Mistake in Philosophy — Answer in ZEN
You might heard a story to extract latent memory from a witness or surviving victim, by way of hypnotism,
such as a profile of assailant or even from pass-by, the car number parked on the street then.
The car number may be utterly trivial and useless to a pass-by, still we may remember surprising detail.
They are the Subconscious Memory or our Hidden Data bank.
When we consciously watch the scene, we only pick up the information which we got interest.
And this selection is not consistent. It will be biased by the preceding event, experience or a suggestion.
If you are interested in fashion, you may pay great deal of attention to the shop windows and
somebody’s style, but remember nothing else, as the mind was just stuck there.
But when our mind is free and open we can see the scene as it is, and able to memorize everything.
Of cause those data are not just visual, but also the information from other sensors, and the internal feeling,
subconscious thoughts as well, which has been accumulated since you are born.
From those immense amount of data, only minute part of them, which matches to the precast category or
notion, it become conscious memory and it can be transferred to higher legion of the brain (New Cortex)
to be used for the conscious thinking process.
—– Hence, the data available to such as the linguistic, logical thinking process, are only a miniscule part of
the whole data bank, the answer or conclusion we make is always inadequate and ” Not the exact Truth ”
which we knew it. —– So. we always say ” Don’t think in your head. Find the answer in your heart”.
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It is obvious, our Hidden Memory, Subconscious Data bank retain the whole information of our environment,
and ourself. In other words, the faithful picture of the world and the information of ourself / True Self.
And they are not just a static images but their dynamism, tendency and the Rules,how the things
work, and how this True Self has been behaving and prefer what etc.
Its mean, The Dharma / The whole existence and its Rules within, are all mirrored here.
This is the very meaning of ” Everybody possess the Dharma inside”.
And literally the Self is a part of it, the Dharma, and as everything in there are without any
partition, no separate awareness watching the Self or Subject, there is no feeling of alienation.
———- Many years ago, somebody asked me whether a mad-man can have The Dharma in him as well.
I said, yes. Because, even a mad-man got the same body and its function, feel the same pain,feel the
same hunger, see the same, hear the same, and may have more or less the same emotion — the process
of those information may be different, so that from the same image of black cat, he may interpret it as
a Devil —– still, his Data bank having much more accurate picture of the world than his twisted thinking.
In the same context, even an idiot who lack the higher process in the brain, still having more or less
the same Data in his subconscious, it is nothing but the Dharma.
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When we think, quite often we use a notion which we have imported ( in other words not emanated from our
own Data bank, but intellectually learned ), since it didn’t have the original source and the process to
deduce, it couldn’t have an accord to the person. As a matter of fact, even a notion the person knew well
still,as its using the notion of the words, it is no more than a proxy. The complexed idea having the situation
even worse. Even an idea constructed from the own Data bank (which came from own experiences and the
observation) when it was imposed to the phenomenon, it doubles the uncertainty. —— Observer and
be Observed.—– The word (a notion) HAPPINESS is just a name of category, so that, its realities has
millions of variations, and an observer is just one of 40 billions.
The certainty is only the statistical probability. There can not be any absoluteness exist. Despite this,
Philosopher often impose his own idea to interpret a phenomenon. Hoping, his words can covey
what he conceived. (and expecting others can guess the same )
Against this fundamental jeopardy, Zen abandons the conversion to the notion and the words.
( Hence, relying on the Direct Transmission)
And abandons the stance to be an observer, or more precisely, abandon to be an observer as an Ego.—
When facing a phenomenon or others,
Zenist just open his mind in Mushin. (without Ego without Thinking—– hence no conversion)
And leave the matter to the perception in his Subconscious = Dharma’s judgement or reaction.
(As the Observer and be Observed are both naked, both of the Dharma fuse together.
And the equilibrium will be spontaneously prevailed in the accordance of the Dharma)
This is the Ichijo (Oneness) in Zen —— the answer to the jeopardy of the Dualism.
