禅における Detachment = 無着無住の意味
表題としたこの言葉は，実は検策の為に書込まれ，ここにやって来た
もののーつです。簡単に言えば参禅者からの質問という事でしょう。
－－－で，この機会を使ってこれに対する僕流の所見を書いてみます。
禅を云々する上で最も決定的な大前提となるのは「禅は到達する
境地ではなく，悟りに至るプロセス，単なる作業修業のーつである」
という事です。禅は月ではなくそれを指す指，あるいは指している動作
に過ぎません。＝ ではその動作がいかにして悟りにつながるのか？
これは仏教史の中で完璧に見過ごされて来た事ですが，仏教の修業，
勤行の延々と続く繰り返しの中に鍵があったのです。
仮にぐるぐると歩くにしろ，太鼓をたたき続けるにしろ，延々と
続く作業の神経情報処理は人間の脳内でルーチンとして自動的に
処理されるようになり，一方延々と繰返される刺激に対しては
情動的閾値が髙くなり無感動で処理されるようになります。
これは毎日座り続ける座禅においても同様で，遅かれ早かれ人間の頭
には全作業を自動的，かつ無感情で処理する習慣が身についていきます。
実はこれが禅で言う無我無心に外ならず，このメンタリティを持って
物事に対処する事が無着無住と言う事です。
－－－で，これが悟りとどう関わるのか？
＝執着を離れ，情動に翻弄される事も無くなったら，後いったい何の
気懸り苦労が残るのか？ 気懸りなしに生きられるなら，そうして
気懸りなしに死んで往けるならこれ以上の自由（解脱）は無い訳です。
つまりこれが涅槃です。
－－－－－（あっけに取られたとか？）
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追記：
反覆動作のルーチン化とか毎日通り過ぎる道端の看板を見飽きて
それが全く気に止まらなくなる（存在しているにもかかわらず，
存在しないのと同様になってしまう）現象は，本人が自分で経験
して把み取る以外には学びようがないものです。
つまり無我無心，無着無住と簡単に言う事はできても，
こればかりは人から教えられ言葉の意味を理解しても本人が
経験して身につけない限りは何の足しにもなりません。
何故ならそれは知的理解ではなく脳内での情報処理の短絡化＝
情動域（＝偏桃体＝入力された情報に自己帰属の夕グを付ける＝
所有物や家族を見分けられる）の関与の排除，そこでの処理の
ジャンプ（自己意識抜きに物事を処理する）なのでこの回路が
作られない限り無心としての処理は機能しない。
理屈や知識では自転車に乗れるようにならないのと同じです。
現実には直弟子ですら必ずしもそれを体得できていなかった為に
釈尊はいまわの際になってすら｢人の言葉を信じるな。自分で
体得せよ」と繰返さねばならなかったのです。
逆に見れば，仏教史に登場する異説異論は実は無我無心を体得
できなかった者が，その言い訳，目くらましの為にいい加減な
作り話しをやっていたのではとの疑いが涌いてきます。
この点から見ると龍樹（ナガールジュナ）あたりが最もクサい。
本当に無心無住の境に達していた人間がはたして龍宮のハナシまで
デッチ上げて，あそこまで派手なセールスキャンペーンをやるか？？？
『大乗印のエスパーベルト，これであなたも即，菩薩に変身〜！』
えっ！？冗談でしょ？
（実践に依る人間改造ではなく，思い込みを利用した盲信への変質です）
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Mountain Tool box
Ideally, in here I should put a story and the photos from mountain or
at least a kind of hill walking. Ideally from Scotland or North Wales —
if not, at least South Down somewhere. — That’s what I’ve been thinking
though, now I would say “Shame” it may no longer a viable idea.
I missed the boat.
= As a consequence, quite a few of my possessions became redundant.
(Still, such as a tent could be used for a camping, and a cooking burner
for a party use etc — typically, a multi function knife is in my daily use.)
Among those who became redundant, my Mountain Tool Box must be the
top of “the object de reminisce”.
