Don't get frustrated . . . OK! - ∅ Pali to English : vinipateti ∅ English to Pali : viphalikaroti; vyahanati

Name of Journal 1 (2025) 1-to-page No Submitted on December 21, 2025 Accepted on December 21, 2025 Don’t get frustrated . . . OK! — ∅Pali to English : vinip¯ ateti ∅English to Pali : viphal¯ ikaroti; vy¯ ahanati shriprakash sinha [email protected] independent researcher Postal Address : 104 - Madhurisha Heights Phase 1, Risali, Bhilai - 490006, Chhattisgarh, India Orcid id : 0000-0001-7027-5788, Tree structure :https: // linktr. ee/ sinha. shriprakash Personal webpage :https: // sites. google. com/ view/ shriprakashsinha Edited on Date : 2025-12-24; Time : 20:57:50 hrs Editor: NA Abstract Frustration,∅Pali to English : vinip¯ ateti, ∅English to Pali : viphal¯ ikaroti; vy¯ ahanati, is part and parcel of life. However, HOW to deal with it is in your hands. Events might happen and people will do things to wreck havoc in the course of action, when your line of work is genuine. None the less, it is imperative that one DOES NOT get frustrated! See frustration as frustration! The frustration has arisen in the mind. DO NOT fight it out and wage another war in your mind! Acknolwedge that frustration has happened! Let it rise, reach a peak and fall/subside in its due course. In the stillness of awareness, watch the flow of frustration! Once that mind is clean of the waters of frustration, insight will dawn as to what to NEXT to do, in a constructive manner, also DO the RIGHT thing, that is beneficial to you and beneficial for others in the long run! That RIGHT thing, even the insight of it will be natural thing to do, in alignment with the flow of Mother Nature . . . Don’t get frustrated . . . OK! In these few words below, have shared some personal experiences and how i have drilled through in my life also, and tried to convey some little knowledge pictorially! May be, in day to day life or on the journey into the realms of the absolute truth! If it helps fine . . . else drop it! Finally, one will find a series of panels, each of whic have this following structure, with •a picture representing some wisdom or knowledge gained through personal experience in life, which is followed by •expression of that knowledge or wisdom in a few words! Keywords: Frustration. Contents 1 Panel #0 - Etymology 4 2 Panel #1 - It has been heard . . . Ananda, once even after serving Siddharta long, in his last life . . . 4 3 Panel #2 - First acknowledge the state of your own being! 5 Copyright ©2025 shriprakash sinha. License: CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International @ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Legal code provided @ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en This L A T EXtemplate has been adapted from jmlr2e.sty file provided by Journal of Machine Learning Research @ https://www.jmlr.org/ SHRIPRAKASH SINHA 4 Panel #3 - Rest in peace! 6 5 Panel #4 - Ways to meditate . . . 7 6 Panel #5 - It is a long journey . . . 8 7 Panel #6 - ME somebody and YOU nobody . . . 9 8 Panel #7 - Man! i am powerful . . . 10 9 Panel #8 - From the MONKEY mind to SILENT mind : a tough estimation 11 10 Panel #9 - To meditate or do anapana . . . 13 11 Panel #10 - The tongue is like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood . . . 14 12 Panel #11 - Two types of coconuts! 15 13 Panel #12 - Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana . . . i want Nirvana! 16 14 Panel #13 - What is happening in other’s house? The OTHER’s house . . . forget about MINE, the OTHER’S house! 17 15 Panel #14 - You the BOOTLICKER of Almighty, who will GO ON BEGGING . . . 18 16 Panel #15 - Your MONKEY mind . . . 19 17 Panel #16 - Save water, by doing this . . . 20 18 Panel #17 - That twisted cunning mind of yours . . . 21 19 Panel #18 - Merit 22 20 Panel #19 - Buddha said this, Buddha said that . . . 23 21 Panel #20 - Get over the rut! 24 22 Panel #21 - From pariyatti (theory), to patipatti (practice) to pativedha (attainment) . . . 25 23 Panel #22 - The Buddha on frustration 27 23.1 Sa ˙ myutta Nik¯ aya 52.8, 1. Rahogatavagga (In Private), Salal .¯ ag¯ arasutta (The FrankincenseTreeHut) ....................................... 27 23.2 Sa ˙ myutta Nik¯ aya 35.92, 9. Channavagga (With Channa), Pat .hamadvayasutta, (A Duality(1st)) ..................................... 27 23.3 A˙ nguttara Nik¯ aya 4.77, 8. Apan .n .akavagga (Unfailing), Acinteyyasutta (Unthinkable) 28 23.4 Sa ˙ myutta Nik¯ aya 20.5, 1. Opammavagga (Similes), Sattisutta (A Spear) . . . . . . 28 23.5 Majjhima Nik¯ aya 54, Potaliyasutta (With Potaliya the Householder), in K¯ am¯ ad¯ inavakath¯ a (The Dangers of Sensual Pleasures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 2 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! 23.6 A˙ nguttara Nik¯ aya 8.14, 2. Mah¯ avagga (The Great Chapter), Assakhal .u˙ nkasutta (A WildColt)....................................... 