Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Australian Building Styles and Culture Research -NGO
Having European influences is a nice thing as Australian heritage. Australia has European heritages because most Australians have the European backgrounds. Australian cultural heritages are special to Australian people and good to preserve. Nobody want to build like these things anymore but they have history to tell. Every building has a story to tell but national heritages have special stories worth to learn from and taken into a new phase. They are there and should be around for as long as a country exists. It must have resources to maintain them even if they are in expensive locations good for redevelopment ideal for economic application. Even if nobody visits these sites, they should exist because they have histories. A country should keep producing such special buildings as its culture. However, it's not enough only to have special buildings.
It would be wonderful if there is an non governmental organization focusing on building styles in Australia and its primary work is the research and design development on architecture and building types for Australian culture and Australian conditions because every people and every country should have unique culture, style, ideology and identity formed with culture, style and ideology that the entire nation can identify itself with. There are real advantages in having such identity.
A country can choose to have own cultural styles and ideology. Some countries deliberately gave up their identities. Some countries have been forced to compromise and accept foreign identity.
Some countries reestablished their identity after they lost it to certain ideological influence and avoided from being controlled by a foreign authority. Some countries avoided losing their identity by manipulating or creating the counterfeit version of the outside influence which was too powerful to defy. Why did they do that?
There are real advantages in having own identity. It is about the maturity of a country. It displays the cultural development, rich ideology and the real strength of its people. Identity employs the people so it's economically necessary. Identity moves the people with cultural activities. Identity gives the strength to the unity of a people so they can last long as they have the ideology and chauvinism to defend themselves. Identity represents a people who they actually are. It is cultural identity. It is more meaningful than I can ever think of.
Uniqueness has made some cultures to be respected, to come and learn from and to be pursued and followed. It is good for the people who have them in terms of acceptance and economy. Identity can unify a people of different groups. It is not impossible to make a different group to follow another group's identity. However, if only a common identity is there for them, they could be more united.
Instead of borrowing styles from all over the world, it will be great if the people are interested in having their own unique designs, architecture and building types. It is a bad habit only to borrow and not developing own because copying doesn't make self esteem but the opposite. The whole world but some have little to show off their cultures. Yet, it's still a time when copying is rampant.
Australia is a very special country in science and knowledge. It can have its own unique designs not found elsewhere. Naturally such distinction in culture is a gradual process. Moving the whole country is not simple and easy. But there is easier one to start with. It is home design which the Australians can gradually adapt. This is by no means making a point that existing designs and styles are inferior.
Not driven by economy and commercial interest, a non profit organization can exist to be developing new building designs just right for Australia with Australian features if the governments and the industry are helping, especially ABCB. This can produce some Australian designs. It can also produce architects and building designers specializing in such designs. Not just adapting BCA but also developing designs can be beneficial in long term.
To employ young designers and students of architecture for work experience and further training in environmental and cultural education, solely about Australia with its regional context, this organization will become very supportive and a very important employer. If it employs, with award level wages, many new designers will find something to do, have experience and earn. It's possible to employ a hundred or more graduates both from TAFE and university. If all states and territories support this organization in their own areas, they can give jobs to new designers. These designers will one day produce very fine cultural artifacts. Instead of becoming unemployed and live of newstart income, the federal government can employ these youths with the same amount of support. It is possible to attract some of the best students and (retired) professionals.
Multiculturalism is good. However, it shows the lack of commonness or the identity which represents all. The identity that is justified to represent all should not bias.
It would be wonderful if there is an non governmental organization focusing on building styles in Australia and its primary work is the research and design development on architecture and building types for Australian culture and Australian conditions because every people and every country should have unique culture, style, ideology and identity formed with culture, style and ideology that the entire nation can identify itself with. There are real advantages in having such identity.
A country can choose to have own cultural styles and ideology. Some countries deliberately gave up their identities. Some countries have been forced to compromise and accept foreign identity.
Some countries reestablished their identity after they lost it to certain ideological influence and avoided from being controlled by a foreign authority. Some countries avoided losing their identity by manipulating or creating the counterfeit version of the outside influence which was too powerful to defy. Why did they do that?
There are real advantages in having own identity. It is about the maturity of a country. It displays the cultural development, rich ideology and the real strength of its people. Identity employs the people so it's economically necessary. Identity moves the people with cultural activities. Identity gives the strength to the unity of a people so they can last long as they have the ideology and chauvinism to defend themselves. Identity represents a people who they actually are. It is cultural identity. It is more meaningful than I can ever think of.
Uniqueness has made some cultures to be respected, to come and learn from and to be pursued and followed. It is good for the people who have them in terms of acceptance and economy. Identity can unify a people of different groups. It is not impossible to make a different group to follow another group's identity. However, if only a common identity is there for them, they could be more united.
Instead of borrowing styles from all over the world, it will be great if the people are interested in having their own unique designs, architecture and building types. It is a bad habit only to borrow and not developing own because copying doesn't make self esteem but the opposite. The whole world but some have little to show off their cultures. Yet, it's still a time when copying is rampant.
Australia is a very special country in science and knowledge. It can have its own unique designs not found elsewhere. Naturally such distinction in culture is a gradual process. Moving the whole country is not simple and easy. But there is easier one to start with. It is home design which the Australians can gradually adapt. This is by no means making a point that existing designs and styles are inferior.
Not driven by economy and commercial interest, a non profit organization can exist to be developing new building designs just right for Australia with Australian features if the governments and the industry are helping, especially ABCB. This can produce some Australian designs. It can also produce architects and building designers specializing in such designs. Not just adapting BCA but also developing designs can be beneficial in long term.
To employ young designers and students of architecture for work experience and further training in environmental and cultural education, solely about Australia with its regional context, this organization will become very supportive and a very important employer. If it employs, with award level wages, many new designers will find something to do, have experience and earn. It's possible to employ a hundred or more graduates both from TAFE and university. If all states and territories support this organization in their own areas, they can give jobs to new designers. These designers will one day produce very fine cultural artifacts. Instead of becoming unemployed and live of newstart income, the federal government can employ these youths with the same amount of support. It is possible to attract some of the best students and (retired) professionals.
Multiculturalism is good. However, it shows the lack of commonness or the identity which represents all. The identity that is justified to represent all should not bias.
Faith Control
the one had enough leaves
the naive comes
supply of faith & fund - nonstop customer chain
kept an' run in broad daylight
organized, recognized, authorized, backed up
bullies, be great!
big bullies MAY reshape
the society at WILL an' escape!
[no match, pathetic, the Nazi is the greatest and most glorious]
The Essence Of Reality
What is reality?
If mathematicians can describe everything in mathematical
equations, they should try on reality. If
everything is just physical, reality should be too.
But is it? How is it? What substances are made to perform as
reality through out universe uniformly? Can this kind of physically constructed
reality exist – in you, in me, in education, in science, in delusion…? Can
reality be the same to all of these things both life and non-life?
If something cannot be defined or described in mathematics,
or in physical structure, doesn’t it exist in reality as reality? Can’t it
exist? Why can’t it exist?
Does reality exist? Why real and why not? Define that
“reality” in scientific terms and phenomena, please!
Is the universe solely physical? Yes or no?
Doesn’t abstractness exist? Is abstractness also physical,
as physical as atoms and elements, the colours of stars, the colours of the
world, the colours of life and in physical world?
[Love is
made of chemicals they say! But they never put these chemicals into a glass and
said this is love!!! Why didn’t they ever do it? Because it will sound very
silly and unscientific! But they keep saying love is chemicals!!! Then if two people
don’t fall in love, shouldn’t they take such chemicals in a tablet form? If
love is just chemicals, all problems of love affairs should have been solved
long ago!!! Why don’t they do it? That will make big bucks, if love is really
chemicals! They say so what they don’t believe and bother to prove.]
Must reality be physical to be in existence?
If reality needs to exist, does it need becoming physical
matter? Do some matters compose reality? As matters vary, do different
compositions of different matters make different realities? Hence my reality is
different from others’ realities, including the universal reality?
So is it reality to you this (or that) way – only physical?
Reality is abstract. Thus, existence and life are abstract.
Physical world is also abstract. And humanity is abstract in all available
definitions. Why? The reason is everything seems to be abstract that even
physical matters only exist with abstract as their essence. That’s the essence
of reality in my view.
The reality is nobody seemed to have known the reason of an
apple falling. Whence the theory is everything has not existed, it’s not fair
to seek mathematical explanation or description of reality. Reality is right in
front of everyone. It’s both inside and outside mind. It’s inside matters and
outside matters. Reality is everything. Reality is abstract because it’s
everything.
The theory of everything is reality. It cannot be described
in words or images or in mathematical equations. No artists will be able to
create reality. No chemists will find a way to put the chemicals to create
reality. No photographers will be able to take a picture of reality. Reality is
just to be known as it is. It’s the universe, the unity, the void and the infinity.
It’s everything observable. Reality is everything that exists.
So somehow the existence of abstractness is not abstract at all but
substantially realistic. Reality is thus abstract and can be explained in its
abstractness only. As being abstract, reality is not composed and thus, is not
limited to the idea of amount. Reality is unity and singularity without limit.