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日本の読者に ( To Japanese Readers )
ネットの片隅、ヨシ禅ブログにようこそ。
このサイトは褝仏教を全く新しいアプローチ、人間の神経生理、心理作用の角度から、三十余年に
渡って実験した結果を考察したものです。
しかし、せっかく御足労いただいておいて、しょぱなからー発かませるようですが、
ここにはキリスト教で言う福音のようなもの、俗に言ふ瘉しの甘言のようなものはー切登場して来ません。
読み進めるうちに明らかになりますが、仏教は救済幻想を語るものではなく現実に人間の心理生理を変え、
人を積極的な人生にかり立てる動因に外ならないというが当ブログの立場です。
－ーー とにかく、やってみなさい。やってみない事には始まらない。やったらやったなりの事が在る。
ただしそれをやるのはアナタ本人－－－ホトケじゃないよ。
（そもそも禅つうものは自助に任せるので人に媚ない。）
日本で何故曹洞宗の寺がー番多いかと言えば、単純にお布施が少くて
すむからで、坊主自身あまり金集めに熱心でない。信者をたらし込んで金集めをする気も無いから逆に
甘く美味しいハナシでケムに巻く必要もないと言うのと同様です。
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どうせ誰もが死んでいく事だし、地獄も無い代りに極楽なんて逃げ場もない。つまり唯ーの問題は
苛烈なこの現世 （仏教では娑婆と申しますが) をいかにスムースかつ積極的に生きるかに尽きる。
ーーーで、仏教史２５００年も経ちながら誰も気がつかなかったそのコツを只で書いてしまおうと言うのだから
逆に、それ以上のサービスはない。 ここに在るのはその発見記録、テストレポートであり、もし読者が
同様なアプローチを試みるとしたらそれなりのガイドにはなるというもの。
それにしては変な英語だと？ーーー黙らっしゃい！古人は教えを求めて遥々印度くんだりまで旅し、
聞いた事も無いパーリ語だサンスクリット語だというのをその場で学び、苦心惨たん教えを受けたものですぞ。
クリックするだけでブログを読んで、英語の訓練にもなるならマジ、ケッコウなハナシと思われよ。
ハッハッハ。（時間のムダにならないというのは保証しますよ)
Believe me 🙂
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追記 ：これは 右ｺﾗﾑ The Pages ［About This Blog］の日文の抜粋です。 しかし不思議なコトに私本人が
独立したポストに作った訳では無い。 （誰がやってくれたのかね？？？）
－－－で，どうせならと，元のポストに付けてあった 日文ポストヘのリンクを追加します。
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Mistake in Philosophy
The most fundamental and fatal mistake of the western Philosophy lies in their basis of Dualism,
and seemingly it is originated from their notion of the God.
Against this notion, the SELF = ME became its counter notion as rigid as the God.
As the concept of Self is there, the Self is the one who see the subject ( of cause, you may say, who else
saw and talked about the subject in his book, in his philosophy. And say, Is this a Zen Mondo ? 🙂 )
( Shut up 🙂 ) As long as the subject is somebody else, there is no problem, hence scientific, objective
rationality works well and yelled this impressive western technological civilization.
Because of the objectivity is Selfless in its definition. Anyhow, the nature and its phenomena,
physics are there before human existence. We are just the observer regardless whoever the Self.
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But when the Self try to see the Self ( or True Self what so ever the context ) and the phenomena around it.
The perpetual question of Who is the Self came into the play. Therefore, the matter related to
themselves, psychology, human science, social phenomena, etc, it always plagued by its view-point = Self.
In fact, from ancient Plato to modern Phenomenology etc, they misbelieved that they can objectively see
the human affair and able to construct the philosophy as well. And they stuck in the cul-de-sac.
Because even an Atheist, started exactly the same stance, The Dualism. —– God and Me / Me and
the Subject / Observer and be Observed, the uncertainty of the Self is still persistent,
hence its stance of view point, reliability itself is in doubt.
