Aneka Jathi Sabsaram - Pean of Joy

Aneka Jathi Sabsaram 

Pean of Joy

 

Aloka Udapadi
 

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 Khayamajjhagaa

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.

 

Soul Talk

Soul Talk

A soul to another soul on new arrival.

Shall we upgrade him or downgrade him?

Wait.

Why?

He is a politician.

His loots are not yet demonized (digitally converted) on earth (for posterity) due to a legal wrangle.

Bugger, the Bankers who Buggered US

 Thursday, December 14, 2017
Bugger, the Bankers who Buggered US

The Christmas is around the corner it is time to cheer yourself.

Best song I recommend is in the YouTube and it is Bugger the Bankers.

Lyrics of Bugger the Bankers
When I was a lass I was proud of me class
Like my father and mother before me
They taught me to fight for my civil rights
But it’s always the same old story.
The rich reign supreme while the poor only dream
And they don’t give a damn, Tory, Lib’ral or Labour.
Chorus
Bugger the bankers and politicians
Bugger the bureaucrats too
Bugger the buggers who make up the rules
And if you’re one of them – bugger you!
The system is bad and the money’s all spent
We’re buggered from every direction
The workers are taxed, the wealthy relax
With nary a moment for reflection
Chorus
Now all you good people with passion to vent
Don’t give up your struggle for justice
I’ve done my time in the protesters’ line
And these days I show my dissent
By loitering within my tent, my tent.


Five Ds

Five Ds are related to our Commercial Banks.
It is no different, NOW in our state banks, too

Death

Disease

Divorce

Debt and

Depression

All the Ds are depressing enough.

1. Death is of course the best of all.
If somebody dies 50% are happy (owns his or her assets) and other 50% are unhappy that they did not have legal access his or her assets.

2. Disease is inevitable if one live long.
Only way to avoid is kick the bucket in one's prime health in old age.

Otherwise our doctors fatten their pockets by diagnosing the diseases you never have or had.

Their bill is the major cause of depression.

3. Divorce contributes to most of the other Ds.
If one does not understand the Ds mentioned here one should not marry or at least delay it as much as possible.

4. Debt is directly proportionate to the number of commercial banks in a country including Central Bank.

The difference of the Central Bank is that the P.M. and President take the debts and 
poor citizen has to pay till s/he dies.

Political term is 5 years and debt is eternal stretching up to a century.

5. Depression is inevitable if you own a credit card or that matter a bank account.

It is part and parcel of the banking process.

Only way you can get out of it is to tune to the song or by heart the lyrics every time you walk into a bank to pay the debts you own.

I suppose I must end my digital connection with this song, since the whole Internet is depressing to say the least.

I also get some comments (most of the young and old guys do not know have how to organize the social life and debts).  

Facebook is their only outlet which I never use.

Facebook itself is a depressing.

So do not join or cancel your registration.
I tell you they never allow you to quit.

That itself is depressing.

This advice is for married people.

Moment you marry you get into debt mode.

Only way to avoid is to delay it or marry late when one is not fertile.

Then you do not have kids around that make you to conceal your depression and blame them for your own faults.

1. Not to have a credit card or destroy them the earliest possible.

2. Have only a saving account ideally two.
One for day to day expenses.

The other for real saving if you can afford.

This should be in a state bank nearest to your residence.

If I have to travel one hour one way another hour back home it is a pain.

3. Do not keep the money at home.

4. Your pocket should be always empty except for onward and backward travel ticket to the nearest till.

If somebody asks for loan show your empty pocket.

5. If the bank offers you a card try to forget its pin number earliest possible.

Then you go to the bank only when you really need some cash.

Any number above is prohibitive in Ceylon.

They can remember only three.

Try at least to remember 3 of the above five and death is redundant by default.

Above all enjoy the song bugger the bankers and your politicians who takes loans on your behalf.

Ultimate (MANJARO) Edition

Ultimate (MANJARO) Edition 

By the way, it is MANJARO based and I did not have problems with GRUB.

With this my criticisms of Manjaro ends for good 

No problem with GRUB and no hesitation to recommend it to a newbie.

It is plasma 6.5 and I am not a KDE supporter by default. 

It is using 1.3GB of my 7.3GB RAM at idle which is remarkable.

It is using 14.9GB of my 23.9GB /root partition and I have 9GB free space.

No Synaptic Package Manager but I would get my AbiWord and I am happy without LibreOffice.

I got, Audacity, Firefox and Blender.

Transmission and Deluge added.

With all that 3.7GB of my spare space is left. 

This is why I say Linux and ARCH Rocks.

Dolphin is mandatory.

VLC is already there.

OBS is already there.

Thank to All at Ultimate Gamers.

By the way, I am not a gamer in my old age. I only play little kid's games.

Ultimate Linux is a gamer distribution I have not tested for ages.

These guys quietly do their work without funfair and they have come out with their latest image in December, 2025. 

I am going to install it on top of Manjaro, since Manjaro cannot coexist with other ARCH distributions.

It has grown huge and is 6.8GB in size. 

  

Ultimate (MANJARO) Edition 

OS Type: Linux
    Based on: Arch
    Origin: USA
    Architecture: x86_64
    Desktop: Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, MATE, Xfce
    Category: Desktop, Gaming, Live Medium
    Status: Active
    Popularity: 74 (200 hits per day) 

Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, was a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint though recent versions (starting in 2024) have been based on Arch Linux. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, including WiFi and Bluetooth, and integration of many extra applications and package repositories.

