Emotional Constipation and Lack of Intelligence

I am going to quit Internet.

I consider cellphone, as the most destructive invention of mankind.

However, I have downloaded few stimulating games to play and  come out of  any possible Emotional Constipation.

There is nothing called Emotional Intelligence.

It is a misnormer.

Emotions have no intelligence.

The correct word in Pali is Nivarana or Hindrance and all emotions are bad for mental coherence.

The biggest of all, is doubt and the doubt about the path and not the path to clear comprehension.

It is generally called Mara and even Mara daughters (this Pali word has many meanings) tried to obstruct Buddha's concentration or Samadhi and Sati.

In my case, mosquitoes ever present warn me of my lack of Metta intention, if not Metta Meditation.

My basic Bhavana technique is Metta.

I do not have this abreactions to ants. If not for the black ants my orchids want bloom.

It took nearly 18 years to get one orchid to bloom and it is over 50 years now and I have not got the Wesak orchid to bloom again.

Plant can sense and their sensing mechanisms have to be perfect to reciprocate in response.

I have come to the conclusion that Wesak orchid would never bloom and the reason is high ambient temperature.

The cement floor of the rooftop gets heated up in a few hours, the moment, the rain stops.

Rain is erratic and there is a shift of the season by about three months.

Mind you, this blog site was activated to post few verses from Dhammapada to counteract War Mentality, especially the American Industrial Complex of War mongers using Ukraine as a proxy.

It 80% American propaganda and only 20% Russian response.

Russia has not declared war and America desperately trying create it.

BEWARE!

Now Biden and EU are printing money at a hectic pace and base rate is going by 0.75 as a result.

Our guy in Ceylon is printing money from the paper stock reserved for school books.

Even the hungry cows do not eat this paper money from which we can't buy a loaf of bread.

Unless 10,000 notes are dished out to counter the d
Dollar appreciation and Rupee depreciation, we may have to carry gunny bags with 100 notes.

I could remember good old days old Mudalalis carry gunny bags of 10 notes to Colombo in Kandy Colombo.

Mudalali has a seat but the his assistant keeps a watch at the gunny bag with notes.

This happens once a week and they go to Cross Street or Malwatta street to collect the illegal stuff pilfered through the port by Batthal boats.

Finish with Dhammapada story.

Rather I bought a few Dhammapada booklets to be donated to two guys who never had expose to the verse.

One refused and the other guy indifferent.

I believe in masterly non interference.
I don't pose myself, if at all gently.

I see this incident with Muditha mode with equanimity.

Some people can never be  helped.

Mara has taken them by their scuff.

Unfortunate.

Goodbye.
There will be little of me in the Internet.

It is already a cesspit.

Stinking.

Thanks to Google (it is not your fault), all the same.

The algorithm has its own ways and means.

Perpetuation!


Coming to Dhammapada even the small copy has gone up in price and there are no copies in local book shops.

I am dishing out the copies I have and two guys did not want to accept them (no monetary value for them) as gifts.

I look at them with Mudhita or detached attention.

There is a sinister attempt by the Church to insinuate and introduce the dependence on the wrong path by using "the alien agenda".

There is nothing worthwhile in the YouTube nowadays.

Even the Linux guys have not got the act together and Linux Phones are as expensive as Androids.

I had a wishful thinking that I would use a cheap Linux phone in my death bed BUT all cellphones have gone up price, there to four times  the price I paid for my assortment of cellphones.
Take due care of them.

I dropped one and a small crack in display  appeared instantly.

They are cutting corners in production and they are not hardy  as they used to be.

Ending this with Somanassa Citta.

Thanks to Google, all the same.
Goodbye to Google and YouTube.

Truth is Stranger than What We Believe

I followed a YouTube presentation which questions the Bible Story.

Bible story is less than 3000 years but mankind's current history is at least about 13,000 years old.

There is missing 10,000 years of history.

I believe Ceylon also had prehistoric civilization and going beyond 5000 years to Dravidian history and Lemura.

We do not know the truth about Atlantis.