The fundamental trouble of this stance is, we can’t objectively observe the Self or the phenomena
attributed by ourself. —– we always end-up in unseeable and unknowable.
On the end everybody just resigned to say ” Don’t bother, there are thousands of truth ” 🙂
So that, some Philosopher try to grasp this unknowable with the notion of Transcendental though, made
further mistake try to convert it to explanatory words by thinking. ( You may say, What else ? 😀 )
This was the very situation, which Buddha encountered soon after he got his enlightenment,
Should I teach this to others or not. Can this be transmittable by the words ?
( This is why, the Buddha’s teaching has been conveyed by the practice and metaphor )
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While we are thinking, most of its process ( some says 90% of it ) are taking place in our
subconsciousness. —– And so-called Self is a mere temporally mock-up model by guess-work, since it
never stays the same, moment to moment and never rationally configurable like our thinking process.
Hence True Self which reside in our subconscious is ever invisible and remained undefinable.
This was the reason why Buddha said ” Don’t bother there is no such thing like Self exists” :-D.
The situation was made even harder, as the basis of our thinking are also contained in the immense
amount of the Data or information which we accumulated without aware of its existence.
—– so, am I talking hopeless ? Am I giving cold water to the Philosopher’s pleasure to express themselves ?
The answer is again in the Buddha’s words ” Don’t take a word, think yourself “
And to against the fundamental flaw of Dualism, the Zen giving the answer ” Ichijo ” Oneness.
In Ichijo we can overcome the alienation of the subject, alienation of the Self.
The barrier between observer and be observed disappear.
( Which I’m going to talk further in the next post )
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CLEANING
Currently in Japanese Twit-Sphere, a heated debate for the Cleaning their class-room is going on.
It started by a secondary school boy who is saying ” Its no use to clean the class-room by themselves.
It is not efficient enough. Why not use the professional cleaning company ? ”
Against this, many people are saying ” Its only a cheeky excuse, he just want to have a lazy life ” etc.
And others are saying, school is not just for studying knowledges but also for leaning the attitude for
the life, morality. Some are saying even in religious context.
It is the same tendency, even in the western society, once it was spoken in a religious context, the others
reacts at once, in almost in allergic vigor —— saying feel uneasy, or even dubious.
—— It was in an unfortunate history, when a religion was spread, they always take over the morality
and the wisdom as a part of their own teachings, such as ” Thou shalt not kill, is their God’s commandment ”
—– But long before religion was invented, it was an established commonsense in the human society.
And, when a religion became out of fashion, because of even a fundamental morality was mistaken
as a part of such religion, it became a target of rebellion.
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As a matter of fact, the tradition of cleaning their school room was originated from the Buddhist’s temple.
Since the school has started as the monks teaching the reading, writing to the local kids, the tradition
( in fact, it was a part of Buddhism practice ) to clean the room by the kids is an inseparable part of
the school’s teaching. And by doing so, the kids learn and grown into a person of their own life.
Life is a violent imposition of the tasks to all the living things.
Nobody ever asked and born as it is. Everybody came to this world, without any expectation or
preparation at all.——- Somebody may born into a harsh desert country as an ugly boy or a pretty girl
in wealthy western society etc, as in a variation of fifteen billion. ——- Without question, without
complaint, the one has to live or start to live their own life.—– It is the harshest imposition.
So, the kids learn this reality, starting with cleaning the room, without question as everybody is equal.
( To ask somebody else to clean the toilet, always create the seed of discrimination in any society )
By doing so, the kids learn to be humble and to be selfless, and learn to act in equality.
In the same time, to find the best way to clean and master the skill —– it’s a training of the
trouble shooting, practice creativity. On the end, even a kids can achieve to do the work in
Mushin (Mind of No-mind )
To have a clean class room for comfortable study environment —— is only one of the by-product.
——- Though, this kind of opinion seems not welcomed in today’s Japan —— to have a lecture from
somebody else is an invasion and interference to the individual’s human right. ! ! !