This was a Box accompanying me almost all of my active life more than 55 years
and in the mountain, this box could acted as the last resources for a survival.
(Over so many years, many of the original members were broken or replaced
by the better tool. —– So that, in the photo above, only a Pocket Torch Light,
2 Screwdrivers, a Tweezer and the small boxes with its contents remain original.)
Specially designed Sewing kit in a match-box (left photo )
Screws and the Nats etc and a Razor blade (center photo) = (If
anybody got Appendicitis, this Razer could be used for operation) 🙂
Spare-parts for Oil Burner and the Rivets etc (photo right)
Burner then was either kerosene use Radius, or white spirit use Phoebus.
And in the Alpine Club I only know how to repair, hence kept the spare
parts. So, this box was expected to have everything for repair work. (from
mending a Climbing Boots, stitch-up the Tent to tighten-up loose gear)
And in the mountain, able to put a
fire could be the most crucial matter
for a survival. Keep a match dry was
always a headache.
(Cheap gas-lighter wasn’t common then)
So, I kept a gas-bombe type gas lighter
for the last resources.
(After over 50 years, gas-bombe is still full !) —– and I reflect, it wasn’t a bad
start for a Hi-school boy to prepare and organize a Tool-box in this extent while
giving the detailed foresight of what sort of repair work could happen.
—– And it made me think, “Is this kind of mindset (prepare to fight-off all
the trouble beforehand) affected the Karma to exclude me to get an accident”.
= It is the question, when the burner was broken down —– frozen to death is
a natural fate, or the Karma gave me the way to fight-off ? Good Question.
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MS Windows -10 ~~~ What a trouble !
Since after Window 10 was released, the notice “available for download” was
keep pesting the screen. In the net-sphere there wasn’t much report of the trouble.
— So, I clicked to start download – – – ? ? ? and again, the process always stopped
in a few minutes. and again. — (My action must be halted on this stage.) 😦 When
I tried again while all the programs were shut down = even an Email was signed-out.
Then, upgrading to Windows 10 started — and took hours to “Configure” “Restart”
and so on again and again. On the end it was downloaded and start working
though, I realized it’s not on my taste — such as the apps appeared on the start page,
Store etc may be convenient to some people doing a lots of net shopping (I don’t
know whether MS is selling those space) but not for me. And the way to gather the
photos to one place was utterly inconvenient. I checked the compatibility, such as all
the program or files I’ve been using under Window 7 were still functioning — or not ?
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Then, I saw a notice to upgrade Openoffice from 3 to 4 something = and I did —–
though, something was not quite right and too messy. = Openoffice opened under
MS Word ! (Of course, MS is not happy with free Openoffice, instead to buy theirs)
– – – – – On the end I decided to revert back to the Windows 7 again.
– – – – – though, the Openoffice lost function = So, I try to uninstall and reinstall it
through Chrome. On this process a malware “Chromium” started to block the
process and the other malware “Cassiopessa” started to mess-up saying “windows 7
needs to be repaired = download this” (must be a spyware) = = = So, the battle to
remove those malwares started ! 😦 Chromium was easily removed on the Control
panel (uninstall program) but, Cassiopessa registered nowhere as a program = So,
I needed to remove it from the default settings of EVERY browser’s start menu.
— which took to me till morning !
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On the end, I’m on the same Windows 7 but without the Openoffice. (I couldn’t
remove old file as they were corrupted = Computer says “couldn’t find the file” =
therefore I couldn’t install new files). SO, my conclusion was, if anybody has been
using the Windows 7 or 8 happily, never attempt to upgrade to the Windows 10.
To buy new PC or laptop with Windows 10 should be OK but not upgrade on a
computer of which many different origins of programs, apps has been installed.
(some of them may not completely be compatible)
And this was the legacy of this Win-10 trouble. = during unload, reload process,
together with malware, the virus got into my laptop — to my WP blog account !