What one has to postulate is civilizations have come and gone,  probably ending with high technology warfare and we are still in Zero Civilization Stage with no hope of galactic membership.

Sumerian history is very old.

For convenience we have erased that history from our history books.

What I gathered from that discussion are;

1. Ours were a binary Solar System to begin with.

2. One of the stars had died (fortunately did not explode) and it remains as a dead star.

It did not become a Black Hole and ate out Solar System.

3. It has an enormous gravitational field.
Its existence was confirmed by two pioneer explorer probes.

4. The wobbling of all the planets outside the earth is due to its enormous gravitational influence.

How far away from the planet earth is only a circumstantial guess.

5. It rotates around 26,000 year cycles and twice during this period it creates massive environmental catastrophes or efforts due to powerful alignments.

6. Every 13,000 years, huge atmospheric change or  catastrophe occurs.

7. These cycles lasts at least 1000 years and erase the existing civilization, almost to extinction.

But they do recover slowly and that is called human evolution.

8. We are on the verge of such a catastrophe and our planet's history is studded with similar catastrophes that repeat themselves for eons and eons of years.

We only have only a snapshot of history left behind to rediscover written and recorded in tablets or stones by the previous civilizations.

Trying to preserve them and if possible read them constructively is a necessity.

9. Global warming is not due to CO2 but due to effect of this massive dead star gravitationally interfering with our star.

Getting young girls to cobble up a global warming propaganda according to globalists agenda of the big oil merchants or neoconservatives is not Pure Science.

10. Our knowledge of the solar system is limited.

At least part of  Elon Musk's space money should be diverted for such studies.

11. One can understands why China is so much interested in space science.

12. Russia should stop the War and go back to drawing boards and invest on  space science and research and collaborate with China, if not the West is a Bounden Duty.

13. This is what Neil Armstrong said when he said we need to remove the Truth Protecting Layers (in other words massive American Lies propagated for over 70 years and still continuing to pollute the world by Military Industrial Complex or Deep State) for the mankind to progress with harmony.

Of course, whether America landed men on the moon or stage crafted a nice American drama is another topic that is well illustrated in the film now banned by Google on YouTube, "Something Went Wrong, on the way to the Moon" a Comedy Style production film.

That of course, is if man had even crossed the Van Allen Belt of Radiation without untoward side effects.


14. I do not want the history of mankind of present day, NOT to be a Comedy.

15. We do not understand 95% of the putative universe which is dark matter and dark energy and is expanding at a tremendous speed faster than speed of light.

We are basically an ignorant lot and can be cheated instantly by the drop of a hat.

Ignorance is not a blessing.

Practice of Avihinsa and Mindfullness

Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practices Avihinsa, Mindfulness and Body (kayanuppassana) Contemplation.

Dhammapada verses 299, 300 and 301.

Recollection of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha

Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practise the recollection of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
Dhammapada verses 296, 297, and 298.

Amongst the Hateful be without Hate

Happily do we live, without Hate amongst the Hateful:
Amidst Hateful men we dwell, not Hateful.

Dhammapada verse 197.
Poson Poya Day.

Ruble Rules and EU on Steep Downhill (Pallan)

 

I am sexist in this piece.

This is what happens when we give Financial Chairs to women both in USA and EU.

Yes they have all the academic qualifications far beyond the male counterparts.

They, the women try to manage the global economy, like a kitchen (cabinet) and put all the stale foods (dysfunctional laws) to the weaker partners and enjoy the crust and fame but they cannot stand up to President Putin and Ruble and crumble in front of a man who is fighting a war, while managing the Russian economy.

Now he has devised his own economy in the Asian subcontinent and countries like India and Indonesia are going to benefit.

One must not take Ceylon to this consortium, since our politicians for 70 years mismanaged the economy and they think by printing money any financial problem can be overcome.

Even in this scenario it is Russia that is giving a lending hand to Ceylon and not EU or IMF, while China is waiting like a big shark.
Ruble Rules and EU on Steep Downhill (Pallan)
 

India has enormous problems, including weather, rain and drop in agricultural products.

Its wheat supply is 3% of the global output and if not for Russia many developing countries would starve.