January, 05, 2023

 

Ultimate Gamers Edition

 

Most of these games age already bundled up in Debian Gnome in 64 bit format.
 

I have not tested but Ultimate Arch Gamers also have bundled their own game pack.

 

Even though, it is 4.4GB the Box Utility of Debian it mounts in a Virtual Session, bringing nostalgia of 32 bit era.

 

It has GDebi Package installer and that it means it is updated to current use and once installed one can install even my favorite Abiword. 

 

Being a gamer, it has no office packages.

I have no hesitation to recommend using it by a newbie or an old hand like me in Linux.

 

Thank YOU guys and Girls developing Ultimate Gamers Edition.

 

I have included in my book "Linux Essentials" in the Gamers section.

 

I am not a fan of MATE and I have not used MATE as a regular user and that is why this Distribution has missed my attention.

 

By the way, I am not a fan of ARCH Linux but ARCH has come up with (Storm, Blue Star Linux, Arco Linux) many editions.

 

Blue Star Linux was 4.7GB and is a very elegant distribution only my lack of experience in ARCH Linux keep me not using it.

 

Manjaro is on top of my selections.

 

I am too, old to learn new tricks and I am happy with Debian.

 

It took almost two hours to download Blue Star Linux by torrents with only 3 seeders. 

I used my old Laptop. 

I use my Laptop (500GB but only half full after loading with all the Linux images) to store store all the Linux images, since my NUC has no space. 

Already filled with over 50 Iso images, mostly old Puppy Linux my favorite.

 

Linux Mint

Mx Linux

Debian

4M Linux (version 5 did not have seeders). 

Majaro

Blue Star Linux

 

By the way, Netrunner KDE derivative has become one of my favorite distributions which has many attributes.

 

Ultimate Gamers Edition is an open source and completely free Linux kernel based operating system derived from the world’s most popular distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, and designed from the ground up for hardcore Gamers. 

The Gamers flavour of the Ultimate Edition Linux operating system is distributed as a Live DVD ISO image that has approximately 4GB in size,    it supports both 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x86_64) hardware platforms, but contains software packages optimized only for the 32 bit architecture. It can be written to either a DVD disc or a USB thumb drive of 4GB or higher capacity.
Being designed from the ground up as a Live DVD, the Ultimate Gamers Edition distribution will allow the user to use the entire system directly from the bootable medium, in live mode. By default, it will start automatically when you boot the ISO image from the BIOS of a PC, but various advanced boot options are available on the boot menu.
The distribution’s default and only graphical desktop environment is powered by LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), which uses a traditional single panel layout for a productive and very fast desktop experience.
Among the pre-installed games are 

3D chess, 

Airstrike, 

Aisleriot Solitaire, 

Barrage, Blackjack, 

Boswars, 

Brutal, 

Chess, 

BzFlag, 

Brutal Chess, 

Chess, 

Dream Chess, 

Five or more, 

Foo Billiard, 

Four in a row, 

Freecell, 

Gbrainy, 

Glest, 

Gnometris, 

Gridwars, 

Hearts, 

Lango, 

Kslotski, 

Majongg and Mines.
The Nexuiz, 

Nibbles, 

Nimuh, 

Open Arena, 

PokerTH, 

Robots, 

SameGnome, 

Sauerbraten, 

Snoballz, 

Suduku, 

Super Tux 2, 

Tali, 

Tetravex, 

Tremulous, 

Vetris and Warsow are also included.
 

The Play On Linux application, a graphical front end for the award winning Wine software, will allow the user to download, install and play games that have been designed to work only on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

HAPPY New Year, 2026 to All Linux Developers

HAPPY New Year  to all the Linux Developers,  especially the ARCH Rilling Release guys.

On January, First I tried installing all the ARCH derivatives except CachyOS, just to see who can coexist within the same GRUB Boot Loader.

For now, I can say who would not.

1. CachyOS 

2. MANJARO 

The ones who coexist are

1. BlueStar Linux

Thank you BlueStar the most beautiful KDE Desktop for widhing me Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to YOU.

2. REBORN OS

3. Debian GNOME 

HAPPY New Year to PUPPY Linux and KNOPPIX 9.1.

WAKE Up from Slumber.

By the way, I did not try MX Linux and AntiX (stll in beta2 stage).

MX Linux is pretty good but it should improve its Wall Papers.

Blend OS from India and I do not like Achcharu Distribution.

Endeavor OS beautiful but not enough applications.

I do not fancy fiddling with configuration aftet first install.

Well I HATE immutable districtions which defeat the very pronciple of Linux. They are no different to commercial products.

Final word about Gnoppix its December 31 iso does not boot after installation in my NUC, so I did not try it on January First.

By the way, Debian DVD-1 takes a long time to install since it is not modular and every single file has to be configured before booting. It also checks before booting. I made a mistake while installing i

my spare GNOME and  the entire file system including passward file.

With only GNOME, Phosh and Lomiri Cellphone utilities it totals 9.4GB /root file.

I got my GRUB back to normal after nearly 24 hours of hard work.

Paranavithana Pattapal Horek = BRITISH Stooge

Paranavithana is an Copycat or an ace plagiarist.

He has not done a single independent investigation in Ceylon regarding Stone Edits.

He is like a Registrar who records all the dictates of colonial masters

The commoner garden term is a glorified Chief Clerk.

He did not have the brain or the guts to question the colonial masters.

He had copied everything word by word, in real terms a plagiarist.