( in the point of political correctness ) Beautiful. Ha ha ha 😀
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Calligraphy — Cacography
A friend, who studied Japanese but struggling to write in Japanese asked me about the sample
New Year’s card design I’ve posted here few days ago —– ” Writing of those card looks terrible.
Is Japanese these days couldn’t write properly because they no longer hand-write but use key-board ?”
” I don’t think so. Some of them sending me beautifully hand-written letters. And the writing on the sample
cards may be done by a good professional calligrapher” —— ” What, are they done by professional ?”
” Yes, I’m sure this person can write in pretty square formal style as well though, —— think,
receiving New Year’s Greeting from close friends, do they want to see a card looks like a formal notice
from officials ? —– How relaxed or polite and formal, the commonsense is the same to western culture.
The choice of a birthday card to your friend or to company boss would be different here isn’t it ? ”
———- Give a close look to the sample cards, top one and the bottom card, you may realized that
the first three lines on top card and the four lines on the bottom card, the writing is identical.
( By the way, the writing starts from the right to left. Hence I meant, three vertical lines on the right )
Its indicates, the graphic designer used the same resource of the writing and composed those two
cards —— its mean, it was not his own casual writing, but it was there as the special resources.
And the calligrapher who did the assignment treated this as an art, hence he did rather funny writing.
It’s not for a solemn occasion but joyful one. It’s a Happy New Year. 😀
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Doing artistic calligraphy is a very special skill of the art. While writing the same letter, the movement
of the blush and the force to push on the paper makes different boldness, etc etc, million of resulting
differences on the line, hence the written letter gives different impression, on top of the letter’s own
meaning. When the impression enhancing the meaning of the letter itself, it makes the art.
A letter of the Grace written in smooth flowing line, or the Power written with bold, and blunt movement
of the blush, will give distinctive impression and it would strike the viewer’s subconsciousness.
———- Around my life, strangely there were many calligrapher. (Though, I was called Kana-kugi 😀 )
My grand father was a calligrapher and having its line of blood, my father and sister had pretty good
hand. And an AD / POP planing company where I worked for short time had started by the group of the
calligrapher as a lettering, font design studio , hence I had plenty opportunities to see them at work.
” The requirement of the assignment, the concept in mind, then just face a blank sheet of paper and put
blush on it. The blush start to run as if he got his own mind. My hand is just giving a support for his
movement. And the letter prevailed as if it was there before hand ” —— m m m ? What an explanation.
I was young (!) and hate irrational magic or mambo-jumbo like my father’s Buddhism then. It was out of
my comprehension, though after learned what is the structure of the mind and the Zen —— now I know.
The meaning of the letter will be read by the brain, but the style of writing can hit the guts straight.
———- If you have seen a Chinese film ” Hero” you might remember, a master calligrapher wrote
one huge red-letter SWORD which was then hanged behind of the king (who became the Emperor)
the letter was in the ancient form, so that the Chinese calligrapher has even more choice to express
the meaning. It was a very impressive powerful calligraphy. (—- I want to have a poster. 🙂 )
—-
You may feel strange though, I found the psyche or deep psychology in the Calligraphy and the
Haiku, even the Art of Pablo Picasso are all having the common factor —– Zen.
—– Once Picasso said, art is easy but to stay in the mind of child is not easy.
An episode of Picasso —– One day he asked a carpenter to make a small structure and he drawn a
sketch with each dimensions on it. When the carpenter measured the sketch, he found the drawing has
the exact dimension down to the mm accuracy. —— and the Picasso’s blue period paintings are
well-known with its accurate realism.
How the same painter, who got such exact eyes and the skill, could produce notoriously deformed
paintings and especially such as like his last series Las Meninous —– almost like a child’s doodling.
—– Haiku master Basho taught the way to create Haiku, is to capture ” Wabi and Sabi” though,
in his later life, he reached and created the Haiku in ” Karomi ” ( light-heartedness ).
It is exactly the same in calligraphy. All down to the same matter, liberation of the mind —- freedom
without the impediment of the thinking, mind = Mushin ( mind of no-mind ) in Zen term.
