NAMO TASSA
BHAGAVATO ARAHATO SAMMA SAMBUDDHASSA

'THE BUDDHIST HOUR'

RADIO BROADCAST

KNOX FM 87.6

Sundays 11:00am to 12:00pm

KNOX FM Radio Broadcast for 10 September 2000

Today’s Broadcast is called: Can learning be conferred?

Yesterday was the 9 September 2000 CE, the 69th Birth Anniversary of our Teacher John D. Hughes. As he enters his 70th year, commendations for our Teacher and Founder of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd were made by many persons near and far.

On this important day, we were blessed by the attendance of five Buddhist Teachers who are Australian residents. Three of these honoured guests were Venerable Buddhist Monks and their were two lay Teachers.

Following the offering of dana to the Sangha, the Monks blessed our Teachers, and the Members and friends of John D. Hughes all special guests on this important day. Julie O’Donnell, who has been a Member at our Centre for 16 years, welcomed all guests and addressed the Assembly.

Julie explained that the word ‘commendation’ has a long history.

This old word comes from the Latin ‘commendatio’, meaning ‘commit’ or ‘entrust’.

In ancient times, in the Christian Church, the word referred to a liturgical office, originally ending with the prayer ‘Tibi, Domine, commendamus’ (To You, Lord, we Commend), commending the souls of the dead to God, said before burial or cremation and at any subsequent memorial service.

Later it came to mean ‘an expression of approval’, or ‘a recommendation’, or in the plural ‘respects, compliments, greetings’.

Since our Founder, John David Hughes, is not a Christian, we mean to use the word today in the latter sense.

Without doubt, this year’s outstanding commendation for our Founder took the form of a NOBLE offering of 69 Buddha relics that arrived at this Centre on Father’s Day (3 September 2000 CE).

This was a rare gift from a Bodhisattva Monk who commends our Founder for his life work in being kind and giving practical help to many persons in many countries.

Later in the afternoon, John gave a talk about how he intends to develop his 40 year hobby of collecting geological specimens in the form of an on-line geological museum. This virtual museum ought arouse interest in Australia and elsewhere. This hobby project he has called UMLAUT, which stands for Upwey Museum Library All Uniting Think Tank.

As all UMLAUT notes will be published online, John is planning a type of e-education for his hobby with the hope that he will be able to create interest in formations in Australia.

Australia is a vast continent of great interest to geologists because most of it has been submerged under water many times.

Traveling from place to place across or over the geology of the land by car, taxi or plane is a common experience for many of you in the pursuit of business as a householder in Australia.

There are two things to note about this travel imperative: one, is that it is for wealth that this is done; and secondly, the nagas who protect the land over which the householder travels.

But much interstate travel comes at a price for those middle-class professionals, who within their highly pressured and stressful lives look for the means to counteract the relentless strains of commuting demanded by modern work practices.

While we look very mindfully at the possibilities of Internet in education and teleconferencing, we should take time off to look at other indicators, such as the health of the indoor plants in some offices.

If you find your office plants are wilting, perhaps that is a signal to you to guard your own health.

Our Teacher has dedicated himself to time management principles, developing practices that are not only intellectually challenging but also emotionally satisfying for these professionals to try to help themselves.

When we looked at our audience here yesterday, we noted that the audience was not made up mainly of Monks, Nuns or hermits, but laypersons.

We were also blessed by the presence of the Monks here yesterday.

But, in general, apart from the Monks, it is fair comment to note that the persons here yesterday have not outwardly renounced the world, but maintain the duties of a householder.

Our Teacher is aware that many of you feel that you cannot afford the time to have nothing to do all day but formal Dhamma practice.

If our Teacher says: “May you come to afford to get more quality time to practice” we ask if these blessings can be obtained by all persons equally?

The Buddha Dhamma knowledge array holds the individual answers of yes, no and maybe.

If you had made suitable causes of a suitable nature the answer is yes.

Our Teacher uses, as an example, the case of one of his new students who lives in Sydney.

She is involved in the purchase of a house where the payments are $6,000 per month. She is employed by a big company on a gross salary of $95,000 a year. The pressures of work and debt put a certain strain on her minds.