Unfirtunately, he ended up becoming the Archaelogist of the University, where I graduated in Medicine. He is a disgrace to the very University, I graduated.

He hasn't got a single SelLipi of Stone Edits of his own to prove his claims and CREDIBILITY.

Whereas, Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi has thousnds of recorded Stone Edits to prove Buddha was born in Ceylon.

Not only Gotama but Kakusanda, Konagama and Kassapa were born in CEYLON. They are related to the series of RAVANA clans who were our Prehistoric ancestors.

It is more than likely, Buddha's Clan had connection with RAVANA clan by marriage.

Historically, Indians are dead against of Buddhism getting established in CEYLON due to political reasons.

They planted Buddhagosha and Mahanama to distort history of CEYLON.

According to Indian pundits CEYLON did not exist before 2500 years and there were no prehistoric people in CEYLON.

We need to rectfy this anomaly.

Most of our monks just follow the wrong interpretation of our history by British Monarchs which was perpetuated word by word by Paranavithana, the crook.

Raj Somadeva hasn't got the guts to say it openly, may be so, due to LTTE diaspora pressure.

That's where we stand in 2026.

We are at historical crossroads.

Historical Lies vs Emerging TRUTH

Thank God, I am not a historiam but a critical and scientific analyst.

It all started with Russia and Ukraine War.

That is on it's tail end I needed some other topics. 

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi fitted in, just in time for the New Year.

By the way, I am totally against, the New Nikaya of Bokken Arimagga  Nikaya from Norway. It is an LTTE project from Norway.

It is unfortunate Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi fell into the LTTE Trap.

But I am watching without interferring.

I have achieved my targets.

It is matter of finishing 5 books before April New Year, 2026.

Only editing left.

It is a toll ask.

I think, it is prudent for Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi to go abroad for his safety.

I have done so myself in the past but I was a working professional.

Getting VISA is difficult.

Anybody is free to travel.

That lasts only 6 months.

He has upsetted a hornet nest.

Rabid monks are behind his back.

Already an attempt to poison him by delivering a guuny bag of poisoned rice was attempted.

These monks already have gone parnoid.

 But he must not be trapped by the LTTE diasphora who are hell bent on discrediting CEYLON which is very well orchestrated.

My gut feeling is he would not tolerate harsh Winter even 6 weeks. He would want to come back to Ceylon.

Apart from Winter Blues he may fall sick.

Think of what happened to SOMA Thera in Russia. He was killed there.

After SOMA Thera, Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is the only guy who defended Buddhism in CEYLON.

He is a prime Target by many especially the Indians and RAW.

RAW tried to kill me for no reason.

I was working for a foreign organization spearheaded by Americans.

That was my crime and that is why I hate Indian politics.

Nix OS is adopting GNOME 49

I am a GNOME guy and I HATE KDE.

I downloaded KDE image and it FROZE unable read my Partition Table with 29 partitions. It is huge 6.5GB and cannot even do a decent partitioning job. It does not have an independent repository.

Gnome guys are also trying to develop an Image. It anoys me these guys are asking donations. In my opinion, if they did not do crowd funding before embarking on the project, they would not be able come out with a good product.

By the way, Nix OS is the only distribution that had the courage to come out with GNOME 49 Installer.

If I rember right it wad a KDE based Distribution. It looks like its GNOME installer is not working.

I would try its Plasma installer before giving up.

It looks like all these guys put out products without proper testing like Gnoppix.

Gnoppix attemt is to luvre newbies its customer base in the New YEAR. It looks like Nix OS does not detect my integrated Graphic card (Plasma Installer).

MoccacinnoOS Installation

MoccaccinoOS is a Gentoo based desktop distribution with minimal utilities.

I tried EXT4 installation and currently trying to install with bcachefs (Copy on Write ) file system.

I am trying Gnome Desktop which is about, 2.1GB Iso. 

My Guess is it going to fail again. 

Formatting the file system takes ages. 

I won't recommend it to a newbie in Linux.

Partitioning took 12 minutes.

283487 files in total for installation.

Took 10 minutes for Installation and as expected GRUB boot loader failed.

I think like btrfs file system it has redundancy file system for backup which I HATE.

WiFi configuration was smooth.

 

Latest Gnome image did not have any problem while installing.

It is minimal and immutable and does not serve me in any way.

Old Tribes of Ceylon and the RAVANA Clan

Old Tribes of Ceylon and the RAVANA Clan 

History of Ceylon and Tribes 

History of Ceylon does not end in 5000 years.

It probably extends up to 150,000 years.

A skeleton was found in our sea which was estimated to be 150,000 old.

Balangoda man was between 30 to 50,000 old. 

They were not cave men but a relatively advanced civilization.

Ibbankatuwa remains or tombs dating back to 700BCE shows where ashes of the dead were placed in pots. Muslims have destroyed these sites to destroy our heritage.

At least we have had caves and records going up to 8000 years when Kakusanda Buddha was supposed to have resided in CE LON.

We may have had several Prehistoric Tribes.

Buddha was born in Ceylon.

 

We have had all the 5 prerequisites.

කාලය     Time

දේශය     Region

ද්වීපය     Island

කුලය      Noble Tribe

මව          Mother

These facts were destroyed by the British and Buddha's birth place was shifted to India.

But we have thousands of Stone Edits supporting Buddha was born in Ceylon which Paranavithana deliberately falsified to satisfy the Church and the British.

During the Gotama Buddha, there were at least 4 tribes.

