Where is this coming from in the mind:

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Paticca Samuppada was insight into the mind that was passed on by the Buddha through his own observations on how our inner selves has come about into existence. This was like 5000 years ago.

What I want to do here is to try and tie up with what goes on inside our minds with how we verbalise external observations and in the process try and perhaps show up some of the limitations of the processes in the mind.

This is the general idea of our cycle of existence – we born we die and there is this part in the middle that we have to suffer with –  so what goes on here in the mind and why we do things the way we do, why we decide on things the way we do, the ideas we do, the building of our environment the way we do, and perhaps the purpose of our lives we do. Understanding this will throw up a lot of questions about the mindbodysoul and its limitations and its existence.  But this article is the big big picture of the small small detail of the unseen side of us.  The Buddha got this by observation where his mind itself meets itself and he gets to see what it is like.

He had pointed out then I gather that:

One who sees paticcasamuppada
sees the Dhamma.
One who sees the Dhamma
sees paticcasamuppada..

One who sees the Paticca Samuppada sees the whole picture of existence.

Physically from birth to death and how the mind develops from birth to death.

Look at this diagram which I had got from some lectures in Malaysia.

This diagram holds everything that is anything of what we are (in our minds).

you notice that there are 12 steps to this diagram. These 12 steps are divided into sections: mainly 3 grouped sections and those at the bottom 1,2,and3.

This is the story of the movement of our mind.  What we are doing now is looking in, back into what has become, by Pure Observation, and trying to figure out how it evolved from birth to death .  To be able to see the things we cannot see and see how they work and how they limit ourselves from our full potential.

So first we born, we grow old and we die and in between we suffer along the way.  So Buddha wanted to know WHY WE SUFFER along the way. He is saying we suffer because of our minds because of how it works.

For those of you who are interested in all those sections above you can look them up but what is more important is you “seeing” the big picture and what happens in your mind as per observing yourself.  You see this you see the world, you see yourself, you see everything and know all because this is where it all happens.  The Buddha found this 5000 years ago through observation and we just complicated everything with science of the fragmented detail.  The mind is not a perfect tool. If it was we would all be the same.  It has got this process called psychological thinking after the first observation where it can make what it wants in the mind.  This makes us all different.  It makes illusions.  It makes lies and they called it subjective: everybody has their own thing.  No 2 people need to look at the same thing the same way.  They both make different stories in their mind for the same observation as they create the illusion based on their past experiences – which is also a lie stored away in the mind and they think it is real or a fact.  In fact it is an illusion. It is the lie in the Truth of things that makes us different.

When we are born there is just unconsciousness.  Have you seen a newborn baby just stare into space.  He has still not figured out what has happened to him. There was no direction in his evolving self. He is just being.  Is it true that a baby cannot see but a blur in front of him for a few weeks after birth. Then he uses his 5 sensors to see, touch,feel, smell and create mental construction of these entities.  So now we are not just being but we are starting to become.  We are not only observing our environment but there is cognition, understanding and strengthening of the self and the “I” and “me” is only starting to take control.  Then the mind and body see’s that it has an emotional side to it.  It is feeling.  It likes some things and not others. Some feelings are pleasant and others not and some just does nothing to you. The mindbody soul has a lot to deal with now.  Not only I am observing but I am feeling emotionally about things and also liking and disliking.  Then the mind starts to choose: this for that and it starts to have preferences.  The mindbodysoul is starting to gel up and form an entity.  Then the mind looks back and sees what has happened to itself and it sees that it has made itself up by the choices it made and in doing so made an imaginary “self” in an imaginary “world”. He had not used facts to create his Truths.  He has put together various illusions together to make what he thinks is a factual “Truth” in him. He has become by using one lie after another.  So now he lives this lie for the rest of his life.  He makes the future with this lie in him.  He decides for others with this lie in him.  He kills with this lie in him. He creates religions with this lie in him/her.  He suffers but does not know that he suffers because he believes this lie in him is a fact.

Just to clarify the lie he/her is the illusion he created for himself when the mind uses its observations to add subjective thinking or psychological thinking to make up an entity from heresay and past experiences in the mind.  So out of a fact by observation he created a lie in him by turning it in his mind and then using it as if it was a real entity when really it was a made up lie.  Everything after the first observation is a lie.  It is one lie on top of the other that created the city, that created the economy and the environment we live in now.  Not wanting to confuse things but can you see that this made up lie of an illusion is not the same as that feeling of love or anger that you feel, because anger and love, the feeling that is, is really real and part of the makeup of the mindbodysoul.  It is as real as your organs are real in your body.  It plays itself out from an orchestra of parts in your body to bring on that feeling in you.  Contrast this with an illusion, a lie your mind puts together that can trigger a feeling of love or anger.  The danger to yourself and the world is this lie you make for yourself through psychological thinking.  That is allowing time in mind to alter the fact of first observation to make an illusion not based on facts.

So this is the internal clockwork of the mind and what it turns out.  I think it can be safely said you are just one big lie living a life of a lie in you until you see this and live accordingly.  You then live knowing this is a lie in me an illusion made up, and that is not and this is a table and that is a chair and it is real. Feeling of love is real and part of me and so is anger and I am deciding what my future is and do I want to play the lie and live in a made up lie environment.  Your mind makes those lie’s for you when you go past first observation.

