Morning Flower  

                                                                          Wadinagala Pannaloka
                                                                          21/08/2015

                                                           Law of  Nature

Sri Lankan Artist, Professor E.R.Saraccandra has said in one of his work:

‘නොගොසින් එන්නට බැරිය....නෑවිදින් යන්නට බැරිය...ලොව ඇත්තේ යාම් සහ ඒම් පමණි...‘

'If not go, then no coming back...if not come, then no going...the world experiences only comings and goings.'

                                                          Morning Sun- NCU, Chungli

                                                                                   Wadinagala Pannaloka
                                                                                    2015/08/20

                                                                              Night

                                                                                  Wadinagala Pannaloka
                                                                                        2015/08/15

                                           Lake View in Evening: Inside Chungli

                                                                                       Wadinagala Pannaloka
                                                                                        2015/08/15

The Word Inspired Me:

Esa muñjaṃ parihare, dhiratthu mama jīvitaṃ;

Saṅgāme me mataṃ seyyo, yaṃ ce jīve parājito.

I wear muñja-grass! Shame on life here in this world! It is better for me to die in battle than to live defeated. 
                                                                         (Sutta Nipata, Mahavagga)

China Rose 

                                                                                                                             Wadinagala Pannaloka

Dawn of anti-authoritative thinking age with a Prince

                           Breaking Vicious Circles 

 Around our life, in many situations, I feel we are easily given to vicious circles. In this respect, a short movie titled "Scarlet' Witch" (2008) gave me unforgettable influence. The story runs as follows: There was a small selfish girl called 'Scarlet'. She was happened to meet a witch who was living at the end of the village. Scarlet was invited to be friend. Though many things were offered by the witch to Scarlet, she did not accept anything. However, the friendship continued for years between the two. Years later, Scarlet fell in love, which caused jealousy in the witch. The witch plotted to break the love and did. Without knowing the conspiracy, Scarlet first time in her life came to ask help from the witch to regain the lost love.

 The witch offered to help with the condition that Scarlet had to come back to witch before the time the witch set. The young lady ran to get her love and came back to the witch. Sadly, she could not come on time. The witch succeeded in the plot. Scarlet's body turned into a witch and the fomer was released from witchhood. Scarlet, now a witch asked from the former, why you did this to me. She replied " I also asked the same question from one who did this to me. You have to do the same thing to the one who would come to you future.Further, you cannot break the time machine, if you do so, you would die and many others".

The circle re-emerged. A young girl came to look for help from Scarlet witch. Scarlet set the same trap of time machine. The girl came with her friend to thank the witch. But, the time limit had already run out. First, Scarlet was about to continue the same process, but she changed her mind. Instead of falling to habitual pattern  of  listening to the inner voice, this time Scarlet listened  to conscience. Determining to break the vicious circle, Scarlet  asked the girl to run away and broke the time machine and the magic stick, though she knew the action could bring the death to her. Scarlet fell dead on the spot  sacrificing  the life to stop the vicious circle.

 In the matters in life, willingly or unwillingly, we are also forced to continue several kinds of vicious circles; we are harmed or cheated by others and then we do the same thing to another, who is innocent. Someone needs the courage to break this pattern and bring freedom. This is something changed my certain dealings with other people. I am deeply grateful to the movie maker.
                                                                                              Wadinagala Pannaloka

           Apocalypse and Rabbit Running 

 Every one is happy because the earth could survive the 2012 world end. Some people really believed this myth and jumped into illogical decisions in life. Even though any reliable source either may be wisdom tradtions such as Chistianity or Buddhism or science did not say there would be such a thing, the world followed the Mayan-calendar and felt terror. How I am going to see this from my point of view?

I recollect a story we had in the school text book in Sri Lanka when I studied at the grade one. Once a rabbit was sleeping under a jack-fruit tree. All of a sudden, a ripen fruit fell upon a leave at the root of the tree. The rabbit being flabbergasted by the sound, thought the world going to destroy,stood on to feet and set off running. While running shared the news of world end with other animals in the forest. They too without reasoning, blindly followed the rabbit. What a hubble-bubble!!! A wise lion saw the panic and asked why they were running. They answered that the rabbit heard the end of world coming, so all are escaping! The lion asked the rabbit how it knew that world end is happening. The rabbit told what happened. Then, the lion could guess what had happened. So, the lion leaded all the animals to the tree under which the rabbit was sleeping and explained what really happened. In this manner, the animal realm could survive the apocalypse!!!


 Once the news of Mayan calendar came into media, I think same thing like in the story came to see. Many people got scared and did various things without much logic. What the morale of the story tells us is not to follow blindly what others say. This story sheds insight into the twenty first century in which human civilization has reached its climax of science and technology. Irrespictive of all the knowledge, still human mind is subject to be misguided by any idea.
                                                                                                Wadinagala Pannaloka

Buddhist Perspective on Diseased Desire

                             by Wadinagala Pannaloka

 This work embarks to examine the Theravada Buddhist literature on deviant sexual behavior, a topic today highly discussed by scholars from different fields like Sociology, Medical Science, Religion and gender studies. Though the work gives emphasis to examine the cases, views and data related a selected number of so called unconventional (=seen as expression of diseased desire) sexual practices, the writer widens the scope of the research by an attempt to see the data in the primary sources through the light of other fields, such as medical science and sociology. The research shows that established views on certain deviant sexual practices can be challenged from the Buddhist perspective. Finally, the work asserts the unacceptability of stigmatization upon the deviants.

 Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing

 Date: 23/11/2013