If only Ukraine looked for the East, meaning Asia and dumped USA for good world would have been a better place.

It is too late for Ukraine.

Ukraine will suffer for its own making and Russia has no inclination to bail them out except grab almost 50% of land and wealth.

This is how men fight war and economics and I think the women in Think Tanks should go back to the universities they read for higher studies and revise their own economic dogmas.

When food prices go up it is the women in the house who have to economize and take the blame, not men.

Printing Money and Financing in USA

Let me start with Americans.
They are printing money to support Ukraine War.

Can you believe it?

Yes it is.

FED even though, not acknowledged this fact, it is happening.

It is happening in UK and EU and they are blaming the Russian Bear, while Ruble is appreciating in spite or the War.

But America is printing dollars to pay Ukraine payroll.

Anyway, that is their own doing.

I mean the War in Ukraine.

Let me come back to Ceylon.

It is our own LTTE who printed illegal money in Ceylon with the water mark of the Lion's Tail behind legs.

They actually cashed them to buy arms and then Central Bank Governor duly cashed them under the nose of his boss Senior Premadasa.

For his own private Gam-Udava, I believe he printed money.

LTTE showed the way and he improved it, on the sly.

He died a premature death but I believe Hora printing money printer was taken to home and his son did print some money and donated them to temples.

Temple monks were the "go betweens" him and the bank.

He only printed 100 notes.

I have refused to accept in a private hospital of a bundle of 10,000 of 100 notes.

Then the next government came in and his son started printing 500 notes for his private sports projects.

The moment, I got a note of 500, I used to pass the buck.

All governers of the central bank did not have the gut to refuse the dud notes and printed an equivalent amount of notes when the economy was not as bad today, but it added to the dollar appreciation.

So two sons of presidents did enough damage to the economy and the current PM is doing the same thing.

Why we need a government?

Simply we can let the local mafiosi to run the bank.

Now his boss JRJ is the one who started  printing money first.

He introduced 1000 notes.

His nephew of course printing 5000 notes and very soon we will have a 10,000 note with IMF agreeing.

By the way, prices are up by 300%.

That is how we ruined our economy long before Coronavirus and Ukraine War.

All these happened long before Bond Scams.
That is  besides the point.

Release Your Mind

Let go the past.

Let go the future.

Let go the present.

Crossing to the further shore ( meaning achieving Niibbana ) of existence, with mind released from everything, do not again undergo birth or decay ( no rebirth).

Dhammapada Verse 348.

This is the essential teaching of Dhamma.

In my 3M Meditation Code, the present moment is used to

1. Momentary (5 minutes in the morning, 5 minutes at bed time and any moment free for five minutes)

2. Moment

3. Meditation.

Taking a cue from Ajan Brahma Wanso.

What I say is do not let, a moment slip away but focus on, what one does, First Time Round, a "Quality Control Drill" on Mind.

It is personal effort, and one does not need a guru, BUT one has to understand the Anitta, Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and Anatta principles.

I call it the Stock Market, "Uncertainty Principle".

Everything is fluid and in a flux.

Even the attempt at meditation may pass into a flux.

But do not deter the fluidity takes away, the intitial focus of attention.

Organ Transplant and Dark Side of Ceylon

I am not going to say, Ceylon was a pioneer in Illegal Organ Deals with India but it happened in the private sector, when I was actively involved in Quality Management and Hospital care in Colombo.

It did happened 22 years ago and probably still happening, under the guise of and according to the Siri-Sagabo Tradition.

I was appalled by those sordid things and I am deregistered as a medical guy in CMC for over 22 years.

I could not do a dime those days, while working in private sector.

By the way, we have had alliance with Ukraine from Russian helicopters to Coronavirus vaccine deals, but no recollection of Ukraine having organ deals in Ceylon.

It was India and perhaps Thailand and Malaysia.

This particular girl was raped by a very popular singer and film actor and the case could be traced to this guy (possibly with venereal diseases).

The girl was under 16 years.

Victor Ivan and Ranjan Ramanayake must be having tell tell data.