So now look at this write up on art and see where it comes from as per the above observation:

A Point of View: How do we know real art when we see it?

The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics – these are all around us and in such abundance that we hardly know where to look for the real thing. Or perhaps there is no real thing? Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no real cost to it, except to those like Charles Saatchi, rich enough to splash out on junk? Perhaps anything is art if someone says that it is. “It’s all a matter of taste,” they say. But is there nothing to be said in reply? Do we have no way of distinguishing true from false art, or saying why art matters and how? I shall make a few positive suggestions.

and

In the face of sorrow, imperfection and the fleetingness of our affections and joys, we ask ourselves: “Why?” We need reassurance. We look to art for the proof that life in this world is meaningful and that suffering is not the pointless thing that it so often appears to be, but the necessary part of a larger and redeeming whole. Tragedies show us the triumph of dignity over destruction and compassion over despair. In a way that will always be mysterious, they endow suffering with a formal completion and thereby restore the moral equilibrium. The tragic hero is completed through his fate. His death is a sacrifice, and this sacrifice renews the world.

and

Tragedy reminds us that beauty is a redemptive presence in our lives. It is the face of love, shining in the midst of desolation. We should not be surprised that many of the most beautiful works of modern art have emerged in reaction to hatred and cruelty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30495258

 

This is a talk on Paticca Samuppada by Bhante Punnaji in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Buddhist Priest is a doctor of medicine who became a monk – from healing the body to healing the mind.

Invited to the Vatican for dialogue:

Let us rejoice in the planting of seeds of peace, between Buddhists and Catholics, as Pope Francis hosts a special dialogue with Buddhist leaders from 23rd – 27th June 2015. Ven. Dr. M. Punnaji was invited to attend this dialogue.

http://buddhistmahavihara.org/home.php

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Please try and watch this and understand it: it is the source of everything that is “new”.  You have to leave the past in you behind for the “new” in you to emerge.

 Art can find the pattern.

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Do we seriously think that tomorrow is still going to be like today.  Are we going to be doing things the same way?  Do you notice that the the drive towards the future comes with some of the past and a little bit of today to make the future.  The front line of the future progresses at a snails pace.  There are no giant leaps.  Our minds might be capable of creating them but acceptance of the new is always tied up with the past in you.  Hence the giant leaps are always rejected because people don’t see the past in the new ideas.

So do we really think that the practice of Buddhism is going to go the same way it did about 5000 years ago.  When technology catches up with understanding the mind it is going to use a gadget to get to Nirvana.  It is going to do the same things that cross-legged Buddhism did  for the mind in the past but now it uses technology to get to Nirvana.

Buddhism is all about establishing states-of-mind.  You understand how the evolution of the mind works.  You see how thinking works by understanding the process through observation. You see how ideas and creativity creates the images and manifest them around you in creating the city.  You see that there are illusions created by the mind.

Buddhism is states of the mind that one comes through by observation and meditation.  “When you see it you have it” as Jiddu Krishnamurti used to say.  Time is not necessary to see the mind better.  You only need to see the real in you by observation or being aware of the movement of your mind and when you see a fact in it then you have it.

Hence in the new technological world of today and the future – the gadgets will show you those states of mind that the Buddha discovered many years ago.  Buddhism of the future will not have the same process of attaining Samadhi and Nirvana as it did with the Buddha.  The future will show you how those mind states can be experienced by placing a gadget on your head:

https://www.siriperera.com/?p=10286

THYNC, the gadget above can show you 2 states:

The state of Samadi and the energize state of action or work.

A time will come when I will not need a lecture from the traditional temple – with its old ways of the past – to understand the spirit in me.  It will come from a center that will show me the limitations of my mind by inducing states of minds in me by various methods and gadgets.  This will be the future of Buddhism with a new name.

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Use it and feel the calm or energise yourself.

It resets the mind for day use of the brain to energize yourself for work or at the end of the day to calm down.

BUT, I wonder if it can also be used to counter the effect of mind control these days when microwave transmitters are use to pass on subliminals to the brain.  These microwave subliminals are used to create tiny modulated vibrations in the brain tissue which then find its way to the hearing system for decoding and you will hear “voices” or at times a kind of extra sensory perception: a gut feeling of sensing the message.

You can see how Thync can disrupt this mind controlling process when you introduce a kind of homogeneous “good” signal on top of the mind control signal.

“Thync is foremost a science and data driven company. Thync has produced a technology considered impossible only a few years ago. This platform shows tremendous promise.”

Thync is like Buddhism to attain Samadi in an instance.

It controls psychological thinking.

It reduces all the disruptive process in the mind to instant Samadhi – instant calmness.

Its technologies way to attain nirvana.  It could even be a “species changing” gadget.

Its like this: It has 2 stimulating actions.  Calmness and also to energize you. Up and down processes.  Action when you have to engage the mind and in the diagram below it is as you drift away from calmness.  Then you need to return to the center of calmness – samadhi, a state of mind. Thync can give you this in an instant.  A place to relax, where there is no psychological thinking – only awareness. No thinking, just watching with no judgments or conclusions formed from your observations.

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Look I think a time comes when somebody puts up his hands and say, “Yes this is how we do it.  We do tell you what to do and your thinking is not your own as we make you think what we want too”.