She is discontent with her present income and is wondering if the long work hours and high taxation on her earnings are worth it. She has applied for a more senior position with greater work stress to get more disposable income.

It can be seen that she cannot have more quality time conferred on her because the material obligations burden her. She gets migraine headaches.

She wants to learn about wise living styles.

She has agreed with our Teacher that she needs to ease up on her desire to impress others with an expensive lifestyle. She will restructure her life to a simpler one so that she can focus on more important things, that is, how to get out of suffering and to give and to help others.

She sees this as the start of the process of her learning to stop being unwise.

The effort was in making the merit in the past.

Unwise persons who have resigned themselves to the notion that the solution exists and is waiting to be revealed, do not get it. Unwise persons do not wish to change their belief in magic in their given life paradigm.

They cannot move towards the unknown the easy way.

To aid the ease of insight of our different Teams and protect them, we have a Sarasvati altar with six images of this Goddess of Learning.

This altar is in Suite three.

Sarasvati is a Hindu deity who Vajrayana Buddhism accepts into their pantheon.

Can learning be conferred?

The modern Oxford dictionary meaning of the word is to give, grant or bestow something, such as a title, a degree or a favour. When we think about learning, we realise that some persons can learn but most of us have learning difficulties in some areas.

John J. Clancy (1989) looked at language, imagery, values and deeply held beliefs and the impact that they all have in determining the role they play in American society and the actions American business leaders take.

We have a set of beliefs about the nature of the world and our place in it.

These beliefs shape the language we use to communicate our thoughts and define our roles in society.

Metaphors are common features of our daily discourse. We might think of our business as a war requiring “strategies” that will enable us to “attack and destroy” the competition.

Other metaphors - the idea that business is a journey, society, machine or organism are equally familiar to us. Such images have become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we hardly even think of them as metaphors anymore. They are like “invisible forces” in the world. The old image and models we talk and think about in business have become obsolete.

This change undermines public confidence in leadership and means that institutions have to stand for something that can be held in persons minds. When we write about it, it sounds quite reasonable but underneath it is a series of great beings who could manage to get conferred on them a very wide understanding of what the institutions value commitments are.

Some persons cite the longevity of the Roman Catholic Church in these terms. Tradition tells us that Simon Peter established the papacy in 42 AD and more than 1900 years later Korol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul the Second, as the 263rd Pope perpetuates the institution. The institution appears to be accepted as the most important thing, not the men who served it.

In Buddha Dhamma institutions, it is the individual person’s attainments that matter; not the institution.

The level of attainment in Buddha Dhamma in knowledge of the Dhamma is attained each for himself or herself and cannot be conferred on a person in the sense that the Roman Catholic Church confers full power (in theory) because of the supposed belief that the Pope talking ex cathedra is infallible in what he proclaims. In some manner, the Pope is supposed to confer this instruction presumably with God’s help to the believers.

In Buddha Dhamma, there is no reliance on God’s help or the help of the Gods (plural) except that they can bring forward material assistance or good weather (that the monsoon rains come on time) with the condition that the person or persons on the receiving end of these benefits have sufficient merit to receive such largesse.

In Buddha Dhamma understanding, it is most unlikely that a person with little merit could attain much at all. This can be seen in wartime situations, where although United Nations have vast supplies of food and medicine to deliver to besieged persons (such as in Bosnia), they could not get the material to persons suffering from famine and shortage of medicines.

In this sense we might say that the United Nations is a conferring agency and has the will to confer, but the world operates in such a way that for some persons there can be no active transfer of what is intended to be given because those persons have insufficient merit to receive the offerings. So we return to the question, under what conditions can learning be conferred?

The Venerable Ajahn Manivong performed a very rare ceremony for our teacher on Versak this year, called the Honey Water Blessing.

Water is referred to as Honey as everything needs water, many million beings need water.

Water is the Honey of Nature.

Hate and love can change whereas kindness never changes. The Buddha has kindness for the 5 worlds and it is never-ending - forever.

Where does kindness come from?

It comes from understanding. When we understand that we don’t want to be hurt or be killed, to hurt others or kill others, we will understand.

Understanding leads to Wisdom. If you want something, to see if it is correct or not correct, look with wisdom.

