Baby Baby
There was a BBQ in my friend’s place, and I checked the palm lines of my friends
Lukas and Lucy’s baby Lia’s. —– Hm —– hm hm !
Anyhow, a baby is —– fundamentally cute.
Why CUTE ?
A notion of beauty came from the eyes of grown-up’s. Therefore, it
needs the exact shape and the proportion etc etc.
A baby got everything out of proportion. Big eyes big round cheeks short legs
etc etc. Hence they are not beautiful but cute or pretty.
non
Beautiful woman is the eyes to appreciate —– though not necessary nice to talk with. Especially too perfect
beauties often repel us. Or at least me. ( Anyhow I know I don’t match them. Ha ha ha 😀 )
The charm point, which attract us is somewhere a little bit out of perfection. Out of proportion.
So, the charming point lies between perfection and a monster. —– So that, a bit out of standard is a charm,
but if it’s gone too far makes a monster. How much [a bit] is depend on the individual taste. Some likes more
and some got taste of even a monster. In most of case, where the people feel charming and cute, such
as big eyes etc are in fact the typical feature of the baby.
Cute disarm and open the mind of grown-ups and make them feel joy. So, everybody loves it.
Simply because the babies are absolutely harmless (except few historical accidents 🙂 ) and the living sample of
the glory of the life ( save the pain and the hardship of the parents found in reality 🙂 )
If anybody really encounter a creature 6 feet tall looks like a baby in the picture, definitely frighten them
though, here, she is just a small baby, only makes you smile.
Isn’t she CUTE ?
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DaVinci DELUSION
No one deny the exceptional drawing skill of Leonardo DaVinci, but how about his famous
ingenuity in the inventions, and the scientific thinking and the observation ?
Most of the people believe the reputation of him as a genius —– really ? ? ?
As a matter of fact, what people believe is mere Hear-say or Myth.
At least, anybody can see his superb drawings and the paintings. Though, how many people ever
put close eyes to his invention or anatomical drawings, which purported to be medically,
scientifically true representation of the human anatomy.
non
Utterly against the popular belief, my view of Leonardo DaVinchi is, he was just a trickster with
big mouth. Big mouth but his presentation with realistic superb drawing fooled the people.
Exactly same as a sham Doctor selling beauty portion with beautiful picture on the bottle.
But the people who doesn’t know the science or engineering was just fooled by his big mouth
—– any how they couldn’t understand the significance or implication of the drawings.
non
If you have the basic understanding of the mechanical structure, have look his famous design of
the battle tank. —– ( you can find it in the Wikipedia )
Just look how the wheels to drive the tank was connected. —— You must soon be realized, that the
tank can go nowhere, because the wheels of the tank rotates opposite directions, against each others.
Of cause, if it was actually ever built by the carpenters —– since even ordinary carpenters can see the
direction of rotation, the mistake in the design must be rectified and modified by them on the spot,
therefore the tank could have roll-out for test drive. But even if it was built and tested, soon they realized
that a block of stone or shallow trench dug on the ground can easily demobilize the tank and it become a
sitting duck. Oil and fire would burn the soldiers inside alive. What a useless silly idea 😀
non
And just give a thought to that famous flying machine design —– does anybody possibly imagined,
somebody in the world has the muscle to swing the wings of that huge heavy structure ?
Was Leonardo DaVinci such ignorant ? Still, he believed it is a feasible good idea.—– Delusion again.
Despite his big mouth and the pretense, he lack the brain to rationally figured out the possibility and
the feasibility of the mechanism. —– He literally draw the beautiful picture (or dream ? )
He was a man just deluded and intoxicated by his own fancy idea and fooled others with it.
He was only good to copy and draw what he can actually see. —– was that ? Really ?
Non
There are hundred of the anatomical sketches made by him.
They are no doubt, superb realistic drawings —– except some
unimaginable distortions, which he intentionally put on there.
Leonardo DaVinci was a member of the Free Masons and had profound Masonic
belief, hence he had the belief of the spirit. He believed the domain of the spirit
is in the brain, and because its spirit was carried in the semen, the child inherit the
spirit from father —– therefore it has been continued from Adam.