I have showed you examples before, how a sub can come in through the computer in, “talk to your computer and it will talk back to you.”  Yes I did, I did.  I gave you this: Tit for Tat banter got a reaction from the F-dinks. You will hear, “we’ll hang you” at the end of the recording.  It is either a big-ego mistake from the ding dongs or they want us to know that they can get into our homes and tell us what to think.

I think people will not take this seriously because they are just busy with their outer reality to be concerned about what their inner self’s are going through.  The process that are used today to get you thinking what they want too is getting so subtle that they are pretty confident that it needs a paradigm shift in a large number of people for it to make any difference to them whoever.

As an artist I am really concerned that my thoughts are my own.  Its all about ideas and the struggle for the new and originality.  You don’t need that extra hassle to decide if that idea was mine or not.  Is it “new” or from the past.  Was I told to do that last idea? It sucks really, if your thinking is not your own and if there are subtle means of changing ones thinking mid-sentence in ones mind.  This will mean that the world is created not from individuality but from a plan or a pattern and the masses are made to carry out that plan.

Sad to say, I feel, this is the case. And how is this done: via any gadget in your home that can be used for this purpose.  You have seen above how it can happen through your computer.  Yes I showed you an example above where they can clearly communicate with you through your computer.

But you see, it can be done from anywhere and anywhere. In your home, in the streets, in your shopping malls, in the underground stations (very good for subs, with their standing wave echos adding some big F-dinks working in there).

But lets concentrate on how it is done.  Very subtle process.  They know they can get away with it that is why it is done without any concern of being traced.  Imagine this: you have a blower fan operating close to you. You are meant only to hear the whoosh of cool air on your face and body.  BUT buried in that whoosh and integrated with it is a modulating verbal subliminal that is also being projected outwards towards you.

OK, Just look at this example: I recorded that whoosh from a air cooler and lets examine it.  I could not use the sections with high amplitudes because the air on the microphones was chaotic and unusable, but the other sections were usable but had to be edited to remove air flow noise.  Much of the data was hidden in the lower base section and after some filtering the voices were a bit clearer, enough I think in the original to make an impression on you to get your brain to recognize it and to process it to allow the thinking process to take over, where you would not have known what initiated that thinking.  The whole design of this sub allows the whole process to be an extra sensory process: you get a feeling of something without hearing anything.  Think about what this means when you have the time to know how this process works.

You will get that feeling from a recording like this coming through your air cooler blower: Keep the base high on this recording as that is where all the subs are heard. Using in-ear headphones will help.

You see, if you don’t comprehend from hearing, that does not mean that your brain is also not going to make sense of it.  I gather latest research says, that the brain looking at data like this has very good editing processes of its own to extract signals going through the grey matter.  You might not hear it as it is at the limits of your hearing and in this case perhaps the lower limit, or buried in multiple types of sounds, chaotic, but the brain has evolved in ways that are too complicated to understand, but it is conditioned to extract what is closely related to verbal speech sounds.  I gather recently they discovered that the brain uses stochastic resonance to detect weak signals.

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon where a signal that is normally too weak to be detected by a sensor, can be boosted by adding white noise to the signal, which contains a wide spectrum of frequencies.

Psychophysical experiments testing the thresholds of sensory systems have also been performed in humans across sensory modalities and have yielded evidence that our systems make use of stochastic resonance as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_resonance_%28sensory_neurobiology%29

This is not Bingo anymore.  The matter is quiet serious if this is true.

Scientist are looking at the theory of everything of the universe then what about the theory of everything of your living space. It is usually an enclosed space, perhaps with an air conditioner, or a cooler fan.  The Hum and the whooshes from your household gadgets all create an integrated sound with embedded subliminals.  They bounce off your walls creating standing waves with areas of high amplitude sound waves.  You in that space is also completely integrated in that space, with the air in that living space coming up against your breathing and entering into your thoracic cavity and perhaps being modulated by the sounds of your thoracic cavity which include the words of your thinking as you silently speak what you are thinking.  All of you is embedded in the ether surrounding you.  All of the data in the ether surrounding you is connected to the power grid supply by the gadgets in your home.  Like your nervous system is capable of converting one form of energy to another, like sound, a pressure wave in your ears to an electrical impulse in your nervous system, so is the power grid capable of carrying electrical modulations of your thinking back down the grid line to its source to be decoded.

Yes, today they call them smart grids.  Into the 21 century they tell us.  This is what they look like:

Smart grids act as 2 way communications:

Since 1882, when Thomas Edison switched on the world’s first commercial generator in New York City, the electric grid has been a one-way path from power plants to consumers. A smart grid allows for a two-way street, adding computer intelligence and communications to the electricity distribution network………….

http://www.edf.org/climate/smart-grid-overview

A smart grid adds “computer Intelligence” and is a 2 way process.? What! Hence it makes sense that you can hear “voices” in your gadgets at home and also the gadgets can act as listening devices taking back modulations coming off your gadgets which will also include what you are thinking as I explained above.

why smart grids:

• Self-healing from power disturbance events
• Enabling active participation by consumers in demand response
• Operating resiliently against physical and cyber attack
• Providing power quality for 21st century needs
• Accommodating all generation and storage options
• Enabling new products, services, and markets
• Optimizing assets and operating efficiently
• What you forgot to add: MIND CONTROL.????

