PEACE in JAPAN —- Really ? ? ?
Japan is a strange country. Among the developed countries, it is the most safe, prosperous
country. Newborn babies’ mortality rate is the smallest in the world and live longest life.
In other words, it is the most peaceful place in the world. Never seen bloody conflict or
political economical insurgence, other than few Yakuza killings and very remote poison-gas attack
by the religious fanatics. —– Only exception is occasional natural disasters which is
killing handful people in each incidence.
—– so, some may say Japanese are spoiled by the peace.
non
It seems, the previous post which I wrote how Japanese is overcoming the disaster by
ignoring the BAD NEWS, annoyed some people who was saying “ Don’t mix-up
the natural disaster to the man-made Nuclear Accident and the failure of the
response by the government.
I’m well aware of it. In fact I’ve been annoyed by the situation myself. At least, I was an
anti-establishment activist. —-but, we learned it in 60th, 70th how hopeless the situation is.
non
The expression in the west [Bang the head against a stone wall] would explain the
situation. —– And the rack of the political leadership, charismatic leader, nor championing
organization — hence no prospect of any change. ( You might be noticed, there is
virtually no anti-Nuclear demonstration in Japan except the one organized by the
musicians —– it was more like a family outing to cheer-up the depressed people
and politically gave no effect )
So that, there is very positive activities to help the disaster stricken people, but in the same
time deep hopeless mind-set toward the situation, especially the government or establishment.
This hopelessness and powerlessness toward the ever murky politics and the
situation of the Nuclear Plant made the people to feel —– it is no different from
unfortunate fate, like the one’s death which will inevitably comes.
(Remember, there was anti-Nuclear or anti-War demonstration, though I never seen
anti-death demonstration — of cause, there is no point at all though,
it is utterly unfair isn’t it. Why not ? 😀 )
—– This Japanese psyche has been exploited by the government, hence their one-party
dominance could continued 50 years. (Then even after the power moved from Lib-Dem to
Democratic Party, unfortunately as they have been away from the system too long,
they don’t know how to govern the country —– and the system relying on the personal
expertise and the connection, it can not be replaced and changed easily)
Japanese politics is done by the negotiations between those in power and the backup person
and not open to public, not mention foreign journalists, the debate in the Parliament are
just a farce and the Minister is just a nominal figure (the facts and the data was held by
bureaucrats, hence Minister doesn’t necessary know the whole picture) —— even a head of
government change, those people who know the data and actually run the system is
still the same. Mind you, the system there is economically second or third largest system
and the industrially as large as US. —– when the supply of components stopped from Japan
due to the disaster there, even the iPAD production in China halted.
non
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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MODIFIED APE ? ? ?
As I’ve written “ Artificially modified Ape “ I received pretty strong contention. ( as anticipated )
I didn’t intentionally try to create argument though, I knew there must be a lots of contention.
Not mention the Christian Creationists, but even the ordinary Evolutionists couldn’t agree.
To my eyes, the changes occurred to even the physics of the Human, which were triggered by the
active Human selection, which changed or resulted the condition of existence is artificial.
MMM
Among the animals, such as the exuberant horn of Deer or the feather of Peacock were the result of
the breeding competition. The more prominent, the more attraction to the females, hence the Gene
of bigger horn had become dominant. This is a natural selection and the shift of the size of horn
would be regarded as a process of the Natural Evolution.
But, in the case of the size of Human boobs is quite questionable. When our far ancestors started
to walk biped, genitals became inconspicuous and male and female sees each other, face to face,
guessing the appearance of the others, with dark skin and hairy body, it may not very easy to appeal
“Look at me I’m a female “. So that, the female who happen to have larger boobs had taken more attention,
hence she had more opportunity to produce the offspring —– and the Gene to make larger boobs were
established. —– yet, big boobs is not actually contributing to the fertility nor good supply of the
mother’s milk, because it was made of useless fat.—– It is just for a psychological display.
In other words, it was the matter of the male imagination. Nothing to do with physical evolution.
( Selective breeding is not a natural evolution. It is a reflection of man’s Ego and Arrogance)
MMM
The more drastic change had happened in the Human history, when our ancestor gained and figured
out their stable life, and became more than just a hunter gatherer. —– Probably with some domestication
of the animals and the primitive agriculture or knowledges to keep particular plants as the staple food.
Hence able to alleviate a hardship cycle of plentiful and the starvation in the cold.
