for a password for a Live Linux session but some distributions do ask for a password for root and user.

1. For Tiny Linux

root and root

guest and guest

2. Debian 

No user or password on a Live session but one has to do that during installation.

Both root and user passwords are necessary.

 3. Netrunner Linux

live and live and no capital letters

 4. Arch Linux

I do not know

May be root and no password  and you may be required to create a user and a password.

5. Pearl Linux

User custom and password blank

It has changed to live and no password

6. wattOS

User is Guest password is blank

7. Peanut Linux

Log in as root leave password blank

8. Myah Linux

User Myah and password Myah

9. AVLinuxMX

 User is root password is root

10. Simply Mepis

 user demo password demo

11. Samity

user demo password demo

12. In some distributions it is user and no password for live.

User and no password

13. Reborn OS (Arch based)

demo and demo

Here, I have reproduced a read me file of Pearl Linux since I could not find the user name and password.

It is an Ubuntu Derivative which has a macOS appearance and is 1.5GB.

At the login screen please type "custom" as the user name hit enter then for password lease that field blank and hit enter.

Found a small issue with the fonts not looking correct and I thought I deleted the .iso but I guess not.
All you have to do if you already downloaded Pearl is go into system settings and change the font from Veranda 9 to Ubuntu 10 and this is important,

I think Ubuntu One and few others give concern for good password management.
Naming others would be improper since they are not Open Source based.

What goes behind them and whether they share them with the NSA or a corrupt regimes is open for debate.

I have personnel reason to believe they do and my own experience with institutions specially corrupt or vested interests, is on the affirmative.

They are hell bent to breach any privacy one may have.
The reason being that they do not want to be exposed of their sordid acts.

They are paranoid and it is a disease.

Fact that this blog post exists is due to the interference with my blog post elsewhere and a site that lacked good security protocol.

They were dysfunctional over more than a year and I do not use the site anymore.
My writings were very docile innocent and not politically involved.
They were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

I must say this was run by British Council Library in Kandy which is now defunct.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.
 

I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.
 

They used my birthday as a discriminator.

Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.
But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.
I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.
Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.

Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.
Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.
 
Invariably paranoia develops.

So I think it is necessary to have a bit of paranoia when one enters the web with email to begin with.

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
 

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neuron networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I DO NOT use a VISA card now.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Step 5
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.

The best place to HIDE  is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.
 

Resetting the password
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis
wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
Straight away say NO.
The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
 

That includes me too.
 

I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded, I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.

 
Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.

Easter Sunday Conspiracy

Who should be prosecuted for the inability to prevent this catastrophe of Easter Bombing.

1. Ravi Seneviratne 

 

2. Shani Abeysekara

 

3. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith

 

4. Anura Dissanayake

 

5. Maithripala Sirisena 

He was in Singapore eating Appa

He was more interested in his son's wedding

He is anyway Appa Man from 2015.

 

6. Ranil Wickramasinghe the CIA double agent

 

7. Harin Fernando

Even his father in Navaloka Hospital new this conspiracy

 

8. Hemasiri Fernando

He was the one who was really inactive as an officer, appointed by Chandrika. He did not have career service credentials but a political Hencha

 

9. Sisira Mendis

I do not know who this guy is 

 

10. Nilantha Jayawardena 

He actually provided the information to prevent the sordid episode.

Cardinal wants him imprisoned.

 

The "Shutting Down" of his mouth is the real operation. 

No, more sordid deals would be not exposed by him in the future.

This is the big project of the long term Catholic Action.

 

11. M.R.Latif 

 

12. Pujitha Jayasundara 

 

13. Nandana Munasinghe

 

14. Deshabandu Tennakoon 

 

15. Sanjeewa Bandara 

 

16. Chandana Athukorala

 

17. B.E.I. Prassanna

 

18. B.H.S.Sisila Kumara

 

19. R. M. Sarath Kumarasinghe

 

20. M. Sagara Wilgodage Liyanage

 

21. Chaminda Navaratne

 

22. Lalith Sheltan Pathinayake

 

23. Kosala Chaminda

Shutting down of the one who investigated and exposed the tragedy is the Major Catholic Church's objective.