Look at the above again.  Anyone of those sectors in communication with the smart grid can get into your homes.  Can anyone tell me where did this recording come from: “we’ll hang you”: from the cities and offices, or perhaps from the factories in the diagram above.

smart grid,eh, so smart that it can get to your computer and not only hear you but also talk back to you.  It gets to all your gadgets and collectively creates a subliminal to alter your thinking and your perception.

Seriously how would you know what the brain can do and how is it wired to your space.  Just know, that your brain can make sense of chaotic signals that your externals sensors might not be able to do so. You will know if you were a within/without person who recognizes that there is a tangible and an intangible side to us and am able to read both well enough to ask the question: how do you know your thinking is your own. 

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Perhaps somebody can help me out with this.  I think it is possible that the computer has become a surveillance tool.  I don’t mean browsing history etc but real people in communication with you and passing on subliminal messages and you don’t know about it.  It is also becoming a stalking tool for F-dink types. It can happen in many ways I guess.  The computer being a electronic gadget can act as an aerial for starters.  People are increasing reporting that when using a microphone at times recordings can contain transmitted voices from radio signals as the mic acts as an aerial.

The question is: is it just chance signals just finding your computer and these voices recorded or are they targeted invasion of privacy.  If they are listening in and watching the keyboard at work you know the kind of information they can get.  I don’t mean virus invasion and collecting data  but direct communication, like a friend talking to you on a phone.  Just that in this case it is a stranger.

I first suspected this when this happened to me one day.  The sun was out.  In the UK the sun just comes out once a year and for the rest it is a trickle of water droplets from the sky.  But the air is dry and it is like staying in an air conditioned room for most of the summer – then it gets like being in the freezer.  Some of you guys wondering what winter is like because you cannot get visa to enter this golden land then just look inside your freezer compartment.  You would have thought that the world was for everyone but not this place.  This place special only for those from the island country.  But did you hear that in Australia they are contemplating giving anybody citizenship as long as you can give the government 50,000 Australian dollars. No but’s attached to this offer. If you cannot speak English – no problem. You cannot ride a bicycle – still no problem.  No, don’t put your hands into your pockets that fast as they are still thinking about it.  And you know what, Great Britain said it was a great idea.  Perhaps this is the start for a world without borders.

A new world with no borders and also your emerging privacy with no borders.  Governments need to know everything about you in a world with no borders.  They should be able to point you out in a crowd if you are misbehaving or if you are “not wrapped too tight”, or if you shake out into a chaotic frenzy, like you are in a new dance move and start kicking out.  Because I think that is the way it is heading.

You see on your computer screen, it is not just the words that talk out to you.  Anything on the screen can pass on a “sound” or even a spoken word that has nothing to do with whats on your screen. Direct access to the sound card can make this happen.

First can I show you this: I heard a repetitive sound on my speakers and hence recorded it.  I realized that it was coming from a “spinner” on the screen, not normally heard but on this occasion the sound card picked it up and the speakers played it out.  You only heard the sound when you could see the spinner on the screen and when you scrolled it out of view it stopped.  Look at this:

The “Spinner”.

Sound of the spinner on speakers only when on visible screen.  When it goes off screen the amplitude decreases back to the sounds of the workings of the computer.

This below is detail of “spinner” sound plot. You can see there are intermittent pockets of activity.

This is what the spinner sounds like on speakers.

So for starters this listening in is like a keyboard logger.  The sounds have a language and the experts will know what you are doing and of course typing each key on your keyboard has a personality sound and can be identified, hence all your passwords your e-mails all can be monitored.

For sometime now I have noticed that there are lots of subvocal speech I assume coming from the sound card.  I noticed that when I try and record those sounds I will get a lot of machine language. Very loud and irritating.  It felt: not a coincidence. This gave me the impression that there was real time communication.  At times I thought I have heard a reaction to what I was typing.  So i thought i try an experiment: what if i talked back.  Perhaps make an insult or 2 and see what type of reaction i will get back, if any at all.  In such cases you are always dealing with large over-size ego’s.  They find it difficult to hide their shenanigan, despite knowing that you only have to do it once for one to make that confirmation that there is a realtime 2 way process.

My experiment was to start recording but also to insult to get a reaction.  Just prior to me starting the recording i heard, “shall we give him something”.  All this below then followed.  I must say here that when I did get a reply, “we will hang you” I almost fell off my chair. But all I wanted was that confirmation and i since have not made contact and don’t know what they are up too, the F- dinks.

This is the recording of that event:

You will hear “we’ll hang you” at the end.  The rest before was me taunting them.

With the advent of powerline internet and audio transfer, that is using the powerline grid supply for internet use and to transfer audio from one room to another, sound can be created in every household item that is connected to the grid.  What I mean is this: if your fridge “hums” a certain beat, then using the audio extenders you can modulate the “hum” with  a subliminal to cause your thinking to shift and hence perception to alter.  You won’t know it happens, but it has.  Your ear drums will pick up this modulation and possibly your brain will make sense of this and your thinking will follow it.

You know this can also happen by having a radio signal come into your home with designed to play a subliminal, carry a tone that will modulate and also i have noticed wrapped in white noise. You won’t “see” it first but for the white noise until you start taking out the layers and you will find an embedded tone.  White noise not only hide’s the coward F-dink but it has a very important function. (examples in earlier articles if you are interested this is just a quick summary).  White noise allows what they call, stochastic resonance.

