Rice Cake
I would say nothing new = It’s the same story in New Year.
= I made a Rice Cake and made it to an Ozoni etc.
In fact, having the same event so many times again and again
it isn’t much of excitement. —– it’s a routine Sir.
I don’t have new year’s resolution kind. ( but just having
on-going projects which is going to be completed)
= Has to live as usual and do as usual whether it is fun or not.
That what the life is.
(If we plan big, it would fail. Not a plan but DO have a step further.)
That what the Zen is.
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Wasn’t that a Contradiction — or— Enlightenment ?
Somebody questioned me after this paragraph :
—– You have to see it by your eyes. Not from the stories.
Otherwise, Why You need to bother be a Buddhist.
To contact with all the fresh stimuli with your naked sense will
keep your brain young. —– Which was
the last paragraph of the last post = Meaning on the Hand.
“You (mean Me) been saying “See the world in Detached eyes.
Do the things like a routine without Emotion” but here you
say “Feel it with naked sense” — which is true ?”
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Aha, you are right. I didn’t pay enough attention.
It was a matter of the stage, while people gain the awareness.
= Going through the pathway, people gain the awareness and in
the same time perception, attitude etc everything will change,
but only stage by stage. It will not happen in one go.
—– With the endless repeated practice, the person may gain a
mentality to do the practice as a routine, out of emotion, and gain
an attitude to carry-out the work/dairy life in a detached mind.
Once the person mastered this mental state, in fact the person
became immune to the emotional up and down and became a
cool observer to his/hers own life. Once the person reached to
this stage, the person would be liberated from the Person itself.
This is the biggest Paradox in Zen. = As the person IS now free
from the SELF, there will be NO concern left = even the own life,
therefore free to commit anything. So, feel free, enjoy or cry free.
In fact, here is an Enlightened Person.
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Meaning on the Hand
Well, this is the Post diverted and became its own from the previous post.
Hand is a body parts which got second highest concentration of
the nerve after the eyes. And especially we human got our hands
best developed among any animals, we have best and the most
delicate control of them. So that, not only its dexterity or the
physical function, its acquired the mean of expression as well.
We can read the meaning of what the hand is telling or symbolizes,
and the eyes tend to follow what the hand is expressing.
(I mean not only F**K or Peace kind of sign but also more delicate
mood of its operator as well.) 🙂
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Among the Buddhism, Tantra sect having not only their Dharani
(magic words) but also quite complicated form of the hand sign
(or finger twists which the followers do the same — and they are
showing off it each others “Look I can do better than you”).
It’s hard to guess where it was originated, = each
Buddhism Figures are showing their unique hand sign.
You may search their meanings or each name in the Wiki though,
I don’t think it would bring any worthwhile understanding of the
Buddha’s teachings. They are just the cosmetic style.
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= After all, the core of the teachings was, to reprogram the brain to
jump the process in the Emotional Region in Limbic System, where
the notion of Self-interests = Ego / Greed / Desire were induced.
It is the same situation to learn ride a Bicycle = reprogram the Motor
Region of brain to learn the body-balance on the bicycle = intellectual
understanding of “How to ride” wouldn’t work, but physical practice.
Lord Buddha’s last words in his death bed to the disciples was
“Don’t believe what others say or you head, but learn it yourself”
—– This episode signify
(1) His teaching could not be understood intellectually but only
a practical learning of the body and the mind could materialize.
Such as, you been reading this blog without noticing WHO is
reading this — ? = We are living without noticing the SELF.
Unless we assert “Me Me Me” Self is not there.
— With a practice, you will get a technique to apply this mental
mechanism to do the subject which was awkwardly entwined with
your Ego, without Emotion and without the so-called Self.
(2) The reason why
Lord Buddha had to say it in such a precious, last remaining
moment was that his disciples has yet necessarily mastered it.
—– And this fact explain why the Buddhism and its teachings of
“No-Self /Anatman” (No soul to Reincarnates) was misconceived
and mixed up with the Hinduism (which says Reincarnation) since
such early days.