This stable life, away from the effect of the season, had the same effect of the domestication to
the Human animal.
—– With the (self) Domestication, Human lost the seasonality of the breeding, and the females
started to ovulate out of season. It was a change of the physiology lead by nutrition and the psychology.
( I couldn’t find any explanation Why Human lost a chemical trigger / Pheromone or sensitive nose 😀 )
All over the world there is a peculiar artefacts of so-called Venus Figure
with exaggerated body.
They are always in the early stone age. —– and only limited on that
period, and never continued. This fact suggests what had happened,
a woman in the colony had first ever bore the babies twice in a year,
which astonished the people, hence she became a symbol of fertility,
Mother Goddess. Though, gradually all the women started to show the same,
worship of the Goddess became pointless, hence, the Venous Figure was
no longer produced. ( This is totally new theory 🙂 )
(Photo above = Venus of Willendorf / Naturhistorisches Museum / Vienna / Wikipedia )
MMM
This physiological change was a result of the change of Human Life Style, generally called Culture.
And this change of the Culture was the results of the Intellectually lead Human adaptation.
It hadn’t occurred naturally. In another word, it was an Artificial Change.
—– Subsequently there were many side effects, consequential changes had occurred in the Human
history. Namely, such as the Brainization ( Imagination lead ) sexual behaviour —– hence resulted
even a development of sexual obsession. —– This is not a natural evolution at all, but a destruction.
(Without Pheromone induced sexual imperative, a sexual drive has to come from one’s MIND )
—– Big BOOB may not have any physiological value, still it would give you quite an
Imagination. Imagination always strays away. ( How exiting. Ha, ha, ha 😀 )
MMM
Thanks to the Human Intelligence, Humankind invented many new psych and the idea though,
they are too often far remote from what we started and originally designed by the Dharma.
This is the reason why we have two separate SELF in us.
The one is our Self-conscious (the One, thinking), and the other is in our subconsciousness.
The more we became conscious, we alienate our true Self which we only subliminally aware of.
This is the reason why Buddha taught,
“The Self in the thinking is a Delusion “ “Look at the Dharma without thinking “
Without thinking, is what Mushin mean. (in another sect, this is also called Detachment)
The Buddhism is to become aware, and to regain What We are.
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禅仏教とは What is the Buddhism
This is the shortest explanation of What is the BUDDHISM, which I made to my friend in Japan.
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これは日本の友人に送ったメールで、仏教とは何かを説明した部分ですが改めて読んでみると、
極度に簡略化した割に要点はちゃんと収まっている。
これは皆に読んでもらうのに手頃では？と、ポストに加えました。
—-
仏教的倫理観では、人間も含めた全存在は実は無限に広がり断え間なくつながった
「法（ダルマ）」であると理解しています。 個人が個人と見え、当人もそう考えているがそれは単なる
見かけで実体の無いもの。 （ましてその当人のエゴだ欲だといったものは当人の幻想、雑念以外
の何物でもない）－－－で、当人は実は全体のー部分、他の人ともつながっているから、ちょうど怪我をした
手の痛みが全身に伝わるように、仙台の痛みが大阪のヤクザにさえ伝わりトラックを駆って現地の救援にと
かり立てる。 それも坊主が説教してかり出した訳ではなく、全く自発的な行動です。
ーーーという事は別に仏教に依らずとも、元々これが人間のモラル、「法」として存在していたという事実です。
当然、救援に向ったトラックで石コロを運んだような馬鹿は居ない。自発こそは「法」であり、英知です。
例の倫理構造図式の、実在、真、正、英知、さらにそこから抽象された倫理意識や、具体的に
何をすべきかは人に言われるまでもなく、まして坊主に説教されるまでもなく誰もが解っている事です。
釈尊はこれを指摘して「法」がいかに全てをカバーし有効に機能しているかを説明しただけで、別に
[法]やモラルを発明して人類に与えた訳ではありません。（僕は単にそれを図式化して説明しただけです）
元々「法」の中に無我も慈善も含まれているのですが人間、我や欲、執着があって素直に「法」を
見る事、従う事ができない。 で、小乗仏教では細かく禁忌義務を列記して、
形の上だけでも「法」に従った、つまり悟りを開いたとされる人間を生産しようとした訳です。
しかし何百もの禁忌を記憶しそれにこだわりつつ生きる事自体が雑念ではないか？となった。
ここから大乗ヘの進化が始まった訳です。
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「法」は全ての人間に（実は虫けらにも）元々備っていて雑念がそれをマスクしているだけだから
要は無心になれば良いーーーとは言うものの、それ程簡単ではない。
「精々努力しなさい。しかしムリしなさんな」というのが「中道」と言うもの。
