Toy for a Grown-up / Rhythm Indicator
This electronic device is —– I may say, Rhythm-Indicator !
When I was a Disco-King (you believe or not 😀 ) often people (other keen dancer) asked
me a question about the way I dance, which is completely free movement hence virtually
no pattern still exactly follow and synchronizing with the Rhythm —– I needed to explain
what the Rhythm is.
Since I’ve been almost a fixture of the club, I also made enormous observation of the
people’s dance movement. Among the many funny discovery, the most interesting
phenomenon was, that some of the people dance with the song, not with rhythm beat,
therefore it looks odd and off the rhythm still, the person was not aware of it but
pretty much enjoying the dance (in fact nothing wrong with it ! )
And another discovery was that the Spanish moves a moment later than the beat. (It is
common with the Flamenco Dance, the movement occur not at the tense moment of the
beat, but the moment when its highest tension collapsed ! ! ! )
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Anyhow, to talk about the Rhythm in the noisiest environment, it’s easier to show it visual.
So, I made this Rhythm-Indicator (but only for a Rock beat) which shows the emphasis of
the 8 beat in red, amber, green, small green LEDs. And I explained, the movement what
the Rhythm demands, not what I want to move. = So, the movement was the exact reflection
of the music in each moment, not a pattern in fashion (such as in a film) or choreographed
planed movement. —– Funny things even among the keen dancer was, that they dance
what they want = regardless the different music, still repeat the same movement !
(= What is the point to have different music. 😀 )
My indicator shows 8 beat, strong, weak so on, and having BPM (speed) controller, and a
Selector for x2 and ½ speed. The Reset button was to synchronize with rhythm cycle. —– so,
in operation, reset to the first base drum, and adjust the speed to match the music =
Red LED to come coincided with every base drum of following cycle.
Voila’ the rhythm of the music was visually indicated.
—– To put the circuit and the batteries in a thin cosmetic case, I needed to curve the inside
to make a bit more space. (It was long before SMD components or Lithium battery.)
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Though, even in the same music, same song, the speed is not constant and the pattern and the
use of percussion is changing. (that’s the way to make a music more dynamic and exciting).
—– So, inevitably, I had to design more elaborated system such as automatically pick-up the
base drum and synchronize the LED to the Rhythm cycle.
But instead to develop Rhythm-Indicator Mk-II, I changed the direction to design the
Sound-reactive Disco Pendant. = It was a by-product of the Base Drum synchronizing circuit.
—– I’ll show you those Sound-reactive LED Pendant in the coming posts.
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No Word = Strongest Teaching !
Wikipedia is a very convenient place to see the world, even about Buddhism.
Not necessary because it shows the truth but shows the current situation of Popular Belief.
Funny though, it often says “Citation required” — in Buddhism this is THE most blatant irony.
Understanding in Buddhism came from not because it was written. It always come between
the lines. —– Don’t believe what was written but you have to think yourself.
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In Buddhism, such as the strongest denial or the things which is not exist was not lexically
expressed. So that, the matter was often over-looked or even mistook by the people who
only follows what was told or read.
Like a famous episode in the Vimalakirti Sutra —– To answer a question of “Oneness” (how
totally mindful to the subject) Vimalakirti utter no word, and its silence hit the audience
like a roaring thunder (so the scripture said).
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—– (If you couldn’t get it) = Think, such as in a situation of Sword Mastery, if a man using
the sword could see the situation, how he moves, how sword moves in the Objective View,
it’s mean his mind is separated and floating in the air and watching the situation in
distance = here, two Selves, one was watching and other was being watched, not mention
the independent Sword = this is far from Oneness. When the conscious of using Sword
and the Hand(s) and even the existence of the Sword fused altogether and moves as one
unified force, it is the Sword Mastery and the Master was in Oneness.
(In Zen term it is Ichijo / 一如 or Fuji / 不二 )
—– If you are good in typing, you must know, when you were absorbed into its task =
not only the position of each key, but the keyboard, screen, even the draft paper has gone
out of your conscious but only a stream of each letters = your finger moves automatically,
completely out of your conscious. And even your Brain was not in there, if the draft had
miss-spieling you just miss-type as it is = This is the Oneness = two Selves, Observer and
be Observed, in fact, THE SELF itself has been totally disappeared into the “TYPING”.
