Japanese ENIGMA — It’s the BUDDHISM
There are numerous report of the Japanese disaster which showed incredible calmness
and the orderly behaviour of the people who went trough unimaginable devastation of
their life.
AND the unbelievable calmness while hearing and facing the situation of their Nuclear plant’s
meltdown. —– as if even a meltdown didn’t make a news or no longer the issue.
non
Of cause there was a cunning manipulation of the media by the government and the establishment
whose interests are heavily entwined with those Power supply industry ( with their financial, political
mutual interdependency ) and the PR machine which organized the bent scientists who has been
creating smoke screen and the deception saying “ Nuclear is safe and clean “.
non
So when their Nuclear system break down and shown the leak of radio-active material, they kept
pretending it was just a minor trouble of electric power failure, hence nothing serious at all, and
try to patch-up behind the scene. —– though, as it has melted down just the next day of Tsunami,
the trouble couldn’t be solved easily—– meltdown is really serous trouble.
—– still, they managed to keep the people ignorant, then rose the accident level 5 to 7, a month
later —– waited until the people get used and become immune to a bad news.
Strangely you may think, even in this situation, there is no word of Meltdown in
the Power company’s official report. (Saying ” I’m not good in English” 😀 😀 )
So that no longer Japanese believe the Company who is just dodging the word.
( Then what can you believe —— nothing. —– neither knows what will happen )
non
Strangely, how serious the situation was, which was detected and assessed by the foreign experts
who saw the Nuclear accident in Three miles Plant US, and those report was appeared in the media
abroad, —– but they were ignored as a demagogue —– anything bad news were suppressed.
This attitude was taken not only the Japanese media but it was common among the people.
[ The most important issue is, to rebuilt the life and regain the normality.
Anything obstruct this has to be rejected and ignored]
———- Whether you can believe or not, you like or not, this is the Buddhism.
non
Buddha told that the life is suffering — and the death is in the end. Yet still, there is
the way to overcome those obstacles by the way to see the world and the life.
And the way to see it, is the Buddhism.
By this, the Enlightenment, we can get the Nirvana —– therefore, instead of wasting
the time worrying about those obstacles and the troubles, [Just get on the life. Just Do It]
Japanese are literally doing this. ( Unlike in the west, no riot smash or burn down the
Company —– because they know such emotional act can’t solve the trouble at all)
non
Buddha ignored a question what is the structure of the universe or the soul is perpetual.
—– obviously because [ They are unknowable and it doesn’t matter for us at all ]
non
Now we human being is at the brink of finding the fundamental of the existence by the experiment
of Atomic research —– sound interesting though, —– [ String theory ? ? ?] —– ?
Is it the matter to how many person in the world ? Is Parallel World (even if it’s existed)
anything matters to you ?
The more closer to us, all the fancy gadgets wouldn’t work and couldn’t be designed without the
calculations in the Quantum theory —– though, how many people in the world actually dealing
with this ? Most of the people using the gadgets only knowing which switch is on-off.
We might be extinct because of the activities of the Sun or by an Asteroid etc. etc. who knows ?
Is it help us to know what could happen one day ? — other than interesting brain teaser. 😀
———- So that, Buddha rejected anything which exist only in the mind
and irrelevant to our dairy life —– defining they are just the delusions.
non
To the Japanese people, natural disaster —– when it’s comes what would happen are same as the
Asteroid or Solar Activities —– it may come but what can you do ? Nothing.
If nothing, it is better not to bother. —– Worrying wouldn’t help anything (except to the
scientists who knows better and the engineer who design more reliable structure )
And for them, the trouble of the Nuclear Meltdown and its consequence came into the
same category. —– therefore, if it’s happens, it happens —– same as inevitable death,
there is no escape hence no point to argue. —– just resign.
(Anyhow, they can’t understand what is the Nuclear Reaction mean and radiation is
invisible. It makes no different to Earthquake. They just shut off the useless thinking )
And as the blockage removed ( worrying mind has gone) then, just live the day in its best.
Do the best mean, do what you can, to the things on front of you. Help others who is having more
difficulties. Utilize something which remains —– improvise and be resourceful. etc.etc.
The matter is live there while making in its best. —– best mean not to do wrong —– they
don’t rob others, nor steal. Even don’t cry —– crying makes others even more depressed
—– it’s no good. So, this is how and why they are seemingly behaving in such orderly way.
non
You must be realized, it is not enigma at all —– and realized, the control of ego and
emotions can be done by anybody. ( If you can not, it is because you are believing and
unconsciously wanting to cling your ego and the emotions.