極端に執着したり固定観念でタメにするのは別として人が人として自然に着想してやっていく事は
「法」の内と見るのが大乗です。 しかし、それならー流の職人が寝食を忘れて完璧を追求するのは何か？
あるいは連続強姦魔はどうなのか？ーーーなどというタメにする質問が出たら、
質問者をー発ドツケば即解決する。禅は明解です。
—–
面白いのは長年黙々と手作業をやって来た人、全く空しく水面を見つめて来た釣り帥などの中に
しばしば「ムッ、お主できるな」という人物がいる事です。ーーーで、この効果を意図的に再現するように
考えたのが、それぞれの宗派の「行」で、全く何の足しにもならない事を延々と繰り返させる。
初めは疑問や不平があってもいずれ思念を放棄し黙々とやるようになる。意図的に与えられたものでも
無心に遂行する心理、行動様式が定着すると余計な思考や逡巡なく物事を処理できるようになる。
ーーーーー（僕はこれを仏教の持つ第３のアスぺクト＝心理工学と呼んだ訳ですが）
（思念のマスクが取除かれると潜在意識の中にプログラムされていたものが反射的に出る。.しかし、
本人すら自覚していないものが何故そこに在るのか？ーーーだからそれが「法」なのだ、と説明する）
無心とは、一切の構えなく心を開く事でもありますから自由な発想を持つには最適ーーーで、
それをテストする為に僕は色々変なものを発想しては、それを作っている訳です。
実験心理学、実験仏教学と言う所以です。
ーーーーーーーーーー
___/\___ Yoshizen 拝
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SOCIETY
In the media reports of Japanese Disasters, a peculiarity of Japanese society was shocked the world.
“Why Japanese can keep calm and not express their grief ? “
I explained a back-ground —– their deep embedded Ethos / Fatalism originated from the
Buddhism —– in the previous post.
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But there is the another aspect which is even deeper and common to all the human-being.
We human-being is a social animal , we live, and have to live as a member of a society.
We are definitely a descendant of the packed animal like monkey, chimpanzee, not a lone panther.
Hence it is written in our gene, and so-called instincts are programmed accordingly such as the
gripping hand of a baby is to cringe to a mother.
To be a social animal, there is the order of the society and its rules. Any member who couldn’t
comply the rules, will be excluded from its society —– and slow death is the fate.
Where those rules were posted ? Ethos and those social code are not written but kept by the
member, the member themselves are the role-model / manifestation of the rules.
As society is operated by their member who possess the same Ethos and the Rules, and it is
almost the same even generation after generation, all the social activity, social systems are coherent
with the same Ethos. Everything shows the same manifestation and follow the same rules.
This exact coherency can be observed by even a small baby and learned by them and written
down into their subconscious memory. In fact this is the so-called Collective Unconscious.
But this is the case when the society is having universal, coherent system and the Ethos.
Among the member, some might become rebel though, the person is only temporally rebelling
or just behaving the reverse of existing rule —– nothing new just a reverse.
But when the population who is possessing fundamentally different Ethos, moved into other society,
it start to show completely different situation.
In metaphor, when non-thieving society received considerable size of thieving group, the Ethos of
both societies break down. ( Even thieving society and their way of life having their own strict rules,
taboo, who to steal or who is the senior thieves and the violent punishment who break its rules )
A kids of Non-thieving society learn the thieving, and a kids of Thieving society learn to
escape a punishment claiming his Human right 😀
Everything break down and only Ego exposed.
A baby start to see two conflicting systems and the rules, hence unable to figure out what is the Ethos of
the Society —– there couldn’t be a Collective Unconscious but just an attitude of
convenient cherry picking of excuse and the knowledge of “How to avoid “ —– it’s mean avoid
to be a member of the society. In fact there is no longer a society and its integrity exists.
—–
Fortunately ( or unfortunately ? ) Japanese society still maintain themselves as a society,
as foreign element is still negligible, even an outcast group Yakuza responded to the disaster, with
hundreds of truck load of relief supply delivered to the evacuated people.