Guy probably had a ? suspended sentence or no sentence at all.

By the way, one of our (cabinet) education ministers had Venerial Disease of our time.

Sinister part was this girl was sent to rehabilitation center where her parts including kidneys and bones were removed piece by piece not peace meal, at the behest of the film star to erase her existence from records.

It was public knowledge in Ceylon this guy faded away or not in this country now, perhaps in Ukraine, producing films, there for Ukraine regime.



I will relate only one case, in a fictionalized way.

Independent Media Outlets, A Healthy Trend

It is nice to see, that Independent Media are raising their heads in  UK and USA.

This won't happen in France, Germany and Russia but BBC, CNN, Fox and Sky News have partisan biases and that is the very reason of the emergence of relatively Free Media Outlets.

By the way, this started with shunning Donald Trump by Twitter.

Trump was not a politician but an astute business man who ignited the interest of rich independent guys.

Elon Musk was a beneficiary but he is no politician at all, to benefit from the opening up of the media space and what comes out of Twitter remains to be seen.

Outer space will be the future battle ground of Politics and War, and China entering this field is just for that reason.
For that reason and matter to keep control of it's citizens under it's belt  with Thaiwan to worry about are Chinese preoccupations.

Israel will never have Independent Media and they are good at even eliminating Media personal by force.

The emergence of Al'Jesira is the direct result of interference.

I have left out Muslim countries like Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Bangladesh where women are suppressed and talking about Free Media is a joke with intolerance and hegemony ruling the masses.

Human race is not ready yet for open dialogue for another 50 years or more, only with the next generation of the young dropping all religions from the main stream activities.

This will only happen when all extreme groups and terrorist groups are eliminated.

It is interesting to note CIA is creating insurgents with the help of Poland and Germany to undermine Russian clout in Ukraine.

How Russia readies itself for this tragedy with neo-nazists integrating with Ukraine army remains to be seen.

These Independent Media are mainly crowd funded in the line of Linux philosophy, I salute the guys and girls who support these Independent Media by offering the money one would spend for a cup of tea or coffee.

Free Speech is controlled by Vested Media and the Twitter and Facebook are waning while the interest for Independent Media is waxing.

We do not want the news to be covered like one side of the moon.

Half moon is better than no moon at all, metaphorically speaking.

It remains to be seen how Internet adopt itself to education of masses rather than propaganda.

Internet was meant to be for education and that goal has to be revived and reinvested for the greater good.

Internet is currently a cesspit of junk and faked news.

The best example is Elensky's (without the Z) virtual media attempts or cheap films.

Flux of Life

Ideas extracted from Piyadassi Thera.

A Living Message.

In Life, an individual existence is the succession of changes that comes into being and passes away, not remaining constant for two consecutive moments.

There is no gap between one moment and the other.

This change of continuity which we possess in this life does not cease at death.

The death here now is the beginning of another life in another place without a transmigrating self or entity.

The mind flux continues incessantly over as an electric current continues to function though the bulb is broken and the light is not manifested.

Next birth is just like fixing another bulb, with high or low watts (kusala or akusala kamma in transsission).

Clear Comprehension of Pali Terminology

To begin with I am not a Pali scholar.

I am a scientist by nature and upbringing.

I am trying to be a philosopher but failing due to paucity of my language skills.

Having said that to understand Pali one does not need Grammer and Schematics.

The words by themselves have pristine meanings.

Larger than self of their own.

Metta
Karuna
Muuditha
Upekka are foundations of Buddhist way of life.

I have three Pali words that, I am interested:

1. Nana or near enough English word Knowledge

2. Darshana, Dassana or Wisdom

3. Visuddhi or Mental Purity, the Clear Comprehension of the concepts of Anatta (no abiding self), unsatisfactory nature or Dukkha of conditional phenomena and Anitta or changing nature of all phenomena with constant flux, are  the fundamentals, to ponder upon in Dhamma.

I am indebted to all Western scholars of Pali Text Society of London and German Jewish Founders  of Buddhist Publication Society (Gnanathiloka and Gnanaponika) of Kandy which was the Consultation Clinic of Dr.Dharmasena, our family doctor when I was a kid.

