Selfless = Anatman = Sunyata = Voidness
As I wrote in the previous post “No Teaching ??? ”, what
Lord Buddha was teaching was no other than the state of the brain “Selflessness”
such as when a person was completely absorbed into an action or practice.
(Though his approach to put emphasis on meditation may not be the best way.
==> So that many different methods was invented later).
But unfortunately, this neurological phenomenon and his Teachings has not been
correctly understood and kept by his followers. The reason was, as I wrote, it was
not clearly explained even to the immediate disciples and not all the disciples
necessary understood, let alone actually reached to a state of Selflessness.
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This history has been reflected to some tradition, such as that the Theravada sect
who is keeping rather ancient form of Buddhism define the “Voidness” = Sunnata is
pertaining to the Selflessness / Non-Self = Annatta, and this Annatta is in fact, no other
than the Sanskrit, Anatman.
Lord Buddha’s teachings had the fundamental stance against the Vadic Atman.
Therefore, it was NO-Atoman = Anatman. —– It showed, in the original teachings, there
was no separate notion of Voidness, because the feeling of Voidness = Detached view to
the world was a part of the Selflessness or Selflessness itself.
(The one who really possess the Selfless-eyes knows this.)
Because, when the Emotion was disconnected, and feel everything were detached, the
stimuli to any 5 senses doesn’t have significance —– it exists though makes no difference
as if it was not existed. Hence, didn’t need to specially talk about so-called Voidness.
(People who naturally acquired to speak English, as born in England, doesn’t excite or
talk about it. But foreigner who newly became bilingual tend to show-off that he can
speak English. = A person acquired Selflessness through long practice, doesn’t feel of
the Voidness anything special, since they gradually came together and feel nothing
that they are the separate phenomenon —– in fact the person doesn’t even noticed
such a phenomenon, either Selflessness or Voidness ever existed in the mind.)
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The history of Buddhism was the masquerade of sham Guru who pretended to know the
Lord Buddha’s teachings = Selflessness. —– As, there was a hear-say, the attribution of
the Enlightenment (Selflessness) is such as “Middle way” or a “Detached view = Perception
of Void” —– Those Guru pretended that they know the subject, and deployed the argument
while writing yet another script about “Middle-way” or “Voidness” simply they saw the
opportunities to become famous and rich. But in fact, some of them were Tantra, or
mixture of Hindu and as they were using their more familiar knowledge to describe
Selflessness and Buddhism, = Buddhism deviated so much. In fact some of them became
beyond the recognition from the original teachings and end-up almost like the Hinduism.
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Fundamentally, there couldn’t be any argument or needs to discuss the matter of
Middle way or Voidness, even the Panya Paramita as a separate phenomenon, since
they are naturally attributed to the same state of Mushin or Selflessness
= Psychological Phenomenon is Just one.
(A man in ill for caught cold shows the symptoms such as “High temperature”
“Headache” “Coughing” etc. so that to deal with “High temperature” alone and
dip him into a cold water wouldn’t help him. :-D)
People who doesn’t know the whole, in its totality, picking-up a superficial distinctive
feature, and talking in loud voice, pretending that he is The expert. Is exactly like a Theory
of Economics = use one monetary index, and try to describe whole economical trend.
Or mimicking the fashion of a star, and buy the same handbag, use the same buzz-word.
All those are the sign of “This person doesn’t know what he is talking about”.
Still, the trouble was that to the eyes and the ears of people standing by, who knows
even less, think those sham Guru looks, sound, great. —– The sensational new fashion
trend with buzzword of Voidness and the thousand of new-Buddha etc.etc. those new
concepts in Mahayana scriptures were made-up in this way. (But don’t get me wrong
I’m not against everything of Mahayana, as it opened the more flexibility and the
way of free thinking which is the essential to the Zen mind.)
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The worst was Nagarjuna who boasted that he brought back the scriptures from the
Dragon’s cave in the sea bottom. = What a shameless braggart. —– If you see it in
cool head, you may realize that he was a kind of sham doctor, a salesman selling dubious
beauty portion. And selling new buzzword of Voidness, exploiting the ignorance of the
Buddhists who doesn’t know what was the
Lord Buddha’s original teachings. (What Nagarjuna said, such as in the Panya Paramita
Sutra was not necessary wrong, and the funny paradoxical phrase was the attempt to
express the complexity of the human mind (co-existent Conscious and Unconscious mind)
though, to put such emphasis to Voidness alone was an indication of that he didn’t have an
own experience of the Selflessness (cut-off Emotional Region / Hypothalamus in the Brain,
hence the things and the matters were seen remote from Self-interest) = he didn’t know
that the Selflessness and the voidness was not separate phenomenon.
