I am going to have a SWIPE at every aspect or corner of human endeavour, including military in Myanmar and Ceylon and more particularly the Medical Profession, both Public and Private.
The Ceylon Medical Council's role and attitude is to mass produce under prepared graduates, perhaps as an export commodity (Read my piece here on CMC).
Our indigenous Veda Ralas are no better than Wanniye Atthoes of Bintenna promoting their Panis or Penix (all sucrose from sugar grass or cane sugar) where Bee Honey is non existent except at Bintenna.
Mind you, Bee Honey is an essential component of traditional medicine to overcome the bitterness of Gulis and Kasayas.
Let me take the military first.
We have the biggest army per capita population and they have a defense academy with a Medical Faculty.
Why?
For export, nothing but.
What military needs is a few dental surgeons who can detect officers faking illness.
I know even an officer fears a dental surgeons with armory of tools that an average dental surgeon will have in their possession but rarely or never use (They use this armor as a defensive tactics to deter malingerers, including, the three armed forces).
I as a medical person has an aversion to drillers the dental surgeons use fearing they piece my cribriform plate and enter my brain from a vulnerable entry point.
I have personally diagnosed a meningitis case in UK, of a young man under 15, who was fiddling with a knife, saying he could swallow it without injuring his mouth but hit the cribriform plate and the English GP failed to open the mouth and examine, dripping CSF from his mouth and waited till he was paralysed on one side to call an emergency admission to the hospital where I worked as a paid locum.
I had a SWIPE at that medical guy, knowing that I would never become a permanent Resident Physician in UK.
There were many other incidents like MRCP guy failing to diagnosis a rollicking appendicitis and a surgeon who missed a intussusceptum in spite me saying it in my bald hand writing, in the (nothing but intussusceptum) bed head ticket.
Army needs a medical officer only once, during the initial medical screening before recruiting a guy and only a dental surgeon afterwards.
So having a Medical Faculty under army is a colossal wastage of resources when one need in Coronavirus is an astute PHI (not the entire army taking over the Public Health) with previous exposure to AIDS patients, ideally a prostitute (very difficult to consult a prostitute for origin of the infection and one may even, find a sitting British Cabinet Minister in the process)
By the way, history repeats itself in UK.
As a young man emerging as a doctor John Profumos resignation, sex scandals and prostitution in Soho are still vivid in my memory.
There was UK conservative PM who was a paedophile while in office.
That may be a reason for my aversion to all politics here and abroad.
I went to Soho once and found that place was infested with male homosexuals which I hated then and now but looking back LGBT can change governments in USA and I did not realize that both male and female homosexuality was a vogue in evolution and a cabinet minister resigning then, not getting a promotion, "as is now" in nowadays, just a formality, (It was a human error, then in my part).
I visited Raymond parlour twice and that was of course a bit of eyewash for porn industry.
I have many reasons to add when a guy asks me why I did not settle abroad, either in UK or down under New Zealand.
This country Ceylon is no different and evolving fast with Chinese prostitutes riding high (not Hong Kong Chinese with English dialect) with pure Chinese dialect.
These Chinese prison convicts erecting building here and in a future day when they collapse the political guys who signed the deeds have long gone into extinction.
Have anybody done a survey of their projects collapsing?
At the time of the emergence of Coronavirus several buildings in China collapsed and were visible from aerial surveys and China has built buildings covering buildings and their cemeteries.
I think Coronavirus patients were forced to work on these projects and some of their bodies are buried deep under these collapsed buildings.
In autocratic countries *Truth Never Comes Out * is clear and evident.
Now I believe in humans there is no need for dialect when money and sex are exchanged even in this Buddhist enclave where priests are confirmed homosexuals no different whether they are male or female.
Some meditation centres in this country have lost credence since international criminals with no proper passport credentials live and evade arrest.
They live in meditation ecstasy induced by ICE.
The Chinese culture is well known on probing plants with ecstacy components.
They are in a different piece (feel good hormones).
Down under New Zealand where I terminated my foreign surjohns was no different for homosexuality and 'it is a norm" but not an abnormality or sexual deviation.
I missed a case ( my colleague,too) of deed, deep large rectal abscess.
His presentation was hip and knee pains, (now I know referred rectal pain).
I forget to consider him a homosexual and I did not put my finger in through his arsxx.
If you do not put your finger in one has to put one's foot in was a standard medical quip.
Of course it burst through his back and he had several deep cuts on his back and could not put his face up.for six weeks ( I left New Zealand before his full recovery).
In a different vein I believe Coronavirus spreads fast in a culture where homosexuality is promoted.
It is an enterovirus to begin with in China but now has transformed fully to a fully fledged respiratory mode of spread.
UK and USA are good examples and France may be bit lagging behind but catching up fast due to soccer, certainly not due to.cricket (except Ceylon of course).
Current surge of Coronavirus is also due, thanks to the military buses used for transporting contacts, instead of using proper ambulance services looked after by allied health officials.
I have a funny feeling that our medical guys, girls and allied sciences guys would have loved this scenario unfolding, where the contact and first exposure was those of navy, military guys and police in particular taking the burden of contacting their civilians relations or kith and kin.
We say that "Donkey should not do the dogs barking to alert the danger of Coronavirus spread in this country".
Stupid Education Minister opening the schools in a hurry added salt to the injury.
The whole public service failed in this country by succumbing to to the military overtures.
They should have quoted the misadventures in Myanmar as an example.
Anyway, too late for excuses.
What one need is a central agency of public and private health officials putting their heads together in a pandemic.
This was not allowed to evolve.
Army jumped the gun of glory.
Doctors started well with the initial initiative and the medical guy was grafted and shunted out in quick succession, in military style of action, with a pseudo promotion.
The WHO with shoddy deals with China abrogated it's responsibility 2 years ago.
President Biden should not support WHO but should support the global development of a viable, preferably an oral vaccine like Poliomyelitis, if we are to turn round the corner.
Not an intramuscular injection which all the kids fear.
India with a Federal Government failed.
Mind you Indian Subcontinent was divided into four with independence, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir and India to begin with.
I think Kashmir was where Buddha's clan lived but not a single Buddhist left there now, thanks to Muslim Invaders.
White House, Federal Agency and 52 States in America failed to stem the tide but my thanks to Donald Trump for invigorating American Industry.
He woke up the industry to re-engineer the Ventilator industry and computer generated antigens for vaccination protocols.
I do not think Biden should get the credit but he is doing awfully well until a mishap in vaccination program, an year from now do speak a different story.
This is all evolving and nobody can be sure of the outcome.
My gut feeling is we won't be able hamstring this Smart Virus with many crowns on its head.
A bleak but real scenario!
All current kings, queens and dictators (Brazil in particular) have to bow low to this King Virus with mutations, left, right and center.
Forget (leave it to Ceylon) the PPE but UK an industrial country cannot manufacture a ventilator.
What an advance society?
The European Union is nothing but s farce originated from Belgium kings of yore who vandalized most (Germans having a hand) of Africa and also allowed the spread of AIDS in Africa and world over.
The Coronavirus making havoc in Africa much worse than Forest Fever or Ebola or AIDS.
One line for Private Medical institutions in Ceylon and the vocabulary of Public Health does not exist even for money in their record books and they shun vaccinations.
Where is that medical guy who wanted a private medical school for his kith and kin in Negambo or nearby?
They somehow circumvent the patients' priority based on money and most institution do not follow public health protocols in the waiting rooms that stretched over 24 hours.
