Citron-Bath in Winter solstices Day for Capybara !

Japanese Mountain Monkys enjoying hot spring bath is well known.

So, how about Capybara enjoying hot bath in the winter.

And today is the Winter-Solstices, the day Japanese makes Citron

bath to keep good health. = So, Capybara enjoying it too.

This is a Park in IZU ( 2 hours journey south-west of Tokyo ) but

quite few Parks keeping Capybara around Tokyo and all of them are

having a hot bath in the winter time.

(People can watch them without offending, nor Police concerns)  😀

—– It was originally discovered when the zoo keepers was using hot

water to clean the area, a Capybara accidentally found it’s nice to

bathe warm water’s paddle => then it was accustomed to all of them.

Japanese Zoo-keepers just followed what Capybara wanted.   😀

—– Peace for the people over there and to the Capybaras alike.   🙂

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Season’s greeting 2014

How the 2013 has been for you ?  

I hope it was a pretty productive year for you.

For me while blogging, do something, see the friends etc etc

2013 has gone almost instant !

(Still in a hind sight there were so many things had happened ! ) 

So, it’s always the question —– have I done enough ?

—– May be.  —– In middle way.   Ha ha ha  😀

(Or, I might have done quite drastic.  🙂 )  

What so ever —– we have to see the next stage. = Let’s face it.

And I wish your best happiness in the coming new year. 

—– Hold the breath, listen !   —– You know, it’s coming.  

( —– —– Tap tap tap ! —- Ha ha ha.   I’m kidding)

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Fort’Mason’s Cherub

These days, all the job for the Angel has been monopolized by

the Cherub or other order has been made redundant.

And the another question is —– wait a moment, in mediaeval time

had Cherub wearing pants ? —– When they started to put it on ?

As far as I remember, I never seen Cherub wearing

dark red pants —– or was that trendy Pampers ?

Anyhow, don’t take it anything serious.   Ha ha ha  😀

And he used be a Cherub, (didn’t you know) still he is a

very very nice Angel.

Fortnum and Mason’s Xmas Window Decoration 2013

Among the big shops in London which one got the most heavy Gothic

taste may be a point of argument though, in my view, a shop selling

exactly the same things 100 of years = Fortnum & Mason must stand out

in its stubborn position.  —– Started to sell the candles to the palace and

expanded to deal with the Tea and established over the years,

Tea is a Tea = no new model or fashion there.  (Herbal tea is not a Tea !)

So the same shop is standing on the same place, looks the same too.

The design of Xmas window decoration is also heavier than Selfridges,

such as against the children’s tale, Fortnum & Mason chose

Greek Mythology — kind of difference. 

So, their taste for ancient Greek leafy pattern is still continuing though,

this years concept is more casual. = story from the next door.

It seems, even the shop stuck to the old tradition, the north Arctic

frontier, where Santa is based on, having a technological advancement

—– now, Santa is using a cart, instead of sleigh.   (Photo Right )

Santa’s new cart !

Any how, —– it’s fun  😀

(Shot by Canon 5D Mk-III, 24~70 F2.8, Pentax 15mm F3.5)

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Selfridges’ Xmas Window Decoration 2013

When it is a Christmas time, there always the special window

decoration of Selfridges is. = It is a long established tradition.  

And what sort of theme the decoration this year has, was

the interest of the people. —– It’s always a kind of children’s

fantasy though, it’s attracts as many as grown-ups too.

But this year’s decoration is not from any book or story —– quite

products orientated design = snow scape around the product.

So, the girly doll to audio gizmo.

Fashion(?) shoes to sports shoes.

—– Sports wear or toys ?  —– and of cause, they sells pants too.  😀

So, the handbag ! —– I have no idea what is a connection

between expensive bag to a snowy mountain.

Neither I have an idea what the Selfridge to do with

glittering naked woman.  😀

So, I couldn’t find whether it was children’s dream or adult’s dream.

Or, executive’s speculation = effect of Xmas campaign ! ?  😀

(Shot by  Canon  5D  Mk-III,  Fisheye Zoom 8~15mm  F4)

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Pre-Christmas Street

Together with some shoppings I went up to the center and I saw

the town has been prepared for the coming Christmas.

Leicester square was having a Fair Ground.

I wouldn’t be impressed by the Swiss Center having colorful LED trick

or see a huge Snowman, still I dropped the jaw

to see the Stature of Eros was in a huge plastic dome  😀

Until decades ago, the drunken people in the Xmas to New-year’s Eve,  

were accustomed to climb up the stature and caused a damage, was an

annual ritual together with jumping into a fountain in Trafalgar square

though, as the England grown into a civilised country, Eros Stature has

been covered-up by ugly boarding —— and now, it’s in a plastic dome !

