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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Ai Weiwei Exhibition
Actuary, I went to the Fortnum & Mason again with different
lens (or hole ?) — Then, I just crossed the street to other side,
to the Royal Academy = where happen to have an exhibition
of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Academy’s courtyard having trees or re-assembled dead wood.
It was an utterly odd view. Those trees were not in the original
shape nor well composed big “Ikebana” but the standing mess.
I wondered what’s going on the inside.
(Photo above = tons of building steel rod were piled up on the floor
=Ai Weiwei is not good to make the things by himself but to
organize the workers to do the job.)
I’m not a fun of Ai Weiwei.
I can see he is trying hard to MAKE something “looks like an ART”.
= in other words, he was not a born artist = so that, to squeeze the
brain to manufacture the piece, not spontaneously creates a shape.
Hence, the piece wouldn’t hit our emotion but just boggle the mind.
= So, the art critics needs to write about those “Boggle” = keeping
them busy and the art-media flourish. — The good art will hit the
viewer’s subconscious direct = no need of explanation nor critics’
blah blah. 😀
So, those were the pieces made out of the pretext of the earthquake
= the list of the dead (Left) and the debris (right).
— did such big disaster inspire him only those ? If I were him, I
would have put a school text book or a bunch of hair between the
debris = bad taste but such straight visual signal will hit the
subconscious of the viewers direct, without needs of blah blah.
Photo left showing “a chair IS a part of a tree” = I know,
a chair used to be a tree. = So what ?
And the photo right = nicely made cabinet having holes =
spoiling the effort and saying a twist = again So, what =
What a cheap idea. Can’t you conceive anything better ?
Yet again like the words of a second class art school
teacher = “Make a thing out of norm/Break a stereotype”.
TV camera (or that kind of shape) was made by plastic.
Chinese has been making so many utterly inconceivable
products such as fake eggs, fake protein (melamine) in
the milk etc etc = Ai Weiwei should learn from them if he
want to impress us with the eye-opening incredible idea !
Something scribble ? — or repeated print covering whole wall.
He might have thought = highly technical idea — a piece using
the reflection of acril plastic. = Yes I can see its funny reflection.
So, what ? A bit strange doesn’t mean “Impressive” 🙂
Everyday’s objects made out expensive jade.
Handcuffs made out of plastic. Useless and out of norm again.
(Chinese kid’s toy Handcuffs were all made by plastic ) ?
Fabricated trees in the room — not impressive though, they
still showed a kind of fun-full free structure he must have
enjoyed like a game. So, I liked this piece.
Thousands white plastic pieces covering the floor and one
baby buggy (= somewhat impressive fine work)
— is this related to the Chinese Scandal / billion of forcibly
aborted fetus by the “one child policy” ? (I only guess =
I didn’t get any information or bought an exhibition catalog.
= In my policy, I SEE the piece, not study it by the words.)
In this room, and the confined small box explaining what
Ai Weiwei himself has been subjected by the So-Called
Authority’s tenacious interrogation = kind of torture/
intimidation/suppression.
This is not an art but just an indictment.= may have a
political meaning still, visually boring exhibit. Not impressed.
So far, this must be the most impressive piece in this exhibition.
May be it was just a coincidence = still, how bizarre.
On this occasion, I had only Concentric-Double-Dencity Pinhole
intended to use for F&M Window shooting, which was not best
suits for this subject still, I think it wasn’t too bad.
—– If you want to see more info’ or clear images please
search in the net or go to the exhibition yourself. = don’t ask me.
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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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OMG ! Is this Japanese Heavy Metal ? — No, it’s Baby Metal Sir.
Three Vocals of the Baby Metal = Yuimetal, Su-Metal, Mormetal. (16 years old)
(Screen shot photos from — http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2056265/?anc=015)
Past six months or a year so, the name Baby Metal often came to my ears.
Though, my only thought was, It’s a good name for a band = Without using
any ferocious word, the sarcasm is far more stronger. —– Yet I didn’t know
they are a Japanese Girls’ band. When I saw a Japanese news saying that
Baby Metal is going to have a concert in the Wenbury Alena ( 2nd April 2016 ),
I started to wonder what’s the sound like ? = I clicked Youtube links.
Wao ! This is the genuine article. (Very rare to see among the Japanese staff)
—– Of course, it is a mix of Japanese Kawaii staff in a guise of Heavy Metal,
still, the impressive instruments, guitar, drum — its danceable rhythm, sound,
pretty good. (—– the visualization too !)
