Saturday, July 12, 2025
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Evolution and Spread of Buddhism
Evolution and Spread of Buddhism
Before, coming to nuts and bolts of Dhamma, let me state few historical facts, some related to geography and some to language.
Word of Buddha reached China 700 years after Parinibbhana and was memorised in Sanskrit.
It reached Burma and Thailand 1000 or more years later, probably by sea route and was memorized in Pali,
Nepal or the Magada State is landlocked and Buddhism did not reach Tibet until 1200 years or more.
One should assume that all these countries had some form of a belief system and were not conducive, if not antagonistic to imported or foreign ideas.
China is a good example.
Things were recorded in Matale, Aluvihara in Ceylon 1700 years later, after the passing away of Buddha.
My point here is, with passing away of time and cultural influence and errors in memory chain, nothing called Pure Dhamma existed but colossal literature, that include Dhammapada, which gives an insight, to the Teaching of Buddha.
What excited me was that the discussion on the Beauty of the Mind and its Behaviour.
Every volitional action is related to the Mind and many years of me studying Medicine did not prepare me to understand the Mysterious Nature of Mind.
Prudently, I postponed digging into Dhamma in my young years.
I bought a huge dictionary of Buddhism and it had more than 10 pages on the word Dhamma.
From the very beginning, I knew, most of the English and French translators got it wrong somewhere down the line, having not studied Pali in depth.
By the way, Buddhaghosha who translated Dhamma is an Indian scholar that translated Dhamma from the vernacular language is Ceylon, thought to be closed to current Sinhala.
There is a Bogus guy with Indian sounding name may be a Tamil in origin distorting facts of History of Ceylon and please DO NOT listen to his antics.
Celestial Being according to their Jhana States achieved.
Celestial Being according to their Jhana States achieved.
First Jhana
In 1st Jhana State one attains
1.Vittakka (thought conception and attention)
2.Vichara (inner speech or discursive thinking)
3.Piti (rapture)
4.Sukha (joy)
5.Ekaggata(one pointedness)
Second Jhana
2nd Jhana State
1.Vittaka
Vichara is absent.
2. Piti
3.Sukha
4.Samadhi are accompaniments.
Third Jhana
3nd Jhana State
1.Piti
2.Sukha
3.Samadhi
Fourth Jhana
4th Jhana State
1. Sukha
2. Samadhi
Fifth Jhana
5th Jhana State
1.Equanimity
2. Samadhi
Pagna or Wisdom
This is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths, the suffering, the origin of suffering, the path for cessation (Nirodaya) of suffering and the cessation of suffering.
This is the more difficult part of the comprehension of the Four Noble Truths and is the intellectual pursuit of Vipassana Meditation.
The Samatha Meditation is the more practical and easy way of meditation. There are about 40 objects for Samatha Bhavana (Vissudhi Magga has over 1000 objects) and one should select one which suits the personalty.
This is where a Master who is adept at Meditation could be helpful.
In Samatha Meditation one may dwell in Jhana absorptive states with morbid attachment to them due to their pleasing and pleasant nature.
It could be a hindrance to the upward progress.
These states should be considered as accompaniment of meditative mental states and one should brush aside the morbid attachment.
There are no Jhana states for the VipassanaMeditation but one who progresses through Samatha Meditation could gain the Vipassana Goal as a byproduct, in later stages of Meditation.
These Jhana absorptions are 8 in number that can be attained in meditative states.
The Jhanas of 1st to 4th states are born in Rupavacara lokas (worlds) when they leave this world after death. In that sense, Jhana States are meritorious but they can be consumed in toto and the subjects be born again in lower states.
The Jhanas of 5th to 8th states are born in Arupavacara Lokas (worlds) when they leave this world after death.
Only after one attains the Nibbana that one is not born in either Rupavacara or Arupavacara World Systems.
All the states are temporary,impermanent and subject to change depending on the extent of the bearers Kamma Stream.
The Jhanas from 5th to 8th are states experienced by celestial beings in the Arupavacara states.
Arupavacara means they do not posses body form but are mental forms of four dimensions.
Types Celestial Beings
Beings of Rupavacara
Beings of Rupavacara or Material Spheres are
1. Jhana of 1st absorption
Brahma-kayika deva including Mahabrama
2. Jhana of 2nd absorption
Paritabha, Appamanabha, Abhassara devas
3. Jhana of 3rd absorption
Pariita subha, Appamana subha, Subha kippa devas
4. Jhana of 4th absorption
Vehaphala, Asanna satta, Sudhavasa (anagamis) devas
Beings of Arupavacara
Beings of Arupavacara or Immaterial Spheres are
5. Born with 5th Jhana State
Devas of Akasanancayatanupaga (of Infinity of Space)
6. Born with 6th Jhana State Devas of Vinnapancayatanupaga (of infinity of Consciousness)
7. Born of 7th Jhana State
Akincannayatanupaga (of Nothingness)
8. Born of 8th Jhana State
Devas of Nevasanna-nasansnnayatanupaga (Neither perception nor non-perception)
Tools for Human Survival
What are they?