That is infinity. Reality and infinity are one and the same. That’s how reality
can exist everywhere at the same time and is not affected by local observance.
Does this contradict Quantum Mechanics? I think not. I guess QM have found out
how larger objects are also abstract – the projection of mind and how matters
are just abstractness as their reality. Heat, cold, stiffness, softness,
stickiness, binding forces, … and gravity are just abstract and as simple as
just that.
It’s delusion whenever reality is not understood.
The reality of delusion is it veils the view, blindfolds the
eyes, misinform the thought and veers away from reality.
Therefore, delusion is as powerful as reality to humans and
other living organisms. For that good reason, once reality is found, and
delusion is abandoned behind, whoever found it can become on top of the
existence. And for the same reason, once reality is abandoned, and delusion is
crowned, whoever lost the sense of reality can find themselves at the bottom of
existence.
It’s important for us to know the reality of delusion.
Education must be educating everyone about the reality of delusion. The purpose
of education should be to educate about delusion and how to handle it. Let
everyone become a critical thinker. The
difference between human and other species is human can understand the reality
of delusion.
As being invisible, colourless, shapeless, formless,
scentless and tasteless, reality can be understood only by the mind. Only an
abstract can understands abstractness. That’s how mind can know education.
That’s how education is important to emphasize on abstractness of reality and
reality of reality. That’s the reality we shouldn’t overlook.
[Reality
is abstract. Abstractness is a reality. A reality is mind. Mind affects matters
to behave such a way. Quantum Mechanics will be very interesting. Very
interesting will be how the world be changed with new ideology in science.
Science will be abstract again as it has been all along. Science of
abstractness will lead the world to a better future. Better future will be with
moral and the abstract side of cause and effect.]
What’s real?
The existence of abstractness is reality. The existence of
physicality is abstract. Physicality is reality in its own terms and in its own
right. Both abstractness and physicality are reality. The essences of them are
reality but abstract. Strictly abstract!
And what’s not real? Guess!!!
Ideas! Ideas are not real. They can never become real.
Concepts are not real and will never become reality. Dreams are not real. They
cannot be turned into reality. Arguments are never real because of ideas,
concept and argument itself. These are just ideological projections but unreal.
They don’t exist outside ideological universe.
Is our universe real? Is it the existence outside the
ideological universe? QM will let us know. Actually “You and I do not exist” physically
because the smallest particles are formed by ideological projection. What we
can feel as physicality with five senses is conditioned by our mind which is
abstract. You’re your projection and your Schrödinger's
cat; and I’m the projection of mine my Schrödinger's cat. We
communicate with five senses plus thought formed in mind. We can communicate
with one another physically because physicality is the means to communicate.
Physicality is the connection used for mind to mind communication. Physicality
is infrastructure set up by the mind, senses are the information travelling
along the infrastructure and you and me (we are) just our minds – strictly
mental only. The body is simply the infrastructure. But consciousness itself is
not constant – sometimes it exists and sometimes it doesn’t. Where from it
comes and how does it reappear? This is how it is hard to understand and all
are seen as physical – whence physicality is conditioned by consciousness
whenever it is present.
Mind is consciousness and everything mind is just feeling. When
there is feeling, there is consciousness and vice versa. The reality is
abstract – strictly abstract, and simply mental only. Reality doesn’t exist in
physical form but in abstract form of physicality in terms of feeling when
sensed by consciousness: softness, hardness, solidness, cold, heat, stickiness,
wetness, dryness, etc. (A video about consciousness)
A thing that doesn’t exist in reality has its truth as
unreality – but it exists as projection of mind and is built with idea and
concept as imagination. The reality that is made and formed is conditioned
reality but it’s not reality that is real; it’s only the reality of conditioned
reality. Reality and the conditioned reality are not the same. Conditioned
reality is any or all of idea, concept, thought, dream as projection of the
mind. Conditioned reality is the projected existence whence reality is the core
– like the light to fire. The reality of projected reality is the light of the
fire as fire exists on the fuel. Reality is the core that cannot be broken down
any further. Conditioned reality is merely perception that is the projection
constructed with idea, concept, thought and memorized information.
The truth or a truth of a thing is its reality or its essence.
The truth of abstractness is it’s abstract and non-physical. The truth of
reality is reality itself. Reality cannot be created, nor destroyed.
Reality is just reality, not made and not formed.
Ego: what is ego?
Pain: what is pain?
In physical world, what is ego and pain as the reality of
existence?
Ego is consciousness, feeling and sensation. An unconscious
mind doesn’t show the sign of ego. Numbness doesn’t show the sign of sensation
and consciousness. If the whole body is numb from injury or drug effect, even
if the brain is functioning, there cannot be any sign of consciousness – in my
opinion – thus, the brain might looks completely dead even if the person/animal
is still alive somehow; however, internal vital organs should still be working
though. When near waking up moment, sometimes some people felt they couldn’t
move their limbs or other body parts– as though they were aware of their
environment in half dreamy state. I wonder how the brain might look like during
a moment like this. It might be active but the parts which control sensation
and physical activity other than the heart and other vital organs might be
inactive to cause such inability for movement.
Pain needs ego, consciousness and sensation to become into
existence. A dead body doesn’t feel pain as it has no consciousness for
sensation and ego. Ego is the ground for pain to sprout and grow on. Pain is
sensation. In Buddhist ideology, egoless person doesn’t mentally suffer although
physical pain level is unbearable to ordinary people with egos.
How should I explain evolution in terms of reality?
I have a question.
Why hasn’t how non-life matters becoming life matters been proven?
- Scientists know how early stage of a planet might look like. The possibility appearance of early stage earth has been theorized.
- How life might appear from non-life materials has been theorized. But no laboratory tests ever resulted in proving this theory of evolution.
- If the way scientists think how the early stage of earth looked like, they should recreate it in laboratory. After that, they should demonstrate how life emerged from non-life materials.
- We should want proof. As long as how life began is not solved, macroevolution has not become a reality but only a myth, merely a theory. Then it’s not right to claim evolution is the only truth whence its truth, its essence, is not yet found.
- Agree with observable changes occur all the time as microevolution in which a species changes form, shape, size, colour, lifestyle, habitat and lifespan.
- Yet macroevolution cannot be found in microevolution because that species doesn’t become a different species – i.e. moneys become only different monkeys, apes only become different type of apes, etc and as a conclusion, humans only become humans in different ethnicity or race.
- Most importantly, a good stage by stage explanation is needed on how the earliest life form emerged from non-life form even if this scenario is not possible to be repeated in the laboratory. But why is it impossible? Because life didn’t come from non-life. If it did, it’s against the law of QM - imho.
Hypocrisy
It’s a very common word. It’s been defined as it’s been used
in many ways. But I think it needs explained once again because I think I have
slightly different views. I rather give it simple supplementary explanation.
Once I learned about three common hypocrisies:
1.
Aging: everyone is a subject of aging and
gradually getting older and certainly has become or will become an old person –
the closer to death, the less physical beauty. By knowing the fact, whether
with negligence or denial, if someone loathes an old person, then this is
hypocrisy.
2.
Illness: it’s same as above. Everyone is a
subject of illness and pain. Whether getting a severe disease or a simple
headache or even lighter illness such as skin rush or just mosquito bite, all
living things are equal for this reason. By knowing this fact, whether by
negligence or denial, if a person loathes an ill person, this is also
hypocrisy.
3.
Death: everyone fears of pain. The reality is
death is also a pain. We’re all going to die one day – even if young now. Yet
some people tend to loathe the dead body. This is also hypocrisy if not
comparing with one’s own body and loathing it also. We know a living body keeps
dying every moment and the hair, the finger nails, toe nails, dead skin, fat
(or oil), and all sort of evidences are always indicating the truth.
These three are from the Buddha Himself. Maybe I’ve missed
some information which is also important. Perhaps there is the forth: dirtiness
caused by wastes coming out of the body. But I rather give my own points of
view based on what I’ve learned so far.
We cannot be free from hypocrisy because of emotions – the human
nature of psychology. Greed, anger, delusion, pride and jealousy are the very
reasons because they make us to overlook ourselves.
Someone becomes greedy because of something valuable.
Otherwise, that person would be normal – although that person has not abandoned
greed completely. That is the way how greed appears, comes out of its domain,
and does its activity. But we, with little ignorance, know greed is bad and
will definitely oppose others for their greed yet we can become greedy. At the
moment when greed is present, a person is hypocrite.
Anger, pride and ignorance appear, come out of their own
domains, and do their activities – just that way too. But we know, with little
ignorance, how bad anger is. When we get angry, we’re both angry and hypocrite.
Ignorance is the very reality we cannot avoid. Nobody can
know everything when we do something. Ignorance itself doesn’t make us
hypocrite directly but it supports greed, anger, pride and jealousy and so
there is hypocrisy.
All conscious living organisms are not free from these
realities. If we get greedy or angry and do not dislike ourselves and correct
our minds, that is a practice of hypocrisy.
