44 .A
RELIGION IS AN ATTEMPT TO
(As we seemingly know)
RELIGION IS AN ATTEMPT TO ACCOMMODATE THE APPARENT*(01)
BUDDHISM IS THE STRIVING TO DISCOVER THE REAL *(02)
(As we should truly know)
(Divinely stabilized)
IN ORIGINAL HINDUISM – THE GOAL WAS A STATE OF THE SOUL OR DEVINE
(More correctly Brahmanism) (This was to Accommodate somehow,
COUNTER PART*(04) the discovered esoteric or higher happiness.)
OTHER IN RECENT RELIGIONS- THE GOAL WAS AN ABODE*(03) OF THE BODY
(More correctly,)
AND THE SOUL*(04).
(As no higher happiness had been experienced or discovered; the potential for the achievement of higher happiness being lost.)
*(01). BUT IT ALSO BROUGHT INTO FOCUS THE INDISPUTABLE PRESENCE OF A SUPERIOR RIGHTEOUS POWER
(A DESIGNATION FOR HIGHER BEINGS) BY THE MIRACLES WHICH AUTHENTICATED THE
MORAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND MOHAMMED. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE EVEN FOR
A POTENTIALLY ADVANCED HUMAN, WITH FEEBLE ACCESS TO HIGHER MENTAL ACTIVITY, TO HAVE EXHIBITED SUCH POWER.
*(02) BUDDHISM, PARTICULARLY IN SRI LANKA, SINCE ABOUT THE 1960S, HAS BECOME MORE OF
A RELIGION THAN ALL OTHER PUT TOGETHER. THE TEXT ITSELF IS USED AS A RECITATION TO
WARD OFF EVIL AND BRING PROSPERITY. THE GOAL HAS BEEN INTERPRETED AS A BARREN
DESOLATE PLACE FREE OF DESIRE, TO JUST NOTHINGNESS! GOOD IS ALWAYS ASSOCIATED
WITH RITUALS AND THE CLERGY; COMPASSION IS A CONSIDERATION. AND LASTLY, HIGHER
BEINGS ARE THOUGHT OF AS BODILY GODS LIVING IN REALMS WHERE FOOD AND CLOTHING
IS PLENTIFUL; AND HENCE, LITTLE SCOPE FOR GOOD KARMA BY CHARITY. ALL THESE TRAVESTIES, IN A WAY, ARE EXCUSABLE; AS WITHOUT ANYONE HAVING ANY ACCESS TO HIGHER HAPPINESS – A PURPOSE SEEMS LOST.
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(03.) IT CAN BE EMPHATICALLY STATED THAT ANCIENT BRAHMINISM WAS CENTERED AROUND
THE DISCOVERY OF (BODILY INDEPENDENT) HIGHER HAPPINESS. AND THE GOAL OF BRAHMIN
PHILOSOPHERS WAS SOMEHOW TO MAKE THIS STATE OF HAPPINESS PERMANENT. THEY HAD
LITTLE INTEREST IN OTHER HIGHER MENTAL ACTIVITY. AND WERE NOT SURE ABOUT THE
PART PLAYED BY THE BODY INALL THIS. BUT IF THEY COULD CONSTRUCT A PERMANENT
STATE OF HAPPINESS FOR THEIR SELVE, IT WOULD HAVE TO THE GOAL! SO WHEN THIS
HAPPINESS BECAME LOST (TO HUMANS) BRAHMINISM GRADUALLY GOT TRANSFORMED TO A
MUNDANE HINDUISM. THE WORD MEDITATION IS NOW LOOSELY USED FOR ATTEMPTS TO
EMULATE THE FEATS OF THE BRAHMINS. THE BUDDHA REFERRED TO BRAHMIN MEDITATION
AS ONE POINT MEDITATION OR MENTAL CONCENTRATION. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS
MEDITATION WAS TO FIX THE MIND TO ONE POINT OR A SINGLE COMPOUNDED PERCEPTION.
THE THOUGHT PROCESS WOULD THEN CONTINUE TO REPEAT ITSELF; AND AS THE MENTAL
RHYTHMICITY INCREASED HAPPINESS WOULD TEND TO BE IMPRESSIONED ON THE THOUGHT
PROCESS RATHER THAN BY IT. WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT RHYTHMICITY INDUCED HAPPINESS IS
THAT IT IS COMPLETELY DISSOCIATED FROM SENSUALITY AND THE BODY. THE BRAHMINS
MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN ALL THE INTRICACIES OF THIS HAPPINESS; BUT THEIR ENDEAVOORS
INDICATE THAT THEY WERE CONVINCED THEY HAD NOW SUCCEED IN FINDING THE
ULTIMATE GOAL FOR THEIR SELVES- IF THEY ONLY ONLY WERE ABLE TO FIX IT INTO A STATE OF PERFORMANCY! WHAT THEY MAY NOR HAVE MAY NOT HAVE REALIZED WAS THAT MANY OF THEM WOULD HAVE COME VERY CLOSE TO ACTUALLY DUMPING THE BODY!
