Test of Selflessness
While looking for a hint to see what was the mind-set of
Lord Buddha, here and there such as in
the Agama Sutra, I stumbled that
Lord Buddha had intentionally not revealing
his intention preventing the followers become
“head big brah brah person”.
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An episode in the Argama, which was — In a rainy night
Lord Buddha told a disciple, Ananda that he is going for
a walk. (without telling where or what for.)
To follow him, Ananda came out carrying umbrella and
torch-fire. Everybody in the sangha followed as well,
each carrying umbrella and a torch, as they have been
accustomed to follow their teacher. —– After a while
walking up a hill, and saw all of his followers were there,
Lord Buddha smiled. Then Ananda asked him,
“Great Teacher never smiled without a reason. So,why
this time ?” but he received no answer why.
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Lord Buddha has, in fact, tested
the followers reaction and their progress.
Even under a condition, not nice for a walk, still all
the followers actually followed him. Which was an
indication of that, everybody had sublimated his
teachings and able to do it in practice.
—– What was the crux of teaching ?
= Without asking why or what for, despite in a rainy
night, just follow unconditionally, was a proof of that
everybody has reached to the Selfless state of the mind,
hence able to respond the situation as it’s happened.
(As he saw the sign, that the teachings has
worked perfect, so, smiled.)
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Lord Buddha had such a good insight of human mind.
That was why he never explained the intention why,
or the logic behind of it. —– Once he explained and gave
a verbal key, the followers remember it as a buzz-word
and become head-big, then the thinking start to
control their behaviour which is nothing but a
sham or superficial pretence.
Buddhism is not a religion of Dogma of which followers
have to read and remember and recite the words, but the
Buddhism changes one’s psyche down to the subconscious
level through the practice. (= not behave what was told by
the Dogma or Rules, but naturally do it unconsciously)
If followers knew that it is a test to check whether the one
can respond at once without questioning and to follow
in the state of Selflessness. —– it can be mimicked and
easily pretended while competing with others.
(Look at me, I can do this. I’m better than you —–
this arrogance is the most remote from the Buddhist’s mind.)
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This episode clearly showed the essence of the Buddhism,
hence it become clear, how unfortunate the followers
of especially Zen Buddhism today. = Knowing that
the Zen is to get Mushin etc. brah brah, it is
completely opposite to get Mushin, let alone Zen.
If the one has a conscious of “I’m in Mushin”, it is not
Mushin at all. It is the same to tell “I’m doing the sitting
in silence” (—– If so, shut up. Just sit ! :-D)
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To master the Zen, you may need to be thrown into a
situation, where you were forced to do something utterly
boring repeating work (as a volunteer ?)
—– after you became able to do the work almost like an
automatic machine (while knowing, it’s useless to complain)
—– then need to realize “Aha, this the Selfless state
of Mushin” ! = So, it is even better if it looks most unlikely
set-up to do Zen, which would prevent to hold any pretence.
(In my case, it has happened while I was working in a
mountain shelter, cutting log, and in Disco dancing. 😀
= I was lucky, similar to Huineng who was placed to work
in the kitchen of the Monastery.)
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—– In fact, sitting in a temple to learn Zen is the worst
setting to learn, since such conscious of
“I‘m doing Zen” prevent the person to get rid of
such notion and the thinking.
It’s exactly the same irony = try to get cured in a hospital
where all sorts of infectious germs, viruses has been
brought in and more concentrated than anywhere else. 😀
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—– And in the same context, what I’m writing here
could be quite harmful to a novice, as I’m revealing the
trade secret, while analysing mechanism of
the psyche in the Zen, utterly contrary to
Lord Buddha’s silent smile, aforesaid —– still, this
may be help the people who is studying psychology.
= So, it may need to put a health warning.
“Experienced Adult only” 😀 )
But this is what this Blog is, using my own mind as
a guinea-pig to figure-out what the Zen is. !
(Try to see Zen, objectively is not in Ichijo in Zen,
therefore the most remote from own Enlightenment.)
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(And that was why master Kogetsu damned me, that I
can get no Enlightenment ! — but, What’s wrong ? 😀
Get an enlightenment may help mere one person,
but to those millions of the people, who has been
mislead by a mixed-up-Buddhism, to open their eyes
could be a crucial matter.
and that must be the will of
Lord Buddha and the Dharma.)