(But this is the only Visible part —– Who knows what is going on behind. =
Security program found nothing — still like this popping-up ! )
You see, how risky those action is.
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PS : On the end, I was forced to use MS Office / Word (yet I didn’t became payed user)
= at least, MS succeeded to kill-off the OpenOffice.
(I tried to reinstall OpenOffice again without removing old file = I succeeded !)
Though, soon after I’ve installed OpenOffice, this notice Appeared (MS is spying
our every move! ) —– I’m very suspicious this could be a malware made by MS to
slow down or even block and make us abandon the OpenOffice.
(Otherwise, what was the purpose to do like this ?)
— By the way, the red cast on the photo above was the tendency of my Canon 5D Mk-III.
(When the subject was bright white, often such red cast appear, which Canon
couldn’t fix. 😦 )
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Bizarre Lens – Pentax AF Zoom 35~70 F2.8
Well, the Lens = Pentax AF Zoom 35~70mm F2.8 itself was nothing strange
or I should rather say, Optically superb Lens. — But, the fate of this lens
was rather bizarre. Originally the Lens was made as a Triangulation AF lens,
so that the AF motor unit and the battery box were attached to the lens barrel.
It was the early 80s —– and soon, such AF system became obsolete.
Still, Pentax designed this lens with their full force = Now looks rather modest
35~70 F2.8 Zoom then was an expensive fancy lens carrying £800 (?) price.
And the Zeiss vario-sonnar 35~70 F2.8 for Contax was much more than £1000.
On the market, the Minolta’s new AF camera has appeared then = When I saw
this lens in throwaway price £80 (I think) in the shop (The quality of this lens
has been well reported.) I bought it and (you may not believe) modified !
( the AF unit was removed and the hole was covered by an aluminium panel)
After I changed my 35mm camera from Nikon to Contax, the lens I bought
first hand were 25mm, 85mm and I could use Tamron 90mm Macro and
500mm Mirror as well. So, I modified this Pentax K mount to Contax mount.
The Frangeback of Pentax K and Contax are both 55.5 mm but the Pentax
Bayonet is larger, therefore it wouldn’t go into the Contax camera.
So, I removed the Pentax bayonet and welded Contax bayonet on it. (Photo right)
(Because of the position of a lever, the lens was mounted 90 degree off center.)
This was a test shot of Pentax AF Zoom at 70mm, F2.8 — 1.2 m
And this was a comparison, Canon FE Zoom 24~70 at 70mm, on F2.8 — 1.2 m
And the Pentax AF Zoom at 35mm, on F2.8 — 100m
The Canon EF Zoom 24~70, at 35mm, on F2.8 — 100m
As a lens for general use, this lens is pretty usable even on Canon 5D Mk-III.
(and this is rather familiar tree. 🙂 )
And familiar landmark in the park.
All those photos were taken at F2.8 (because no auto controle).
—– still, very much usable. 🙂
And this must be a
to the regular readers.
In my view, this is
a kind of old german
charactered lens.
(comparable to Zeiss
Planer Lens)
Pentax AF Zoom 35~70 F2.8
at 70mm / F2.8 / 1.2 m
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Dust, Water seal ? — on Canon 5D
As I’ve disassembled and checked the inside of several Canon 5D cameras, I noticed
some peculiar points, the way how those cameras were designed and made.
There was an almost legendary story, how Canon camera was survived when all
the Nikons has stopped to work under the sand storm in the first Gulf War which
made the press photographers to change their camera like an avalanche.
I heard a first hand witness story from a photographer who was one of my pupil
(who became a staff photographer of Reuters and went to the desert.) — What he
told me was that many other photographer’s Nikon were breaking-down while the
Canon kept working~~~ (in fact, before his camera break, he part-exchanged his to
Canon. = so, I didn’t actually see how Nikon machine was clogged.) — Since this
event, camera makers are keen to appeal “the Seal against the Dust and the water”
in their camera design. = So as the 5Ds are no exception = claim to have the Seal.
THOUGH, when I opened their body, I saw very little such measure.