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To describe what’s going on inside of our body is not easy,
not mention inside of the mind, even to
Lord Buddha, especially, subconscious is invisible. —– Hence he was very reluctant
on the beginning (so, the scriptures says). That was why
Lord Buddha invented the way to teach direct, without resorting the verbal explanation.
—- though, some were worked, but not everything. So that, many different understanding,
interpretations were bore out, not mention convenient use of the term or notion even the
Divine figures from other religion.
When the person was in Selflessness, there is no need to have a Divine figure to worship.
Selfless hence with Dharma IS its state. Dharma is there together with
its mechanism of Karma. = It is not for worship but to live with.
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—– Of cause, the situation is more or less the same to me, I never seen how a
visual signal running from my eyes to the brain, = only guessing it must be like a
PET Scanner’s screen showed us. Still, as we know now, how the brain works on the
process of thinking, feeling etc. and we are able to shed the light
to the matter “What is the Selflessness” of which
Lord Buddha pointed out as the way to deal with Life’s problematic situation.
Now is the time to elucidate and Re-construct the teachings of
Lord Buddha to its original form. —– using today’s term = talking in a style and the
words, matched to the occasion and to the audience was the tradition started by
Lord Buddha. 😉
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No Word, No Teaching ???
There is a well known quotation in Buddhism “In his 45 years of teaching,
Lord Buddha didn’t give even a single word”. —– Even as a metaphor,
this words could explain the most crucial truth in the teachings of
Lord Buddha.
(After 4 years I blogged here = this practice has been my equivalent of facing a rock wall
to sort out the conflicting notions and the words in the scripture, and on the end, I came
to the conclusion.)
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A trouble of Buddhism is that there is no authentic written “one teaching”.
Even the earliest scripture, Agama Sutra was created 200 or more years later, thence
virtually all the 3,000 Buddhism scriptures were compiled on hear-say and guess-work.
(still the author may say “My understanding of the True Buddhism”)
And on top of this, it was a well known fact that
Lord Buddha,s words seemed to be different ocasion to ocasion and it was depend on
to whom he was speaking. —– So that, what I’ve been doing was, picking-up the pieces
among the mountain of disassembled parts and to re-configure the most likely the
original picture. (You may say, I also doing a guess-work) 😀
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Considering this Quotation “No teaching” together with other stories such as Kisa Gotami’s
mustard seeds’ story and a story of Churi Pantac (Shuri Bantoku) sweeping the garden, and
on top of those, “Going out on rainy night” (Test of Selflessness) story.
There was no explanation of why or what could be achieved by doing so, was given by
Lord Buddha. = It must be the teaching of “Think it yourself” though, is anywhere the
explanation why need to think yourself, was ever explained ? By thinking it, (but thinking
in the subconscious level ! ) the one can reach own understanding which would lead to the
own Enlightenment, as the Enlightenment couldn’t be given or taught by any other person,
the one has to find it. (external communication hardly touch one’s subconscious.)
(It is completely different from “Believing the Gospel”= Belief is to firmly memorise the
Pattern, but not necessary know what to do with it, since implanted memory is a
foreign substance) = Because the very process of finding out, is a part of the Enlightenment
(This process is to Re-program the Brain and cut-off Emotional Region to handle a situation
= hence, without an involvement of the Self.) Thus, to teach it in the words would spoil the
purpose of ths teaching itself. = Teaching in Words would only create a memory, but Buddhism
need to change the personality from the subconscious. —– While fully aware of this paradox,
Lord Buddha wouldn’t have explained the effect of the practice or what is the aim of it,
instead, only gave an instruction what to do. He didn’t give-away the trick and the goal.
In this extent, he didn’t teach but just gave a Task. And while doing it, the person can reach
and gain a state of the “Mushin” and “Selflessness”. —– Observing the person’s progress,
Lord Buddha must have given further instruction what to do next,
and where is the point to watch, but not what to think or why / the theory.
( Practice can be done purely subconsciously (in Mushin) but the Word ( = Categorized
notion) couldn’t be operated away from the highly conscious brain activities.)