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PS : Friend asked me at once “So, is it useless and
hopeless to attempt to learn ZEN at all now ?”
“Not at all. Don’t try ZEN but just clean your
room or kitchen. 🙂
Make it perfectly clean and do it everyday”
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Hacking Business
There was an interesting incident targeted to this Yoshizen Blog.
Soon after I’ve put my last post [Three times BUDDHA] somebody
hacked into my account and try to tamper my text.
As always 🙂 when I found a miss-spelling and try to edit my text,
WordPress’ Auto-save told me that there was an auto-saved
another version exists.
Looking into the script, I noticed that somebody had attempted
to delete a part of my text as you can see on the screen shot.
The target was a paragraph “to fabricate so many so-called Buddha
in Mahayana Buddhism”
Lord Buddha has used the words such as [Land Deity] [Moon Deity]
kind of name (may be for a convenience in the conversation) though,
never used such as a Sanskrit Deity, Brahman, because of the only
who, who rules whole universe is the Dharma, nothing else.
And the Dharma was not personified. = It is invisible yet spread
whole universe, down to the inside of ourselves.
That was what he believed and taught. — So, he got angry when a
Disciple couldn’t get correct understanding of the Dharma, saying
“It’s a disgrace to the Dharma” = he was quite serious.
Therefore, under the name of Buddhism, to creates another object
of worship other than the Dharma, especially importing its
figure from Hinduism is nothing but a contempt of
Lord Buddha and the Dharma.
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Hacking into well protected WordPress Blog is a serious business.
I wouldn’t assume it was done by a whim of silly individual = got
to be a professional, hired by the organization.
So, who was the one came through a gap of floor board like a
cockroach, instead to put a counter opinion through the front door ?
Is this a mind-set of the organisation or the sect ? — Blime !
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My blog is open for anybody to put a comment or two (though, any
spam which is other than a genuine comment has been completely
rejected —– except few exception, who got an interesting family
business to advertise. 🙂 ) hence, if anybody got different view,
to express its view as a comment is welcome, but don’t use
dirty hacking. —– It doesn’t work as the original was
composed on Word, re-load the same can be done in 10 min’. 🙂
And it’s counter productive to the hacker, because it would only create
another funny post like this, and that’s why my blog got 127,000 hits.
—– though, I know, quite few of hits were mislead by a search term
“xxx nude figure” kind, and end-up to see wire sculpture here. 😀
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Huineng vs Shenxui — Poetry Contest
Provably the most well known Zen story was a contest to became
6th Patriarch of the Zen.
For the contest, the most respected top monk in the monastery,
Shenxui wrote a poem as the answer to the 5th Patriarch, Hongren
who request to show the Zen mind,
“Mind is like a mirror, I polish the mirror diligently for
no dust to settle on it”
When an illiterate low-rank monk Huineng who has been working
in the kitchen of the temple heard this, he asked friend monk to
write his poem contesting Shenxui’s,
“Since Mirror is not exists in the first place,
where dust could settle”
Hongren saw Huineng has much deeper understanding of Zen,
he chose Huineng for his successor.
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This story showed what all about the Zen and its pathway
in amazing clarity.
Shenxui was a well educated, well learned monk, hence he must
have read hundreds of scriptures and understood the attitude to be
a good Buddhist. (in this extent, his answer / poem was quite
appropriate and correct though, it was more like a posture of
Theravada monk, still on the way to the enlightenment, in other
words, he hadn’t broken the barrier, or gone to the other side yet. )
In contrast, Huineng had showed exactly what the notion
of Void in Zen Buddhism.
— How Huineng could get this, while working in the kitchen.
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As a son of peasant, Huineng had no education and illiterate hence,
he had no chance to read and study Buddhism other than just pick
up the words, what other monks were talking about.
Anyway, he had to work every day as a casual labourer in the temple,
still, those every day’s continuous repeating work gave him to gain
the essential mind-set to be a Zen Buddhist = Unconditionally
accepting (humble) to be a lowest working monk, hence there
couldn’t be any possibility left to have desire or even an Ego.
