Reality is just a Jerk!

I live in a world of psychotics who know that objective reality is just a jerk! They shoot messengers not for deceiving them but for not deceiving them. Those rude messengers are just jerks! The victims of parents' needy lies cannot process the horror of betrayal. Delusional princesses will suffer for their entire lives hating rude truth because anyone who doesn't maliciously deceive them (to appease / exploit them) is just a jerk! Act in their best interests with transparency and honesty and they'll know you're just a jerk!

The Wisdom of King Solomon

You could count the stories worth reading in the Bible on one hand, but The Wisdom of King Solomon ( 1 Kings 3:16-27 ) is one of them.

The story goes like this:

Two women come before King Solomon to settle a maternity dispute over a baby they each claim to be the mother of. What happened was they were living in a house together as harlots when they both gave birth to boys around the same time. 

One night, one of the mothers killed her baby by rolling over it in her sleep. For reasons that aren't fully explained, she simply got up and stole the other woman's baby to replace her dead one. The mother of the living baby woke up, freaked out and then realised what had happened.

The kidnapper denied stealing the baby, of course; so the two women were trapped in a classic "She said, she said" situation and these were the days before DNA tests so King Solomon is like, "This is bullshit. I don't have time for this. Take a sword, chop the baby in two and give half to each one." 

He's a busy King, he doesn't have all day to listen to women who are professional liars accuse each other of lying. 

A soldier pulls out his sword as commanded and grabs the baby, at which point one of the two women cries out in horror, "No, don't kill my baby. Give it to her." And King Solomon, wise as an owl, is like, "Aha! That's the real mother right there," because the other woman was all like, "Yeah, chop it up. Fair is fair."

Good is Needed for Evil to Succeed.

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and there wouldn't be many people who could find reason to disagree or criticise the advice. 

But all the evil in the world is being fuelled by decency. 

All that is required for evil to succeed is for good men to do something. 

The Buddha's Light.

I am not Enlightened and I do not imagine I'll ever be. But I think I know what it looks like. I can see things others cannot perceive. Truths that others are blind to. This is what I perceive of the Buddha's light. 
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The Buddha's message has very little to do with Buddhism. The monks are almost all corrupted. The Buddha preached a message of pure simplicity and truth that makes perfect sense; it eschews anything especially religious or even mystical.

It's almost pure logic (some of the purest I've seen; pure optimality) and it can be summed up in one word: 

Self.

Whilst some pain is an inevitable part of life, all suffering is the product of malice (ignorance is malicious) and endured needlessly.

A mere fraction of 1% of human misery is inevitable; the rest could be eliminated. It is inflicted on humans with intent by those who need to impose upon others (because they have no Self and are suffering themselves). 

It is they who create Maya (illusion / enchanted spell / fantasy) with their lies and manipulative tricks intended to corrupt perception, hijack the senses, induce desire; clearly for the purpose of control (human slavery).

If one falls under the spell of Maya, it is likely to take a near-death experience (and a desire to see truth, I guess) to break free of the illusions which enslave nearly all of Humanity. Every newborn child is overwhelmed with Maya almost from the first moment of consciousness. Maya was also the name of the Buddha's mother; and this seems especially relevant.

Maya is used to manipulate (corrupt) perception to create illusions that enslave victims who are unaware that the illusion is not real. It is evil. Under the spell of Maya, humans do unspeakable things to each other (which create Maya corruption); killing, deceit, slander, abuse, gossip, envy, hatred, refusal to value truth, embracing lies, etc.

Desire and illusion. Her name is [Maya].

All of this emotional corruption fuels malice which is inflicted in direct violation to Self; for when the blur of Maya is lifted, the truth one can perceive is horrifying. 

In the absence of Self, we're destroying ourselves. 

Maya has trapped the human species in a fight for survival against enemies created by humans trapped in a fight for survival who were made to be combative by humans trapped in a fight for survival. We have no enemies but ourselves. We've lost 100 billion to needless blind fighting amidst Maya illusions created by those without Self. No one has won. No one is winning. Everyone can win but it comes with a catch. 

Everyone must win so that everyone can.

Of course we must never seek to control another. We can only control our Self. 

To free yourself from Maya is easy enough if you want it. Cut the chains and you're free.



Enlightenment looks like perfect optimality.



The beauty of truth glows. Logically, it's perfect. It's got nothing to do with religion at all. If you cannot see what is there to be seen, it's possible that I have explained it poorly. But I am not here to teach anyone but myself. Your teacher is delayed. I expect he'll be along shortly.