 

They used to do that secretly in 1962 and now they are empowered and doing it on broad day light.

 

"Cardinal, Ane Kathai Maie Vade".

Ukraine War and American Propaganda

Ukraine War and American Propaganda

 

I am bit out of date since I did not keep a close watch of the ground situation.

It is coming to three years and I see a definite upscale of tactics.

Ukraine has lost nearly 2 millions and Russia almost 100,000.

It is at, 1 to 20 ratio with an advantage for Russia.

Ukraine still has 80,000 left.

My guess is 20,000 from France and 10,000 from Britain but not a full NATO Contingent.

I do not know the contribution from Poland since Poland Mercenaries with high pay were involved from the very beginning. 

They were called the "Coalition of the Willing".

North Koreans and Akmath forces had some input when Russians were stretched to their limits. Their absence is an indication that Russians have secured their defense lines.

Russian stated objective was to keep it under 50,000 of Ukrainian or the ASOV battalion intact.

 

ASOV" likely refers to the Russian author A.I. Asov, who has written extensively on Russian paganism and ancient history, often focusing on the authenticity of the "Book of Veles". 
 

A.I. Asov 

A.I. Asov is a Russian author known for his controversial theories about ancient Slavic history and paganism.  He is a strong advocate for the authenticity of the "Book of Veles," a text considered a forgery by most historians and linguists.
His writings often involve interpretations of runes, ancient Slavic texts, and interpretations of Russian national identity. 

 

I think Russians are going for Zero Target, less this war will go for another century.

It all started with false information fed in by the CIA with lot of exaggeration but now I see a different trend. 

It is all projection of Ukrainian loses to Russia.

Ukraine was well ahead of this Propaganda War. 

That was for the New York Democratic Paper consumption.

1. If Ukraine say they are hitting Russian from behind what it means is Ukraine is getting hammered by Russians Special forces from behind.

2. It is no more proactive defense.

It is all action before full preparation.

New Russian command probably has a new objective.

Break all the preparation before they arrive at the Front-line.

Hitting the naval supply lines in Odessa and Baltic Sea is the new objective. Bringing them over land through Poland is a big liability.

3. Drone War has limitations.

4. Information from boots on the ground is more reliable.

Americans have realized this at the last moment.

 

Are they willing to put boots on the ground?

 

It is more than likely scenario since British and France together failed in their preparation.

5. British contingent seem to have limitations and their plan has been successfully aborted.

6. We have to take rhetoric from Donald Trump with the above information in mind.

He is fed with the wrong information and he does not know what is in the offing.

In Ceylonese war tactics, he is like the dumb and blind guy who carry a crippled but with some vision on top of his shoulder for mobility.

 

I am not going to say who is blind and who is crippled.

One is the political arm.

The other is the Military Industrial Complex.

7. My only hope is, this war should not escalate to Nuclear Arm Race.

We are right on the threshold of Armageddon.

But I sleep well since I drop to sleep with Metta to all beings of this world. 

Even if I kick the bucket by chance, I do not want to be born on this Zero Civilization but in a different world order in a different Galaxy at least in a Level I Civilization. 

There are no wars in Level I civilizations.

Theravada (Hinayana) and Mahayana

Theravada (Hinayana)  and Mahayana

 

This is an attempt to guide the misguided guys and girl by the YouTube Dramas.

 

Buddha strongly discouraged logic except the qualifications in  Kalama Sutta.

 

Yana literally means a vehicle (path) that one takes to exit from the Sea of Sansara.

Let me give my own example as an adult university teacher who is inactive for the last 25 yeas. 

I still prefer to learn rather than teach but when I see guys and girls mislead knowingly or unknowingly, I make little blog pieces here for visitors of my site to browse and ponder.

 

Nothing dogmatic.

 

Dhamma is based on Truth Principle.

 

Let me say  truth is hidden in the center of a perfect sphere.

Mahayana is at the periphery of the sphere (apple) in this search for Truth Principle.

 

Theravada is more closer to the center but not yet in the center.