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon where a signal that is normally too weak to be detected by a sensor, can be boosted by adding white noise to the signal, which contains a wide spectrum of frequencies. wiki

How this works is this:  white noise has many different frequencies embedded in it.  It is a soup of frequencies packaged together and white noise can act as an amplifier of weak signals.  If you had a weak signal with a certain number of frequencies to it and when these frequencies matches with some of the frequencies in white: they double in strength and get louder, pricing them out of the chaos.

Then you might “hear” them better as your ear drum would pick it up for processing.  It might at times be only just not audible, on the threshold of hearing – 20 Hz to 20 Khz – But it will get processed.  And some latest research had come to find out that that is how the nervous system also works – that is it uses Stochastic resonance to amplify weak electrical signals in the brain.  You would not know it as you might not hear it but your thinking would have changed to the subliminal.  As the mind rolls it about in your head your perception would also alter.  Hence job done.  There are no firewalls in the mind and all the little noises from your household gadgets might be humming a subliminal. Your computer is better protected for viruses than your brain.

When the kettle boils up to white noise you can sometimes hear subs being ampliufied that are in the powerline or if a transmitter is transmitting something nearby.

You can hear some music as the kettle boils up.  In-ear headphones will allow you to hear better.

In this example the music signal is coming down the powerline.

In this example the music signal is fed from the Hi-fi to a transmitter and located near the kettle boiling.

This example you will really need some in-ear headphones to hear the chit chat.

So please see what you can find out about this or if not be a slave to the city lights and the gadgets in your home, humming you a tune you can dance to. Perhaps that is what you want rather than what you are going to get anyway.

The permutations for a lot of these type of set-ups are many and bespoke.  Difficult to find out how they are organised taking advantage of the limitations of the 5 senses of the mind and body set-up.  They usually operate at the thresholds and also at times low sub vocal audible volumes.  These low audible volumes has an element of stalking to them in the way they operate.  New in the tech world of directional sound, ultrasound speakers, vibrational speakers using smart materials are now commonly used in shopping centers to influence shoppers.

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What kind of mobile phone do you have? One of those high tech ones with the SIRI app in it?.

I will be in hiding for a while.

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Buddhism is about watching the process of the mind and body when you react to an external stimuli.  The crux of the matter is for one to understand the process of perception and how the mind creates the illusion even of your very existence.  It is the understanding of this process by the thinking mind is what finally brings this process of perception to an end or at least allows you to have control over it.  To know it is the mind that is the creator of your existence, you have to take your mind to its ends to, “the cessation of sensation and feeling”.  This final state of nothingness is beyond the sensation of nothingness.

“Dhamma really means “experience”, or even better, it is the process of experiencing.  In more detail, experience is the perceptual and conceptual process of seeing, hearing,smelling,tasting, touching, thinking and feeling. The concept “existence” is a product of the process of experiencing and therefore experience precedes existence.  To exists is to occupy space and time.  Therefore space and time are products of experience.”

What you want.

Everything that you are and feel and experience is a mental process.  Buddha was not about gardening or painting: he was about what goes on in your head when you are experiencing the process of gardening or making a painting. He was not about the object but what the mind subjectively creates about the object in the mind. You see what you see and feeling what you feel and the created space and time around you ONLY EXISTS IN YOUR HEAD/MIND.  You exists only because your mental processes says you do.  When you bring your mind to experience beyond nothingness – then existence is not anymore.  The feeling of existence does not materialize when the mind does not allow it to happen.  Existence is just a mental process.

The most productive part of making a painting is the journey in the artist mind so he can see himself better with the relationship he has between himself and his painting in his mind. That is between the object and the inner self. The end product is only an object of this process.  When the viewer see’s the painting on the wall the best he can do is try and imagine what the artist went through in his mind with what he experienced when making the painting. Or the viewer could make it his own and create his own images in his mind as to what the painting means. Even that is an illusion of imagination as almost surely he will not know the experience of making a painting unless you struggle with it yourself while watching your mind at the same time.

WORD.

Paintings are made in various ways: there are narrative types – they will tell you a story, then there is the sliding scale of part narrative and part abstract gestures, enough information for you to guess what the purpose is (with you making some of it yourself), then you have the pure abstract paintings.  The abstract painting is a wide open portal for your mind to make what you want of it.  Feel free to make it an experience in your mind.  Remember you only exists because your mind says so, so this experience of the painting is only that, an illusion created in the mind for what you are experiencing by being in front of the painting.  But if you are a within/without person it will help you see your mind.  The city minds have created a commodity of it.  They have made us believe in our minds that it is a valuable commodity and a place to invest money as they found that the value escalates with time and this further makes us believe that because of its high value it might be an important object.  Such is Fashion and Music etc.  The hype in our minds is an illusion created by others for us to experience.  

What you want?

So one can take one’s mind to the state of an “absence of all experience”.  It is , “similar to the state of hibernation”.  WHAT! Then how do you live in that state. Zero mind.  Silly you.  You see, your mind has to be experienced at that state or get to that state so when you come out of it, you will see that it is the mind that is the creator of all things, silly.  When you “see” that for real, by going through the process and your cognitive mind seeing, following and understanding the state and process – you will then realise that it is your mind that creates all these illusions for you.  Just knowing this because someone’s tell you is not enough.  You have to see it with your thinking/cognitive mind for it to become steadfast in you, such that a great windfall of money from a lottery say, will not be able to sway you away from the fact that nothing is real and it is your mind that is the creator of the fact that you feel like you are existing.

