When a sudden change comes people get upset and they protest loudly. Most people do not like changes. Leave it as it is, even if it is not so good, not optimal, at least we know what we have and we have lived with it so long already. Stick the head in the sand, do not wake up, just work, eat and sleep and the rest is all politics, leave it to those who know... Get a loan, buy all you want, work for the rest of your life to pay the bank and shut up.

I compare people of ordinary wit with frogs. As long as the changes come slowly, nobody bothers, would they have come suddenly, it would have unleashed a major protest. In the last few years we have seen the slow destruction of the environment. Beach by pristine unspoiled beach on the windward side have been sold. Dawn Beach, Guana Bay and now upcoming, Gibbs Bay. Not to forget the first monstrous atrocity, the enormous Oyster Pond concrete creation. When the beautiful road to Oyster Pond was built a few years ago I should have understood what was coming, I admit that also I acted as a frog. Now I know that road lead to the many destructive foreign intruders...

A little small cheat is just that, unremarkable, a little thing, not important. Why protest, it is just one hardly announced sale to another intruding foreigner. Just one place gone (for ever). The next sale of a beach was also just one little cheat against mother nature, who cares, it's just one. And then comes the next, one by one, all a good time apart, so the last manipulation is already forgotten. However, many little lies make a big lie, don't forget. Just like the one bottle out of the car window onto the side of the road. It's only one bottle. But many single bottles make a horrible sight when a bush fire burns the tall grass and all the bottles become exposed to the light of day.

When you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water it will use all its power to avoid it and jump out. But when you put a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it to boiling point, the frog will not feel the gradual change in temperature and it will not jump out and it will get cooked alife without resisting!!

I see a frog's mentality in Sint Maarten, it's high time a stork comes by to put a good scare in us.

This frog is just waiting for a Princess' kiss.  

 Chamba Chada

Africa, for once, is ahead of us. We keep on wasting energy [as much as we can afford]. If you have enough money you may let energy wasting, incandescent light bulbs burn day and night. But as to what our country could save, our politicians should look at the following. To become environmentally friendly and make the island and the population in general benefit.

The Ugandan Government is distributing energy efficient lightbulbs to the entire population. 80.000 lightbulbs have arrived in Kampala to be given away. This week also 50.000 of 400.000 ordered, arrived in neighbor country Rwanda. In the UK these special energy saving light bulbs are priced very low and in the 550 stores of the electrics company Curry, they will no longer sell incandescent bulbs at all. A traditional bulb only converts 5% of the energy it uses into light, the rest is converted into heat!

Paid for by the city of Tallahassee, with whom the SXM University has a special relation, 20-watt compact fluorescent light bulbs that use 75 percent less electricity than traditional incandescent bulbs are given away by the students to the citizens! Residents could get up to four bulbs, by trading in four old ones. The event was organized by FAMU's Green Coalition, a university faculty. Staff and student groups worked hand-in-hand with high school and neighborhood groups, as volunteers went door-to-door. An idea for our SXM-University students!

Europe also sees the light in the bulb plan, European leaders governing 490 million people have decided to follow the lead of Australia and replace old fashioned light bulbs with more energy efficient bulbs.

Several countries among them Uganda, Rwanda, Australia, Cuba, Canada and Yemen are encouraging the use of energy savers either by incentives or legislation.

 Just realize that $100.00 incandescent light costs you only $25.00 with energy saving bulbs!!!

To win my vote I need to know which politician is promoting this idea on Sint Maarten.

Are we getting there yet?

Two thousand years ago the political mess of the day was observed by the famous story teller Aesop. In those days democracy was invented. The same political lies as we hear now were told by the politicians of two thousand years ago. When my friend said he would hope the same party stays in power, so that no new thieves would have to be put up, I thought of Aesop's story:

A young fox had the urge to cross the river so he jumped in and started to swim. The current was much stronger than he had anticipated and totaly exhausted he reached the other shore. Shivering from the cold and hardly able to stay on its feet he struggled up the shore and to add to his misery he got stuck in a thorn bush. While he waited there to gather his strenght a swarm of horse flies descended on him and started to suck his blood. A hedgehog came walking past and saw the ordeal of the fox and offered to remove the flies. "Shall I take the flies of you young fox, they must surely bother you a lot?" asked the hedgehog. But the fox replied: "No, no, do nothing of the sort, please leave them where they are." Surprised the hedgehog asked: "But why mister fox, the flies are biting you and sucking blood?" The fox explained: " Let them be where they are, they are full of blood already and they suck no more, but when you chase them off, new ones will come and they may not leave a drop of blood in me."

