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Bank Officer who became a Monk

Reproduction with Relevant Information. 

Bank Officer who became a Monk

This is again a real dream and no real monk was involved in this racket. All Ceylonese monks are of high esteem and some may even have attained Dyana State. 

Of course few of them distort Dhamma for gain in this life and the dream is about such a monk.

No pun intended to Sasana.

Before that, I must say a few words about dreams and how to obtain a diplomatic passport.       

I have obtained my last passport that expires at the age of 80 and I have no intention of renewing it except for putting an application for my next round of birth, as the mighty Director of Hell or Apaya.

I have three books on Dreams I, II, and III and I have detailed how I reserved a place for Apaya Directorship, in them.

I intend to write a book on sleep in due course.

This is a preview.

There are two two types of sleep.

Real deep sleep of 4 phases.

In one of these phases one retains memory of the subject matter of a new discipline.

Deep sleep is vital for students.

I started loosing memory due to excess of regular alcohol. I stopped drinking and memory improved.

I have a book on "Joy of Alcohol" at Amazon for enlightenment.

Lack of sleep incurred when I was reviewing 100 Linux distributions non stop at this blog spot.

In that scenario I forgot the PIN numbers of my bank cards for three months.

Luckily I had a saving passbook at the bank and survived the financial crisis. During this period I devised my own method to remember my passwords for different emails, I have.

In three months without regression or help from a psychiatrist I regained my memory to 80% and the bank PIN numbers.

I did not ask the bank to change the PIN number.

Have to remember another number was a toll order.

Getting back to my old number would actually reinforce my memory channel.

This is where I disagree with digital banking.

The bank server remembers it for you and it impairs your memory.

This discussion is relevant to my dream retold here.

By the way, I sleep well.

The other type of sleep is REM or Rapid Eye Movement Sleep.

If one is woken up during this sleep one remembers the dream. I have no    idea why we dream and what physiological role it has.

My theory is it erases the action potential in certain parts of brain cells, so the awake state reality is maintained.     

I do not subscribe to unconscious mind at all. 

Mind is in a continuous stream and flows from awake to dream state to awake.

There is no break in thread unless one kicks the bucket.

I have two books on Mind, too.

Read them for detail.

Deep Sleep and REM sleep alternate and one has more of REM states.

In other words one has more dreams.

My scenario is I go to sleep well and I have a rhythm of 4REM hours and 4 hours of deep sleep.

Only 8 hours in total.

I go to sleep early and wake up around 4AM to 5AM.

Back at home I switch on the old PC or NUC and do some work until it is 7.30AM when I come out for 15 minutes for Sun Bathing for VitD.

By the way, the computer heat keeps me warm (dog too).

The bees leave by 6AM and the birds leave at 7AM.

Crow comes last and I do not want to upset their daily routine.

4 hours of Deep Sleep is enough for an adult and children and babies have more deep sleep to assimilate new data.

I go bit deeper and I say one has to erase the memory of the immediate past birth to enter into this life of rebirth.

My current problem is I wake up at 5AM and due to morning cold (not extreme like in UK), I do not come down to the pantry to make a cup of tea.

From 5AM to 7.30AM, I have three doses of REM sleep and the dream in the last REM, I remember in bits and pieces.

Being a satire man, I insert a few pieces of my own to make it narrative.

Now let me come to passports.

This information I have gathered from YouTube and I have seen only one type of passport.

There are 3 types of passports in Ceylon.

1. An ordinary passport which I have with no VISA except Travel VISA.

2. Special passports for MPs like Wira Wansa and his Family members.

3. Diplomatic passport.

4. There is another called dual passport for Sri-Lankans who are resident in other countries.

One had to pay Rs.500,000 sometime ago and this fee has gone up.

There is woman PM in Ceylon who is well known as a high class prostitute.

She owns a diplomatic passport.

That is my bone of contention.

In her passports the entries of names, addresses, parent names are different.

It looks like she was bastard by birth and was adopted as an orphan. May be her mother was a high class prostitute and her putative husband was white skinned guy from Britain.

All these are immaterial.

One should have only one passport.

This woman does not deserve a diplomatic passport.

If at all she is smuggling gems, gold and ancient artifacts of Ceylon stolen from our museums.

There is another female MP who was related to previous boss who smuggled our valuable artifacts for sale aboard.

It is not only Baby Elephants, everything valuable is smuggled.

Why these guys and girls are not in prison but only Rajan Ramanayake was sent to prison?

Now come my dream.

This bank officer was rogue while working in the bank and now in saffron cloth.

When he was being investigated he without resigning garbed the saffron cloth and changed his personal criteria.

He came into possession of another diplomatic passport and claimed immunity from bank prosecution. 

He did not cancel his layman National ID to become a monk.

Now he has a new Buddhist ID registered under Buddha Sasana.

He was ordained in a reputable temple.

He was then entrusted with keeping the accounts of the temple.

In each transaction he deposits 10% as commission to his layman account.

You remember we had a 10% guy who was a USA resident.

Similar scenario in action.

The dream goes like this but somewaht vague.

All dreams are vague not like Tele-Dramas.

Missing points, I have edited.

I ordered a Pizza round.

They guy came in.

I did not have cash.

I tendered the VISA card.

It was rejected.

Not enough to buy even PIZZA round.

Then he came in to use our land phone.

I refused.

Little altercation with the PIZZA delivery guy who had several other orders.

I rang the bank.

No reply from the bank as usual.

Several tries with other numbers and the guy who was now residing in the temple answered.

He asked for my ID.

Then he was asking me details not relevant.

I asked his name.

He obliged.

"You are the guy that the bank is investigating on fraud", I responded.

He put the phone down.

I checked and found he was residing in this famous temple.

The lesson of this dream, of course in general is, one should never volunteer information over the phone other than the ID and contact telephone number.

Fraudulent guys collect information and pose as real guys.

In a lighter note PIZZA story was surreal and I had another card with money available and PIZZA guy was paid on delivery.

In old age, one cannot remember each transaction and other overdue charges.

Having a current account is mandatory and one should ask the bank to sent a monthly record.