1. Yaksha     Rugged and powerful

2. Naga        Tall with reptilian eyes

3. Raksha     Rugged and black

4. Deva or Manussa  only a limited clan

They were all humans with interbreeding but Yaksha were powerful and dominated. 

There were internecine conflicts.

Broad division was Sura and Asura.

 

Manussa or Amanussa.

Buddha clan interbred with Yaksha clans to bring harmony.

Buddha himself dealt with at least 4 conflicts.

There were 4 great kings and many other kings during the time of Buddha leading these tribes. Ceylon was much bigger and part of it went under water with enormous wealth.

1. Maiyanganaya Yaksha Naga Conflict

2. Conflict with Royal Chair in Kelaniya

3. Saman (was an uncle of Buddha), the Adam's Peak

4. Alawaka Yaka (Now Alawwa)

Kandy Perahara is less than 100 years old and is a Tamil Festival. 

They substituted their Devas into our culture.

Vishnu

Kataragama

Paththini  supposed to be the next Buddha (Metta)

 

Buddha was also considered a god

Did not have a fourth but added Saman later.

Four powerful kings became gods with the destruction of our culture by the British. 

Paranavithana is the villain who kept British concocted history to this day.

History has to be rewritten with Stone Edits supporting, them.

We have over 20,000 Stone Edits.

Many of them have not yet being read or interpreted.

In my analysis 50% of our blood comes from Yaksha.

Over the last 1700 of Indian Invasion and Tamil or Pandyan kings our history was rewritten by the Indians.

 

This Vijaya story is a "cock and bull" story planted on our history by Indians and Indians still persevere to maintain that cooked up story.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi has enormous quantity of Stone Edits to dispute. He is slowly dishing them out. 

මට පෙනෙන දේශපාලන කෘමන්ත්‍රනය

ප්‍රේමදාස ජනාදීපති මරා දැමු ලෙසටම කෘමන්ත්‍රනයකින් අනුරව මරා හෝ පලවා හැර  රජ වෙන්න රනිල් නොහොත් සුත්තර පුන්චා දැන් ලැහැස්ති වෙනවා.

රනිල් බල ප්‍රේතයෙක්‌. 

රටේම අවාසනාව.

සැලැස්ම කර ඇත්තේ ඉන්දියාට නඩ පටවන දුස්ශිල  හාම්මුදුරු ගොල්ලක්.

මිහින්තලය අමෙරිකන් මිලිටරි ගුවන්යානා මද්‍යස්ථානයක්‌ සඳහා විකිනීමට නියමිතය.

රනිල් රට කෑලි තුනට කැඩිමේ නියමුවා වෙන්න හදන්නේ.

අම්මගේ මුත්තාගේ දේපොල, අර මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ වික්කා වගේ.

දෙන්න, ජාඩියට මුඩිය වගේ.

අමෙරිකාවෙන් ලොකු මුදලක් ලැබෙනවා.

ඒ මුදලින් අන්තිම කාලයේ සැගවී සිටීමට අමෙරිකාවෙන් "Rhode Island' වගේ දුපතක්‌ ඔහුට ලැබන්න තියනවද?

අනේ අපොයි, අපේ ලංකාවට.

1959යෙ, සෝමාරාම සහ බුද්ධරක්‌කිත කතාව නැවත රංග දැක්‌වීමක්.

ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච්ට ලංකාවේ ඉදන් කියන්න බැරිදේ පිටරට සිටන් හරි කිව යුතුයි.

Please mark my word before it really happens.

Simple Way to Choose a Linux Distribution

Perhaps this is my last post on Linux.

I would not write any on 2026, instead, I would choose 5 with different attributes that would coexist in my NUC.

I am still stuck at 4.

They are

1. Debian 

2. BlueStar Linux

3. Reborn OS

4. MX Linux 

CachyOS is the most elegant but it only coexists with Debian.

I have no Windows but to fool Windows snoopy guys I have GRUB entry without actually having Windows installed.

Do not listen to YouTube guys.

They are paid by Microsoft Guys.

Choosing a Distribution

1. For Games

Steam OS

2. Ordinary day to day use

Do a Internet Survey of 20 Linux Distributions

Short List 5

Download the Live  DVDs and Test them

install ONLY two and try them.

Do not try all 5 like me YOU bound to fail.

3. Special Use Case Scenario and Higj end Graphic Cards owners.

I cannot advice.

I am not a gamer.

I play only kids games now.

If you own an average Graphic Card there is no worry at all. Almost all Linux Distributions now configure the graphic card efficiently and do not tinker afterwards

4. Do not buy an expensive Mini Desktop computer if your workload is heavy. Instead buy a Mini Desktop depending on your budget. The advantage is one can uograde except RAM. RAM is the most important and they are in short supply due to panic buying.

5. Do not buy a second hand refurbished PC if your understanding on hardware is only average.

Give your specication to the vendors and request him that you would like to see the assembly in person.

Thereby, You learn a bit of hardwsre assembly.

I did with my first computer in early 1980s and my son got to know the tit bits

6. I am ambivalent with Laptops since I carry a few a USB sticks with Puppy Linux for work including persistece volume.

Biggest problem is the bulk.

The next problem is the battery.

The third is the graphics.

Basically, laptop is the pain in the arxxx.

Once I bought two Mini PCs I stopped using the Laptop. It is now used to store all the Linux Images. I stick a USB and copy an Image. Besides, it has all the older images. 