Its mean, the sperm has to come from the brain. And it shouldn’t come
through the same tube sharing with urine, hence having different tube in the penis.
So that he has drawn additional extra tube running from brain to penis, in his anatomical
drawings of the genitals.
—– Obviously he was quite obsessed with this idea,the same man who
could precisely observed and drawn the exact position of the urinary
tube from kidney to bladder still managed to falsify non-existent tube
in the penis. It’s not scientific at all. And if he was a believer of
the God’s creation, it is a dreadful fallacy, and contempt of God.
non
There was a strange paradox in his belief. Despite his profound Masonic
belief of spiritualism, he didn’t know what the spiritualism mean, hence
he tried to make-up the materialistic representation of the spirit
—– the semen as the substance of the spirit. ( Bad tendency of the inventor. 😀 )
( Inventor’s aim is to materialize the idea. Philosopher accepts first and try to explain 😀 )
Lots of people were mislead by his paintings of Mona Lisa or Madonna kind of images, but it was
just an assignment with money to him, it was nothing to do with his spiritual state of the mind nor Christianity.
Considering many of his drawing of grotesque faces, and above all, a man who got insatiable apatite to
dissect the human body, even a pregnant woman with a foetus inside —– it is not only illegal but
a grotesque feast of insanity. It was far worse than mental perversion. He actually took a knife in his
hand to cut open a womb, in order to draw the shape of foetus. Under the spooky candle light ! Oh, No.
This is the reason why no spiritual institute gave him any historical significance, other than
dubious DaVinci Code story 😀
Neither no scientific, medical topics or phenomenon was ever named after him. —– scientists, medical
academics never took him anything serious. Since, he was just a deluded pervert, yet able to get
away, just because of his powerful connection who has been fooled by his big mouth.
DaVinci was the most typical case of PRECONCEPTION which I wrote long time ago.
His dreadful gruesome act has been completely masked and forgotten by the smile of Mona Lisa.
And people were made to believe a myth of Genius 😀
( Those drawings are in the Queen’s Collection, Windsor )
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Landscape — or Memory-scape ?
Landscape ? — or Memory-scape ?
I don’t know. It’s a photograph. Sir.
Where the IMAGE came from ?
It came from a memory-card of my camera.
So, you photographed this, what was the subject ? Was that a Landscape or Abstract ?
What you mean Abstract ? Abstract of WHAT ?
That is what I’m asking.
Ask the Camera please. 😀 —– It might be De-ja-Vu. Sir.
So, your camera can take picture of your mind inside ?
What a fancy imagination you got. Sir. When we faced the situation, what I can do is
either press the button —– or not. I have only two choice.
So, you are doing Zombie photography. 😀
How nice. Very funny. This is Zen Photography Sir.
That’s why I’m saying Zen is Dog Shit.
Dog Shit or not, can’t you see the scape somewhere where ever, not remember when but
far far away, long long time ago or in a future, we might have seen or may see one day.
You don’t need to think What is this about, but as long as the image absorbs your feeling,
and make your mouth shut, it’s all what needed.
—– But obviously this one didn’t make my mouth shut.
So I say. Shut your mouth. Just look it. You are thinking too much.
You are violating my fundamental human right of Freedom of Expression.
Oh, bollocks. Preach to the camera.
What a dog shit.
———- Not much peace here. Ha ha ha 😀
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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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DHARMA is Everywhere
Since I wrote and explained the Dharma in relation to spontaneous compassionate cases in
Japanese Disaster, a reader asked me “Is the Dharma prevails only in such special occasion ?”
—– Of cause not. Dharma is everywhere, where ever you go, always with you.
Simply because, that is how we exist and live.
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In the sea, there is the Phytoplankton which is fixing solar-energy with their photosynthesis.
(I have no idea how many billions of tons of them all together there.) They are the most fundamental
organism to form the food chain, and they are eaten by the small fishes etc.