When I was doing administrative work in the private sector I used to get over 100 complaints a day (mind you I introduced it covering even the kitchen facilities).
Human failure, Human error, Leading the Title comes from that experience.
We in Ceylon tried to introduce under aegis of RAW a Federal Administration to the North, in a tiny country like ours.
If that became a success, Tamils in Jaffna would have been inundated by Coronavirus if Thlaimanmar or Park's Straight was open to free traffic from India, including ICE and hashish.
Mind you in the height of LTTE activities, with the window of opportunity given to us by LTTE (they escorted us to a safe region) we visited bordering Walikanda and it's Hospital.
To my horror million's worth of anesthetic and surgical instruments were lying idle.
They failed to train anaesthetists, then and even now there is a shortfall.
Mind you, medical guys recently passed out now are both avoiding public health and emergency care appointments.
Safety First initiative in practice.
There will be a drop in registration for Medical and Dental practice.
I wanted them to be curtailed due to money spent training a guy or girl and losing them to a Western country.
Over 30 guys recruited and sent to Japan for training, from the Dental School did not come back and I told, the then dean and he shrugged his shoulders in affirmative.
Two under my care never returned from overseas training but I did not spend much time with them anyway, knowing the outcome.
Not a healthy scenario in the defense academy but the new tecruits will jump at the overseas appointments with our army giving security to them abroad.
What a luxury?
That is why Aurvedic guys are having a rosy time in Ceylon, now.
At least Coranavirus had no barriers to religion, ethnicity or language or geography.
Now we have a "not so level playing guy" at the helm and smoothening this guy's work at heart and lung is an amazingly difficult task.
I think Coranavirus is a terrible blessing in disguise and even many Gods (including Western God of Unity) in India are currently succumbing.
If they had Provincial Councils and devolved Medical Services the fate of India would have followed the Northern Provinces by default but not their own design or objective.
That is an opinion of mine, in spite of many reservations I have for our health industry both public and private.
The training is hopelessly inadequate.
Slowly but surely human fragility is insinuating the the health industry.
Time has come to be honest and be integrated rather than separated which Muslims want us to be and Tamils should not swallow the bitter pill.
They want global Islam nothing but and using Tamils language as their platform currently but write from right to left in Arabic which is alien to Hindu and Sanscript scripts.
This piece does not reflect the numerous honest guys and girls who do their best under trying conditions be that may be medical or non-medical service industry.
But they are in the minority when money and power speak and strangle the system.
Mind you I have not registered myself for 20 years and a simple civilian guy now with courage to speak out not in death bed like Canadian defense minister and Armstrong in his 80s (removing the the truth covering layers or untruth).
The truth of Coronavirus will come out a century or two later.
By then, the damage is done and global survival from climate change is in its downward trend.
That speaks volumes and the planet cannot take the strain of population explosion and a remedy is on the horizon.
What a master stroke?
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Human Failures, Human Fragility, Human Error and General Failure of the Federal Systems
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Debian 10.9.0- Buster Download and Instal on USB
This is posted by WiFi from a mobile broadband.
I do not want to name the service provider but I use Internet well past midnight, especially when I download a Linux image over 4.5 GiB.
Being a holiday or Back Poya day, I thought of using my dongle to download the iso image to my laptop which was given long Coranavirus respite.
I am using Debian KDE plasma and it does not show me the download speed but my rough calculation is 250 MiB in one hour.
So it is roughly 8 hour waiting to see the first of the 3 DVDs.
Luckily after midnight the download went up smoothly.
I hope I can install that in a USB stick.
Of course I have to erase the previous Debian 10.0.0 iso in the USB.
I have two Debian images installed in laptop after erasing the Microsoft Windows.
I could not erase Microsoft using Linux but used BSD for that purpose.
The Microsoft UEFI SCAM with OEM guys I have bypassed using my own techniques long before ESP partitioning was available.
This broadband is a Big Joke.
I warn you never to use Internet access and facilities while installing.
Pull out the Ethernet Wire even when the service provider says, it is lighteningly fast.
It is only a service gimmick and dongle or winkle is a farce.
I pulled out the Ethernet Wire nearly 80 feet long running over our roof which was defective due to over 12 years of exposure to elements ( I burned it leaving a small piece to check its internals but I do not have a crumpler to plug connecting pieces).
It, the Ethernet Wire did serve me well with my PC, now temporarily retired, with superb download speeds with over 300 Linux distribution downloads, now all retired except the Debian.
The cellphone has killed the Linux and Pine is still not available in Ceylon and the nifty new distribution for cellphone's, based on Ubuntu is one year away.
Well Debian is coming out with its 11 series and I am not going to buy a new PC or laptop to install and test it.
But young guys should support Linus now in America and the New Desktop is going to beat both Apple and Microsoft.
Long Live Linux and it's community.
This wish goes to Ubuntu, too.
Running Update on Installation.
1. Use your laptop and make sure the battery is fully charged.
2. But connect the power plug for security.
3. Go to Debian site and download the 32 (obsolete) or 64 iso DVD for AMD, AMR or whatever.
4. There are 3 DVDs but I use only the first DVD.
5. Image is compressed and extract it to a download folder
6. Write the image to a DVD.
I usually prepare two DVDs.
One for me and one for friends who request me installing it and demonstration.
Ome is kept in my archive of Linux images.
7. Run the DVD.
You must set your BIOS or boot options to CD (USB first in my case).
8. Use the graphic installation don't try to be smart.
9. Use your language selection French or English or Greek.
No Sinhala or Tamil by the way.
10. Confirm root and user password.
11. When asked for installation say yes to use the entire disk or USB.
I partition the hard disk to over 12 or more partitions and that process is painful.
12. It uses ESP (UEFI boot option) and 6 more partition including SWAP space.
My USB is 16 GiB and over 9 GiB is my home partition.
It has 3.7 Python.
Linux kernel is 4.19.0.16, the latest STABLE.
Base installation is fast.
But I asked for all desktops on Tasktel request.
Use one or two desktops if you want a fast installation.
There are over 2000 files if you ask for all desktops and it takes few hours, if you ask for all.
I go to sleep and when I wake up it is all ready to use.
I kept my old 10.0.0.0 and 10 plus copies in my laptop and boot the USB for showoffs.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Event Horizon and Expanding Universe
I haven't written something on New Physics for sometime.
I may edit this if new insight creeps into my physics mind.
We were obsessed with Coranavirus and George Floyd's case and we were taxing our brain on menial, subtle and emotional things that lead to the global depressive attitude and amnesia.
Diverting it with global warming and putative counteractive measures is scientifically obtruse, since we have gone beyond the point of recovery or redemption because of our inherent greed and stupidity.
This entry on physics will put you in different perspective and a totally bizarre introspection.
Of course it is my perspective in physics and attacking current theoretical physics into non existence is my intention.
I believe Americans never walked on moon with the antecuated technology in 1968.
It was a drama created on cinema to divert the attention of the world of astrocities in Vietnam.
Well done America on television screen in black and white.
America has produced beautiful films in colour but using black and white pictures was a bit of stain on the film industry of America even in 1960s.
We know that our universe is expanding or retrieving from us, thanks to Edwin Hubble and his discovery of red-shift of light.
Now my title expanding universe and the event horizon are not complementary but exactly opposite scenarios.
Event horizon is the theoretical extension of the visible universe to us and our instruments.
To believe universe does not exist beyond that observation point is a wrong theoretical premise which physics should answer with conviction.
What we cannot observe does not exist is a wrong premise like believe in non existing gods (of course I believe universe is infested with many bizarre biological agents including aliens, other than humans).