—– it is your trouble of fundamental Mind-Set — you need to change the subconscious )
non
Play to the 25,000 victims of the disaster in Japan.
And the best wish to the recovery of the half million people who has been affected.
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SPIRITUALISM — ? ? ?
It was a light conversation with my neighbours.
What a beautiful day. How beautiful the sun shine isn’t it
Yes, in deeeeeed !
By the way, you remember, before William’s wedding, every day was a bright day, but only
on that day was a cloudy day. How come, Yoshizen ?
Oh, don’t ask me. Ha ha ha. 😀
You took notice because you are spiritualist. It’s your mind-set.
What is the difference between spiritualism and to be superstitious ?
Superstitious take it just good or bad. Spiritualist take anything with a breath of thought. Not
necessary judging it good or bad, but open the mind and try to listen, is there anything ?
non
To see anything but the cloud, created by a moist air mass from the sea encountered with cold air,
hence created cloudy front line, and made a cloudy wedding day — is a Physicist’s explanation.
But they don’t go beyond, why it happened particular day, since it is not their business. 🙂
And the person who thought, the wedding day wasn’t too bright and hot, was better for the people
standing outside long time, preventing heat stroke —– is an Opportunist’s view.
The person who thought, William was not lucky to have blue sky for the wedding — is a Pessimist.
non
So, how did you think , are you an Opportunist or Pessimist?
Photographer’s view was, it’s easy to take picture without too much contrast, but it was a bit dull.
Zenist’s view was, I don’t care because I wasn’t there, anyway. We don’t think too much.
So, Zenists are not spiritualist ?
We might just be a spiritualist, but we are not aware nor think to be a spiritualist.
I only see I’m here who I don’t care what the name this one was.
Yoshizen was just happened to be my name. That’s all.
And when I see such beautiful sun, I enjoy it.
Why not ? 🙂
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DaVinci DELUSION
No one deny the exceptional drawing skill of Leonardo DaVinci, but how about his famous
ingenuity in the inventions, and the scientific thinking and the observation ?
Most of the people believe the reputation of him as a genius —– really ? ? ?
As a matter of fact, what people believe is mere Hear-say or Myth.
At least, anybody can see his superb drawings and the paintings. Though, how many people ever
put close eyes to his invention or anatomical drawings, which purported to be medically,
scientifically true representation of the human anatomy.
non
Utterly against the popular belief, my view of Leonardo DaVinchi is, he was just a trickster with
big mouth. Big mouth but his presentation with realistic superb drawing fooled the people.
Exactly same as a sham Doctor selling beauty portion with beautiful picture on the bottle.
But the people who doesn’t know the science or engineering was just fooled by his big mouth
—– any how they couldn’t understand the significance or implication of the drawings.
non
If you have the basic understanding of the mechanical structure, have look his famous design of
the battle tank. —– ( you can find it in the Wikipedia )
Just look how the wheels to drive the tank was connected. —— You must soon be realized, that the
tank can go nowhere, because the wheels of the tank rotates opposite directions, against each others.
Of cause, if it was actually ever built by the carpenters —– since even ordinary carpenters can see the
direction of rotation, the mistake in the design must be rectified and modified by them on the spot,
therefore the tank could have roll-out for test drive. But even if it was built and tested, soon they realized
that a block of stone or shallow trench dug on the ground can easily demobilize the tank and it become a
sitting duck. Oil and fire would burn the soldiers inside alive. What a useless silly idea 😀
non
And just give a thought to that famous flying machine design —– does anybody possibly imagined,
somebody in the world has the muscle to swing the wings of that huge heavy structure ?
Was Leonardo DaVinci such ignorant ? Still, he believed it is a feasible good idea.—– Delusion again.
Despite his big mouth and the pretense, he lack the brain to rationally figured out the possibility and
the feasibility of the mechanism. —– He literally draw the beautiful picture (or dream ? )
He was a man just deluded and intoxicated by his own fancy idea and fooled others with it.
He was only good to copy and draw what he can actually see. —– was that ? Really ?
Non
There are hundred of the anatomical sketches made by him.
They are no doubt, superb realistic drawings —– except some
unimaginable distortions, which he intentionally put on there.
Leonardo DaVinci was a member of the Free Masons and had profound Masonic
belief, hence he had the belief of the spirit. He believed the domain of the spirit
is in the brain, and because its spirit was carried in the semen, the child inherit the
spirit from father —– therefore it has been continued from Adam.