And the small fishes were eaten by the larger fishes and so on —–.(And on top of the chain, we eat
them large or small and in fact we are pushing many of them to their extinction )
On the land, the Plants are doing the same, creating themselves, looks out of nothing ( in fact, using
solar energy and the water + somewhat 10 materials ) —– then Herbivorous eat them.
—– In the Yellowstone Park US, now the re-introduced Wolves are regulating the population of
Elk ( kind of Reindeer ). ( When the man hunted down the Wolf, the Elk’s population exploded and
the vegetation has been devastated by the over grazing Elk —– So, man needed to put it back )
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Those mechanism, so-called Ecosystem and its balance is the part of the Dharma,
so that some people call them as the Natural Law. Of cause, those mechanism are even inside of our
physiology as well, such as called Homoeostasis which controlling and keep the body condition constant.
The Dharma is not just a part of the science BUT crucially it is also a kind of will or direction
to over-see the EXISTENCES.
Why the Nature needs to have the balance ? Or man’s body needs to be kept consistent ?
Because it is the will or direction of the Dharma to the Nature to BE HERE,
and the HUMAN BEING to EXIST. —– Rules / The Dharma couldn’t be explained just with the
Science. Such as The Second law of the Entropy is a direct contradiction to the Creation of the Life.
Why the particular atoms were INTENTIONALLY combined, not dispersed by the Entropy and
became to the Amino Acid and to a Life-form.—– ( It couldn’t be explained just with the Gravity )
( Yet, it doesn’t mean Human being got blank cheque. Since, we are only a small PART of the NATURE )
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—– So, when we need,we eat we drink, we do the business etc etc —– on top of those fundamental
life’s activities, we form the society, we think and invent and so on, which we calls Culture and the
Civilization. Still we are a part of the Dharma which is inherently keeping the things in balance.
To keep-up and follow those rules of the Dharma, we don’t need to even think about —– even if we
are asleep we still continue to breathe, heart keeps working. So that, even with those very very inventive
Civilization and the incredible level of the Technology, we were still bound to keep fundamental rules
—– we still need to breathe Oxygen not CO2 or any fancy gas.
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The Human being is, as it is an artificially modified version of the Ape ( generally called Evolved )
having fundamental paradox within.
Basic aspect and the function is still remained as it was originally designed as a part of the Dharma.
Though, the Culture and the Civilization, not mention the Technology which changed the condition and
the environment within few thousands years, are not necessary following the Dharma.
In other words, what Human being invented or created out of their over sized brain –— the result
of their thinking, is often contradictory to the Dharma. ( Imagination can start from purely
imagined base or abstractive idea, hence it can be an utter delusion )
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As a matter of fact, we Human being is a compound of contradiction and the Paradox.
Therefore, it is having the inherent stress even for Just to be Here. —— ( So that, we are
having unconscious feeling of doubt or question, “ Something wrong. There must be answer
to make the things clear “ which has been driving a man to seek What is the TRUTH )
And this is what Buddha pointed out and taught. —– Better to live humble, simple life, even though
it is effectively the denial of the fruits of Civilization and the Technology.
And to eliminate the useless, trouble making thinking and to live in Mushin, hence able to
see and live with the Dharma.
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ZEN in PHOTOGRAPHY
A PHOTO. —– is it ?
Looks like a reflection —– isn’t it ?
If it was the case, what is the original object ? —– I don’t care. 🙂
Somewhat definable is a water-plant — isn’t it ?
Is it ?
It’s a corner of this world just round a corner, nothing there. Sir.
Is it ? I thought it’s the Universe.
—– ? ? ? How do you know ?
Because it looks like a floating Dog Shit, like a rock garden in Kyoto !
How nice ! It’s supposed to be a visualization of Claude Debussy Sir.
So, that’s why it sound Dog Shit.
Absolutely Correct. ( Don’t be serious, this is a joke 😀 )
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PS : Clicking photo, you can enlarge it. And even larger by clicking again.
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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.
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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”.)