Here jealousy and envy are also hypocrisy. They are based on
selfishness so they’re selfish hypocrisy – sounding much worse. More than that,
covetousness is a real problem as it’s about wanting others’ properties – any
or all of money, wealth, position, love, just anything at all. Here healthy
competition itself falls into this category as raising/fixing the price to make
bigger profit can be immoral covetousness.
So is there anything left which is not hypocrisy? Of course
just remove the selfishness and delusion; anything can be done without
hypocrisy this way. Whatever action taken from the self perspective, like I do
it, I want it, etc. can be tainted with hypocrisy because immoral self-interest
could be there; otherwise it’s moral and not hypocrisy.
Fire burns because it gets fuel. Material things are fuel for
greed, anger, pride, jealousy and ignorance. If someone doesn’t consider these
realities and loathe others for their greed, anger, pride, jealousy and ignorance,
then that’s hypocrisy. When one has yet to have abandoned these hypocrisies,
disliking others for having any hypocrisy, one is obviously hypocrite.
Why should a person who has greed of his/her own criticise
someone else for having/showing greed? Why can a person criticise others’
anger, pride, jealousy and ignorance?
We want to be intelligent, smart, have everything, famous,
loved, cared, looked after, followed, safe, moral, satisfied, pleased, happy,
want to be treated well and nicely, and all sort of good quality of life are
wanted. Why can one harbour such bad emotions if one is not totally lacking
self-control and hopelessly ignorant?
Criticising, judging others, and not criticising and judging
oneself, it’s a way of practicing hypocrisy. But it’s better to judge and
analyse oneself because one can improve oneself this way.
But we should pardon the nature of politics because we need
a peaceful society in which political activities must exist healthily. If
politicians have the condition to practice their best and serving the common
interests, then what will we say?- it’s what we actually want as a society.
If a person practices hypocrisy willingly than that person
is immoral. It’s hard to control the mind but it’s good to have not sped and
crushed. We cannot expect animals and other organisms to practice morality. But
as intelligent beings, we humans can know and have conscience. It’s always great
to increase conscience.
Ignorance is actually the predominant factor of all
existence and occurrence. The dark shadow of ignorance casting by all
individual living organisms is so vast that we have to live in the dark most of
the time. This way we actually affect one another with borrowed ideas. That
shadow is the great shadow of life. We each casts a little shadow and make it
big blanketing black shadow of oneness so fearsome that it engulfs everyone. That’s
actually our own contribution as a global society of the world. Whatever we do,
act, say... is not free from our ignorance – meaning we’re not perfect and our
actions cannot be perfect ideologically even when the action is the only right
thing to do; still we do it with delusion more or less. The contribution of our
ignorance we make to one another is what we actually have in common. Not all of
us are just like that though. Sometimes sages come and shine the light of
truth. Whenever such a sage appears, we rather not miss his/her teachings.
Strange Dream
You may have faith but don’t let faith have you! If a faith devours its followers, isn’t it the same to a lion devours its preys?
That thought came to me yesterday as reading how HIV patients died in believing and did what they were told “believe in God and stop taking the medication”. I did think about how faith and cults can be as dangerous as the demons that eat people.
I was about to ask that question on Yahoo Answer but I gave the idea up.
But there have been demon worshipers who clearly know how the demons eat people. They’d feed their demons anyway?!
I didn’t go to bed with that thought though. But I dreamed about three people me, someone who wore like Jesus Christ and a third person I didn’t notice properly. There was a person who had a lion, rather an invisible lion that appeared, commanded his lion to chase the one who looked like Jesus Christ and there we three had to run from the lion chasing us.
I didn’t know how we three could climb a hill quite high but not tiring and it was rocky. There I (alone) met a few people sitting on a bench waiting for bus to come – that was a bus stop looked very much modern and the design was quite unique and high class. I told those people about the lion coming and they laughed and I could clearly see they later saw the lion themselves and they might get panicky – not sure if it was my wishing thought happened in that dream. I didn’t know where or which direction the other two went but they disappeared from the dream completely. I didn’t see they got trouble or out of trouble.
The bus stop was on my left-hand side. There was a low wall behind the bus stop which I climbed over and continued running down that hill. There I saw some buildings at the other side of the hill and a stairs to climb down the hill. I ran down that stairs where I saw a broken landing (the only one) made of jade. I safely landed on the edge of that landing and kept running. I noticed the lion was not after me. I didn’t know the fates of the other two and those waiting for a bus at the bus stop.
And the dream ended there as I woke up. It was about 4:46AM.
A fact is I do believe Jesus existed as a revolutionist opposing the Romans’ occupation of his land. But I believe him not as a god or son of god. I also believe he (his image) has been used by some people in the past for their own purpose. Maybe my dream has something to do with my views.
When I woke up from the dream, I immediately thought that the stairs and landing might be Buddhism which can be a little broken but safe enough for me. As I’m writing about the hill, I recall I also read an article about a hill and stones. I don’t know if anything to do with it.
20 October 2011
Min Khin Kyaw
That thought came to me yesterday as reading how HIV patients died in believing and did what they were told “believe in God and stop taking the medication”. I did think about how faith and cults can be as dangerous as the demons that eat people.
I was about to ask that question on Yahoo Answer but I gave the idea up.
But there have been demon worshipers who clearly know how the demons eat people. They’d feed their demons anyway?!
I didn’t go to bed with that thought though. But I dreamed about three people me, someone who wore like Jesus Christ and a third person I didn’t notice properly. There was a person who had a lion, rather an invisible lion that appeared, commanded his lion to chase the one who looked like Jesus Christ and there we three had to run from the lion chasing us.
I didn’t know how we three could climb a hill quite high but not tiring and it was rocky. There I (alone) met a few people sitting on a bench waiting for bus to come – that was a bus stop looked very much modern and the design was quite unique and high class. I told those people about the lion coming and they laughed and I could clearly see they later saw the lion themselves and they might get panicky – not sure if it was my wishing thought happened in that dream. I didn’t know where or which direction the other two went but they disappeared from the dream completely. I didn’t see they got trouble or out of trouble.
The bus stop was on my left-hand side. There was a low wall behind the bus stop which I climbed over and continued running down that hill. There I saw some buildings at the other side of the hill and a stairs to climb down the hill. I ran down that stairs where I saw a broken landing (the only one) made of jade. I safely landed on the edge of that landing and kept running. I noticed the lion was not after me. I didn’t know the fates of the other two and those waiting for a bus at the bus stop.
And the dream ended there as I woke up. It was about 4:46AM.
A fact is I do believe Jesus existed as a revolutionist opposing the Romans’ occupation of his land. But I believe him not as a god or son of god. I also believe he (his image) has been used by some people in the past for their own purpose. Maybe my dream has something to do with my views.
When I woke up from the dream, I immediately thought that the stairs and landing might be Buddhism which can be a little broken but safe enough for me. As I’m writing about the hill, I recall I also read an article about a hill and stones. I don’t know if anything to do with it.
20 October 2011
Min Khin Kyaw
If SINGULARITY was that Small!
I'm arguing with the singularity - from wiki Big Bang.
1.
What Could Condense the Milk?
I would take the Big Bang theory if only I got an explanation on what (force)could have shrunk the matters down into such tiny condensation before the Big Bang. I have to know if there is such force still outside our universe, like gravity, that can bring all the matters in this universe into singularity as small as assumed size.
I don't believe any black holes out there can be strong enough to swallow all masses. Even if all black holes were put together as a single body Giant, I don't believe that black hole would be able to shrink itself into that small size.
Masses and and all the matters in the universe will not allow themselves to be jam-packed by any known force, also that Black Hole, into that small singularity. The combined energy from all corners of the entire universe must be equal to the energy inside that singularity. If that single Black Hole cannot do the task, what else could have done to condense the universe down that size?
2.
Infinity
Extrapolation of the expansion of the Universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past.
I cannot accept the word infinite density in that explanation. I don't believe it's possible. One reason is the single black hole has its limit and cannot overcome the resistant (and friction) of its own mass. Matters will resist once they reached a certain level of density. "Infinite" must be wrong and cannot be explained.
As time were finite, as space were finite and exist only within that singularity, and there were nothing as outside, how could there be inside and infinite as density? And there must be an explanation for how that infinite density then is still infinite density now - the universe must not have lost its energy as the claim is there was no outside.
Even if string theory were taken as reality, matters from the wavelet level, or smallest level, must have resistance to shrinkage. That infinite density can not be reality. Otherwise, it will become transcendental idea - there was no matter nor energy but something immaterial. Then we could say - it didn't need anything: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing,"
3.
The Obvious
There you see!
If gravity, as the single Black Hole could not shrink the universe into that size,
If the "infinite density" is not explained
If there is no force outside the universe, as there were no outside,
I cannot believe the universe would have started from the singularity that size!
But I'm not saying "God did da bitch!" (no offense - just for the sake of sense of humor)
1.
What Could Condense the Milk?
I would take the Big Bang theory if only I got an explanation on what (force)could have shrunk the matters down into such tiny condensation before the Big Bang. I have to know if there is such force still outside our universe, like gravity, that can bring all the matters in this universe into singularity as small as assumed size.