With the expanding universe, a bit of our galaxy is hurrying away from us in every nanosecond.
This will end and we will have no matter or space left for us to hold onto, in the present point of our existence..
Nothing existing scenario at the point of me standing now including me due to biological reasons but physical reasons or physics should theoretically be present or existing, if extinction has not supervened my theoretical perspective.
In other words the event horizon cease to exist.
What next, then?
Now one has to go back to my previous discussion where I explore space or empty space of our imagination cannot exist but some energy occupying every available space, come into play here.
The event horizon we lost theoretically a moment ago is taken over by another Galaxy or Universe which we cannot see now will occupy this space and create another event horizon for another alien species to theorise it (like me doing it now).
How come my "New Physics" stand up to answer the question well before that event has occurred (not open for our imagination just now).
The mind supreme is in action.
Keep probing, is how science expands its horizon by asking the right question at the right time.
See you when I have another brain wave.
I had a good sleep after this question entered my mind in half sleep state 24 hours ago.
Generally with my memory failing, I forget the last question I was probing instantaneously.
If you are grappling with a problem, "just sleep on it" is a management principle that works wonders for you.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Lala Land, Happy Land, Koseta Land and Land Rovers
My definition of this is forest land encroached by hashish growers with doctored deeds, not the Lala Land or Dysney Land or Happy Land biscuits or amusement parks in Ceylon with entry fee of Rs.100/= but limited safety measures or records.
The Coronavirus had hit even Ganja industry with tourists that come for hashish, not coming to Ceylon.
Ceylon, and some cities in India, Pakistan and Thailand are in this triangle of interest.
With American troops leaving Afghanistan new trade routes will open with China providing facilities for money laundering off shore.
It is going to be paradise for interested parties.
The Kos-eta Land is where our farmers dry the paddy with jack seeds and the South East monsoon heralding it's onslaught soon, they will become seed paddy with only two days of rain.
Then our paddy mafia belonging to a consort of ex- big guy is now raising it's ugly head.
The new year gone, the price of rice would go up invariably.
Happy Land is not Singapore or Thailand but a biscuit type in Ceylon in which the quality has gone down appreciably.
Even the type of delicious coconut cooky is down in quality with the coconut land devastated by land development activities and prices of a coconut now is more than the price of pound of bread.
If we do not have Prima Wheat, we will be starving and the cheap margarine substitutes coming from China is killing our Bread industry.
While all this is happening children of top guys are driving Land Rovers in their racing practices, in the wild forest looking for hunting animals.
The elephants coming to roost in bordering villages is a natural evolution of land destruction and and we might see more Land Rovers going through the forest land than elephants inhabiting their prime land.
I sometime see the Coronavirus is a little respite for the forest to recover from land encroachment in the name of ecotourism.
Global warming summit is just a political showpiece without concrete grass root actions.
President Biden has more problems under his watch barely 100 days gone by.
America is deeply divided than ever before and the media are adding it's weight to the problem and to the partisan approach.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Cost of Living and Playing Snooker and Billiards
Now I use a laquered stick or Sesath as my cue.
Last time I played billiards and snooker, it cost me Rs.5000/= for one hour game in a Kandy Hotel and another Rs.5000/= for spirits and short eats.
This is where we had our 50 years of graduation celebrations.
That was the last time I went overboard on alcohol and I did not come home.
The meal and alcohol did cost a little bit more and both soles of my new footwear could not stand the upbeat and I had to dispose it.
The footwear costs over £100= and today's rate Rs.6000/= or more.
This is all before Coronavirus and playing snooker indoors is not allowed by WHO now.
Mind you, coconut is Rs.100/ a piece and my game is actually converted to 3 gunny bags of coconuts.
We are importing coconuts for new year with GasPaluwas demolishing our TREES including Jack and breadfruit trees.
What a country we are living in?
Our Free dish out to Samurdhi recipients is equivalent to one game of billiards and definitely without liquors.
I stop drinking alcohol due to taxes and I do not call anybody or answer telephone due to newly imposed taxes.
Girigoris or Piss Off Software is tested by Telecoms and Dialog now.
One thing I know is that Chinese cannot play snooker but they are good at poker and our finance minister does not know how to play poker with Chinese.
A snooker cue or stick Indian made is over Rs.2000/= and a snooker table costs over 1 million while in Colombo guys and girls spend extra cash is cassinos at a time Coronavirus is peaking again after New Year holidays.
The new year games our little Simeon plays is nothing compared to guys playing golf in Colombo.
A singer of high society, mostly drunkards have millions in their banks and some of their sons are involved in street violence and are protected by their fame when a officer in uniform working at unfriendly hours tries to arrest a guy who is a drug peddler or addict is convicted by public opinion (judged by his / her skin colour in America not by actions of self defense or of duty).
It is the bystanders including media men with doctored clips who decide the outcome and not the fair play in this country and in America.
What has has happened to fair play?
When lawyers of defense and prosecution only see one side of the story, how can a jury give a verdict in a critical and sensitive case?
Nobody thinks of prevention of crimes and drug peddling.
Alcohol is the on top of sale list and traffic accidents tops both lightening and Coronavirus deaths put together in Ceylon.
The system of education has failed to instruct law makers, lawyers, judges and lot more priests of law esteem.
High criminals are protected including bankers and the minions are sent to prison for inappropriately long sentences.
One must not see this as a failure of the system or democracy.
It is the failure of the judicial system and not democracy.
It is worse under autocracy!
On paper autocratic countries have low rate of criminal activity but their high officials are the most corrupt in this world.
Both Russia and China should be under the radar.
Look at Myanmar and criminal activity of the military.
We have guys wanting a dictatorship and their sanity should be examined in public court like in America.
Doctors of America are no experts on An Gam Pora
This is my opinion and anyone is FREE to disagree as a global citizen under video surveillance.
I think, by enlarge America has failed it's citizens, especially after the pandemic.
This grandfather who did not succumb to, Coronavirus, economic, social hardships and prison incarceration, but died on the street subdued, epitomises the plight of poor people irrespective of the skin colour.
Why?
Bias on skin colour, black for dead and the white for the living and legally "trying"officer has made the jury run for conviction not on facts but on gut feelings.
UNFAIR!
Justice for one and injustice on the other side of the coin.
This case should not end here but should go on for another trial to revisit the persecution, prosecution, defense, police procedures, role of media and above all reform of the whole judicial system.
It was a dream for me to visit United States and this case made me to reconsider it otherwise.
Why visit a country which is disintegrating by the minute.
The verdict might give a temporary respite but revivival or reintegrating is an uphill task.
It is no different in UK an old lady of 80 was murdered in an underground station and my wife went to the same loo few minutes before and we caught the last train home from this tube station.
Merylebourne Station, if my memory stands true.
There were no video surveillance then.
Two weeks later we said Goodbye to London and I never returned even for a holiday.
If we stayed there we would be Coranavirus statistics at the rate the deaths were reported in April last year.
Now the jury has given the verdict, I have fully expanded and edited this entry
American doctors who came as expert witnesses missed a cardinal point about neck and carotid sinus and the effects on its compression.
In spontaneous severe tachycardia doctors use, a brief compression on this point to arrest and slow the heart rate.
Two sides of the neck have different innervation and in situs invertus this is in reverse order.
It has barrow receptors which communicate with medulla and pons.
Symptoms due to barrow receptor compression come suddenly well before oxygen deprivation symptoms supervene.
In other words cardiac symptoms were antecedent to respiratory symptoms.