( In Zen, this freedom of creation was called in the state of Jizai )
Of cause, not all of them even know the Zen, and the creativity is not the monopoly of the Zen.
Zen is only using the inherent state of the mind or subconscious, common to all the human being.
( Zen is the one who elucidated and established the methodology. Like a phenomenon of fire —– the
science elucidated the oxidizing mechanism, hence we are able to know how to use and control it now)
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Starting with exacting discipline, then free the mind and free the hand to write the letters inspired
by the occasion or the meaning of the letter —– freedom like a child’s imagination. So, it looks almost
like a scribble of a child —— on the thin line between Calligraphy and the Cacography. 😀
This is the Art.
( Yet, distinguish them, you may need to have seen million letters of good and bad one beforehand )
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Wao ! — Jaw Dropping ?
When we encounter something utterly new or strange, there are two distinctive reaction.
Wao, and Jaw Dropping.—- You may think they are the same. No they are not.
Wao is a part of the thinking process, intellectual activity. When it was somewhat new but still within
the anticipation, such as a technological advancement, we express Wao ! with some admiration.
In contrast, when we encounter utterly unexpected and beyond the comprehension —– since, we
can’t find any related notion or idea, we lose a word.
So, only a reaction was to drop the jaw. —– ! ? ? ? —– as the jaw dropped, only a sound
came out of the mouth is, — Haaaaa. 🙂
This is the moment our mind / thinking become completely blanc.
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Why I started to talk about this is, I met a person stubbornly
refuse to accept the mental state of Mushin ever existed.
His stance was, as we have a self-conscious and the awareness of our state, which is independent
to our thinking therefore it is persistently there, so that it exists even a moment when the one is
in the mental state of so-called Mushin.
So, I asked him, when he was damn struck, completely taken aback in a Jaw dropping situation, how long
it took him to came back his own sense ? And at the very moment he was Dropping the Jaw, had he got
awareness ” I’m dropping my jaw ” ? —– m m m —– —– after long silence, he seemed to have
convinced that ” the complete blanc moment of self-conscious is exists “.—- You see ? The Mushin is
not a fancy invention of the Zen Buddhists, it is the one of a definite state of the human mind.
And it is inherently exists in the mind or brain function. As the higher brain function is a later addition
in the evolution process, there is a state without self-conscious —– it is the default state of the mind.
Most important key is even one’s MIND is in its blank state, all the physiological body function,
and the activities which is under the control of subconscious are fully functioning ——– in
other words, anything sublimated into the subconsciousness can act in its maximum potential
since it having no interference of the thoughts / hindrance. ——- This is the ZEN.
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Buddhism is a teaching which utilizing this state of the mind, and the practice to gain the
control of the mind to get this mental state by will.
( Without waiting a Jaw Dropping moment to come 🙂 )
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Cyber Space / BLOG-SPHERE
To see is its OK there, I’ve Googled and clicked [ kinetorori ] , —— in my amazement,
I found there are 200 items under this key-word. —— What ? — How come ?
There are only 2 kinetorori in the whole Syber Space. One is my Youtube name. And other is in a post
of this blog where I’ve talked about an image I had put into Youtube.
Out of two how those 200 items bore out ? ( I haven’t clicked those, I don’t know what they are 😀 )
Another funny finding was, the collection of the comments I had put to the other blog-site, such as
[ tokyo 1000 ]—— Yah, I remember certainly I did. —– After many months, and reading back those,
I found its rather fun 😀 ( It’s in the [ backtype.com ]—– in the first page of [ yoshizen blog ] at Google )
( Of cause, the original exchange of comments with reference photo has more fun at [ Tokyo 1000 ]. )
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We are in a strange false environment or utterly artificial communication sphere.
I have virtually no idea who this Tokyo 1000 is. If I bumped him on the street or even in an exhibition space,
I don’t think I ever exchanged single word with him. Nor, even if I saw a notice of his photo exhibition
in an art listings, I don’t think I ever attempt to go there. Simply, because I don’t know him.