I don't believe any black holes out there can be strong enough to swallow all masses. Even if all black holes were put together as a single body Giant, I don't believe that black hole would be able to shrink itself into that small size.
Masses and and all the matters in the universe will not allow themselves to be jam-packed by any known force, also that Black Hole, into that small singularity. The combined energy from all corners of the entire universe must be equal to the energy inside that singularity. If that single Black Hole cannot do the task, what else could have done to condense the universe down that size?
2.
Infinity
Extrapolation of the expansion of the Universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past.
I cannot accept the word infinite density in that explanation. I don't believe it's possible. One reason is the single black hole has its limit and cannot overcome the resistant (and friction) of its own mass. Matters will resist once they reached a certain level of density. "Infinite" must be wrong and cannot be explained.
As time were finite, as space were finite and exist only within that singularity, and there were nothing as outside, how could there be inside and infinite as density? And there must be an explanation for how that infinite density then is still infinite density now - the universe must not have lost its energy as the claim is there was no outside.
Even if string theory were taken as reality, matters from the wavelet level, or smallest level, must have resistance to shrinkage. That infinite density can not be reality. Otherwise, it will become transcendental idea - there was no matter nor energy but something immaterial. Then we could say - it didn't need anything: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing,"
3.
The Obvious
There you see!
If gravity, as the single Black Hole could not shrink the universe into that size,
If the "infinite density" is not explained
If there is no force outside the universe, as there were no outside,
I cannot believe the universe would have started from the singularity that size!
But I'm not saying "God did da bitch!" (no offense - just for the sake of sense of humor)
Intuition
Belief in god is cultural issue. When a kid is raised in a culture that is influenced by such faith, that kid is likely to fall for it - but if the kid is forced to follow the culture, he/she will. Kids don't have resistance.
Human tendency is obviously egocentric - that one things one's culture is better for example. This leads to my religion is better. Just the way football fans support their team good or bad. They can even hate other teams and fight with their fans. At school level, students are made into teams and teams don't get along.
Human is basically superficial and egocentric. Unless one is exposed to a good family, culture, tradition, good teachers, etc, one is naturally to fall; won't become good automatically. if forced, one can become even worse. If exposed to worst culture, one can become a worst beast as human being.
It’s all about culture and also natural tendency of individuals. Culture is explained.
Tendency of a person is obvious too. That is what makes us different and unique and not robotic or mass-produced products. Due to such tendency, even smallest living organism (microbes) can get own personality.
Some people are smart from birth. Some are not. Even within a family, siblings have the differences. Genetic explanation got to get this far in explaining why even twins are different.
Some people are greedy some are not. Some are good in nature as some have short temper with either good or bad nature. Some are smart but do not have the heart for others. Some are smart enough to have a heart for others. Just consider all aspects of humanity. I hope science will explain it all sooner than later.
We use the word 'intuition' when we know something is right yet hard to explain. Sometimes we don't have enough idea how to explain it.
Intuition also happens when we have to feel something to happen - such as we might find the path (as in jungle) and as keep going you find the path (toward the village). Like it might rain tomorrow although it is sunny now and you have not heard the news and it might rain too - but you must rely on some commonsense though like seeing the cloud is building up.
However, intuition is for those who are uncertain. The more you learn, the less intuition is needed. Yes, intuition in math is obvious for kids who have to submit the calculation expecting the have the right answers. There they have to come into conclusion that they got it right and stop working on a problem.
Whenever a complex problem is there to solve, the need for intuition is obvious.
The more complex the problem, the more intuition is needed.
Hence superstition in real great events in history can be found - such as the battle won by the inferior side which the soldiers or the historians cannot explain how it happened. Consider this –
The Anglo-Spanish War: The Spanish Armada
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars14011600/a/armada.htm
Well speculations are speculations.
The more we understand, the less for intuition. But do have enough words to explain everything? Have we? No. sooner or later new words will come into the world to explain new findings. So the place for intuition is still necessary in science too. That is also called hypothesis. The gut feeling of something that it must be so - it can be right etc. intuition is not the good way to end the explanation. But evolutionary theory is still at its level of intuition too - especially when it comes from how life started on earth. Evolution is fine and well explained but when it comes to links, e.g. humans might come from a branch of monkey. Where is the evidence? NO!!! Nothing but it’s science!!! And thus we must accept it, huh?
lol yes I'm laughing.
There the more we feel sure, the less intuition involves. There is no need for intuition in 2+2=4. Should I still say 'I think I might get it right this time"? Maybe!
Human tendency is obviously egocentric - that one things one's culture is better for example. This leads to my religion is better. Just the way football fans support their team good or bad. They can even hate other teams and fight with their fans. At school level, students are made into teams and teams don't get along.
Human is basically superficial and egocentric. Unless one is exposed to a good family, culture, tradition, good teachers, etc, one is naturally to fall; won't become good automatically. if forced, one can become even worse. If exposed to worst culture, one can become a worst beast as human being.
It’s all about culture and also natural tendency of individuals. Culture is explained.
Tendency of a person is obvious too. That is what makes us different and unique and not robotic or mass-produced products. Due to such tendency, even smallest living organism (microbes) can get own personality.
Some people are smart from birth. Some are not. Even within a family, siblings have the differences. Genetic explanation got to get this far in explaining why even twins are different.
Some people are greedy some are not. Some are good in nature as some have short temper with either good or bad nature. Some are smart but do not have the heart for others. Some are smart enough to have a heart for others. Just consider all aspects of humanity. I hope science will explain it all sooner than later.
We use the word 'intuition' when we know something is right yet hard to explain. Sometimes we don't have enough idea how to explain it.
Intuition also happens when we have to feel something to happen - such as we might find the path (as in jungle) and as keep going you find the path (toward the village). Like it might rain tomorrow although it is sunny now and you have not heard the news and it might rain too - but you must rely on some commonsense though like seeing the cloud is building up.
However, intuition is for those who are uncertain. The more you learn, the less intuition is needed. Yes, intuition in math is obvious for kids who have to submit the calculation expecting the have the right answers. There they have to come into conclusion that they got it right and stop working on a problem.
Whenever a complex problem is there to solve, the need for intuition is obvious.
The more complex the problem, the more intuition is needed.
Hence superstition in real great events in history can be found - such as the battle won by the inferior side which the soldiers or the historians cannot explain how it happened. Consider this –
The Anglo-Spanish War: The Spanish Armada
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars14011600/a/armada.htm
Well speculations are speculations.
The more we understand, the less for intuition. But do have enough words to explain everything? Have we? No. sooner or later new words will come into the world to explain new findings. So the place for intuition is still necessary in science too. That is also called hypothesis. The gut feeling of something that it must be so - it can be right etc. intuition is not the good way to end the explanation. But evolutionary theory is still at its level of intuition too - especially when it comes from how life started on earth. Evolution is fine and well explained but when it comes to links, e.g. humans might come from a branch of monkey. Where is the evidence? NO!!! Nothing but it’s science!!! And thus we must accept it, huh?
lol yes I'm laughing.
There the more we feel sure, the less intuition involves. There is no need for intuition in 2+2=4. Should I still say 'I think I might get it right this time"? Maybe!
Two Halves Make One
We coexist.
We need each other.
We make a life in a world. We might not be unique but we don't need to know another world. We make contentment. We make understanding, agreement and share of investment. We invest everything known by us, owned by us and limited to us.
We don't want to live in a world that is only half - imagine if we have the halved earth! It cannot be beautiful. It can't be working. It can’t be meaningful. It can’t be for us. We must live a world that is full, a whole, marvellous...
That’s how we need both of us
That is to exist as long as we exist
That is to last as long as we last
That’s how we share
We give up to possess
Only to possess ourselves
But we only possess each other to give, even more and more,
We are to fertilize the shoots of love inside each other’s hearts
We will make it grow well
We must
But we must not be attached to each other.
We are individuals with differences.
We must be always being aware that we have invested these differences to make them into a good use. We have our freedoms that are also invested in our world.
We must recognize we are only the length that we live. We must accept the reality of each other. And from this we must grow, mature and become wiser... simply for each other.
Everyday we live and we live for the good of us, the wisdom we can share that is also reinvested in our world.
That is the purpose of our lives.
We are who we are and must not be changed by nonsense. We must be always open to each other but not to nonsense.
That is because we want the beautiful world.
We need each other.
We make a life in a world. We might not be unique but we don't need to know another world. We make contentment. We make understanding, agreement and share of investment. We invest everything known by us, owned by us and limited to us.
We don't want to live in a world that is only half - imagine if we have the halved earth! It cannot be beautiful. It can't be working. It can’t be meaningful. It can’t be for us. We must live a world that is full, a whole, marvellous...
That’s how we need both of us
That is to exist as long as we exist
That is to last as long as we last
That’s how we share
We give up to possess
Only to possess ourselves
But we only possess each other to give, even more and more,
We are to fertilize the shoots of love inside each other’s hearts
We will make it grow well
We must
But we must not be attached to each other.