To commemorate International Woman's Day, the meeting Friday March 9 at the Cultural Center was a succes, well thought out and well organised. MC Dorothy Richardson was very entertaining and the speech by guest speaker the Hon Mme Justice Desiree P. Bernard was full of information. She mentioned many facts about numerous international conferences, agreements, laws, bylaws and the Caribbean Court of Justice. Her fact packed speech was especialy about violence, and more so about violence against women. Domestic violence, violence in the workplace, in war and peace, violence everywhere. Even violence against men was briefly mentioned, and although men are not often abused by women, it does happen. After the informative speech came a question and answer session, were it became clear that Sint Maarten is no member of Caricom and so can not benefit from the Caribbean Court of Justice. The English speaking island's citizens can go to the CCJ after local justice is not served satisfactory and all other legal ways exhausted.

However, the evening did not get to the root of the problem. I say the root cause of all this misery is Lack of right Education. Dorothy is a teacher for children and I mentioned to her the most important thing to teach, that is the observation of the self. Unfortunately she had no time to go into my remark at that time.

Our culture is based upon the other, not upon the self. See what the other has, see how the other is succesfull, look how the other is dressed, what car he drives, how he lives, and then comment on it... Western religion teaches a God that is in Heaven, an unknown, imaginary place somewhere outside the self. God is pictured as if It lookes down from Heaven and makes decisions and is responsible for everything. There is even a popular song that sings that "God is watching you". Sins are forgiven by this God and can be repeated again and again. Herein lays the grotesk evil that brings people to stupid behavior and violence. "She made me do it, she made me mad, she drove me crazy!" In our religion based culture it is always the other who is to blame, never the self. 

I say that every one is responsible for everything that happens in that persons life. Nobody can be blamed for ones actions, and that is the fact. Religion and governement work hand in hand to keep the people uninformed about this. To be self responsable makes people independent. To realize that God is [inside] the self makes the church superfluous. To realize that we self are responsible makes governement superfluous. When schools should teach that one self is the only one responsible for all that happens in one's life, our world should become a better place in just one generation.

"Know Thyself" is the Holy shout, but teachings of how to get to know this Self are nowhere to be found. There are 2600 year old teachings about how to find and become in control of the self. The Master who discovered this explains it easily and understandable but He is condemned by our religious powers. Followers of his teachings never started a war, and we hardly ever hear of violence in countries where His teachings are known. This Enlightened teacher was Gautame Siddharta, later called the Buddha. Jesus mentioned these teachings in the gospel of Thomas, about which we hear little or nothing.

To observe the self, practicaly, as if one is beside the self and watches over the self is easy and efficient. I myself, right now, observe how I write, how I sit, and later will walk, talk, breath, cook, drive and also how and what I think! That is all there is to it. Observation of one's own thoughts leads to control over one's very same thoughts, wich leads to self control over anger, greed, arrogance and all behavior in general.

If I was the boss, I should make Self Observation Teachings mandatory in all schools. It will bring peace and happiness to the suffering majority who at present think that God and Government are in charge. We and you are in charge, nobody else is, never ever forget that!

 Hello again, dear reader...