“….when one awakens from this state of absolute stillness of mind, one begins to become consciously aware of the process by which perception and conception takes place, culminating in the “world” and the “self” coming into being”

(level 3 – Awakening from the dream of existence) by Ven. Dr. Madawela Punnaji Maha Thera.

Let me first tell you what my sources are for coming to or reminding me of this realisation.  First as an artist the process of painting has an element of watching of the mind.  So I am familiar with this aspect of me.  I know what it is like to watch ones mind and seeing how the mind turns and in that process seeing some aspects that are natural intangible facts as experience that repeat itself and also processes that plays itself out only due to circumstances and you never see them again. You give the mind a thing and it will spin it a thousand ways – none of it true but all made up.  You experience all this and by a chance encounter  you find someone, a priest or a temple that reminds you of what that process of enlightenment might just be from what the Buddha had left behind through his disciples.

I find that the new spirituality is not from hiking in the Himalayas anymore and it might just come from a more modern setting in the city.  From a temple and a priest with a quest to bring to the public what the Buddha really meant when he described his path to enlightenment.  You will find all your answers in your mind and the more progressive approaches are in city like settings from progressive educated minds.  I have found these settings in Malaysia from a Buddhist temple in Kuala Lumpur and from a Buddhist Monk who is also a doctor of medicine and with his followers who lecture in English and find the Truth by looking at the detail of what Buddha Taught in terms of the sciences of the mind and body and its esoteric observations.

http://www.buddhistmahavihara.org/home.php

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It is in understanding of the cognitive process of perception that finally brings the mind to a standstill.  It is the understanding of the various stages of perception that will later bring stillness.  Or rather stillness comes gradually as the mindbodysoul “shuts” down its drive to personalise all its experiences.  To personalise is to become.  It is the wheel of perception that drives the emotional part of you that generates the personality from the illusions it creates in your mind.

But there is a ding dong of a path to this process.  It starts from your 5 senses.  The senses bring in the information.  Then the mind spins this information.  After the first second of the senses seeing an object, the rest that turns up in your head is a lie, an illusion.  The mind makes the rest up.  Just like a painter that wants to paint a certain content or subject matter has a 100 million ways to put this idea together.  He/she is just making it up and finally the viewer is looking at it from one aspect he/she has chosen – the object on the wall called a painting.  You are watching it, an external object on the wall, admiring it.  You admire your garden.  You admire how beautifully the shadow from your chairs falls on the floor of your kitchen.  Everything you notice is external to you.  You have no inclination of what is going on inside you or as to why you are emotionally affected by what you see.

So you are a IN or an OUT person.  An out person is only interested in how he fits in with the objects and the external aspects of society.  He knows nothing of what happens to him internally in his mind when it interacts with those external objects. “Out looking” only deal with sense observations, sight,touch, smell, taste etc.  “IN looking” looks at what goes on in his mind.

MInd? What mind where mind. What you talking about.  MInd brain – no? NO! But yes too as the mind is the result of what happens in your brain and your brain stem and all connected to your spinal cord.  Mind data all comes from the nervous system, BUT it is something intangible, not located anywhere, but somewhere.  The mind created this whole new data from observation and spun and processed in time to create personality.  It is like “cloud storage” in computing.  Perception and cognition in the brain of what you experience creates the illusion in your mind.  You see yourself as alive or dead only if your mind says so.  When the mind shuts down you dead, man, as you don’t see yourself anymore.  If in deep meditation you go past and beyond nothingness, you “dead” too, and you will see this when you drift back into reality. Just a shifting of the state of the mind from “alive” to “dead”.  So it is the mind that gives you that experience of existence.  That feeling that you are alive comes from the illusion created in your mind.

So realising this you take your first big step towards realising the Truth of “existance” and that it is an illusion. You start observing within yourself and within your mind as to why you react to objects, the emotions that comes up, and what goes on in your mind as your mind perceives external objects.

You have to know your mind.  More rather still you have to know how perception works and why it generates an emotion in you and see how you personalise these experiences and then you become in you a personality that only stares at the corner and know and live only in that corner of your life.  You have now become an F-dink with a narrow corner for a mind.  You will be this if you do not take your first step to internalise and to look inwards and to look at the processes of the mind that drives you into a corner.  Personalizing all your experiences does this.  You become the illusion that your mind has spun for you.

“Saying, “spirituality, understand spirituality”, alone is not enough. The path to enlightenment comes from understanding the processes on the mind and the drive of perception that makes you react to your experiences.  Perception is just a word to describe the illusion making process in the mind and the word is not the thing as J.Krishnamurti would say.  Perception is something, a thing that makes things look real and important in your mind.  If you really only keep looking out then you will react to everything you experience like a feral human being.  It is going within and understanding why you react such and understanding how the working mind reacts to your external experiences that finally brings stillness in the mind.

Nirvana is where the spiral and the counter spiral meets when the mind knows its habits and it sees them and understands them with the same mind that drives the process of perception.  “When the conscious mind sees the unconscious mind” the illusion created by perception does not come up anymore or at least when it does come up you know it and see it as an illusion.

