Big Brother
No no, it is not meant to be THE Dharma. The size of Dharma is immeasurable.
This Big Brother is in fact small guys who is sneaking everywhere, where ever you go.
——- If you clicked my humble Youtube channel, and clicked Virtual Woman, you may see
a thumbnail of Space Hijackers title appearing right-hand column. And click that one to see a
video image —– then loads of Space Hijackers’ thumbnails appears. In one of them, Plan C
happen to have some scene of me dancing —— strangely or inevitably, what so-ever.
( I rather like to have a scene of me dancing in Kung-fu style with my fists flying an inch before
a nose of riot police, since as it was a day time, it could be a rare footage, if anyone shot it 🙂 )
Any how, I wonder the way of editing or the choice of thumbnails to appear next to each video clip.
Lots of dinosaur images appears next to my Wire Dragon, is straight forward as the title relates.
Though, what is the link of my kinetic sculpture to Space Hijackers ?
Was that just a seer coincidence or because of my link —-> yoshizen’s blog —-> Space Hijackers ?
( By the way, I’ve joined them not because of their anti-establishment activity, I was just asked to help
repairing their Tank, then I found the dance parties they are organizing are so hilarious and funny —–
” Could such decent grownups can have such crazy imaginations ? ! ! ! ” 😀 )
But, if those links has been traced by the Youtube automatic search system ——- m m m ?
I feel rather uneasy.
Google is watching all of our cyber activity word by word, hence the choice of AD appearing next
to our Email pages etc etc. —— and the Youtube are doing the same now ?
If you Tweet a word something-nitrate, you could be listed in the MI5’s potential list. ? ? ?
——— Even more disturbing development is, if you use ( or forced to use as the new system
adopted by the service provider ) RFID system, which ever it is for shopping etc, you are going
to be remotely watched.
RFID is a small radio wave responder. It react and transmit the specific code of the user, hence
it can distinguish the person. Not only for a door entry or supermarket shopping, this system is
going to be used to control the information (AD) where ever you go.
So, if you are a regular shopper of the item and the connoisseur of it, video AD in a station could be
changed and display Durex AD for you. —— How nice —— is the future is Orange ?
As the fancy devices like iPhone, iPad spread, the function of their radio wave connectivity
could be utilized yet more fancy purpose ( or malicious purpose ? ) —— who knows.
So, stay humble (or others say poor ) not to have fancy staff ( my Mob’phone is 15 years old —–
still working ) and use only small cash (no credit card) is a knack to have a peaceful life. 🙂
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State of Zen = Dharma
Through email, Jaganathan asked me pretty significant question.
” It would be helpful to know, by doing what a person in Zen can fall back into NOT being in Zen ”
In fact there was a popular misconception behind of this.
Zen or ultimate state of the mind in the Buddhism is not a newly acquired fancy addition of
the Mind. Far from it, it is just the default state (if I may use a computer term) of the mind.
( Hence, it is the a crucial marker to distinguish out a sham Zen instructor —– if he says ” You will get
something new” it is the indication of that he doesn’t know the Buddhism )
This is Why everybody has it and born with it.
This is Why all the Zen masters in the past, when he realized it, described ” It’s a dog sit ”
And this is Why a small children often shows it, even a small animal, the Nature itself shows it.
And this is Why, the Buddhism asking and asking ” Get lid of your thought (which is the products
of the complicated brain activities)” —— so, it was described as, be in the Mushin / Selfless.
Of cause, Buddha was fully aware of this. That is why he showed it by doing, not by the words.
And this was Why the followers had to follow him and mimic (and repeat as the practice) what
Buddha was doing. (so the tradition was created )
——- being in the Default state, even the perception of ” I’m seeing or listening etc ” are not
there ( hence, later description of the sense itself are not existing were appeared in the Mantras )
( You have to remember that the all the Mantras were written more than 200 years afterward by
the memories and the guess-work —— since, often with misunderstandings)
All the conversion to the categorized notions or ideas are done by the additional Thinking process.
Still, without all those conversions, our eyes are seeing. And to see it, as what we have seen in the
first moment, without conversion or additional process is what we call as the Clear view or Clear eyes.
And without the complicated brain process, which mean without any masking of the thoughts, we can
see the Dharma —– or one might say even without seeing the Dharma, but Just be with Dharma.
So, be with it —— its mean forget what you have just read here — blah blah blah, Just Do It.
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Therefore (back to Jaganathan’s question) as the Default is the basis, one can not remove it, though it
would be easily masked by any setting of thought, pretension, borrowed buzz-word, fashionable
popular idea, useless Ego, Greed etc etc, but with the price of the Karma.