While I woke up today I thought about my car, and what idiotic heavy piece it is, the weight of it compared to what it does for me. A light car weighs a ton, 1000 kilos, that is 2200 lbs, a medium car 1100 lbs more, that is 1500 kg and a heavy one 2000 kilos and over! [Multiply kilo by 2.2 to get pounds.] Please realize what we are doing, we are dragging more than a ton of metal with us to get our body with a weight of about average 75 kilo from A to B! Realize how ridiculous this is! That we drag 15 to 30 times our own weight around to get somewhere. The heavier the car, the more gas we burn. That produces the dreaded greenhouse gasses that heat up the atmosphere, that melt the pole caps, that raise the sea level, make the polar bears extinct, drives the Eskimos from their hunting grounds and destroys low laying islands. It also changes the climate and hurricanes these years are stronger than those in our parents and grandparents times. I have been greatly troubled to learn this and used as small a transport as possible, that is to say: a 5 gear 125cc engine on two wheels, weighing less than twice my own weight, a mere 140 kg, a smart and fast going motorbike of Asian origine that carried me (and a passenger) with ease over any steep hill around the island. Untill an inattentive [surely intoxicated] driver in a big car hit me when I was standing still, waiting for traffic to pass. Now forever invalid I had to return to drive a 4 wheels transport of 1160 kilos with a 1600cc engine, dragging more than a ton with me wherever I go. More than 12 times of what is needed to transport me. This is disgusting. And it is still a moderate car, not a big SUV or pick up truck. See on the back of many vehicles the displacement, 1.6 is 1600cc, 2 liter is 2000cc, there are cars of 2800cc and more. That is crazy and a little, no very criminal, I will vote for the politician who will restrict the weight of vehicles on the island. In order to spend less on road maintenance, and environmentally conscious, in order to sleep quiet and know that I have done what I can for my world, my planet, for my children's future. Tax vehicles by weight, and discriminate between a light and a heavy car, let carowners pay for what they do to our world, get real mister politician, wake up.

Just to let you know what [unconsciously] plays in my head: Before I woke up today I was abducted by three unknown men, who took me to the airport, gave me another name and a Swiss passport, then flew me in a small jet to an American airport, I have no idea where, and there put me on a plane to Germany where they left me alone. From the German airport I was to fly on to Switzerland. I understood from talk with the 3 goons that they were secret service and that I was an undesired entity and therefore deported, extraordinary rendered, so to say... Then I woke up and realized it was a dream.

Did it mean maybe  that I better shut up lest I get deported???

Chamba Chada

On Happiness and Wisdom.

 We all find it important to be happy; and it is easy to be happy, but it is an activity to make oneself actually happy.

Happiness does not always come just like that out of nowhere. Just like unhappiness or suffering comes from some reason.  Happiness is the contrary of suffering. Our most well-known and followed Holy teacher Jesus the Christ, which means actually: any unexpected deliverer, savior or rescuer; acknowledged the suffering of the people of his religion, which was Judaism.  He saw that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would leave the whole world blind and speechless. He came therefore with His New Message of Love, and was rejected and killed.

600 years before Jesus there was another teacher who saw the suffering of his people, and he found The Way to stop the suffering. He was one who had achieved a state of perfect enlightenment, a holy man, a holy person, a saint, a person of exceptional holiness, which was the Buddha. He taught Wisdom as a way to overcome suffering. 
Western scholars have pointed out a number of curious parallels between certain passages given in the Buddhist Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita-sutra and the Christian Revelation, and here I quote of the Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita Sutra:

“Perfect Wisdom spreads her radiance…and is worthy of worship. Spotless, the whole world cannot stain her. In her we may find refuge; her works are most excellent; she brings us to safety under the sheltering wings of enlightenment. She brings light to the blind, that all fears and calamities may be dispelled…and she scatters the gloom and darkness of delusion. She leads those who have gone astray to the right path. She is omniscience; without beginning or end is Perfect Wisdom, who has Emptiness as her characteristic mark; she is mother of the bodhisattvas*. She cannot be struck down, the protector of the unprotected.”

The word marked by the asterisk* explained here:
*Those who are allowed to see the truth under the agreement that they will communicate it to others, also: An enlightened being who, out of compassion, forgoes nirvana in order to save others, or literally an "enlightenment being"- to keep free all beings from the coils of suffering.

Bodhisattva Captain Zen

We will not get hit this year again

This year we will not get hit by a major hurricane, because there is no reason why we should. LUIS, 11 years ago was the one we really needed and that was the one we got. Just like Katrina was the one for New Orleans, LUIS was the one for SXM.

Because those places needed a major clean up and no government or agency could ever have cleaned up LA and SXM better than those hurricanes. And what is best, no common person of ordinary wit ever suspects that secret government powers are behind those hurricanes.

From where I sit, I see a huge flamboyant tree in its full blooming red flower splendor. It announces the summer season, the time of heat, of days with too little or too much wind. The red color is a clear warning: “Here is the season of dangerous weather!”

What hardly anybody knows is that the weather is under the control of (very secret) government powers. Storms can be enhanced, they can be send in certain directions. This is done with knowledge that Nikola Tesla revealed about 100 years ago.

Our (grand-) parents saw the first movies, still black and white only, and without sound. In many of those early movies were storms with rain and thunderstorms with very realistic lightning flashes. Nikola Tesla made those lightning flashes with his coils.