 

Even the Theravada Way Finder has to understand the true meaning of Dhamma with his or her own strenuous attempt. 

 

It cannot be achieved in a single cycle of a human being.

 

On his or her way one finds,

Sovan

Sukardagami

Anagami  and in Center Point is the Arhant State.

I prefer to take the shorter path of Theravada than Mahayana.

 

I am nowhere near Sovan but I am already on the path to Sovan.

 

I have a caveat here. 

It is related to Kalyana Mitta Principle. 

 

I have met a lot of friends (Kalyana Mitta) and I need to gather them around me on the path.  

Mind you that includes my dog friends and elephant friends. 

I do not know about elephants but I believe dogs reach heaven easily.

If any of my elephant friends is advancing to heaven, I would certainly hang on to its tail tightly. 

 

So I am not in a hurry to attain Sovan.

 

Knowing a lot especially if it is redundant knowledge is a hindrance to wisdom

 

The wisdom is in the center.

 

So do not waste time on Mahayana.

 

Even Mahayana guy or girl can reach the Wisdom Point if he or she discards the unnecessary baggage that comes with Mahayana.

 

One can substitute the sphere to an apple. 

One consumes the apple from the periphery and reach the four seeds of divine abode at the center.

The Ten Precepts-Dasa Sila

Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts)

 1. The training rule of abstaining from taking life.

2. The training rule of abstaining from taking what is not given.

 

3. The training rule of abstaining from sexual misconduct.

 

4. The training rule of abstaining from false speech

 

5. The training rule of abstaining from fermented and distilled intoxicants which are the basis for heedlessness.

These five precepts are the minimal ethical code binding on the Buddhist laity. 

They are administered regularly by the monks to the lay disciples at almost every service and ceremony, following immediately upon taking the the three refuges. 

They are also undertaken afresh each day by earnest lay Buddhists as part of their daily recitation.

6. Vikalabhojana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami, "I undertake the training rule to abstain from eating beyond the time limit," i.e., from mid-day to the following dawn.

7. Nacca gita vadita visukhadassana-mala gandha vilepana dharanamandana vibhusanatthana veramani sikkhapadam samamadiyami, "I undertake the training rule to abstain from dancing, singing, instrumental music, unsuitable shows, and from wearing garlands, using scents, and beautifying the body with cosmetics."

8. Uccasayana mahasayana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami, "I undertake the training rule to abstain from high and luxurious beds and seats."

There are two ways in which these precepts are observed — permanently and temporarily. 

Permanent observance, far the less common of the two, is undertaken generally by older people who, having completed their family duties, wish to deepen their spiritual development by devoting the later years of their life to intensified spiritual practice.  

Even then it is not very widespread. 

Temporary observance is usually undertaken by lay people either on Uposatha days or on occasions of a meditation retreat. 

Uposatha days are the new moon and full moon days of the lunar month, which are set aside for special religious observances, a custom absorbed into Buddhism from ancient Indian custom going back even into the pre-Buddhistic period of Indian history. 

On these days lay people in Buddhist countries often take the eight precepts, especially when they go to spend the Uposatha at a temple or monastery. 

On these occasions the undertaking of the eight precepts lasts for a day and a night. 

Then, secondly, on occasions of retreat lay people take the eight precepts for the duration of their retreat, which might last anywhere from several days to several months.

Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts)

1. Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
2. Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
3. Abrahmacariya veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
4. Musavada veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
5. Sura meraya majja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
6. Vikala bhojana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
7. Nacca gita vadita visuka dassana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
8. Mala gandha vilepana dharana mandana vibhusanautthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
9. Uccha sayana maha sayana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami vibhusanautthana
10. Jatarupa-rajata-patiggahana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami

Dasa Sīla (The Ten Precepts) with Diacriticals

1. Pāṇātipātā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
2. Adinnādānā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
3. Abrahmacariyā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
4. Musāvādā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
5. Surā‧meraya‧majja‧pamādaṭṭhānā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
6.  Vikāla‧bhojanā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
7. Nacca gīta‧vādita‧visūka‧dassana‧
8. Mālā‧gandha‧vilepana‧dhāraṇa‧maṇḍana‧vibhūsanaṭṭhānā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
9. Uccā‧sayana‧mahā‧sayanā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
10. Jātarupa-rajata-patiggahanā veramaṇī‧sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi

