WiFi Mode

We are a stupid nation.

We have re-elected a regime which destroyed our forest and elephants in the past which even LTTE did not touch.

Now they are asking the children to plant trees, instead of teaching them the basic skills in English, computing and using a cellphone or tablet effectively in education, which are essential in survival in the current world.

By the way, cellphone prices have gone up sky rocketing due to devaluation of Ruppee by printing new money.

Instead of that, they are engaged in usual political manoeuvre that hoodwink the Simple Semeon on the street with "Kotia and Thambia Eneva" Slogan.

It is deplorable these things happen even in our temples on a daily basis.

Read my piece, "Buddhism in a Mess in Ceylon" for real facts and history.

WiFi Mode
Coming to the telecommunication, we are spending a lot for MobiTel and Dialog which provide a shoddy service and over 50% as taxes.

Use only WiFi and carry a WiFi dongle or WiFi broadband unit to save on your bill.

Do not spend over Rs.35,000/= advertised on YouTube.

One can buy four or five units under Rs.25,000.

I am not a business man or advertising any company.

Go and shop around for your needs.

From Me to Mr. Bill

This is an old blog post (2011) of mine in asokaplus www.wordpress.com, which I would like to post again.

This is my adaptation from an Email, I received.

I am currently studying birds and bill is appropriate for pecking.

Dear Mr.Bill
This letter is from so and so to so and so.
I bought a computer recently and unfortunately I found the following problems.
1. When I connect to the Internet and opened the e-mail and whenever I type my name I get a CAGE called password and a number of asterisks ****** .
I leave the asterisks and type my password in the rest of the fields.
As soon as I type letters appear as true to form and nothing else happens afterward.
I do not know how to solve this problem.
I checked with the hardware vendor (Kandy) and he checked the keyboard and said it has no problems.
I got a brain wave and opened the email with the word password and asterisks ***** but that did not work.
2. When I click the "Shut down" button I am unable to do anything else afterwards with the computer.
I thought the computers work 24 hours without a break and without any complaints.
Please let me know how to solve this problem.
3. However, there is a button called "Start" but there is no button called "Stop" when I want to go to the loo.
I request you to solve this problem.
4. I find there is a 'Run' button in the menu ( I don't want to have runs after a meal-diarrhoea- especially the type of meal called "On the go" I have in my office).
One of my friends told me I should do a run in the evening after sitting long hours in front of the TV screen learning new computer techniques and concepts.
5. Click and Run is dangerous even in Kandy with so many "Bills on the Beat" with a AK45s in their hands.
I don't like to run.
Please change it to "Sit and Wait".
In fact, I do this when I have a problem with my computer.
I believe even the ordinary citizens do the same thing ("Sit and Wait Patiently") nowadays especially when they come to Colombo for some work.
6. I would prefer a "Bicycle" with a click of a button instead of a "Pizza" available in the system.
With petrol going up that is good for my health and my purse.
As I find only "Re-cycle" and that is a gross oversight by the computer wizards of America.
7. By the way for people who have money and a scooter another option called "Re-scooter" is desirable.
Unfortunately I do not own a scooter.
8. The 'Find' button is not working properly.
My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot to find the the key with this "Find" button but it was not possible.
Is it due to a bug?
9. Every night my sleep is disturbed since the Cat come looking for the "Mouse" at odd hours in the night.
I propose you should make a game called Cat, Mouse and the Dog and ask the Disneyland to train all the domestic cats , dogs and mice to play this game without killing each other like the humans do.
We humans can learn from this game a few earthly visions.
10. My child likes to learn the Microsoft Word now. T
It is better one should develop the Grammar and the Sentence Structure since our children are very poor in English as a language.

Live and Let Live

This utility is giving problems.

Editing is interfered with.

Why?
I do not know.

The long piece I had here is gone.

I am not at all worried since it was one more than my planned number of blogs.

I wanted it to be dynamic, though.

Let me forget what was there and report today's event.

A tit of lager size than normal is dominating the mulberry tree.

Even the selfish bul-bul is chased.

Details of birds will be in my book.

Now I made a reference to plight of Binntenna Vaddha's honey bee trade vandalized by corn trade.

Now I have black bees domesticated in one of our tall pillars.

They extended their colony to back side of the retaining wall.

There was activity on the other side with cement and paint work.

I begin to realise those guys sealed the entry point of the second colony.

They are all Buddhist guys with no sympathy for wild life.

The second colony left the place in good time and was making a new home in another pillar in front of our house.

They are still working in the new home.

The guys in Hantana are setting fire and catching the wild rabbits.

This is perennial occurrence.