We are at a critical juncture where dogmas overrule the human sanity.
When wisdom is necessary, the religion of various shades and shapes take precedence over prudence.
Human history is inundated with examples and Wars.
Bible war is an example and we are playing the same wars digitally now.
The technique of Recruitment is Brain Washing on the line of MK-Ultra, which was designed to train assassins.
Unfortunately we do not learn lessons from the past but continue to repeat them.
We are now more closer to a Nuclear War than 50 years ago.
India, Pakistan, China, Israel, USA (UK alliance), Russia and France has nuclear capability.
Iran is aspiring to be among them.
They say having a weapon is a deterrent.
What way?
A madman or mad women from any of those countries can press the button of nuclear war.
We only have one planet and we cannot escape in a rush.
Leave alone penetrating the Van Allen Belt.
Currently we are unable to get established in another planet or on our moon.
We are beings who can sustain one atmospheric pressure.
We cannot survive in Himalaya range more than few weeks.
Under water in high pressure range unthinkable.
Tools of survival are only a few.
Think if we are invades by an alien beings and become slaves under them.
Then we will shed all religions, black or white supremacy and all the types of races and unite.
Ceylon is a good example.
Two warring races (human) and four or five religions and numerous political parties vying for power.
No unity in diversity.
Drop the race.
Drop the religion.
Drop the language.
Drop the power of money.
Speak as one Human Species.
We are long way off this target.
Then only we can speak of saving our planet.
Tools of Wisdom
I found a book named “Words of Wisdom” and bought it without glancing through its pages.
Human error and no wisdom at all, on my part, at the time of the purchase.
I read it on my way home and could NOT find a single phrase, that exited creative part of my brain.
It was trapped in a single dogma that suggested that only the divinity has the wisdom and man is devoid of any (? sanity).
It was an appalling misjudgment of mind and its working.
I thought of writing something.
This is what I could come up with.
Mind never minds its own business but always mine its inner mysteries without proper tools of distinction.
If one can find the proper tools, not only one would open the mind to wisdom door but also free the mind from rigid dogmas that hinder its progress through transition.
From dogma to wisdom!
Tools of Religion
Tools of Religion are based on few exclusive dogmatic interpretations, as far as the so called God is concerned.
The concept of God is the foolish creation of mankind and there was never an old god or an existing god.
I have a theory (plausible) that if ever Alien Beings visited this planet (God means coming from the sky) they were venerated as goods, by Aztecs, Mayans or in this part of the world Hindu Gods.
Our concept of Yakku, Deva and Naga in prehistory was either the variation of the above Hindu Gods or more likely the prehistoric man (exterminated by the visitors from India) who were sent into oblivion by the visitors.
Religion was created to allay fear for the unknown, leave alone the fear of death.
It is strange that religion itself creates fear among its followers.
A strange PARADOX of all.
Coming to the tools of religion please note the following expressions.
1. Fear for the unknown and the need for a universal protector gave way to the origin of faith and an almighty!
2.Intolerance (of other gods or religions even by killing)
3. Exclusiveness (either forced conscription like terrorists or cruel punishment to the outsiders)
4. Cruelty (sword at the beginning, now bombs including Nuclear)
5. Punishment (Stoning to begin with and later by laws of extremes)
6. Blind Allegiance (one cannot apply the 13 or so qualifications of Kalama Sutta)
7. Dogmatism (scripts are always sacred be that it is Bible or Quran)
8. Faulty analysis of what is not real or existing (God is the very good example)
9. No religion provides a life line for the subjects presently living or born in the future.
The Coronavirus brings the stark reality of human predicament and vulnerability.
10. All the religions promise to provide solace Only in future tense or afterlife.
11. I do not need a religion that does not provide enlightenment, emancipation or real freedom NOW in this life.
12. All religions are really cruel on mankind’s present predicament (escape from all dogmas of self made -man-made- creations) of any resolve, redemption or real escape from the bondage to dogmas.
Postscript;
The percentages cited below may vary according to the faith.
About 60% is indifferent to any form of religion.
Another 20% is ambivalent.
Currently about 20%, the rest is rigid adherent to the respective faith and this percentage is steadily falling.
They are the ones who want the rest of the 80% to be converted by force or any means.
When this is about 10% or below 10% the crisis sets in and the active terrorist breeds come into operation.
This is the period when there is lot of pain and suffering for the average man on the street.
We are fast approaching this point and it takes about another 50 to 60 years for the religions to become extinct (my prediction) from this planet and a long period of stability for the human race.
I am gone by then!
Coronavirus Episode
Coronavirus Episode
Killing the Constitution of Ceylon
අපේ්රල් 30 වැනිදායින් පසු ගතවන මේ දිනවල, කොරෝනා වසංගතය මැඬලීම වෙනුවෙන් රාජ්ය මුදල් සතයක්වත් වැය කරන්නට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට කිසිම බලයක් නීතියෙන් නැත.