— And this is the more joky exotic staff (for export to the west) 🙂
( Still, the marriage of Japanese Taiko rhythm and the Techno beat created
quite a drive = my kind of the speed ! )
—– Only a thing I dread about Heavy Metal is, = the long-haired audience
dance = head-banging = the smell of their hair is the hell ! 😀 😀
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Dale’s Studio
——– (Note: Photo above by Zeiss 18mm lens for Nikon = Virtually no Distortion ! )
Yesterday, I went to the studio of Dale in the east London who also run the Cafe,
Small White Elephant to help a documentation, photographing his paintings.
As always, when I go out to take picture, it was a sunny blue-skyed day. = Almost
like the first spring day of this year.
(In fact, I’ve told him “If the weather was like this rainy, it would be a sign of
that the Heaven doesn’t like you” as the day before was rainy.)
As always, the studio was in a disused big industrial building,
some walk from the Bromley by Bow station. = Real East End ! —– the area
“was” really a derelict, disused industrial land though, in the past few years,
suddenly new development was started. = would become posh town soon ! ?
Utterly out of my guess, Dale’s paintings were the riot of colors with tons of paint.
— paint was not painted but more likely, deposited on the canvas. (= so that,
even after few years, some paint was still not completely dried yet.)
I only say ” Wao, Amaaaaaaazing”. and then, I realized the connection, why
he interested in Zen = those process to dripping the paint without having
much of pattern or figure = almost endless work of Mushin (Mind of No-mind
= Do the task without needing to have the Thinking.) —– And the result
—– it showed nothing or it is the everything ! (色即是空，空即是色 = like what
Heart Mantra said ) —– He was not trying to copy a style of Zen painting
but “Do the Zen” in action.
And, for the next step, for exhibition and for a publication, he needed
to have his paintings digitized.
When we finished the shooting, his friends came to the studio with cans of beer.
In most of the case, the studio of the artist never be tidy —– so, looks like this
pile of mess = was not a mess = it was a collage of the doodles or a draft of plan
etc etc. in his past (= said to be. 🙂 )
Therefore, I wouldn’t make any question “What is this ?” to an artist.
(with obvious reason. 🙂 )
So, I even didn’t have an attempt to guess what they are — why the blobs of
the paint was kept and treasured ? ? ?
In some distance, over the Bow Creek, landscape of the East End.
The life is there as usual. (of usual kind. 🙂 )
(Camera used was: Nikon D810 with PC Nikkor 35mm F2.8 and
Carl Zeiss 18mm F3.5 for Nikon)
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Jazz at the Cafe
Every last Thursday evening of the month, at Small White Elephant Cafe
in Peckham, South London has a Jazz Night.
The music starts 8:00 o’clock evening till 10:00, and this night had Tris Harris,
the Drummer Trigger Finger with Les Booth the Bassist and a guest
Saxophone player, Adrian Northover. = naturally, it’s a collection of
Horne Musics — even down to Take Five !
——— The Drummer Tris Harris —– Bassist Les Booth —– and Adrian Northover
Taking the opportunity of the evening people having a party as well,
bringing their own party food and the drinks.
I like this kind of rather casual (not a snobby “Jazz club like” ) atmosphere.
To the owner, Dale, it’s a once in a month occasion — a bit of pressure though,
Don’t worry you can manage.
It’s an occasion for his friends coming down too. —– and it’s turned out to be
a small world. = The lady here happen to have her studio next door of Dale.
And I met her in the Immersive Cult party when she told me about this Cafe !
—– indeed, our world is pretty small. ( still, your world may be big 🙂 )
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Ai Music — What ? ? ?
This music said to have composed entirely by a computer. It’s mean, a computer
(its program) had its mind how to compose a music, in other words it was an
Artificial Intelligence to be a classic music composer in Bach’s style.
—– It’s pointless to talk about the music without listen it first. (So, ask your ears.)
Sound somewhat a part of J.S.Bach’s clavier collection —– though, what did you
find of this composition ? — In my feeling, I found this, very irritating to listen.
So that, it convinced me that how the man who composed the original
Well Tempered Clavier, Book one = J.S.Bach had human mind and a sensitivity.
I think, the mind was conceived phrase by phrase such as “I like this flower”,
“A is equal to B” or “As A was equal to B, therefore A plus B will be the amount
of twice of A” kind. So, the music expression has more or less the same structure,
whether it has a poetical dialogue inside of the composer or the description of the
landscape etc, in any case, each phrase, description etc is a complete packet.
They never drug the argument endlessly, as they ought to settle somewhere.