30 23.7 Majjhima Nik¯ aya 100, Middle Discourses, Sa˙ ng¯ aravasutta With Sa˙ ng¯ arava . . . . . 30 23.8 Majjhima Nik¯ aya 75, Middle Discourses, M¯ agan .d .iyasutta (With M¯ agan .d .iya) . . . 31 3 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA 1 Panel #0 - Etymology According to the Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary by Davids and Stede (1921-1925) OR the link to online Pali dictionary at University of Chicago, - •Vinip¯ ateti [vi+nip¯ ateti] to bring to ruin, to destroy, to frustrate Vin i.298; J vi.71; VvA 208. Also, from the English-Pali dictionary by Buddhadatta (1989), one finds - •frustrate : (v.t.) viphal¯ ikaroti; vy¯ ahanati. (pp.) viphal¯ ikata; vy¯ ahata 2 Panel #1 - It has been heard . . . Ananda, once even after serving Siddharta long, in his last life . . . out of doubt on the Buddha himself, approached the Buddha separately and asked - Are you hiding something which we don’t know off? Some knowledge that we don’t know off? The Buddha said - come with me to the forest! In the forest, the Buddha picked up a few leaves in his joined palms and said - Ananda, do you see these leaves in my joined palms? This is what i can show you and this much is, what you can see in this life time! This forest is like a ocean which only i have seen and known. You don’t have it in you in the current life to grasp everything! From that day, Ananda never questioned Buddha on anything, knowing his own incapability, of that life time and started to work on himself slowly and steadily . . . 4 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 1: The peak of the mountain called Nirvana! 3 Panel #2 - First acknowledge the state of your own being! First acknowledge the state of your own being! The current situation or the configuration of the cosmos in time and space that you are in NOW! Know that nothing is permanent ... NEITHER accept, NOR reject, JUST ACKNOWLEDGE the situation and your state AS IT IS (i.e yatha-bhuta). Once the acknowledgement has happened in your own heart and mind, see what NEXT NEEDs to be done! The RIGHT thing has to be DONE! HOWEVER tough . . . Just HAMMER out the things . . . slowly and steadily in life, day by day! One day at a time ... Just HAMMER it out, slowly and steadily! As the iron smith hammers and straightens an iron rod! Just do it ... Figure 1, depicts the stage of life, one is in . . . 5 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 2: Rest in peace, either below or above! 4 Panel #3 - Rest in peace! How about, INSTEAD of FIGHTING whole life and THEN lying in peace in the graveyard, YOU SIT and MEDITATE DAILY and find some peace within? Is this ACCEPTABLE to you ... Figure 2, depicts the stage in which you want to be peaceful . . . 6 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 3: Postures which you might want to try for yourself and find ABSOLUTE comfort! 5 Panel #4 - Ways to meditate . . . See which posture you are MOST comfortable in! FEEL FREE to choose any, that is in the menu here . . . It is all for you only! Figure 3, depicts the postures one wants to try for meditation . . . 7 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 4: Long long long . . . journey! 6 Panel #5 - It is a long journey . . . A journey spread over many life times in Mother Nature! Just acknowledge and accept it! Figure 4, depicts the long journey spread over many life times . . . 8 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 5: I better than you, and that’s it . . . you already lost a chance, may be to learn something! 7 Panel #6 - ME somebody and YOU nobody . . . ME somebody and YOU nobody will ruin everyone’s life . . . Value everyone’s life . . . however small! They are a part of existence! Figure 5, depicts the attitude that most of us have in life . . . 9 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 11: i want Nirvana! 13 Panel #12 - Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana . . . i want Nirvana! Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana . . . i want Nirvana! JUST STOP CHANTING this! The greater you CHANT this . . . the further you run away in the OPPOSITE direction! SIT STILL & BE . . . when the configuration of the cosmos in time and space is right, in Mother Nature, Nirvana will happen! Siddhartha sat in the jungles of Uruvela, in stillness, alone in seclusion and one moment it happened! It is simple! SIT STILL & BE . . . Figure 11, just depicts that running will not lead you to anywhere. Instead sit with a content heart, in the flow of time, things will happen . . . 16 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 12: What is happening in the OTHER’s house is MORE important to you that what is happening in YOUR own HOUSE! Right ? ? ? 