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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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Self Denial — Self Sacrifice — Duty of Charity — MUSHIN ???
Self Denial – Self Sacrifice – Duty of Charity – MUSHIN ???
This is one of the most misconceived area in the Buddhist’s practice, hence I’ve been asked a
question again and again about the distinction.
Such as like a practice of one of the Buddhist’s sect in Japan, Ittou-en which I had mentioned some post ago,
which member is going around the town, asking household to let them clean their toilet.
This is the practice to learn Self Denial and the Self Sacrifice, and make people’s toilet clean may
seemed it is an act for other’s benefit hence it must be a charity. ( Though it seems quite patronizing )
I can see their point though, in the same time I would rather feel the intention with a pinch of salt.
If a practice to clean somebody else’s faeces could make a person humble and enlightened, the
people in India where particular job has been assigned to one particular cast ( or former cast ) should
have created thousands of enlightened holy man there. ( Never heard of it 😀 )
I’m sure, to clean somebody else’s faeces could destroy the person’s dignity still, not necessary it
destroys the person’s Ego. ( Ego is not dependent on the profession. Arrogance may be )
The more the required practice was dreadful, the more strong will and the determination is needed.
Unfortunately, this strong will, a belief of “ This practice should make ME higher noble person “
and “ I WANT to achieve it, I WANT TO ACHIEVE IT “ is nothing but an obsessive thinking.
Far from it, what Buddha taught was to DO the things without thinking, i.e; in Mushin.
The so-called practice is its formalized form of each sect.—– As everybody has unique grown-up and own
life history, even in the way of learning the same Buddhism, everybody takes different pathway and
as I described, there are three distinctive aspects how people related to the Buddhism, hence to learn
the Mushin, each person would take different approach and the steps.
Hence different expression, explanation were come up, such as Self Denial.
As a matter of fact, Buddha didn’t teach such things at all. What he taught was “ Self is not exist
from the beginning “ ( Since he took a stance against the Vedic idea of Atoman —– he saw it is the cause
of the trouble, as it is the delusion. That is why, he taught the MUSHIN / Mind of No-mind) —– though,
this is one of the hardest part in the Buddhism to understand. ( If anybody has able to achieve
the MUSHIN, it is almost the completion of the enlightenment. )
—–
History of the Buddhism clearly showed this fact, that even Buddha’s immediate disciples are not
necessary understood this. Hence the first few hundreds years, Buddhism have had the time
of Hinayana to Suppress the Self = Denial of the Self = Superficial mimicry of the MUSHIN.
To be in MUSHIN, of cause there is no SELF hence no EGO or Arrogance, Greed.
But try to achieve it from other way round, suppress the SELF first, not necessary works, because of
a thinking of “Deny the self, deny the ego” is there.
———- As you are reading this, only your visual cortex and the brain to configure the word and
their meanings are working = you are not aware the existence of your eyes and
the conscious “I am READING this”. ——- You are reading this in your MUSHIN ! ! !
Buddha also against the practice to torture the mind and the body, therefore the Self Sacrifice is
not in his teachings. It was not the Self Sacrifice but as the ( Enlightened ) person doesn’t have
the Self, the person just react to the situation in the best way or necessary way —– it only happen to
be seen “ the person has sacrificed himself “—– but the person himself was Just Doing It, that’s all.
Same applies to a Charitable act —– “If the one is doing it with a conscious of I’m doing the
Charity, it is not the Charity “ —– so as the Enlightenment. Which occur only in Mushin.
This is the reason why, in the Mahayana Sutras, there are typical expression like “ Exists as not exist “
“Do as not do” hence, do the charity (or help others) without having the conscious of helpingothers.
Without conscious mean, without thinking, without having the
conscious of the Self = DO IT SUBCONSCIOUSLY / SPONTANEOUSLY.