One can stay under water with or without oxygen for longer period.
Furthermore, after cardiac arrest medulla can continue gasping respiratory efforts for a considerable length of time.
Pressure on these baroreceptors were never discussed in the witness box.
I kept silent until the jury gave the verdict.
I think a retrial is mandatory and the defense should challenge these doctors for not probing fully on physiology (not on, after the fact pathology).
World over doctors training has come down drastically and often critical patients are looked after by the most junior doctors.
It is well known that involuntary mistakes by doctors are covered up by technicalities and poor police officers with minimal knowledge are punished inappropriately.
In addition doctors are spared by their defense contracts, power and money.
Everybody especially the pseudo experts should be drilled down in the witness box again for their biased opinions.
I think police officers should not use neck compression as a form of restraint (not only in America in all over the world).
It should be withdrawn from all police handbooks worldwide.
Even kids know the neck compression can be deadly.
My heart felt thanks to the young girl who captured the action live.
I do not like video monitoring in super markets.
Only benefit they have on me, in my old age is that I do not lose my temper in public places but only at home.
It should be the other way round.
Domestic violence and kitchen knife is the most lethal weapon statistically.
I think nobody should bear weapons except the police and security officers with high level of training and trust.
But our police officers and security guys use deadly force in Ceylon and get away as national heroes.
I am a pathologist but briefly worked as a forensic medical officer when young.
One salient point in pathology is that clinicians miss 20% of the clinical diagnoses irrespective of their seniority globally and and a pathologist cannot determine 40% at postmortum.
At best one can have 60% of certainty at the postmortum and never 100%.
The account below is about Axillary Nerve Innervation and subduing a subject in counter attack.
Karate guys also use these deadly points in combat.
In Ceylon, Sinhala "An Gam Pora or Nila" was a common knowledge as kids but my father who served under British during Second World War taught me an extension of that strategy with a weapon in one hand.
Our mahouts use a pointed objects to subdue elephants inhumanely or inanimately or in-elephantinely (my new words to Oxford dictionary).
I hate this animal cruelty strategy.
Our police officer using these techniques is common knowledge and our Police Officers far exceeds their limits.
Our local DJVD used illegal arms and they came to my house and threatened me and my family with over 80 of their cohorts in 1989 and that lead to over expansion of our Army inappropriately (providing jobs to party activists in some cases).
Nobody came to protect me and my family when in need.
I sent my family to safer domain and I had to commit myself for another three months with three others in my staff, to protect over 32 computers and electrical equipments including power generators.
This lead to confiscating all weapons in civilian hands and I do not SUPPORT the RNA gun lobby in America, at all.
Only serviceman should bear weapons and the use of subduing techniques are legal when confronted by a gang or a physically strong guy under drugs.
About the doctors in America and none of the experts described the harm to Axillary Plexuses and showed their ignorance in neuroanatomy and points of contact of nerves to apply pressure over shoulder (not neck) tip, clavicle in front and shoulder blade from behind.
These were points our teachers used to subdue us and induce fear but I have counteracted and used my lump of books on their back as a warning strategy and I was chased out of the class first and my fellow friends joined me one by one later.
They were trying to teach us Bible and we resisted with might and strategy.
It worked for our class of friends.
Now we have MPs and Monks in saffron cloth in this country who want a dictator to reign.
Democracy is at peril, in this country with a huge army, police force and idiotic MPs bearing guns.
They never handed over the guns given to them in trouble times but the local goons who transport ICE have guns in their possession.
They have more democratic rights than the average voter or civilian.
That is how democracy works in Ceylon with inappropriately designed legislature to protect Chinese goons in harbours.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Watawala, Kitulgala, Kalugala, Ginigathena, Dick Oya and Kothmalen Gaminie Dissanayake
Roshan Watawala and Kothmale Gaminie Dissanayake belongs to two river branches of the Upcountry Rainforest Range.
They are on two sides of Kitulgala and Ginigathena.
Watawala is bit up the stream.
Downsouth guys of Hambantota and Unawatuna and in the bird zone do not understand the value of the forest for wild beasts including elephants.
The plane glides to Hambantota with Chinese on money pilgrimage,i directly on the bird's migration pathway killing birds for their evening meals, on high ground or skyway.
The Chinese live birds for meals and they are not lovebirds of Budgerigars type.
My intention here is to highlight our ancient water engineers knowledge and stamina.
My geographical investigations tells me that Dick Oya and Hinguru Oya both descended down and joined the Kelani River before the Kingdom moved to Kandy.
The Victoria Bridge and Randenidala project become a small project when we consider how these guys diverted one branch that joined the Kalani River naturally was intercepted at Ginigathena to join Mahaweli River.
Watawala has the highest rainfall in Ceylon and diverting a river at Ginigathena was a masterpiece of engineering.
They used the Kalugala range to good effect and once the point at which the two river branches joined was blocked, the downhill fall was instantaneous and joining the branch that originated from Maskeli Oya or River was chicken feed of engineering feat.
Before Maskeli Oya project was born the road that leads to our house was inundated, with even minor rain.
Thanks Gaminie for completing this project which Sirima and NM never considered feasible.
Thanks Roshan for your political updates and you should talk about the Mahaweli Project, one day.
Maps are readily available and Google maps gives a reasonable point to point connection without elevation statistics.
In my book on Ceylon, I did all this including elevation, using my own map drawings and simple inspiration.
It is available at Amazon books.
I am a simple doc with 8th standard knowledge of geography.
We had a six inches of rain on the 15th and only a minor part leading away from our road was under water for four hours.
I counted over 20 thunders and our trip switch went off over 6 of them.
Lucky the earth wire I connected many moons ago was firmly grounded.
Weather gods are working hard to wash away our filth.
It is a welcome intervention when Coranavirus is riding high above the clouds, now in statistical sense.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Thank You Prince Philip for WWF and Save the Planet Initiatives
Thanks for the Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya / Hakgala and planting remembrance plants, every time you visited us.
They have grown taller.
Your son Charles, when he visited the Botanical garden briefly, the last time, he came here, he forgot to plant a tree.
He was in a hurry.
Thank Again, for surviving the global pandemic a century ago as a kid and reminding us that we are not out of the wood from global catastrophes of many kinds.
By the way, we are well into 6th extinction in spite of your efforts and China is leading the way of global destruction by way of Coronavirus and habitat destruction bamboo trees and pandas.
Both my father and mother who survived the global pandemic passed away, well before scoring a cricketing century and my wish for you was a well earned century but getting run out at 99 is a very common occurrence in cricket which you loved, and our Sana and Kalu were credited in record books with such feats of run outs.
You were a global record book in living and in death and that beats all record books of my recognition.
In this country, undesirable guys / girls grow hashish or ganja having cleared the forest and the military does encourage these shoddy deeds in the name of farming.
The protected land of Local Veddhas are reclaimed for growing corn for export (not a staple food) and the bees are decimated by insecticides and pesticides used for commercial farming.
Elephants are killed on daily basis and there is a lobby to give guns to farmers when United States is passing laws to limit free firearms to civilians.
The government is doing everything possible to destroy the forest by subtle legislation in the name of development.
The same Gas Paluwas (Tree Uprooters) who destroyed the forest for decades are back in the parliament as MPs and ministers now.
What a turnaround?
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Aflatoxin and other Toxins in Ceylon
Aflatoxin, Kirala-Toxin (Standard Beauro), Manala-Toxin (GOMA) and Kala-Toxin (average simple Semeon) are Pre -New Year celebrations of Ceylon, now that Coranavirus restrictions are imposed globally.