Its mean, the sperm has to come from the brain. And it shouldn’t come
through the same tube sharing with urine, hence having different tube in the penis.
So that he has drawn additional extra tube running from brain to penis, in his anatomical
drawings of the genitals.
—– Obviously he was quite obsessed with this idea,the same man who
could precisely observed and drawn the exact position of the urinary
tube from kidney to bladder still managed to falsify non-existent tube
in the penis. It’s not scientific at all. And if he was a believer of
the God’s creation, it is a dreadful fallacy, and contempt of God.
non
There was a strange paradox in his belief. Despite his profound Masonic
belief of spiritualism, he didn’t know what the spiritualism mean, hence
he tried to make-up the materialistic representation of the spirit
—– the semen as the substance of the spirit. ( Bad tendency of the inventor. 😀 )
( Inventor’s aim is to materialize the idea. Philosopher accepts first and try to explain 😀 )
Lots of people were mislead by his paintings of Mona Lisa or Madonna kind of images, but it was
just an assignment with money to him, it was nothing to do with his spiritual state of the mind nor Christianity.
Considering many of his drawing of grotesque faces, and above all, a man who got insatiable apatite to
dissect the human body, even a pregnant woman with a foetus inside —– it is not only illegal but
a grotesque feast of insanity. It was far worse than mental perversion. He actually took a knife in his
hand to cut open a womb, in order to draw the shape of foetus. Under the spooky candle light ! Oh, No.
This is the reason why no spiritual institute gave him any historical significance, other than
dubious DaVinci Code story 😀
Neither no scientific, medical topics or phenomenon was ever named after him. —– scientists, medical
academics never took him anything serious. Since, he was just a deluded pervert, yet able to get
away, just because of his powerful connection who has been fooled by his big mouth.
DaVinci was the most typical case of PRECONCEPTION which I wrote long time ago.
His dreadful gruesome act has been completely masked and forgotten by the smile of Mona Lisa.
And people were made to believe a myth of Genius 😀
( Those drawings are in the Queen’s Collection, Windsor )
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YOU are a part of the DHARMA
The people who is thinking to know or believing the Buddhism, might be believing that
Shakya muni Buddha started the teaching of The Dharma.
You are wrong.
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The Dharma exist from the beginning of the time and the space. —-– or even before that and
may triggered the creation of this world itself.
And the notion of the Dharma has been existing thousands of years before Buddha.
In fact, an ancient word Dharma is a headache of the scholars and the translators alike, as its contains
so many meanings. All the existences is the Dharma, and the Rules among those existences is the Dharma.
And the Rules and the Law are also the Dharma. —– it’s suggesting it was the long-established philosophy
to see the world, visible and invisible, the existing world is an entwined system of the existences and
the relations and the rules between them. It was derived from the basic attitude to see the things not
just as a material but to understand them in a spiritual context. Typical in the Eastern Philosophy.
It is more akin to the general theory of the Universe which can define from the sub-particles
to the life-cycle of the stars and the universe.
What Buddha found was mainly the relation and the rules between Man and the Dharma.
But as the Dharma itself is the Rules, what he taught was the way to see and follow its rules in the Dharma.
And taught his followers, to follow and live according to the Dharma, it is the way to attain the Nirvana.
——
As everybody born with the Dharma within ( of cause, since we are a part of the Dharma ) every body
should able to see and easy to follow it. ( provided, to see it with clear eyes and the mind. 🙂 )
So that, Buddha ordered his disciples to see and think it by themselves —– not believing what others
said or written.
—– Why, the reason was? Because, the Dharma is invisible and deep inside of each person’s
subconscious, only a fully opened mind, without any disturbance of the thought in the mind
can see it. Listening, reading somebody else’s words need to think the meaning —– utterly opposite of
what Buddha taught. Of cause, no-one can write down and listing up what the requirement of the Dharma.
No human being is above the Dharma.
Even Buddha followed the Dharma and accepted his Nirvana.
—–
As everybody is a part of the Dharma, everybody is connected each other and to the natures.
As if you feel the pain of the injured hand in your whole body, the pain and the agony of the victims
in Sendai hit the other people, even a Yakuza in Osaka, and made him to drive a truck to deliver the
relief goods to the victims. It was his spontaneous actions and nobody needed to persuade him to do.