Since when we are in our far ancestor’s time ( kind of animal then 🙂 ) we keep so-called Psychological
distance to each other, —– closer relations to alien. Distance is proportional.
So far I picked up some clue about this man Tokyo 1000, he lives in Tokyo, 24 years old University student,
a mountain trekker, ex(?)- graffiti artist, etc. ( Of cause I can read a bit more between the lines and able
to guess something from his photos though ) —– Yet, two people who are having totally different life,
still able to share a topics and freely exchange opinions in equal ground —— How democratic !
—– What intrigued me about this Tokyo 1000 was, a man who didn’t have any knowledge about
photography, just started to take picture and blogging. —— rather successfully 🙂
thanks to a pretty well designed small camera.
To be naive, often exposes the truth, true nature and the true self. Because there was no prerequisite
thoughts or pretense which clouding the eyes. ( But rest of time, the picture is utterly dreadful. 😀 )
All about photography is, —– how to see the subject. 90% of How is the reflection of the personality
of the photographer / author. ( And rest of 10% is the limitation of both subject and the camera ).
——- Yet still, regardless who he is, I could make quite funny comments, thanks to this Cyber Space.
( rather ilresponsively 😀 —— hence, it is fun to read )
After all, both of us are anonymous, neither photos or scripts having such as copyright issue, and able to
make fun of each other —— then somebody else also came into the game, and made fun of us using
our materials and created yet another space for AD.
Whats so ever, if there wasn’t WordPress ( and they ( accidentally ) created Blog-site of mine ) there was
no Yoshizen ever appeared in this world. —— and I might have remained silent ( So, the world could
have kept its peace. — Ha ha ha 😀 )
Only a drawback to do Blogging is, it consume a bit of time, especially for a non native English speaker,
typing by one finger while making funny mis-spelling —– is not easy business. Though, one reader said
funny mis-spelling is a part of fun here.—– m m m ? Thank you very much. Quite an encouragement.
Life having quite unexpected twist and turn and above all, a fun hidden in its sleeve.
—– Incidentally, Tokyo 1000 suddenly stopped to post new photo, and its happened when it got
158th post —– m m m ? ? ? ( Please refer to 8150 Story ) —– was this a halt by the Dharma ?
( I hope, he is still alive and kicking, expecting to have fun-full festive season with his girl friend —–
question is which one ? 🙂 )
___/\___ Ha ha ha 😀
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ABOUT this BLOG
The inherent shortcoming of this blog site is, as it having reverse order, the earliest, hence most
crucial posts are situated in the bottom.
Who is the author, what is his stance, what is the point unique to this BLOG are all buried long long
scrolled down bottom. Even worse, now the posts became too many —— and some are not necessary
very relevant to the point. ( I’m well aware. Yet, they are fun to read jokes. 🙂 )
Originally this site should have had ” ABOUT ” though, may be with my mis-click, it has disappeared.
Hence, often I got the same question, and needed to explain What is my point again and again.
So, this is the summary of the POINT of this BLOG. (Yet it became rather long —— so, to a busy
person, just hop bold paragraphs to grasp summary of summary)
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I’m not talking DOGMA. I only talk the observed FACTS of which the Buddha’s teachings
based on it. As Buddha ordered ” Don’t believe. Think yourself ” Buddhism is not about what
you believe but the fact you found and came to your own conclusion.
If there wasn’t the fact, Buddha wouldn’t have taught. That’s why he kept silence where he
couldn’t find the facts. —— So, I follow him in the same way.
—–
ZEN Buddhism is a peculiar teaching, probably the most strange teaching in the human history.
It doesn’t teach Dogma or knowledges but only vague direction and resulting outcome would be.
At least, the outcome is impressive and they are not a tricked belief, just the factual results.
It is the teachings to make a person actually able to do.—— Yet still, no explanation of how, why.