Not only coconut oil but even tea is adulterated.
Latest entries are sugar and margarines (coming from China).
The Vasana Cake is the well known cake adulterated by cheap Chinese margarines.
Even Asmi is adulterated by substitutes.
So we have been eating junk food throughout the year for ages and the Coranavirus death is quick but death by cancer is prolonged and agonizing.
Not only copra but rice and even standard home treatment Kottamalli or coriander has both yeast and fungi in them.
We never cared for standards and will continue doing same, in spite of changes in governments on 5 year basis.
Only lip service but no concrete actions.
Monday, March 29, 2021
WiFi Mode
We are a stupid nation.
We have re-elected a regime which destroyed our forest and elephants in the past which even LTTE did not touch.
Now they are asking the children to plant trees, instead of teaching them the basic skills in English, computing and using a cellphone or tablet effectively in education, which are essential in survival in the current world.
By the way, cellphone prices have gone up sky rocketing due to devaluation of Ruppee by printing new money.
Instead of that, they are engaged in usual political manoeuvre that hoodwink the Simple Semeon on the street with "Kotia and Thambia Eneva" Slogan.
It is deplorable these things happen even in our temples on a daily basis.
Read my piece, "Buddhism in a Mess in Ceylon" for real facts and history.
WiFi Mode
Coming to the telecommunication, we are spending a lot for MobiTel and Dialog which provide a shoddy service and over 50% as taxes.
Use only WiFi and carry a WiFi dongle or WiFi broadband unit to save on your bill.
Do not spend over Rs.35,000/= advertised on YouTube.
One can buy four or five units under Rs.25,000.
I am not a business man or advertising any company.
Go and shop around for your needs.
Saturday, March 27, 2021
From Me to Mr. Bill
This is my adaptation from an Email, I received.
I am currently studying birds and bill is appropriate for pecking.
Dear Mr.Bill
This letter is from so and so to so and so.
I bought a computer recently and unfortunately I found the following problems.
1. When I connect to the Internet and opened the e-mail and whenever I type my name I get a CAGE called password and a number of asterisks ****** .
I leave the asterisks and type my password in the rest of the fields.
As soon as I type letters appear as true to form and nothing else happens afterward.
I do not know how to solve this problem.
I checked with the hardware vendor (Kandy) and he checked the keyboard and said it has no problems.
I got a brain wave and opened the email with the word password and asterisks ***** but that did not work.
2. When I click the "Shut down" button I am unable to do anything else afterwards with the computer.
I thought the computers work 24 hours without a break and without any complaints.
Please let me know how to solve this problem.
3. However, there is a button called "Start" but there is no button called "Stop" when I want to go to the loo.
I request you to solve this problem.
4. I find there is a 'Run' button in the menu ( I don't want to have runs after a meal-diarrhoea- especially the type of meal called "On the go" I have in my office).
One of my friends told me I should do a run in the evening after sitting long hours in front of the TV screen learning new computer techniques and concepts.
5. Click and Run is dangerous even in Kandy with so many "Bills on the Beat" with a AK45s in their hands.
I don't like to run.
Please change it to "Sit and Wait".
In fact, I do this when I have a problem with my computer.
I believe even the ordinary citizens do the same thing ("Sit and Wait Patiently") nowadays especially when they come to Colombo for some work.
6. I would prefer a "Bicycle" with a click of a button instead of a "Pizza" available in the system.
With petrol going up that is good for my health and my purse.
As I find only "Re-cycle" and that is a gross oversight by the computer wizards of America.
7. By the way for people who have money and a scooter another option called "Re-scooter" is desirable.
Unfortunately I do not own a scooter.
8. The 'Find' button is not working properly.
My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot to find the the key with this "Find" button but it was not possible.
Is it due to a bug?
9. Every night my sleep is disturbed since the Cat come looking for the "Mouse" at odd hours in the night.
I propose you should make a game called Cat, Mouse and the Dog and ask the Disneyland to train all the domestic cats , dogs and mice to play this game without killing each other like the humans do.
We humans can learn from this game a few earthly visions.
10. My child likes to learn the Microsoft Word now. T
It is better one should develop the Grammar and the Sentence Structure since our children are very poor in English as a language.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Live and Let Live
Live and Let Live
Editing is interfered with.
Why?
I do not know.
The long piece I had here is gone.
I am not at all worried since it was one more than my planned number of blogs.
I wanted it to be dynamic, though.
Let me forget what was there and report today's event.
A tit of lager size than normal is dominating the mulberry tree.
Even the selfish bul-bul is chased.
Details of birds will be in my book.
I made a reference to plight of the Binntenna Vaddha's honey bee trade vandalized by corn trade.
I have black bees domesticated in one of our tall pillars.
They extended their colony to back side of the retaining wall.
There was some activity on the other side with cement and paint work.
I begin to realise those guys sealed the entry point of the second colony.
They are all Buddhist guys with no sympathy for wild life.
The second colony left the place in good time and was making a new home in another pillar in front of our house.
They are still working in the new home.
The guys in Hantana are setting fire and catching the wild rabbits. This is perennial occurrence.
I should concentrate on seeds I have collected
Topics
1. Mulberry seeds
2. Coriander seeds
3. Grapes seeds
4. Soursop seeds
5. Butter fruit seeds
6. Grass seeds
7. Orchid seeds
8. Palm seeds
9. Jack fruit seeds
10. Mango fruits
11. Corn seeds
12. Barely seeds
13. Banana seeds
14. Wali Anoda
15. Aralu seeds
16. Bulu seeds
17. Nellie seeds
18. Coconut
19. Cadju nuts
20. Cocoa nuts
21. Paw paw seeds
22. Rubber seeds
23. Jam Pera seeds
24. Castor oil seeds
25. Kudu Daula seeds
26. Hora seeds
27. Areca nuts
28.
29. Butter fruit seeds
30. Mustard seeds
31. Tomato seeds
32. Pomegranate seeds
33. Grape fruit seeds
34. Orange seeds
35. Lemon seeds
36. Lime seeds
37. Guava seeds
38. Brinjal seeds
39. Bitter gaurd seeds
40. Ela Butu seeds
41. Tibbotu seeds
42. Batu seeds
43. Wam botu seeds or brinjal
44.
45. Cherry tomato seeds
46. Paddy seeds
47. Palm seeds
48. Soursop seeds
49. Amberalla fruits and seeds
50. Watakka or pumpkin seeds
51. Melon seeds
52. Pitawakka seeds
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54.
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1. Kudu Daula
2. Iramusu
3. Thuththiri
4. Kaladuru
5. Iriveriya
6. Weniwel
7. Rasa Kinda
8. Coriander
9. Cinnamon
10. Cardamon
11. Castor oil
12. Mimosa Pudica
13. Ginger
14. Inguru piyalie
15. Bay leaves
16. Old spice
17. Savandara
18.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
French Keyboard
I am using the French Typeface for revising my French.
It is difficult to speak in English.
I was a part time writer.
I am almost a full time writer now with Coronavirus incarceration.
Playing with cheap cellphones was a pastime for ages but then there was no typefaces like now.
I tried to translate to Sinhala but it did not work.
I tried Tamil.
It did not work.
With so many characters in Tamil and Sinhala we will never get AI or digitally intelligent.
Unfortunate but true.
It is hot now.
Little later
Please
Resting
Do not disturb
je dors
je me repose
je dors
I am resting
I am sleeping
It is hot now
Il fait chaud maintenant
I am reading
je suis en train de lire
I am looking for a post office.