Even though Yakuza were branded as the criminal organization, they are undoubtedly nobody else of
Japanese, and a part of the same society, hence share the same compassion and the sense of duty.
—– simply because, they grown up in the same society ( Even Yakuza was once an innocent
small boy,as you know 😀 ) hence build up the same Ethos as a Japanese.
—-
In reality, to make a baby to a Japanese, other than the teachings in a school and the family and the
circulating popular culture, such as everybody should have the same gadget and ware same kind (well
some pre-classified types) of fashion, there is a hidden secret of social pressure to a person
to conform the social code.
It is more akin to the chorus of the hen in the Animal Farm. When this chorus starts, even a person
who has been saying different opinion suddenly changes the colour and join a chorus, the louder the better.
This is a moment to a person to assess what is the majority and join them.
When the majority is behaving in a certain way, just do the same. To remain within the same group
and the society is the imperative in Japan. Whether it is true or not, right or wrong, just go with them.
So that, when nobody is crying –its mean, no-one should cry. The unwritten code says “Mittomonai
( It looks disorderly, and embarrassing ) “ Anybody brake-off from here, there is a danger to be ostracised.
As a result, everybody looks calm on the TV.
—
Funny side-effect of this conformative society is, as the expectation and the imaginary eligibility
of a man is fixed, such as socially acceptable income and the status etc, under the stagnated
Japanese economy, most of the ordinary man is no longer regarded to fit to marry —– hence
so many people are forced to stay single. ( A research found that among the eligible age-group,
only 6 % of men were regarded to fit the expectation of the woman, its mean, if a woman marry
other than rare 6 % , she will face a humiliation, a chorus of “Mittomonai”.)
—
When no dominant voice led the chorus, hens couldn’t know what to do.
Strangely, they still knows when somebody start to show up with unconformative opinion, they
overwhelm the opinion with their noisy chorus and suppress it. Therefore no fresh innovative idea
(other than imaginative Manga story) nor strong decisive idea coming out of Japan.
This is the situation in Japanese politics too.
Therefore, when they faced a crisis of Nuclear accident, they only try to avoid the Japanese public
fallen into a “Mittomonai” panic, by pretending nothing serious happened, thus do-nothing —-take
an emergency measure itself looks “Mittomonai”—– until it’s actually exploded.
Then everything got too late to take any measure. —– though, a criticism like this will be seen by a Japanese
as an act to expose “Mittomonai”Japan, hence has to be suppressed —-> So that , there wouldn’t be any
“Mittomonai”situation, therefore, able to keep calm face. Face is more important than the safety.
Beautiful isn’t it ?
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DISASTER in Japan
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——————————————————– Here Everything was lost
—————————————————–anything remains is the HOPE
————————————————–and the WILL to Re-build the LIFE.
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Seeing the Earth Quake and the Tsunami report from Japan is nothing but a heart-braking to me.
To see a photo of a flatten muddy field which caption says, There used be a town, its empty span of
nothingness shocked and made me wordless. Emptiness of almost perfectly flushed-out field.
—
It seemed, the western reporter, photographer prefer to pick up dramatically or even funnily
piled-up devastation. An orgy of destruction. ——— but to Japanese, as I am, it is not funny at all
nor the object to be amazed.
—
Another cultural differences appeared in the western media is, all the report found it is even strange,
the reporters unanimously says ” how Japanese can keep emotion in check and stays calm ?”
The emotion is the default feeling of the human-being, hence it is more or less the same to any
culture. Though, emotional expression is not instinctive, in other words, it is cultural.
Whether it is emotional or not, expression is a way of the communication, therefore even
an emotional expression is dependent on the situation.
—– there was an interesting psychological study and the video images of the small children.
When a small child stumbled and fallen, having a pain the child started to cry. —– You will think it is
a natural emotional reaction.
Though when the same child stumbled and fallen on the empty street where nobody else is in sight
( except a hidden video camera ), child didn’t cry, and stand up by herself.
This is the true nature of the human-being. —– communication is to appeal to others.
Having emotion is one thing. To express is other.
If there is no other person to help, no need to express. —– even small child knows this
and behave accordingly.
AAAAA
In the western culture, where the Ethos and the psyche was shaped in the cast of Judia-Christian religion.
In there, the God is a humanized image or notion. And the relation of the believer to
the God is one-by-one base. You have to stand before the God in person. Hence you have to talk or express
to him — otherwise you can’t to be heard.
