Poor Nature (2)
Last night, something was creeping up on my leg, inside
of trouser.—- M m m ?
I slapped it over the trouser. —— What came out and
dropped on the floor was a wasp. (By the way, I didn’t
know, the wasp here is so hairly. —– Click photo to see )
I realized, I’ve just killed a queen wasp who seemed to seek
a place to hide and wait the next spring.
I can guess, inside of my trouser must be warm and good
place to hibernate —— though —— ? , its not very
convenient place for me at all.
——— Still, it could have created a beautiful story
” A Zen Buddhist kept sitting, in order not to disturb a wasp sleeping inside of his trouser,
and waited the next spring “ —— how heart warming nice story. 😀
Don’t be jokey, I’m a convicted notorious potato killer and terminating the life potential of 40~50 Kg of
onion etc every year. I’m not such generous warm-hearted existence. I’m living on the sacrifices of
millions of another lives, not mention the billions of germs came into my body and encountered
the T-cell in my white blood.—— I wouldn’t pretend to be any special noble creature with sweet words.
I’m just an another life in the food chain and the minute part of the Dharma in this world.
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Long time ago I read a story ” A Jain holy man offered himself to a tiger and eaten by the tiger”—– ? ? ?
Was he intentionally walked into a forest to meet a tiger on purpose ? —— I quite doubt of it.
And when he was attacked, was there any another choice, otherwise not be eaten ?
I don’t think so neither. Even holy man was just a part of the Dharma. To the eyes of tiger he was just
another play —— yet as a story, we can make up anything sound nice.
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Anyhow, see the season (as the rest of wasps are dead already) and her body size, it must be a queen.
Its mean, not just a wasp, I’ve terminated her potential whole family. (and her ancestors as well)
But the question is, —— why she choose to sneak into my trouser ? There must be somewhere
another warm corner in my flat. She should know, such place was the last place to choose ?
Or am I smelly —— smell of flower ? I don’t think so. 😀
Unlike blood sucking female mosquito, most insects avoid to encounter animals —— so, was she
thought I’m a kind of furniture ? Am I 😀
Anyhow, to an unfortunate queen wasp, peaceful Nirvana for her. (I hope, she didn’t leave
a marker to branding me as a public enemy of wasp and make them to attack me next season 🙂 )
—— While I was editing this, on the other side of the world in Chilean desert, last one of 33 miners
came out from the 2000 feet deep mine. —— one small life ended here, yet 33 men were survived.
Congratulation. Viva Chile. 🙂 ( It was an extraordinary story but not just a story. It was the fact )
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in the indian epic mahabharata, an archer trains under a guru who will only teach upper caste brahmins. this archer is of a much lower caste but he wants to learn the secrets anyway so he disguises himself as a brahmin and trains under this guru.
one day the guru is sleeping with head on our trainee’s lap (no pillows in those days or maybe they are gay — dont know hehe) — anyway, a wasp starts crawling up the legs of our trainee and in fact starts borrowing into his thigh! our trainee UNLIKE YOU DOES NOT hehe 😀 kill the wasp because he feels it will wake up the master….so he tolerates the pain…blood starts flowing and enters the gurus ear and he wakes up….
ahhhh this is impossible says the guru. you are not a brahmin because no brahmin can take this much pain…..so he curses him saying when it is very crucial for you all that you have learnt from me wont work…..this of course comes true at an important battle and he gets killed….
so who knows maybe dharma tested u and maybe u did the right thing 😀
Ha ha ha. Its a strange story. I couldn’t figure out what was the teaching there.
In fact, that wasp stung me. So, I’m puzzling what was the intention of Dharma.
Though, it might be just simple matter —— don’t think too much. —— If it was
painful, it is painful. That’s all. Ha ha ha. 😀
this character ie the archer is called karna — he always does good but suffers thru out his life eg., good intention to tolerate pain so as to not disturb the guru’s sleep —- but still a great character….more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karna
Huuuuum. I read through the story till Karna get third curse from the Earth-God.
(hell long story 😀 yet only a half of it —– then I gave up) 😀
And wondering, why those Guru didn’t noticed, Who this man is / Karna’s origin.
Guru become Guru as he acquired not just the skill of weaponry but also the
insight of spirituality. So, why such a venerable man Karna needed to meet such idiot
who couldn’t see Karna’s hidden origin.
Another question is, under the curse, Karna might forget Mantra though, the art of
Martial Art is in its act of Mushin (hence, no need to have memory) —— why, Karna
could loose the skill. ?
mahabharata is a complex epic….with many many substories…a catalog of causes and effects….some direct effect…some effect due to distant cause….the key thing is if you stopped reading u wont connect the dots …haha.
some of these curses are new though….maybe people are inventing new ones on wikipedia 😉
the key character of karna is he gladly gives whatever people ask from him without any thought ie even if everyone knows that it will cause him harm….and some people actually exploit his good nature that it causes fatal harm (Indira — not the noble elephant india sent to japan 😉 — for example asks for his armour just b4 battle and of course karna gives without second thought — and gets killed. So its not just the curse of his Guru that brings him down 😉
Loosing the memory of the mantra can be interpreted as loosing mushin ie he joins the friend who is evil (not quite evil, he has his reasons 😉 — knowing he is evil but he does so because the evil friend does him deep good once ….breaks the caste brarrier and elevates him because of his skill in archery….
i’m no expert of course but karna is my favourite character….if only he had 1850 hmmmm 😀
My interpretation for the cause of Karna’s death is, not because of his giving nature,but the occurrence —— why on that timing, somebody appeared and asked his Armour—— bad timing was caused by somebody, something else.