14 Panel #13 - What is happening in other’s house? The OTHER’s house . . . forget about MINE, the OTHER’S house! STOP THIS for once and all ... WHY are you SO INTERESTED in what is COOKING in other’s house? WHY? Something happens in other’s house and NOODLEs cooks in your head ? ? ? You waste your life’s time and you waste everyone else’s life’s time by DISTRIBUTING and FEEDING this COOKED NOODLEs in YOUR HEAD to OTHERs ... Figure 12, just depicts that anything that happens in other’s house, and everything starts cooking in your little head and all sorts of things your start thinking off . . . 17 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 13: The BOOTLICKER you, who will GO ON asking for this or that with a bottom pit of desires you have! 15 Panel #14 - You the BOOTLICKER of Almighty, who will GO ON BEGGING . . . You the BOOTLICKER of Almighty, who will GO ON BEGGING . . . Oh! GOD! Give me this, Give me that ... That BOTTOMLESS PIT of desires and wants of yours ... The REAL BEGGAR and BOOTLICKER of Almighty! Figure 13, just depicts your incessant asking of things, whether you deserve or not; you just keep on asking! . . . 18 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 14: Your dangerous MONKEY mind! 16 Panel #15 - Your MONKEY mind . . . Oooh! DONT LOOK for those MONKEYs outside in existence! LOOK at your own DANGEROUS monkey mind! Figure 14, depicts you always neglecting the case that your own monkey mind is so dangerous ... 19 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 15: Save water . . . 17 Panel #16 - Save water, by doing this . . . Please do this everyday . . . On the cumulative, we might save a lot which might be needed somewhere else, DYING in THIRST! Figure 15, depicts how to save the water, daily! 20 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 16: Look at your cunning mind! 18 Panel #17 - That twisted cunning mind of yours . . . You see your own TWISTED and CUNNING mind and what you do with that to others ... You forget about what the others are doing! Come back later. Now, you see your own cunning mind! Once you start doing this, you will know that you have NO time in your life, EXCEPT watching your OWN CUNNING mind! IT is SO WONDERFUL! your CUNNING mind and you! Figure 16, depicts 21 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 17: Pictorial depiction! 19 Panel #18 - Merit MERIT - NOT intentionally, but by your natural spontaneous action, IF others have won . . . then it is truly something! In the greater good, if your action has brought you and others victory, then it is real merit! Figure 17, depicts when your victory is victorious for others, also . . . 22 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 18: Buddha said this, Buddha said that . . . 20 Panel #19 - Buddha said this, Buddha said that . . . Majority are this only ... Thus said the Buddha -ehipassiko or come and see! Figure 18, depicts your sermons on what the Buddha said, but you will never beg for once in life, as a part of training! 23 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA Figure 19: Who WILL RUN . . . ? 21 Panel #20 - Get over the rut! Figure 19, depicts 24 DON’T GET FRUSTRATED . . . OK! Figure 20: From pariyatti (theory), to patipatti (practice) to pativedha (attainment)! 22 Panel #21 - From pariyatti (theory), to patipatti (practice) to pativedha (attainment) . . . Pariyatti or theoretical knowledge - There is a way to read the scriptures that records the teachings of the ancient ones, be it any path. First one meditates. Say you meditated for a 5 days. Then the next two days you pick up a text that you want to acquire knowledge from. After you have read a few pages, then again meditate. In the stillness of awareness and the depths of the meditation the essence of the knowledge written in words might appear in your awareness and your being might absorb that knowledge. This is a long process. There are 3 stages of acquiring knowledge in the higher dimensions of truth & the spiritual realm, i.e - (1) Suta-maya-panna or knowledge/wisdom acquired by listening. Listening can be through any of the senses. (2) Cinta-maya-panna or knowledge/wisdom acquired via mental chewing of the knowledge. As you chew the chewing gum, so also your mind starts chewing the knowledge, yet the knowledge/wisdom is not completely absorbed. (3) Finally, Bhavana-maya-panna or knowledge/wisdom is absorbed in your being. That knowledge settles in your heart also, firmly. One has to continue on this whole life, as one meditates, contemplates and reads, again and again and again and . . . So you move from pariyatti (theory), to patipatti (practice) to pativedha (attainment). One has to continue on this whole life, as one meditates, contemplates and reads, again and again and again and . . . 25 SHRIPRAKASH SINHA References Ambala˙ ngod .a Polvatt¯ e Buddhadatta. English-Pali Dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1989. TW Rhys Davids and William Stede. Pali-english dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 19211925. 32