We are individuals with differences.
We must be always being aware that we have invested these differences to make them into a good use. We have our freedoms that are also invested in our world.
We must recognize we are only the length that we live. We must accept the reality of each other. And from this we must grow, mature and become wiser... simply for each other.
Everyday we live and we live for the good of us, the wisdom we can share that is also reinvested in our world.
That is the purpose of our lives.
We are who we are and must not be changed by nonsense. We must be always open to each other but not to nonsense.
That is because we want the beautiful world.
Invisible
Being forgetful so long
You suddenly arrived without a step
You knock on my dream yet I’m not asleep
You came with a present
Trauma without a pause
So it’s my future eternal cause
For not a win but only a loss
And now you just came like that without a step
But with a trauma for me in your bare hands!
How would you show me to reach your golden palms?
A thousand flowers’ fragrance adheres my eyelids!
Is it really a present?
The present you know I’m ready to take?
Though too late now!
The gate of many strong padlocks
Open for a heart like mine!
Inside dark,
Without a spark,
Outside cold without a flake of snow
Were you beautiful then? Were you?
And are you beautiful now? Are you?
How would you ever come again?
Where were you then?
Where are you now?
You suddenly arrived without a step
You knock on my dream yet I’m not asleep
You came with a present
Trauma without a pause
So it’s my future eternal cause
For not a win but only a loss
And now you just came like that without a step
But with a trauma for me in your bare hands!
How would you show me to reach your golden palms?
A thousand flowers’ fragrance adheres my eyelids!
Is it really a present?
The present you know I’m ready to take?
Though too late now!
The gate of many strong padlocks
Open for a heart like mine!
Inside dark,
Without a spark,
Outside cold without a flake of snow
Were you beautiful then? Were you?
And are you beautiful now? Are you?
How would you ever come again?
Where were you then?
Where are you now?
Happy New Year to Burma
Election has finished
Power is just reconnected to that drug factory
War has been renewed
Refugees being kicked back and fort
The ball is wet in the mud
The audience sway their hearts
The score is just seven to one
Wealth Engagement Vs Sanction…
The referee has lost his whistle in mud
As he searches, somebody takes his pants and runs around the field
Nobody could see a solution
The game going on for twenty years without rules
Now the kindergarteners teaching at schools…
Burma generous so
Sacrifices herself
For the wealth of her neighbours;
There She goes an’ works as much tamed servant
As throwing her heritance away
Her land no longer a hermitage
.........
Well, I'm watching from the side of sanction though. That's what I think I should side for now.
Power is just reconnected to that drug factory
War has been renewed
Refugees being kicked back and fort
The ball is wet in the mud
The audience sway their hearts
The score is just seven to one
Wealth Engagement Vs Sanction…
The referee has lost his whistle in mud
As he searches, somebody takes his pants and runs around the field
Nobody could see a solution
The game going on for twenty years without rules
Now the kindergarteners teaching at schools…
Burma generous so
Sacrifices herself
For the wealth of her neighbours;
There She goes an’ works as much tamed servant
As throwing her heritance away
Her land no longer a hermitage
.........
Well, I'm watching from the side of sanction though. That's what I think I should side for now.
Give This Poem A Title
A Stray-cat Story here with me!
*
In Thailand It was...;
Black kitten I found a tiny male
Some fish an’ chicken I gave it
Made it strong like a right batman
And let it roam as cat would in nature –
Making plentiful kittens – he the father!
Many more blackish kittens – I wasn’t able to see them all!
Glad then I Was! Yeah! Just go out an’ make kittens more!
**
Two white kittens
Ran an’ hid from me – chicken!
The mother cat, white too,
Came and asked for food – adapted
Fed cat food
Just grew up – hot bonfires
So soon so quick arrived in first fast fiery season
In love-making – love is for every catman!
Two white bellyful kittens – runnin, runnin
When one reached the horizon – her belly deflated!
And the mother too created the mixed coloured four!
The neighbour said ‘cat farming’
The other kitten still keeps runnin!*
But they aren’t even one year old!
And they’re gonna live nine years more?
***
15 years ago In Thailand
I was found of cats quite strong
A perspective of mine weren’t wrong
Now too many kittens surrounding me...
Two more on a roll mothers to be
How’s the cat population supposed to be?
****
What’s wrong with pregnancy?
Mankind we have no idea how growth should be!
For cats, then I’m not writing a moral song!
Ha-ha! The Neighbours will feed them now!
* I think she's seen her kittens already. I haven't seen her since this morning - she didn't come for food.
14/10/2010: there are 8 kittens, 2 are really cool. the mother has 4 and now she also has 4 granddaughters.
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In Thailand It was...;
Black kitten I found a tiny male
Some fish an’ chicken I gave it
Made it strong like a right batman
And let it roam as cat would in nature –
Making plentiful kittens – he the father!
Many more blackish kittens – I wasn’t able to see them all!
Glad then I Was! Yeah! Just go out an’ make kittens more!
**
Two white kittens
Ran an’ hid from me – chicken!
The mother cat, white too,
Came and asked for food – adapted
Fed cat food
Just grew up – hot bonfires
So soon so quick arrived in first fast fiery season
In love-making – love is for every catman!
Two white bellyful kittens – runnin, runnin
When one reached the horizon – her belly deflated!
And the mother too created the mixed coloured four!
The neighbour said ‘cat farming’
The other kitten still keeps runnin!*
But they aren’t even one year old!
And they’re gonna live nine years more?
***
15 years ago In Thailand
I was found of cats quite strong
A perspective of mine weren’t wrong
Now too many kittens surrounding me...
Two more on a roll mothers to be
How’s the cat population supposed to be?
****
What’s wrong with pregnancy?
Mankind we have no idea how growth should be!
For cats, then I’m not writing a moral song!
Ha-ha! The Neighbours will feed them now!
* I think she's seen her kittens already. I haven't seen her since this morning - she didn't come for food.
14/10/2010: there are 8 kittens, 2 are really cool. the mother has 4 and now she also has 4 granddaughters.
NIRVANA
Min Khin Kyaw
Average human consumption of resources in a lifetime is significant. As one lives, one must consume and get a share small or huge. Minimum is still significant to other life forms – even if you’re a vegetarian. A person needs an area to live in, some food, some water, some fresh air, some fuel, some carbon-footprint and some amount of fun. A vegetarian needs some plants on which other living things can rely on too. So a share is a share whether small or large.
The concept of nirvana is to give up that little share completely. Then other living things can share that tiny amount. Just think about both a whale carcass and a dead microbe – they both can be consumed by many.
To gain nirvana, a person gradually gives up his share he gains by any means. And when one has done by giving up the share, one achieves nirvana. In this case, the craving for the share has to be given up completely too. Giving up the share cannot be completed if the crave for a share is still remained.
The Buddha emphasized three kinds of cravings: the craving for materials and the sensual things, the craving for being or life and the craving for higher life-form, such as divinity; and each craving is the desire for a share. This is what to know.
Hence, there are the condition for desire and the condition for the need for desire – as a fact of the existence. Desire is just desire and common to every living being. The condition for the need for desire is also belongs to every living being. Upon these two factors, the existence has all the lures for both higher intelligence and lower intelligence. As for scientists, the complexity of existence is the lure; for a poet and writer, the beauty of words, the beauty of information and the beauty of creation are the lure; and for a tiny fish, a worm attached to the hook is the lure.
So the universe or the great existence is just us the beings and lures – nothing else. Maya is the word for lure which I learned when I was young and didn’t understand well then. Whether craving to know, or craving to have – whether for good or bad – are attached with strings with hooks but one is like the needle that injects medicine and the other poison.
It seems all the lures for both low and high intelligence are attached to hooks that have hooked the hearts of the beings. The reason for the hooks is when we remove or cut the lure or run out of the lure, we get hurt inside – and well, we crave for more. To a scientists, being unable to study the complexity hurts. To a poet, being short of words hurts. And to a tiny fish, the actual hook hurts. And each heart is hooked by countless hooks and hooked by the same hooks countless times. And being with more hooks those inject poison than those inject medicine is very painful.
Removing each hook seems really painful. But each hook in the flesh indeed hurts very painfully. However, a wound seems to be normal until the nurse comes and clean it up and put certain medicine, the pain becomes unbearable again – and that seems the reason why people don’t like the hooks removed to heal their wounds. At the same time, the hooks are pulled by the lures. Well, the lures are both inside the heart and out there.
Imagine an image of a person being his heart hooked and the lines are attached to the lures out there near and afar. Right now I can see myself this way –
And I’m craving for my share everyday!
Hooks look really shiny and beautiful although the lines are ugly and awful...
Average human consumption of resources in a lifetime is significant. As one lives, one must consume and get a share small or huge. Minimum is still significant to other life forms – even if you’re a vegetarian. A person needs an area to live in, some food, some water, some fresh air, some fuel, some carbon-footprint and some amount of fun. A vegetarian needs some plants on which other living things can rely on too. So a share is a share whether small or large.
The concept of nirvana is to give up that little share completely. Then other living things can share that tiny amount. Just think about both a whale carcass and a dead microbe – they both can be consumed by many.