And as day by day, the same work continues, the mind
became empty = just the hand repeating the work.
Yet still, by keeping eyes clear, he could see the crux of human
existence = how the Life exists = what the World and the Dharma is.
And he was able to make the straight connection of his state of mind
and the observation, to each notion. In effect, he had mastered the
Zen in DIY. Zen doesn’t need to be literate but to have clear eyes to
see inside and outside, with the direction of few key-word.
(This straight connection is behind of
“Sudden Enlightenment” and the “Direct Transmission” )
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And this observation lead me to see an amazing parallel in
the history of Buddhism.
Founder of Zen, Master Bodhi Dharma had to establish the way
of Zen in DIY, as there was no text book exist then, even worse in
foreign country. And the situation was more or less the same, when
Lord Buddha started his own teachings = NO Buddhism
textbook at all, of cause, let alone whether even Vada was
available to the public in written form. 😀
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But this is what the Buddhism is.
Since, it is the matter of one’s mind-set and the programming of
one’s subconscious = the one has to do it by oneself.
It is literally Do It Yourself / DIY = A book might give a hint, still
the one has to DO the work (practice with good insight) =
Book wouldn’t do the work on behalf. 😀
(Put Buddhist book in a memory of “Automatic Voice Generator”
and make voice out-put of script, wouldn’t make
the Machine enlightened — very fancy though. 😀 )
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—– Whether the stories (given in the Platform Sutra) has true
historical fact or not, to make the story in this way itself, was the
reflection of their understanding then = and expressing
supremacy over other sect of “Just reading scripture and sitting”
Illiterate Huineng was THE very typical sample in Zen.
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PS : Still, there are many questions left. Zen understanding could
be gained without words, since it is not knowledge based intellectual
understanding but to customising the perception and behavioural
pattern in the subconscious level though, whether to compose
a stanza without having enough knowledge of lexical pattern is
possible or not ? And the script telling the story, “Platform Sutra”
was written long after with a lots of diviating history.
—– Yet the fact is, the mummified body of Huineng has been kept
in the monastery till today and still sitting there !
(you can see the photo by Googling it) —– If he was not such a
great Master in real life, no such things could ever have happened.
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Spoooooky !
Last night I was invited to see huge art event somewhere in the south London
though, I can’t give any detail or location.
I only know this installation was created by an artist called Tea.
—— may be I can show a bit more photos and the details some time in future. 🙂
As a big event, many familiar faces are there. And an added surprise, I bumped a man
and a woman after 20 years rasp ! He was yet another disco-king in a local night club
where I was dubbed as ” Dancer in residents” 😀
And I knew the woman, also in there. They are married and now they are the mum and
dad of three boys —– It’s 20 years ! (So, they are the people who knows my dancing and
with an admiration to the Japanese spirit, they have chosen the name of their kids after
Japanese words ! ) —– I like this kind of sheer coincidence, with a smell of spookiness,
which can be described as an intervention of the Karma. 🙂
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Line-Drawing = Precursor to Wire Figure
Somebody asked me how I got the first imagination to create
a Wire Figure like “St. Lucia”.
In fact there is a Spanish painting (by Zulbaran ?) of a woman who was hit
by the Good’s revelation. The design or her posture was after this painting.
But to make it as a wire figure there was a long accumulation of practice to
configure human body into simple contour lines.
(It was not came from Manga drawings) 😀
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Those line-Drawings were created around 1993, soon after my court case
for which I had to sell most of my professional cameras and lenses =
it’s mean I became out of business. (I fought this case up to the Court of
Appeal without lawyer, since I didn’t know I could get Legal Aide and
didn’t need to sell livelihood. = demerit of DIY. Ha ha ha. 🙂 )
Out of business mean I got plenty time but not much money.
So, I did quite a lots of drawings which costs virtually nothing.
But before this, there was an interesting discussion with
other photographers
“How we can figure out dark faint image or just a contour to
particular object ?”
“How do we know a curved one line to such as woman’s front
body or back ?”
“Is it a pattern recognition or intuitive creativity
to make-up an image ?”
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—– so, I experimented to draw the line, simplified to the limit,
no longer recognizable to any meaningful figure.
