User friendly Buddhism
Maitreya’s upgrade
Your
telephone ‘mobile’ is user friendly. That’s because you carry it with you all
the time, you can use it everywhere, it is easy to use, hence requires little
effort (or energy) to operate, and gets the job done quickly. In other words,
it is a highly efficient logic machine. Because your ‘mobile’ is such an
efficient logic machine, its use is fundamentally short-lived, thus freeing
you up (i.e. ‘delivering you’) to perform other, less logically efficient
tasks. Old
Buddhism, i.e. the Sakya’s version, was extremely user unfriendly. It took
simply ages (and a mountain of theoretical considerations invented over about
1000 years) to understand, there were 84000 different means (or routes) to
attain the goal, that is to say, to end the task. And the goal/task was
uncertain, i.e. ambiguous, hazy and so on (viz. the 4 Noble Truths). Since to
complete the Buddhist task (namely the ending of suffering) amounted to an
almost a- or non-logic process (like for instance, the hit-and-miss of the
pigeon post) it took a serious amount of time and effort to complete the
task. During that time the (serious) user was (and still is) rendered
incapable of performing any other task. Because the Buddhist task was almost
a- or non-logic (because ill-defined and/or open-ended), the (serious) user
went into long-time trance (read: coma, as in the Jhanas) as he or she
attempted task ending ≈
completion. Consider
that if you give your mobile an incomplete (i.e. undecided) number to call it
will try for ages to find it. In the meantime, if the call is important, you
cannot perform any other task. Try getting your computer to answer a fuzzy
question. Old Buddhism
lasted so long because it was fundamentally a’logical, in short, it was a
belief system (like Christianity, Islam et al) that served to generate trance
(thus ending deleterious mental operations). However, solutions that arrive
in trance (as in a dream) tend to be experienced as true, often as real. And
that’s the point (or source of religious fanaticism). Logic
operations don’t last. They are started and ended, effortlessly. Logic
systems don’t last, at least as surface (read: conscious) operations. The
operations are repeated automatically (hence unconsciously), i.e. because
sameness (i.e. non-randomness) is compressed out of actual (i.e. real,
surface) operation. Once a logic system is installed (below consciousness ≈ an active self-monitoring
device, hence ‘out of sight, out of mind’) it does not require attention and
servicing, hence uses up minimum energy, all of which makes it extremely
friendly. New
Buddhism, the Maitreya
Buddha’s version,
is a logic system. It explains how bio-logic systems work. It’s easy to understand,
easy to use and its outcome (or goal/task) is clearly stated. New Buddhism,
i.e. the means of ending suffering, comes with the equipment (or BOS) at
birth, that is to say, as Original Setting sub-function. It is available for
application at all times and in any situation. Old Buddhism and its means
came (and comes) into play when the means of New (i.e. original) Buddhism
were (or are) disabled. The Old
Buddha suggested that his means served to re-enable (or rehabilitate)
bio-non-logical systems to perfect logical functioning, and which to him (and
a child of his time) meant the absolute cessation of function (to wit: ‘the
ending of this mass of suffering, i.e. life). In fact his means merely served
to side-line (i.e. put on stand-by ≈ nirvana) the user (as bio-logical
machine), thereby (temporarily in the lay user and permanently in the fully
dedicated Buddhist monk) eliminating the suffering (as unpleasant signal)
caused by the user’s failure to complete a (or THE) bio-logical task. In short,
Old Buddhism applied a user unfriendly operation to attain a temporary
salvation (i.e. as respite or release ≈ deliverance) from the unpleasant affect (i.e.
Pali :dukkha) of ‘failure to complete’. Failure
(i.e. less than @best) to end the task (of the bio-logical machine), namely
transmuting chaos into order, is registered by a bio-logical machine as a
relative drop of available energy, which in turn signalled to the user by the
(high-level language of the) various intensities of unpleasant feeling, e.g. sorrow,
suffering, anguish, misery, i.e. as the various emotional components of
psychological depression; or more simply and effectively, by physical pain. Success
(i.e. @best) at task ending is registered by a bio-logical machine as a
relative increase of energy, i.e. as an energy surge (elsewhere called
enlightenment), signalled by the user’s Guide & Control System as
happiness, joy, rapture, i.e. by elation; or more simply and effectively by
physical pleasure. Since the
Old Buddha sought to explain and eliminate merely the signal for ‘failure to
complete’ (to wit: suffering), he failed to explain and eliminate the cause
of that failure, namely, the disabling of the originally installed program
for bio-logical task completion. The cause of failure which he proposed,
namely his two ‘liberating insights, were but a cotton loincloth. The user
friendly Maitreya
Buddhism
returns a disabled (hence non-logic) system to (original) factory settings so
that it can re-enable itself as a perfect logic machine capable of ending any
task, thereby avoiding the unpleasant signals AND generating pleasant, or
joyful signals. Obviously,
Old Buddhism, complete with fancy dress, Himalayan trumpets, Japanese Tea
Ceremonies, 84000 meditations and seriously abstruse rites and rituals is
more fun for those who dread attaining a logic outcome (i.e. sammasambodhi)
and being forced to live with its consequences.
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