Therefore, no observer or conscious to describe it, nor description of Oneness on typing
could exist. —– (I can describe it because I myself is one-finger typist, still seeing other
expert, I can guess how it’s works from the aspect of Zen. —– still, I may be wrong. 😀 )
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—– So, there couldn’t be a description of Oneness.
= No word even from a wise-man Vimalakirti. And, in the scripture, there was no
explanation such as what I wrote above ever existed, because able to write about
expose a failure, that the one was not in “Selfless Oneness” = make a fool oneself.
This was also the reason when
Lord Buddha went out for a walk in a rainy night, he didn’t explain why, even to Ananda.
Because it was about the Selflessness = since the Self / its conscious was not there to
observe, there couldn’t be a word to describe it. = So that, there was no explanation.
(In fact, to teach Selflessness must be the hardest part, even though it IS the gist of Buddhism.
It can be taught only through a practice (without type-writer !) I wonder how many of the
followers could have managed to get it ? —– Still, as the tradition has been continued to
the Zen, it’s mean some had certainly mastered it and handed down the teaching !
—– but not by a word or scripture.)
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In Buddhism, a lots has not been written. As, it meant to be a strongest denial. Such as
Lord Buddha didn’t answer the question related to the “after life”. Hence no explanation
= it’s mean there couldn’t be any written record, hence no citation could be possible.
No citation indicates, no such things in the Doctrine of Buddhism. And no word by
Lord Buddha ever existed since such matter has no worth to spear even a single word.
(Unfortunately, this situation had been exploited, knowingly or with sheer ignorance,
so many stories of “reincarnation, etc” had been fabricated.)
—– Yet western rhetoric wants to have a denial also has to be expressed,
and No-existence (it’s hard to explain what the Voidness is), has to be proved even
in the Wikipedia. —– It must be a headache to the author.
They can’t create a blank page in Wikipedia and put a comment “This is Zen”.
(I wonder why not. A blank page could convey as much as message written
in the same space.) Ha ha ha. 😀
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Stabilize the Camera — Chest-Pod
There are many way to stabilize the camera. Starting from the way to grip the camera.
Ultimately a use of Tripod or Mono-pod, even a use of a Bean-bag.
Still, it’s all down to a mind-set of the photographer = Whether to pay an attention
against a possible camera-shake and become aware of own doing?
If it is a case “Doesn’t matter that the Stabilizer built into the lens should take care of
that problem”. —– This is the most funny situation. It is only a psychological trick.
The stabilizer may save a photo while cancelling a camera shake for further 3 stops = such
as in a situation of 200 mm lens, it would be safer to use a shutter speed 1/250 or faster
and with the aid of stabilizer it “may” drop to 1/125 or 1/60 —– still “may not” works.
In such case, I would set 2 stop higher ISO setting to get 2 stop higher shutter speed.
—— In the same time a “Maestro” may say “other than ISO 100 color is not in its best”
—– Oh, really ? ! The BEST mean it is still in a relative matter = NOT the absolute.
Our right-eye and the left-eye are not necessary even seeing the same color.
(Test it your self if you are not aware yet. 😉 —– If not aware this discrepancy,
how the one could boast about “the critical Color” 😀 )
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I used be working close together with the publishers, their printers, plate-making engineers,
and one of my closest climbing mate of mountain has studied Printing Technology and
became an expert of the photo-scanner (such as Crosfield’s machne) —— I heard many
wired stories of “Special Sorcery” in their trade —– still, when it makes the print on the paper,
such as slight difference of the paper which is different a roll to roll, or even a humidity in
the air changes absorbency of the paper hence changes the color of print, etc. etc. = there
can not be any reliable absolute or perfection. It is just someone’s preference.
Anyhow, computer to computer, this CRT to that LCD screen, the color is always different
= what fuss about such minute difference. 😀
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As I grown-up in the time when the color film was ISO 64 or 100, B/W was 400 and even with
push-development, ISO 1600 or so (Kodak Royal Record Pan = ISO 12500 was existed though)
I had to stabilize the camera other than ISO speed. So that, I tried many kind of chest-pod.
(though there are too many — even I don’t remember how many I bought and made myself.)
So, I show you two of my handmade.
This is a chest-pod of current use on my DSLR. The simplest, hence the most neat one !