2020 වසරේ මුල් කාර්තුව සඳහා පරණ ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සම්මත කරගන්නා ලද අතුරු සම්මත ගිණුමේ කාලය අපේ්රල් 30 වැනිදායින් අවසන් විය. ඉන්පසු නීත්යනුකූලව මුදල් වියදම් කරන්නට රජයට නොහැකිය.
මේ අවස්ථාවේදී ආණ්ඩුවේ පැත්තෙන් සමහරුන් කියන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 150(3) යටතේ අවශ්ය මුදල් වියදම් කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සම්පූර්ණ බලය හා අභිමතය තිබෙන බවයි.
‘සමහරුන් කියන්නේ’ යැයි කීවේ ආණ්ඩුවේ සමහර ‘නීති විශාරදයන්’ම මේ ගැන අපහැදිලි අදහස් පළකරන නිසාය. මෙතැන අවුලක් ඇති බව ඔවුන්ට පෙනී ගොස් ඇතිවා විය යුතුය. ඒ අවුල වසන්නට, ‘අවශ්යතාවේ නියමය’ යන්න පාවිච්චි කරමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ඕනෑම දෙයක් කළ හැකි බව ඔවුහුම අනෙක් අතට කියති.
අවශ්යතාවේ නියමය, ඕනෑ අවස්ථාවකට යොදාගත හැකි නොවේ. එහි මූලික අදහස, ජනතාවගේ යහපත වෙනුවෙන් නීතියක් නැතිව වැඩ කළ හැකි බවයි. ඉතිහාසය පුරා වැඩිහරියක් මේ නියමය යොදාගෙන ඇත්තේ අධිකාරවාදී ආඥාදායක පාලකයන්, රටේ නීතිය නොසලකා තමන්ට හිතුමතේ මර්දනීය පාලනයක් ගෙනයාමටය. ‘රටේ නීතිවලට වඩා මහජනතාව සුපිරිය’ යන්න, බිහිසුණු පාලකයන්ට, විලි වසා ගැනීමට හැම කල්හිම හොඳ කඩතුරාවකි.
අනෙක් අතට අවශ්යතාවේ මූලධර්මය යෙදිය හැක්කේ, රටේ පවතින කිසිම නීතියකින් අවශ්යතාව සම්පූර්ණ කරගත නොහැකි විටදීය. එනම්, යම් කාරණයක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් හෝ වෙනත් නීතිවලින් කිසිම විධිවිධානයක් නැති තැන පමණක් අවශ්යතාවේ මූලධර්මය ඉදිරියට ගත හැකිය. ලංකාවේ උද්ගතවී ඇති අර්බුදය එසේ නොවේ. එය විසඳීමට අපේ ව්යවස්ථාවෙන්ම දක්වන මඟපෙන්වීම් කිහිපයක් තිබේ.
ආණ්ඩුවේ සමහරුන් උපුටා දක්වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ 150(3) වගන්තිය, ජනාධිපතිවරයාට මේ මොහොතේ මුදල් වැය කිරීමට ඉඩ දෙන්නේ නැත. ඒ වගන්තිය මෙසේය.
දැන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වැඩ කරන්නේ. ‘ජනාධිපතිගේ අභිමතය පරිදි ඕනෑම දෙයක් කළ හැ18’යි ඔහුට උපදෙස් දෙන උපදේශක වහලූන්ගේ සර්වබලධාරී න්යායානුකූල මගපෙන්වීම් මත බව පෙනේ. එහෙත්, ජනාධිපතිට ඕනෑම දෙයක් කළ නොහැකිය.
ජනාධිපති උපදේශකයන් කියන්නේ ජනාධිපතිගේ පියවරවල කිසිම වරදක් නැති බවයි. 2018 ඔක්තෝබරයේදීද මේ සමහරු මේ විදියටම ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ ව්යවස්ථා උල්ලංඝනය සුද්ද කළෝය. එහෙත් ප්රතිඵල කනගාටුදායක විය.
රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ පියවර ව්යවස්ථානුකූලව වැරදි බව අනෙක් මතයයි.
එය විසඳාගැනීමට එක්කෝ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කැඳවිය යුතුය. නැතිනම්, ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙන් මතය විමසිය යුතුය. ඒ බලය ඇත්තේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාටය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කැඳවීමත් ප්රතික්ෂෙප කර, අහංකාරබවෙන් රට ලොකු අවුලකට ඇද නොදමා, ප්රශ්නය ගොඩින් බේරාගැනීමේ වගකීම දරන ඔහු එය නොසලකා කටයුතු කරයි නම් එවැනි රටකට කෝවිඞ් වසංගතයටත් වඩා වසංගතකාරී අනාගතයක් හිමිවෙයි.
Author: කේ ඩබ්ලිව් ජනරන්ජන
Tools for Human Survival
Human Survival