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When we saw a hand and feel what sort of meaning it’s saying,
— we can feel but it can not be interpreted into the words.
Our hand express unconsciously = and we read it unconsciously.
= they are out of the lexical comprehension. —– The most of
Lord Buddha’s statue having the hand sign called “Semui” (in
Japanese) which said to mean “Don’t be afraid” — Can you see it ?
I can only see “Oh, what a big hand !” —– 😀
—– You have to see it by your eyes. Not from the stories.
Otherwise, Why You need to bother be a Buddhist.
To contact with all the fresh stimuli with your naked sense will
keep your brain young. 🙂
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8150 — Ha-I-Go-Rey 背後霊(?) again!
To renew my passport, I went to the Japanese Consulate and
obtained an application form. — M m m m ! Gosh, 8150 again.
This number is like Big Brother, where ever I go, it’s follows me,
or stalks me. = It might be Guardian Angel
or the Guardian Spirit Behind as the word Haigorey mean.
Maybe, that’s why I don’t get ill or accident.
But, I couldn’t see a point for this = why for this time, what for ?
My Guardian may telling me “Be careful with this business” or
gave me an alert “It would have a heavy implication”.
Otherwise just reminded me “I’m still here, watching you”.
(Expecting to give me a piece of mind — or irritation ? ? ? )
—– the Consulate’s staff just picked a form and gave it to me =
so the serial number happen to be 518A6 must be purely random.
— Still the Question or problem is, why always this number comes ?
Who choreographed those coincidences = who is “WHO” Is it the
Karma or the Heaven/Dharma. ( —– otherwise, who could able to
foresee where I go next or what I pick-up next.)
— It’s definitely there, such as this IS actuary happening. Same as
the existence of Gravity. You can see it exists but nobody know WHY ?
Or is it still in my imagination ? = See, what happen next.
(So far nothing serious happened to myself (= nothing mean
good news ) but in somewhere, without me seeing (I noticed it
much later), such as someone was bankrupted or suddenly died
though whether it was because of the trouble with me or was it
just their own fate — I could only speculate.) Anyway, I can’t test
it — What IF the course was different. = If the man didn’t betrayed
me, could he still be alive? Or he died anyway with his own fate ?
Life is only once = never able to repeat it in different way.
And when mistake was made, has to pick-up its fruits. = no escape.
This is what the Cause and the Consequence really mean.
And, I don’t know how to ask “Stop 8150” to the Karma !
(So, I can’t test without it’s intervention = IF not —)
I’m doing what I need to do — and the Karma might be just
removing the obstacle on my pathway. I should be Grateful,
Lord Buddha IS walking with me. ( — I dare say. If I may.)
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PS : You might think it is a
very special heavy occurrence
though, in fact it is casually
happening almost everyday.
Photo left was a number on the
letter I received few days ago.
PPS : Now I became aware why there was a warning on the passport
business = it seems heckle a lot of trouble ahead = to receive my family
registration certificate from Japan, there is no way to send its fee,
because the International Reply Coupon is no longer available in UK.
— still,they insists it is the only mean we have to use.
— how can we ? It’s no longer exists here.
So, I needed to make a lots of Email exchange with Japanese officials
of which even a received time of the Email was 0815 ! 😦
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Fate and the Mentality
Few days ago in Japan, one of the busy commuter train breakdown due to
the safety mechanism in their over-head power cable. Stranded passengers
in the trains were lead to a nearby station, 20 minutes walk on the rail track.
(Japanese train takes the electric power from the over-head cable, not from
the side track, so that, without a danger of electrocution, it is safe to walk
on the track.) = All 5000 passengers were just walked in orderly manner and
no trouble was ever occurred.
When this news was reported on the Chinese News Paper, the Net users in
China responded with their astonishment saying such as “If this was happened
in China, within 5 minutes passengers started riot, smashing the windows etc”
“How 5000 Japanese could keep calm and quietly walk for 20 minutes long
without showing any anger or frustration !”
