Under New management Part Two

A Bit About Buddhis

I remembered how confused I was when I first started my Conversion Course at a Buddhi Centre.
It was the opposite of what I expected as instead of learning it was all about ‘unlearning’.

Sadly, you can never truly unlearn all the nonsense you have absorbed through your formative years.
The best you can do is learn to realise that you truly ‘know’ nothing
but that certain rules will generally apply - until they don’t!

The problem is that these rules can easily change depending on circumstances and so it is best to view them as ‘local knowledge’ and learn to adjust to suit.
As an example, when you are in water some of the rules change but you don’t think about what the new rules are you just swim... or sink.

The fact that it is more obvious in water that moving mass backward moves you forward is generally not your primary consideration even if it is your primary source of propulsion.

As I understand it, and I don’t say that I do, the Buddhis believe that nothing is certain and therefore all knowledge about the Universe is essentially speculative and yet it is possible to construct a relative framework within the flux of change from which the balance of the Universe can be appreciated.

Again, as I understand it - they see the Universe as an expanding bubble in the Sea of Existence with time being waves of change rippling through the bubble.
In terms of how I had learned to Understand the Universe it seemed that they saw ‘space-time’ as a ‘life-field’ that extended throughout the Universe and matter as ‘concentrators’ of the field.

To make it clearer I developed the analogy of the Universe being similar to a giant magnetic field and matter being like iron filings. The iron fillings are attracted to each other as well as to the source of the magnetic field.

Because matter concentrates the ‘lines of gravitational force’ then essentially when two objects are close enough then they are normally drawn toward each other and may join together, as two raindrops sliding down a window might unite, by the law of geometrical gravitational efficiency.

The point being that the gravitational attraction between two objects which are close together can be far greater than the gravitational attraction to the source - in other words two iron filings might be drawn together more strongly than they are drawn toward the magnet.

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The thing that had seemed to baffle the Buddhis most about Earth was money.
Well, not so much money as the idea that what had usually, essentially, been bits of coloured paper could somehow be used to represent the value of something.

It made them laugh that so many people had been slaves to small sheets of coloured paper.
I had tried to explain that in fact money had been a medium of exchange based on a fixed value which had simply made them laugh even more.

Another ‘Earther’ who had a much better understanding of the Buddhis explained to me…
“It’s a joke to them because as they saw it the Earth had been like a casino where teams of clever people bet on things and whether they won or lost they were paid for their gambling skills.

The real losers were the majority of the people who always lost as even if their team won they were the ones who really paid the winnings via inflated prices.
Worse, if their team lost then the team leaders might simply print more money (quantitative easing) which reduced the value of that team’s currency and hence added yet more to the afore mentioned inflation!"

The real joke for the Buddhis is that so many people were stupid enough to believe that they could trust clever people to look after them when it was so obviously evident that they were simply looking after themselves and throwing just enough scraps from their table to keep their dogs from biting each other as they begged for bones."

Now I think about it and it seems to me that millions of people went hungry every day because the clever people wanted expensive toys.

Surely it should have been self-evident that in a world where the worth of something was represented by its monetary value then those people who had the most money would, inevitably, be seen as the most worthy!

So, what happened was that the system encouraged the clever to use their cleverness to their own advantage and that was seen as somehow being of benefit to all... when, of course it was chiefly of benefit only to the clever and the ruthless!

The ruthless had realised that all they needed to do was to employ greedy men with clever voices to 'explain' to the people what needed to be done to make the planet into a Paradise.

Once people had been convinced of the principle of progress -
the development of natural resources to transform the surface of the planet into a more hospitable environment for human habitation -
it was simple for the ruthless to claim ownership of the land in the name of this progress.

From there it was simply a matter of dividing up the cake and bribing any other groups of clever people (like scientists and priests etc.) to either join their gang or accept resources and toys if they didn't interferre with it.

And so it was that the people of the Earth were conned into exchanging their birthright for bits of coloured paper and promises of Paradise!

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Now I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about the Buddhis -
they are a strange but wonderful people without the edge that most humans seem to have…
It’s just that their strangeness seems a bit crazy - at first.

I met my first Buddhi on one of my occasional visits to Mystic.
Being Mystic there were no introductions he simply said “Hello, you’re just in time for a walk through the woods.”

I went with them and we chatted about the charm of trees.
Mystic’s friend seemed to think trees were very remarkable and told me that they are wonderful breeze makers.
He seemed convinced that it was groups of trees that created the Summer breezes that gently sway their branches.

In fact it was probably because of him I realised that trees were alive even though I must have known on some level since I was well aware that they grew.

We were walking beneath a particularly tall tree and he asked if I could feel the trees branches swaying above me. I told him I could see them swaying and he told me to stop looking up and to look straight ahead in stead and then check again to see if I could feel them swaying.
I humoured him.

To my surprise I could feel the swaying.
He asked how high they were and instead of saying they were forty foot above my head I told him they were about a foot above my eyes. Strangely the answer seemed to please him.
As we wondered through the trees the conversation somehow changed on to the topic of telekinesis and why most people could not achieve it.

Mystic’s friend maintained that they had no chance to do it by trying but it might well happen by accident and be blamed on poltergeists.
I couldn’t understand his point which seemed to be that the thing that people are trying to move is not there and therefore cannot be moved except in hallucinations.
I didn’t argue but I thought ‘He’s a nice bloke but he’s a bit barmy.’

When we got back to Mystic’s place it was dusk and his friend asked if he could borrow a lamp for a demonstration. Mystic nodded and fetched one from his bedroom.
His friend picked a pawn from a nearby chess set and placed it on the living room table. He plugged in the lamp and carefully placed it on the table.

He instructed me to keep my eye on the chess piece and then holding the lamp switch in one hand and stretching his arm out to reach the room light switch he began switching between one and the other.
The chess piece unaccountably seemed to change position depending on which light was shining.

“Now” he said “Perhaps you’ll realise that when you see something even though you think it is out there in the real world it is actually simply a picture of the real thing which is created in your mind like an image on a TV screen from the light rays that reflect from it and stimulate your eyes. It is the same if you pick the object up since the feeling of touch sends electrical impulses to your brain the sensation must be within your brain but you project it into your visual world which is in another part of your brain and convince yourself that the two sensations coincide at some imaginary external point. Can you understand that?”

I picked up the pawn and held it about a foot in front of my eyes rolled it backwards and forwards several time in my palm before I replied.
“I’m afraid not.”

“Neither can I.” he said laughing.

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It has occured to me that I have not really explained the last part very well but in some ways you have to understand the Buddhi concept of 'magic' to understand the joke... so I'll deal with it in part 3.

Until then... the Budddhi approach to life is that you don't have to understand something to be able to do it.
You can see and touch without understanding why and, in fact, you can usually do things better when you're not trying to understand them.

For the Buddhi believing you understand something actualy gets in the way of understanding it and simply limit its possibilities...