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A crucial point in Buddhism IS there is no promise of salvation BUT “Save yourself by
reaching the Enlightenment by yourself” —– otherwise, Life is suffering, getting ill,
get old and die. = very blunt message. = (Very Un-Religion like message in deed, since
Buddhism is a teaching of Truth, not a false hope or pinky illusions.) And all the
8 right path etc are what you do. Not what to believe. In fact, all those “Do what” are
obviously in the common sense. Nobody would suggests otherwise. So, there are no
fancy ritual but simple practice = matter is not what or why, but Do.
Lord Buddha might actually told those words to his followers, but no words of why to
Do it = because, no matter of what, but actually Do it unconditionally then
what would happen = Was the teaching.
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So that when you do, just DO without thinking,
without questioning, it’s mean in Mushin, was what
Lord Buddha taught, NOT a complicated reasoning or mythical story which only exists in
abstract notion = Delusion. “What we can DO (include the thinking) without our lexical
conscious = in another word “DO it subconsciously” is the Core of the teaching.
Lord Buddha must have taught how the Karma (cause and result) works in each moment,
such as behind our eyes how the nature is interacting, and all sorts of the physical
phenomena, almost like a science teacher, and taught this is what the Dharma is.
But strictly remained within the rationality and on the facts.
(even though it was in the 2,500 years old standard).
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Since we can do, we can live, without conscious (in deed as we are walking without
thinking how to walk or we are thinking without us noticing it.)
“In the truth, SELF is not a real existence but only an imaginary existence = The Self or
Atman in Vedic teachings is a false”. Therefore the teaching couldn’t be based on the
lexical thinking which is a product of the conscious Self. —– The paradox was that the
teaching was “to become and to live Selfless”. = How to teach and learn the Selflessness
without relying on the product of the Self / Word and the notion. —– Only a way to
learn “To do without thinking” is just watch the way to DO, then Do the same.
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To teach or to tell in the words, “Do it without thinking” is the same as to tell
“Tell me that you are sitting in silence” 😀 —– So that,
Lord Buddha just asked the followers to follow him and do the same.
The followers studied by just watching and learned by just Doing.
By just keep Doing, the followers get used with it, and reached the mind-set to Do
and Live without conscious of the Self. (Without conscious mean, it is not only in
Mushin but be with the Karma of its Moment, in another word Ichijo / Oneness with
the subject or ultimately with the Dharma.)
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So that, the teachings were not in the words, hence, it sound as if nothing was taught.
But that was what Buddhism was in the original form. —– And this was the very reason
why the tradition of “Teaching by Heart to Heart, without relying on the words”
(教外別伝，不立文字，依心伝心) has been kept in the Zen teaching.
(= Just DO the work. Soon or later you will learn to do it automatic/Selfless.)
Yes, Lord Buddha has taught. In a way NOT taught anything at all.
So, the quotation was correct.
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Stabilize the Camera — Chest-Pod
There are many way to stabilize the camera. Starting from the way to grip the camera.
Ultimately a use of Tripod or Mono-pod, even a use of a Bean-bag.
Still, it’s all down to a mind-set of the photographer = Whether to pay an attention
against a possible camera-shake and become aware of own doing?
If it is a case “Doesn’t matter that the Stabilizer built into the lens should take care of
that problem”. —– This is the most funny situation. It is only a psychological trick.
The stabilizer may save a photo while cancelling a camera shake for further 3 stops = such
as in a situation of 200 mm lens, it would be safer to use a shutter speed 1/250 or faster
and with the aid of stabilizer it “may” drop to 1/125 or 1/60 —– still “may not” works.
In such case, I would set 2 stop higher ISO setting to get 2 stop higher shutter speed.
—— In the same time a “Maestro” may say “other than ISO 100 color is not in its best”
—– Oh, really ? ! The BEST mean it is still in a relative matter = NOT the absolute.
Our right-eye and the left-eye are not necessary even seeing the same color.
(Test it your self if you are not aware yet. 😉 —– If not aware this discrepancy,
how the one could boast about “the critical Color” 😀 )
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I used be working close together with the publishers, their printers, plate-making engineers,
and one of my closest climbing mate of mountain has studied Printing Technology and
became an expert of the photo-scanner (such as Crosfield’s machne) —— I heard many
wired stories of “Special Sorcery” in their trade —– still, when it makes the print on the paper,
such as slight difference of the paper which is different a roll to roll, or even a humidity in
the air changes absorbency of the paper hence changes the color of print, etc. etc. = there
can not be any reliable absolute or perfection. It is just someone’s preference.