Or figured out the minimum, still able to convey the meaning.
And found that the same line could be seen in the different meaning
or can be seen as other part of the figure.
—– strange discovery was that even if it is utterly illogical,
as long as it contain the recognizable parts, our brain
accepts it as what we normally understand as a pattern.
May be because our brain is not necessary seeing the things
(or drawing) as it is, but reconfigure it as we understand.
Our thinking or even first-hand perception is never free
but always “Wishful” !
= We see the things as what we wants to see.
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So, the drawing above center, [Two headed woman] = our brain
accepts it as “One woman is facing front with her left hand swing back
and other woman stretching her right hand front” =
our brain never reject it all together with a reason of its
irrationality, but try to process each woman independently.
Because, we are not familiar with two headed woman, the brain
ignore the conflict and stick to see it is two different woman
just happen to be in the same place, while try to think,
“She twisted her front body completely backward”.
—– So, it is a joint operation of our eyes and the brain =
the eye’s detailed vision is only the centre of our vision, about 20 degree
and the peripheral area is rather vague. = very similar phenomenon to
selectively listen the voice among the other noise.
(Please test it yourself 🙂 )
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The drawing right was my challenge (in the matter of imagination,
not a drawing or painting skill :-)) to Bosch who showed surrealistic
image in the hell, still never go to this kind of illogical confusion. 😀
—– Even Dalli couldn’t go beyond a crèche.
(May be from a religious restriction, God’s creation shouldn’t have
such freak.) If you see only a part of this drawing while hiding the rest,
your eyes accepts the image. —– One line could be a line of the hand
but it is also the line of the thigh etc.
Our brain ignore the part which is not taking part to configure one
image. ( —– And this is what all about the Rorschach Inkblot Test =
pick up the pattern in a part, and make up familiar image in the brain.)
= this function creates a monster from a vague image of a tree
in the woods. = we only pick-up the element which is enough to
configure monster and disregards the rests so, we see a monster.
Seeing is believing — is it ?
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Some of you might see the top drawing as a kind of Hindu Goddess,
hence may be accept this image straight. It looks strange though,
if you hide one side, it may not so strange. —– (She supposedly
sitting on a lotus flower though, I have not finished it yet.)
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With those (in fact 300 of ) drawings behind, to conceive and
configure the wire figure was not far away.
And to draw 300 drawings in the same approach, it has to
get somewhere. = Zen would say
“Even rain drops can curve a rock ” 🙂
—– Drawing was done and each line was adjusted by way of copying
it on the light-box again and again until it become perfect (well, sort of)
so that those 300 are not 300 different images but lots of slightly
different same pictures. = It was a process of step by step Kaizen.
If I were a real master of drawing, I could have done perfect drawing
straight though I wasn’t, I had to take slower process.
— May be draw a perfect circle looks much more like a Zen Master
though, I needed to know human perception, not a holy pretence. 🙂
And this approach gave me an opportunity to analyze how
we feel different if the line was slightly different or
the same line could be seen in different context.
So, it was really interesting and a fun. 😀
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WHAT to Eat and HOW to Eat
I spent most of my youth in the mountain (rest of the school time).
Especially in a mountain shelter as a voluntary keeper (小屋番)
—– in a hind sight, I was very lucky to have this kind of life as it has shaped my
life-style and its backbone = and made me physically and mentally indestructible.
(save some cuts and bruises. 🙂 )
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Another aspect, what I’ve gained there was the opportunity to deal and observe
literally ten of the thousands of people, often in the condition of their limit.
When people face their limit, it expose the core of their disposition in harshest way.
Some are become utterly an animal of Ego and Self-preservation. Some were
completely lost. Still some can maintain the human spirit and the wit.
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An interesting observation we made was the eating habit of the people,
and a kind of consensus among us was that the people who are not
eating enough good food in their daily life, tend to make a complaint. 🙂
The shelter situated 2300m high in the mountain where the water boils 85 degree
centigrade. Naturally the boiled rice is far from ideal or might say only edible.
Hence, the person who complained about it never had own experience to cook the rice
in such high mountain. And the others complained the poor ingredient such as not
much meat in the Cary-rice is rather poor looking, gray-skinned person.