That is why, stay humble, without any masking or dress-up would be better, as it will lose nothing
——- so, peace in simple life is what the Buddhist’s choice. ( Though, paying some price to the Karma
and have small pleasure may not to be too bad. —— If it was not forgiven, we human being had been
eliminated long ago.) Still, choice is yours. Don’t blame me if its happened. Ha ha ha 😀
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Yet another 8150
Among the regulars of the Dorkbot gatherings, there is a creative programmer Jagannathan,
who has presented semi autonomous, self interactive moving pattern of enigmatic images before.
On the Dorkboat, he performed an electronic music composed on the spot, jammed with Alex Mclean.
On the boat journey, we talked about our resent activities, since our idea to put his organic program
to combine with my strange kinetic design hasn’t been materialized yet.
I told him about my Youtube images with its key word Kinetorori. To google Kinetorori, it led to both
Yoshizen blog and my Youtube channel.
Along side the Youtube video clip / Cupidon and the blog Kinetorori, inevitably he stumbled upon
8150 story. Which lead him to read a post ” Is Dharma directing us ?”
In that post I was asking the reader to check their Number. So, he checked his Bank a/c number ——
Bang ! —— He discovered, his Bank a/c number having this fatal 8150. ——- Please read
the comments on the post. ” Is Dharma communicating us ?” (To search, type in the box and click )
Later he said on the Email, Shocked and amazed by this. And as he said on his comment, he is
having this only a Bank a/c number since he arrived here 10 years ago. —— does it mean,
the Dharma did know from the beginning, we are going to meet —- or the person who got this
number are destined to meet together?
Jagannathan is not a Buddhist but he believes Brahmanism. Still, what so ever human make up the
name the ultimate power over there is the same entity. All of us are under the rule of this power.
And, in deed we were watched by it.
I gave a thought for Jagannathan’s life —– then I realized a crucial point that is (as he described
in his email) after he experienced the trouble of his program Pirated, he decided to publish them
as open source ” Instead to spend the time to encrypt them, better spend the time to create
something new, which gives more freedom” ——- abandon the ego and greed and
give-away his creation, brought him more freedom and strangely more wealth and stayed in health.
—— this is the very paradox in the Buddhism which I described many times.
So that, the greed-free honest attitude in the life is the key factor, as his life style is far from ascetic —–
having a wife, likes cider and he confessed, its hard to stick with Right-hand Zen. 😀 —– Still,
Selfless, Ego-less free mind may made him spiritually stand out.
Programing is a laborious work for perfection ( if not perfect, it doesn’t work at all 🙂 ) and
even for open source free program, if it is not creative and useful enough, nobody give a sit.
And now he started to wonder —— is this, because of him being protected by the Dharma too ?
( Fascinating isn’t it —— or is it Spooky ? 🙂 )
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DorkBoat
Yesterday there was a marvelous boat journey called Dorkboat organized by the Dorkbot London.
Dorkbot is a group of the people ” Doing strange things with electricity “ —— as their motto
suggests, it is the gathering of the people who is doing with electronics, electricity what so-ever
to show off or discuss what so-ever about their free-minded creation.
Naturally, some are purely digital electronics /
computer programmed graphics or music.
And some are involving kinetic mechanism with
electronic control.
As the group is completely open to anybody
some are doing it alongside of his or her profession
with profound expertise, but some time
utterly an outsider of electronics came up
with very witty approach of an invention.
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Me to join the group was, again a sheer coincidence.
Somebody a friend, happened to know the member
introduced me to the Dorkbot London as I’ve been
making a lots of funny kinetic sculptures and designing lots of electronic devices.
I liked their motto and my approach —– making the things which are utterly useless but fun,
was exactly matched and found a common ground.
Since then, virtually all of my public exposure such as to French TV, news paper or BBC
were happened with the Dorkbot. ( Gathering can be seen only for the members, which mean strict
Health and Safety Regulation which is always our headache, can be avoided )
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On the boat from Westminster Pier to Kew, we saw the presentation of many funny devices ——
” Mocking bird can be seen as a recording device (since they can repeat human words ! )” or
ever hilarious J.Rarson’s game controller, and some music performances etc etc.
It’s funny to think, the people who follow rigid and rational Physics and Electronics rules
still able to conceive such utterly useless nutty idea 😀 —– This is THE creativity.
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Event was coincided with the farewell award giving for the departure of one of the founder
Alex McLean / formidable experimental Programmer, as his family is moving out London.
I wish his family’s ever happier life in new location
and his creative projects to ever more flourish.
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Worship ?
If anyone think the Buddhism is one of the religion, soon you will be realized
“If it is the religion, where is the God and what to worship ? ” —— Then you might be
realized, something peculiar or even something wrong.
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Since, on his death-bed, Buddha ordered to his followers ” Don’t idolize or worship me”
In the Buddhist’s Mantras, there is even a single line of script which described that
Buddha himself bowed to anything, exist.