Anyhow, computer to computer, this CRT to that LCD screen, the color is always different
= what fuss about such minute difference. 😀
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As I grown-up in the time when the color film was ISO 64 or 100, B/W was 400 and even with
push-development, ISO 1600 or so (Kodak Royal Record Pan = ISO 12500 was existed though)
I had to stabilize the camera other than ISO speed. So that, I tried many kind of chest-pod.
(though there are too many — even I don’t remember how many I bought and made myself.)
So, I show you two of my handmade.
This is a chest-pod of current use on my DSLR. The simplest, hence the most neat one !
It was made by aluminium pipe and a short piece of C-channel (which was cut and bent).
(A trouble was, the Airport Security suspects that this is a part of a disguised weapon. 😀 )
—– Unlike western people, I hold a camera right side down (it’s a Japanese tradition)
therefore when I shoot vertical-way, this chest-pod come against my left shoulder
just under the collar bone.
And this is the other one I made for EOS Film Camera which doubles as an external
battery chamber. ( AA x 5 rechargeable batteries instead of 2CR5 Lithium battery)
And it functions as a chest-pod exactly the same way as the other one. But this one can
fold down under the camera bottom. ( I don’t make a rubbish for a sake of Youtube. 😀 )
The advantage of this shooting style is, the hand which triggers the shutter, its elbow was
firmly lodged onto the body, hence it is far more stable than the style having right arm in
the air and move a finger to trigger.
—– May be because of the fundamental flaw of the camera holding style in the west, the
camera shake is unavoidable, hence, it gave an opportunity to the manufacturer to produce
“Stabilizer” and sell it for £500 more price ! (I don’t think it costed such amount for them. )
—– In a video image, shaky picture is annoying but on a still, “two stops slower” seems not
much use —– better use same £500 to another shopping, and set 2 stop higher ISO, —– above
all, have a practice to gain a stable holding of the camera would be far more advantageous.
Since, to gain calm, stable mind to stabilize the hand would be far more beneficial to the
one’s whole life in general. Anyhow, not all the lenses you got, has a stabilizer, and
living with unstable mind wouldn’t bring any happiness.
Better think it in different angle and better change the mind-set and the way you shoot.
(If you doubt, have look a photo here and the photos by 500 mm lens in the previous post. )
(Here, the Zen practice comes in. 😀 )
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Body Parts
Those photos are just a casual snap of the people playing with computer.
But using 500 mm lens hand-held. = naturally, there was not much room to use
such long telephoto lens in a small room, picture became a kind of close-up.
Yet still, it was 2 m away, people didn’t mind to be photographed much. —– and
I found a quite unusual usefulness of this lens, despite it is rather dark F 8.
(ISO was set to 1600, shutter speed was 1/15 ~ 1/30, AV mode — just to mention)
I hope you enjoy the photos. 😉
Next time I hope to upload more appetising body-parts. 😀 😀
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Grown-up with Pain
It seems the Politicians are arguing about yet another law to deal with “Dangerous Dog”
after many cases of the children (even Policemen) were attacked, even by their family dog.
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To my eyes, there lies a fundamental problem of our society’s attitude toward the animals
and the nature in general.
I’ve seen a very small child run to cuddle even a big dog which is somebody else’s dog.
May be as a civilized people, we should be friendly with animal etc. though, animal is
the animal for ever. May be thousands of hart-warming story of the friendship between
human and animals, though, we shouldn’t forget that we are only a part of the Fauna,
and other part of the member never belong to us, let alone dictated by us.
Our apparent dominance is just a superficial pictures.
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Be friendly but cuddling them like a Soft Toy is totally different matter. —– have you
ever seen the dogs hugging each other ? Or does cats do it ? Only Primates hug !
Even if it is familiar picture to a dog, suddenly a small child who’s smell is totally
unknown, come close and start hugging, the dog react their own way —– could
bite-back, scream and the smell of blood only excite them.
We shouldn’t mistake, “Be friendly” doesn’t mean “THEY also act like Soft toy made
by human” — we need to distinguish and treat them as another member of the Fauna
who could still be dangerous.
