Panda Babies
Oh, Cm’on, you got to be joking. —– No no, they are REAL Panda Babies. Not soft toys 🙂
Born in China and hand reared by personal attendance, even when a baby they are the well behaving
Confucius Pandas ! 😀
They are the precious baby (hence not cub, and sleeping on the Futon mattress) of Panda, in
the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base.
When I found this photo in a Japanese news site, I couldn’t stop to join this fun.
It’s definitely make anybody smile. And everybody ought to join the circle 🙂
Have a happy smily day.
( The original news site < http://www.jiji.com/jc/p?id=20110928090039-1443782&j3 > )
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Why TALK, Why Blog ?
It is the most fundamental contradiction in Zen Blog. Which I’m well aware.
Zen is after all, [in practice] how to live. Not a system of thinking or idea. Nor dubious magic at all.
Therefore, if any notion or thinking of even an idea of spirituality or any religious notion is there, it is
not the Zen but mere pretence.
In Zen, because of no preconceived idea or thinking is there (or no longer there) it is described as Mushin
and having the eyes to see the subjects without preconception, it is fully opened clear eyes by which
the one can see the object as it is, hence, there couldn’t be any barrier between
seeing and be seen = it is the Oneness / Ichijo.
Seeing and be seen are no longer there as the separate entity, hence no Self could exist
—– all those are not a logical conclusion or answer, but just a state of the brain.
( Brain is not only for thinking 🙂 )
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State of the brain ( In fact, the balance of hormone, Dopamine and Serotonin etc) will be
reflected to one’s feeling and the actual action, so does to the results ( hence to the one’s Karma)
not as a revealing words. ( Because, Zen is not a word game but real dairy life )
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This is the Buddhism of which Buddha taught.
To learn this, the followers literally followed
Buddha and copied what he does, down to the minute details, since
Buddha himself was the teachings itself. And as
Buddha did practice his own dairy life according to the Dharma,
and himself was a part of the Dharma too, his actions or practices were the Dharma.
( So that the recordings of those teachings were also called as Dharma, and those practices has been reflected
into the Zen Buddhism, such as in the Soto Zen, there is no verbal communication but just follow the practice,
and through practice, the learning could be achieved and even sudden realization could be occurred,
which was called Direct Transmission )
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—– this is the reason why I feel deeply paradoxical to talk about Zen, let alone blogging.
In the so-called Buddha’s biography, there was the story of
Buddha’s hesitation to teach what he found in his Enlightenment, which was needed a persuasion of
the Brahman to start.
(So far I couldn’t find the origin of this story in the Scripture —– the author of the biography must have
really deep understanding of the Buddhism and had the insight )
Buddhism having inherent trouble refusing to be explained by the words.
Understanding or so-called enlightenment may just come while practising.
So that, I can definitely say, Just Do it.
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Mindfulness – Mushin – ICHIJO
In past ten days, there were quite a bit of talking with my friends and they gave me a suggestion, that
a part of the script in my last post seems to be the most simplest but crucial explanation
of the Zen Mind, and said, having those few lines of explanation, half of my blog would
become redundant.
Great ! Thank you very much —– should I feel grateful or sad ? ? ?
( Anyhow, this blog is the ongoing report of the DIY ZEN, try to figure it out and see its notion in
a perspective = its got to have a progress and the refinement )
—– so, the following is the notorious script;
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——————
In metaphor, Mindfulness is to eliminates all another thoughts —– say, when you got to
do [A], to eliminates any thoughts other than about [A] is Mindfulness.
Then eliminates the very thought about [A] is the Mushin. ==> While doing [A], if no thought
is there at all, how the job [A] can be done = it is done by the Dharma.
Therefore, it is far better than “Done by yourSelf ” ! ! !
( Quite convincing isn’t it ? 
)
non
—– It seems that instead to use two words, it is better to use one word Ichijo.
(Oneness = a mind and a subject are fused together as one Dharma, hence the Self and the
subject itself are no longer exists as the separate entity, or seen to be exist) —– therefore,
the matter of whether one’s mind is there or not (about Mushin) or the subject which needs
to be fully concentrated (So-called Mindfulness ) is there or not, all become irrelevant.
( May be the first person who translated the notion of Zen into English didn’t know what the Zen really mean
—– good in English doesn’t necessary mean having good understanding in Zen )
non
It’s true, in the notion of ICHIJO, all the teachings of Zen resolved into
an infinity of the DHARMA.
The best of all, it is cheaper to practice only one ICHIJO, instead of Mushin, Mindfulness and Meditation.
—– you can get all three in one practice of DOING anything. — Ha ha ha, it’s suits to a humble man
—– And this is exactly what the Dharma mean.— Totality is the Dharma.