When the Buddha was under the Bodhi tree he was tempted by Mara. When the temptations or tricks didn’t move him, the No. 1 Mara of the world came to try to stop him.

The Buddha did not fight Mara, he stayed in kindness while under the Bodhi tree. If he fought Mara he would be entangled in the world. The Buddha does not hate Mara.

Mara demanded that the Buddha move from under the Bodhi tree insisting that it belonged to Mara. Buddha didn’t move, and said “this is my seat, you can have the world”. Mara asked “who is the witness that this is your seat?” When the Buddha couldn’t answer this, the Earth Goddess replied “I am the witness”.

A Teaching given by the Venerable Ajarn Manivong on one of his Tuesday visits to the Centre earlier this year was as follows:

We fight with the world.

The Buddha doesn’t hate us - he knows us. He knows everything about us.

Buddha shows us the way. He tells us the way of the wise persons.

Like parents. They love their children, but their children say “I hate my mother, father”, and fight against them.

Buddha is like our parents and we his children.

Ajarn says “Who is the Teacher?”

“I am the teacher, I teach myself.”

“Who is the student?”

“I am the student, learning”.

“Who is fighting you?”

“I am fighting myself”.

Joke: “You are so busy fighting yourself that you are too busy to fight anyone else!”

Why do you fight yourself?

Wanting this, that, this and that. By picking this up, grabbing this, you think about it and then you heat up. You want more, you need this and that. This makes your mind busy. When your mind is busy like this you get hot, you get a temper.

If you stop this you get emptiness.

Eat Less: Your mind is bombarded by the different types of food you eat. The coarse and fine foods are mixed together. This affects our minds as we do not do the Five Reflections on Food as instructed by our teacher.

Mixing coarse and fine foods results in mad minds. Your mind follows the food, and temper follows the food. If you eat a lot you get tired. You cannot not do anything. You can’t walk or talk. You just want to lay down. If you lay down you cannot sleep because there is too much going on inside.

Think of a rubbish bin, it is empty. You fill it up with different things, it becomes full, it gets hot and gases form and it smells.

This is why it is best to eat less. When empty you can be happy, not burning.

Follow the middle way - not too much, not too little.

Don’t talk a lot - and you will have long life.

Don’t eat a lot - and you will become healthy and happy.

Don’t sleep a lot - and you will get smart.

How then do we do things the easy way?

How do you become very strong like the Afghan camel driver in the desert?

We can only learn if we have merit.

Merit is the accumulation of good causes in the past. To have food today, one must have been generous with food at some time in the past.

Merit, nothing more.

We make merit by offering food and drink to as many persons as possible.

If you do not have merit you can get sick. You cannot make much merit when sick. If you get sick you cannot make merit and then you cannot be taught Dhamma.

Today 25% of the worlds population is like this. They cannot learn Buddha Dhamma.

And this figure will increase in twenty years or so.

The Centre is set up for people to make merit so that they can create the causes to learn Buddha Dhamma.

Persons who were stingy in past lives, who had plenty of food but would not give even one crumb to others, take human rebirth now and will starve to death, or be hungry all the time.

You do not come to human birth with a fresh slate. You come with black from past actions, thoughts, and unwholesome deeds.

Some babies die at one hour old. They have no merit. Some persons get human birth for five seconds only. The mother does not know this. Neither does the father.

Buddha texts explain birth, health, ageing, sickness, disease and death.

Look at history - it is a story of wise action and unwise action only.

There are six million diseases in the world today, and some are yet to appear. The disease of AIDS was foreseen.

This is causes and effects.

There is no master plan for humans.

There is no Royal path to learning.

Capitalism feeds more people than communism. In Russia 20 million people starved to death as policy between 1934 and 1935.

In China 500 million starved to death as policy.

But that does not happen in human life now.

In Japan in past times Buddha Dhamma was strong. So today Japan is three times richer than Australia per capita.

Some of you get joy from killing animals. You must stop.

Even if you starve to death, do not kill. Eat plants but take care not to harm or kill the bugs on those plants. This is wise action because you refrain from creating negative causes for your future.

When painting insects or animals or birds, always paint something for them to eat.

You can learn all by painting. That is the Way of the Brush.

Recently some of our Members dug 47 stump holes for the new Eastern Wing building which is now near to completion. This building will be a storeroom, a bedroom and a computer work room.