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Same misconception is in the education, publication etc. = with a sort of
“Humanitarian Ideas” = treat others as equal, not to be violent, etc. or talking about
not giving “Psychological Trauma” etc. (even seek a damage compensation against it).
(Worst is in Japan, in the children’s book all the fearful image of such as Wolf or any
Dangerous animal has been disfigured into cuddly cute “Figure” and even the
carnivorous Ogres became just another member of a democratic society!
(Ogre is the symbol who AGAINST the society = counter reference = they got to be bad !)
In the other hand, a Manga or Game Hero uses all sorts of lethal weapons to kill
enemies in the most violent way, was not checked.
So, a kids grown up without learning a pain (to the self = to the others) does the most
horrifying killing when he or she (these days, women has been committing really
dreadful killing = it seems they really found the equality) commits a murder.)
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NO! Grown up is a process to learn with Pain. Its trauma is the basis of the imperative
memory “What we have to pay attention” and the teachings of DO and NOT DO.
—– We intelligent civilized people “can” understand what was told or written, is false.
The notice or warning was for the excuse of the liability of the Authority. = I told you.
(Please note, I’m not advocating a teacher, instructor sort, resorting with a physical
violence or harassment in order them to enforce their “idea” to the students.)
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Respect the Nature is to accept that they got their own Karma hence rightfully exists in
this Planet = Respect WHAT THEY ARE, not impose our idea such as faithful cuddly dog
or beautiful song bird etc. To lean this without pain, it wouldn’t be sublimated to the
bottom of our subconscious, and reflect it to our behaviour or perception.
—– In most of the situation, our behaviour, perception were not controlled by our
civilized conscious thinking but invisible subconscious. We only think after.
( —– by the way, I don’t intend to offend the unfortunate victim mowed by the dog.
I really feel sorry for them. —– especially, me too, can’t get on well with the dog
= as, I’m a cats person. 🙂 )
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Mind in the Syber Space (and Under the Hormone)
There was a rather sad news on the radio that a girl committed a suicide after bullied on SNS.
In reality, it was only a line of letters on a screen, still we take it as a message from somebody
and interpret it in a certain context —– some time too seriously.
(And in this case it even caused a girl to hang herself.)
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With Twitter accounts in my name (though, whether they are “mine” or not is arguable since
they are created by somebody else. :-)) I used to receive a lots of direct massages to my Email,
of which most of them were saying “Somebody spreading dreadful rumour about you ~> See
this” or “lol, I laughed so much of this picture of you ~> See this” and lure to get virus or
see AD —– (Though, I only guess, since I never ever clicked and open. I don’t know what’s there.
Then I set a filter “Twitter, Direct massage” automatically go to the bin.)
= The reason is that there is absolutely no possibility, somebody I don’t know can make any
serious rumour about me, or post a photo with my name on it (since, all of my ID is fake.)
Other reason is, if it was true, it must be a fun to other people = enjoy it yourself.
Make the world smiley place is a good things, why not ?
If anybody doing it on behalf of me, I’m very much thankful. 😀
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To deal with Syber Space, I prepared to the worst scenario, hence I don’t give real ID as
much as I can. As I got friends who are (were?) Anarchist, Hacker, (ex?) Terrorist, etc etc. and
know a bit of computer, I’ve seen a program which can generate all the combination of possible
Password and hack-in etc etc. = I don’t trust so-called Security at all.
So, if I got to do Net-shopping I use a bank account which got only just-enough balance left.
False ID to each registration prevents two information joint together.
(You know, First name + Post code can find “Who you are and the full address”. To add DOB can
access NHS data. From here, to hack-in to Banking data is just a matter of keyboard. etc etc.
—– And on top of those, such as Google is keeping all of our Net history in their side.
A hidden file of Picasa is keeping extract sample photos of naughty site you’ve visited.(not me) 🙂
—– search your HDD, [Photograph, Picasa, Information] or check ALL the files in your Picasa!
—- and those information has been given to the National Security. You remember? ! ! !)
We are completely naked in the Net. = So, remember to use snail-mail if you are dealing with
something dubious. Utilize a convenience of Internet, free of cost, having certain trade-off.