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PS : In the above script [when you go to do [A], ] = this DO mean actual action not a meditation.
—– As I’ve been saying [ Just Do ] from the beginning, Zen effect only comes with ACTION, because
—– it is coincided with the seclusion of a neurohormone Selotonin which gives the contented feeling
—– and calm your mind down. —– This is the reason why, all the Buddhism practice is a simple
—– repeating action. —– Once anyone master this, then the same technique can be applied to
—– any action or no-action alike = Being contended in calm while do nothing 😀 Peace !
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How Mindfulness and MUSHIN exists in the same time ?
This question seems to haunt a Zen novice for ever, as I’ve been asked again and again.
One of the reason, why it is hard to understand is —– because the person is trying to understand it
in the head, as one of the thinking process.
Zen is a very simple PRACTICE but not a kind of practice to be understood or comprehend.
(Think, riding a bicycle — you don’t need to understand the theory or to know the how to ride. You just need a practice on youe body.)
Understanding is the process in the higher legion of the brain / conscious thinking process,
but Zen is the state of the subconscious —– hence it can not be handled consciously.
Without your conscious control, to move forward right leg, then left leg, this is how you walk.
As it was all done in subconsciously, you don’t need to know, in order to move your right leg,
which muscle to contract or so on —– everything done in automatic. —– You walk in Mushin = Without thinking / awareness / conscious.
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As the Zen is a PRACTICE, you got to practice and master it, or simply just do it. While doing it, you will
get used it and soon or later you master it = you don’t need to understand.
Once you mastered it, as it will be processed and carried out in your subconscious = you do it just as a
routine or a habit = you do it in MUSHIN. (Very simple and clear isn’t it ?)
non
And Zen is the state of the Mind behind of those action, in any or all sorts of the action —– hence
Walking Zen, Lemon Zen, anything can be the Zen — put all together, everything LIFE in Zen.
(When total Life became Zen, it is a step before the Enlightenment 😀 )
Because of the people misconceived that the Sitting is Zen, it made the matter confusing.
Sitting is a relaxed posture, taking a rest = have a break = do nothing hence most of the time even
the brain is in idle. (but deep in your mind, some thing might come and go —– sometime new idea might come-up)
—– therefore, some say, it is the MEDITATION (deep thinking), others says its got to be
in Mushin = No-thinking. But, sitting is only one of the action (or rack of it ?) and
the state of the Zen is not confined in this posture.
non
When you are in action, —– if you have been doing it routinely, you are able to do it in Mushin, —– but
can you DO two things in the same time ? I don’t think so.
When you DO, you do only one thing. The brain can think many things in the same time or rapidly
scanning many thoughts, hence you feel, many thoughts are in busy traffic.
Not only many thoughts are running, the situation is rapidly changing = only a measure is, to deal
one thing at a time, in fact that is only we can do without making a mistake.
(Only a thing you can do in the same time is to do something while walking on a flat road as an exception.
You can test it. Still, thinking can run parallel —– but, it would be a destruction, that is why it’s need to
have a concentration = eliminates any another thinking = this is what Mindfulness really mean)
non
People thinking and imagining, try to figure it out —– by way of thinking. That is the reason why it is hard
to imagine, the state of the mind / fully concentrating to the subject on front = (so-called Mindfulness ) and
the Mushin (Mind of No-Mind / not thinking) can exist in the same time.
It’s co-exists only in Practice, or because of when it is Practice, it is co-exists.
(may be the use of two words made it complicated, like an electrical phenomenon, Current and the Voltage
—– phenomenon itself is only one phenomenon = just a dynamism of the Electron. In order to observe
its phenomenon, when we put a meter in series = meter shows the current. And if the meter was connected
in parallel = meter shows the voltage. But the electron has no intention to express anything.
They just move when it is possible to move —– man created two separate notion and made it looks complicated.)
non
In metaphor, Mindfulness is to eliminates all another thoughts —– say, when you got to
do [A], to eliminates any thoughts other than about [A] is Mindfulness.
Then eliminates the very thought about [A] is the Mushin. ==> While doing [A], if no thought
is there at all, how the job [A] can be done = it is done by the Dharma.
Therefore, it is far better than “Done by yourSelf ” ! ! !
( Quite convincing isn’t it ? 😀 )
non
—– It seems that instead to use two words, it is better to use one word Ichijo.
(Oneness = a mind and a subject are fused together as one Dharma, hence the Self and the
subject itself are no longer exists as the separate entity, or seen to be exist) —– therefore,
the matter of whether one’s mind is there or not (about Mushin) or the subject which needs
to be fully concentrated (So-called Mindfulness ) is there or not, all become irrelevant.
