19 A.

BUDDHISM MEANS

(AS IN AN OFT QUOTED TEXT)

REALIZATION THAT THE TRUTH OR TEACHING IS:

 

• WELL EXPOUNDED BY THE BUDDHA*(1),

(’SWAKHATHO BHAGAWATHO DHAMMO’)

If the truth is well expounded, it should satisfy everyone who can comprehend it, without any compromising faith or belief.

(COMMENTARY)

• TO BE ACHIEVED IN THIS LIFE ITSELF *(2),

(’SANDITHTHIKO’)

If on does not gear oneself to realize reality here and now, There is little chance of doing so in any possible hereafter.

(COMMENTARY)

• PRODUCING IMMEDIATE FRUIT*(3),

(’AKALIKO’)

This should not mean merely the joy of the truth, but an elimination of the negative (pain) and an accentuation of the positive (happiness) too. Thus making the endeavor (of realizing reality) rationally attractive. (COMMENTARY)

• INVITING INVESTIGATION*(4),

(’EHIPASSIKO’)

One cannot investigate dogma; one can investigate only science or reality – to understand it.

(COMMENTARY)

• LEADING TO THE GOAL OF ‘NIBBANA’*(5),

(’OPANIKO’)

If “NIBBHANA” is in fact a constituent of reality, then it must be investigated thoroughly. (COMMENTARY)

• TO BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE WISE; EACH FOR HIMSELF*(6)

(’PACHCHATHTHAN VEDITHABBO VINNO HEETHI’)

This means an absolute conviction, by study (or meditation) and a self-realization. (COMMENTARY)

FOOTNOTE TO 19 A:

THE BUDDHA HAD STATED THAT THE PROOF TO HIS TEACHING WAS THE RESULTS IT SHOULD PRODUCE. AND, THAT MISTAKES COULD BE DUE TO WRONG ‘FACTS’ OR THE WRONG INTERPRETATION OF RIGHT FACTS. THE ABSOLUTE FACT IS THAT NO RESULT TO HIS TEACHING HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN LIVING MEMORY! AN ABSOLUTE SCIENCE HAS BECOME AN ABSOLUTE RELIGION.

 

19 B.

AT THE VERY FIRST MOMENT THAT YOU TRULY START TO REALIZE REALITY, AND

SAVIOR THE JOY OF THE TRUTH, YOUR INDIVIDUALITY WILL IMMEDIATELY SURPASS BASIC HUMAN CHARACTER. THIS IS INEVITABLY DUE TO THE DISCOVERY THAT YOU ARE NOT YOUR BODY. ALONG WITH YOUR NEXT DISCOVERY, WHICH IS THE REALIZATION THAT YOU ARE YOUR MIND; YOUR “ABSOLUTE STATE” OR INDIVIDUALITY

WILL GET FIXED AT ONE OF THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVELS*(1). NOW THERE CAN BE NO GOING BACK, ONLY GIVING UP – AT THE WORST. HOWEVER, THERE ISA VERY, VERY LONG WAY TO GO! IT IS IN THE STRIVING FROM HERE ONWARDS, TO IMPROVE YOUR

“ABSOLUTE STATE”, THAT THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR “RELATIVE STATE”, OR ROUTINE DAILY LIVING, WILL BE GLARINGLY FELT. FOR IT IS THIS “RELATIVE STATE” THAT CAN

OBSTRUCT OR IMPEDE YOUR TRANQUILITY AND PROGRESS. AND IT IS HERE THAT “IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE KARMA” (OR ‘IMMEDIATE FRUIT’) CAN COME INTO EFFECT TO HOLD SWAY. THERE IS ALSO EVERY LIKELIHOOD THAT HIGHER BEINGS HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN GUIDING YOU EVEN THIS FAR. HENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT RELAXING MORE THAN THAT WHICH IS REALLY NECESSARY, BEFORE CONTINUING WITH THE TASK. FOR THE FURTHER ONE ADVANCE, THE MORE DIFFICULT WILL IT BE TO GET AT REALIZATIONS, AND THE MORE FORCEFULLY WILL THE HIGHER BEINGS HAVE TO INSTRUCT.  IF YOU FALTER NOW, THEY TOO MAY BE COMPLETED TO CAST YOU ASIDE. AND THOUGH REALIZATIONS ACHIEVED CAN NEVER BE DETRACTED, LOOSING THE MOMENTUM MAY MEAN A WASTE OF KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS STILL TO BE PERFECTED OR REALIZE BUT MOST OF ALL, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SELFISH, A BAD EXAMPLE TO FELLOW HUMANS, AND A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT TO YOUR TEACHERS

*(01) Sex is probably the only species indulgence that could possibly stand in the way of individuality completely dominating and rejecting dependent bodily existence. If sex has been used only in True Love; Then to sublimate it further as a mental intimacy, with a compatible companion, would not be very difficult. But otherwise sex has to be firmly rejected as making even others’ bodies – A Necessity!