I left all my archived images in CEYLON and Ceylon is totally devasted. 

I have no intention of visiting to see the devastation.

I send money though, to CEYLON coffers and if I find NPP/JVP misappropriate them, I am going to withhold even that contribution.

Beautiful Mind

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Beautiful Mind

Let me list, a few of our emotions and then see how we can avoid feeling bad or confused.

This is based on a power point presentation to undergraduates in their Preliminary Course in English. 

 

Seeing students of different faith I avoided the Buddhist Terminology but in fact expanded on the four Wrong Directions which young one’s, including individuals of different religious faiths, political ideology, racial orientation and above all some teachers (ill conceived) with hidden agenda.

1. Fear

2. Anger

3. Hate

4. Aggression

5. Resentment

6. Envy

7. Rejection

8. Guilt

9. Pride

10. Boredom

11. Loneliness

12. Jealousy (Green eyed Monster)

13 Paranoia

 

Why not

1. Hope

2. Happiness

3. Love and

4. Self Control

5. Tolerance

These were the same emotions which went through young minds of our generation 60 years ago.

Most of them ended up with “Reactive Depression” not “Endogenous Depression” but there was no counseling of any kind at disposal.

I think in this modern age of Digital Obsession, there is more expressed “Emotional Intolerance”.
 

In fact, digital media like Facebook, to some extent YouTube thrive on this malady.
I think politicians from China to Russia to Middle East (Israel and Palestine included) to (importantly) USA base their strategies on hate anger and resentment.
Emotions like relationships have various shades and connections.
 

We can shape our emotions, the way we want them to be (for good as well as bad intentions).

How can we progress?

In a way according to Professor De Bono;

It is to have beautiful Mind or get rid of the wrong Directions and Intentions.

I did a survey on technical terms in psychology and found psychological terms easily outnumbered the technical terms in physics, mathematics and philosophy all put together.

The corollary of this is that Religious, Political and Racial Doctrines can thrive on these minor and major psychological maladies.

It is interesting that Buddha had crystallized the themes into four categories. 

During the talk on “Making a Choice in Life”;

Ajahn Brahm taught the four considerations when face with making a decision.

Not for selfish reason

Not with ill-will

Not out of stupidity

With no Fear.

This is the Buddha’s teaching on four “Agati”, namely,

Chanda-gati, Dosa-gati, Moha-gati, Bhaya-gati, or the four kinds of corruption.

Chanda-gati, corruption induced by desire, is deviation from the right path in pursuit of bribes or for the sake of those one loves.

Dosa-gati is taking the wrong path to spite those against whom one bears ill will, and

Moha-gati is aberration due to ignorance.
 

Bhaya-gati
But perhaps the worst of the four is bhaya-gati, for not only does bhaya, fear, stifle and slowly destroy all sense of right and wrong, it so often lies at the root of the other three kinds of corruption.

Agati: the 4 'wrong Paths' are: the path of desire, the path of hate, the path of confusion, the path of fear bhaya. One who is freed from these evil impulses is no longer liable to take any wrong path.

Satara Agati -Four unprofitable directions

The term 'Agati' in Pali mean wrong course or going bad way.

There are four bad ways,

a) Chandā agati - the going a bad way through ill will

b) Dosā agati -the going a bad way through hate

c) Bhayā agati - the going a bad way through fear

d) Mohā agati - the going a bad way through ignorance or delusion

Pali

 

Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya

This piece is dedication to Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya who introduced me to "Language Games" long after I matured into C and dropped it at C++ PLUS.

Even, in Computer CODE, if one adds more and more Commands Modules, one is left with an endless loop with no Work Output. 

Google's Visual Code suffer the same fate. 

PYTHON or the Anaconda which I was never interested in has long twists of CODE is only GOOD for automation since, if one loop fails another loop tightly binds the PREY for later consummation loop or rather maintaining the automatic loop.

I am not sure how AI would solve this problem of many computers languages.

Would it build another language of it own?

Pali

Pali as a language has failed to Express Dhamma in a pristine form. 

This is what as an astute philosopher Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya tried to do without opening a can of worms in his time, among the so called Buddhist monks who are entangled in a mess of Pali words.

My conviction of Pali is bit beyond the attempt of the professor. 

I want it to get rid of the jargon.

This is the very reason I did not want to be named a professor in my retirement (partly technical and partly I did not want to be tagged to University of Peradeniya, in my retirement to avoid visiting their Conventions by invitation. 

Now our ulma mater is devastated, one is not sure, when the next convention is going to be held).

With a post of professor one is bound by conventions if not convictions.

I want to be free of conventions. 

Free of convictions I can now state or lash out;

1. Pali is not the language of Buddha.

 

2. Pali is an adopted or "cooked up" language by Indians to distort Dhamma or the very Teachings of Buddha.

3. I was made to believe that to understand Dhamma one has to know Pali. 

I tried.

I collected (they are collecting dust in CEYLON ), all the dictionaries and glossaries, thinking Dhamma is an academic exercise.

I am proven WRONG.

4. If I did not meet Professior A. D. P. Kalansuriya, I would have been trapped or entangled.

5. The word entanglement is colossal.

It even embraces the meaning of python in computer coding. 

6. Dhamma is for unentanglement.

7. Pali is for entanglement and the moment I realized this, I dropped Pali knowing Buddha  only spoke in simppe language.

8. If Buddha was not born in CEYLON, he certainly embraced the original Sinhala language which Jayarathne Pathiraarchchi tries to bring out in style.