Therefore, unless you express and assert your Self, you are not exist. And under this understanding
even a word expressed by a person may not necessary enough. Hence, a written contract became essential.
So that, express and express and make a claim is the basis of the psyche.
And as the relation to the God is one-by-one, when something happened, shout “ Why me “
AAAAA
In comparison, the Eastern God or the place of the mighty power is the Heaven,
or Buddhist’s explanation is the Dharma. The rules of the Universe.
Regardless, whether you face it or not, believe or express yourself or not, you are under the Dharma.
As all the occurrences and the existences are in this Dharma or under this Dharma, hence even a huge
natural disaster may produced by this same Dharma, hence you can’t argue with it.
Nor there is no use to complain or express your emotion. —– Shout and cry is no use. The matter is
just think what you can react to the situation. What you have to do the next.
And in the case of huge natural disaster, as the same fate has come to everybody, and as everybody
was created by the same Dharma, everybody has the same feeling and facing the same situation,
one crying wouldn’t make situation any better.
Thanks to Japan has very little foreign element in their psyche, everybody is sharing the same psyche
—– even to the people who was not affected by the disaster, they share the same pain,
hence the help started almost instantly. And no looting at all.
—
In the Buddhist’s explanation, this is the moment when the Dharma prevailed.
As everybody having the Dharma in them, when they sees the situation far beyond the human
comprehension, lost the word, hence lost any thinking, therefore the mind became
blank = blank open space = Mushin —> The Dharma, hence its nature of Charity and compassion prevailed.
And the Dharma is inside, whether the police is there or not, no looting occure. Since Dharma knows it.
—-
I only hope the people who had this disaster to recover and able to re-build their life.
( And in this given opportunity, Japanese can root out their rotten government and rotten policy in their
nuclear generating system )
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Unfortunate History of BUDDHISM
In most of the case, study deep into the Buddhism, quest to the core of the Buddhism mean
read more books, another Sutra and then sitting 😀
Natural consequence, here, sitting mean, thinking about what was found in the book.
Strangely, you might have found a fine print saying ” Sitting has to be without thinking “ 😀
And somewhere, ” —– but most crucial teaching can not be taught by the word “.
———- What a hell, where to find the answer ? —– rightly you might say 😀
Unfortunately, ( especially in the west ) a so-called teacher or a master of a sect or group, did come
through same process. Simply he did it longer than you, hence read a bit more books, met another
master ( who studied in the same way ) and so on —– that’s all. In fact, non the wiser than you.
—–
Unfortunately Buddhism is not the matter of the knowledge nor what you learned.
But don’t become desperate and shout What a Hell, since you are not alone.
This is the inherent trouble of the Paradox in the Buddhism.
When Buddha was in this world and teaching his immediate followers, he showed the way how to live
how to see the things etc etc —– those were the practice, then time to time he took the rest —– rest mean
rest, hence give a break to the brain. Naturally, he was not thinking while sitting.
It looked like a meditation, or later people thought and called, it was a meditation.
When the brain was left completely blank, time to time suddenly new idea or
understanding comes out. ( Ref : Blank space —– somewhere in the another post )
Then, Buddha might have told something new understanding, even a joke to such as Shariputra —–. So that
the followers thought, Buddha, in his deep meditation he has been in touch with the unknown
truth / Panya Paramita —– though, Buddha was taking a rest and having a time of no thinking.
Of cause, even Buddha couldn’t show what’s going on in his brain nor disciples could seen it.
We only see the apparent outcome when it came out. Only the person with very good insight, who had
the same experience, could guess the process in the brain or in the mind.
So, the situation even among the immediate followers was like this ( —– how do I know ? Ok, tell me any
another possibility you can conceive )—– since, without having the proper understanding of the
Buddha’s teachings, Buddhism spent hundreds of years in the argument of such as AbiDharma.
And the superficial posture of ” Meditation ” became idiosyncratic synonym of the Buddhism.
Hence gave a misconception, With deep thinking process, you can get supreme wisdom.
Further trouble in the western Buddhism was emanated from the word MEDITATION which meaning
imply deep thinking ! — even though Buddha was just having a rest.—– It was a Kitkat time 😀
In practice, to practice ” To Do without Thinking ” the sitting is the hardest sample to try —– it’s mean
only few people who already reached to the advanced level could do it, still how do we know he could ?
Can the person sitting ( without thinking ) tell ” I’m not thinking ” —– How funny. 😀
It is the same to a man sitting, supposedly be in silence, declare ” Yes, I’m not speaking “.