We human being is a social animal, and rather vulnerable existence, hence very susceptible to
the environment and the social-environmental condition. Therefore, we were genetically
programmed to pay attention to others, though, to take other’s words too serious is a trouble of
the person who read it. = It is a juggling work. To listen what other’s say might be important, but
in the same time, to detached from it, is also important. Other’s words could be crucial though,
just put a distance and think “Who the person bother to send such a message is ? And what’s the
intention ? Hasn’t this person got anything else to do ?” = such observation will shed a light to
the situation. —– And much more importantly this detached mind-set prevent us
to be deflected by the emotion.
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Still, to take an other’s message in certain context is depend on the mind of who read it.
In a philosophical view, the things in the world is not really existing but only in the mind,
let alone such as a message in the Net. = It is an indirect-indirect flimsy existence.
And physically they have no danger. Just delete it.
And the Buddhists may not believe the Self is even a real existence = if the Self is not there,
why afraid to be harmed or lost in a Syber bulling.
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Yet still, if you take matter in a mind too seriously, this article may show you the reality,
Mind is not a kind of Holy existence in a mysterious sanctuary. There may not even be a
so-called spirituality. They might be all in a delusion.
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The two faces of the “love hormone”
By Brian Dodson
August 6, 2013
Often called the love hormone, oxytocin has shown the ability to enhance social bonding,
decrease anxiety and encourage an overall feeling of satisfaction with life. A new study out of
Northwestern University, however, finds that this ancient hormone has a dark side, and is capable
ofstrengthening unpleasant memories, fear, and anxiety. This Jeckyll and Hyde behavior results
from the fact that oxytocin has a general strengthening effect on social memories, without regard
to their polarity.
Although discovered in 1906, study of the emotion-altering effects of oxytocin are still in their infancy.
Experiments on humans as well as animal models strongly suggest that oxytocin is associated with
pair bonding, social recognition, ethnocentricity (the “in group” effect), increasing trust, decreasing fear,
and even improved wound healing. An interesting example of this class of effects can be found in a
2012 study which showed that oxytocin caused men in a monogamous relationship to maintain
four to six inches more space between themselves and an attractive woman in a crowd, while
having no effect on single men.
Other, less positive properties of oxytocin dosage have also begun to be reported.
For example, a study from the University of Haifa found that the emotions of envy and
Schadenfreude (pleasure in another’s misfortune) were increased by internasal administration of
oxytocin. Further research suggests people with borderline personality disorder, whose major
symptom is a tendency to withdraw from social interactions, exhibit less trust when treated with
oxytocin. This was particularly true in those who were sensitive to rejection. Clearly, oxytocin’s
effects on people’s emotions are not as simple as originally suggested.
This new study from Northwestern University demonstrates that oxytocin is associated with
emotional pain. In increasing the strength of social memories, it may be the reason that stressful
social situations (bullying, abuse, ridicule, rejection) can easily be brought to mind long after the event.
The intensity of such memories can be such that the memory feels almost like living through the
original event every time you think of it.
The Northwestern study, carried out by Dunbar Professor Jelena Radulovic’s group, found that
during a stressful social experience, oxytocin is released and activates a part of the brain that
intensifies the memory. Oxytocin also increases the susceptibility to feeling fearful and anxious during
stressful events going forward. It seems likely that oxytocin also intensifies positive social memories,
but this has not explicitly been examined as yet.
Professor Radulovic’s study is the first to link oxytocin to social stress and its ability to increase
anxiety and fear in response to future stress. The researchers also discovered the brain region
responsible for these effects – the lateral septum – and the pathway or route oxytocin uses in this
area to amplify fear and anxiety.
The findings surprised the researchers, who were expecting oxytocin to intensify positive emotions
in memory, based on its long association with love and social bonding.
“Oxytocin is usually considered a stress-reducing agent based on decades of research,” said
Yomayra Guzman, a doctoral student in Radulovic’s lab. “With this novel animal model, we showed
how it enhances fear rather than reducing it and where the molecular changes are occurring in our
central nervous system.”
Far from a simple “cuddle hormone,” oxytocin appears to have the same complex interaction with
human health and behavior as most other hormones. While a good deal of progress has been made,
there is still work to do when it comes to to unknotting the tangled ball of yarn that is oxytocin’s effects.
Source: Northwestern University —– The link to the Original article
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PS: If you are a hard-core Spiritualist, you may not happy with this kind of materialistic
view though, this view doesn’t conflict with Lord Buddha’s teachings at all. Far from it,
Lord Buddha’s fundamental teaching of the Karma = Cause and Result is nothing but a
Scientific Rationalism. Hence, when one dies, its mind, spirit goes with. No Atman exists.