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To re-discover the Buddha’s original teachings, Buddhists spent another five hundreds years until
the Mahayana was introduced. And with its new ( or original ) understandings, sacrifice the life
to get Enlightenment as an Arakan ( Arahat ) was rejected, since the matter is not a posture but to
be in MUSHIN, and to be in MUSHIN, anyone and any life-form can get enlightenment as the
Dharma itself is, in its nature. —– But the reason why Buddha remained as a Bhikku ( begger) was
very simple. He was not trained to be a farmer nor any profession, there was no way else to get food.
To have a simple humble life go round the town begging the food was enough for him (and to his followers
together ). It was his simple easiest life style. To live as a Bhikku he didn’t need to think neither. He just lived.
Therefore, to be a Bhikku is not a precondition to get enlightenment, it was just happened to be.
Buddha never accused to be wealthy and had no hesitation to receive their giving of good food and
he ate any food. A funny description in the Vimalakirti Sutra “ You have to mind to receive it from
the poor people as well, in order to give the same opportunity for them to offer the food ( Hence
let them to practice good deed —– for them to attain their Nirvana ) show the situation well. 😀
Buddha’s teaching to those wealthy people to stay modest ( Middle Way ) and the way of giving
in Mushin would lead them to have Nirvana without any danger to reborn to be animal ( Since no such things
of perpetual soul exist ) must be well received by them.
As it was the historical fact, the Buddhism spread and did grow having with the wide support of
the ordinary people. It is impossible to imagine that Buddha asked those people to endure a kind
of practice to sacrifice their life, let alone to clean the faeces in order for them to reach Nirvana,
as Buddha himself rejected the practice to torture the mind and the body.
Simply because Buddha knew, anything can be done in Mushin, and the Mushin has no Ego.
Anything can be done mean, the practice can be anything, hence it doesn’t need to be torturing practice nor
heavy self-denying act. Mushin can be achieved Not What the Practice IS or how to understand it,
but by the Mind-Set = Mind of Just Do It.
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It is the easy practice, as easy as some late Masters described it as Dog Shit. And as difficult as
non of Buddha’s disciple could understand .
It seemed that Buddha did know the situation, hence he needed to order his disciples “Think yourself,
not just believe what you were taught” in his death-bed.
Its meaning of thinking is, not what the answer they would get, but the process and the effects of
thinking (and effort to figure out in practice) —– “Mushin has no Self, no Ego” was what they had
been taught. And they must have shown well copied practice what they learned from
Buddha. But it was just a copy of the movement, not necessary in Mushin. Buddha must be aware of this.
That was why he needed to give an order to his disciples. —– It was an inherent short-coming of
having the master near you. You can get the explanation easily from him, then you satisfied as you
could understand it (intellectually). The trouble of Mushin is —– you can’t get it with an
understandings or any thinkings. You have to DO it to discover.
—– therefore, many hundreds of years Buddhists monks just argued the definition of Dharma or try to prove
whether the Self is exists or not.
But the situation like this provoked the mind of free-thinker. “What a hell, what are they talking
about ?” which made them aware, that the matter is not whether the Self is exists or not, but it lies
in the phenomenon, that we can do the things without the conscious of the Self, and it can be
done by anybody. ( hence Mahayana ) ! ! ! ” This must be the core, what Buddha had taught.”
This kind of observations never came from the monks who is just sitting and thinking, but from the monks who
are under-taking the chores in the monastery or low-ranking monks walking and begging the food by himself.
That was the reason why, such observation became a noted idea and written-down to the Sutra took long time.
Yet still, they couldn’t go further than the description
of “Do the Charity without having the conscious of Charity” or “Do as not Do”.
Mahayana Buddhists only thought about the DOING side, not knowing how DO changes the mind.
And how this DO came out of one’s brain was completely out of their sight.
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To decipher what was the mechanism in the brain / to see the roles of the subconsciousness, took
another 2000 years. ( Until here )
I am well aware and confident, for you to read this post, this 10 minutes opened your eyes to
reach your enlightenment. ( You only need to open your eyes and the mind 🙂 )
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Third Aspect in Buddhism / in ZEN
If anybody has read my blog all through from the beginning ( thank you very much ) may found
something different tone around the posts about Kisa Gotami and some posts following it.