Buddha respects the Dharma and its rules, though rule is just the rule.
Rule is not the God or an object of worship. ——– Gravity is one of the physical phenomena.
Its rule is absolute. No one can escape —- though, no one think gravity is God nor anybody worship it.
Dharma rules the universe though as it is not like a personified western God,
Dharma is not answerable, even communicable to the human, it is not an object to worship.
Hence, Buddha didn’t need to worship the Dharma but he just followed and lived with it.
Because of this, the Buddhism has been often regarded to be NOT a religion,
and often mistook as an atheist.
( Lots of you may think, if this is the case, what about the many Devine figures in the temple and
worshiping rituals the monks are performing ? ? ?
——- It is just because of a mix-up with Hinduism. It is not the Buddhism )
In the same kind of misunderstanding, lots of people think the Buddhist practice is a part of rituals.
No, they are a training exercise to gain a state of the mind ” Mushin “.
( DO the things without Thinking —– leave it to the control of subconsciousness / Dharma )
Darma has unknowable mystical power ——- though, it is not because of Buddhism.
Since, Dharma and the Karma are ruling anybody, regardless one’s religion.
Believe or not, everybody you too, are under the Dharma —— hence, it’s better to aware it.
To become aware it ——- you are wiser. Which we call ” Enlightened “
Buddhism itself has no mysticism or mumbo-jumbo.
Buddha’s teachings or Buddhism is the way to see the Dharma and live with it.
Following and living with it, mean more smooth natural life, hence having the Peace.
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Short POEM ( but not HAIKU )
( may be titled as ) [秋]———————– Aki / Autumn
————————ある————————–aru / one
————————雨の————————-ame no / rainy
————————朝—————————–asa / morning
————————アスファルトに————asphalt ni / on the asphalt ( pavement )
————————アシナガバチの———-Ashinaga-bachi no / a Wasp’s
————————死骸————————–shigai / dead body
————- Well, this poem was composed in my twenties when I was having evening class of
an Advertising Copy-writer’s training. ( Since, I didn’t expect Industrial Sociology BA may not enough
to go into Advertising or Publishing industry) I wanted to have a skill to compliment my photography
and I was writing lots of poems. ( Preceding to this, I was a fanatic of Jean Arthur Rimbaud )
————– In one glance you may noticed there is no subjective word / Who is watching a dead wasp.
This is a deep and long tradition of the Japanese language —– not clarify the subject word.
This is a part of the Buddhist’s culture combined with Confucians ethos.
Name Me is arrogant. Self shouldn’t be there. And name You is disrespect —— it should be only
implied by the proper use of honorific expressions. —— hence, all the HAIKU is missing subject word.
More importantly, without seen by anybody, the pavement and the wasp is still there. We were not the
designer of the world or control it —- How, Self can be there. Why we need to assert I am watching.
( Hence, lots of old Haiku is based on a man’s vulnerability, a powerless observer’s sentiment, Wabi )
Japanese has been using the same language all through the history ( well, classic style is a headache
even for me 😀 ) and having such thousands of years history with Buddhism culture in the bottom,
translate it must be a daunting task, much harder than a Japanese to read Chinese Buddhist’s Mantras.
(So, it is no wonder to find lots of misunderstanding of Japanese Buddhism and wrong translations there)
In comparison, when I read an English translation of Heart Mantra, translated from
the Sanskrit, I was rather amazed ( and disappointed ) with its clarity as there wasn’t enigmatic
[ Mysticism ] left there. 🙂 There was no mysticism in the Buddha’s teachings.
It was our own creation with over jealous expectation. (save my 8150 story. It’s not my creation. 😀 )
In the Paradox of Buddhism, mysticism never appeared where expected. Because the expectation
is a thought emanated from one’s ego —— which against the Mushin / No-Mind.
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Here another poem which I wrote when I left Japan. ( No need to have a title )
( In hind sight, this was the moment I became a Bhikku )
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美しい手紙を書こうと思った—–Utsukushii tegami wo kakou to omotta / I wanted to write beautiful letter
私は詩を勉強した——————Watashi wa Shi wo benkyo shita / I studied Poetry
* * *
手紙ー通——————————Tegami, ittsu / A letter
母へ—————————-———Haha e / to my Mother
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ありがとう——————–———Arigatow / Thank you
ごめんなさい———————-Gomen nasai / Forgive me
さようなら————————–Sayou-nara / Farewell
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( This could be the shortest poem as it using only three most ubiquitous mundane words yet to describe
a man’s whole life. As after 35 years I still couldn’t find any shorter, fewer word could do the same.
The space inside of Zero could have whole life history and all the thought —– yet no need to talk
or discuss. Just shut a mouth and a thought. ——– it is almost like the Zen, isn’t it )
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