Mind the Matter

 Mind the Matter

 

I have many books published at Amazons.
I wish to be anonymous in my blog pieces. 

Only my friends know who this guy is.

My interest are many but I have spent lot of time on Mind related to Dhamma (Buddhism).

Only the speculative facts I post here but not in my books.

I have high regard for the readers of my books.

Here, I  wish to make a few comments about higher achievements of mind.

I consider mind as a form of energy.

It has an intrinsic tendency to be tagged to the brain.

The highest devas (Arala Kalama, Uddhakarama and the likes) also are bound to subtle mind form and are not delivered from bandage or emancipated.

But I believe mind can exist on its own.

Buddha who attained Nirvana and all those Arhath, after passing away, enter into subtle energy wave form that cannot be detected, for example by EEG wave.

The reason being, there is no Form or Bhava in this state of existence of mind.

So Nirvana is not Null and Void but its existence is subtle and not perceptible to human mind.

But Sovan, Sakuradagami and Anagami have subtle body forms until they reach the state of Arhath state.

The above is my attempt to explain and should not be taken as sacrosanct.

I have a simple classification of various levels of mental states.

1. Sleep is essential for living beings, a minimum of 8 to 9 hours for adults.

Children need more.

2. Normal Wakeful state.

3. Euphoria
 

That is after, consumption of alcohol at level 2 intoxication.

Alcohol has 6 levels of effects.
1 is no effect.
6 is death.

Level 2 is Euphoria.

4. Ecstasy
This state is induced by drugs
LSD is the first to be discovered.
All pain killing substances have this side effect especially morphine.

I have never tried them. 

They are classified as Level 1 addictive drugs.

Even Voltaren had this effect on me.
 

I took them to relieve a severe renal colic.

One of my batch mates was given morphine after appendectomy and he was demanding a second dose. 

We sat with him but did not give him a second injection.

Addiction is the next stage which is irreversible.

5. Esotericism

 
Magic mushroom or Ayahuasca induces this state.

Out of the world experience, alien visitation and spiritualism are a few of its manifestations.

This delusional state is dangerous to the individual (if not to his peers who do not consume this stuff).

This is similar to Near Death Syndrome where individuals who has come back from death become unusually spiritual moral beings and god abiding.

There is a dangerous precedence that guys with underlying psychiatric problems consume them in desperation.

By the way, some psychiatrists themselves become addicted to these drugs to prevent suicidal tendencies.

Psychiatrist are known to commit suicide.

Paediatricians come second in the list and radiologist the least.

Pathologists are above radiologists by statistical analysis.

Sumerians are an example known to use mood elevating drugs. 

 

Sumerian history is about 8000 years old.

My bone of contention is even prehistoric man, 13,000 years ago was addicted to mushroom like substances.

I think Cardinals in the Vatican are known to use these substances.
 

The priests tell us NOT to take them but they have secret ceremonies where they indulge in ecstasy.

6. Trance States
 

There are 4 Trance States.
These guys are born after death in 4 realms.
They consider themselves as heavenly aboard and live a long life.

At the end they are reborn again in animal and even lower realms, having expended their credit merits.

So never think of going there.

To me simple human domain is good enough.

Please note, I have not gone beyond Euphoria (simple wine) and all the other levels are speculative but I have delved into Pali Dictionary for reference.

My current hypothesis is that almost all religions have arisen after indulgence in these Mood Altering Drugs.

The other rival theory is that having seen REAL alien visitations the visitors were elevated to Godly realm.

Hindu Vimana story is a good example of possible alien visitation.

Not one type but several types of conflicting aliens.
 

The Hindu Gods probably reflect various aliens who may have visited earth on their galactic expeditions.

Russian cosmologist have postulated 7 seven probable civilizations.

Unfortunately human records are sketchy.

Assuming Roswell Incident is true, the CIA attempt to keep it under classified information is  a case in point.

But my understanding of "Alien Saga" is that Americans wanted to hide the development of Stealth Aircraft from the Russians.

This experimental aircraft was projected as an alien craft.

We are well into the World War III and Rockets and Robots are the next level of Warfare Industry.

AI will soon take over the mankind and it will be the 6th extinction.

Infinity of Mind

Infinity of Mind

Space,Travel, Infinity of Mind

This piece is bizarre and has no earthly bound limitations.

In fact, beyond the limitation of physics.

This discussion is not limited by space and gravity.

This is to bring out the concept of Rebirth in relative and comparative terms.

Kamma is its associate, the other side of the coin.

There is a Mongolian belief that dogs have many lives beyond one single life. 

They also carry forward memories of their past lives and are born again as dogs.

There is a good film “Purpose of Dogs”.

I disagree here and my "born/bone of contest" is that, most dogs are born as celestial beings (Buddhist terminology of Godly beings) or gods. 