Thousand of volunteers like him are helping the victims of the earthquake, tsunami and evacuees of the
destroyed nuclear plant, simply because the compassion in their subconscious, which is no
other than the Dharma, has driven them.
Some volunteers may be the Buddhists or other persuasions but not necessary all of them.
Its mean, the humanistic compassion is not a monopoly of the Buddhism nor any religion, but
the Dharma and its virtues are the common among the all the human being.
Buddha pointed out this fact, and taught the way to see and listen it, since he noticed the
mechanism and the tendency of the Rules in the Dharma, by his insight while in Mushin.
What makes the Buddha’s teaching unique was, that he found an active process to reach the
Dharma by sharpening one’s perception by the practice. The practice to silence the useless noise,
the one’s thinking which is masking the Dharma.
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Fundamentally the Dharma is Selfless as it is, say the Universal Soul, the Rules of
the Universe, it doesn’t belong to or favour any individual.
And its Rules are for the continuation of the Universe, not necessary for a single individual.
Therefore, to see and listen what the Dharma is aiming, the one has to silence his own projection.
In other words, the one has to know he himself is not a single entity, only a part of the Dharma.
In metaphor, there is no such things of the sovereign independence of the Nation of the Self.
Strangely you might think, giving up the independence can bring much more benefit to a nation.
( Don’t fooled by a silly sample of a farce in the European Community and the troubled Greece and the
Portugal etc, EC is not the Dharma. Ha ha ha 😀 )
Of cause, the power of the Dharma and its aim of continuity is far grater than an individual. 😀
Its power ratio is the infinitum against virtually nil. Better forsake useless own thinking and let the
Dharma to decide —– this is what Buddhists calls the Selfless-Life or Life in Mushin.
In another metaphor, the Cloud Computing has more power than the set of program in an individual
PC. ( —– though, I don’t like the idea of Cloud itself, since Google is not the selfless Dharma.
There is no such things like free lunch. Think while using free Google, what we gave up to them ?
To them we are completely naked. What we are interested in, what we are searching, what we are
talking with my friend etc etc and made ourself to just a target of the advertisement )
—-
Once the individual thinkings were cleared off, one’s subconscious, and the Dharma which
has been masked underneath will prevail.
And it allow a person to react instantly without the hindrance of time-wasting thinking or
useless consideration of Ego.
This is what the Zen Buddhism is doing and what you can achieve with it.
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SELF again ? ! ! !
One of my friend who is a believer of the Brahmanism sent me a link to the site showing a (long )
conversation between a Guru and a follower.
—– www.krishnamurthys.com/profvk/advaitadialoguepage1.html
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Gosh ! Is it going on to 1008 lines ?
It’s a good sample of 3~4000 years argument.
My blog having strange conflict about this. And 2000 years still no answer was found 😀
The argument is time-consuming and on the end no answer —– so,
Buddha cut off the time-waster “No such things like the Self ”
—–Though, the obvious trouble is — I’m still here, Who Am I ?
In my Blog, I’m saying True Self is in our subconsciousness but it is not the self but the Dharma.
And the apparent self — Self-conscious is false or self-conceived illusion.
Still, leaving murkiness — When enlightened man sees the ” Dharma let this hand move” and created
something ( by himself ) — whose hands did the work. Undeniably it was the same, very man —– though,
he was working in deep concentration (abandon himself / he was not even aware his eyes were watching
his work )—–there was no Self, as he was in Mushin, state of the Mind of No-mind ).
———- Your Brahmanism, your Guru is talking about abstract definition of the Self —– but
Buddha was talking about mental-state / neurophysiology.
Because, Life is not in your abstract imagination —– but you actually need to DO and LIVE.
And when you can achieve much better result “ Do it in Mushin ” why you need to have
conscious of Self / notion of Self.
When a Bank rend you a good money, you don’t need to think about the financial system behind the banking
operation —– you just invest the money into your business and work hard.
—– Buddhism is the pragmatic answer, the best answer applicable to the real life.
Not for a philosopher. Buddha didn’t need to save the Philosopher / Brahman.
He wanted to save the real people.
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By the way, those conversation is the long tradition of which even Buddha did it with his disciples, and
the origin of the Rinzai-Zen though, as you too might have found, it’s hard to read 1008 lines without
fallen asleep 😀
That’s why I’m suggesting ” Cut a lemon—> and learn Mushin ” 😀
———- Convinced ? 😀
—–
There is a story of Buddha attending to a man wounded by an arrow.
His disciples were wondering from where the arrow could have been shot, the material it is made of, who
could have shot it etc etc, while the man was dying !