Nutrition of the soil and the water with plenty sun, the plants grows.
This is nothing but the science. Hence, the Testosterone in a body drive a man to do the sex.
So, here the Physiologists talked about how Oxitocin causes in our body and gives the effects
to the mind. —— This is the Very mechanism of the Karma.
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Zen in Action (3) — Latent Thinking
At moment, I’m in chaos of shifting the mountain of boxes again. Some of the regular readers
may remember, I said the same before, though it was for fitting new window but this time it
is for electric re-wiring. It’s mean, I have to shift those to the window-side to vacate the
wall-side for the electrician to access all the power-points, switches etc. (I’m not happy at all.
= so-called Electric safety standard has been changed and they say all the system has to be
kept-up, blah blah = keep industry busy to make money, but I’m dubious about
why the contract has gone to this company.)
So that, fortunately or unfortunately, I had to dig-up the boxes berried to the bottom which
I haven’t seen since when I moved to here.
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In common-sense, people only has what is essential to the own immediate life, the essential
for the daily life. —– ideally a Buddhist remained in their bare minimum though it’s the matter
of how the person define who he is = a Buddhist bikku (literally a beggar who forsaken all his
possession for a sake of seeking the truth) may needed to have one cloth to cover his body and
one bowl to receive food (then to drink, and take a water to wash himself etc.)
—– in this context when I found that the followers of
Lord Buddha had umbrella, I was very surprised (let alone the umbrella had been already
invented then ! —– this sort of analysis would lead to see the timing when Agama Sutras was
written, or its authenticity.)
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In fine day, still carry an umbrella for if it starts a rain, or carry a bowl in case if anybody
offer a food are all in the speculation (may happen but not on that moment) = in other words,
it’s only in the mind. I wonder what Lord Buddha instructed to this matter to his followers ?
So, the teaching of “Live in the Moment” include the situation “Could happen next moment” too.
So, I carry a mountain of material to make something which could happen in any moment. 😀
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Don’t cling to your thought but leave the matter to the Dharma (occurrence of the Karma).
This “thought” meant be a kind of thinking we are doing in lingual form. —– as a matter of fact,
as Neuroscientists found that 90% of our thinking has been done subconsciously without convert
it to the lingual form. Even when we are in Mushin and totally occupied by one action, our Brain
is still in full working state unless we choose to have meditative state.
This “subconscious thinking” is no other than what we call [intuition], [hunch], and often giving
an [insight], or [inspiration] and those are the very “Latent Thinkings”.
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In comparison, what we learned in lingual form such as somebody’s words or what we learned
from the books will stay as the lingual memories.
We can say “I understood” is in fact, lexical understanding of an abstract notion of the word and
its meanings but not what it is in practice.
But what we experienced and learned in real life always carries the tag of emotion yet this
emotion is very difficult to convert and express in the words, because the tag in the emotion is
a part of the said “Latent Thinkings”. In most of the case, lingual memory stay like a distant
objects and not necessary relate to the emotion hence, it is not necessary takes a part
in the “Latent Thinkings”.
The words “Be careful, it’ll bite you” stay as the words until after you were actually bitten =
Then, it will be imprinted into your subconscious with a pain, and “Be careful” become part of
your “Latent Thinking”.
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This is the very reason why actual practice or experience is so important to our life, and what
Lord Buddha said “Don’t believe what others said but think yourself”
(better still through experiences).
—— (One of my Kinetic Sculpture “Cupidon / Archer” which was made mostly discarded material
—— I’ve picked-up, such as aluminium angles etc. Except an Air-pomp (yellow one) I bought.
—— The motor came from a Cooling-fan ) (Moving image is in youtube —> Click right column)
—– through experiences since my childhood, I knew, such as an aluminium angle is so useful
to make a structure, or such as a discarded printer contain very useful motor etc. = I collected
and stashed them in my room = hence made mountains of junks. So, when like this unexpected
situation occurs, I have to work hard to shift the boxes.
—– bad still, it’s an unusually hot summer.
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Royal Baby-Boy’s relation to Beyonce ! ?