It was made by aluminium pipe and a short piece of C-channel (which was cut and bent).
(A trouble was, the Airport Security suspects that this is a part of a disguised weapon. 😀 )
—– Unlike western people, I hold a camera right side down (it’s a Japanese tradition)
therefore when I shoot vertical-way, this chest-pod come against my left shoulder
just under the collar bone.
And this is the other one I made for EOS Film Camera which doubles as an external
battery chamber. ( AA x 5 rechargeable batteries instead of 2CR5 Lithium battery)
And it functions as a chest-pod exactly the same way as the other one. But this one can
fold down under the camera bottom. ( I don’t make a rubbish for a sake of Youtube. 😀 )
The advantage of this shooting style is, the hand which triggers the shutter, its elbow was
firmly lodged onto the body, hence it is far more stable than the style having right arm in
the air and move a finger to trigger.
—– May be because of the fundamental flaw of the camera holding style in the west, the
camera shake is unavoidable, hence, it gave an opportunity to the manufacturer to produce
“Stabilizer” and sell it for £500 more price ! (I don’t think it costed such amount for them. )
—– In a video image, shaky picture is annoying but on a still, “two stops slower” seems not
much use —– better use same £500 to another shopping, and set 2 stop higher ISO, —– above
all, have a practice to gain a stable holding of the camera would be far more advantageous.
Since, to gain calm, stable mind to stabilize the hand would be far more beneficial to the
one’s whole life in general. Anyhow, not all the lenses you got, has a stabilizer, and
living with unstable mind wouldn’t bring any happiness.
Better think it in different angle and better change the mind-set and the way you shoot.
(If you doubt, have look a photo here and the photos by 500 mm lens in the previous post. )
(Here, the Zen practice comes in. 😀 )
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Photos in Tone
Nature has its own tone, under rather subdued light, it’s shows subtle shade.
Shape and its 3D structure may not as clear like the image under the direct light though,
we are not necessary need to see such detail.
Subtle shade seemed to show more of what they are as it is.
Just see and appreciate as they are, without imposing my view is in fact less tiring and
able to relax. After all, the photos here are not for any scientific or reference purpose.
They are just what they are today as I’m here on this moment.
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Zen Sound of Fuke Shakuhach
There was a funny chain of connections. It was started a word “Kuwa-no-mi”
(桑の実 / Mulberry) in a post by a prolific blogger Tokyobling, in which he talked about it
with the photo of tree in Tokyo. —– I’ve put a comment “80% of Japanese may not
know what the Mulberry tree is, still 99% of them knows the Word
“Kuwa-no-mi” because of a song “Aka-tombo” ( 赤とんぼ/ Red-Dragonfly) which
was dubbed as the Second National Anthem of Japan.
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May be with my emotional attachment to this song which strikes Japanese psyche and
my associated memory, (—– Aka-tombo only appears on the end of summer which
meant us the end chapter of all the sweet and bitter memory in that summer
(and our youth) —– (you must remember, when you were young and small, how one
summer was long and eventful which was engraved deep into your subconsciousness =
You know, we only had 10 or so summers in the whole life to grow into an adulthood !)
And I’m very conscious about this Mulberry tree and the distinct taste of its berry.
So that, since when I accidentally found this tree in a town called Hitchin, I made my
annual ritual to visit there every year and eat the berry, until I found the another tree
in south London. (I talked about this tree in one of my post.)
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As an answer to my comment, Tokyobling sent me a link for a song-video of
“Aka-tombo” in Youtube.
—–> while listening a song, I found another Japanese old folk-song as well, which was
accompanied by a traditional Japanese bamboo wind-instrument called Shakuhach (尺八).
—–> as usual in Youtube, many related or similar kind are listed next by next.
—–> and I stumbled this viz, which plays “Fuke Shakuhachi” (普化尺八)
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Fuke-shu (普化宗) is in fact, one of the Zen sect unique to Japan, and
there is a temple called “Fuke-dera” (普化寺) in south of Kyoto.
(I hope it still exist though, many years ago, it was said only 9 monks left
but in this viz the monk was from Mukai-ji temple, there might be more monks in
another temple —– incidentally, why he is hiding his face is a symbol of No-Self )
(Composer Toru Takemitsu’s “November Steps” is the most famous adaptation of
this sound to Contemporary music. It’s worthwhile to listen ! )
—– This sect is using the sound of Shakuhach to teach what the
Dharma, and the Enlightenment is.