Buddha said ” Gentlemen ! STOP !!! Attend to the man first, before he dies !!!”
This is Buddha’s revolution with respect to Hindu philosophy 😀
—-
I’m well aware except few differences, there is little distance between Buddhism Dharma and
the Brahman / Atman. —– Yet its argument wouldn’t help much to the human life.
So, I would concentrate pragmatic implication ” Just Do It ” 😀
Because we can’t create our life just by imagining it. We have to LIVE, while we LIVE.
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Third Aspect in Buddhism / in ZEN
If anybody has read my blog all through from the beginning ( thank you very much ) may found
something different tone around the posts about Kisa Gotami and some posts following it.
You are absolutely right. The posts around Kisa Gotami are about one of the main aspect of
the Buddhism —– Buddhism as a Religion. Religion to save the tormented soul. (And also
about the Intellectual snobbism / Philosophy —– this is the Second aspect )
———- Though, I’ve been talking a lot something different, especially in my early posts.
Yes, they are about the Third aspect of the Buddhism especially strongly in the Zen. —– It is the
aspect of the Mind Engineering, and in this aspect, so-called burden, the Self Denial having different
treatment —– since it is not for a salvation of a man but more for the achievement of the person.
—
Third aspect in the Zen is, as the word Engineering suggests, it may remote from the religion
hence it may seem Atheism, hence the person may not end up in the Heaven though, don’t worry
no such things over there. And even if you were reborn to a dog, there shouldn’t be any trouble as
no dog remember the former life or the name. ( I never met any dog telling me his former life, so far 😀 )
To deny such deluded idea of the Perpetual Soul, therefore to deny the same person can be reborn
to a dog, was the starting point of Buddha.
Anyhow, before talking about after a death, to regain the sanity out of tormented mind is the way to
save one’s miserable life —– that is Buddha’s approach.
When a part of a machine was twisted and jammed, whole machine wouldn’t work properly.
So that before imagining what dreamy product the machine could make, repair the parts and
adjust each part of the movement and make it works perfect, is the first thing to do.
Same to this, to re-construct one’s life out of misery, has to start from a part to part, step by step.
Re-adjust the way to operate and the way to carry out the daily life —– and on the process,
to learn the way to see the mechanism, how they work together, in what principle. —– and as
the result, one can operates their machine or life perfect, therefore
able to create perfect product / LIFE.
This pragmatic approach IS the Teaching of BUDDHA.
Hence, in the Buddhism the practice is inseparable as it is the way to learn how to see and
to know the principle operating in there. This principle is the Dharma.
———- So that, the Buddhism’s structured approach to the practice having the most effective
way and the wisdom to DO the Things and achieve the highest standard. ( To see the proof,
have look the Japanese products 😀 —– But don’t ask me why the products from other
Buddhist’s country are not necessary so. —– it’s really a good question 😀 )
—-
To see the way how the approach of the Buddhism ( or Zen ) can solve the question in a field of
to DO something, is the Third aspect in the Buddhism. In here, there is not necessary
tormented soul or miserable life, the precondition of Self Denial having different aspect too.
Such as a case of a sportsman is the best sample, in there, it is the fight against the Oneself.
And its effect or the result doesn’t appear anywhere other than in practice, it got
not much use for an intellectual interest. ” As long as you are thinking, you can’t do it “
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On the end, the key element in all aspects of the Buddhism is the MUSHIN, mind of no-mind.
Though, anyone who wants to be saved out of misery, needs to get rid of the Ego,
hence needs to have Self Denial first. ( One small sect of Buddhists in Japan, Ittou-en going around and
asking the household to let them clean their toilet in order to have one’s Ego to be denied —– though, the
toilet is a genitals of a house, not open to the public —– it might be better them picking dog shit on the street
than invading somebody else’s privacy, in the name of religion —– still it’s their practice)
To a tormented soul, as the person’s mind had been through the torment and its Ego had been
defeated already, and as long as the person can see the Karma straight ( without twisted view, misdirected
grudge etc which is caused by an arrogance —– so that it need to have personal consultation ) the process
of Self Denial has been done.— Hence the person can go to the next stage while having proper direction.
—
Yet, the one who doesn’t care end up in the hell ( 😀 ) but still aiming highly tuned life and the
freedom of creativity and actuary want to Do it —– gain the Mushin by doing it as a practice.
This is so-called a technique of the mindfulness —– to eliminate any thinking in the brain, even the subject.