I am looking for a post office
Je recherche un bureau de poste.
I need some stamps.
J'ai besoin de timbres.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Pean of Joy
Light that shines the World and beyond.
Viddya Udapadhi
Truth that penetrates all knowledge.
Panga Udapadhi
The transcending Wisdom of all.
Anekajati Samsaram Sandhavissam Annnibisam
Gahakarakam Gavesanto Dukkha Jati Punanppunam
Gahakaraka Ditto Si Puna Geham Na Kakahasi
Subbe Te Phasuka Bhagga Gahakutam Visankhitam
Visankaragatam Cittam Tanhanam Khayamajjhaga
Through many a birth wondered I,
Seeking not finding, the builder of the house,
Sorrowful is repeated birth.
O' Householder, thou art is seen.
Thou shall built no house again.
All thy rafters are broken.
Thy ridge pole is shattered.
Mind attains the unconditioned.
Achieved is the end of craving.
At the dawn on the very day of enlightenment, the Buddha uttered this pean of joy or Udana which vividly describes his transcendental moral victory and his inner spiritual experience.
The Buddha admits his past wandering in existences which entailed suffering.
A fact, evidently proving the belief in Rebirth in Buddhism.
The fundamental ingrained in Dhamma are
Kamma and Rebirth.
He was compelled to wander and consequently suffer as he could not discover the architect that builds the house, the Body and Mind.
In his final birth, while engaged in solitary meditation, he had highly developed in the course of his wandering in Samsara, after relentless perseverance and search he discovered by his own intuitive Wisdom, the illusive architect, residing not outside but within the recess of his own Mind.
It was Craving or Attachment to the self created mental compendium of enormity.
This latent compendium of mental forms drives the Samsara.
How and when this Craving or Attachment originated is incomprehensible.
What is created by oneself can be destroyed by oneself only.
An external agency is not envisioned but by oneself alone one is created and one is also responsible for (his/her) one's own suffering or happiness.
(The word suffering include both Joy and Unhappiness but due to transitory nature of both feelings, it is wrapped as unhappy or suffering. This word should not be used to belittle and downgrade absolute Dhamma meaning.There is no negative feeling or thinking implied but the the true nature of its -life- rendering)
The discovery of the architect, the craving or Thanha leads to its irradication or ending of all cravings and attaining the Nibbana or Arahathship ultimate unborn (not reborn) state.
The rafters are:
Kilesa or Passion
Loba or attachment
Dosa or hate and aversion
Moha or illusion
Mana or conceit or self disception
Mittyaditti or Wrong View
Vicikiccha or doubt
Thina or sloth
Uddhacca or restlessness
Ahirika or moral.shamelessness
Anottappa or moral fearlessness
The ridge pole that supports the rafters are:
Ignorance or Avijja the root cause of all passions.
The shattering of Avijja leads to Wisdom unparalleled or Nibbana.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Kamma and Rebirth
Mind and Brain Duality
The consciousness can manifest itself without fully functioning brain in 3 situations.
1. Near Death Syndrome (NDE)
2. Apparently brain damaged individuals regaining consciousness at the time of death.
3. Apparent consciousness in person with minimal brain function.
There are also children with very thin brain tissue with severe hydrocephaly with high intelligence.
There is another situation where young children remember past life experiences not necessarily the immediate past life (may be several thousand years old).
It is time for scientist to record these events and study them objectively.
As far as I know only Ian Stevenson of Virginia University has done some studies and one of his students pursue on this line of studies.
This piece has many ideas and I have some vital disagreements with the way of life of Dhamma, especially its attitude to plant kingdom.
I do not blame Buddha for his course of action.
He was totally focused on one thing.
It is the mind and nothing more.
He was focused on every BORN MIND which attaches itself at death consciousness to birth consciousness of another life stream.
The born mind drives the wheel of karma and rebirth.
The unborn mind stops the wheel of rebirth but it exists in a subtle form unentangled with worldly things.
It is Lokotthara or beyond this world of MAYA or total imagination of me, myself and I concept.
Whereas, plants do not have an organized brain but only life and does not get attached to another plant, so a death of a plant or seed is total annihilation and no rebirth.
In that sense, killing a plant has more consequences to this planet (my obsession and valid concern) than killing an animal life, since animal life can be reborn again in an another planet, if not this planet.
That important distinction should be born in one's mind to begin with.
For me this is the only planet, I know of and both animals and plants are my interest and we are NOW, deep into the sixth extinction.
One word about the UNBORN MIND.
It is Buddha's total dedication.
In my understanding that NIBBANA is the unborn MIND (since it has no Rebirth consciousness) out of born minds of unattained guys and girls, you and me.
It is NOT total annihilation but UNBORN, MIND, since MIND as a form of ENERGY could not be destroyed but only TRANSFORMED.
This is an opinion not a DOGMA.
You should read the following with that in grasp to understand the logic of Dhamma and Karma and Rebirth.
It is 12-02-2021 and the South West Cloud movement has begun.
It will be a long dry spell and farmers without water will have a torrid time.
Not only Coronavirus but water shortage and electricity cuts are on the card.
It will not be a good April New Year, if monsoon rain does not intervene.
This entry of course, is to correct many mistakes made in the past as regard to Dhamma.
Since my data is coming down fast and I do not intend to replenish data for finger printing, many lines are appropriate, here.
I have stated there are five Jhana States and it should be corrected as IV (four).
Some texts describe up to VIII Jhana States.
One can attain IV Jhana States as a human being.
From V to VIII are probably Minds States that some beings possess in Arupawatara Lokas (mind without body form) or States.
Javana is the Pali word used to describe the behaviour of mind and please do not confuse.
In Jhana States, one achieves a kind of happy States.
1. Piti
2. Suka
3. Ekaggatata
4. Equanimity
Even these States are hindrance to Vipassana Samadhi, the goal of higher Dhamma.
The upward mobility starts with
1. Metta or Compassion
2. Karuna or Loving Kindness
3. Muditha or Sympathetic Joy
4. Upekka, the word equanimity is the closest English equivalent but not the exact translation.
It is the balanced, neutral, unattached and nonjudgemental state of mind very difficult to achieve.
Ana Pana Sati or Ekaggatata (one pointedness of mind's attention) meditation is somewhat low down in the scale of purity of the mind.
Only an entry point.
But entry point in Dhamma has five scales in ascendance.
1. Saddha or Faith
2. Viriya or Sustained Attempt
3. Sati is the mindfullness in meditation
4. Samadhi or sustained concentration
5. The goal is Pagna or the Highest Wisdom
One has, to drop 5 Nivaranas or hindrances
1. Greed or Loba
2. Hate or Dosa
3. Ignorance or Moha
4. Raga or bondage
5. Sloth and Torpor
They are also described as 4 extremes or Agatis, if one leaves out the 5th, the slow or indifference to mental accompaniments.
In Jhana States one has to drop all mental.activities one by one.
1. Subdue or Control, all objective or subjective thought moments arising spontaneously
2. Focus on Residual Thought Moments in Bhavanaga Sota Stream of Mind (in Sansara).
3. Piti
4. Suka
5. Samadhi
All these are addictive and are hindrances to Pagna or Wisdom.
6. Ekagatata or Equanimity.
In the last stage of Upekka, one begins to have a glimpse of the reality of existence in Sansara life stream, uninterrupted with deep bondage and its self perseverance, ad hoc.
The Jhana States are absolute hindrance to critical analysis and abstract thinking necessary to understand the behaviour of the Mind.