= this photo was a 5D Mk-III inside, as you can see, there was no seal or gasket kind
of material on their jointing edge. = It’s mean, once the body was dropped in the water
the camera has no resistance to it. — May be what Canon was saying was, “In the
normal situation”, such as a light rain splash = not soaked into the water which IS
regarded as the user’s fault.
If you closely look at the 5D body, such as the Battery cap. (Photo left)
You can see the gasket on its edge which might be giving you a sort of comfort.
Though, it was just a show-off window display. = If you are serious, have look
battery chamber of the memory retaining battery on the right-bottom of the body.
(right under the cable connectors = Photo center and right ) = situating the same
bottom of the camera, this opening has no protection against the water at all. =
When the camera was on the table and if the beer was spilt, it seep deep into the
camera body. —– Still, sound strange to you though, today’s DSLR camera is
quite resilient to the water which is not because of the special design, but the
nature of its electronic components. (but the image sensor get smear easily)
Those components and the Circuit Flex are waterproof, which was designed to
be washed by a solvent and the shutter switch has closed structure. (photo left)
Seemed to be the weakest-point against water is the Dial on the Grip (photo center)
= But the Dial was in a small chamber, separated from the electronic encoder
therefore the water wouldn’t go into the circuit easily (photo right).
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You may not believe though, on my experience, I saved number of TVs and
electronic goods, mobile phones, soaked under rain water, dropped into toilet,
and so-on, so that, they were even splash washed under the running water.
After completely drained the water, then dry it with hair-drier. (60 deg’ C Max)
(Don’t put the battery and switch-on before completely dry.)
= the most of the case, they recovered the function. = Same can apply to the
DSLR. (Hi-zoom compact camera may be much harder to save because the
mechanism is too small and compacted). — So, if you dropped your DSLR into
a water (cleaner the water, the better chance —– muddy water’s sand particle
reduce the chance) = grip the strap and swing, rotate the camera like a gyro
in the air (if it was 5D camera, remove the memory battery to open the water
escape.) = with a centrifugal force the water would be shaken off from inside.
(In an old day’s wisdom, put the wet camera into a pure alcohol = replace the
water by alcohol first —– a bottle of vodka may work as well) 🙂
Then try dry the camera as quick as possible. — place the camera in a box and
blow-in hot-air = otherwise a written-off camera could be saved or last few shots
of the assignment could still be taken. (Though, if you couldn’t succeed, don’t
blame me = As I don’t presume any responsibility here.) Just Hope Good luck. 🙂
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Can Zen change a person to Liberal
Very fundamental question — Can Zen Buddhism change a person to be more
open-minded liberal personality, or a person who IS open-minded, come to Zen ?
= in other words, that person has been born to be a liberal by own Karma already.
Zen or Das Kapital may have played little role to make one’s direction, only gave
an excuse and a cosmetic to the life.
— In my early post, I wrote, I came here by coincidence though, from the start,
I was born to be a son of Zen priest. Like it or not, Zen family has the Zen principal
and such atmosphere anyway. So, standing here as I am, was that because of
nurture or my nature IS questionable (pointless) question.
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In scientific theory, decision making in the brain “which one to choose” or “do I take,
or not” was driven by the the Dopamine reward system = choose correct direction
would be rewarded by the seclusion of the Dopamine = so, feel satisfied and happy.
—– But, this selection, “Which choice would be rewarded” was not necessary
rationally decided by the data book’s logic.
We might thought, such as the choice to be a Liberal or Conservative kind is highly
intellectually complex matter therefore it must be concluded by the big data-book
(thus lots of experiences and the learning required = So that, a long practice of Zen
would affect) —– though, contrary to this, a Gene affecting the person to be Liberal or
Conservative as one’s nature, seemed to be found. (was what they says — can be true !)
Can genes make us liberal or conservative?
Aristotle may have been more on the money than he realised in saying man is a political animal,
according to research linking genes with liberal or conservative leanings.