All these are interlocked for me to  present Buddhism in a Nutshell through our erudite Reverend Narada Thera.

But if not for Bikku Bodhi in USA now, none of these texts would have been edited and presented to worldlings, all over the world.

We are on the threshold of World War, it is time for everybody to visit the Wisdom of Buddha with non violence or Avihinsa as a goal for human preservation.

It is very strange that American preoccupation is possession of guns.

Dhamma Pada does NOT have a verse on crimes but there is a popular saying in Ceylon, that states, those who carry swords are killed by swords.

Please substitute guns for swords  that is especially applicable to America.

People in Ceylon had guns to protect property before JVP insurrection.

The JVP by force collected these guns and used them, in their insurrection in 1970s.

The government confiscated all the guns and only the forces can carry guns  (live rounds  are never charged except in combat).

This was after a shooting in the Peradeniya University where a protesting student was killed that guns were not allowed to be loaded (only when necessary the soldiers act in defense and load guns).

We are not trigger happy nation (except rank criminals who use them or premeditated cases of murder).

I heard this incident in the university and rushed to the hospital and he was DOA (dead on arrival).

Buddha's time guns were not available but he used the word Danda or Rod (used in violence).

Even monks used Danda to fight among monks of opposing views.

Danda Vagga has 16 verses.

Violence were common in human conflict throughout history only the weapons have changed over time.

China invented gun powder.

But it was in Wild West America that  guns and violence were used to settle disputes.

It is (guns) a money spinner for American economy and currently it is supplying the Ukraine.

How Civilizations End?

How Civilizations End?

 

This is to add to Carl Sagan's predictions of scientific nature.

But my presentation is slanted on Buddhist view.

By the way, Buddhism is cosmological in nature and when Gotama Buddha was described by  Ananda as a colossal entity, Buddha in his own unenviable way said that there were many Buddha's before him who were formidable and that comparison should never be made.

Instead his teaching or Dhamma precede in any future discussions which also would last, only a limited time frame.

I think we have exhausted that time frame already and the world today with impending World War III, is a classic example trying to finish this Civilization in a moment of insanity.

Mind you there were lot of tribal or internecine wars in India when Buddha was spreading his Message of Wisdom.

Buddhist teaching is based on state of flux or constant change in all phenomena worldly and mental.

Buddha's focus was internal mental formations and not external.

One has to try by oneself without external inputs.

His last words at death bed was 

Vyadhamma Sankaram
Uppamadena Sammpadetam

What it means is all phenomena are constantly changing (instead of wavering the mind on those changing things or Dhammas) but strive to understand his teaching (without wasting time) in this life, not in the next life.

He also indirectly meant the life time currently is limited to 100 to 120 years and there is hardly any time left which is being wasted on mundane stuff.

War is mundane by default.

He did not want to go beyond 80 years, in his mind and if requested he would have lived another 40 years.

Ananda Thera was given a chance to make that request but he could not grasp it, at the moment that offer was made.

This piece is cosmological in nature and about world systems of enormity and constantly changing.

In a nutshell, all advanced civilizations end themselves when they achieve advanced technology, like space travel etc.

They also develop advanced technology to carry forward mutual destruction or MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

We have come to that point already and we seem to enjoy that scenario in American and Ukraine standards.

Give me more weapons of destruction.

I love destruction by all means, is the goal of Zlensky and his cohorts in UK and USA are eager to help MAD.

I am not defending President Putin and I am totally against any form of war (we had internecine war of attrition in Ceylon for 35 years and we are starving now) but stating the fact, that there is a limit one can push him (Putin in this case) and his finger is NOT on the button, at this moment.

A think Poland wants the button to be pressed and directed at them instead of Ukraine.

This is very funny world of politics.

Give him some respite by ejecting this Mad Man or Joker without Z or Elensky.

He is a CIA consort in sleep and in day dreams.

Pentagon not being astute and dragging the decision making process under their feet is glaring, at this critical juncture.