 

Dasa Sīla (The Ten Precepts)

1. I undertake the Precept to refrain from killing and injuring living beings

2. I undertake the Precept to refrain from taking that which is not given

3. I undertake the Precept to abstain from all sexual activity and non-celibate conduct.

4. I undertake the Precept to refrain from false and harmful speech

5. I undertake the Precept to refrain from drink and drugs which fuddle the mind and reduce mindfulness

6. I undertake the Precept to abstain from eating at improper times

7. I undertake the Precept to abstain from dancing, singing, music, shows

8. I undertake the Precept to abstain from wearing garlands, using perfumes, and beautifying with cosmetics

9. I undertake the Precept to abstain from the use of high and large seats and beds

10. I undertake the Precept to abstain from accepting gold and silver (money in any form)

Although Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts) are often described as Monastic Precepts they are also taken by some lay Buddhist Upasakas and Upasikas.

Double Pocket, Double Standards and Double Tounge=JVP/NPP

Yes, NPP is well known for it's Lies.

It is now called the Double Tounge Politics.

They are secretly preparing to Enhance Diasphora claims.

Divide the country into three pieces based on race, religion and reagion.

Punish Mahinda and Rajapaksa extrajudicially.

Beware.

Last resort is to change the constitution.

They want to take away the special status for Buddhism.

Theme is Niragamika but Cardinal Cooray and Catholics have special action plan.

Remeber it has to be confirmed by a referendum.

Anura a is the only guy in Ceylon Politics who could not muster 50% of the vote.

He should be declared as the Minority President.

He only got 43%. 

Majority Government is charge of Tilwin.

Tilwin is in charge of the Parliament Members. 

However it is a "Dummy parliament". 

The MPs do not have independent voice.

They are mouth pieces of Tilwin who is not even in the parliament.

SJB and UNP got 57%.

51% elegible voters DID not VOTE.

This is a biggest aberration of our DEMOCRACY.

MINORITY rules and MAJORITY is DUMB and DEAF.

This is the JOKE of our politics.

We have to go through this anomaly for another five years.

I do not recommend Colour Revolution.

We must let people to experience their impotence by allowing them to govern for the full duration of five years.

Opposition should build up resources but should be mindful not to do things before the correct time.

Patience pays dividends.

Impatience is disruptive.

Ousting them can be automatic when the time is ripe.

We must sent them back to 3%.

Offensive (Medical) Marketing

 

Offensive (Medical) Marketing

This word the parafox that I coined in place of paradox to bypass a system that was eavesdropping on my web writing of different nature but in fact, factual in nature, on a Live CD so that I could not be traced or detected by the owl eyes.

It has already outlasted its original intention.

It has got a Linux tag now and if you type Linux and Parafox you are immediately directed to my writing on Live CDs.

The original meaning I intended is somewhat like outfoxing (is human in nature) the foxes but running parallel (is scientific in nature) and close to the foxes.

Now it is the name for my blog spot at Google's.

If Google can coin a word so do I in the Internet.

Since it has outlasted its true nature (if you read the original entries in this blog spot you get the picture clear) I want this word to be designated an entry into the Oxford Dictionary of new words.

If they do not then the Cambridge University should consider it in retrospect for future use.

I have also coined a another Concept.

It is called Offensive Medicine.

It is related to the dengue epidemic in Ceylon.

The inactive Health Personnel in this country put the onus and the blame on the people and sham away from the government's responsibility in controlling it.

They sometimes punish the citizens and it may end up one day killing all the dengue patients to arrest the disease transmission. 

There are many adopted war heroes who are jobless now who can enact this.

The way the things are managed in this country even the WHO will agree on this measure.
 

This is all because the treatment is free if one enters a government hospital.

Having said that once upon a time when I was in the private sector I confirmed a case of dengue for a test costing about 50 rupees a person (on a child).