(04).THE FEASIBILITY OF A HEAVENLY ABODE IS AS RIDICULOUS AS THAT OF A MATERIAL HELL: PLEASURE IS HEAVEN AND PAIN IS HELL: WHEREVER, WHENEVER AND TO WHOEVER THAT
CONSTRUCT THEM! ALL THE SPECULATIONS OF PRESENT RELIGIOUS BELIEF ARISE FROM ONE FACT – THAT OF M-I-R-A-C-L-E-S. BUT A MIRACLE PROVE’S NOTHING BEYOND THE POWER OF
IT.
*(05.) IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE SOUL BE
CLARIFIED LUCIDLY. THE MIND WAS DEFINITELY THE DISCOVERY OF THE BUDDHA; WHO
SHOWED CLEARLY THAT YOU ARE YOUR MIND, AND THE BODY JUST BELONG TO YOU. WHERE
AS THE SOUL IS THE DEVINE AND EMOTIONAL COUNTERPART OF THE BODY; SO YOU ARE PART
BODY AND PART SOUL! ALSO, THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE MIND ARE EXPLICIT; BUT THOSE OF THE SOUL ARE HAZY AND INDEFINITE – IN ANY RELIGIOUS CONCEPT.
THE BRAHMIN PHILOSOPHERS TOO WERE PERPLEXED ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE
SOUL. BUT, UNLIKE LATER RELIGIOUS LEADERS, THE Y WERE NOT LOOKING FOR AN
ALMIGHTY, CREATOR, TO GALVANIZE THE PERMANENCY OF WHAT THEY HAD ACHIEVED AND
HAD ACCESS TO – HIGHER HAPPINESS! ACTUALLY, THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT THE BUDDHA (AN
ACCOMPLISHED BRAHMIN) FOUND, WITHOUT OF AN AID OF A GOD HEAD. EVEN A
HYPOTHETICAL ‘ALMIGHTY GOD’ IS POWERLESS AGAINST THE INEXORABLE COSMIC PROCESS,
PARTICULARLY THOSE OF EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION, WHICH MUST CARRY EVERYTHING
(MIND AND MATTER) ALONG WITH THEM. THE BUDDHA REALIZED THAT THE ONLY
POSSIBILITY OF PERMANENT HAPPINESS WAS FOR ONE TO BE REMOVED FROM THESE
INEXORABLE COSMIC PROCESSES; IF THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY OF ACHEIVING SUCH A STATE
HAPPINESSS
44 .B
A COMPREHENSION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHISTINITYAND ISLAM, AS WELL AS THAT OF
(ORIGINAL) BRAHMINISM AND (ITS VARIANT) HINDUISM, IS ESSENTIAL IN UNDERSTANDING THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING FOR, THEY ALL CONSTITUTE A MEANINGFUL PRELUDE TO THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS. BUT, MOST OF ALL, THEY PROVE THE HIGHER BEINGS.
44 .C
(44C1)
| THERE IS THIS, ————> THE HUMAN REALM.
THERE IS A HIGHER —–> THE HIGHER EVOLVED REALM |
“Of things that proceed from a cause, their cause he has explained; and also their cessation.”
This was the extent of the Buddha’s teaching required by one of his famous disciples to complete his own realization. Listed below (44c) area few quotes of similar significance (Very little reasoning based on scientific facts would have been possible 2000 years ago. so, any such reasoning would have had to commence from a personal experience, and significantly, from expecting a happiness that seemed totally independent of the body. This was the experience (learning) of the ancient Brahmins. The Buddha’s two greatest discoveries were the unit of mind, and the rise and fall (evolution and devolution) of conditioned existence or the cosmic processes. It is very unlikely that any human could have acquired such knowledge then, without unimpeded access to mental memory – as with the higher beings. And the higher beings must have helped the Buddha quite a bit. The goal itself is so abstruse that it adds a new dimension to infinity! ) (The Buddha refers to this as the formless realm and, apart from such brief statements, He has not gone to any great detail about the higher evolved mental beings. Neither has he described the evolution, devolution processes |
In detail; expect to call them the rise and the fall of the aggregates or mind and matter. But he has stated that it holds the key to his teaching.)
AND THERE IS THE LOWER —-> THE LOWER EVOLVED REALMS (ANIMALS, PLANTS
AND MICROBES).
(44.C2)
| “DELIVERANCE LIES BEYOND
THESE REALMS OF PERCEPTIONS AND FEELINGS “ [PERCEPTION INCLUDED FEELINGS] -THE BUDDHA- |
Happiness is either perception induced sensuality of bodily beings; or the unique rhythmicity induced, yet ‘perception included’, happiness of higher beings. Both types however, are structured by the conscious thought process. (Thought is impossible to record rhythmicity induced happiness as perception induced memory.) the states of humans and higher beings, with their relative happiness, can be quite satisfactory; if their (continued) existence were not impermanent and not subject to the process of cosmic |
Devolution. The frightening reality of devolution is the rare, random chance of acquiring a human (or higher) evolutionary path in coming cycles.