———- so, me to stop the reading was right. Dharma stopped me to read further 😀
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Elephant Indira was much loved idol in the Tokyo Zoo on that time.
I couldn’t see any twisted intention behind. —– am I correct ?
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In Zen teachings, there shouldn’t be even a notion of Zen, single word even from the Mantra in the mind.
The bird’s eye and the arrow are only the existence in the world. All the preceding teachings have had gone
to the motor region of the brain and into subconscious, hence not noticeable to the person.
Therefore, as far as the person can aware, there is nothing ——- hence it is Mushin.
( In fact, awareness itself is not there —— too occupied to shoot the bird )
No twisted intention I dont think….almost all Gods in Hinduism have all characteristics…say you have one God that has a particular feature (say wealth)….another God has an opposite feature (knowledge)….then another that has both of them…and yet another is totally opposite to all of them….then one God becomes another God thru some technique haha…..Krishna is a great example…he can be a shrewd politician, king, chauffeur and turn into the ultimate philosopher and expound the bhagwad gita.
anyhow these stories are so old and modified so much that its got so many layers and complexities….its impossible to deconstruct….or attribute anything to any particular character…more importantly…we can deconstruct to create a twisted intention if we want to haha.
I think what you said “character” is in fact the symbol of each human phenomenon.
So that they are called Personified god. And the relation (like a son of another God)
etc is a witty reasoning of the relation of each phenomenon.
Buddha thought out not about those Gods or the symbolized phenomenon but what
is the rules behind.
My approach is, leave the each phenomenon to each faculty —– let the specialist
to deal. To the scientists, to the psychologist, or to the economist, business tycoon.
Those expert knows its dynamics better —— and think what is common factor and
the rules behind. The matter is not in the details of the story but what philosophy
created those stories.
ie these stories have so many layers and complexities that they can be used to recount an analogous wasp story that has a relevance to a yoshisan’s life …..very cool isnt it hahaha
at the very least japan got an elephant from india (india had much less to give then anyway but still gave an elephant — very indian style 😉 and lots of kids & adults were cheered up as you recount….so that is the zen…who cares what is its name hehe.
On that time, I could see the Fuji mountain on the horizon —— its mean there wasn’t
tall house, let alone tall building. Around Tokyo Zoo, there was a shanty town and
lots of orphans left by the war on the street. (Hard to imagine for you —- Japan
came long way, in deed) So, the Japan’s economy started from the black market
of the occupying force’s goods. To have an elephant in the zoo was an
unimaginable luxury then 😀
I think the inspiration for India’s development was Japan. Japanese companies were the among the first foreign companies to invest in India — Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Panasonic — thru collaboration with Indian companies such that 49% profit to foreign company, 51% to Indian. Its still the rules today. Companies from the west didnt want to collaborate because they want to take 100% profit out of the country. Look what giving just one elephant got India hahaha 😀
I think Indians in general feel Japan has the best combination of living: incorporating technology and scientific thinking from the west + the spiritual thought of the east…however i have 2 questions u may be able to answer:
1. How did japanese technology progress after the war — especially considering Japanese dont communicate in english — how did they understand the research, latest techniques etc.
2. What effect the technological development has had on the spiritual aspect of life in Japan today? Is the loss of the view of Mt Fuji from your house say a loss?
–jagan.
Fundamentally Japanese are the Buddhist. Accept the Dharma as it is.
Part of the Darma / Rules is the Science —— accept and learn from it.
Technology as well. If there was no written rule-book —— see it and learn from the
phenomenon itself. Phenomenon is not in English but just as an electronic phenomenon.
And some scientists, even students are very good in English as well.
My eldest brother was a Professor teaching German, French and English yet,
until he became assistant Professor he had not visited Europe —— studied all in
Japan (from German Professor)—— so, he found his German was usable when he
arrived German Air port 😀 If anyone want to study —– just learn it. Just do it.
Same is true in any technology, just do it, try thousand times then the technique will
be refined and understanding deepen, insight go further —— new discovery.
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Same apply to even economics, politics. If India says 51% first accept it, as it
is the Rules. Then try to find the way to improve.
( In the same time, this is the fundamental trouble of the Japanese Politics.
There couldn’t be a revolution in Japan )
——– Japanese is the funny bunch of the people whether it is spiritual or not
they are as superstitious as Indian and believes fate. 😀
I had a similar adventure with a bumblebee recently, but we cam both alive out of this meeting.What a patient pants visitor she was.
The trouble was, of cause I didn’t know what was moving. And anyhow, any of my
movement triggered her to sting. Bang ! In reflection I had to hit and made it die.
Dead person wouldn’t tell you the reason why. 😀