In contrast, a person who just eat contented was always having good skin-tone and
well-fed, healthy looks type and often high in social scale. 🙂
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Because of eating is the most fundamental element to form ourselves,
WHAT to Eat determine who you are. And it reflects one’s back ground of
up-bringing (cultural and family, more than a personal preference).
But HOW to eat, reflect the personal disposition. (In the same family,
same food still, each one eat their own way — one might eat rather messy and so on)
Therefore, to observe HOW the person eat, we can see what this person is,
and what sort of mind-set the person possess.
Eating messy with chewing noise is the worst. Waste the food is a disrespect to the
food producer and the whole nature who provided the food for us, and the life itself.
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What you can eat is also restricted by the situation.
To understand the situation and environment of the mountain shelter, where all
the materials were brought up by the shoulder of the volunteer keeper, no wonder
it is far from ideal hence easy to complain, yet still, some are just accept what
was offered, and eat contented. — This mind-set shapes the person’s whole life.
As eating is the basis of the life, it is parallel to the life, numerous phrase, metaphor
using the food, such as “Eat humble pie” “Cold turkey” “Scrape the life” etc etc. =
HOW you eat is synonym of HOW you live.
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And what you were given on a dish has exactly the same meaning as what
you were given on your life. You may complain, or you may eat it contented
= result is to end up grey-skinned frustrated man or positive man with nice shiny-skin.
—– A funny joke I heard before said “Have you ever seen healthy looking
staff in a [Health Food Shop] ?” the people fussing about the food too much,
such mind-set = a delusion makes the person even more unhealthy. 😀
(I wouldn’t imply junk-food obesity has nicer shiny-skin.
It’s need to be judged by seeing whole body. 😀 )
—– Don’t fooled by a buzz-word “Hungly-Spirit” —– Its meaning is not
just ASKING more. Now the Millionaire Richard Branson had eaten a
poor meal yet in full in each moment, while building up his business.
That is where very energy came from.
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A Buddhist’s term “Live in its moment” mean, when you were given even
meager meal, “The food on front” is the food you have to eat in full.
Take it and swallow it as there is nothing else, which could be the last food in the whole
planet. You will not have any another choice, another Life.
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So, all of us, the volunteers had witnessed and learned, a man who couldn’t eat even a
meager food contented, wouldn’t reach any better food all through the life, as the
self-centered Ego is just stacked in the mind.
Under one’s Ego and Greed, any food is not good enough.
Don’t waste the time for complaining. The time is limited.
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But if you cook, it is a totally different story. Don’t cook bad meal.
Spend the same time and the cost, it could be a good meal but could be bad meal too.
Cook bad meal is the waste of the food material and the time.
Even worse, it may not give you enough energy and the health.
—– So, be mindful, when you eat, or cook. =
It lead you to have mindful, fulfilling LIFE.
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Spy-Chips in a Net-Device
Past ten years or so, for my connection to the Internet, I’ve used most of the provider next
by next. = In another words, those provider gave me more trouble than a satisfying service.
The one gave me hidden charge, the another gave me double charge from their internal two
accounting system. And another’s connection was so unreliable, or another’s setting has been
kept changing again and again which seemingly pressurised me to call their engineer to
sort out the problem with extortionately high charge. (= It’s their way to make money)
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And there seems a tendency, if the provider’s program is in the computer, it try to
connect even their device is not there, then if new device and its program try to connect,
a message appeared “Another device is using the connection, please set us as a default”
—– so that, I accustomed to remove the program of the old device.
So far it has been worked well except [Three G] = When I dis-installed / removed
their driver program, one file was stubbornly refused to go.
I thought it was a kind of their Ego to keep showing their foot print with their logo.
—– Though, few months later when I try to remove it again (photo above)
When I clicked “Remove” a small window appeared which is in fact list of my selected documents.
= It seems, if I remove this last remaining [Three G] file, all those files of my document could be
deleted as the elements of [Three G] file.
—– So, to avoid the risk, I had to abandon the attempt to remove [Three G] file.
= Then I realized that this must be the conspiracy which American Government,
Defense Authorities has warned, “As a risk of espionage had been
pre-programmed in the Chinese communication-chips —– Don’t use them”.