Whilst digging the holes Members exercised restraint to avoid killing worms and small insects that live in the earth. This is one example of how you can guard your own future by recognising the benefit of kindness towards all other beings. Your kindness to others is your protection.

We never finish digging. Every life we dig. That is all we ever seem to do. See clearly how sad it is to be born animal. You can do this by remembering your sad animal births, and then you stop being romantic about animals.

Sometimes in painting animals are drawn to help you remember.

To stop you remembering killing as animal or birds we paint plants.

Don’t hate.

If you hate personal computers, the Devata Guardian will push you over. If you hurt yourself you cannot dig.

We encourage merit-making that is wide and deep. One thousand different things to do.

It is unlikely to happen again if you burn your merit. But if you make merit good things can happen again. Causes and effects. Not magic.

If you learn causes and effects you can make a lot of merit. If you understand what are the good things to do you can then repeat them. That is why our Teacher built the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd - for persons who want to learn. Got it?

That is why he teaches persons to get healthy.

Recently our Teacher posed the following question to some of our Members: "How many persons learn Buddha Dhamma now in Victoria? Now this second?"

The responses of the Members present varied from 25 to 120.

All answers are correct out of the three million population of Victoria.

There were nine persons in attendance at this time. This is more than 10% of all in Victoria who were learning Dhamma at that moment.

This is a rare case.

Don’t paint flowers out of season. It is a lie. Look in the garden. Paint flowers over the four seasons. That is true. It is now autumn. Look in the garden. Know the seasons.

That is the nature method of Ch’an.

But there are other methods of teaching Ch’an.

To put the Teacher first. This is understanding causes and effects.

To create causes to meet with a Buddha Dhamma Teacher again in the future is sane action.

To work the easy way. To make offerings and request help from the Devas and Devatas is another sane action.

The Deva of Organisational Development assists with the effective management of our Centre.

The Deva of Filing helps to protect the Centre's essential file structure.

In Buddha Dhamma practice the Teacher shows the student that to progress toward happiness they must swim up stream.

Visioning can be helped by certain gods and is proceeding at a great pace, and drove our intention to complete the next stage of our four stage Team building process to build our e-business systems.

By May of this year, our organisations tasks were organised and managed by e-mail messages linking different Members who arrive and leave at different times and operate in different task units.

Our e-system has developed to become more than a lucky dip of who does what when. We called this e-system TEXTLAN. It must not be displaced.

Members with wisdom can now prioritise their own e-business tasks because they are beginning to understand the complexity of leadership and have completed the familiarisation, conflict and reconciliation stages with other task unit Members.

The team now has the wisdom to know they must not waste time in futile talk, idle chatter, antisocial behaviour or defeatist refusal to take a quantitative approach to the conceptual solution for our entry to e-business.

The easy way means the team must not shoot blind at solutions that depart from linearity projections.

The wiser Members know that clarity of the need to achieve a workable IT conceptual solution for our new series of profitable websites is indisputable.

The wise know the law.

Costs are kept to a minimum because we will never find ourselves in court for slander, misrepresentation, breach of confidence or infringement of copyright.

The easy way of a normal distribution of risk in the slow progress of paper-based communication is no longer apparent in an e-mail culture where information can be composed and sent for many persons to read within seconds.

The wiser Members undertake censorship with the psychological nicety of signing a letter with a pen. The wiser Members help caution the script writers to consider well every word that has been written before it is broadcast or uploaded to our website at www.bdcublessings.one.net.au

There is now more restraint visible in sending an e-mail or inserting a message for a website update.

For this quality reason, we are conditioning Members to be careful and prudent when they speak, because there is a tendency to write an e-mail in the manner in which a person speaks.

But spoken and written language can convey different messages simply by the nature of the vehicle being used.

Traditionally, the 500 Arhant wise persons who met for the first Buddhist council after Lord Buddha passed away, who censored the Tripitaka writings at inception, knew that persons exercise less restraint in speech than in writing because of various factors.

We must look to methods that uphold their methods as ideal as we support censorship.

We need to review our writings.

Once an e-mail message is found within our e-systems, there is a natural tendency to assume that the wording displays sensitivity and precision, however it is prudent that Members look at each e-mail with a skilful mind.