(Commentary)
(44.C3) “WHEN ONE KNOWS THIS AND SEES IT*(02) HE IS DELIVERED.
IN THE KNOWLEDGE*(01) OF DELIVERANCE LIES DELIVARANCE” -THE BUDDHA-
*(03) “GNANA DASSANA VISUDDHI”
OR THE PERFECTION OF KNOWLEDGE WITH AN INSIGHT OF THE PERFECTED
An Insight of the perfected means: The ultimate realization of the truth; Then the discarding of all, and the mind adjusting to routinely link every conscious thought process to that joyous realization. This does not mean that one can be oblivious to pain, but can transcend or be unmoved by it.)
(Commentary)
*(02) To achieve ultimate release (with the goal) it must be:
1) Known – As a constituent of reality
2.) Proven – By the absolute acceptability of an effortless happiness, which is maximum and endless;
And 3.) Perfected or completed – with the unique realization that every moment of such Happiness is as new as the moment. This leads to the goal, or an all-encompassing joy of the truth, and adjustment until death actually, each of the
Three stages constitutes a basic realization and adjustment of a bodily being; where the final adjusts every perception to be
Routinely linked the joyous realization – making life almost impersonal and primarily compassion motivated. However this
Is an interim, realized resignation period; and any anticipate activity here will prevent one achieving it – The goal but once
Achieved compassion without commitment can occur freely. This means that Buddha too could have had no specific desires continue to live, or intentions of teaching others , until he achieved the goal (The essentials that realized resignation means the wanting of a state of neutrality with the cessation of desire – to live – as one has had an insight of the ‘Ultimate Release’
– On death. N.B. One here, are the terms ‘Ultimate Release’ and the goal used differently. (Commentary))
*(01.) Guarantee of the Goal
THERE IS NO EXTERNAL GUARANTEE THAT ONE HAS ACHIEVED THE GOAL; AND THE ONLY
INTERNAL GUARANTEE IS THAT ONE CAN REMAIN UNMOVED BY VICISSITUDES. THIS DOES
NOT MEAN AN EMOTION FREE EXISTENCE; BUT BEING UNMOVED BY EMOTION,*(01) AND NOT
HESITANT ABOUT ONE’S REALIZATIONS. VICISSITUDES CAN ONLY CONFIRM RELEVANT
REALIZATIONS. (THERE SEEMS TO BE A PUERILE BELIEF AMONGST AMONG ST SOME THAT
PROOF OF ACHIEVING THE GOAL IS BEING ABLE TO FLOAT THROUGH AIR. EVENT AT A TIME
WHEN HIGHER MENTAL ACTIVITY WAS POSSIBLE, NO HUMAN WHO HAD ACCESS TO IT WOULD
WASTE TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO MASTER SUCH AN ACROBATIC FEAT! )
*(ONE WHO HAS REACHED THE GOAL, THOUGH EXPRESSING EMOTION CAN REMAIN
UNMOVED BY VICISSITUDES, AS THE CONCEPT OF ME AND MINE NO LONGER HAS ANY
SIGNIFICANCE. WHAT MATTERS NOW IS ONLY JUSTICE AND THE TRUTH, AND BEING ABLE TO
BE RELATIVELY PAIN FREE. IN OTHER WORDS, ONE NOW WADES THROUGH LIFE SIMPLY TO
ASSURE ONESELF THAT THERE IS NOTHING WORTH WHILE TO LIVE FOR, EXCEPT TO LEAVE
BEHIND A TRAIL OF JUSTICE AND TRUTH – FOR ANY TO PICK UP. )
THE CONCEPT OF ME AND MINE appendix to 44D
IF YOU DONATE YOUR KIDNEY TO SOMEONE, YOU WILL NOT CONSIDER THE RECIPIENT TO BE
A PART OF YOU. THIS IS VERY MUCH THE SAME WHEN YOU PRODUCE A CHILD. THE OBVIOUS
DIFFERENCE IS THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR CHILD; WHOM YOU HAVE TO NURTURE
FROM THE VERY INCEPTION. THE BODY YOU HAVE PROVIDED IS ACTUALLY FROM THE GENES
YOU DERIVED FROM YOUR PARENTS! AND YOU THAT THE REAL ME IS NOT YOUR BODY, BUT
YOU’RE INDIVIDUALITY, WHICH ALL PARENTS ATTEMPT TO MOULD. YOU ALSO KNOW THE
EXTENT OF SUCH INFLUENCE. YOUR CHILD TOO WOULD BE SIMILAR. YOU COULD INFUENCE ITS INDIVIDUALITY – THAT IS ALL! THOUGH YOU HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BODY YOU CREATED, TILL IT CAN LOOK AFTER ITS OWN BODY.