Buddhist Precepts

Buddhist Precepts 

Buddhism starts with life and lives as basic fundamentals.

It has four simple rules.

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

The core of Buddhist ethics for lay people is the Four Precepts, which serve as training guidelines for moral conduct rather than commandments.

These foundation principles are:

Refrain from taking life (refrain from killing)

Refrain from taking what is not given (refrain from stealing)

Refrain from sexual misconduct

Refrain from false speech (lying)

It became Five Precepts and I am not sure when by adding refraining from intoxicants. 

In actual fact, Sigalo Vada Sutta has expanded on the evils of alcohol and intoxicants at an academic level.

The Arhaths have only 10 very simple precepts.

Eating one main meal a day is one of them.

Vegetarianism is the simple byproduct.

I need to make some reference to Harry Potter series of films to begin with. Creative and imaginative but not inspiring.

I never read any of these fictional books being a man of science. Being an old time pediatrician that ended up as a geriatrician in later life, bringing fear and phobias to the mind of a kid is no good at all. It is bordering paranoia. It could bring pathetic depression in the mind of a child.

I strongly oppose killing opposing imaginative creatures and witches.

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

I sometime, I think the author of these books in a previous life forms was born as a demon to relive them in this life. I do not mind she living with those miseries in this life but exposing them to young kids is pathological. I have no objection adults reading them and become killers themselves in war in some form.

Coming back to Title of this piece;

We are one gravity beings with somewhat limited capacity. We cannot live on theMoon with less gravity than on the earth. We cannot live onMars with more than one gravity. No gravity is anathema to all human physiology.

I do not see that it is difficult to land onMarsbut forming colonies there is a another kettle of fish.  We need to design new form of transport which the alien beings already possess.

Aliens are no gods but advanced humanoids.  The 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 account.

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

2. Mind is a mystery.

3. Some meditation techniques can achieve momentary state of  escape from the brain.

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

This is one reason I oppose any form of meditation.

Live this life in wakeful state.

Be mindful every moment of life.

Be happy.

4. According to Buddhism there are 30 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 thestate/these states is/are eternal. That is a form of delusion worse than living as a human form with all its discomforts and limitations.

6. All are temporary states of bliss.

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

8. That is the entry point toDhamma.

I leave it at that point but "Somanassa Chitta' without attachment to the base of self is a real bliss.

There are 3 other components.

Metta

Karuna

Upekka