What is wrong with Sinhalese Buddhists?

Holly tooth relic was brought to Sri Lanka by a woman. A pretty princess she was they say. A strong and fearless woman she was, I think. But let alone having voting rights for the only woman happened to be in the Temple of tooth board, they even do not let woman get closer to the tooth relic anymore.

Sri Maha bodi, the holly tree, brought to Sri Lanka by a woman. A princess turned a Buddhist monk they say. Regardless woman are not welcome to pass the fence around any Bodi tree, a fence that often happened to be made with Gold for some strange reason I don’t understand let alone why we have a fence in the first place.

We don't stop there; our Sinhalese Buddhists go on making new laws in the name of Buddhism and even monks walk in to politics in the name of Buddhism too. I often wonder who is correct, Buddha or our Sinhalese Buddhists. Since Sinhalese Buddhists are often correct, it is safe to bet Buddha was utterly wrong by leaving politics in the first place and becoming a simple monk. He should have stay in the power, and become an emperor like Genghis Khan or at least a government minister like one of those Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, and create all sorts of laws.

Before I get distracted by those hypocrisy business, what I really wanted to talk about is, those two baby elephants that people at temple of tooth snatched last week from their mothers in Pinnawala elephant orphanage and brought to Kandy to be working elephants. It is bothering me. Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge about elephants knows elephants are highly emotional and have strong and long lasting parent-child relationships. And if those people at temple of tooth have their own children, they should have known how strong that love could be. Even if they don’t have own children for a quick comparison, they could have easily refer any Buddhist teachings widely available on the Internet, that often describe mothers love is the strongest love in the world. Wildlife researchers say all those killer elephants are orphans with terrible childhood memories. Since they are wildlife researchers and research is what they do, we have to believe it is true. But you don’t need to read research papers to understand that, just sit comfortably in a safe place and look form distance at a family of elephants in wild. But sadly, those people at temple of tooth have not done any of that.

News says Elephants mothers at Pinnawala orphanage still crying and injuring themselves, as mammals naturally do when they are emotionally devastated. So does the babies. According to the same news, one baby already broke his tusk. May be they just want to die. This whole incident remind me of the Japanese movie call පුන්චි ඇත් පැටවා , which subtitled by an absolute genius name Titus Thotawaththa.

I do understand Elephants are part of our culture and we need them as working animals and it won’t be a perfect deal all the time. But since we humans claim ourselves better than animals, we should have treated them with little bit more kindness and understanding. May be good people at temple of tooth thought, Elephants may not have souls and they were created for us to use as we wish. If so, they are wrong. James Herriot said "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." and James Herriot is right.

If I can, I would like to do terrible things to those people who do terrible things to animals. Or at least force them to sit down and watch පුන්චි ඇත් පැටවා till they cry with self shame.
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Blind Photography. Can you See Beyond Sight?

Seeing Beyond Sight project is a blind photography project. I just finish watching Tony Deifell’s talk @ Google and Seeing Beyond Sight videos. I don’t know how to explain exactly what it make me feel. It change the perspective of world philosophically and emotionally. Here I add list of some videos from Seeing Beyond Sight project. Every second you spend watching that, is a well spend second.

The Butterfly Effect Do Work

Butterfly effect is a term base on a mathematical theory call "chaos theory" according to Wikipedia, which I have very little knowledge or interest in since that to do with boring mathematic. But when someone applies those boring theories in to real life, they get undoubtedly fascinating, just like my grandmothers cooking. The simple idea behind Butterfly Effect is, a butterfly in Africa flapping its wings, may create a ripple effect that end up as a cyclone in America or some other continent. Even though, to me that argument sounded like a bad excuse for not doing home work, a mathematician may prove it using hieroglyphics on large blackboards, as they usually do.

I was reading the news about unrest in China this week. A 19 year old Han Chinese girl working as a trainee in a toy factory lost her way to her dormitory. I don’t know how she managed to lost her way, but I like to imagine, it may be a boy with his hands in his pockets, whistling at passing girls, leaning and covering the signpost which pointed toward the girl’s dormitory, cause her to lose her way. Whatever the reason it may be, she ended up opening a door of a room to some Uygur young men. Having seen unexpected men in the room and realizing that was not her dormitory, she screamed and runaway. I don’t know why she decided to do that, but girls usually very good at creating drama when they are occasionally embarrassed. The girl went on her way to her friends and spends night with them.

I don’t know how other Han workers got to know that either. But I like to imagine one Han guy bored that day because of some minor reason, smoking a cigarette looking outside his window, wearing nothing but his underwear, saw a Han girl screaming and running away from a room occupied by some young Uygur boys. Hans and Uygurs been belong to two deferent ethnic groups, they agreed upon doing exact thing any number of ethnic groups suppose to do in such a situation. Fight with each other, while continually informing and inviting others on mobile phones. So they did just that. As lethal as Chinese fights are reputed to be, the fight overflowed from the dormitory to the factory and from factory to the city causing more than 160 people dead. Chinese government deployed 1000s of solders to the region and pronounce anyone involved in fighting will be executed. That means more dead people. Meanwhile Chinese president, who was working on fixing the global economic crises with G8 leaders, had to stop all that good work and fly back home right away to address the Han vs Uygurs fight, causing further delays improving the global economy. Now, that is what I like to call The Butterfly Effect and that is how our little lives effected most of the time. But we rather like to think we have significant control of everything around us, or at least we know a fellow who we can bribe by cheap praises regularly and get him to control situations. But that is not really the case. A girl walking in to a wrong building in China, may create a situation that cause you to lose your job in Sri Lanka.