To gain nirvana, a person gradually gives up his share he gains by any means. And when one has done by giving up the share, one achieves nirvana. In this case, the craving for the share has to be given up completely too. Giving up the share cannot be completed if the crave for a share is still remained.
The Buddha emphasized three kinds of cravings: the craving for materials and the sensual things, the craving for being or life and the craving for higher life-form, such as divinity; and each craving is the desire for a share. This is what to know.
Hence, there are the condition for desire and the condition for the need for desire – as a fact of the existence. Desire is just desire and common to every living being. The condition for the need for desire is also belongs to every living being. Upon these two factors, the existence has all the lures for both higher intelligence and lower intelligence. As for scientists, the complexity of existence is the lure; for a poet and writer, the beauty of words, the beauty of information and the beauty of creation are the lure; and for a tiny fish, a worm attached to the hook is the lure.
So the universe or the great existence is just us the beings and lures – nothing else. Maya is the word for lure which I learned when I was young and didn’t understand well then. Whether craving to know, or craving to have – whether for good or bad – are attached with strings with hooks but one is like the needle that injects medicine and the other poison.
It seems all the lures for both low and high intelligence are attached to hooks that have hooked the hearts of the beings. The reason for the hooks is when we remove or cut the lure or run out of the lure, we get hurt inside – and well, we crave for more. To a scientists, being unable to study the complexity hurts. To a poet, being short of words hurts. And to a tiny fish, the actual hook hurts. And each heart is hooked by countless hooks and hooked by the same hooks countless times. And being with more hooks those inject poison than those inject medicine is very painful.
Removing each hook seems really painful. But each hook in the flesh indeed hurts very painfully. However, a wound seems to be normal until the nurse comes and clean it up and put certain medicine, the pain becomes unbearable again – and that seems the reason why people don’t like the hooks removed to heal their wounds. At the same time, the hooks are pulled by the lures. Well, the lures are both inside the heart and out there.
Imagine an image of a person being his heart hooked and the lines are attached to the lures out there near and afar. Right now I can see myself this way –
And I’m craving for my share everyday!
Hooks look really shiny and beautiful although the lines are ugly and awful...
The Torch of Wisdom
Wisdom is something you have to make time to time.
Fire is always everywhere but to get the flames of your own, you have to make it where you need it with some firewood, sticks and a match.
Wisdom is just like the fire and constantly present as the law of nature. To have a flame of wisdom, you have to make it where you need it. With knowledge, experience and skills that make a man wise, that wise man can make a flame of wisdom when he needs.
A wise man collects knowledge as ingredients for conscience. By knowledge, he strengthens his common sense. With his common sense, he leads a life within ‘the law of the natural morals’ that applies to all mankind and living things. With moral practices, he gains self-control. With self-controls, he develops confidence in his views and concepts as he gradually straightens and tunes up his ideas to align with ‘the laws of nature’. Confidence is energy that can be changed into will power or determination. A weak determination can grow into a stronger determination with more knowledge, more skill, more awareness and more understanding. Once his views are tuned in to the nature or the way of the Existence, he can see the right things amongst the wrong ones.
That is the first stage of the law of wisdom.
As he gradually understands, the law of nature, he can make the flame of wisdom when he needs.
The second stage of wisdom is the harder one. Not all wise men were able to reach this. That is the state of one is being the way one knows.
To have wisdom is quite easy. Tuning up one’s views and concepts with the laws of nature is a lot easier. It can be done as a hobby; and with a habit, one can gain some skill for judgement as making the flame of wisdom. This first stage indeed needs lots of learning and practices.
The second stage - to make oneself into a flame of wisdom is hard. To conquer own ‘natural resistance of fixed egoism lost in complications of misperception’ against the law of nature is hard. An actual wise man tries to achieve just that – to be the way of the law of nature – to overcome the obstacles of unskilled condition. With gradual practice, one may become the skill itself.
The skill is the state in which one doesn’t need judgement anymore; but just like reciting a book, one can know exactly what is right and wrong. That is how one may be the flame of wisdom or the torch of wisdom.
In this state, the flame of wisdom doesn’t make a wrong statement ever again.
Notes:
1. The law of natural morals is part of the law of nature based on the concept that
a. The nature is mixed with sets and singles. A set is made of two opposing conditions and two neutral conditions to be known as both and either. For examples, ‘right, wrong and neither’, ‘good, bad and neither’, ‘pain, pleasure and neither’, ‘punishment, reward and neither’, etc.; the singles are things (e.g. man, head, finger, toe, tree, fruit, flower), names, etc.
b. The nature is the same to every living being that it is fair and just.
c. The nature is a set of laws that composed the Existence; they determine what are wrong and what are right for the living beings.
d. Moral is the right things in the law of nature. As the nature is just and fair, morals are the same and unchanging.
e. There is a set of morals that is clear and obvious. They are applied to all living beings that belong to the Existence.
f. Most importantly, the law of moral is not the views or concepts. Moral must lead to happiness that doesn’t need to hurt anything that has its own ego.
2. Ego is self identification made of a set of the fixed mental faculties exist on the physical body; however, ego is the body and the mind felt as oneness. An individual being has ego as it cannot distinguish the body and the mind completely. Superficially, an intelligent being can understand the mind and the body and can describe which is which. But as the body and the mind are combined as one, in certain deep levels, an ordinary intelligent being cannot reach to realize the way they are (science is improving to understand this).
3. Misperception: if the eye is not right, one may not see right. Ideological misperception is caused by the same knowledge we may have and the different views of different people which one uses as one’s own eyes in thoughts. Misperception is the cause of Misunderstanding. Mistakes are made very often and that provides a concept how we have misperception. I think misperception is a significant thing in the development of wisdom; by trying to correct the mistakes, we can have the right understandings that become the right knowledge as the ingredients or fuel to make a flame of wisdom.
4. Natural resistance of fixed egoism lost in complications of misperception: natural resistance is caused by pride, unbendable pride, bias, misperception and ignorance which can be understood as ego.
Reference:
Encyclopaedia Britannica CD ROM, 2005
Acknowledgement:
Above essay is mainly based on Buddhist concept of wisdom. Other different terms are from different sources of philosophy. The essay was written just as I see. I think I’m somewhere at the first stage. And I expect the readers to accept my thoughts cautiously.
Wish:
May I be able to achieve such state with the merit from writing this essay!
Fire is always everywhere but to get the flames of your own, you have to make it where you need it with some firewood, sticks and a match.
Wisdom is just like the fire and constantly present as the law of nature. To have a flame of wisdom, you have to make it where you need it. With knowledge, experience and skills that make a man wise, that wise man can make a flame of wisdom when he needs.
A wise man collects knowledge as ingredients for conscience. By knowledge, he strengthens his common sense. With his common sense, he leads a life within ‘the law of the natural morals’ that applies to all mankind and living things. With moral practices, he gains self-control. With self-controls, he develops confidence in his views and concepts as he gradually straightens and tunes up his ideas to align with ‘the laws of nature’. Confidence is energy that can be changed into will power or determination. A weak determination can grow into a stronger determination with more knowledge, more skill, more awareness and more understanding. Once his views are tuned in to the nature or the way of the Existence, he can see the right things amongst the wrong ones.
That is the first stage of the law of wisdom.
As he gradually understands, the law of nature, he can make the flame of wisdom when he needs.
The second stage of wisdom is the harder one. Not all wise men were able to reach this. That is the state of one is being the way one knows.
To have wisdom is quite easy. Tuning up one’s views and concepts with the laws of nature is a lot easier. It can be done as a hobby; and with a habit, one can gain some skill for judgement as making the flame of wisdom. This first stage indeed needs lots of learning and practices.
The second stage - to make oneself into a flame of wisdom is hard. To conquer own ‘natural resistance of fixed egoism lost in complications of misperception’ against the law of nature is hard. An actual wise man tries to achieve just that – to be the way of the law of nature – to overcome the obstacles of unskilled condition. With gradual practice, one may become the skill itself.
The skill is the state in which one doesn’t need judgement anymore; but just like reciting a book, one can know exactly what is right and wrong. That is how one may be the flame of wisdom or the torch of wisdom.
In this state, the flame of wisdom doesn’t make a wrong statement ever again.
Notes:
1. The law of natural morals is part of the law of nature based on the concept that
a. The nature is mixed with sets and singles. A set is made of two opposing conditions and two neutral conditions to be known as both and either. For examples, ‘right, wrong and neither’, ‘good, bad and neither’, ‘pain, pleasure and neither’, ‘punishment, reward and neither’, etc.; the singles are things (e.g. man, head, finger, toe, tree, fruit, flower), names, etc.
b. The nature is the same to every living being that it is fair and just.
c. The nature is a set of laws that composed the Existence; they determine what are wrong and what are right for the living beings.
d. Moral is the right things in the law of nature. As the nature is just and fair, morals are the same and unchanging.
e. There is a set of morals that is clear and obvious. They are applied to all living beings that belong to the Existence.
f. Most importantly, the law of moral is not the views or concepts. Moral must lead to happiness that doesn’t need to hurt anything that has its own ego.