Anyone can pretend and say, I can —– but those impostor tend to preach others, with his glorious story.
This was the history in its reality. The more glorious, needs to listen with the more sackful salt.
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When the crucial matter of the Buddhism is NOT THINKING / MUSHIN, cringing stereotypical posture
and its idea of sitting ( in fact it is very bad to the leg —– resulting wheel-chair in the later age —– all
the high priest in the Zen sect had end up in a wheel-chair ) because of it looks authentic, is
nothing but a vanity.
Throw away all those POSTURE. Throw away the IDEA of Buddhism. Let it go.
Take a break, relax —– in the deep breath, you may find yourself in the blank moment.
Then you are in the void of this mess of the life.
This VOID is the MUSHIN. You are in the true pathway of the Buddhism.
( When you let it go. Then you get it as the whole —— What a paradox ! ! ! )
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Word – Word – Word or RUN
In my daily life, my radio is always on.
On the beginning of my English life, it was BBC Radio-3 with its classic music.
But past 10 years, it is almost always Asian Radio, hence the languages are Hindi, Urdu,
Tamil etc, and musics are Bollywood, Bangla, Punjabi etc (they rarely play classic Indian music).
It seems, it is an annoyance to a visitor, hence all of them volume down the radio.
(What so ever, it is noisy) In fact I’m not necessary listening it. Any how I can’t understand the languages
and I don’t care the music Still, something there would cheer up the atmosphere.
Best of all, it will prevent the unknown unwelcome visitor to knock the door.
(I’m open minded, but not necessary having open door policy 😀 )
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Even though not listening, still I remember lots of Asian popular music and picked up quite
a few of words. So, time to time I asked my Asian friend about the word, what is the meaning
—– then I realized, the meaning of the word is so widely varied in each context and
among the people (even among the same Hindi etc).
Like the words Kia-bate. On the face its mean “What’s going on ?” can be an accusation but also
a praise with unexpected surprise.
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So that the words in the Hart Mantra, ” Gate gate ( Bodhi-suwaka)” can be
” So, it went on as Bodhi-suwaka” or “Hurrah , go-on, go-on, Bodhi-suwaka”. (I don’t care though)
—— So, it must be a lots of headache for the academic, authority to translate an
ancient Mantra, —– as we can conveniently see the situation in the Wikipedia, and
compare the difference in the interpretation of such as the Eight fold Pathway ( Just find
which word is correct to describe the Pathway ? —– how time consuming ! )
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In the Buddhism story, the story of Kisa Gotami who lost her child, is the
most well-known one.
I knew this story since I was in my 20th though, why I didn’t talk about here before is, the
seeds what Lord Buddha asked Kisa Gotami to find was, in Japan (hence in China as well) it
was written as Poppy Seeds, not the Mustard Seeds as known in the West.
I thought, I should find which one, before I write.
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Lord Buddha asked Kisa Gotami to find the Seeds (which one ever) from the
house where no bereavement ever taken place, to revive her dead child.
She went around asking all the houses in the village, but everybody told her
“Oh no, we lost one (or many)” —– on the end, she contemplated that it was an
inevitable and common occurrence and came back to
Lord Buddha with calmly settled, relieved heart.
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Lord Buddha knew, she is so desperate ( = Mind was stuck, attached to her child)
= she will seek the seeds in just for its purpose ( Mindfulness), and walk and walk
asking door to door (Repeated Practice) —— soon she become to do it with almost
automatic manner next by next hence get the state of the mind of No-mind,Mushin.
And with Mushin she could see the situation and the fate, with clear eyes and
the mind. —-Hence achieve the Contemplation.
This is a Direct Transmission.
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How many hours has she walked ? =It all happened in one day.
With Lord Buddha’s spot on advice, a desperate woman achieved contemplation
and get peace of mind.
Lord Buddha knew, an explanation in the words wouldn’t work.
But the practice (walking, asking around) does. = This is the typical teaching
of Lord Buddha which showing its crucial core of the Buddhism.
In comparison, the people who try to read the words still arguing —– 2500 years ?
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So, through your book away, switch off your computer, and go out.
As Lord Buddha said, ” Don’t believe (cling on) the words you were told. Think yourself “.
Have a nice walk. You can see something afresh.
Yes, it is your first step to learn what the real Zen and the peace of mind is.
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