It is the process to re-program your subconscious, hence Mind Engineering.
You may find the explanation for each sample and others, in my old post somewhere.
( I should make the Key-word index —– for a moment, seek is your part of practice. Just Do It 😀 )
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FACT and the Belief or a Delusion
In my posts about the story of Kisa Gotami, I’ve written,
” it showed the core of the Buddhism teachings”.
Kisa Gotami story has been accepted by all the Buddhist’s sects, simply it’s just a simple story
and showed no complicated mambo-jumbo, which was telling most likely happening situation
and a quite likely possible Buddha’s advise and its logical out-come.
Whether this was a historical fact or not, nobody dear to start such argument.
Simply because there is no point to argue. It must be the true FACT.
And why I wrote ” It is the core of the Buddhism” is, without any glorious mumbo-jumbo,
no part of the story needed your belief or elaborated deep understanding of the Buddhism, yet
anybody can see the logic, how Kisa Gotami reached to her contemplation as a FACT.
( Of cause, I can make a fun out of this story ” If there happen to be a house of which new comer
just settled in, hence so far having no funeral had taken place, and Kisa Gotami was able to bring
back the seeds —— what Lord Buddha could have done ? ? ? Forgive me
Lord Buddha, I’m just kidding 😀 )
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As it is clear, there is no need to have elaborated mambo-jumbo, no complicated
belief, just as she did, get lid of a delusion ” The dead child can be revived ” and
open the eyes to see the reality which is on front of her which is
no other than the Dharma.
If anybody still couldn’t see such simple fact is, In fact, it is a sign of having a delusion.
Such as arrogantly believing ” My Buddhism is more elaborated and better than other’s”
If there is such things in the Buddhism, the story could have been changed to such as
” Kisa Gotami met Brahman on the way, who told her to go back to Buddha, brah brah ” —–.
Simply it didn’t happened. Simply because the past masters who even got the authority to
rewrite the story saw, this is the true Fact and this is what the Buddha’s teachings.
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PS: Of cause, you can say that, it was just the beginning of her pathway, thus
she still needed to practice many more years to get enlightened.
( Hence she became a bhikkuni and joined the Sangya though, —– the question is,
what she could find beyond of that.
What is, what she found then ? —– What lies beyond the Dharma.
Spirituality means, to believe and follow invisible phenomena or to believe it is exist though,
Lord Buddha himself refused to elucidate what they are. No one can reach to the hight of what
Lord Buddha did able to see. To imagining you can, is nothing but an arrogance and
the contempt of Lord Buddha.
Yet ironically, when the past great Masters got enlightenment, all of them
described it as Dog Shit. —– Why ? Simply because,
it is just the Dharma, only one but ubiquitous ( because, everything exist is The Dharma )
—– only the obstacle is, to see it as it is. —–> Need to have clear eyes and a
state of the mind / Mind of No-Mind / Mushin.
Non of the teachings of Lord Buddha having any enigma, everything is clearly comprehensible
and logical ( to reasonably intelligent person ) —– All the Eight Fold Right Pathway contain
nothing but the good common sense. Only the obstacle is actuary Do it.
Right vision, Right thinking etc = everything is Right, in the understanding in the brain.
To know and understand it is one thing, actuary able to do, is the other animal.
So, What makes Lord Buddha’s teachings so unique is, he was the only one to find
the way to make people able to DO it by means of Repeating Practice.
Reading the stories in the Sutra or Reciting the words of Eight Fold Right Path are
just a process to familiarize with them.
But to Do the obligatory Practice everyday customize you to follow
the Duty unconditionally. (it’s mean you surrender your Ego )
And as you do it everyday, can be years long, your body learn to
Do it without conscious, in other word automatic.
This is nothing but the state of Mushin.
State of Mushin is in fact Dispassionate state of the mind hence it doesn’t have any
specially intended mind, such as do something evil to someone (or fucking around)
In this state of Mushin, you can see the Dharma as it is.
And the Mushin is ( strangely 😀 ) same to embrace the Void.
And this Void contains the Whole. —– Dharma is whole but void.
( To reach to this Mushin, some may need to do the practice many years, but to
the others, it occurred in instant by the direct transmission )
The holy Ark, the establishment said to have, may be containing just the empty void.
Funny you may think, but this void, great emptiness is the Enlightenment and the
Dharma. —– But to see this Void, you don’t need to have mysticism.
It’s there everywhere and in fact everything IS. —– This is why, it’s a Dog Shit.