A person has to try and do it again and again. —— (The secret is hidden in this process itself)
This BLOG is the attempt to find out its HOW and WHY by the own experiment, and its findings.
Hence, this BLOG can be cited as a DIY ZEN BLOG.
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In my view, the Buddhism especially the Zen teachings are the way to re-program the human
subconsciousness. The all the creatures live and behave according to their behavioral pattern or
tendency which were programmed in their brain.
Though, in the case of human, we have the consciousness and self-awareness which over-ride
the basic subconscious such as so-called instincts.
Subconscious is not just the genetically inherited instincts, far from it, most of them are the
burnt into pattern which we learned and accumulated from the early experiences.
The basis of those experiences may not from the experience which we experienced or observed
consciously. ——- burst amount of our experiences and the knowledges were imprinted even
without our conscious. Yet still, the experience is one’s hard evidence / and reliable knowledge base.
So that, to live and behave according to those knowledge base, would be the safest choice.
As it was actually happened on front of him, and repeated again, it could happen yet again.
Therefore, it would be the Truth or most likely and pragmatically most viable answer.
( So, our brain burn this Data into a permanent memory and create a link to react automatically)
We are thinking, deciding and acting unconsciously —– conscious verification follows afterward.
As the one’s knowledge-base is the reflection of one’s grown-up and its environment, hence it is
unique to the person and form the so-called one’s second-nature —– and this second-nature
is the core of the deep hidden SELF.
The self what the one is imagining is not this SELF but the self what the one wished to have, since
the one’s second nature (and of cause the First Nature too 🙂 ) is in one’s subconsciousness and
in the unconsciousness —— they are invisible or unnoticeable —– therefore hard to configure,
then, the conveniently made up self is filling the gap for one’s own explanation or for a pretext.
—–
Buddhism is not necessary attempting to define this SELF but to define at least the imagined
self is the false imagination / delusion, hence it is the subject to remove from one’s mind, saying
” No such things (self) is there “. —– yet to advising the one to become aware that
the SELF which is a part of the Dharma, is there since when the one was born. Therefore,
all about the Buddhism is to remove this self and attain the MUSHIN (the Mind of No-Mind /
No-self ) and become aware of the SELF / a part of the Dharma, by the repeating practice.
( Since, to burn the Knowledge / Pattern / Data Memory into one’s subconsciousness, needs to
have either almost traumatic experience or repeating the same experience or the thought ( Teaching ),
then it become a long-term memory and a part of one’s subconsciousness ).
Once the one’s subconscious was reprogrammed / reconditioned, and the biasing wishful thinking,
egoistic desire which has been nested in the so-called self were removed, ( ideally ) there wouldn’t be
any delusion or egoistic view, hence acquiring clear eyes and able to see the prevailing Dharma
which is inherently having harmony with all the existences.
( Since, the existences itself is the Dharma ).
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Living with or accordance with the Dharma, one’s life become harmonized with all the existences
and its flow of the occurrences (which is constantly changing, reflecting the dynamics of the Karma),
one’s life wouldn’t go against or aggravating the Karma, —– as the result, one’s life become smooth
and peaceful. And it would lead to the peaceful Nirvana.
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Though, as it would be easily observed by anybody’s eyes, The Dharma is not operating for
the convenience of the human alone. — It is the rules of the Universe.
Often, the convenience of somebody is the inconvenience to other’s. Tiger need to kill a deer to feed her cab.
Her success is a misfortune of the deer. It would be no use to have sentimental emotion. If it comes, it comes.
Same apply to our human life, to have silly desire is our nature, which was designed by the Dharma too.
Therefore the occurrence of silly Karma is also the nature of the Dharma. —— on the surface,
it may seems silly or unjust, though as the one was placed here to fill the role, by the Dharma,
in long-term, its appearance of the Dharma is the sign of one’s direction.
Therefore, to fight against the Dharma is the silliest things as we can’t see the full extent of
the implication of the Dharma, but better follow the direction and to fill the role what the one
was assigned to do. Therefore, What left in our hand is, to do the task as best as we can. ——
Hence, on the end, as the result, we live of the life to its optimum and its maximum potential.