Or, to be precise, a specific variant of one gene that would seem to exert greater sway over women
than men. Working with 1,771 university students of Han Chinese origin in Singapore, researchers
compared answers to surveys — including one tailored to hot-button issues in the city-state — with
the presence of a permutation of the DRD4 gene.
DRD4 is one of several genes that determines the way dopamine — a crucial neurotransmitter, or
chemical messenger — is released in the brain.
What they found was a robust link between the presence (or not) of the variant and a split between
liberals inclined to decry inequality, on the one hand, and die-hard conservative wary of change,
on the other.
The association between political attitude and DRD4 was highly significant for females, and less so
for men, said the study, led by Richard Ebstein of the National University of Singapore.
Women, it was also shown, tended to be more conservative in general.
The results are bolstered by earlier research based on people of European descent that found similar
patterns around the same gene, according to the study.
In the long-standing Nature vs. Nurture debate, it was long assumed that social values — and
especially political ones — were rooted in family upbringing, education and class.
But a growing body of evidence suggests, in the words of the researchers, that biology can’t be ignored.
A landmark study published in 1999, for example, of twins separated at or near birth showed a
marked strain of heritability for ‘conservatism’.
The brain is wired with several distinct dopamine pathways, including one related to the risk-taking
— arguably a parallel to the liberal-conservative dichotomy.
From an evolutionary standpoint, risk-taking is a complicated business: in some situations, it may
enhance one’s chances of success or survival, and in others it may spell doom.
In the study, the researchers used standard questionnaires to rate conservative or liberal tendencies,
making it easier to compare with earlier efforts to uncover links between genes and attitudes.
At the same time, to adjust for cultural variations from one country to another, they also devised a
survey based on local issues known to divide opinion in Singapore along political lines.
One set of questions, for example, asked the students — half men, half women with a mean age of 21
— to take positions on sensitive environmental and animal rights issues.
The correlation with the genetic variations was especially strong on these points.
Our results provide evidence, Ebstein and colleagues conclude, for a role of the DRD4 gene variants
in contributing to individual differences in political attitude, particularly in females.
(2015/08/06 12:34) from AFP-Jiji Press
So, I may born to have a fancy variants of DRD4 ! —- have I ? ? ?
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Internal Structure of Canon 5D
Some days ago, I got an opportunity to disassemble a Canon 5D body as I’ve bought it almost nothing. (still fully functioning) — Then, what I found inside was rather disturbing — hence I made this post.
As the people who has been using Canon DSLR may know, new 5DS, 5DSR are having not only 30 Mp large image sensor (for 35 mm full-frame) but also mechanically, structurally much improved design = that’s what they said.
—– While planning, designing, developing new camera, Canon must have a lots of tests and analysis to achieve their objective = at least twice better image quality than the predecessor with its big sensor.
(Photo above is the inside of the 5D Mk-III)
(And this is the 5D Mk-IV = basic design is the same = plastic mirror box was connected to the tripod screw by a stamped panel and few screws. — Photo from Lens Rental site)
Though my guess was, when they tested new sensor on the temporally adapted 5D Mk-lII body, they must be realized that the crispy sharpness was not there. Even if the image of the lens alone on the optical test bench was good, it couldn’t be replicated if the same lens was mounted on the 5D body —– it’s mean, 5D body structure was shaky and giving blur, deteriorating the image quality. (Which was not so visible on the 22Mp sensor, but showing up on the 30 Mp.)
What Canon boasted about the New 5DS was, not only rethink of the mirror shock damping mechanism, but also much solid tripod fixing. —– But it was too funny to hear that, when I opened and saw the inside of an old 5D body, I almost dropped my jaw, because the design of 5D was the remotest from the solid structure.
—– I’ve been seeing the inside of cameras more than 40 years thus I know how they were designed and made. (When Canon developed EOS 1, production team brought a prototype here and asked my advice. When they asked me which camera was my favorite, I answered “Contax” a man responded “You can’t have that quality any more” “Why ?” “The man designed the Contax was no longer there. I am the Man”
= The man, Mr. Morota had been headhunted and came to Canon to develop EOS 1.