Two weeks later when I looked at the payments received (the institution has to pay this guy) by a particular doctor (he had put three to four entries per day including telephone calls) the charges were many thousand multiples of Rs. 50/=.

He actually did not physically visit the young child.

Soon after, I left the institute since I could not do anything to prevent this scenario occurring again.

It is practiced to this day not only in that institution but elsewhere, too.

There are no checks and balances!

To put this concept in another situation is appropriate to illustrate its spread.
Government dishes out free books but does not do anything to improve the standard of teaching and teacher training.

If the student fails it is the failure of the student but not the system.

I hope the you got the picture of Offensive Medicine, right.

Today I am going to introduce another concept.

It is called, Offensive Marketing.

This concept is similar to Offensive Medicine Concept where the onus is on the patient or the poor citizen.

This is applied to the Free Software and Free Linux distributions.
Somewhat similar to the FUD (Fear , Uncertainty and Fear) mentality if you use Free distributions, there is no support and one bears the consequences.

Onus is his or hers to own but no responsibility attached to the software or the distribution.

It is fair enough but consider a person working for a reputable company takes the free software and add few of his or her own company (example Java Beans. Flash Flush, Adobe Dub to name a few and few of its own household names) brands and put out a distribution, that I call an Offensive Marketing (fringes and frills of it) strategy.

I have reason to believe that this is happening today.

1. The parafox

2. The Offensive Medicine Concept (purely Sri-Lankan Concept based on Buddhist Karma and Karma-Pala-Vipaka).

3. The Offensive Marketing Concept are few that comes to my mind using Professor De Bono's lateral thinking strategy.

I hope these three will get to Annals of Web Publishing before I die (so that I can claim proprietary rights, and that should last 70 years after my death of course).

SPEAKER Mahinda Yapa Aberwardena Spoiled Julie Chang / CIA PLOT

Cardinal Coory was the one who tried to coerced Speaker on behalf of CIA and Julie Change's Plot.

India was also was in the plot. India wanted both Gotabaya and Ranil removed.

We have a robust constitution.

Our Speaker Mahinda Yapa Aberwardena did not give into pressure and was adamant that he would not violate the constitution.

Aragalaya was a CIA indpired Colour Revolution similar to Ukraine Saga.

Catholic Action in progress in broad day light.

Their plan was to make speaker as the President and make an Unconstitutional Interim Council.

Plan was to oust PM Ranil Wickramasinghe and to his credit Ranil Wickramasinghe not only did not violate the constitution.

He stood firm and he did not resign unlike Gotabaya.

He waited until Gotabaya resigned to take over reins as the Acting President for the remaining period of the term.

Yes, Gotabaya resigned but the mandate of the voter was not sacrificed.

The presidential term continued.

That is why I say we have a robust constitution and we should not allow "Patch Work" changed to our constitution.

We cannot let CIA to decide who is in power or when he or she should be removed using "Colour Revolutions".

India had requested through Milinda Moragoda for Ranil Wickramasinghe to be removed by Gotabaya and there after help the Aragalaya to remove Gotabaya.

Intention of the RAW was to destabilize Ceylon Government.

Gotabaya and Ranil saved the country from another Colour Revolution.

Our thanks to Presidential Donald Trump.

Julie Chang was removed when he came into power and a new Ambassador was appointed.

British  Ambassador Gladstone was made persona non grata (diplomatically unwelcome) by President Ranadinghe Premadasa.

Juile Change should have made persona non grata.

Our lawyers who were paid by the CIA did not raise this issue against this American "Wicked Witch".

In that sense democratic Nancy Pelosy was much better persona inside and outside of American politics.

Mind the Matter

 Mind the Matter

 

I have many books published at Amazons.
I wish to be anonymous in my blog pieces. 

Only my friends know who this guy is.

My interest are many but I have spent lot of time on Mind related to Dhamma (Buddhism).

Only the speculative facts I post here but not in my books.

I have high regard for the readers of my books.

Here, I  wish to make a few comments about higher achievements of mind.

I consider mind as a form of energy.

It has an intrinsic tendency to be tagged to the brain.

The highest devas (Arala Kalama, Uddhakarama and the likes) also are bound to subtle mind form and are not delivered from bandage or emancipated.

