CHAPTER 6

-THE BUDDHA-

*(3) – HELPING HUMANS TO ELEVATE THEM SELVES, BY REALIZING TRUE VALUES, IS A GEN…….T. THIS BECOMES A UNIQUE GIFT AT THE ULTIMATE STAGE – OF HELP TOWARDS REALIZING THE MEANING OF LIFE AND, TO LIFE: REALITY!

(ALLEVIATING POVERTY WITHOUT ELEVATING THE HUMAN BEING WILL LEAD, AT BEST, TO STAGNATION; NOT PROGRESS; EVEN IF THERE IS A SHORT – LIVED IMPROVEMENT OR RELIEF OF SUFFERING. FOR WITHOUT TRUE VALUES, THE BEING BECOMES BASIC. A HOUSE WITHOUT A HOME AND EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT A COMMITMENT MAY MEAN SURVIVAL, BUT NOT PROGRESS. EVEN AFFLUENCE GETS BOGGED WITHOUT A PROPER PURPOSE AND THE OIL-RICH MIDDLE-EAST EXEMPLIFIES THIS WELL. PROGRESS MEANS ACHIEVEMENT. HOW CAN ANYONE ACHIEVE ANY THING, IF HE OR SHE IS IGNORANT EVEN OF THE BASICS OF REALITY?  CAN GIVING UP THE COMPLEXITIES OF THINKING, TO A

COMPUTERS, BE AN ACHIEVEMENT? WOULDN’T THIS ALSO STIFLE NORMAL THINKING – THE CRITERION OF ANTHROPOID EVOLUTION? THE HUMAN ‘STOOD UP’, IN EVOLUTION, TO INQUIRE BETTER; NOW IT JUST SITS DOWN, TO PROGRAMME COMPUTERS. COMPUTERS, LIKE BOOKS, SHOULD JUST BE DATA BANKS. THEY SHOULD NEVER SUBSTITUTE THINKING; ONLY ADD TO IT – WHEN…?)

6. C

IF ONE HAS SPENT ONE’S ENTIRE LIFE IN DOING ‘GOOD’, BUT STILL HAS TO REMAIN MISERABLE, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG. FOR AT BEST, IT IS LIKE HAVING MUCH MONEY IN THE BANK BUT NOTHING IN THE HAND!

6. D 1

ALL RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, WHEN CONFRONTED WITH OBVIOUS FACTS DIVERGENT TO THEIR VIEWS, TEND TO QUOTE THE SCRIPTURES AS A FINALITY. BUT SHOULDN’T ANY SCRIPTURE BE USED ONLY TO SUBSTANTIATE RATIONAL THINKING? BELIEF STARTS WITH THE BELIEF THAT SUCH BELIEF WILL GRANT ONE DIVINE ASSISTANCE; WHICH IS TRULY A FALSE BELIEF!

6. D2

ALL LIVING BEINGS BE THEY GREAT OR SMALL, SEEK HAPPINESS, AND THAT IS ALL; AND TO HELP THEM ALONG, AS  COMPASSION’S  WAY, SHOULD  ENSURE YOUR HELP, IN THE  VERY SAME  WAY.*(1)

THIS IS A RATIONAL ASSUMPTION, WHICH WOULD BE COMPLETE IF SUPERNATURAL HELP TOO DID

ACTUALLY OCCUR. OF COURSE, NOW THAT’S THE ‘END’ * REALITY- HAS BEEN EXPOSED; MERELY

STRIVING FOR THE ‘MEANS’ – MORALITY- MAY NOT BE GOOD ENOUGH; TO ENSURE MAXIMUM HELP, UNLESS

UNLESS ONE, AT LEAST, TURNS TOWARDS REALITY, AS WELL, (ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TIME ARTICLE OF 14TH JANUARY 1974, QUOTED HERE IN 2 AND 3., HAVE ALREADY PIONEERED THE CAUSE AND TURNED TOWARDS REALITY.) TURNING TOWARDS REALITY MEANS ATTEMPTING TO SEE THE TRUTH, OR THAT WHICH UNDERLIES APPEARANCES, IN ANYTHING. FOR REALITY IS MANIFEST IN EVERYTHING. THE REQUIREMENT FOR SUCH RESEARCH IS A SET OF TRUE VALUES*(2) (OR A MIDDLE PATH) TO “SEE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE”.

*(1) – EVEN THE BAD (HEARTLESS) TEND TO HELP THE GOOD (COMPASSIONATE). WHERE AS EVEN THE AVOWED GOOD ARE HESITANT ABOUT HELPING HOSE WHO ARE HEARTLESS. THIS IS WHAT MAKES COMPASSION THE COMMON SENSE, COSMIC CALL.

*(2) – THE DIRECTIVES OF EFFORTS, FROM TRUE VALUES, ARE: DISCOVERING THE TRUTH OF LIFE AND EXISTENCE – 50  TO  90%, RELIEF OF PAIN IN ONE’S WAY OF LIVING – 40 TO 90% (INCLUDING LIVELIHOOD AND INDULGENCE IN (SENSE) PLEASURE AS A RELAXATION – 10 TO 1%. WITHOUT TRUE VALUES, THE

BEING BECOMES BASIC. BASIC MEANS ANIMAL- EVEN IF REFINED!)