And this is the Buddhism.
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My personal view is, if Kisa Gotami didn’t became bhikkuni and made another
child, it was more in line with Mahayana. (To take care of the child needs to have
unconditional endless work. It can be a good practice to gain the Mushin.
And on the end, Kisa Gotami could have had both, good grown up child and
the Enlightenment as well 🙂 )
—– To cringing the idea of Pathway and following the idea of Arahatship was
not Mahayana at all.
Crucially, Lord Buddha established his teachings, away from the idea of ascetic
monks, in order to save the suffering of ordinary people on the street,
Lord Buddha would not have given the unachievable incomprehensible tasks to
those people then.
And this is the fundamental base of the Mahayana Buddhism.
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PERFECT or INPERFECT ?
Many of you who read especially the previous post ” Limit of TRUTH “ may be wondering
what I was intended to say. ( In fact I was showing, how futile to hit the wall on the end of cul-de-sac and
the limitation of the approach toward the life by way of thinking )
Fresh comer to the Buddhism might be bemused or even felt a disappointment as I’m not selling
the Buddhism while saying ” This is the perfect Answer, buy Buddhism” —- like another vending post.
But this is what the Buddhism and the greatness of the Buddha’s teachings are.
It is not revealing what the structure of the Dharma nor to teach how to control it, but to learn the
way to follow it through practice, and the gradual change of the way of the Life and its mind–set.
Buddha was not a Devine figure nor Prophet telling glorious story.
He was a great teacher who taught the TRUTH of the LIFE through practice.
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As it is the TRUTH, it is not necessary a sweet story nor deceptive salvation story, as harsh words in
the Four Noble Truth epitomizes. Since the Dharma is strict, not necessary friendly to the mankind
still it is only the rule beyond the human control or intention, Buddha taught the way to follow it.
And this WAY is what Buddha mentioned last in the Four Noble Truth .
To follow the unknowable uncertainty and its changing nature of the very Dharma,
Buddha was teaching its on the spot user–manual, not the analysis of its tendency or psychology.
Same as how to use a computer, to know how CPU was manufactured, with which material and so on,
wouldn’t help at all for its usage. All about the mater is how we use it without causing clash or over heat
and complete the task —– therefore able to have smooth happy life (then nirvana).
( But mind you, the Life and the Dharma is not as simple and cheap as PC, you can’t buy another one 😀 )
This approach became more apparent as in the development of the Hinayana Buddhism.
It is not the Buddha’s idea or invention, it was his discovery in the function of the Dharma.
Hence, it is the teaching to see and become aware how the Dharma exists in ourself.
—— or the Life to be accommodated in the Dharma.
So that, it was often dabbed as ” Life in harmony with the Nature “
When the matter is not imposing own idea but to be accommodated by the Dharma, it is the matter of the
acceptance, not the choice —– in fact there is no choice but to accept (—– with fight or else 😀 )
Whether the Buddhism Accommodating the Dharma or Dharma accommodating the Buddhism may sound
strange though, because of this accommodating nature of the Buddhism, the Buddhism can accommodates
any another religion, race whoever ( them to exists is also the expression of the Dharma —– if they are
contradicting the Dharma they couldn’t be there in the first place)
—– and exactly the same context, accept any situation. ! ! !
Hence, Buddhism can be in the millionaire’s life and in the murderous gang star’s life too.
( So, there is my old post ” Zen in a Battle field ” 😀 )
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Thinking and judging in our way, and imposing our thinking, ( whether it is logical or not ) to the Dharma
is noting but an alienation or even a disrespect to the Dharma.
With an insatiable apatite to find whether one atom is in two places in the same time or not, or why
the rabbit bonking a lot etc ( 😀 ) might be in a legion unknowable.
So that, all about the teachings of Buddha is to eliminate the own thinking, conscious Self.
When conscious Self is not there, what is Mr. A standing here ? —— It is a manifestation
of the Dharma taking a shape of Mr. A
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When you face your own life in Mushin, you see only the immediate matter, the abstract
interpretation or romantic dream can not be there —– hence you are concentrating to the matter.
Being in Mushin, the subconscious program ( Dharma ) which is most relevant to the matter ( whether you are
aware, it is there or not) will deal with the matter —– hence you can deal with it in most efficient way.
To deal with its matter, only small part of the Dharma ( and its wisdom )was needed. Yet still, all the
Dharma is in us —– may be another occasion we may need somewhat fancy part of it.