But I believe mind can exist on its own.

Buddha who attained Nirvana and all those Arhath, after passing away, enter into subtle energy wave form that cannot be detected, for example by EEG wave.

The reason being, there is no Form or Bhava in this state of existence of mind.

So Nirvana is not Null and Void but its existence is subtle and not perceptible to human mind.

But Sovan, Sakuradagami and Anagami have subtle body forms until they reach the state of Arhath state.

The above is my attempt to explain and should not be taken as sacrosanct.

I have a simple classification of various levels of mental states.

1. Sleep is essential for living beings, a minimum of 8 to 9 hours for adults.

Children need more.

2. Normal Wakeful state.

3. Euphoria
 

That is after, consumption of alcohol at level 2 intoxication.

Alcohol has 6 levels of effects.
1 is no effect.
6 is death.

Level 2 is Euphoria.

4. Ecstasy
This state is induced by drugs
LSD is the first to be discovered.
All pain killing substances have this side effect especially morphine.

I have never tried them. 

They are classified as Level 1 addictive drugs.

Even Voltaren had this effect on me.
 

I took them to relieve a severe renal colic.

One of my batch mates was given morphine after appendectomy and he was demanding a second dose. 

We sat with him but did not give him a second injection.

Addiction is the next stage which is irreversible.

5. Esotericism

 
Magic mushroom or Ayahuasca induces this state.

Out of the world experience, alien visitation and spiritualism are a few of its manifestations.

This delusional state is dangerous to the individual (if not to his peers who do not consume this stuff).

This is similar to Near Death Syndrome where individuals who has come back from death become unusually spiritual moral beings and god abiding.

There is a dangerous precedence that guys with underlying psychiatric problems consume them in desperation.

By the way, some psychiatrists themselves become addicted to these drugs to prevent suicidal tendencies.

Psychiatrist are known to commit suicide.

Paediatricians come second in the list and radiologist the least.

Pathologists are above radiologists by statistical analysis.

Sumerians are an example known to use mood elevating drugs. 

 

Sumerian history is about 8000 years old.

My bone of contention is even prehistoric man, 13,000 years ago was addicted to mushroom like substances.

I think Cardinals in the Vatican are known to use these substances.
 

The priests tell us NOT to take them but they have secret ceremonies where they indulge in ecstasy.

6. Trance States
 

There are 4 Trance States.
These guys are born after death in 4 realms.
They consider themselves as heavenly aboard and live a long life.

At the end they are reborn again in animal and even lower realms, having expended their credit merits.

So never think of going there.

To me simple human domain is good enough.

Please note, I have not gone beyond Euphoria (simple wine) and all the other levels are speculative but I have delved into Pali Dictionary for reference.

My current hypothesis is that almost all religions have arisen after indulgence in these Mood Altering Drugs.

The other rival theory is that having seen REAL alien visitations the visitors were elevated to Godly realm.

Hindu Vimana story is a good example of possible alien visitation.

Not one type but several types of conflicting aliens.
 

The Hindu Gods probably reflect various aliens who may have visited earth on their galactic expeditions.

Russian cosmologist have postulated 7 seven probable civilizations.

Unfortunately human records are sketchy.

Assuming Roswell Incident is true, the CIA attempt to keep it under classified information is  a case in point.

But my understanding of "Alien Saga" is that Americans wanted to hide the development of Stealth Aircraft from the Russians.

This experimental aircraft was projected as an alien craft.

We are well into the World War III and Rockets and Robots are the next level of Warfare Industry.

AI will soon take over the mankind and it will be the 6th extinction.

Infinity of Mind

Infinity of Mind

Space,Travel, Infinity of Mind

This piece is bizarre and has no earthly bound limitations.

In fact, beyond the limitation of physics.

This discussion is not limited by space and gravity.

This is to bring out the concept of Rebirth in relative and comparative terms.

Kamma is its associate, the other side of the coin.

There is a Mongolian belief that dogs have many lives beyond one single life. 

They also carry forward memories of their past lives and are born again as dogs.