Let Gays go to Hell !

This week India overturns the colonial law banning same-sex relationships. I’m pleased. India is not only progressing in economic front, but most importantly in moral front also. Such a country will never fail.

There are few none Muslim countries in the world still practices this horrible colonial law of outlawing same sex relationships and Sri Lanka is a one of those horrible countries. Last year United Nations made a request to all those countries to consider relaxing those awful colonial laws, but Sri Lanka refused them as always under the pressure of Churches, specially Mormon Church which acquired significant power over our government recently. Our Penal Code 365A which ban gay relationships as unnatural act, amended by G.L. Peiris in 1995 under the supervision of Catholic Church, added lesbians also in to that.

One of my religious friends told me, the world is coming to the end because of our tolerance against homosexuals. Economic problems, global warming, earthquake and such things are results of our behavior against God. Well, if that is so, let gays go to hell. And if by letting homosexuals have their rights, if we also go to hell, let us go to hell too. It is better to go to hell doing the right than go to heaven doing the wrong.

Mahinda Rajapaksa Facts

Lot of people asked me who Mahinda Rajapaksa really is. Is he a dictator? Is he a new royalty or is he simply everybody’s uncle? Those are difficult questions. So here I collect some facts about him. Hope you find them interesting.

• Mahinda Rajapaksa can sneeze with his eyes open.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa can delete anything he wants; he can even delete the recycle bin.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa makes onions cry.
• When Mahinda Rajapaksa looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Mahinda and Mahinda.
• Sanath Jayasuriya can throw a ball over 50 yards. Rajapaksa can throw jayasuriya even further.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.
• Bullets dodge Rajapaksa.
• If you spell Rajapaksa wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Rajapaksa? " It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."
• Google won't search for Mahinda Rajapaksa because it knows you don't find Mahinda Rajapaksa, he finds you.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa can kill two stones with one bird.
• It takes Mahinda Rajapaksa 12 minutes and 40 seconds to watch Sirasa Ran-Depeya.
• Lysol claims they can kill 99.9% of germs. Mahinda Rajapaksa kills 100 percent of whatever he wants.
• There is no such thing as global warming. Mahinda Rajapaksa was cold, so he turned the sun up.
• Ghosts are actually caused by Mahinda Rajapaksa killing people faster than Death can process them.
• In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Mahinda Rajapaksa could use to kill you, including the room itself.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa couldn’t enter Mortal Kombat, because Rajapaksa is no mortal.
• Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Mahinda Rajapaksa.
• With the rising cost of Kerosene, Mahinda Rajapaksa is beginning to worry about his drinking habit.
• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Mahinda Rajapaksa has allowed to live.
• Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Mahinda.
• Aliens DO indeed exist. They just know better than to visit a planet that Mahinda Rajapaksa is on.
• We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Mahinda Rajapaksa.
• Mahinda doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Ranil Wickramasinghe invented pink.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Elephant House Ginger Beer.
• Nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole, except for Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mahinda Rajapaksa eats black holes. They taste like string hoppers.
• In a fight between Rama and Ravana, the winner would be Mahinda Rajapaksa.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa never wet his bed as a child. The bed wet itself out of fear.
• The 11th commandment is “Thou shalt not piss off Mahinda Rajapaksa” This commandment is rarely enforced, as it is impossible to accomplish.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa has volunteered to remain on earth after the Rapture; he will spend his time fighting the Anti-Christ.
• In the Bible, Jesus turned water into wine. But then Mahinda Rajapaksa turned that wine into beer.
• Mahinda Rajapaksha doesn't need a miracle in order to split the ocean. He just walks in and the water gets the fuck out of the way.
• When God said, "Let there be light", Mahinda Rajapaksha said, "say please."
• When Arnold says the line "I'll be back" in the first Terminator movie it is implied that is he going to ask Mahinda Rajapaksa for help.
• The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the pen is held by Rajapaksa.
• Rules of fighting: 1) Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. 2) Don't bring a gun to a Rajapaksa fight.
• In Sri Lanka there is a legend that a warrior name Mahasona, with a wild boar head and human body rules the dark night. That man is not Mahinda Rajapaksa. Because he killed that man.
• Somawansa is allowed to live because Rajapaksa doesn't kill women.
• Mahinda Rajapaksa does not know about this blog. If he did, he would have just deleted the internet.
• Before become the president, Mahinda Rajapaksha was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when he managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
• If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Mahinda Rajapaksha says its beef, then it's fucking beef.
• Mahinda Rajapaksha doesn't have hair on his testicles, because hair does not grow on steel.
• Death once had a near-Mahinda-Rajapaksha experience.
• The only time Mahinda Rajapaksha was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.

know more Mahinda Rajapaksa facts? Comment section is open!