We must print a lot of things for free distribution.

Even in e-business, the paperless office is a myth.

In human society, technology does not replace things - it layers on top of them.

Many persons are not going to give up paper as their preferred reading medium.

Simple persons who do not think of doing things the easy way believe paper to be basically very cheap, so they use a lot of it.

Wise persons know that even if paper was 4 cents a sheet to print, the time taken to file it, the cost of filing cabinets, manila folders and suspension files and floor space could add up to $4 or more per piece of paper.

For this reason, we do not encourage Members to print their e-mails onto paper.

With more and more Members getting e-mails, wisdom says we have to train persons away from wanting hard copies.

Hence, we never delete e-mails in our organisation, and one of our high priority tasks is to make them all machine searchable.

A Xerox spokesman, Christa Carone, estimates over the next five years the amount of paper used will soar to 20 trillion pieces a year.

Wisdom means that our in-house shop keeping must display professionalism as an invariant quality in all e-mail and e-commerce activities and is much more profound than a mere in-house dictum that saves money. Our outer and inner activities must align.

It is this centralising concept that ensures that as all our knowledge and good practical techniques are delivered to an even wider international audience within a consistent image and style which are our five styles, it must be censored to be right. The five styles are professionalism, practicality, scholarship, cultural adaptability and friendliness.

Persons are free to print certain information from our website that gives blessings, but it is probably cheaper to revisit our site each time you want a blessing.

None of our Members will act to encourage persons to copy onto paper the colour images we use for PR. This means we must keep our blessings websites online at all times.

The fastest way to understand the current flavour of our necessary PR would be to complete and print today’s text of this broadcast on our blessings website.

We launched our second blessing website in June this year. It is at:

www.bdcublessings.one.net.au

The wise take an easy reality check by using simple customer feedback.

We are prepared to do PR by supplying visitors with viewing of our new website at our Centre on Friday afternoons.

CDs of the content of our new blessings website can be purchased at our Centre provided purchasers act as a reference group who will visit our new website from time to time. If our PR works well, they will tell their friends to visit our site, and we have achieved spiral marketing the easy way.

They tell us of their insights into our e-site that we cannot or will not see. We record these responses and then we analyse them as a team.

Our new website shows interesting things to help persons.

Persons who have interest in IT can read the report of how it was made if they visit our Centre.

We are interested in persons who can help us.

They can tell us what they have been looking for and then we can tell what we want from them as goods or service.

We network by telling non-Members what is to be done next in our broadcasts.

Pictures of our activities delivered by a modern digital WAN structure can help our internal training to move away from mere paper-based instruction.

Our conceptual solution views our websites as a strategic resource handling information that is at the core to our business.

Our conceptual solution requires us to train twenty Members in the skills needed to run and update a website.

12-year-old children have taught themselves Internet skills and run their own personal websites.

By age 16, some are running e-businesses.

Our conceptual solution insists that our key persons need to learn enough about technology to be able to ask good, hard questions about the set-up, and to be able to tell if good answers are coming back.

Although the modus operandi of our Task Units may appear perplexing to outsiders, they have a context that needs to be understood by end-users if they wish to optimise solutions to their queries.

It may be helpful for end-users to introduce them to what may appear to outsiders as idiosyncrasy in our culture - "how we do things around here".

Our e-library does not search in a linear fashion because it searches an indexed database of all words contained in documents.

Projects undertaken once our digital environment is established will have more success.

Our next conceptual solution is that our WAN be fast-tracked to include a vast number of our heritage pictures and about 20,000 digital photographs of items in THE JOHN D. HUGHES COLLECTION, with a delivery time to screen of two seconds.

The purpose of the conceptual solution is to bring the target, of how to make a profit from an internet site, within achievable time frame.

We plan to increase the reading level of our Members and to build a team as we implement our conceptual solution.

At present only 2% of websites are profitable; we cannot afford to be average, because the chances of failing are very high.

The difficulty in finding people to help us is due to the lack of will to do of persons.

The culture we want has the five styles. They are: professionalism, practicality, cultural adaptability, scholarship and friendliness.

The wise person does not seek to make hard to do things look easier, for then the student would attempt to do them and fail.