After some shopping in the China-town I went up to the Oxford Street.

Before, “after Xmas Sale” literally started after Xmas though, with

a rather harsh economical situation,

all the shops are having their Sale already started.

And it is in the season of Christmas Carol, I encountered a Steel-band

playing beautiful Xmas tune !  

I still couldn’t comprehend how and why the slight dent on a

steel-drum can be tonally tuned = What a beautiful invention ! 

They are almost a fixture in a Christmas time,

the Special Window Decoration of the Selfridge.

—————– (Photo right:  LED decoration on the South Molton Street )

————————————————————- ( Photo right: London Rikishow !)

——- (Piccadilly Circus again —– The plastic dome with it’s AD panels

——- seems to be a good business venture.  🙂 )

Same old Trafalgar Square and a Christmas Tree

= an annual gift from the Norway.

Northern side of Trafalgar square is the National Gallery.  

Western side is Canada House and east is South African House.

And there is a mountain of flowers for departed Madiva. 

After walk up Oxford Street to Selfridge and walk down from there ,

it was already the night —– still it wasn’t too dark for a photo or two.

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Party Time

On the London Underground I encountered very very colorful

bunch of the people.  They said they are on the way to “a kind of Party”

—– later, I found, they are in fact the Government officers !

(Do you noticed, they are wearing 007 type very special glove ?

It might be for Golfing Gold finger’s) 

I guess, it may not be a special disguise for a rather elaborated

intelligence operation but more like for a chemical-physiological  

assessment project to find a toxicity of the liquid substance.

—– anyhow, to avoid me to become a hacking subject of GCHQ,

I shouldn’t go into too much details. 

I wish them having had a very GOOD time

and safely returned to their home now.  🙂

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釈尊の教え－－－Buddha’s Original Teachings

Note :  This post is parallel with this and this post in English. 

釈尊の教えが元々如何なるものであったかを知るには，教えの与えられたその時代，

その時の思考，その瞬間の心理の機微を知る必要があります。

人々の問い掛けに，その瞬間の機知で応えていたとされる

釈尊の教えに抽象的な想念は無く，全ては対話に立った明解な英知であったのです。

人々の問いかけもごく日常的な問題，その世相のトピックスであった訳ですが，

釈尊の時代は将にヒンズー教の勃興期で，当然の事として新しい流行思想が話題の中心に

なっていた訳です。 古典的べーダに根ざした道徳論的，儀式的バラモン教から派生した

ヒンズー教は当時の新興宗敎で「霊魂が生れ代り次の生を規定し，

それがカーストになる」とした画期的な流行理念であったのですが，この流行とそれの

もたらした恐怖は，かつての「天中殺｣の流行を想い浮ベるとピンと来るでしょう。

根拠も，何の証拠も無いでっち上げであるにも拘らず，世の人というのは

コロっとだまされパニックに陥る。この「輪廻の輪」という妄念に囚われた人々に

明解な答を与え，無要な心配やカーストのクビキから解放するというのが

釈尊の直面した火急の任務であったのです。　何の根拠も無いそのような妄念に対して

釈尊は極めて論理的，合理的な解答として「心配するには及ばない。万物は（我々も）

因果，縁の上にのみ存在しているのだから，当然の事として肉体が死ねば，

そこに根ざしていた意識も自覚も，苦悩も消滅する。これが涅槃で，それは誰もが

自然に得られるもの。我やカーストなど単に頭で作り出した妄念である」と説かれたのです。

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ヒンズー教で言う「無限に続く死と再生の繰返し＝苦界／娑婆／サムサラ」に対して，