There is a good film “Purpose of Dogs”.

I disagree here and my "born/bone of contest" is that, most dogs are born as celestial beings (Buddhist terminology of Godly beings) or gods. 

They easily bypass the mundane human life having lived with them long enough to understand how nasty a human being can be. 

 

Trump, Biden, Putin and Zelensky and their followers are good examples that dogs have studied, on their own ways.

Killing opposing beings and War is their way of life.

Eating flesh of any kind are their liberal form of life.

They have their own form of gods and sects and the priests walk with the soldiers to kill the fellow humans. 

 

The Pope in his part keeps numb about War crimes of Israelite. 

 

Quote some disagreement in textural scripts of Vatican to purist theologies of other sects.

Mongolians follow a form of Buddhism that gives credence to rebirth and meditation. 

It is bit different from Tibetan Buddhism in which the term reincarnation has a special meaning and they all try to become Buddhas. It is bit far fetched and farcical attempt. 

Really, antagonistic to simple Buddhism where Kamma and Rebirth explains the outcomes. 

The goal  of "casting away" of rebirth can be done by less vigorous means.

Becoming an Arhanth is the goal not another or somebody like Buddha (PaseBuddha).

Rebirth cannot be proved but it cannot be denied.

That is my premise here.

There is a Western myth that Buddhism is a philosophy. 

I would dispense the philosophical connotation outright, to begin with.

In the East, no philosophy has any roots simply because of Hindu belief in creator gods of many kinds. 

Buddhism is not a religion, in the sense of the Western and Middle Eastern beliefs where by following the Gospel of a mythical god one can redeem oneself and achieve salvation in, a single life form.

Eternal damnation to hell is unethical on human terms.

Buddhism is a way of life but that way of life is little bit difficult and advanced.

One reaps the benefit of Good and Bad Kamma. 

How it turns out one cannot predict in advance. 

 

Recurrence of Karma Pala and Rebirth are automatic.

It is like a wheel roiling down or rolling upwards with effort.

Action and reaction.

Equal and opposite reaction in physics.

One cannot escape and the rounds of births are there eternally to salvage good and bad without counsel of gods or elders supervising the outcome.

Buddhism starts with not killing any life including animal life.

It has four simple rules.

Indulgence in alcohol is not in that four and I believe it was added much later into the system.

The Arhants have only 10 very simple precepts.

Eating one main meal a day is one of them.

Vegetarianism is a simple byproduct.

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

The films are Creative and Imaginative but not Inspiring. However, killing the opposing guys are encouraged and it is not good for minds of children.

Children should learn to live with rest of fellow beings.

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

Being an old time paediatrician that ended up as a gaeriatrician in later life, bringing fear and phobias to kids' mind is no good at all. 

Some bordering paranoia and may cause depression in them. 

 

I strongly oppose killing opposing imaginative creatures and witches.

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

Sometime, I think the authors of these type of  books, in their previous life form were born as a demons to relive them in this life.

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

I have no objection adults reading them and becoming killers themselves in War of attrition.

Coming back to Title of this piece;

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 the gravity of earth, without life support.

No gravity is anathema to all human physiology.

I 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 probably alien beings possess.

Aliens are no Gods but some type of advanced humanoids.

Their space vehicles are most likely driven by radiation obtained from elements above 112. 

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 resume!

1. Mind is the best vehicle to travel the Universe.

2. Mind is a mystery.

3. With some meditation techniques one can achieve momentary state of  escape from the brain.

However, the mind's attachment to brain is very strong and this escape mode is an illusion.

This is one reason out of many, I oppose many forms of meditation.

Live this life in wakeful state.

Be mindful of every moment of life.

Be happy (Somanassa Chitta).

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 these state/s is/are eternal.
It is a form of delusion worse than living on psychoactive drugs. 

Psychoactive drugs have a limited time span unlike living as a high celestial being.

6. All are temporary states of bliss.

7. That brings us to the "Uncertainty Principle".

8. That is the entry point to Dhamma.

I leave it at that point.

"Somanassa Chitta' without attachment is the base to real bliss.

There are 3 other components.

Metta

Karuna

Upekka