( May be the first person who translated the notion of Zen into English didn’t know what the Zen really mean
—– good in English doesn’t necessary mean having good understanding in Zen 😀 )
non
It’s true, in the notion of ICHIJO, all the teachings of Zen resolved into
an infinity of the DHARMA.
The best of all, it is cheaper to practice only one ICHIJO, instead of Mushin, Mindfulness and Meditation.
—– you can get all three in one practice of DOING anything. — Ha ha ha, it’s suits to a humble man 😀
—– And this is exactly what the Dharma mean.— Totality is the Dharma.
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When you ride a bicycle, you don’t carry a banner of “Thinking how to rid” “Riding in MUSHIN” “Full concentration in riding” “I’m the man of riding” —– in fact, all those Notions were created by “Somebody else who observed the Matter in riding”. = The situation was the same in ZEN = “Mindfulness” “Mushin” “Awareness” “Consciousness” “Thinking” “Meditating” etc etc, all those notions or idea were the debris of the useless thinking (about ZEN) —– ZEN is only a ZEN = it may not even be a notion or name = It is a kind of state of the mind (?). A person was just riding a bicycle while being a state, nothing else of riding = was observed / analysed by the others, and “Its state was categorised / named” as “In the mindful state” —– but other saw it in different angle and named “In MUSHIN” and the other said “Without the consciousness” and “Without a thinking” —– in the same way, [This ZEN master saw it in this way, and started to say in that way then taught in this way = which was called “*** school / sect” etc, etc.
The funny things were, the ZEN is only one and it may not be anything different from just a life. (It seemed, somebody trid to be looks clever by saying in different way.)
Detailed attention to the LIFE
I came across a kind of Japanese book review —– about a book talking about a small knack,
which would make your life more fulfilling. What a gospel. 🙂
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Contents itself is nothing new or anything eye-opening.
Such as the way how you staple the papers = the best way to do it, is in angle, so that it would not tear the
paper when a page was flipped —– in every small knack to do each dairy practices, in total, it would
smoothing your dairy life, hence the end of a day, you can achieve the life in happier satisfaction.
—– m m m ? Sound familiar ! ?
Familiar yes, thousand of religious, lecturing the life’s wisdom books are saying the same kind, but this
author has nothing to do with religion. Purely talking about how to do each dairy chore.
In fact, everybody knows something this kind, and even I may able to put some more this and that too.
Such as after cut anything, wash the cooking knife in order not to transfer the smell —– think, if your apple
smell onion you’ve cut a moment ago, or you may not like to use the same knife for salad vegetable which
has been used for cutting a meat. There might be a possible contamination of germ ?
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—– A man (and a woman) said, “ I don’t care because I’m using different knife”
In fact, I’m not going to talk about each knack here. Here, I noticed the mind-set —– how people react to
those small advise in general. —– Something I found very peculiar among the western people is,
—– regardless, if it is good and useful or not, many people just don’t like to be told.
May be the reason is, it is too simple common-sense = no need to be told by others. And another reason is,
“ I know but may be I don’t do it because I don’t care. So, don’t repeat it to me again”
—– laziness is the fundamental Evil here 😀
Though, those kind of small practice is the foundation of the Buddhism. — you believe or not.
(For instance, the Japanese Tea Making which was originated from Zen Temple as a
way of the Buddhism study, is a continuous process of small practice )
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Whether it is good or bad, the way which is making most stark contrast in the children’s up-bringing
in the west and east is, —– in the west, the children are grown up hearing the words “ Superb !
You are marvellous. You are doing very good ! “ (regardless whether the child is doing utter crap
and hopeless, as the parents think, they need to have an encouragement )
In the east, the children are nurtured and taught “ No good, you are idiot. Study more “. 😀
This would make fundamentally different mind-set —– in the west, it would give pretty strong
ego and the arrogance “ I’m a lord of my life “ (—– though, it is not the case in the most of the person, later
they may depressed and couldn’t figure out the direction —– but it’s too late to do it again)
In the east, as the children were forced to learn the curriculum regardless he or she is good in it or not —–
but, at least they learn their place and learn to pay attention to what they are facing,
therefore they become good to do what they have learned but not much creativity, still they know how to
follow others (provided, somebody lead them).
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Buddhism is based on the eastern psyche = hence accepting and follow the Dharma and
its Teachings, is the starting point.
Dharma is not a human invention therefore it has no human-like attitude or speak in human language.
—– because of this, to accept and follow mean, we have to observe first and learn from it. Then do,
what we found necessary to do. There is no [ I want to do ] or [ This is what I want ] —–
we are not the dominant Force in the Life.
Do, what was allowed for us to do, in its best. —– down to the minute detail.