There was a joky talking of the DJ in BBC Radio-1 mentioning that a researcher found
the Royal baby-boy (born 16:24 today) is distantly related to a singer Beyonce,
as 23rd Cousin twice removed. —– I found a likely source in this link —-
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/royal-baby-will-be-distantly-
related-to-beyonce-jayz-brad-and-angelina/story-fni0b8dv-1226676989090
I don’t have enough knowledge how so-called family-tree was traced, therefore I have no idea
what this “23rd Cousin twice removed” graphically mean.
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There was a hype many years ago about “ 6-Degree of Separation” —– How we are
connected each other where ever we are in this world.
Sound somewhat miraculous story though, (in fact I never read the story or seen a film,
so that I do have no idea what sort of theory or research behind)
have you ever thought about this matter by yourself ?
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It was a sort of the observations after “Facebook” that we may connected to somebody completely
out of our knowledge if we traced the indirect connection next by next.
Such as I have rather exotic friends of African, Arabic etc etc. and of course each of those friend has
their own friends or relatives in their society
= in effect, my connection spread to those countries as well.
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So, just think about, how many friend or relatives you got ? I guess it is pretty safe to
say 100, but if we include acquaintances and far relatives, it could be well over 1000.
—– Assuming, you are connected to 100 people, and all those people has their own 100,
but half of the people are overlapping = it’s mean, through 100 direct connection, it
spread to 100×50 = 5000 indirectly.
And those 5000 could connected to further 50 each, and so on.
So, just have a multiplication — 100x50x50x50x50x50 as of the 6-degree.
You will find the total number is well over the whole population in the world.
If all the world population was included in this link, no wonder, no-one can be alone.
It is a natural situation without resorting such FANCY theory. 😀
Anybody could be trace back to anybody in the world. —– That’s a theory though,
asking “Do you know Yoshi, or could you ask your friends ?” and extend this to whole
world population, how long would it takes time, let alone the cost of communication.
= utterly useless dreamy theory.
6-Degree mean whole world population = of course if you ask whole world,
at least 100 people knows Yoshi. But Who can do it ? 😀 😀
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If you DO think yourself, you will realize, that there is no such miraculous theory.
—– Any how, a scientist said to be traced back all the European population to the original
7 ancestors who came and settled to southern Europe. Since then, those 7 families might
have inter married, thence they are all related. So, there couldn’t be anything to surprise
an American singer has blood connection to English who was happen to be Royal.
(There was even a story, that English royal blood has some relation to Indian.)
Don’t be deflected by fanciful story and waste the time in useless gossip.
Don’t believe what others say, think yourself.
As Lord Buddha said. 🙂
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Robot astronaut Kirobo
This is an article from Gizmag —– it looks cute and interesting story.
—– Even a grown-up astronaut, not a Hary-Potters kids, feel comfort talking with robot
might be a reflection of Japanese Shinto religion, which sees the spirit in any beings.
Robot astronaut Kirobo headed for ISS in August
By David Szondy
June 26, 2013
The video below (in Japanese) shows Kirobo going through its paces.
Source: Toyota
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Beach Rose
I don’t think I need to show whole plant of this Rose as you can find them just round
a corner of street — with a sweet fragrance but having such dense sharp prickles.
I thought this rose, Rosa rugosa is a common rose in any sea coast in the northern
country though, it seems it was originated from east, and once introduced to the west,
it spread everywhere since, even they were classified as “Invasive plant” in the US.
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The reason why I thought they are common was that I was thinking their seed pod
(some people calls them “Sea tomato” ) was carried by the sea stream and spread
to other places. —– When I saw them first time in the northern Japan, where people
call them as Hamanasu or Hamanashi, I was overwhelmed by its impenetrable bush
spread on a sea side as far as I can see. Then, its sweet fragrance was embedded to my
subconscious alongside a Song “Shiretoko-Ryojo” (知床旅情／A memory in Shiretoko)
Since, I was on the way to Shiretoko Peninsula with the botanists who wants to see an
unique species of Violet only grow in a remote corner of that Peninsula.
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So that, when I saw this rose again on the shore of Helsingor, Denmark, just outside
of Kronborg Castle (famous for Hamlet) 33 years ago, its smell instantly took me
back into its old memory. ( Sigh ! How far, we have drifted —— 🙂 )
Though, in reality, her ancestor didn’t come riding on the wave, but travelled in a box.
( Not so romantic. How shame. 🙂 )
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