Yet, this “so called, Ai composed Music” has no such packet structure, but just
continuing on and on for the sake of making it to the length. How irritating !
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—– My guess is, that the man who programmed this so called Ai, just made an
algorithm “What most likely choice of a note after the note, according to the
statistical tendency of J.S.Bach” not the artificial emulation of Bach’s Mind.
Music is not a permutation of the note, but the emotional phrase induced by
a musical language. —– Language need to have a structure and the words.
They are not an endless line of alphabet.
I don’t mind if this music was played to a computer, but human ear is not a machine.
If you like to follow this Ai story, the link was :
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HOBEN (方便) / Upaya — in Buddhism
In one before previous post, “Why live”, the author of the book Dr. Ogoshi was
saying that the Hoben (方便) (upaya = Sanskrit) = the mean or way (to lead others to
the Enlightenment) as the vital part of the human relation therefore that makes
the Reason to live.
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Among the religions, the only one asking the followers “to understand (the matter)”
is the Buddhism. All others need just believe what was said or written.
With this reason, only the Buddhism having a notion of Direct transmission or
Hoben/upaya and the Pathway. All those are just the mean and the process. —–
Why those mean or process was talked about, but not the goal itself was = that
because, the goal couldn’t be explained, even if anybody knows. Because, it is Void.
Indeed, it’s a funny religion and the strange deal = on the end, you may get the Void
at its best. If it was short of best, you get nothing. Get nothing, yet even if you did
the best, get Void ! —– How Fantastic ! ! !
( at least the another religion is promising the heaven or paradise kind of good deal!
— whether it was fraud or not in the eyes of Advertising Standard Authority.)
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In the famous Kisa Gotami story, what she was instructed was to obtain the
mustard seeds from the house never had bereavement. — After knocking all
the doors in the village, and running all the day, she was convinced that the
bereavement is the truth of human existence. —– The advice of
Lord Buddha, “To save the dead child, it need to get the mustard seeds” was not
necessary true though, the action she took, definitely brought her the enlightenment
and helped her to overcome a sorrow of the lost child. —– And to give such a good
advice and lead the person to get enlightened IS the Mahayana Buddhist duty.
(It must be much harder to enlighten the other. Who got the brain of
Lord Buddha, in this world today ? ! )
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PS: In the mainstream Buddhism, Kisa Gotami’s story
was understood only as a sample of Hoben shown by
Lord Buddha. But, what I’ve been talking about is, its contributory effect of
“Repeating Actions” (running and knocking all the doors next by next) to her
brain function. = (Repeating input to the brain lead the apathetic response =
input would be handled emotionally detached = this is all about
the Buddhist’s practice and the VOID in the mind.)
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Rimbaud and Zen Mind
There was yet another funny coincidence. At my friend’s party, I met a designer/
planner who happen to know an artist friend who also run a café called
Small White Elephant, which happen to be in my area.
As she suggested, I paid a visit to the café and met a guy, Dale who run it.
Dale was a painter, we got a common talk in the art. — so, while showing my work
in Youtube and the photos in this blog, I talked about what and who influenced me.
As I mentioned my taste of the Surrealism art and the Symbolist poet Arthur
Rimbaud, Dale jumped up, went to his jacket’s pocket to fetch a small book.
It was a Rimbaud’s Poem, [A season in Hell].
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When I use the words “funny coincidence” it’s implying “Karmic encounter” =
no rational connection or likely happening situation still, from the hidden history
or life’s context, the pathway got to cross, of which only the heaven knows it.
And my life is having so many of them.
If not, I’m not in here, or even this blog didn’t exist. —– looking back, have I ever
chased anybody and met ? (I mean, from a reputation, I sought to meet the person.)
NONE. I am completely passive. (of course, it exclude the case on the business =
like interview and photograph somebody = it was for the editor’s needs,
not necessary my interest)
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In my teens, I started to read Osamu Dazai = rather popular choice of “ a kind of
young people then” and I read all of his work include the letters.
In the same time, I also read the books written by the opposing group of Dazai,
critiques, poets etc. A critic, Hideo Kobayashi and the friend poets were all
influenced by a French Poet Arthur Rimbaud. —– then, I end up with this Poet.
—– I’ve talked about this story in a post. [My starting point (2) ] (I might be the first person
in the history to connect Rimbaud to the Psychological mechanism of Zen mind. 🙂 )
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—– (Quote of the post)
< What makes reading of Rimbaud Poems somewhat common with Buddhists Pathway
was, that his approach to be a Boyant (Seer / Watcher) in Alchemy of Life was,
to examine the own mind again and again, deeper and deeper, exposing everything
like a dissected dead body = effectively made his own mind (and the life) a completely
detached dried object. Detachment while having cut-off the Emotion, will lose
the tag of the SELF, hence creating a state of mind, similar to the Buddhists’ Selflessness.