9. Buddhagosha and Mahanama were vested by Indian kings to destroy Sinhala language. 

By doing so destroy Dhamma.

10. Why did they translate Dhamma into Pali?

11. Why did they burn the original Sinhala Texts?

12. What happened at Abayagiri?

13. Pali is a creation by Indian Pandits to distort Dhamma.

Dhamma does not give "two hoots" to God or Maha Brahma.

14. Idea was to propagate gods of many kinds with that  also the castes of many kinds.

15. If Pali is not a creation, why there is no place on this Planet people speaking Pali?

16. Sinhala, letters originated first.

They are still present in CEYLON as Stone Edits or SelLipi.

17. Anura and Niragamikayan are trying to perpetuate this Indian mythology on present "Helayans" who are only a few that are left in this country.

18. We have to destroy this Indian propaganda.

Ranil Wickrasinghe and Milinda Moragoda have taken this contract.

19. Our history has to be rewritten.

Now is the time.

Help Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

When good things come out or try to resurface Marayan wakes up.

Marayans = Indians 

That is the simple equation.

20. Current natural catastrophe washed away all the hopes of Indians, Nigantayans and Niragamikayans.

21. Thanks to European guys who recorded our Stone Edits.

22. Down with Paranavithana C. B. E who was an agent of the Church of England who distorted our history.

23. Down with Raj Soma Deva who is an agent of L. T. T. E.

Triad of Anura, Soma Deva and Rump L. T. T. E. are the bane of this country, called Ceylon.

Unholy Trinity.

All originated from Vidyodaya University background to ascend to some  questionable CREDIBILITY.

It seems as all the Archaeologists are Bone Liars except only a few.

Wake up.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is shaking up the foundation of credibility.

Lies cannot last long or have long legs.

They get invariably exposed.

Small steps are necessary.

Now is the time.

My Political Stance in the Global Village

I am going to be less active in the Global Village, in the coming year, 2026.

My positioning is based on the Teaching of Buddha. 

In other words, I am TRUE to Dhamma and would not waver to protect Dhamma from attack from within or outside.. 

 

In that sense, if Buddha was born in CEYLON (that is in fact the scientific truth) and British and Indian have together cooked up a story for political reasons, I am ready to SHAME, them at any forum.

My anti Indian stance is based on that.

I have nothing against an average Indian.

If CEYLONESE Tamils for sectarian reasons tore the line with Indians to propagate that myth, I am going to be at loggerhead with them.

 

I do not care, the guy is a politician, a monk a priest or any pseudo-social activist.

 

They have to provide me with facts not antics.

My support for Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is based on the will to discover the TRUTH.

 

He is the only guy who had the courage to stand up to the monks with vested interests.

He deserves accolades.

 

Others who say yes to any imported opinion, I call them and I consider them Ceylonese ponnayas or souls without a backbone.

My global promotion on Linux would tail off and my drive to make its PC penetration of 10% has born fruit.

My future interest will be on Linux Distributions and up till now I have found 5 to support. 

Strangely, 3 of them are ARCH based which was a very late adoption by me.

 

I promote English as a link language of Ceylon and in a way I am grateful to the British. However, the cultural or heritage destruction they attempted in their colonial administration, I do not agree.

The destruction to our hill country by Tea plantation, importation of foreign labour and killing of our Elephants I deplore. Their plundering and destruction of Buddhist sites were colossal and Ceylonese deserve some form of reparation and compensation.

That should not be in the form of aids to a particular racial entity or religious sector.. Their attempt to divide and rule which itself is a deplorable political act and Norway and Canada (proxies of British hegemony) are currently doing that now.

පන්සල් වලට අරක්ගත් ශ්‍රමණනයන් සිංහල ඉතිහාසය විකුර්ති කිරීම, කැතයි වැඩේ

මේ සිද්දින්, හේතුව පැහැදිලි කළ යුතුය.

මම අවුරුදු 25කට, පෙර සිට ලංකාවේ වෛද්‍ය සභාවේ සහතිකය ප්‍රතික්‌ෂෙප කෙලෙමි. එයට හේතුව, රජයෙ සහ පෞගලික වෛවරුන් කරන සත්‍ය වසන් කිරීම් සහ සහාසික වැඩ එලිදරව් කිරීමටය. මගෙ පවුලෙ අයගෙ යහපත සලකා එය අතහැර දමා, පොඩි කාලයෙ, මගෙ ඥති ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකුටවූ, පොරොන්දුවක්‌ අනුව බුදුදහම පිලිබඳ සත්‍ය ගවේශනයක යෙදුනෙමි.

සොයා ගත් දේවල් එලි කිරීම වෛද්‍ය වරයෙකුගේ ආචාර්ය දර්ම සලකා නොකෙළෙමි.

නමුත්, ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච්ගේ, ඉතිහාසය පිළිබද බුද්දිමය ගෑවේශනය දැක ඔහුට පරිවාර සහය සදහා මගේ ඉංග්‍රීසි පොත්වල සදහන් නොකළ දේ ගුගල් බ්ලොග් සටහනේ තබන්න ඉටා ගතිමි.

සංඝයා පිලිබඳ පැහදීමක් මට නැත.

හේතුන්

1. සතර කේන්දරය පාලු වූ මව සහ පිය සෙනෙහස නොලැබු දරුවන් මහන කියිම 

2. එම දරුවන් ලිංගික පහස සදහා යොදා ගැනීම

මෙය පල්ලියෙද උපාය මාර්ගය ය. අම්පිටිය පාසලට ගිය නිසා ඒ ගැන හොදට අද්ද්‍යානය කෙලමි.