And they are quite serious = to an application of Japanese communication giant Soft Bank to
buy American communication company, American government gave a condition
“Provided, not to use Chinese equipment for the Mob-Phone Business”.
—– (If I connect my old computer to Internet, my files could be automatically
sent-out to Espionage Head quarter where tens of the thousands of their staffs
filtering millions of files from all over the world, to seek gold-dust. It is an
opportunist’s blanket theft. To stumble good file, it would make a good sale.
Otherwise, why list of my documents needed to appear as the files of [Three G] =
I shouldn’t connect my old computer to the Net, unless I copy and remove
all of my files before-hand. —– Even though, there is no valuable file. 😀 )
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Pre-programmed spy-chip seems really existing, and it could be in your
net-device as well.
(My [Three G] Internet USB dongle was made by Huawei and the another
company the American has named was ZTE = both Chinese companies said to
be working with Chinese Army Intelligence Unit)
—– it’s another seriously rotten world. 😦
(Among the readers, any body knows about this matter, please put a comment here)
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What is Natural or Not-Natural
The photo here was the Pears sold in a supermarket in Beijing, China.
In a Chinese myth, there said to be a fruits shaped in a human baby which
takes ten thousands years to ripe, and anybody lucky enough to eat it
acquire 50 thousands years of life.
(This story appear in that well known “Monkey story” (西遊記) as well 🙂 )
—– So, a clever Chinese farmer created this to sell them with premium price. 🙂
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Of cause it is not natural at all.
In fact pear fruits were made to grow in a baby-shaped cast.
In an old days, Chinese had a custom to restrict the growth of the girl’s foot with tiny
shoes to make her foot small —– so, it was not a new idea in their culture.
In comparison to recover the oil from the sewerage, an idea to make money
out of cast pear is not too outrageous nor dangerous to human health.
(if we don’t question the mentality itself)
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In fact, there are many strange unnatural agricultural products exists in the world.
—– You might have seen a Pear in a bottle of alcoholic drink. = You must be
wondered how the pear was inserted in the bottle.
It was produced by a way, inserting a fruiting branch of pear-tree to
a bottle, and made a fruit to grow inside. At least those fancy products
having novelty value. = it must be nice and a fun for a Birthday party. 😀
———- ( Banana with Seeds / Photo from Wikipedia )
Human has been created many new products in the history.
Seedless banana is the one name but few. Banana used to have a lots of seeds inside.
I’ve seen them only once in my life though, the species itself is still existing.
Seedless banana, huge Maze seeds (in comparison to such as rice, corn, Maze is huge)
and Wild-rice which doesn’t drop to the water when harvesting, were said to
be the top three great leap in the human agricultural history which had been
achieved thousands of years ago.
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Most of those products, the creation of new variety was done by natural mutation and
the human has been selectively breeding them and they become common.
Hence, the fruits and the vegetables were becoming larger and sweeter etc.etc.
Though, with the advancement of the science, we human is resorting many new
technique to produce a mutation of the species in artificial ways.
= many seedless varieties were created by multiplying the number of the chromosome
by use of a chemical called Colchcine from a Liliaceae Colchcum plant. = because of the
abnormality of the chromosome they become infertile = seed couldn’t be produced, so,
we no longer need to bother the seeds in the grape kind.
In fact, Broccoli, Cauliflower are a kind of cancer in the vegetable body.
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—– So, how natural you want to eat ? As the campaigner is shouting, you might
be conscious about the manipulation of the gene = GM foods.
Yet, we have been eating many products of which gene or chromosome has been altered.
With loud campaign or obvious strangeness, we may react with emotion though, the most
unnatural phenomena is that the over-grown human population keep exploiting this planet.
This must be the trickiest and the hardest question we have to face.
(Soon or later)
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Our Perpetual Life ? ? ?
I’m in a mess of clearing and sorting out the mountain of junks piled-up in the past ten years
or so. (Not a clean Zennist’s like situation. 😀 —– I’m doing too many things hence people
keep asking my help or advice, since my help is free 😀 = there is no time to let them go.
And I’m getting a help from others too = I don’t think I should isolate myself from this world.)