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But in practice, just to make a sound out of this instrument is hard enough because,
there is not much structure to make sound = one end of bamboo was just cut in angle
and having small notch to blow (that all 🙂 )= it is the matter of the way to blow in
certain angle. —– ( for me it wasn’t too difficult as I had an experience to blow sound
out of Peruvian Quena Flute which got somewhat similar structure) Still to play
good sound, let alone to master Kaza-iki etc. must takes 10,20 years of practice.
And THE result is —– just as it is = the sound you can hear but just the sounds,
nothing more than the sound neither Bamboo changed to the Gold. 😀
= still, if it is good, it’s good and in deed, it shows (or sounds) the Dharma,
—– or you may hear it, as a sound of the nature or its reflections.
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This is in deed, touches the hardest part of the Zen teachings and the deepest
human psyche which could interact or communicate with the Dharma.
(I wouldn’t imply, Dharma would talk to you though —– we might only feel, passively. 🙂 )
For this, please read those posts; [Harmony in Dharma] / [Aaaaaa~~~~~]
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Still some of you might say, So what ? —–
Nice tone which sound no apparent pattern or rhythm, hence it refuses
our mediocre comprehension, and its high tone makes our perception
sunk deep into the spiritual state (or totally open minded blank state).
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I met quite few professional Shakuhach players as most of Japanese traditional music
regularly needs to have them. Of cause, a player, able to play and able to make
beautiful sound doesn’t needed to be an enlightened Zen Buddhist, let alone Fuke monk.
And not necessary beautiful sound makes the people to get enlightenment.
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Yet still, to a person who actively seek an enlightenment, start from making
Shakuhach out of raw bamboo by himself, and try to achieve the best sound,
is the typical (endless, repeated) Zen practice.
—–> on the end, no wonder, the one could achieve and reaches to the state
of Ichijo = player, bamboo pipe, the air, the sound, all become one = as what
the Dharma is. Still, this is nothing but the state of blankness, Mushin
= the mind was sublimated into infinite Void.
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—– Because it is blank or Void, there isn’t much of use, hence it is a Dog shit.
And only there is a blank, what left in your life is, Just carry on, be who you are.
(expecting anything else is nothing but one’s Greed and Pretentious Ego and it is nothing but
a Delusion. Since, Void will not hold anything in it —– though, Mahayana
understanding is, because of it is Void, everything is in, since it would make no difference
at all = So, your life is your only life.)
Never mind, as long as the sound is good, it’s good.
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Hand-made Bag
This not a museum piece from the Captain Scot’s camp.
This is a bag I made about 1976 and used over 10 years since.
Unless I was on a Shooting assignment to carry full gear,
I only needed to carry A5 size Duplicate Notebook and,
may be just one Nikon with wide angle lens. — Only to carry
little things, ordinary bag on the market was too big.
Then I found a leather-goods shop selling off-cut leather,
I decided to make one, fit to my use.
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—– To make a bag out of off-cut pieces need to have just
a cut and stitch work though, being off-cut, the leather
pieces are irregular shaped mixed sizes,
I needed to do a jig-saw puzzle first, to make required, workable
flat piece of leather. And how to design such as closing fitting
on the top flap was the another fun. 🙂
(I used the same key system for the small coin-purse too.)
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—– Whether you convinced or not, this is a Zen practice.
When making it, there wouldn’t be any other thoughts. (Mindfulness)
And while stitching it, just fingers were working. (Mushin)
Considering the time spent, it wouldn’t make much financial gain nor
as it is not a kind of Master piece to show-off, it’s far from any Arrogance.
Still it was a fully absorbed commitment to deal with the material and the work.
So, it was, I would say in Ichijo. ( Oneness = Non Duality )
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—– Forget the brah brah, anyway the bag worked well, for its purpose
and it was my good companion for rather long time on my life.
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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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Machine in MUSHIN — Where KAIZEN came from ?
The people who read the previous Post [Zen is DO —- ] feed me back
“It explained the Zen mechanism extremely clear, — then the question is,
you wrote Zen also liberate the mind and the creativity — How a
Machine like mind can have a creative idea in the same time ?”