Like Window Program, it came as a bundle, OS to graphic program, text document, video etc etc,
when you buy Laptop, it comes together —– you open and use the program for the task to task.
Some of the program, you may never use —– it’s still there, and something you may not understand what
it is for —– and the most basic phenomena of how the electron behaving in the billion of semiconductors
in the CPU—– I don’t think you are care about it at all.
Don’t think, just use the computer and do the task, Just Do It.
So, Don’t ask or think about whether they are perfect or not, or showing the Truth or not.
It is not the computer to make you to achieve Nirvana, but the work you have done.
—— Funny you may feel with this metaphor
—— But this is your Life and the Teaching of Buddha.
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Limit of TRUTH
In the human endeavour to know the TRUTH, there is an amazing parallel between
Nuclear Physics and the Philosophy.
When they came close to the limit, there are unsurpassable barrier and the unknowable.
In the Ontology and the Epistemology front, they come to the same cul-de-sac “Is it really there ? —– How
Do you know ?” —– Isn’t it, you just think it is there ? —– How do yo know, what you are seeing or you
believe, it’s there is true ? —– It might be just a glitch of the electric pulse in the brain. Isn’t it ?
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Science is an attempt to answer this question. One approach is to increase the number of the observation
and make a statistic assumption ” Since, most of the people saw the same, it can be presumed to be true”
( still, a last person who saw the otherwise, might be seeing the only truth 😀 )
Another approach is to define the object itself ” Whether you can see it or not, this object ( or often the
phenomenon) has so-much-so size and the weight (mass) and behave such and such. And those measurement
has been tested with known objects and always showed its reading was true”
———- Though, when scientists pushed it to the limit, beyond the Newtonian , beyond the Einstein’s
theory, to the Quantum theory —– what they found is utter uncertainty. ” It can be here or there” and
now even the time scale becoming not certain. ” It is here at moment, but in the same time it might exist
in the future as the same thing ( You are happened to be here, but in the same time somewhere else or
might be in a past or in a future, as exactly as you are)
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There is a phenomenon called diffraction in the behaviour of the wave. Water wave, sound wave even
the light wave —– when a wave go through narrow gap, the wave spread to the both side of the gap.
When a wave go through two ( or more ) gaps, the spread patterns of the wave create moire pattern.
In a case of the light, the pattern is bright and dark band and the distance between the bright band is
depend on the wave length and the distance of the gaps. (X-lay crystallography is using this effect —–
indirectly measuring the size of the gaps and direction = distance of the atoms and their alignments )
And when a scientist tested this with just one photon, he still saw the moire pattern. Its mean
one photon could pass two gaps in the same moment and showed the diffraction at two gaps—– how ? ? ?
It was a dramatic display of the Quantum behavior of the light and the proof of the theory —— though,
it showed no clear-cut truth of the world, but showed the uncertain nature of the nature.
Even more bizarre fact is if two electronic detectors were placed behind of two gaps, only one photon was
detected either of one gap. — depend on how it was observed, the same phenomenon was seen differently.
In other words, no absolute truth can be existing.
—– Strangely you may think though, all those advancement of the science is owing to virtually just one
advancement of the electronics, the design of so-called OP amp / instrumentation amp.
Whether a detector is photo sensor or current sensor, when the more amplification was enabled, the more
faint signal can be detected (while eliminating or canceling the nose)—– hence even smaller particles
or minute change can be detected.
The trouble is, even if we are capturing the effect of just single photon or semi-particle though, as it was read
as an electronic signal, nobody knows whether they are really solid particles or just a vortex of the energy.
Far from proving the fundamental of the matter / existences / Dharma, it made the situation even worse.
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Well known expression in the Mahayana Buddhism ” Exists as not exists” —– My understanding of this
expression is, It is the way to express the phenomena in our feeling in the subconsciousness. —– we feel
it is there though as it is in the subconscious, it is invisible and out of conscious, hence not there.
But before I came to this understanding, I thought, Buddha had an incredible insight to know the Quantum
nature of the Dharma. May be, but not likely —– so, some says, Buddha must come from the outer-space,
from the another universe where having far more advanced civilization though, I wouldn’t jump a gun.
Even with the advancement of the science and the technology, we came no way closer to the truth,
far from it, What we found is the definite uncertainty of the TRUTH.
So, this must be the reason why Buddha kept his silence as it is unknowable. And no use to us.
—– So that, I’m more interested in the tendency of the coincidences, which is out of the science 🙂
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