I must state a recent discovery of mine.
One of my friends, who is like a saint after a couple of drinks told me alcohol, drugs and meditative trance, all induce temporary state of ecstasy.
They all aspire the same thing.
ECSTASY!
All three are addictive in nature, he elaborated.
My medical input is, all are brought on by ENCEPHALINS made within the nervous system.
In other words, all three are excessive self indulgences of no merit.
The craving for endogenous "Feel Good Hormones".
By the way, extreme sports, marathon, mountain climbing, preparation for Olympics and big boxing matches peak them in feel good hormones and with win or lose, these hormone evaporate into thin air immediately afterwards.
Even watching these events as a spectator elevate these hormones, probably more of stress hormones and a sense of ecstasy with a win and a corresponding gloom with a loss.
That is why some sports are addictive as bad as gambling.
I think even cellphone games are addictive and I am beginning to control the urge to play them.
Game developers know this and take advance of this self induction with endogenous hormones.
Instead, I turn my mind to my rooftop garden, and with dry season approaching, I have enough to keep me occupied.
Anything in excess is an addiction but flowers are a soothing antidote.
Coming back to my critical talking point, gathering knowledge, in any new subject domain needs the ability to think in abstract terms and later analysis for the pros and cons associated with.
Not many are endowed with both.
The Jhanas provide temporary ecstasy in heavenly aboard.
One spends the credits earned in many lives in one go (like a big purchase on a credit card), in heaven for some time and slide down to the animal kingdom invariably.
Human Birth is rare and wasting its many resources are not prudent in general terms.
Meditation in my view is a waste of time in solitude, even though, it gives a temporary sense of tranquility.
It is OK for monks but not for busy people with family commitments.
Before, coming to nuts and bolts, let me state few historical facts, some related to geography and some to language.
Word of Buddha reached China after 700 years and in Sanskrit.
It reached Burma and Thailand 1000 or more years later and in Pali, probably by sea route.
Nepal or the Magada State is landlocked and Buddhism did not reach even Tibet until 1200 years or more later.
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.
Now things were not recorded even in Aluvihara in Ceylon, till 1700 years later after the passing away of Buddha.
My point here, with passing away of time and cultural influence, nothing called Pure Dhamma existed but colossal literature, that include Dhammapada, which gives an insight, to its teaching.
What excited me was that, 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, either.
So, 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.
I knew, all the English translators got it wrong somewhere, having not studied Pali in depth.
Only, oral traditions were existing for a very long time before that. This why the 6 Buddhist councils are important in the Evolution of Modern Dhamma.
The Tibetan approach, I never liked and trying to become a modern Buddha with the glamour of TV screens is redundant.
After all, I hate China for subduing Dalai Lama and invading Tibet for no reason other than economic and expanding its Silk Road initiative.
I think Coronavirus was the befitting curse that befalls on China for decades to come and its silk road dream of economic strangle will peter out, in real terms and in real time.
I hate Mao Se tung and Carl Marx for destroying thousands of years of Chinese Culture.
In that case, President Putin is much wiser, who sticks to Orthodox Church.
The long preamble is essential and many Mahayana and Hinayana traditions are a utter waste.
In a nutshell, Dhamma is based on two cardinal concepts.
1. Kamma and Rebirth.
2. Action and Result or Cause and Effect.
The one who does not believe in these two is not a Buddhist in Practice.
If somebody kills any life he has to reap benefits as food in this life, as well as his repentance in future life in animal kingdom or may be killed by his or her own mates as a food item.
Think about that scenario!
The powerful emperor the King Asoka, rarely erected sandstone in Buddhist Terms.
His obsession was to stop animal killings and he would sentence to death a man who has violently killed an animal and in that sense, he did not practice Metta or loving kindness to his subjects.
He is the first King in history who formulated rules and regulations not based on a book or scripture but by common sense.
His sandstone depicted these themes and Muslim invaders of course destroyed them.
In that sense, Jews and Muslim not eating pork and Hindu not eating beef is not valid on animal rights claims.
In actual fact, Hindus eat pork and Muslims eat beef and the so called compensation by religious practice is fully nullified and all animals are killed by default.
To this add Ceylonese and Thai Buddhists who will eat meat killed by both Muslims and Hindus.
What a cohort?
Then why only human rights?
Is it to violate the fundamental rights of any other living being?
Any life is precious to its owner and becoming a vegetarian should not be a fashion.
My analysis shows that to produce one kilo of beef one need eight kilos of grain.
By grains alone, 8 can be fed instead of 1 with only meat.
Meat is non essential and plant proteins can easily make good the protein requirements.
This principle (not needing animal) was illustrated by one of my Tamil friends from Jaffna who was a total vegetarian, no eggs and the tallest and the heaviest in our batch.
My friend won the putshot by a big margin!
The elephant is totally vegetarian and some big whales, too eat only plants.
What a scientific fact?
I forgot a big point in my argument.
How many animals an American eat by 50?
If an American dies prematurely how many animals would be saved?
It is as important as 8 to 1 ratio of grains.
The ratio can be 100 animals to one American life.
So an American dying is a blessing to the animal kingdom.
What an outcome after Coronavirus?
I did not have the premonition to vision this glory.
Developing vaccine or antibodies by killing animals is not prudent in that sense.
This simple arrhythmic 8 against 1, both the UNO and the WHO cannot understand.
It has no population control policy of any sort.
The mother nature takes its own initiative to prevent animal slaughter by killing the man first.
That is a realistic approach.
The world has a limited capacity and we won't be able to colonize any planet to escape from this virus.
Buddhism did not take root in China and India, simply due to this Truth of Craving for Animal Flesh.
Any ordinary man in India and China loves meat including chicken.
Few facts about Mad Cow Disease and processed Faked Fats.
In England and USA beef is the major food protein consumed.
So to fatten the cattle and bulls they fed animal flesh discarded in the slaughter houses mixed with pasture to all animals especially cattle who only eat plants.
After all cows getting ill or mad is no concern, since they are ultimately sacrificed as human food.
But irony was lot of British and American guys became demented in the long run and cattle farmers and the government hid these medical facts for decades and finally they had to publish some data about Mad Cow Disease (mind you I was eating and relishing on beef, pork, lamb, chicken and fish as a bachelor and in fact I looked like a human pig).
Moments the reports were published, overnight, I stopped eating beef and started eating only fish.
I am a total vegetarian now but eat eggs.
The elements causing Mad Cow Disease are animal fats that human cannot digest fully (animals also cannot digest them) and get deposited in heart, liver and dangerously in the brain.
These undigested fats are called amyloid proteins and are mixed with various proteins trapped with in them.
The next is Chinese contribution.
The Chinese wet farm refuse is added as fodder to animals and fats are extracted for human consumption and converted into assortment of margarine.
These margarine are nicely flavoured and wrapped and our bread makers use them liberally instead of butter, milk and coconut oil.
A mass food crisis (FAT CRISIS) is in the offing.
So all the ingredients of Mad Cow Disease is in our Bread or "Chun-Pan".
Even a total.vegetarian, overtime can be affected by Mad Cow Disease.
That is the bottom line and STOP eating Margarine and Wasana Cakes made from them.
The April New Year coming bread makers work full time to use these palm oils and margarine (substitute for real coconut oil).
Coconut oil is the best oil and converting coconut oil to margarine is a CRIME and a CRISIS.
Eat butter and curd, drink milk and avoid all margarine.
Over 30 years I stopped buying margarine.
Continued drinking milk and making home made yogurts until a liter of milk became over Rs.200/= or more.