(This process is very similar to the Hinayana Buddhists practice = Process of Self-denial )
And as Rimbaud’s subject, include his own life became a detached object without the
emotional attachment, it was described as a metaphorical object or the Symbol =
thence his poetry was called Symbolism. (This detachment was the self-alienation too, so that
Rimbaud called the state of mind before, as a slumber of the animal
—– he missed it with tears, but it was too late) >
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The modern trend of the art then, Symbolism, Surrealism and Dadaism were all try
to find the way to express “True reality” of the existence or the human mind.
So that, all of them created uniquely formed style, since they thought that to express
straight as perceived, couldn’t show the reality or truth. —– with the idea of Freud,
they thought, since there was something behind of our mind, there couldn’t be the
straight raw expression (so, they tried autonomous writing “Automatism” etc with
futile results.) What common in those attempt was that they tried to replace the
subjects with something related or not so related. =
Symbolism used the objects somewhat related or looks like, as a metaphor.
Surrealism tried with unexpected one and Dadaism denied any connection.
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Though, there was an inherent trouble departing with raw expression = as it was
a two-step conversion, first, it needed to observe the feeling, then to find a symbol to
replace it = When the original mind, perception was “observed”, its Subject became
an OBJECT = It mean, he is no longer the innocent author. —– Even if it was the
own mind/perception, it was now the separate entity = OBJECT.
(For instance, even a hot love, when it was observed as an OBJECT and written down
like a stage act, down to the every movements of sexual act, it is no longer the love but
the words in the pages of DOCUMENT. =
That was how Rimbaud’s poem “A season in Hell” was created. And Rimbaud
described it “Je me vois me voir” = I see myself seeing myself.)
In this process, not only the own mind/perception became separate object, but crucially,
the Mind lost the connection to its “Emotion” therefore, the own mind is no longer
connected to the SELF. His life became a Puppet show remotely played.
(Self couldn’t define the own place without having tethered to the own Emotion !)
(When Alzheimer sufferer lost the connection to the emotional region of the brain,
his/her identity, the recognition of the family also gone.)
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Unlike most of the Surrealists, Dadaists who has been a part-timer = “Pretender” for
the sake of their art, Rimbaud was a full-time Symbolist, he lost the raw feeling of the
“Live-view”, hence the sizzling excitement of the life. So, he try to sex-up the life, such
as with absinthe, heroin or to play homo-sexuality etc which didn’t bring any solution.
—– on the end, lured by a false excitement, he left to the Abyssinia.
———- (And the other trouble of the Rimbaud’s poems to a reader was, —– as they
were written as narrations, after a while, his words became the reader’s words and
gradually they seeped into the bottom of the subconscious, then “who I am” would be
slowly eroded. = in the end, we will be left in the middle of nowhere alone, without
identity = it would be our Abyssinia.)
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Fundamental difference of Selflessness and the Detachment of Rimbaud against
the Buddhist was, —– to Rimbaud, it was the unexpected by-product.
But to the Buddhist, it was the requisite way to reach peace of life and ultimately
the Enlightenment. In contrast, Rimbaud wanted to have a true reality of the life
which should enhance the excitement though, to became Voyant (seer / watcher)
gave him the opposite effect.
—– ? ? ? to give a thought, ISN’T IT strange, nobody did gave him an advice or after
100.000 years history of human culture, why such wisdom haven’t been established ?
—– then think more, ? ? ? ? ? —– Have we got a wisdom in the first place at all ?
What is the wisdom ?
—– Very basic morality ? Such as that, DON’T do wrong or bad otherwise the society,
and ultimately you will get a repercussion and suffer. —– And the way to see what is
wrong or bad. —– In reality, the burst majority of the practical detail on the
“life’s how to do” is open to the person to experiment on the spot, and find the answer
by themselves. = It’s mean that existing / ready-made “Wisdom” is not more than an
Opinion, since even the people, so-called “Burst majority”, among them, non of two
Karma is the same, and operating strictly individual base. This was the reason why,
Lord Buddha ordered to his disciples “Don’t believe what others said. Think yourself”=
Simply because, the answer will be different, person to person.
—– (This was originally intended to be the 700th post —– though, it gone to banana. 😀 )
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