—– I guess, he must be pretty annoyed to see the design of 5D series cameras. )
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When I changed my 35 mm camera, from Nikon to Contax, it was not only I’ve encountered the Zeiss 85 mm F1.4 lens but also I found that the structure and the way their camera was made, was such solid therefore reliable.
(Preceding to this, I’ve been utterly annoyed by the erratic behaviour of the Nikon’s motor-drive = always at the most crucial moment, they stop to work. — but they worked always perfect on front of the Nikon’s Service Engineer. 😦 and 😀 )
The photo left here was the inside of 20 years old EOS RT body. = You can see the metal frame of which all the mechanism was built-in and holding the lens mount. And the tripod screw was directly fixed to this metal frame.
In contrast, what I found the inside of 5D (photo center) was = the structure framefor Mirror Box and the Shutter was made by injection mold plastic and even a lens mount base was a plastic.
The photo right shows the almost the same design of 5D Mk-III.
In all those 5D, a stumped 1 mm thin metal connecting the plastic mirror box to the 1/4″ tripod screw on the bottom of the camera. = I couldn’t believe my eyes, IS this plastic camera priced for £3000 ? ? ?
(Photo left =Lens Mount base, on the plastic frame.
Photo center = Thin white metal alone connects the Mirror Box to the Tripod screw.
= Almostly, the camera body is floating on the tripod !
Photo right = Plastic frame is soft, hence so easy to cut.
— Plastic could be more resilient to the shock with its flexibility but the same flexibility is the enemy to hold the moving shutter and the lens solidly together.
Think about the situation when you use the camera on a tripod, like the photo left = even if a lens was firmly mounted on the tripod (therefore, the lens mount was solid) still, behind the mirror box, the shutter mechanism and the image sensor could be jumping and dancing, because the mirror-box is not rigid, even if its bottom side was having a metal plate.
Imagine a car, when the main chassis was made by plastic, I wouldn’t be impressed by the buzz-word that the outer shell was made by “magnesium alloy” = it’s a cover-up cosmetic.[]
—– (I remember, EOS RT body was not more than £400. = A camera body which has a film wind-up and rewind mechanism, all together built onto a metal die-cast, was still £400, £500) In comparison, just a shutter and a sensor were built into a plastic mirror box (+ a bit more electronics and the Memory) cost £3000 !
—– Oh ! C’mon it’s not fair. = So, it was obvious, so-called new feature in 5DS, 5DSR = “improved anti-vibration and the solid connection to the Tripod” was not a new achievement but a necessary patch-up against the old shoddy design. Though, despite the patch-up work, the test report from Japan saying that 5DS still showing high susceptibility to image blur which would negate the crop use of the photo.
( As a matter of fact, I haven’t checked the “claimed to be” improved 5DS yet. And I’m not sure whether I would buy this camera in order to see their fix ! ) Reading the Tech Reports here and there —– I haven’t seen any report showing the superiority of New Canon 5DS or SR over Nikon D810 = even on the chart test 30Mp image didn’t show a difference over 36Mp Nikon image —– I wonder what’s going on and why ? = It seems better wait till the matter sorted out. 🙂
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PS: Related post “Camera stability test” would be good to read.
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Yoshizen Phenomena
Alongside the peculiar phenomenon found in the Google Search, such as
“Yoshi – Zappa” which lead to my circular fisheye photo on the top page,
or “Tiny Life Egg” which lead to my photo of the Green lacewings’ Egg
( = on top of the 3.4 million items on their list,)
— the search term “Art Figure – St. Lucia” will have this image
on the top page of the 850,000 items in their listing.
Really ? —- is this an Art ?
Isn’t any better art work or painting of
St. Lucia exist in the world such as the
Spanish old masters religious paintings ?
—– I have no idea how the algorithm of google,
worked-out to select an image of a twisted wire.