( Does anybody want more ? Or want to complain ——- saying too much ? Oh, get lost 😀 )
( By the way, this “maximum potential” doesn’t include money, fame or power. If anyone seek it, you
came to wrong place. You got to go to Mammon, not Buddha. 😀 )
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So, the above is my explanation of How the teachings of the Buddhism works.
And, the Posts in this BLOG are my each experiences and findings, How Zen works and in deed
worked, and the resulting effects, what is the out come / how I am living.
—— I’ve made a link of this Post connecting to a Category, 001-ABOUT the BLOG.
So that if anybody need to come back here or directing others, just click a category please 🙂
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Cold blow / Wistle blow ?
Its getting pretty cold. I saw beautifully frosted decorated leaves.
It said to be the coldest in 17 years, and some says the ill effect of the climate shift caused by El Nino
or La Nana kind —–. (To know the detail, go to Wikipedia please 🙂 )
On my previous post I wrote “To know the Truth wouldn’t change our life” ——- then, the conflicting
question arose.
In the Hinayana Buddhist’s view, an attitude “When its cold, just feel the chill and shiver with
other people who is suffering” —— this is correct.
Or, stand up and shout, telling the people “What is causing the climate change, and the cause
of appearance of El Nino, in order to save the suffering of the people”——- this is correct too, save
the possibility he might be barking wrong tree.
So, one sect might go out and walking in a chilling wind. ( Don’t catch cold or even worse, pneumonia )
And another sect may go to a demonstration banging their symbolic flat drams on the front line. (Though,
I haven’t seen them these days —— are they still alive ? Do you know ? )
It’s better know the fact, better still the Truth. —– the one might be placed there to know and shout as
he (she) might be born for its purpose. —– though it may not be a license to become arrogant or snobbish.
——– And my answer ?
I would stick with Buddha’s teachings “Don’t torture yourself. Don’t go extreme” therefore
sitting next to a heater. (How convenient 🙂 )
——- Environment or external occurrence may give you a jolt to your unprepared mind
as it has been in the blank state. Its jolt may give you a sudden enlightenment, though,
if it was expected or a prolonged same condition, mind couldn’t be fresh and naked
—— nothing would happen / it’s a same cold day)
Better make a hot tea with honey and lemon 😀 ( The truth is in the cup. Honest, I can taste it.)
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PS : It seems the world was so disturbed by the exposure of the confidential US diplomatic correspondences
by Wikileak. —— how silly.
Every body knows, politics, diplomacy, economics, even so-called big charities are dirty business and
having dirty linen and utter hypocrisy, tons of it, exactly same to everybody’s private life. Yet still
we pretend to be clean face and talking with others with sweet words.
Sneaking behind, and suddenly pull-down somebody else’s trouser and to expose dirty pants, then
shouting “Have look this is the truth” —–So, what ? It wouldn’t help anybody. History will tell.
It just filling the arrogant dirty satisfaction of Wikileak’s founder. Much worse than a scavenger.
Because, if it was a whistle blow, what the blower want to resolve or change and to which direction.
There is non. Could he expect the politics can change ? ( In any system or ideology —– because the
environment and the contents / human is the same —– no utopia nor ideal man exists)
It would only push the politics even more murkier business, deleting all the traces at once. That all.
Since, clean man (and woman) wouldn’t become politician.
Since, ambition to the power and to become famous is the synonym of self-centered arrogance and the
manipulation of the others by deception as an effective means. ——- Hence it can not be clean by nature.
Still, we could have wiser life, accommodating and concealing smelly guts inside. 😀
(You are well aware this hidden truth 😀 )
The Truth of the life was clearly elucidated by Buddha as the Four Noble Truth —— and
its Fourth is the direction How to live DESPITE of Those TRUTH / Reality.
Exposing smelly guts wouldn’t help anything. The MATTER is how to live with it.
This is the Buddhism.
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