I should concentrate on seeds I have collected


Topics

1. Mulberry seeds

2. Coriander seeds

3. Grapes seeds

4. Sour sop seeds

5. Butter fruit seeds

6. Grass seeds

7. Orchid seeds

8. Palm seeds

9. Jack fruit seeds

10. Mango fruits

11. Corn seeds

12. Barely seeds

13. Banana seeds

14.  Wali Anoda

15. Aralu seeds

16. Bulu seeds

17. Nellie seeds

18. Coconut

19. Cadju nuts

20. Cocoa nuts

21. Paw paw seed

22. Rubber seeds

23. Jam Pets seeds

24. Castor seeds

25. Kudu Daula seeds

26. Hora seeds

27. Areca nuts

28. Coriander seeds

29. Butter fruit seeds

30. Mustard seeds

31. Tomato seeds

32. Pomegranate seeds

33. Grape fruit seeds

34.Orange seeds

35.Lemon seeds

36.Lime seeds

37. Guava seeds

38. Brinjal seeds

39. Bitter gaurd seeds

40. Ela Buru seeds

41. Tibbotu seeds

42. Batu seeds

43. Wam botu seeds or brinjal

44. Mulberry fruits

45. Jam or cherry tomato seeds

46. Paddy seeds

47. Palm seeds

48. Soursop seeds

49. Amberalla fruits and seeds

50. Watakka or pumpkin seeds

51. Melon seeds

52. Pitawakka seeds

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1. Kudu Daula

2. Iramusu

3. Thiththiri

4. Kaladuru

5. Iriberiya

6. Weniwel

7. Rasa Kinda

8. Coriander

9. Cinnamon

10. Cardamon

11. Castor oil

12. Mimosa Pudica

13. Ginger

14. Inguru piyalie

15. Bay leaves

16. Old spice

17. Savandara

18.

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23. Pera seeds

24. Palm seeds

25.

French Keyboard

I am using the French Typeface for revising my French.

It is difficult to speak in English.

I was a part time writer.

I am almost a full time writer now with Coronavirus incarceration.

Playing with cheap cellphones was a pastime for ages but then there was no typefaces like now.

I tried to translate to Sinhala but it did not work.

I tried Tamil.

It did not work.

With so many characters in Tamil and Sinhala we will never get AI or digitally intelligent.

Unfortunate but true.

It is hot now.

Little later

Please

Resting

Do not disturb

je dors

je me repose

je dors

I am resting

I am sleeping

It is hot now

Il fait chaud maintenant


I am reading

je suis en train de lire

I am looking for a post office.

I am looking for a post office

Je recherche un bureau de poste.

I need some stamps.

J'ai besoin de timbres.

Pean of Joy

Aloka Udapadi
Light that shines the World and beyond.

Viddya Udapadhi
Truth that penetrates all knowledge.

Panga Udapadhi
The transcending Wisdom of all.

Anekajati Samsaram Sandhavissam Annnibisam
Gahakarakam Gavesanto Dukkha Jati Punanppunam
Gahakaraka Ditto Si Puna Geham Na Kakahasi
Subbe Te Phasuka Bhagga Gahakutam Visankhitam
Visankaragatam Cittam Tanhanam Khayamajjhaga

Through many a birth wondered I,
Seeking not finding, the builder of the house,
Sorrowful is repeated birth.

O' Householder, thou art is seen.
Thou shall built no house again.
All thy rafters are broken.
Thy ridge pole is shattered.
Mind attains the unconditioned.
Achieved is the end of craving.

At the dawn on the very day of enlightenment, the Buddha uttered this pean of joy or Udana which vividly describes his transcendental moral victory and his inner spiritual experience.

The Buddha admits his past wandering in existences which entailed suffering.

A fact, evidently proving the belief in Rebirth in Buddhism.

The fundamental ingrained in Dhamma are
Kamma and Rebirth.

He was compelled to wander and consequently suffer as he could not discover the architect that builds the house, the Body and Mind.

In his final birth, while engaged in solitary meditation, he had highly developed in the course of his wandering in Samsara, after relentless  perseverance and search he discovered by his own intuitive Wisdom, the illusive architect, residing not outside but within the recess of his own Mind.

It was Craving or Attachment to the self created mental compendium of enormity.

This latent compendium of mental forms drives the Samsara.

How and when this Craving or Attachment originated is incomprehensible.

What is created by oneself can be destroyed by oneself only.

An external agency is not envisioned but by oneself alone one is created and one is also responsible for (his/her) one's own suffering or happiness.

(The word suffering include both Joy and Unhappiness but due to transitory nature of both feelings, it is wrapped as unhappy or suffering. This word should not be used to belittle and  downgrade absolute Dhamma meaning.There is no negative feeling or thinking implied but the the true nature of its -life- rendering)

The discovery of the architect, the craving or Thanha leads to its irradication or ending of all cravings and attaining the Nibbana or Arahathship ultimate unborn (not reborn) state.

The rafters are:

Kilesa or Passion

Loba or attachment

Dosa or hate and aversion

Moha or illusion

Mana or conceit or self disception

Mittyaditti or Wrong View

Vicikiccha or doubt

Thina or sloth

Uddhacca or restlessness

Ahirika or moral.shamelessness

Anottappa or moral fearlessness

The ridge pole that supports the rafters are:
Ignorance or Avijja the root cause of all passions.

The shattering of Avijja leads to Wisdom unparalleled or Nibbana.