Never the less, this is the Google certified “Art”
on top of the million items. 😀 😀
Even more peculiar phenomenon was, the artist
can recognize this as an art in one glance,
while holding the breath. (If you think otherwise, you are not the artist. 😀 )
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The same question again. Is this an art or even a sculpture ? If this was a
sculpture, where IS the sculpted substance ? We are seeing a mere contour of
something. Something of What ?
—– to see, it was a frightened woman while she was hit by a blue line (purported
to be a lightning from the God) 🙂 was in fact in the mind of the viewer.
—– otherwise it was just a twisted wire. —– And in its contour, we are seeing a
woman’s body — are we ? Where is the body. = it IS just an empty space between
the wire isn’t it ? —– You believe this or not, this is the very ZEN Buddhism.
(In the term of the liberated mind and the eyes, the mind of complete selfless
Buddhist is very close to the complete open minded artist. — and the children.)
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What you are seeing is the wire and the VOID between. Seeing the twisted wire and
in the same time, to see it was a figure of the woman in one glance. (Without hear or
read any explanation still capture the meaning instant, by a naked subconscious.)
To know the meanings in one glance while seeing its twisted wire as it is. = This is
the clear eyes and the mind. Indeed, this is what the Buddhism teaches. We might
be seeing just a contour or shadow, and the substance may there or may not =
Who can see everything anyway ? = and, does it a matter ?
—– as long as we can see its clear face and the meaning, we know what we have to do
and how to live without being bothered by a wrong thinking.
This IS the very enlightenment. (You may say what is the difference between a wrong
thinking or delusion to the clear mind. = the former was a result of the thinking with
a lots of desire and the greed kind so on, and the later will come only on the moment,
without thinking, like as an intuitive, spontaneous reflection.
(= this is the reason why, Zen never give a second thought or negotiation.) =
The interaction of the million factors in the Karma gave very reflection of very moment.
And that was what the Dharma gave the person to pick. —– this Confidence “To be with
the Dharma” is the core of the Enlightenment, hence no hindrance in the life though,
on the face, it looks the life just as it IS = it’s mean no fancy magic or mysterious
supernatural manifestation = hence it was described as common and ubiquitous
as a Dog Shit. = if anybody was saying something “Special Enlightenment” it is a sign
of that the person haven’t learnt what the Zen Buddhism IS.)
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So, look at the photo again. What do you think of this. —– do you see, is the VOID
between the wire, still a meaningful existence ? (or the illusion ? = Did the Google too,
saw the illusion and said that this IS the Art ? ? ? Ha ha ha ! )
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Chinese Food Scare ?
I bought this Tofu on March thinking to use soon though, I don’t remember
why but anyhow, it went out of sight in my fridge —– when I discovered this
a week later, it seemed perfectly alright to eat —– though, wait a moment,
Tofu used to be last less than a week even before open the package while the
water getting yellowish murky and the package got ballooned up.
—– with a serious doubt, I decided to experiment to watch this Tofu.
—– FOUR months past. The Tofu looks exactly the same to the beginning.
There is a kind of “Wisdom” to watch, such as a bread. = in the original plastic
bag, if the loaf of bread didn’t mold after 4 days, don’t eat and stop to buy
that bread because the food preservative is too strong.