Do not eat food made of these margarine (biscuits, cakes, pastries and Chun Pan).
The necessary prerequisite for a Buddhist, even not intending to study Dhamma is to stop killing and not eating meat of any kind, fish included.
For centuries we had wars in this country and eating flesh predated nationhood and race, even in Ceylon.
So, Sansara is the essence.
The precursor of birth is death in elsewhere.
It is interlinked instantaneously and there is no Antarbhawa.
The death consciousness is the birth consciousness in essence.
With the Coronavirus calamity, one who does not believe in rebirth, tries to hang on to the ventilator or to believe in the putative efficacy of the vaccines.
Both allude to the reality that one would kick the bucket in many ways than one, anyway.
So give up that psychosis of Coronavirus and live this moment in happiness.
Somanassa Citta not Domanassa Citta.
In Sansara Concept, there are few levels of life.
If we take Manussa or Man in the middle, the higher level above is Deva where one spends his / her merit credit in one go.
Only a few Stream Entry Anagamis reach higher status or Nibbana in heaven.
The rest climb down rarely to manhood but naturally to the animal kingdom.
That is why I call the manhood /womanhood is very precious.
One may climb up from animal to human world rarely with previous Good Kamma.
Those who act in killing in wars only go to hell or animal kingdom.
The Vipaka or cause and effect has its ending there.
Kamma is actually all actions including killing in war.
The result or Vipaka is the outcome.
So avoiding killing and wars are mandatory for healthy human living.
One may be born in animal kingdom and be killed and eaten by another man or woman in the next life.
In fact, one may be eating his or her own kith and kin born in the animal kingdom.
How nice or naive is that?
That is the bottom line and the summum bonum!
The level below animals is spirit levels and demons and the upward mobility is rare.
I think born as a free bird is not as bad as spirits and demons.
I call the aliens who visit us from time to time are in between humans and heavenly beings but are humanoid all the same.
FACING DEATH
Facing death, even for a Buddhist who believes in Rebirth is a difficult preposition.
This is very difficult if the one who is dying is a kid.
It is imperative that I should write this end piece as a doctor and not as a priest.
Religions have many ways but none of their methods is perfect.
One who is about to exit has a deep fear when tunnel vision emerges.
It is a momentary period of lucidity out of a a dark halo.
One wonders whether to hold on to the failing body or let go to the unknown.
I am not sure how one in Jhana State handles this.
My description here is for an ordinary guy / girl.
It is better to explain with a few real examples.
Number one, with a sweet gentleman in mid eighties.
He was misdiagnosed and was in coma due to overdose of saline with clinical and laboratory confirmed hyponatraemia.
I had to reach the extended family with many grandchildren.
I asked them.
They wished to have a lucid moment with him.
I said I will try for 10 days and not more.
To my surprise on the 9th day he opened his eyes briefly and I got the family to be present the next day.
The nurses were excellent and propped him up with a head rest and I prompted, the grandchildren to wake him up for a brief period in the morning and in the evening and everybody had a chance for the next five days or so.
I had only one demand and that was, one with the strongest will power should hold his hand at the time of his last breath with a nurse attending, me nowhere near his bed.
The reason, he got attached to me in between.
The next was my favourite and he requested only me to be present.
I took the opportunity to convert him to Buddhist ideology with oxygen tank in supply for nearly 5 days.
The moment came I gripped his hand lightly.
He did not have any strength left to grip me.
Most of the others did not have any desires or requests for me and I let the nurses handle them.
The third one was an anomaly.
He was the only one who had a beautiful smile at the corners of his mouth.
Very unusual and all the others, I had witnessed had subdued fear.
I was not near him at his departure time and I probed.
He was an alcoholic and had a mild heart attack.
He faked pain and got an overdose of morphine.
I do not think his next life was favourable due to his intention of faking in the moment of death consciousness.
In my opinion, loading with drugs at the time of death is inappropriate and hinder the momentary lucid interval that helps into the next life.
In that sense recitals of faith may be helpful but wrong view of the faith may land one definitely in Hell not in Heaven.
In that sense, masterly inactivity at the time of death is the best approach, since nobody has control over one's death or the next birth.
I will finish this with few hypotherical scenarios which I have not experienced.
The encounter at the goal of death.
1. The executioner and the convict.
One in mortal fear and other indifferent to life.
2. The accidental death.
3. Home death with priests attending.
4. Hospital death, already described.
5. Death in battlefield.
Theoretically, if one can apply equanimity at the point of departure in the belief that death does not terminate Sansara may be helpful to reduce the engulfing fear.
That is only a hope, nothing more.
One has no control over the next birth or the next existence but a totally natural phenomenon, common to all forms of life.
So let go the attachment to this present but failing body.
Oxygen puff may be helpful but not the ventilator which prolongs the agony to nursing staff, next of kins and more importantly to one who is in the death bed.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Oviparity, Viviparity, Masupialization and Mammalian Evolution
It is a fascinating story how placenta came into existence from an unprotected egg to marsupian duck bill platipus to the nursing mother.
I won't go into evolution but write a few lines about the placenta for posterity.
The placenta is a big parasite.
It evades maternal immune rejection and we have not yet worked out its mysterious ways.
It is discarded with only a cursory look, at the time of birth, since the baby is the center of attraction.
After 1970s only a few have done any in depth studies.
I am not going to land with list of questions but take a little pause and write few lines.
I have done some basic investigations which are published for perusal but never bothered to write a few line of its mastery in evasion of hostility in evolution.
Placental HLA or human leukocyte antigens are different from maternal antigens.
It is intimately associated with maternal blood and maternal antibodies and lymphocytes.
Its HLA antigens arise early in embryonic development and it projects a potent barrier while invading the maternal uterus.
It has two layers one foetal and one maternal.
Amnion and Chorion (from which the placenta develops) are foetal.
It has only two layers of cells, the cellar cytotrophoblast layer and the multicellular syncytiotrophoblast layer.
Only the multicellular counterpart is seen when the placenta becomes mature.
It does not become old but gradually disintegrates after 40 weeks.
It resembles the symbiotic cell at the beginning of evolution, all mucoprotein but no nuclear material and a few fragments of nuclear material arranged as syncytial knots.
How does a large syncytium works in a all pervasive cellular world?
That is the only question of mine in this piece.
Basalis is the maternal mesoderm that gets vascularized gradually and extensively.
Basalis is maternal where spiral arteries empty its contents and filter all foetal blood to maternal venous sinuses.
It grows up to 40 weeks of gestation and wither off by 42 weeks.
It provides all the foetal hormones and control the maternal pituitary gland.
That's all about it.
HCG or Human Choriogonadotrophic Hormone is foetal and no counterparts in adults except its oestrogenic and progesterone actions.
My only contribution here is the large and mysterious Fibrinonection, mucopolysaccharide and protein molecule that are seen in the placenta especially up to 36 weeks of gestation which provide a ground base of nutrition and virtual mop up molecule or barrier for maternal antibodies present and in evolution, over the course of pregnancy..
This is almost same to the Fibrinonectin that exudes at the site of injury before granulation tissue of healing invades it.
Almost the same Fibrinonectin that provides a scaffolding for the cancer cells to form an angiogenic front.
So in my view, Fibrinonectin which I call the molecular glue does all the work by itself without a nucleus.
So it may be the grand old evolutionary molecule equal in potential to heat shock protein that started the life on this planet.
Nobody has done any worthwhile work on Heat Shock Protein (HSP) that are present in prokaryocytes and eukaryocytes.