—– I knew this question would come soon or later. 🙂
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A Japanese working practice called [Kaizen] (改善) is now even in the English dictionary
(but not in this spell-check yet. :-)) = It was translated “continuous improvement”which is
widely practiced in the Japanese work-front.
Japanese worker’s almost machine like accuracy, consistency and the
dedication toward their work is notorious to the west. = Their work ethics
is nothing but the traditional Zen which forms the basis of the Japanese
psyche. = Hence, they work like a machine = in Mushin.
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But, to have [Kaizen] is yet another feature on their work-front. [Kaizen] is, to have
better adjustment of the way of production to a modification of the machine, even a
production line’s configuration —– in fact anything, for the sake of better quality,
productivity, or for the safety of the working environment, which was conceived or found
by the workers who has been doing particular job. (Hence knows it best.)
If its adjustment is not too big, it could be done by themselves. Otherwise the modification
may be carried out by the expert engineer, who follows the proposal. (of cause, proposal
should be studied by the senior engineers first, or even management level discussion.
I’ve seen this process in the Honda factory in Suzuka by myself.)
—– So, machine-like worker is still capable to analyse the situation and
able to find the better adjustment or alternative approach.
This is a proof of “Machine-like Mushin” and “Open-minded free thinking”
can exists side by side, in the same time.
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As a matter of fact, to create the Samurai Sword, and to push its quality to
a level of the technical limit has been achieved by the endless efforts to work
better, hence make the Sword stronger. —– It’s mean a man-machine with
a hammer, work in Mushin still has the eyes and an active brain to analyse
and find the better approach.
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Being in Mushin, hence having no useless thought or a thought anything else
of the work-on-front, mean the mind is completely filled with the subject
—– say, the Sword-Making. = Zen described this
“the Sword Master is in Ichijo (Oneness) with Iron and a Fire”
—– (a western (a bit wrong) translation in “Mindfulness”)
Still, the hands are working exactly like a machine, perfect accuracy and the consistency
thanks to the perfectly programmed Motor-region of the brain.
Superficially, we calls it Mushin because of no conscious thinking is there,
instead we do it without conscious, so, the brain is not blanc or idle, far
from it, unconsciously the brain is working with full conviction.
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While walking on a street, we never consciously think how to move each foot.
Because the whole movements and to keep the balance of whole body has been perfectly
controlled by the Motor-region of the brain, like the most advanced self contained machine.
While leaving its walking business to the autonomous machine, we can have a freedom for
watching nice bottom etc or pay attention to traffic, even find a philosophical answer.
Likewise, while Sword-Maser hitting the iron, even if the hands moves
automatic, his eyes can see the minute details of the work-piece. = any
short-coming should be noticed. As, all the process were handled
subconsciously, this minute detail were observed in the at-most silence of the
perception. Any noise, useless brain activities would mask this minute sign.
= The matter is, to open this subconscious perception by eliminates the noise.
Lord Buddha called this Clear eyes.
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If you take the meaning of Mushin as just [empty the THINKING] you miss
the part, concentration of your subconsciousness = Mindfulness.
(In fact, Mushin and Mindfulness are not separate notion or psychological phenomenon =
those are just different words.) Because of subconsciousness is invisible, it is impossible to
objectively manipulate, or discuss in words, let alone to teach others.
(remember, how to learn to ride a Bicycle. 🙂 )
This is the reason why Buddhism, Zen teaches the people by the repeating practice. Unless
you learn and become able to follow this subconscious mechanism, you can’t learn Zen.
And that is why, talking or reading about Zen is utterly useless.
Only the way to experience and to learn is by Doing.
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Crucial point in Doing is, unlike imagining or having fantasy, to find a way of
improvement, it got to be rational and technically feasible = even an intuitive
idea, it never be mambo-jumbo, but quite scientific. No body imagining that to
sprinkle a holy water from a church could solve a malfunction of the machine.
Even in the darkness of subconscious, our mind is very rational and sane.
(Well, in most of the case, among most of the people. 😀 )
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So, let this subconscious to see, listen and perceive = as this perception is
completely open, therefore, able to see almost invisible, inaudible = we
can see the better solution. Or conceive the idea, which has been blocked
by the idiosyncratic thinking. This is the liberation of the Mind, in Zen.