2. Ego is self identification made of a set of the fixed mental faculties exist on the physical body; however, ego is the body and the mind felt as oneness. An individual being has ego as it cannot distinguish the body and the mind completely. Superficially, an intelligent being can understand the mind and the body and can describe which is which. But as the body and the mind are combined as one, in certain deep levels, an ordinary intelligent being cannot reach to realize the way they are (science is improving to understand this).
3. Misperception: if the eye is not right, one may not see right. Ideological misperception is caused by the same knowledge we may have and the different views of different people which one uses as one’s own eyes in thoughts. Misperception is the cause of Misunderstanding. Mistakes are made very often and that provides a concept how we have misperception. I think misperception is a significant thing in the development of wisdom; by trying to correct the mistakes, we can have the right understandings that become the right knowledge as the ingredients or fuel to make a flame of wisdom.
4. Natural resistance of fixed egoism lost in complications of misperception: natural resistance is caused by pride, unbendable pride, bias, misperception and ignorance which can be understood as ego.
Reference:
Encyclopaedia Britannica CD ROM, 2005
Acknowledgement:
Above essay is mainly based on Buddhist concept of wisdom. Other different terms are from different sources of philosophy. The essay was written just as I see. I think I’m somewhere at the first stage. And I expect the readers to accept my thoughts cautiously.
Wish:
May I be able to achieve such state with the merit from writing this essay!
After The Last Song
No easy to make money honestly
No easy to steal and lie
Be good or bad, never hard to guess!
Oh! Should be easy to rob and cheat!
Let nobody make morals and true friendship
Thieves and liars with Humanity
Cheaters may run a world!
No matter they can’t lead us all happy and prosperous!
Is there freedom in heaven?
Before the corrupt start manmade corrections,
Can we discuss justice with God? We need power sharing!
Isn’t this a God-made world? Wasn’t supposed to perfect it!
So God sent his son and his prophets for improvements!
Or would entire mankind get to hell?
His prophets yet countered what his son had to seal off!
But not how to deal with the atheists!
A simple question for you…
Would everybody go to hell anyway
After the last day and night
No pain and delight to be left anywhere
After the last fight
There would be no light and sanity
After the last judgment
No life left to decide what’s right and wrong
After the last appearance
The stars wouldn’t twinkle anymore
After the last blooming, the scent would farewell the world
After the last clarification
The space would be left empty and dark?
After the last song
From my heart
Heard from both heaven and hell
Let me get away from here
Holding the hand of my angel everlastingly!
No easy to steal and lie
Be good or bad, never hard to guess!
Oh! Should be easy to rob and cheat!
Let nobody make morals and true friendship
Thieves and liars with Humanity
Cheaters may run a world!
No matter they can’t lead us all happy and prosperous!
Is there freedom in heaven?
Before the corrupt start manmade corrections,
Can we discuss justice with God? We need power sharing!
Isn’t this a God-made world? Wasn’t supposed to perfect it!
So God sent his son and his prophets for improvements!
Or would entire mankind get to hell?
His prophets yet countered what his son had to seal off!
But not how to deal with the atheists!
A simple question for you…
Would everybody go to hell anyway
After the last day and night
No pain and delight to be left anywhere
After the last fight
There would be no light and sanity
After the last judgment
No life left to decide what’s right and wrong
After the last appearance
The stars wouldn’t twinkle anymore
After the last blooming, the scent would farewell the world
After the last clarification
The space would be left empty and dark?
After the last song
From my heart
Heard from both heaven and hell
Let me get away from here
Holding the hand of my angel everlastingly!
Theological Conflict
I don’t believe another messiah would come sooner into the existing influence and teaching of the previous messiah which are still effectively educating his followers and believers. If the new messiah is supposed to teach the same things, what for he should appear soon?
The reason is there will be fighting between the followers of existing messiah and the followers of the new. Human history is full of religious wars of a single religion within itself. An ideological conflict tends to occur among 1) the careless people, 2) the doubtful people, 3) the discontent and 4) the suppressed.
1. Careless people are forgetful, negligent and tend to make something to happen unintentionally or unnecessarily.
2. The doubtful people are usually thoughtful, (brainy and witty). They might be rather too careful that they might reach somewhere extreme beyond their capability. Their conclusion can become between right and wrong or neither. They’re the one who mishit the target with a great desire to hit it. They are the ones in the society who cannot accept the existing reality of traditional establishments, whether they know the true reality, whether they can give a better thing to humanity, but they like to find their own.
3. The discontent ones want more. They tent to be needy that the existing amounts are not necessarily enough for them. They tent to be neglecting the existing valuable as they long for what do not exist or cannot exist. They’re the ones who are on a big ship and do not know how to sail it that they are waiting for another ship to come.
4. The condition of the suppressed is the clearest. They don’t have a chance to maintain their culture. If that condition is severely extreme, they could even lose themselves all together and extinct. Or if the suppressing are the ones they respected, they’d find a new way to follow; every religion had at least a revolution of its own but the same were the pains of the people embedded in the causes of these revolutions.
Among each of these four different kinds, of course, smaller similarities can be categorised. Leave the details.
So I don’t believe that the arrival of the next messiah is impending.
If I have to analyse why the people are wishing the coming of a messiah, how should I think?
1. Isn’t the existing messages and teaching of the previous messiah enough?
2. Didn’t he teach to everyone and leave his teaching to every new generation?
Certainly, no messiah can rescue all beings but a few. Obviously, a messiah is not God. Wrongly, people might assume somebody was great and mistook him as messiah even if he was against existing faiths of his time.
Religions preach for peace; however, by contrary, the world is at war. In this situation, another messiah can only make the situation worse by dividing a people into two – one group is supposed to become atheists by disbelief to him.
1. There are some people who do not want to comply with the good teachings but the bad.
2. There are some who do not want to work but want liberation if others will ever get it – if that is kind of fulfilling the lusts that always occupy their minds. But they don’t want to hear if the liberation is about restriction of the freedom of wildness.
3. And there are people who know religions very well and become to disrespect them. Among them, two different groups emerge. One is the knowledgeable and wise people who rather respect ethics, morality and humanity and the other is the ones using a religion for their gains as preying on the ignorant – financially, sexually, etc.
I’m lucky, particularly in religious study, that I became to realise to learn from at least their foundations but not sufficiently lucky. I have the chance to compare them with no bias and that’s what I want to do. However, I’d only like to talk about the significances in the religions as sharing the universal tolerance.
The following is about the
Mythology of Sin
(Please write about sin whatever you know, or write your comment, to me.)
Buddhism: once the ancestors of mankind were godlike creatures that they had rays shining their environs without day or night where they travelled by flight like the clouds can float in the air. Their food was joy that when they needed, they just had to concentrate on joy. That was before they started eating the soil which existed underneath them. It was started by somebody who couldn’t control his desire that emerged from seeing the milky soil so long and wanted to test its taste. By eating so, their bodies become with holes and tunnels that what went in had to come out from the other end and the appearances of male and female became obvious. The then the soil was like milk cream that they didn’t need plants to absorb the nutrients and make edible fruits, grains, etc but the soil itself was edible. By seeing each others as male and female, there happened pleasure in it and lust as the consequence. And somebody started to touch somebody different thus understood the pleasure of touching and sensuality started to influence them…
In the Bible, Adam and Eve ate the sin fruit that was prohibited by God.
The reason is there will be fighting between the followers of existing messiah and the followers of the new. Human history is full of religious wars of a single religion within itself. An ideological conflict tends to occur among 1) the careless people, 2) the doubtful people, 3) the discontent and 4) the suppressed.
1. Careless people are forgetful, negligent and tend to make something to happen unintentionally or unnecessarily.
2. The doubtful people are usually thoughtful, (brainy and witty). They might be rather too careful that they might reach somewhere extreme beyond their capability. Their conclusion can become between right and wrong or neither. They’re the one who mishit the target with a great desire to hit it. They are the ones in the society who cannot accept the existing reality of traditional establishments, whether they know the true reality, whether they can give a better thing to humanity, but they like to find their own.
3. The discontent ones want more. They tent to be needy that the existing amounts are not necessarily enough for them. They tent to be neglecting the existing valuable as they long for what do not exist or cannot exist. They’re the ones who are on a big ship and do not know how to sail it that they are waiting for another ship to come.
4. The condition of the suppressed is the clearest. They don’t have a chance to maintain their culture. If that condition is severely extreme, they could even lose themselves all together and extinct. Or if the suppressing are the ones they respected, they’d find a new way to follow; every religion had at least a revolution of its own but the same were the pains of the people embedded in the causes of these revolutions.
Among each of these four different kinds, of course, smaller similarities can be categorised. Leave the details.
So I don’t believe that the arrival of the next messiah is impending.
If I have to analyse why the people are wishing the coming of a messiah, how should I think?
1. Isn’t the existing messages and teaching of the previous messiah enough?
2. Didn’t he teach to everyone and leave his teaching to every new generation?
Certainly, no messiah can rescue all beings but a few. Obviously, a messiah is not God. Wrongly, people might assume somebody was great and mistook him as messiah even if he was against existing faiths of his time.