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Coincidently, there was a news in a Japanese site transcribing a news from a
Chinese paper, Global Times ;
【海外発！Breaking News】もはや塩も信用でき
ない国。防腐剤たっぷりの有害な塩が7年も流通。
北京の工場を摘発。
2015年07月12日 12:55 by Joy横手
偽装問題をはじめ、食品に関する危険なニュースがあまりにも多い中国。塩ですら信用できない商品が
出回っているようだ。有害物質をたっぷりと含んだ塩を7年にわたり生産していた工場が摘発され、
波紋を広げている。
中国の英字新聞『Global Times』によれば、このほど中国・公安部の指導のもとで北京市および江蘇省の
警察が行った4か月にわたる抜き打ちの商品検査により、有害な塩を生産し ていた北京の工場が摘発され、
22人の逮捕者が出たもよう。悪質な塩は7年にわたり北京、天津、江蘇、河南、河北、安徽、および山東と
いった都市、省に流 通していたという。
毒入り塩により摘発されたのは、北京市大興区の床面積がたった8平方メートルという小さな工場。
パッケージに「食用塩」という偽のラベルが貼られていたが、中身には亜硝酸塩（防腐剤）がたっぷりと
含まれていた。1トンあたり400～450元の価値しかないものを彼らは800～1,000元の値で2万トンも販売
していたことから、江蘇省泰州市・公安局のZhu Jinhua氏は彼らが大変な利益をあげていたとみている。
また北京の「中国農業大学」で食物科学・栄養技術学が専門のFan Zhihong教授は、「致死量には
至らない程度の亜硫酸塩、その他の化学物質が含まれていると思われる。そうした悪質な塩は
一般消費者が購入する販売店 向けではなく、大部分が食品加工工場向けであろう」などと述べている。
——————–
Which said, a factory was discovered who has been selling an industrial chemical,
a mixture of Sodium nitrite and common salt packaged as a Cooking Salt.
My guess was that, this factory didn’t pay enough money to the local police, that all.
—– many stories of the Chinese Food Scare were too well known. Such as that
famous Melamine Milk or Swage Oil were the name but feeeeew. As a matter of fact,
since the scandal of Swage Oil, I stopped to buy any Chinese food using any oil, not
only Sesami Oil kind but even to Fried fishball. (The circulation of Swage Oil for mix
was said to be too widely spread and impossible to trace).
—– The trouble is their mentality.
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Jessop’s Fun-camera Lens
I found yet another fun-camera (One-time use Camera / Camera with Film)
in an Odds and Ends Box of a Camera shop. (for a couple of pounds)
This time it was a Jessop’s product though, since Jessops disappeared many years
ago, this product was also pretty old. Old enough to be rotten deep = supposed be
an unused battery inside was completely corroded and the chemical has been leaked.
Branded Jessops though, it was a Chinese made = hence cheap battery was rotten.
This was an interesting product. As a Chinese made, it could be a complete
Copy-cat product though, the Jessops then was a well known English company
= they could be an easy target of a lawsuit for a Copyright infringement.
So, they didn’t copy the lens by taking a mold —– instead, they put their own
Two-element Lens for this camera. When Japanese film company, Konica,
Fuji, invented the disposable camera (one-time use camera), they designed the
omnifocus lens using pretty fancy aspherical design.
And to make the camera able to take photos under different lighting condition
with fixed shutter speed (about 1/60th second) on ISO 100~200 film, the
lens has to be about F4~3.5. Especially after flash light was incorporated,
to have a reasonable picture for 3m, the lens can’t be smaller. = It’s mean,
pan-focus with smaller F-aperture was not an option, therefore, they had to
design sophisticated aspherical lens which could produce a reasonably well
focused image in any distance with F4 diameter (7~8mm).
—– But, without using aspherical lens, Jessops opted to the simple two lens
design with smaller F8 aperture setting, while taking advantage of the
higher ISO sensitivity of 400.
The trick here was,
F4 x2 = F5.6 F5.6 x2 = F8 while
ISO 100 x2 x2 = ISO 400 (the same)
—– and F8 can give much deeper
depth of the field
(= Pan focus effect using ordinally
lens though, F8 is not enough for
close focus).
I tested this lens attached with rather
heavy concave lens to extend the
original 27mm focal-length to 44mm,
in order to use on the Canon EOS, (Photo left)
(thus, 3.5mm lens diameter, now gives F13 = pretty dark to see the finder image)
—– Not only that, the image produced by this lens was utterly rubbish. = when F13
lens could make only trash image while having no fancy fuzziness (F13 couldn’t
have any chance of nice fuzziness) = there wouldn’t be any point to use this lens.
—– Well, not all the experiment has been a successful one. 😀
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