IN NO OTHER INDULGENCE DO YOU CRAVE SO MUCH FOR THE BODY (YOURS AND OTHERS) AS SEX.

 

19. C THE “RELATIVE STATE”
20. C1: THE SLIDE HAS BEGUN-

A GOOD POSSESSED, BUT BY FEAR DEPRESSED. MUCH MONEY ON STAND, BUT LITTLE FILTERS TO

HAND. A FAMILY WHICH IS FIRM, BUT SHOWS NO CONCERN. WHO WHOLE HOST OF FRIENDS, WHO

LOOK AFTER THEIR ENDS. EVEN THE HELPERS WHO ARE THERE, CAN ONLY STAND AND STARE. AND JUST THE SIMPLEST OF PLEASURES, NOW SEEM THE GREATEST OF TREASURES!

 

19. C2: – ARRESTING THE SLIDE –

THIS BODY OF MINE. I NOW CONTROL; FREED FROM DOUBTS, I’ KNOW ITS ROLE. THE WEALTH I HAVE HAS BEEN PUT TO USE, AND I GET MY JOYS FROM ITS PRODUCE. MY FAMILY MEMBERS ALL ASPIRE, FOR THE COMMON GOALS THAT WE DO SHARE. ALL FRIENDS AND HELPERS NOW CAN SEE, MY NEWLY FOUND R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y.THAT’S ALL I’VE DONE TO STOP THE SLIDE, AND BRING THE BOUNCE BACK TO MY STRIDE!

 

19. C3: – NELSON MADELA –

NELSON MANDELA SEEMS TO BE THE GREATEST NON – SCIENTIST HUMAN OF THE PAST MILLENNIUM (THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC HUMAN IS OF COURSE ALBERT EINSTEIN) MANDELA IS A PRAGMATIC WORLD LEADER WITH COMPLETE COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE*(1), DESPITE HIS HARROWING PERSONAL

EXPERIENCES OF INJUSTICE. TO ACHIEVE THIS, HE HAS TO BE UNFADINGLY TRUE TO HIMSELF – ALWAYS. MANDELA’S GREATNESS IS THAT HE DID MORE “UNTO OTHERS” THAN WAS EXPECTED OF HIM; WITHOUT TILTING JUSTICE BY BEING TOO PASSIVE. MANDELA IS NOT AN ABSTEMIOUS RECLUSE. HE IS VERY MUCH NORMAL. HE REMARRIED AT 80! (MAHATHMA GHANDHI’S GREATNESS WAS STYMIED

BY EXCESS PASSIVENESS WHICH COMPROMISED JUSTICE. )

 

19. D THE “ABSOLUTE STATE”
20. D1:-

EVERY RIGHT THINKING HUMAN WOULD WANT TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THIS LIFE. TO ACHIEVE THIS, ONE MUST NECESSARILY AVOID EXTREMES (TOO MUCH PROSPERITY AND INDULGENCE OR TOO LITTLE) AND REMAIN COMFORTABLE, TO USE HUMAN INTELLECT (THE ONLY FACILITY THAT PROMOTES INDIVIDUALITY) TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF LIFE (ALL LIFE) AND THE MEANING TO LIFE (ANY LIFE). WHILST ENGAGED IN SUCH PURSUIT, ONE MUST NEVER LOOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT

COMPASSION IS THE COMIC CAL- PARTICULARLY TOWARDS HUMANS (AS THEY ARE THE ONES WHO COULD POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND AND JUSTICE AND THE TRUTH). AND THE BEST AY TO MANIFEST COMPASSION TOWARDS HUMANS IS TO HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND – AFTER RELIEVING ANY EXISTING PAIN AND WORRY. TO DEVOTE TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO SUB – HUMAN FORMS OF LIFE IS AS BAD AS PAYING NO ATTENTION TO THEIR SUFFERING. FOR MAY HINDER ONE’S PURPOSE: THAT OF SEEING THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE.