Religions preach for peace; however, by contrary, the world is at war. In this situation, another messiah can only make the situation worse by dividing a people into two – one group is supposed to become atheists by disbelief to him.
1. There are some people who do not want to comply with the good teachings but the bad.
2. There are some who do not want to work but want liberation if others will ever get it – if that is kind of fulfilling the lusts that always occupy their minds. But they don’t want to hear if the liberation is about restriction of the freedom of wildness.
3. And there are people who know religions very well and become to disrespect them. Among them, two different groups emerge. One is the knowledgeable and wise people who rather respect ethics, morality and humanity and the other is the ones using a religion for their gains as preying on the ignorant – financially, sexually, etc.
I’m lucky, particularly in religious study, that I became to realise to learn from at least their foundations but not sufficiently lucky. I have the chance to compare them with no bias and that’s what I want to do. However, I’d only like to talk about the significances in the religions as sharing the universal tolerance.
The following is about the
Mythology of Sin
(Please write about sin whatever you know, or write your comment, to me.)
Buddhism: once the ancestors of mankind were godlike creatures that they had rays shining their environs without day or night where they travelled by flight like the clouds can float in the air. Their food was joy that when they needed, they just had to concentrate on joy. That was before they started eating the soil which existed underneath them. It was started by somebody who couldn’t control his desire that emerged from seeing the milky soil so long and wanted to test its taste. By eating so, their bodies become with holes and tunnels that what went in had to come out from the other end and the appearances of male and female became obvious. The then the soil was like milk cream that they didn’t need plants to absorb the nutrients and make edible fruits, grains, etc but the soil itself was edible. By seeing each others as male and female, there happened pleasure in it and lust as the consequence. And somebody started to touch somebody different thus understood the pleasure of touching and sensuality started to influence them…
In the Bible, Adam and Eve ate the sin fruit that was prohibited by God.
Mangrove loss 'put Burma at risk'
By Mark Kinver
Science and nature reporter, BBC News
Destruction of mangrove forests in Burma left coastal areas exposed to the devastating force of the weekend's cyclone, a top politician suggests.
ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said coastal developments had resulted in mangroves, which act as a natural defence against storms, being lost.
At least 22,000 people have died in the disaster, say state officials.
A study of the 2004 Asian tsunami found that areas near healthy mangroves suffered less damage and fewer deaths.
Mr Surin, speaking at a high-level meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore, said the combination of more people living in coastal areas and the loss of mangroves had exacerbated the tragedy.
"Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.
"Human beings are now direct victims of such natural forces."
His comments follow a news conference by Burma's minister for relief and resettlement, Maung Maung Swe, who said more deaths were caused by the cyclone's storm surge rather than the winds which reached 190km/h (120mph).
"The wave was up to 12ft (3.5m) high and it swept away and inundated half the houses in low-lying villages," the minister said. "They did not have anywhere to flee."
Storm shelter
Mangroves have been long considered as "bio-guards" for coastal settlements.
A study published in December 2005 said healthy mangrove forests helped save Sri Lankan villagers during the Asian tsunami disaster, which claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
Researchers from IUCN, formerly known as the World Conservation Union, compared the death toll from two villages in Sri Lanka that were hit by the devastating giant waves.
While two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest, up to 6,000 people lost their lives in a nearby village without similar vegetation.
"Mangroves are a very dense vegetation type that grows along the shore," explained Jeffrey McNeely, chief scientist for IUCN.
"Where the saltwater and freshwater meet, that is where the mangroves grow; they often extend from several hundred metres to a few kilometers inland.
"Especially in river deltas, mangroves prevent waves from damaging the more productive land that are further inland from the sea."
Lowering defences
A recent global assessment found that 3.6 million hectares of mangrove forests had disappeared since 1980.
The study carried out by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that Asia had suffered the greatest loss, with 1.9 million hectares being destroyed, primarily as a result of land use change.
It found that large-scale conversion of mangroves into shrimp and fish farms were among the main destructive drivers.
Other pressures included new development to accommodate the growth in the tourism sector and rising populations.
Mette Wilkie, a senior forestry officer for the FAO, said most of the mangroves in Burma had suffered as a result of being overexploited.
"There are very limited areas that you would describe as pristine or densely covered mangrove in the Irrawaddy area," she said, referring to the region of Burma where Cyclone Nagris first made landfall.
"There are some efforts in place to try to rehabilitate and replant mangroves, but we do know that the loss rate is quite substantial still.
"During the 1990s, they lost something like 2,000 hectares each year, which is about 0.3% being lost annually.
"But that does not give you the whole picture because the majority of these tidal habitats are being degraded, even if they are not being completely destroyed."
Growing awareness
However, the global picture is not entirely bleak. The FAO assessment showed that the annual rate of destruction had slowed from 187,000 hectares during the 1980s to 102,000 hectares during the early 2000s.
Some nations, such as Bangladesh, had actually increased mangrove cover, the FAO reported.
The role mangroves can play in reducing the devastation caused by extreme weather events was among the reasons behind Bangladesh's decision to protect one of the world's largest examples of the coastal habitat.
The Sundarbans, located in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, contain about 100,000 hectares of mangrove forest habitat.
"This has been allowed to grow, or in part at least, because Bangladesh was really hammered by a typhoon that killed something like 300,000 people a couple of decades ago," Dr McNeely said.
"They realised that if they did not have that mangrove buffer, another typhoon heading up the Bay of Bengal would cause even worse damage because the population is even more dense than it was then."
Science and nature reporter, BBC News
Destruction of mangrove forests in Burma left coastal areas exposed to the devastating force of the weekend's cyclone, a top politician suggests.
ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said coastal developments had resulted in mangroves, which act as a natural defence against storms, being lost.
At least 22,000 people have died in the disaster, say state officials.
A study of the 2004 Asian tsunami found that areas near healthy mangroves suffered less damage and fewer deaths.
Mr Surin, speaking at a high-level meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore, said the combination of more people living in coastal areas and the loss of mangroves had exacerbated the tragedy.
"Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.
"Human beings are now direct victims of such natural forces."
His comments follow a news conference by Burma's minister for relief and resettlement, Maung Maung Swe, who said more deaths were caused by the cyclone's storm surge rather than the winds which reached 190km/h (120mph).
"The wave was up to 12ft (3.5m) high and it swept away and inundated half the houses in low-lying villages," the minister said. "They did not have anywhere to flee."
Storm shelter
Mangroves have been long considered as "bio-guards" for coastal settlements.
A study published in December 2005 said healthy mangrove forests helped save Sri Lankan villagers during the Asian tsunami disaster, which claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
Researchers from IUCN, formerly known as the World Conservation Union, compared the death toll from two villages in Sri Lanka that were hit by the devastating giant waves.
While two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest, up to 6,000 people lost their lives in a nearby village without similar vegetation.
"Mangroves are a very dense vegetation type that grows along the shore," explained Jeffrey McNeely, chief scientist for IUCN.
"Where the saltwater and freshwater meet, that is where the mangroves grow; they often extend from several hundred metres to a few kilometers inland.
"Especially in river deltas, mangroves prevent waves from damaging the more productive land that are further inland from the sea."
Lowering defences
A recent global assessment found that 3.6 million hectares of mangrove forests had disappeared since 1980.
The study carried out by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that Asia had suffered the greatest loss, with 1.9 million hectares being destroyed, primarily as a result of land use change.
It found that large-scale conversion of mangroves into shrimp and fish farms were among the main destructive drivers.
Other pressures included new development to accommodate the growth in the tourism sector and rising populations.
Mette Wilkie, a senior forestry officer for the FAO, said most of the mangroves in Burma had suffered as a result of being overexploited.
"There are very limited areas that you would describe as pristine or densely covered mangrove in the Irrawaddy area," she said, referring to the region of Burma where Cyclone Nagris first made landfall.
"There are some efforts in place to try to rehabilitate and replant mangroves, but we do know that the loss rate is quite substantial still.
"During the 1990s, they lost something like 2,000 hectares each year, which is about 0.3% being lost annually.
"But that does not give you the whole picture because the majority of these tidal habitats are being degraded, even if they are not being completely destroyed."
Growing awareness
However, the global picture is not entirely bleak. The FAO assessment showed that the annual rate of destruction had slowed from 187,000 hectares during the 1980s to 102,000 hectares during the early 2000s.
Some nations, such as Bangladesh, had actually increased mangrove cover, the FAO reported.
The role mangroves can play in reducing the devastation caused by extreme weather events was among the reasons behind Bangladesh's decision to protect one of the world's largest examples of the coastal habitat.
The Sundarbans, located in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, contain about 100,000 hectares of mangrove forest habitat.
"This has been allowed to grow, or in part at least, because Bangladesh was really hammered by a typhoon that killed something like 300,000 people a couple of decades ago," Dr McNeely said.
"They realised that if they did not have that mangrove buffer, another typhoon heading up the Bay of Bengal would cause even worse damage because the population is even more dense than it was then."
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