—– And the Japanese Net users responded to those Chinese thread saying
“It’s no point to make a riot and break the train because it would only cause
even more delay” “When all the people having the same fate, making trouble
wouldn’t get any situation better” “Anyhow, the company or school where
people will be late wouldn’t accuse them because it was like an act of God =
It was the fate anybody has to accept”.
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They are the two contrasting mentalities = in my view, each mentality
originated from the Chinese Taoism and the Japanese Buddhism.
I quite doubt, in China how many people ever read the Book of Taoism =
Tao Te Ching, still, most of them seemed to visit the temple to read their
fortune = by throwing two wooden sticks six times to find Yin and Yan’s
combination (It is in fact the Ai-Ching). The funny things were, they keep
doing it again and again until they receive good prediction. (=they would
not accept bad prediction !) In other words, Chinese doesn’t follow even
the will of God (or Heaven) or vend it by their Ego). (China has Confucius
and Buddhism as well though in mentality, they all got the same.)
—– in contrast, Japanese Buddhist is far more cool, or even cold,(may
be even Cynical) for not to have a passion for riot. 🙂 = since they know
the situation, what sort of the process would be needed to repair the
breakdown system etc well. They are far more rational to know
what they can do —– in fact, the situation IS telling them,
Just Walk. = So, they did.
This is the Mentality to accept and follow Dharma and the Karma (or Fate)
and the Wisdom or the Belief, that the end result would be better with this.
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What is MUSHIN ?
May be I’ve talked about this ten of the times if not hundred.
—– Still, I was asked the same question.
So, this is the most up-to-dated straight answer.
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It is a well known medical symptom among the Alzheimer patients
who lost the nerval connection to the Emotional region in the Brain
lost the recognition related to the SELF such as to recognize own
possessions even to distinguish the face of the own family.
So, Emotion judge the interest of OWN — in other words, this is the
center of EGO, Greed, Well being, Safety, Security, all those Instincts.
Of course, they are the key to the survival though, the total amount
of the signal/Data the brain has to deal is burst, so that there is a
rationalized economical saving was designed = coming data was
selected according to its importance.
The harmless insignificant data or repeating same data, are ignored.
We wouldn’t pay any attention to the same boring TV CM etc. and when
we do the repeating same work, we do automatic without Emotion. = In
deed, in such a case, the Motor Region of the brain would be programed
to do such routine work automatic, involving no Emotion at all.
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So, if we block the data/signal reaching Emotional region, we can do
the job automatic, without the Emotion. (= With highest efficiency !)
Without Emotion mean without the feeling of “Mine” = SELF —
because of no feeling of Ego, Self interest (mean, no envy, jealousy to
others), Own Greed, even No Cling to own Life, be free from the SELF.
This state of Mind mean, no need to cling the past, nor need to imagine
a dream= in other words, just see the world on front of the eyes as it is
Now, without having any Thinking.—– This eyes IS clear eyes.
And this state of Mind IS the “Mind of No-Mind” = Mushin.
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In order to acquire “block the Emotional process” Buddhists use
the long repeating practice for the brain to learn “How to
Opt-out the signal process” and DO the job (or Life) automatic.
(Like, you can branding “The matter” same as to the boring TV CM
and make it no longer recognized to be exists —
we know it’s still there though, it became a remote landscape.)
In certain extent, Zen Buddhism is very cool, even cold.
But, use this to live the life very hot is the other stage of Zen.
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PS : The Related Readings :
Clear the Deck for 2013 Reverse Engineering of Zen
Emotion / Meditation —– they are good to read. = It’s amazing
how Google Algorithm worked out to see the contents !
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Crèche in the Zen Buddhism
There are quite few Crèche in the Zen Buddhism.
Such as Mindfulness, Middle way, to live in Now,Selfless etc etc
and indeed, I did talked about those topics in the early posts.
Yet still, funnily enough, in the Agama Sutra, there was no word of
Lord Buddha for about those topics. And I realized that, the talking
of those Crèche started to appear in the Mahayana scriptures,
typically like Middle way.
—– as a matter of fact, I too wrote in somewhere, the Middle way is
not in the both extreme, somewhere in the Middle.
