Last Chapter in Singalo-Vada Sutta

Last Chapter in Singalo-Vada Sutta

 This is last chapter Singalo-Vada Sutta in old English. 

I was looking for Singalo Vada Sutta in English for ages but could not find. 

I was convinced Buddha did not go into our life beyond 8 precepts.

I was wrong.

A comprehensive guide of 14 acts.

I list them without any order.

1. Partiality hit me first.

Do not follow judgement on your fellow beings specially your spouse.

2. Control your anger

(I was a guy with short burst on daily basis).

3. Do not lie.

4. Do not steal.

5. Do not be a fool.

6. Do not try to be a professional.

 (It invariably applies to me).

Last two I forgot.

Re-referred the text

7. Fear

8. Impurity of what?

Note there is no reference to alcohol at all.

That was revealing.

Having a tot on the sly is it allowed?

 

The last SIX (6) was the most important.

Do not associate with bad friends.

1 Number one is, do not associate with an alcoholic friend in the bar.

Unfortunately, I did not read this before finishing my book on Charms of Alcohol.

Poverty

Strife or conflict

Disease

Loss of character

Shame

Impaired senses or faculties

Public display of one's personality (good in my vase) and bad in All Ceylonese including Wira Wansa with Racial rhetoric.

Of course Pu....ke, Vasudeva included.

What Buddha says is associating with these guys leads to financial meltdown.

I immediately gave a call to one of my class mates who had lot of bad friends and was really an alcoholic.

Strangely he was in  Temple and I told him to Teach the Young, the Singalo Vada and practice it yourself.

2. Number two dicing or gambling.

3. Idling and sleeping and getting up late and loitering with your friends in the night with shadowy beings.

4. Becoming a libertarian including 'woke' culture guys.

5. Going to films, theater, dancing and singing with your buddies.

6. Associating with outlaws cheats, swindlers, rouges, that include some Prime Ministers and Presidents like Zelensky in Ukraine.

So in actual fact Buddha had American Neo-colonials in mind 2500 years ago.

Facts, Files and You Tube Fiction

Facts, Files and You Tube Fiction

YouTube is a commercial Institute own by Google.

Its intention is to incarcerate the user without the knowledge of the user.

If one enters it one cannot escape the permanent encapsulation.

Besides, one has to pay for it.

 

Google is the Ultimate Winner.

It has captured the imagination of the user and the visitor.

 

A Dead Trap.

I saw this problem early with Twitter (now X) and Facebook.

 

Decided never to post a YouTube display even on Linux.

 

I do not foresee an alternative platform emerging.

 

A monopoly by all standards.

I was one who encouraged the Internet as an Educational Platform, long before YouTube. 

It is less educational, now.

Most of what is the Internet is not factual but fiction.

I would give one example.

There are lot of YouTube presentations on Alien Crafts and Alien Beings.

This originated from Carl Sagan and his compatriots.

The ball was set in motion by Frank Drake by his probable equation, the Drake Equation.

Possibility of life on our Galaxy is more than 1.

Carl Sagan made his contribution by stating that any biological civilization brings an inevitable destruction of it at a particular technological developmental stage.

Nuclear catastrophe is his contribution.

 

We are on the verge of it knowingly or Unknowingly.

One should take into account the lost civilizations on this planet. 

 

I have a big grudge with most of the archeologists. 

They try to interpret the lost civilizations in a narrow framework of time. 

Like the Drake Equation we need to create a plausible equation for the lost civilizations that have not left documented evidence like the Sumerian artifacts. 

 

This all depends on how long a viable civilization lasts on this planet.

It is not worth postulating on a far distant Galaxy. 

 

It is far more realistic to ponder about our plight.

 

In reality, that may bring the insight of Carl Sagan to the current civilization.

Looking for  aliens as envisaged by Dr. Steven Greer is a big fallacy. 

 

If they are already with us like Reptilians it is a different matter altogether.

There is another possibility.

 

Biological civilization towards the end of its life time would create an AI technology to avoid this scenario. 

The problem with AI technology is, it automatically surpasses the biological potential and overtake the biological evolution, which is very slow to evolve.

Technology creating more refined technology is immense. 

This is why I am against AI.

AI does not have a mind but Memory.

In my estimate potential of Mind is almost limitlessness, only if we can harvest it for the benefit of mankind but not for its own destruction.

Basic Problem is power is concentrated around destructive men and not around the constructive men.

Sorry for the realistic diversion from the title of this topic.

Facts

Humans by nature do not like precision or concise facts.

Like in political thinking, humans need glossy or deliberately expanded facts.

In other words more and  more facts that take away the very precision man needs.

Files or Documentation.

This is why I am interested in preserving the current languages of 2000, left. 

 

Already 500 or more lost.

That is why I proposed a NUC Type of computer called Globe Trotter (this in in my book Linux Essentials) to save those languages both grammatically and verbally. 

Recording them is even better.

What one need is network of 2000 computer linked to a server to record each language.

In case we destroy ourselves a future emerging civilization or alien visitors may find the records informative.

Google's Job is to translate them into the user domain.

That is why I believe in writing in digital form (print firm cannot last) rather than presenting them in limited visual YouTube format which lasts a limited period of time as long as the YouTube creator lives.

However it is visually appealing.

Mind and it's repertoire is my domain.

I have already published them at Amazon.

In addition my contributions are Fact Files without FAT and Fact Files with FAT.