It Is So Blissful

Siri Korale

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The author has documented his final version of conclusions that are in congruence with each other and can be integrated into a philosophy of life for humans, arising from his ideas, opinions, values, priorities and virtues he has developed based on his investigations of experiences throughout his encumbered life. He believes that these together build a system of measuring tools in the form of strong inner feelings in a human's intellectual book of rules that every human uses to make decisions at any point in his life. He also believes that one's tormenting experiences are not all that bad in transforming human intelligence into wisdom in a wide range of engagements in one's life. "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of mind

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• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528969406
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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It Is So Blissful
Widening the Circle of Compassion
Siri Korale
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-01-31
It Is So Blissful About the Author Copyright Information © Introduction 1 – The Basis of Original Sermons 2 – Why Should One Be Empowered 3 – The Nature of Common Mental Incompetence What I have said so far is 4 – The Long- Practised Distortion 5 – Defects in Human Soul with Some Labels 6 – Expanding the Circle of Compassion 7 – How Compatible Is This with Buddhism or Any Other Humane Religion 8 – How Do We Get There? 9 – It Is So Blissful, Supplement Self-Diagnosis Quotes from the Author
About the Author
The author grew up in a family of eleven children with the hard-labour ride, looking after the family’s cows in the countryside Sri Lanka. He struggled, until his adult years, with his education and an underpaid teaching job. He later managed to become an IT professional and worked as an IT consultant in Colombo, Copenhagen and Riyadh. In 1988, he migrated to Australia with his wife and two children.
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Introduction
The roots of thinking are the needs that are hardwired in the physical body of animals or humans or anything else in the Mother Nature and universe. They are the basic needs of the physical unit that turn to desires in the form of thoughts with living beings. These root needs are in fact outcomes of Math, Physics and Chemistry of the Mother Nature although they have become too complex with humans. The need of planets to rotate and the need of the plants to grow towards the sun are of the same kind. With human beings, physically wired needs give rise to feelings and they become thoughts with the help of a language. With the evolution of the brain, human desires have become way too complicated above the physical root needs. In fact, this complex mechanism has even added extra needs back to the human being’s physical mass. With animals, this has not been so weird due to lack of intelligence and a comprehensive language. A baby calf would not need to think to get up and suck milk from the mother at the very first time, it had the need to do so. Those needs are hardwired in the calf’s physical unit just like the need for plants to grow towards the sun. Humans may find it easy to believe that the root needs of non-living things would be the outcomes of the mechanisms of the Mother Nature. The truth is that our thinking is also based on the reactions of the same processes of the Mother Nature and that is the root level thinking of humans and all other objects around us. In reality, this is not basic at all with what we can see in front of our eyes. There is a different form of thinking with everything around us, an urge to move or change or grow. It is hard to grasp this concept but by looking at human thinking as something that initially comes from the hardwiring of our physical body that the Mother Nature created, makes it easier. Humans have long got used to think that desires are their own purposes of life, but they are often misled by body needs to find pleasure in things that are totally disgusting in other situations. There is no magic here. Even the unimaginable processes such as pumping blood throughout the human body and even our thinking are results of scientifically explainable active mechanisms. Human body has separate parts similar to those in a motorcar to serve the end desires and thinking is one of the additional features for the system to work. Religions have found ways to explain this in terms of God or gods or Karma or some other. That is how it has had to happen as it is an integral spiritual part of humanity and that is okay and may have a reasonable argument to support it.
We humans have developed weird complex expectations in life but just because of that, we are not overly separable from the rest of the Mother Nature as something totally different. We are a very complex form of robots created by the nature. We behave the way we have been programmed to behave at the root level also with the ability to reprogram ourselves in some ways with intelligence and emotions. Therefore, humans can be under control and have the right vision about the Mother Nature and universe with compassion. Genuine compassion in humans can expand to the whole around us and humans can have the pleasure of being in love with the Mother Nature, be wiser, be amazed by the existence of the universe and be in a trance (dhyana) from time to time in their journey of life.
1 – The Basis of Original Sermons
I sometimes felt: What’s the point? Do I have to write this? Would anyone be enlightened with this, I mean, in some way? Even the most intelligent people in this world live with the learned ignorance from their family and the rest of the society, ignoring the constant questioning arising from their inside. On the other hand, like I read in one of Dr Phil’s books, “Psychology works for those who least need it”. This book is not meant for psychology, but the same thing can happen with these writings. The people who would benefit will be those decent people who would not need any of my advice. Others will declare that they are the best, they are already enlightened, and they have been following these guidelines for a very long time even before they read this book. I am trying to convince myself to write these views of mine with some serious experience, I have had some time ago. There was a time, I had some serious issues in life through ignorance, together with some really good but vague guidelines for myself. I needed assurance for my own vague vision. It was not easy to get out of the old box to see the world clearly. This was the time, I read some really good advice and watched TV programmes that were hosted by a few wise people, and that gave me the assurance that I needed to change my life with my new thinking. So, I think it would not be that much waste of time to write what I am targeting to present. Some people who are struggling and awaiting assurance from an external source will definitely benefit from these guidelines. On the other hand, if someone taught me what I am writing in this book at a young age, then I could have been a much better person with high morale for a very long time. I am sure there are millions of people who would need the help, I needed at one stage in life.
My world in those dark times was like: “I am right”, “I needed to embrace what I think is right”, “I know stuff more than anyone else around me”, “I am more intelligent than others”, “My thinking is perfect”, “I get very angry and that is because others make me angry”, “I say hurtful things/yell and scream in family because others are so ignorant”, “Others in family should surrender to my authority”, “It is embarrassing and intimidating to listen to the foolishness of others”. This was what my old box was full of. This was what I had learnt, perhaps, from my own parent’s family and the rest of the society. Human intelligence does not seem to have too much power on long practiced ignorance because both come from the same brain. The new concepts, in fact, changed my life. Who is right does not matter that much anymore. Can I be happy, is the question to ask? What is so good about being right and unhappy, if that is the cause of misery? This is my family and no one should be in fear of another, in it. These are the parts of my new concepts. I don’t care that much any more about being right or even the hurtful things others would say and do to me. I just want to be peaceful. No hate, no fear, no pain and no suffering. I just want to tell you, with this newfound power inside me, I have written very powerful letters to many people to have justice done in matters where innocent people were victims of fraud or the victims of power of authority. I have appeared in courts on behalf of some of these victims and I have written letters to judges and spoken to judges during the case hearings. Every time I did, each and every one of them was successful and I was never questioned by a judge of my rights to do so. With what you just read, you already have an idea about what empowerment is like and how it feels to be empowered. I am only human, so please don’t take my words way out of context. With my experiences of several decades in life, I believe, a great majority of humans in the world are kind, compassionate, forgiving and empathetic people with true humaneness, but all that is buried under perhaps one single affection of mind, such as hatred or jealousy or anger, and they can’t get over it. They suffer more than others because they blame themselves for what is happening with them. In the times of Jesus or Buddha or other authors of humane religions, these were the kind of people who were healed the most, I believe.
This book is for the believers of all humane religions and believers of compassion, and for any human being who wants to be empowered. We need to find our talents and passions that would lead to incredible skills and success in life that are buried in jealousy, hatred, misbeliefs inherited from tradition-and-culture and fanaticism with distorted v