The marketing slogan ‘Just Do It’ has created a powerful presence for a well known sports shoe company requiring investigation for what it actually means.

For example, when IBM reinvented itself in the early nineties it coined the term e-business, which referred to its innovative approach to the recent merging of information technology with commerce.

Industries which have moved quickly to embrace e-culture such as the banks and finance sector have created a shift in how people manage and access their money.

How do you deal with this e-wave? Do you ride it, get swamped by it, or something else?

Some persons make a point of not changing and adapting to the new culture.

An example of this from the 19th Century were the Luddites; they saw the new machines being created as a threat to their own livelihood and set out to destroy them. Their culture prevented them from seeing the possibilities of what the new machines could offer them in decreasing the amount of hard physical work they expended in the process of earning a living.

They were unable to do an assessment of the culture they had.

It is like a predisposition to being biased against the change itself. That one position can never ride the wave but only be swamped by it.

This is commonly described as resistance to change.

What sort of mind drives the change?

One sort of person resists change, a second type goes along or gets carried by the change, while a third type of person creates and drives change.

The third type of person understands the shortcomings of the other two positions. These people were described as being movers and shakers in old culture terms.

The ‘movers and shakers’ is a term to use an old term or to use the new term.

People who drive change are often leaders of organisations or causes. To understand this we must look at other factors about the person which determine whether the change they generate is beneficial to the world or harmful.

The Buddha taught about driving change with the understanding of wisdom. Buddhist Teachers teach causes and effects, the notion that change is driven by causes. Unwholesome causes which we generate by our actions result in bad effects for us.

We drive our own change through our choice of wholesome actions or unwholesome actions.

But how can we use the changes that we meet as fuel to create the changes which we implement ourselves?

Persons who take on the Dhamma culture are driving the change in their own life.

The difference in positions can be likened to a person who has been playing ‘tag’ with another.

One performs, while the other sits in the corner waiting for their turn; they do not work as a team.

Over the last few months stock exchanges around the world have registered record casualties among e-commerce businesses.

A few months ago the e-world seized up for at least 48 hours as an e-mail virus called ‘I love you’ spread through the worlds electronic business systems, causing major corporations to shut down e-commerce and internet systems as they searched for an antidote to combat the virus.

The speed at which some were able to react, such as one Melbourne-based German electronics firm, who safeguarded its Melbourne systems within hours, forewarned by its parent company in Europe.

Thinking about the actions and well being of others is your response to their call for help.

It provides a means by which people can transfer information.

The question posed by today’s broadcast script is, can learning be conferred? Certainly, there are environments that have been created which are conducive to learning, that support the learning process and encourage the right attitude towards learning.

But, to coin an old phrase, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

The learning arises by the coming together of many conditions and the complexity of the learning process cannot be reduced to a simple yes or no answer.

In many cases a Student simply cannot learn without having a Teacher to help them.

In Buddha Dhamma the Teacher is the Shower of the Way.

Our Members do many practical actions in many areas to make the causes needed for their own learning. These actions are done under the guidance of our Buddha Dhamma Teacher John D. Hughes.

The causes the students make produce good minds which have the capacity and qualities needed to learn.

These good minds enable the student to learn new skills such as risk management, dealing with complexity, handling vast amounts of new information and the analytical abilities required for conceptual planning.

This process when practiced correctly enables you to access the higher learning minds required to thoroughly understand Buddha Dhamma.

Like it or not like it, persons cannot learn without making the effort to create the right conditions for their own learning.

So considering today’s question, may you come to the understanding that learning cannot be conferred, granted or bestowed. That it can only be a direct result of your will to do and application of the correct practice that will bring you to the right view of how to learn.

May all Teachers of Buddha Dhamma and scholars be well and happy.

May you be well and happy.

This script was written and edited by John D. Hughes, Julie ’Donnell, Julian Bamford, Leanne Eames, Frank Carter, Evelin Halls, Vanessa Mcleod, Lyne Lehmann and Orysia Spinner.

Bibliography

Clancy, John J. (1989). The Invisible Powers. Lexington Books, Massachusetts/Toronto.

Van Gorkom, Nina. An Introduction to the Abbhidhamma. Printed for free distribution by The Dhamma Study Group, Bangkok.

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