Which Practice ?
As you may noticed, my approach to the Buddhism is by means of Doing.
And my Doing is not a fixed practice.
It can be even cutting lemons or twisting a wire to make figures or make small electronic circuit etc ——.
In fact it can be any activity in the daily life, like somebody’s daily job.
———- The reason is obvious, (1) It is not an activity intentionally designed on purpose. As it is a part of
daily life and carries no special meaning or pretence, such as ” This is the Special noble practice for the
Higher Spiritual Achievement”, it is natural. This is the Jinen.
(2) Basically I’m a humble mean person. I can’t afford to spend a time for such a special exotic activity.
If ordinary activity can serve the same purpose, why not do them. It would save the time and energy.
Most important point is, the Buddhism is a way of the life. It wouldn’t work like to buy a piece of Indulgence
and sit as a formality. Buddhism needs to go down all the corner of one’s life. This is the Ichijo in total.
The matter is to live the life in Mushin.
———- So, as one of the by-product, I got nicely twisted wire as well ——- How nice Ha Ha Ha 😀
( I don’t think so many people in the world, found an interest of twisting the wire. Its mean, this is a very
peculiar activity specifically occurred only on my Karma, therefore this is a part of Yoshizen. Ha Ha Ha 😀 )
Since, it was the task, I only had to do (on that moment), I only doing it, nothing else, therefore I didn’t need
to specially concentrate for “Mind-fulness” kind, as there was nothing else to think about anyway.
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Almost synonym of the (misconceived) Buddhism, “Meditation”, “Mind-fullness”, “Selfless” are all too
prominent though, they are bore out of the unnatural pretenceful activity.
Because of it is a peculiar exotic practice, the person has to fight to concentrate to get mind-fullness and
while (utterly contradictively) hustle to get selflessness. (If a man has to wear Mini-Skirt he can’t be calm. 🙂 )
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But if you do the activity which you can abandon yourself, you automatically start to do fully minded
without any conscious of self. In this way, anybody, in any activity, they can reach to the Mushin.
This is the Mahayana Buddhism.
Door is open to anybody, not only to the professional monk whose task (and the mean of earning money)
is to Perform and Demonstrate “Buddhism”—— in other words, other than a monk, most of the people
don’t need to demonstrate and perform it.
——————- Though, to do the things which is not your choice, even a kind of task you hate,
and still able to do it in Mushin, needs to have special training to disconnect your Thinking and Emotion,
which I have explained before, ” Starting with absolute obedience and repeat the practice until it
reaches to the state of Mental Fatigue—–”
———- And almost legendary ” Hyper state of the Brain ” could be achieved only through very dangerous
practice and the Visualization. ( Some Martial Artist can do this. And the people competing with their
memory power, while memorizing hundreds of cards in order, using this Visualizing skill under
the hyper state of the Brain ——- but don’t ask me about it)
Though, in my view from my experiences, I’m not necessary agree with those special Mind Engineering is
in the scope of the Buddhism. Those highly specialized Mind Engineering was a discovery of the
professional monk though it is necessary to born with particular genetic condition.
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Yoshizen