Though, think about the extreme — in the Nature/Dharma, if it was
too little, we may not noticed it was existing. And if it was too much,
there is no such things in nature. It was only a product of imagination.
In other words, if we follow the Nature/Dharma, we are
naturally live in the Middle way. Likewise, to live in Now, if we don’t
cling Past, neither indulge imagined Future, we only deal with Now.
In the same way, Mindfulness is not a special notion, it was the state
of Mind, when there was no other imagined matter / things, but seeing
the subject on front = what else can you think of ?
— in short, there wouldn’t be any of those issues exists in the Mushin.
= Mushin mean, live Selflessly. So, it became to clear / too clear that
the script writer of the Mahayana has written those Crèche from an
overheard rumor “That the Enlightened said to live in Middle way,
live in Now and facing the life in Mindfulness”etc etc = and started
mimicking the antic = pretending of “Middle way” “Mindfulness”
“Live in Now”etc. and talked a lot blah blah — While not knowing
what the “Middle way” was = because he hasn’t even experienced the
Mushin, there was no way to know what the real “Middle way” was.
The people who doesn’t know, talk a lot, to pretend !
Still, the matter IS very simple. = once you vacated (emptied) your
Mind, what you can see is only the matter on front (= no memory
of the past, neither imagined future) = when the matter only on
front exists, what else to think about = this is Mindfulness.
And when you follow what you instantly conceived (on that Moment
= so-called intuitive perception) is the way of the Dharma.(what else ?)
(Because the Dharma is rational and harmonious as a whole system,
inherently, there is no extreme = this IS the very Middle way)
—– You see, it’s so simple in real (practical) life.
But, “talk about” the misconceived concept is much more complicated.
Because, such concept (=Crèche) is in the intellectual thinking, BUT
Zen Buddhism is a matter in the state of Mind (the way to handle the
data in the Brain) so, try to find the meaning by way of thinking is like
“To THINK HOW to ride a bicycle” instead to make own body to
“LEARN it”. 😀
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Not heal by Buddhism ? ! 仏道からの癒し－－－それともコーヒー？
彼岸寺といふ仏教サイトに面白い事が書かれていました。浄土宗の日下と言う僧侶が書いたもの
だそうですが，彼は何故か仏道に癒しが感じられない －－－むしろ一杯のコーヒーや家族に
癒されるとのこと。浄土宗では教えないのかも知れませんが元々の
釈尊の教えは「無私」ですからそもそもコーヒーを愛でる己れ，家族に愛着した己れどころか
対象としての仏教なるもの自体が存在しない。
－－－という現象を学ぶ為に仏教では延々と続く勤行を繰返し，それを無意識，無感情でする
（無私無心）訓練をする。＝無私無心でちゃんと生活が成り立つ ＝では誰が生きているのか？
＝ それが法 ／ ダルマであるのです。
己れにしがみつきながら，どこか彼方から 癒しが得られるのでは，と期待するのは
お門違いでは？？？
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In one of the Buddhist’s site “Higan-dera” in Japan, a monk called Kenyu Kusaka
wrote a short essay saying that he noticed that he is not feeling the heal from
Buddhism, but from coffee ! He was a Pure-land sect monk, so that expecting him
to have the understanding of what Buddhism IS, might be too much to ask.
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The core of the teachings of
Lord Buddha was, First, there IS no such thing like SELF (Atman) exists.
And to learn this truth, the followers practiced long repeated practice
until they could do it automatically (= without thinking) and without emotion
(= no-emotion / not having a feeling of SELF = hence realize No Existent of the Self )
Without knowing this teachings, the monk may still thinking that there IS the
subject called Buddhism and a person who is learning it.
No such things there or anywhere = if only a person doing the practice and the life
without having the SELF, what prevailed there IS the Dharma.
(= if the person IS NOT there, who is living there = That IS very Dharma)
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But a monk like Kusaka, clinging his SELF and attached to his family AND a cup of
COFFEE, Buddhism is too remote, yet wanting to feel a healing ? What he is asking ?
There is a big irony, —– as long as the person asking, never given, as long as
the person looking for, never find. = The EGO of want push the goal away.
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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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