釈尊は「輪廻，再生すベき「我」などと言うものはそもそも存在しない」と説かれた訳

ですが，存在しない物を説明するというのは至難の業です。（概念，言葉も無い！）

例えば，全てが共有され私有物の無い社会で「盗み」とかその罪について議論する事はできない。

重力の在る地球上でなら「もしこの重力が無かったら－－」と考える事ができますが，元々

重力の無い世界に暮していたら，重力とはいったいどんなものなのか想像もできないでしょう。

無私，無我である事はできる（一如として）が，それを客観的に自覚した瞬間に一如は消滅する。

（眼の存在の自覚なしにこれを読んでいても，言われて気がついた途端に一如が崩壊する）。

つまり無私を説明するとは外ならぬ「私，我」の存在の認知になってしまう訳です。当然の事として

釈尊が「我」を話題にする事は無く，「魂は死後どこへ行くのか？」といった質問は存在し得ない

物で，それに対する答が与えられる筈も無かったのです。つまり

釈尊は本人が「無我」に一如であった故に｢我」の存在に関しては完璧に「無記」だったのです！

［］

従って，仏教の中で最も重要な無私，無我（アナトマン）の教えは，実は体得する以外にない。

不立文字，教外別伝，以心伝心となる由縁です。（無心に，黙々とやるのみ）

しかし逆に言えば，言葉の上で定義し得ないために，誤解曲解が生じる原因にもなったのです。

－－－で，この曲解はごく初期のうちに起っていて，輪廻やサムサラを説く仏典は

実はヒンズーやタントラの混交でしかありません。

無私無我を教理の根底に置く時に，いったい何が誰が，死後も留って生れ代るのか？

釈尊がそんな矛盾した馬鹿な事を言うはずが無いでしょう。（笑）

しかしケダモノに生れ代るかも知れないと心配する人々の恐怖感は職業僧の飯のタネ，

彼らが話を書変えてしまったのです。

在りもしないあの世から戻って来て「話が違う」と文句をつける人は絶対居ないのですから

どんなホラを吹いてもバレません！　実に困った“虚偽表示”です。（大笑）

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PS:  The image on top was created by [Mouhitsu] of Japan-Post.

Though, the work has to be saved and its “png” has to be converted

by this process —– Bring the Downloaded image to desktop.  and

Double-click this => “Open with” =>[Paint] —– then click and open

left top icon and go to “Save as”=>”jpeg” (Yes, to asking small window)

—–> The saved image is on the Desktop !  🙂 

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Mouhitsu = Blush Calligraphy

In the Japan-Post New-Year Card design Free Template site,

they are also offering two interesting design tools.  

One is the Blush Calligraphy other is to design Name Stamp.

Calligraphy may seemed similar to other drawing program though,

their one is using the speed of finger movement to the thickness of

the line = hence a bit closer to the real blush touch. 

When you start the program by clicking red button on the bottom,

loading takes minuet and open the screen like this above. 

—– you may have the choice of colors or Black ink, and three sizes

of Blush.  ==> then just try. (as many times you like.  🙂 ) 

Black button right bottom is to re-start, and Red button for finish.

Use the finished Calligraphy into their Design-kit and to upload is

straight forward though, use it as an image, it’s “png” format

has to be converted to “jpg”. 

( To convert “png” to “jpg” is in this process:

—– Bring the Downloaded image to desktop.  and

Double-click this => “Open with” =>[Paint] —– then click and open

left top icon and go to “Save as”=>”jpeg” (Yes, to asking small window)

—–> The saved image in “jpg” is on the Desktop ! —– or somewhere.)

(I found a fun without having a mess of Blush and INK ! —– but,

write on touch-pad is very different from real blush writing, of cause.)

To design Stamp (they says Hanko) needs Japanese character input.

(To do this you can Google and download Microsoft, IME Japanese, or

you may pick up letters in the Net and Copy-paste as a design input)

—– So, these are the samples of the Name Stamp (Hanko) I made.

—– Left = the Seal of Yoshizen (良禅之印)   Center = Kinetorori (キネ瀞裏)  

—– Right = James (じえむす) in Hiragana  🙂

Japan Post is providing those service only till January —– so, if you like to

design your own Stamp, better do rather soon than later.

Anyhow, enjoy if those program / Design Tools are useful to you.

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Black Friday

Everybody knows what Black Friday is. —– So what ?  

It doesn’t necessary mean “Everybody became shopping crazy.

But obviously it made Co. to became AD crazy.  I don’t mind to

see a kind of business deal ADed by even tech’review site as I

might buy it.

Though, such as Amazon sending me 2 AD / day is too much.

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They are funny Co. = on the beginning I bought

Compact flush Memory Card from them as it is becoming

hard to come by item in the shop. —–> from this, to make

connexions to Cameras , Tech’item etc was obvious and I didn’t

mind to see what they got once in few days.  

Then “very funny things” happened.  When I attempted to buy

Canon type Lithium Battery to other use, not only to enter

Credit-card data etc. but they asked me to type “Promotional Code”

of which I have no idea = hence shopping was abandoned.

(I gave an inquiry “What is Promotional Code ?” to them.  🙂 )

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And this data (my inquiry) has been sold by Amazon or the mail had

been hacked —–> I started to receive offers from VaucherCode Co.

And Amazon’s started to send me more and more ADs. ==> My

Patience has run-out.  With a setting of Filter, all of those PESTS were

now blocked and goes to bin straight without me ever know it.

I don’t think I need to use Buddhist’s word “Middle-way”

= Gone too far doesn’t work.  I can’t understand, are they such idiot ?

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