3. පොඩිත්තන් වහල්ලු සේ සැලකීම

4. බුද්දියෙන් තොර අය සාසනයට ඇතුළු වීමට ඉඩ සැලසුම් කලේ ඉංගිරිසි පාලකයන්ය. 

සාසනය කාදනයවීම ඔන්ගෙ පරිපාලනයට අවශ්‍ය විය.

5. කතෝලික ආගම ස්ථාපිත කිරීම අරමුණ විය. 

එය 5%න් නතර විය. 

එම 5% රජයේ තනතුරුට ආදේශ කරන ලදි.

මෙත්තානන්ද ශ්‍රීමතුන් මතක් කරන්න.

6. Olcott සහ Blavasky ඇතුළු ඉන්දියාවේ "පරම දර්ම සභාව", මේ උප්පර වට්ටියේ කුටප්‍රාත්තියයි

7. ඉන්දියානු කුමන්ත්‍රණය දියත් කිරීම.

අනගාරික ධර්මපාල නැමැති 

කතෝලිකයෙක් බුදුන් උපන් රටට නොහොත් නිඝන්ටයන් සිටි රටට යැවීම

නේපාලයේ බුදන් උපන්බව රෝපණය කිරීම.

8. සංඝ බේදයට උඩගෙඩි තැබීම

9. ධර්මය විකුර්ති කිරීමට පාලි නැමැති විකුර්ති භාෂාවක් ඉන්දියාවේ නිෂ්පාදනය කිරීම

10. බුද්ධගෝෂ සහ මහානාම ලංකාවේ පැල පදියන් කිරීම.

සිංහල බෞද්ධ ග්‍රන්ථ පුළුස්සා දැමීම.

පාලි පච වැට්ටෝරුදින් කිරීම.

සංගයා සුන්වීම.

පසුකාලිනව කම්බෝජයෙන් සහ බුරුමයෙන් උපසම්පදා වැඩම වීම.

දෙමළන් කල විනාස හංගන්නේ ඇයි.

දෙමළුන්ට බයද නැත්තන් දෙමළුන් බොරුවට කහින්න සල්ලි දෙනවද?

අවුරුදු 800 ත් 1200ත් අතර වූ සොලී නොහොත් දමිළ ආක්‍රණ වලදී කළ විනාස ගැන කතා නොකරන්නේ ඇයි.

සිංහල වංසය වෙනුවට මහාවන්සය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම

11. වාසනාවකට මෙන් ඥනතිලෝක සහ ඥනපොයිනික හිමියන් යුද සමයේ ජර්මානු යුදෙව් සංහාරයෙන් මිදී ලංකාවට පැමිණිම. 

බෝදි අත් පොත් ප්‍රකාශනය වීම

බුදු දහම නැවතත් ස්ථාපිතවීම

12. බෞද්ධ ග්‍රන්ථ ප්‍රකාශන අංශය බිහිවීම

Buddhist Publication Society, was establihed in Kandy.

13. දැන් වෙන්නේ මෙයයි.

බුදුසසුන විනාස කිරීමේ ඉන්දියානු ව්‍යාප්‍රතිය, අනුර නැමැති නරුමයා බාර ගැනීම.

14. වාසනාවකට මෙන් යුරොපිය ගත් කරුවන් සෙල්ලිපි ටිකක් හෝ සටහන් කිරීම. පුරාවිද්‍යා අංශය යුරොපිය මතය පමණක් හරි ලෙස සැලකීම.

ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච් හෙළි කරන කරුණු නිසා චක්‍ර වර්ති කියන අයගේ රෙදි ගැලවිලා යාම.

ඉංගිරිසියෙන් කියන්නේ කලිසමේ චු යෑම.

15. සිංහල ඉගෙන ගැනීමට මා මැලිවූයෙ, අනවශ්‍ය පාලි ඉන්දියානු ව්‍යාකරන ආදේශ කොට සරල හෙළ බස විනාස කිරීමය.

16. ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චට ජයවේවා.

ඔහු ප්‍රකාශ කළ හෙළ හෝඩිය ලක්වාසි ජනතාව ප්‍රගුණ කරත්වා.

Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya

This piece is dedication to Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya who introduced me to "Language Games" long after I matured into C and dropped it at C++ PLUS.

Even, in Computer CODE, if one adds more and more Commands Modules, one is left with an endless loop with no Work Output. 

Google's Visual Code suffer the same fate. 

PYTHON or the Anaconda which I was never interested in has long twists of CODE is only GOOD for automation since, if one loop fails another loop tightly binds the PREY for later consummation loop or rather maintaining the automatic loop.

I am not sure how AI would solve this problem of many computers languages.

Would it build another language of it own?

Pali

Pali as a language has failed to Express Dhamma in a pristine form. 

This is what as an astute philosopher Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya tried to do without opening a can of worms in his time, among the so called Buddhist monks who are entangled in a mess of Pali words.

My conviction of Pali is bit beyond the attempt of the professor. 

I want it to get rid of the jargon.

This is the very reason I did not want to be named a professor in my retirement (partly technical and partly I did not want to be tagged to University of Peradeniya, in my retirement to avoid visiting their Conventions by invitation. 

Now our ulma mater is devastated, one is not sure, when the next convention is going to be held).