Those of us who have Internet only have to google “tesla weather control” to get close to a million English pages with information about Tesla and his weather controlling inventions.

See: http://www.freedomdomain.com/weather.html from where I quote:

“Is it strange how, when we are in the middle of summer, it can be raining out, and one day it is very "hot", the next day it is 15 degree cooler, and two days later, it is "hot" again? Does this seem strange? How about earthquakes in parts of the world, that are so devastating, that if they were to happen here, our whole economy could be ruined.
Do you think it is "odd" that people would suggest that the government can and does control the weather? I KNOW it sounds a little paranoid, but if you do the research to investigate, you will undoubtedly arrive at the same conclusions. OUR WEATHER IS CONTROLLED!” end quote.

Meet Tom Bearden: Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army (Retired). President and Chief Executive Officer, CTEC, Inc. MS Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. BS Mathematics, Northeast Louisiana University. Graduate of Command & General Staff College, U.S. Army. Graduate of Guided Missile Staff Officer's Course, U.S. Army (equivalent to MS in Aerospace Engineering).

On his website http://www.cheniere.org/ you find how it is done.

So worry little this season, as the great clean up is already done at our little island in 1995, we will not have any major hit again. The secret electromagnetic installations on Cuba will no doubt steer most of the storms towards the most vulnerable American oil installations to punish the USA for its useless decades long embargo that has not stopped Cuba from becoming a nation with better health care and less illiteracy than its oppressor.

A United Nations Treaty exists which pledges all member states to refrain from using Weather Control as a lethal weapon upon other states but I don’t think Cuba cares for that one.

See: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/text/environ2.htm

Signed in Geneva May 18, 1977
Entered into force October 5, 1978
Ratification by U.S. President December 13, 1979
U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17, 1980

So there we have it, all you unbelievers, check it out and know from now on that your GOD, Allah, Jehovah and Krishna have little to say about what Hurricane will hit where.

With love and care

Captain Zen

Whatever you all think of me, I can say that I have all my life dated woemn age 19. The relationships lasted from short 2 to long 8 years and where always fantastic.
When 22, I met Margona from Sweden 19 yrs old, we were 5 years fine until she went off with another guy. The at 28 I met Katharina 19yrs, from Holland, in Amsterdam. We lived like man and wife, for 5 yrs, and when it got to hot in the RED SEA on our sailing boat she went home, looking back at a good time with me. Then at 35 I met Israeli Sabra Vicky, 19 yrs old, just finishing her military service. She joined me and was my boatwife for 8 years until in the Caribbean she left with a handsome Brazilian. Devastated and lonely I met Linda, from Dominica , she was 19 and I was 46. We lived together 3 years and parted but are still best frinds today.
Then came Sariela who was a few years younger than 19 and Valentina, a few years older than 19. But last year I met Anie, who lives nearby and is 20. I am 61 now and we are very happy when we are close. Sex a little, that sure, but mostly, just talk, cooking, video games, laughter.
I asked them often why are you with me girls?
They had dozens of reasons:
same age boys are kids, we want a man,
young boys have no father power,
they do not know their place in life yet
and most important young men are jealous and posessive. That pissed them off the most.
I leave them free, who am I to say what they should do or not do? I admire them for their young vigor, their power, their fresh loving look, and a lot of other things.
And my advice to you who looks for younger lovers is to go South. Where the life is more natural and the people know still how to share love. The knowledge of the old goes to the young, the power of the young invigorated the old, It is an exchange of forces and so both are happy. She learns from me, and I keep young by absorbing her young language and style.
Charley Chaplin did it, Edith Piaff did it, and Bob Marleys father was 58 and his mommy 17, see what a star came from that union.
whomever talks against young and old together knows not of real life.
Come to the tropics, Caribbean, Africa, Thailand, and experience the fullness of loving tenderness away from the stupid always better knowing cold girls from the cold countries.

And then you want a serious relationship you say? Let me tell you that all my relationships were and are dead serious. I give my all and everything each and every moment. And sometimes two girls competed for my love, and then I introduce them to each other and have them make friends. It has happened that they went in bed with me together, but ok, that was just a few times.
The royal treat they gave was just because I deserved it is what they said when I asked wow, how come you two do me together now? Ah, cumm to the tropics and start a life!