So whats the purpose of understanding how the mind creates the illusion of existence.  Finally you have control over the creator of illusions in your mind because you understand what it does as you have experienced the process of creating illusions with your own mind. Then what.  How do you live after this experience with this mind of yours.

Firstly, you can see how the structure of the city is created with perception.  It is created out of an illusion in your mind.  I have always said that the structure and working of the city and society is a mirror image of your mind and the process of perception.  You see the city working – you see your mind working.

What you want?

You can see how culture developed from this mind.  People have a cultural costume – 100 people do and the rest follow.  Made to happen by the mind.  Perception drives this forward.

When an observation gets past the first fact in the first second which is real and true, then comes perception that spins it any which way.  The mind takes this observation and makes images out of it in your mind.  You live by not letting this happen when you don’t need it.  The west has coined this as living in the now. Living by the observations in that first second only.  When you live in that state there is no unnecessary image making and hence no suffering.  You live in Samadhi.

In samadhi the mind becomes still, one-pointed or concentrated while individual awareness remains present. (wiki)

When in action, that is when you have a project to do or a painting to paint, you come of the center which is the home of Samadhi, to create.  Perception starts to operate and imagination and images flourishes in your mind and you act like the creator.  When the project is complete, because you now know how the mind works and how it is the creator of unnecessary illusions, your minds returns to that experience of Samadhi (and that is all it is, a state and experience) in the mind.  Your very existence is an experience of the mind.

You want to go from here,

to here and completely harmonized by the energy fields around you.

You do his by experiencing how your mind turns, by understanding and experiencing perception, its driving force and by knowing that your very existence is an illusion of your mind.  You think you exists because your mind has created an image of your existence which is an illusion.

When the spiral of experience mirrors the counter spiral of understanding the inner self, the mindbodysoul is centered and harmonises with the energies of the space around you.  When you are clear how the illusion takes shape to make a lie – you would want to have nothing to do with it psychologically.  When you need to make a meal, you come off the center, you imagine all you want, spin the illusion wheel and cook like a Michelin star chef, have your meal and drift back to that state of samadhi at the center, because you know that if you let your mind, it will drive you into a corner with a lie.

Buddha was thought to have said, “All  normal human beings are insane”, because he is not fully awake, but is dreaming, or suffering from a delusion, the delusion of existence. I am not making this up, OK – you mad feral mindless person.

You crazy, you know that don’t you.  You don’t see too good? Buddy.

What you want?

Also art has an installation for this state of mind: It is an installation by Michael Craig Martin called, “The Oak Tree”.  On the wall was a glass of water on a shelf:

The silly silly man. Really, titled “An Oak Tree”.

It was first met with surprise but the Americans has described it the best I think as:

“It has been described as “questioning the nature of reality.” (wiki)

They all called him a silly man at first, but if they knew what Buddha knew 5000 years ago, that the mind created the illusion that you think is the “reality” in you they would have known that the mind makes what it wants and you give a name to it.  The glass of water could have easily been, “an oak tree” today if the mind wanted it to be so.

You are just a slave to the illusions the mind creates for you.

This is today’s work of Michael Craig Martin called: “Handcuffs”

The viewer gives meaning to the associations he makes with the different objects.

Personally for me: it is just a blessing to be looking at them with no need for my mind to give it a meaning.

Art can find the pattern.

 “Lost and found” – a process of lost and found of the mind.

 siri

23 April 2015.

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This is such a great place to visit.

Initially you enter into the commercial world of color and textiles.  There is always something new on display, like this traditional weaving machine outside by the cafe.  Cool people sipping coffee and having lunch. The place is well designed with purpose from the vibrating exciting colorful entrance, through to the bookshop and out into the open courtyard for the cafe and the Art Gallery.

All in one from the display of commercial Art to the more somber atmosphere of the artist studio and the interior courtyard cafe.  The sun beaming down.  The art gallery in front of you.  It is a place to ponder and reflect on anything and everything.  When I am in Colombo visiting Barefoot is a must and sometimes to just run through it all, like you would in a gallery in London, but Barefoot is an installation with a difference to be experienced.  It has this feeling of the past made present.

Lunch time….

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Surrounded by Blue waters.

Much of the beach front land in Sri Lanka is saved for new tourist ventures rather than residential properties.  Hence new hotels are propping up everywhere along the sea front.

I find the smaller new hotels somewhat appealing.  New rooms, new deco, and especially those where the swimming pool meets the ocean in the horizon.

http://www.bluebeach.lk/

You find certain compositions in nature where it best fits your 5 sensors and being in it you experience some part of the universe as a whole. Or being in a starbuck’s with an extra shot of caffeine with the right music and surrounded by glass windows. Like in Queesway’s, London where you find people from here, there and everywhere in the world.

 (internet pic until I get there next month)

All portals to the universe and an experiential experience.

Sri Lanka could be like London, like Singapore, like Malaysia in time sooner than later or anytime it wants too, with its new developments and new roads.  Being a Buddhist country and more importantly newly developing and starting from a clean slate, it will find the balance between trappings its citizens with the big city type of life or offering them a more balance life style.  It could become one of the best portals to experience the universe in the future.  Part of that one-world new world order of the future.