Crisis of Expansion of Old Age People

This is only a projection to next 30 to 50 years of population expansion.

Provided Third World War or a more destructive Viral Pandemic would not intervene to disrupt the intended projection.

I prefer a pandemic to war for stabilization of global population.

Number one with more urbanization Birth Rate is going down globally except in India and Africa.

Number two with relative advance in access to money and services more and more people are living to old age to eighties and some up to nineties.

Number three is more and more alcohol is consumed globally and there is relative increase of dementia and some may even become Presidents of leading countries.

As for Ceylon going by the cell cycle events, the old age starts at the age of 30 (alcohol consumption damages more brain cells than normal senescence) and by default anybody (assuming they are demented by default) over the age  of 55 (age of eligibility for pension in this country) should NOT be allowed to contest for the post of presidency.

They are spent force by the age of 60 and not worth holding the post of commander in chief of Army, Navy  and Air Force.

They should be given a jack up of his or her pension by about            Rs.10,000/= so that they would be able to keep paying the debts the owe, in small installments at advancing age.

That is the reality.

If possible they should be given a ration of Pol Arrakku on weekly basis on a Ration Book (the rate the price of alcohol going up is phenomenal).

By the way, alcohol is a ready made energy source, much more powerful than a piece of bread without Pol Sambol.

My discovery is China's population shrinks to 1 billion mainly due to abortions.

The India's population is going up to  2 billion without a proper population policy with more Muslims born everyday and rivalling the Middle East by a big margin.

Nigeria will be rivalling for the third place with USA, the population declining, mainly due to faulty Coronavirus Policy.

The interesting insight is UK will have a drastic negative growth and disappear from the field of military contribution to any war front, in a decade or so.

UK will have 80% over the age of 70 and 90% of the  GDP is spent on them as pensions (not increased as promised in April by PM Boris Johnson) and they won't be able to subsidize the under 5s or preschool children anymore, especially the recent immigrants.

Labour also will fail due to its too, rapid modernization and succumbing to EU Mania.

This is true of Russia and they cannot raise an army to fight a war with even Afghanistan in another 30 years.

For Ukraine they are devoid of any army since everybody who emigrated (females) would not return and most of the productive males conscribed to the war of attrition will not have eligible partners, left after the war devastation.

As for Russia, if they do not finish the war in Ukraine NOE, they have a very old army that will only depend on artillery fire and the soldiers will ONLY be able work as support drivers.

They are to old even to lift a rifle.

So my analysis, that is why President Putin started the war now instead of waiting for his successor.

The person who will succeed President Putin would be a very old guy (unless Putin does mobilize war footing and recruit young guys NOW to army.

This world will have old people over 70 or 80 by the next 20 years and only India and Nigeria will have young guys for mobilization in  war.

Beware India in this scenario and they will outgun China by 1 to 2 ratio.

Africa I do not want to comment but the war mongering Muslim allies and rival Christian groups will go on for ever.

In another 30 years India will outnumber all other countries on fossil fuels use and hunger and famine will be the order of the day due to devastation of biodiversity by global warming scenario.

Most of India will be like Sahara desert.

Are we ready for this scenario?

Predicament - World War III

I am reproducing an introduction by Reverend Nyanaponika made in 1962 to the book of "The Heart of Buddhist Meditation".

It is relevant today with an impending world crisis, perhaps a war of attrition or the World War III.

In the present era after two world wars, history seems to repeat its lessons with a voice more audible than ever, because the turbulence and suffering that alas, are generally equivalent with political history, affect increasingly lager section of mankind, directly and indirectly.

Yet, it does not appear that these lessons have been learned any better than before.

To a thoughtful mind, more gripping and heart rending than all the numerous single facts of suffering produced by recent history, is the uncanny and tragic monotony of behaviour that prompts mankind to prepare again for a  new bout of that raving war.

The same old mechanism is at work again:

the interaction of greed and fear.

Lust for power or desire to dominate are barely the instruments of destruction.

Fear, however, is not very reliable brake on man's impulses and it constantly poisons the atmosphere by creating a feeling of frustration which again will fan the fires of hate.