They easily bypass the mundane human life having lived with them long enough to understand how nasty a human being can be. 

 

Trump, Biden, Putin and Zelensky and their followers are good examples that dogs have studied, on their own ways.

Killing opposing beings and War is their way of life.

Eating flesh of any kind are their liberal form of life.

They have their own form of gods and sects and the priests walk with the soldiers to kill the fellow humans. 

 

The Pope in his part keeps numb about War crimes of Israelite. 

 

Quote some disagreement in textural scripts of Vatican to purist theologies of other sects.

Mongolians follow a form of Buddhism that gives credence to rebirth and meditation. 

It is bit different from Tibetan Buddhism in which the term reincarnation has a special meaning and they all try to become Buddhas. It is bit far fetched and farcical attempt. 

Really, antagonistic to simple Buddhism where Kamma and Rebirth explains the outcomes. 

The goal  of "casting away" of rebirth can be done by less vigorous means.

Becoming an Arhanth is the goal not another or somebody like Buddha (PaseBuddha).

Rebirth cannot be proved but it cannot be denied.

That is my premise here.

There is a Western myth that Buddhism is a philosophy. 

I would dispense the philosophical connotation outright, to begin with.

In the East, no philosophy has any roots simply because of Hindu belief in creator gods of many kinds. 

Buddhism is not a religion, in the sense of the Western and Middle Eastern beliefs where by following the Gospel of a mythical god one can redeem oneself and achieve salvation in, a single life form.

Eternal damnation to hell is unethical on human terms.

Buddhism is a way of life but that way of life is little bit difficult and advanced.

One reaps the benefit of Good and Bad Kamma. 

How it turns out one cannot predict in advance. 

 

Recurrence of Karma Pala and Rebirth are automatic.

It is like a wheel roiling down or rolling upwards with effort.

Action and reaction.

Equal and opposite reaction in physics.

One cannot escape and the rounds of births are there eternally to salvage good and bad without counsel of gods or elders supervising the outcome.

Buddhism starts with not killing any life including animal life.

It has four simple rules.

Indulgence in alcohol is not in that four and I believe it was added much later into the system.

The Arhants have only 10 very simple precepts.

Eating one main meal a day is one of them.

Vegetarianism is a simple byproduct.

I need to make some reference to Harry Potter series of films to begin with. 

The films are Creative and Imaginative but not Inspiring. However, killing the opposing guys are encouraged and it is not good for minds of children.

Children should learn to live with rest of fellow beings.

I never read any of these fictional books being a man of science.

Being an old time paediatrician that ended up as a gaeriatrician in later life, bringing fear and phobias to kids' mind is no good at all. 

Some bordering paranoia and may cause depression in them. 

 

I strongly oppose killing opposing imaginative creatures and witches.

I do not want to be born like any of those imaginative beings.

Sometime, I think the authors of these type of  books, in their previous life form were born as a demons to relive them in this life.

I do not mind Harry Potter author, living with these miseries in this life but exposing them to young kids is pathological.

I have no objection adults reading them and becoming killers themselves in War of attrition.

Coming back to Title of this piece;

We are one gravity beings with somewhat limited capacity. 

We cannot live on the moon with less gravity than on the earth. 

We cannot live on Mars with more than the gravity of earth, without life support.

No gravity is anathema to all human physiology.

I see that, it is difficult to land on Mars. But forming colonies there is a another kettle of fish.

We need to design new form of transport which probably alien beings possess.

Aliens are no Gods but some type of advanced humanoids.

Their space vehicles are most likely driven by radiation obtained from elements above 112. 

Elements above 110 are possible in some galaxies.

Now coming to Mind itself.

I have two books on mind one simple and one advanced at Amazon Book Store.

What follows here is a brief resume!

1. Mind is the best vehicle to travel the Universe.

2. Mind is a mystery.

3. With some meditation techniques one can achieve momentary state of  escape from the brain.

However, the mind's attachment to brain is very strong and this escape mode is an illusion.

This is one reason out of many, I oppose many forms of meditation.

Live this life in wakeful state.

Be mindful of every moment of life.

Be happy (Somanassa Chitta).

4. According to Buddhism there are 31 types of celestial beings who live in almost eternal bliss.

5. They have achieved them through vigorous form of meditation and become strongly bonded to these live forms and they believe that these state/s is/are eternal.
It is a form of delusion worse than living on psychoactive drugs. 

Psychoactive drugs have a limited time span unlike living as a high celestial being.

6. All are temporary states of bliss.

7. That brings us to the "Uncertainty Principle".

8. That is the entry point to Dhamma.

I leave it at that point.

"Somanassa Chitta' without attachment is the base to real bliss.

There are 3 other components.

Metta

Karuna

Upekka