= And this is the mechanism behind the creativity or [Kaizen].
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Soft Effect by Double-Exposure = Cherry Blossom
This is yet another attempt to create an effect of “Fire-fly floating in the air” like image in the
Cherry blossom photo. I think, this technique is better than Vaseline on the fish-eye lens 🙂
Cherry tree is the same one as before but after few days, it’s having more flowers.
And the photography was done by double exposure with flashlight while changing the
focus and F-aperture. (Hence, large halo of bokhe appeared around the center image.)
(Once, this technique was used by Minolta in their Portrait Mode by shifting the focus
during the exposure, in order to give a soft effect )
This photo was in fact the first attempt with primary lens (Canon EF 20 mm F2.8) ——
The trouble in double exposure while changing the focus is = the size of images also change.
Hence, the off-focused image radially spread out of focused image. = To compensate this,
I used the Zoom Lens (Canon EF 24~70 mm F2.8) so that, top two (it’s the same photo but just
clopped) photos, focused image and off-focused image was not exactly the same focal length.
—– it’s a nightmarish operation = to remember the same size on the view-finder, yet still
a devil wind blow the flowers off position etc etc. 😀 😀
So, it was a fun with a lots of unpredictable elements and human-error.
Life is a fun in deed. Ha ha ha 😀
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Buddhism = Science
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While giving a thought to the well known established notions in the Buddhism, after
Lord Buddha’s teachings, such as “See the things in Clear eyes” “Detachment”
even “Selfless mind” then “Don’t believe, but Think yourself” and the fact that
Lord Buddha did ignore the question which was beyond our scope (unknowable),
such as what about the after-life or what is the structure of the universe.
(Stark contrast to other so-called Guru who pretend to know by telling the made-up stories.
—– Who does ever know about the next life or heaven or hell, not mention perpetual soul.)
= I realized, isn’t this, What the Science is ? Or the attitude to be a Scientist.
When Enlightened man told the truth, he dare to tell groundless story.
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“Right thinking” meant to be nothing other than a Rational thinking.
See the things with Clear Eyes meant to be “See the FACT”, and “Think
YOURSELF” meant, it shouldn’t be any enigmatic special belief but the
Truth which can be comprehensible in anyone’s rational thinking.
As all the factual phenomenon follows the rationalism, anybody knows,
Nothing appeared from nothing. Nothing happens without cause.
—– Based on the facts, and with the way to observe and analyse it in
strictly objective and rational way, then deduce the truth, is THE Science.
In this process, there shouldn’t be ANY bias of personal thinking, judgement,
preference or special belief = it got to be absolutely Detached from the SELF.
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Truth is independent from any person, let alone anyone’s Fantasy. =
Whether you believe or not, it’s there. —– This is the Science and what
Lord Buddha taught. (Yet still he was aware of notoriously unreliable our
perception, he spent great deal of his teachings to deal with this matter and
found a technique to eliminates the cause by way of the practice which lead
a person’s mind to a state of Mushin.) =(This is the core of the Buddhism)
Therefore, if there is so-called Buddhist’s teaching which say anything other than a fact
and beyond the rational comprehension, it is not his original teaching. (Only a problem was,
in this world (in the Dharma) there still be the Unknowable exists. There is a sect called
Tantra has been trying to deal with it without any tangible answer —– If they could give
any reliable result, they could have been employed by the Pentagon or Russian KGB though,
on the history, deeply spiritual noble “Third eye” which said to be in contact with the Dharma,
still not able to predict such as Earthquake even a single occasion. = If science can’t handle nor
Buddhism can.) So that, any fancy stories were later invention only to glorify Buddhism.
Buddhism is to Enlighten a person, beyond the personal Life and one’s Mind is out of scope.
What Lord Buddha taught was, how to get clear eyes to see the truth in the life
by get rid of the dubious belief and the delusion, by emptying the mind
(get Mushin), not to trap into yet another dogma. Dogma is not a Science.
Truth is like a dry skeleton, it has no decoration. —– and needn’t to be. 😀
(This is why my Buddha 2009 is bare minimal skeleton and the head is a clear
void which reflects the Wheel of the Life. And the heat keep moves its pattern
continuously = never stay the same = This shows what the Dharma is.)
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