—– Only the trouble was, when I was busy making something for an art event kind, it was
always in a hurry, and soon after, another project might start = therefore, the materials used
etc has been just piled-up. What makes situation even worse was, I buy “Could be useful,
one day” kind of things, or picking up them from the street.
They are in a shallow box etc, though, box on top of box has built mountains. Ideally, I should
have line of shelves in a warehouse with multi-indexed stock management system though, it’s
a far fetched dream for a humble poor man. 😀
No doubt, in a clean-up process, something unexpected item coming-out between
a pile which I’ve been looking for, or completely forgotten. A ha, it’s here. 🙂
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What annoying trouble I found was, after years, a cleaning blush kind of cheap
plastic product and particularly the Tesco bags has been disintegrating.
I don’t think the manufacturer expected the people would use their products more than a
year, hence they used cheap material to make-up the item. —– So, I shouldn’t be surprised.
And the Tesco is Proudly announcing that in consideration for the environmental issue,
their bag is biodegradable.
It’s mean, me to left those things under the pile was solely my fault. —– still, I feel annoying
was = may be I still expecting the same must be there intact = my Ego and the greed.
The real trouble is, once I touch them, those disintegrating materials in deed
disintegrates and the small flakes scatter all over, literally spreading a mess.
It’s not funny.
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Even though we know nothing is permanent, still the system has to work in an
assumption of every components stays the same in a same condition.
In order to keep the same condition, our body is keeping the same body-temperature and the
same constitution such as the same salinity of the blood (well, more or less) and so on.
To keep the body in the same condition, the parts which is naturally worn-out will be
replenished and renewed constantly = And to make it same as the original, DNA template was
used though, to keep copying again and again, mistake would occur.
It’s the same to a Chinese whisper, once mistaken, the same wrong-pattern will be copied.
Wrong pattern of Gene could create cancerous cell. On the end, our body became no longer able
to keep its function. It’s a system bleak-down. —– This is how we get old and die on the end.
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Against this situation, many researches are tackling those problems.
Only a week ago, one Japanese institute announced that they found a chemical which would
prevents the brain cell deteriorates and prevents Alzheimer developed = disease would be
prevented by just an injection.
Another institute succeeded to continuously clone the mouse, over 5 years, 27 generations
so far, and made more than 580 cloned mouse = while preventing the deterioration of
the genes and their futility. Life science is really advancing in amazing speed.
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So, we human could gain the perpetual life in foreseeable future while
leaving other life form and biodegradable plastic to disintegrate. —– ? ? ?
Is it anything to welcome ?
Because, the matter is not just our internal system. We have to see the implication to the
external system as well. Those systems are closely intertwined as a total system called
Dharma in the Buddhist’s term, which has been refined throughout the time, in past billion
of years. We may not able or allowed to tinker one corner without affecting the other part.
Our perpetual life could be detrimental to the planet’s Ecosystem. 😀
—– Well, I should talk about this serious subject in the near future.
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3-11
It is 3-11 again.
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It’s already 2 years since. It is the past though, still over 315,000 people in Japan
forced to live in their temporary accommodation, many of them are still not able
to find a job with various reason, it’s mean for them nothing is over yet.
And we couldn’t forget over 2,300 peoples are still missing.
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Zen doesn’t give a sit to the past. Though, the trouble is, this trouble is
still very front of those people suffering = it is a burning issue on their hand.
So that, today lots of gathering has been held to commemorate the lost lives,
or protest gathering against the nuclear issue, but more importantly those people
working to take care of victims are doing their job same as yesterday.
(and has to do tomorrow as well).
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Some relatives of our Alpine Club’s member or their friends had been directly
affected though, the rest of us, fortunate enough not to have a hand burning are
exchanging the mail or gave a thought on their blog.
The words quoted in my friend’s blog “We are grateful still given to be here”.
(In my given life, I was rather lucky happen to be here, not under the Tsunami.)
So, my burning issue on this moment is, this very life given to my hand here.
Since the moment when I was given this life, my hand is burning.
(I know it will keep burning until the moment it cease off = Nirvana.)
So, if I were allowed to join the pray,
Peace to the people who happen to lost their lives,
and to the people who is still suffering.
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