With a post of professor one is bound by conventions if not convictions.

I want to be free of conventions. 

Free of convictions I can now state or lash out;

1. Pali is not the language of Buddha.

 

2. Pali is an adopted or "cooked up" language by Indians to distort Dhamma or the very Teachings of Buddha.

3. I was made to believe that to understand Dhamma one has to know Pali. 

I tried.

I collected (they are collecting dust in CEYLON ), all the dictionaries and glossaries, thinking Dhamma is an academic exercise.

I am proven WRONG.

4. If I did not meet Professior A. D. P. Kalansuriya, I would have been trapped or entangled.

5. The word entanglement is colossal.

It even embraces the meaning of python in computer coding. 

6. Dhamma is for unentanglement.

7. Pali is for entanglement and the moment I realized this, I dropped Pali knowing Buddha  only spoke in simppe language.

8. If Buddha was not born in CEYLON, he certainly embraced the original Sinhala language which Jayarathne Pathiraarchchi tries to bring out in style.

9. Buddhagosha and Mahanama were vested by Indian kings to destroy Sinhala language. 

By doing so destroy Dhamma.

10. Why did they translate Dhamma into Pali?

11. Why did they burn the original Sinhala Texts?

12. What happened at Abayagiri?

13. Pali is a creation by Indian Pandits to distort Dhamma.

Dhamma does not give "two hoots" to God or Maha Brahma.

14. Idea was to propagate gods of many kinds with that  also the castes of many kinds.

15. If Pali is not a creation, why there is no place on this Planet people speaking Pali?

16. Sinhala, letters originated first.

They are still present in CEYLON as Stone Edits or SelLipi.

17. Anura and Niragamikayan are trying to perpetuate this Indian mythology on present "Helayans" who are only a few that are left in this country.

18. We have to destroy this Indian propaganda.

Ranil Wickrasinghe and Milinda Moragoda have taken this contract.

19. Our history has to be rewritten.

Now is the time.

Help Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

When good things come out or try to resurface Marayan wakes up.

Marayans = Indians 

That is the simple equation.

20. Current natural catastrophe washed away all the hopes of Indians, Nigantayans and Niragamikayans.

21. Thanks to European guys who recorded our Stone Edits.

22. Down with Paranavithana C. B. E who was an agent of the Church of England who distorted our history.

23. Down with Raj Soma Deva who is an agent of L. T. T. E.

Triad of Anura, Soma Deva and Rump L. T. T. E. are the bane of this country, called Ceylon.

Unholy Trinity.

All originated from Vidyodaya University background to ascend to some  questionable CREDIBILITY.

It seems as all the Archaeologists are Bone Liars except only a few.

Wake up.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is shaking up the foundation of credibility.

Lies cannot last long or have long legs.

They get invariably exposed.

Small steps are necessary.

Now is the time.

සෝම තෙරුන් වහන්සේ මරුවේ ඇයි?

සෝම තෙරුන් වහන්සේ මැරුවේ, මම විජය පරම් පරාවේ නොවේ යයි කියලා ප්‍රසිද්දියේ කියපු නිසයි.

මහාවංසය පට්ට පල් බොරුවක් යයි කියපු නිසායි

ලංකාවේ ඇත්ත කතා කිරීම තහනම්.

මේවාට ඉන්දියානු මුදල් වලින් යැපෙන හාමුදුරුවන් මෙන්ම යූටියුබ් කාරයන්ද සම්බන්දයි.

දමිළ ඩයස්පොරාව මේවට ගින්දර දානවා.

How does one have a good password?

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
 

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neuron networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I DO NOT use a VISA card now.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
 

For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
 

Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Step 5
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.

The best place to HIDE  is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.
 

Resetting the password
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
 

Straight away say NO.
 

The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
 

That includes me too.
 

I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded, I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.

Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.

Pearl Linux

Here, I have reproduced a read me file of Pearl Linux since I could not find the user name and password.

It is an Ubuntu Derivative which has a macOS appearance and is 1.5GB.

At the login screen please type "custom" as the user name hit enter then for password leave that field blank and hit enter.

Found a small issue with the fonts not looking correct and I thought I deleted the Iso but I guess not.
All you have to do, if you already downloaded Pearl is go into system settings and change the font from Veranda 9 to Ubuntu 10 and this is important,

I think Ubuntu One and few others give concern for a good password management. 

Naming others would be improper since they are not Open Source based. 

What goes behind them and whether they share them with the NSA or a corrupt regimes is open for debate.

I have personnel reason to believe they do and my own experience with institutions specially corrupt or vested interests, is on the affirmative.

They are hell bent to breach any privacy one may have.
The reason being that they do not want to be exposed of their sordid acts.

 
They are paranoid and it is a disease.

Fact that this blog post exists is due to the interference with my blog post elsewhere and a site that lacked good security protocol.

They were dysfunctional over more than a year and I do not use the site anymore.
My writings were very docile innocent and not politically involved.
 

They were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

I must say this was run by British Council Library in Kandy which is now defunct.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.

I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.

They used my birthday as a discriminator.

Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.
But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.
I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.
 

Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.

Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.

Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.
 
Invariably paranoia develops.

So I think it is necessary to have a bit of paranoia when one enters the web with email to begin with.

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
 

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neuron networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I DO NOT use a VISA card now.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Step 5
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.

The best place to HIDE  is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.
 

Resetting the password
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis
wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
Straight away say NO.
The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
 

That includes me too.
 

I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded, I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.

 
Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.