 

19. D2:- YANNI

YANNI IS A BRILLIANT MUSICAL COMPOSER, WHO IS ALSO A TALENTED MUSICIAN. THE MUSIC HE

PRODUCE SAND PLAYS IS SOOTHING, EASY AND CLOSE TO NATURE. WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION IN JUNE 1998 (C.N.N. LARRY KING LIVE) HE APPEARED TRULY HANDSOME, CONFIDENT

AND ARTICULATE. HE SPOKE FRANKLY AND FLUENTLY, IN ENGLISH. YANNI SEEMS MIDDLE-AGED; YET HE WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH SOME VERY TRADITIONAL VALUE. FOR HE WAS PUZZLED WITH THE QUESTION: “HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF SETTLING DOWN.”  “OH, THAT SETTLING DOWN,” HE EXCLAIMED, WHEN HE WAS TOLED BY THE COMPERE THAT IT MEANT GETTING MARRIED AND HAVING CHILDREN. IT WAS THEN THAT YANNI WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT HIS PARENTS HAD ALWAYS GIVEN HIM THE FREEDOM TO THINK AND SELECT HIS WAYS AND VALUES. (BY THE WAY YANNI IS DEFINITELY NOT A QUEER.) AND HIS WAY WAS TO TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH AN OPEN MIND FOR VALUES OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY; WHILST COMPOSING MUSIC ALL THE TIME; HE REPLIED “MOST OF THE TIME.” THIS MEANS AN EXTREME COMMITMENT. IF HE IS SO ENGROSSED IN HIS MUSIC AND CONCERTS, THERE WILL BE LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH AND TRUE VALUES. FOR THE REAL IS SO MUCH OBSCURED BY THE APPARENT. AND UNLESS HE PAUSES TO EXAMINE CLOSELY, EVEN THAT WHICH APPEARS OBVIOUS; THE REAL MAY SLIP AWAY DISCREETLY!

19. D3:-

HOWEVER MUCH EACH HUMAN CONSIDER THE BODY AS AN INDIVIDUAL; IT WILL REMAIN A SPECIES ENTITY. FOR EVER SINGLE CELL (OF A BODY) CAN BE TRANSPLANTED TO ANY MEMBER OF THE SPECIES – EXCEPT FOR THE BASIC BODY CELL. INDIVIDUALITYIS DETERMINED BY THIS SINGLE CELL; WHICH CAN MANIFEST AS CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, AND ITS CESSATION OR DEATH. THE INDIVIDUAL USES THE EXTENSIONS OF THIS CELL INTEGRATED AS A BODY. WHICHEVER HUMAN BODY (AND BRAIN) THE PERSON USES, IT WILL BE IN HIS OWN CHARACTERISTIC MANNER. UNLESS

ONE PAUSES TO THINK ABOUT THIS; BEING HUMAN WILL BE A WASTE. (YANNI MIGHT BE LESS

CHARISMATIC IF HE WAS BALD WITH ORDINARY LOOKS, BUT HIS ABILITY TO PLAY MUSIC AND

COMPOSE IT WOULD BE NO DIFFERENT – NEITHER WOULD HIS PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE!)

 

APPENDIX TO: 19. D: 3

“MY SCIENCE WORK IS MOTIVATED BY AN IRRESISTIBLE LONGING TO UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF

NATURE AND BY NO OTHER FEELINGS.” THIS IS WHAT MAKES ALBERT EIENSTEIN THE GREATEST SCIENTIST – EVER! FOR, LIKING SCIENCE TO NATURE IN THE BACKGROUND OF ONE’S RESEARCH. NO OTHER SCIENTIST HAS EVER DONE THINGS.

HOW CAN A HUMAN AFTER BEING INCARCERATED UNJUSTLY FOR 25 YEARS COME OUT WITH NO MALICE, BUT A TOTAL COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE (NOT SIMPLY TOLERANCE AND THE ABILITY TO FORGIVE) AND CONTINUE TO LIVE UNFLAGGINGLY THIS WAY, AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE VERY SAME COUNTRY? SUCH IS MANDELA-OF THE MILLENNIUM!

IT IS SEEKING THE TRUTH. NELSON IS SEEKING JUSTICE. BOTH ARE ENJOYING THEMSELVES. IS THERE ANYTHING MORE?