Has the making of the new world order started while you were sleeping?:

Tony Blair says that he wants to start a “new leaders club”

He told Newsweek magazine that his latest ambition was to recruit former heads of government to go round the world to advise presidents and prime ministers on how to run their countries.

Read more: Tony Blairs “leaders club”

A central independent world government controlling all other governments is what was meant by new world order, when the phrase was coined a few years ago.  The central world government will consists of former world leaders while the countries will be run by up and coming new leaders who would then become world government leaders in the future.

World business was one sided when I was growing up.  The west grew faster and bigger and living standards in developing countries rose with free health and subsidised housing.  Everybody had a home whether you were working or not and confidence grew with the populations as all were secure and free from the fear of living and maintaining a household.  A story made the rounds when I was growing up in Malaysia that when the country found oil surrounding its peninsula and Exxon was invited to make a bit.  Its executive came to the meeting with only one sheet of paper in his briefcase.  He placed it on the table and when the host country protested: he put the deal back into his briefcase and left the room for the airport to fly back to the US.  The meeting lasted less than 5 minutes.

Such is also the case now with the Chinese economic power and its development investment lending foray into the other parts of Asia and Africa.  Building roads in Sri Lanka and now the new harbor port in the south of the country.  the US is not happy with China’s assertion which was once the role of the big brother and rightly so, is not happy, I think too.  Would you not be worried too when a lopsided world economy which was in your favor at the expense of others developing and you maintaining your yearly high growth rates and high living standards while others live in slow motion.    Then comes China with its investment arm and says, lets balance the scales of world economy.  When the developed world has to hand in there second cars and their seconds homes over to the newly develop  world so they can maintain a better standard of living, no one is going to feel the better for this.  China shifted those scales  back to balance.  The money did not come from the US or Europe but from China’s investment banks.

How China grew desperate to conceal its power from the world

China had to hide from “big brother” (not) to balance the scales as the US advice all its allies to stay away from the Chinese investment banks.

Mr Summers has hailed the birth of the China-led institution as the moment the US lost its role as “the underwriter of the global economic system”.

“I can think of no event since Bretton Woods comparable to the combination of China’s effort to establish a major new institution and the failure of the US to persuade dozens of its traditional allies, starting with Britain, to stay out of it,” opined the former president of Harvard and one time candidate to take over the US Federal Reserve.

 

The brain-child of Chinese premier Xi Jinping, the AIIB aims to plug chronic infrastructure gaps across Asia. With 46-founding members as it stands, the lender has been dubbed the “World Bank for Asia”, closely mimicking rival organisations such as the Japanese-led Asian Development Bank.

Principally, the bank would act as a funnel for pumping China’s massive foreign exchange reserves into projects to build roads, bridges and mobile phone towers everywhere from Myanmar to Iran.

I can’t understand why would the US want its allies to stay out of China’s efforts to develop infrastructure in developing countries.  I see what it has done for Sri Lanka.  New roads, more work, better standard of living at all levels.  All this contributing to the government setting a minimum wage for casual work.  Here you would find even the most casual of workers, still owning their own land with their tin roofs and unplastered walls, but enjoying a family life with kids running around in their garden.  With little or no help from the government.  But from a certain entry level they have it all to start with while in the big city countries they struggle to own a home even after years of work.

Sri Lanka is a good example for what China has done for it while the US waves its human rights wand as it looks for more work in the country and while all its allies are for joining the new Chinese investment arm as a way into investing in Asia and other parts of the world. It is starting to soften its its stance on sharing and balancing the scales as its finds itself alone still with some rhetoric:

France, Germany, Italy and the UK will all now be founding members of the AIIB when it is due to launch at the end of the year.

Britain’s decision to become the “first Western nation” to submit its interest drew an apoplectic response from the White House.

“We are wary about a trend of constant accommodation of China, which is not the best way to engage with a rising power,” said one US official.

One world Government with resources shared to keep the scales in balance.  Europe understands this more than others I think as its gets away from its past of empire building and is joining the Chinese to balance out the world.  Sri Lanka has had a large scale taste of Chinese efforts to help it develop.  Like all other countries it will have to stop thinking that Sri Lanka is only for Sri Lankan,s and look towards integrating into the new world order which is the future.  All countries will be looking towards opening its borders to the world.  This is not very far off in time and possibly only just around the corner.

There will be no more borders or passports.  People live where they want to live. Work if they want too work or grow their own food.  They can do it anywhere in the world.  They could work the city life but retire anywhere they want too at any age, in any part of the world. New world order coming to you soon.

Find your own portal to the universe for you to call home.  Passport? what’s that? Yes it did exists in the past where we had to live and work in what was called a country.  Yes , ha ha, it was also given a name to show we belonged to it.  We wore the same kind of clothes and talked the same language. Ha ha.

So how will Sri Lanka look in the future when the new world order becomes reality.  Cosmo is how it will look, like Queensway, London.  It will be a paradise portal to the universe and many will want to come and live here and some would want to leave to experience the fast city life.  In time countries dissolve into a new world order.  It all becomes one.  But that is what we want, right?  We take holidays to find new portals.

I want the place where the water in the pool meets the sea.  I will want to go anywhere in the world where I could possibly find it.  My own portal to the universe.

Like this in blue water, Sri Lanka.

sri lankan airlines will bring you here.

What are you waiting for? Come over!

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