You are absolutely right. The posts around Kisa Gotami are about one of the main aspect of
the Buddhism —– Buddhism as a Religion. Religion to save the tormented soul. (And also
about the Intellectual snobbism / Philosophy —– this is the Second aspect )
———- Though, I’ve been talking a lot something different, especially in my early posts.
Yes, they are about the Third aspect of the Buddhism especially strongly in the Zen. —– It is the
aspect of the Mind Engineering, and in this aspect, so-called burden, the Self Denial having different
treatment —– since it is not for a salvation of a man but more for the achievement of the person.
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Third aspect in the Zen is, as the word Engineering suggests, it may remote from the religion
hence it may seem Atheism, hence the person may not end up in the Heaven though, don’t worry
no such things over there. And even if you were reborn to a dog, there shouldn’t be any trouble as
no dog remember the former life or the name. ( I never met any dog telling me his former life, so far 😀 )
To deny such deluded idea of the Perpetual Soul, therefore to deny the same person can be reborn
to a dog, was the starting point of Buddha.
Anyhow, before talking about after a death, to regain the sanity out of tormented mind is the way to
save one’s miserable life —– that is Buddha’s approach.
When a part of a machine was twisted and jammed, whole machine wouldn’t work properly.
So that before imagining what dreamy product the machine could make, repair the parts and
adjust each part of the movement and make it works perfect, is the first thing to do.
Same to this, to re-construct one’s life out of misery, has to start from a part to part, step by step.
Re-adjust the way to operate and the way to carry out the daily life —– and on the process,
to learn the way to see the mechanism, how they work together, in what principle. —– and as
the result, one can operates their machine or life perfect, therefore
able to create perfect product / LIFE.
This pragmatic approach IS the Teaching of BUDDHA.
Hence, in the Buddhism the practice is inseparable as it is the way to learn how to see and
to know the principle operating in there. This principle is the Dharma.
———- So that, the Buddhism’s structured approach to the practice having the most effective
way and the wisdom to DO the Things and achieve the highest standard. ( To see the proof,
have look the Japanese products 😀 —– But don’t ask me why the products from other
Buddhist’s country are not necessary so. —– it’s really a good question 😀 )
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To see the way how the approach of the Buddhism ( or Zen ) can solve the question in a field of
to DO something, is the Third aspect in the Buddhism. In here, there is not necessary
tormented soul or miserable life, the precondition of Self Denial having different aspect too.
Such as a case of a sportsman is the best sample, in there, it is the fight against the Oneself.
And its effect or the result doesn’t appear anywhere other than in practice, it got
not much use for an intellectual interest. ” As long as you are thinking, you can’t do it “
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On the end, the key element in all aspects of the Buddhism is the MUSHIN, mind of no-mind.
Though, anyone who wants to be saved out of misery, needs to get rid of the Ego,
hence needs to have Self Denial first. ( One small sect of Buddhists in Japan, Ittou-en going around and
asking the household to let them clean their toilet in order to have one’s Ego to be denied —– though, the
toilet is a genitals of a house, not open to the public —– it might be better them picking dog shit on the street
than invading somebody else’s privacy, in the name of religion —– still it’s their practice)
To a tormented soul, as the person’s mind had been through the torment and its Ego had been
defeated already, and as long as the person can see the Karma straight ( without twisted view, misdirected
grudge etc which is caused by an arrogance —– so that it need to have personal consultation ) the process
of Self Denial has been done.— Hence the person can go to the next stage while having proper direction.
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Yet, the one who doesn’t care end up in the hell ( 😀 ) but still aiming highly tuned life and the
freedom of creativity and actuary want to Do it —– gain the Mushin by doing it as a practice.
This is so-called a technique of the mindfulness —– to eliminate any thinking in the brain, even the subject.
It is the process to re-program your subconscious, hence Mind Engineering.
You may find the explanation for each sample and others, in my old post somewhere.
( I should make the Key-word index —– for a moment, seek is your part of practice. Just Do It 😀 )
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