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When you are cutting an onion, you ARE the man cutting an onion = It is your whole life of
the man cutting onion, on the moment. (this is what Buddhism calls [ Mindfulness] and [ Ichijo] )
When you got used to observe the life in your open-eyes (not the eyes to project your idea / Ego)
you start to see what is a better way to do. And keep doing it, it would become your routine, soon
you are able to do it without thinking = in Mushin = You are right path to the Enlightenment.
( It is simple, when you do every thing in better way down to the detail, of cause the result would be
far better = naturally you succeed in your life / fulfilment of the life)
—– So, to start, wash your knife every time after use. 🙂
( If you can’t keep even your knife in the best condition, how you can expect
to achieve anything better in your life)
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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”.
—
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.
—
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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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.
—
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 )
—
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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Lost and Found
In many occasions, we suddenly realized, Wait a moment where that Thing has gone ?
In my life style, it wouldn’t happen if it is for the daily use. The item, the thing goes back to exactly
the same position whether it may not necessary be the most ideal place.
Away from the ordinary tool box, strangely a glue-gun and a hair dryer is hanging next to the kitchen
utensils under my kitchen shelf. ——- When I moved in this unfurnished flat, it was before I moved my
possessions from a warehouse storage, I needed to fix something. So, I brought some tools from the
tool box in the storage. Unlike hammer or pliers those glue-gun and hair dryer (by the way, this one is not
for my hair but to heat-up or drying the material, and those ladles are to bend the aluminium with its carve
—– they are the tools for me 🙂 ) having an electric cable, hence it is easy to hang —– so, they found
a place to hang, and it became their permanent place.
Since, same hardware / tools or materials are in the same
place, the way to do the things, is more or less identical
—— hence it became a routine. —– Its mean I don’t
need to think about each action and only need to
pay attention to a part which is new or different.
You may see on the photo, the cable of the glue-gun or
hair dryer is twisted round its own body —— and the
way to twist round the cable was though out for its
best way round ( —- in fully minded manner 🙂 ),
therefore it is always the same and the plug will come to the most secure exact position.
This practice, place the item always exactly the same position said to be started in the Zen temple
and kept as a Samurai tradition. Hence a Samurai was able to respond to a sudden attack, able to
grubb his sward instantly in the total darkness.—— So, it was the iron rules in my family as well.
I was allowed to use my father’s tool, provided me to put it back exactly the same place, same condition,
and it trained me to memorize where the original position and the conditions were, down to
the minute detail. ( —– Otherwise the teaching would come with a fist 😀 )
——– My photographic memory might have originated from here.
——————–
You may realized now, what I’m talking about is. This is the Zen. And the Buddhism. —– in real life.
Zen is not only for a fancy movement of the sword master or incomprehensible Mondo —– but
in every minute details of the daily life —– to maximize the efficiency and ease of the life.
Then, — Zen ? —– the trouble is not the item in the same place.
Quite often, I buy something strange or fancy, —– might be useful-one-day kind of, such as cheap
Chinese things, toy etc. As it is not very important and not necessary having well-defined place ( that is
why it is strange ) I just stashed away somewhere. —— then year later, something bright idea came up,
” Aha, I got That Chinese Toy —– I can use that part of mechanism for this idea ” —— but, where is it ?
Since it didn’t belong to the defined category, it is not in the likely place of its function —– but it might
be placed in the similarity of the shape —– ? ? ?
When we try to think / seek the answer or to find a strange toy (in this case) —– our mind are caught up
to “Likely” direction, where so-called logical ( but own logic ) thinking is leading.
But in real life, not everything follow the logic. And not necessary having in the same guise which
I remembered or so-I believed.
The toy might have just dropped behind the box, from where I left it.
Or it may be in a bag, half disassembled.
When we look for something, our eyes (or mind ) is chasing the pattern as our cognitive function works.
The harder we try, we are even deeper caught up with same pattern. —— this is the moment we need
to have open mind.—– NOT concentrate, stop gazing at but take aback, and just to be passive.
Here the paradox again. The more you looking into, you can not see —– because what you are
looking is what you want to see / your imagined pattern. —– (But how do you know You know it.)
——- Then what I found was, on the corner of my desk, something poking out of a milk-cartoon was
that Chinese toy upside-down. Only I didn’t know, what it looks like the bottom of it upside-down 😀
We need to open our eyes with open mind. Detached mind can see the world better. 😀
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Peace in a Battle field
There was a funny conversation in Email exchange ——–
” Hey Yoshizen, could you pay the cost through Paypal please”
” Sorry, I’ve been black listed by the debt recovery company,
so that, I can’t use money transfer. I only can give you in cash.”
” Oooooh, you are such a trouble maker 🙂 “
(Among the Anarchist group, Trouble-maker is the honourable title 😀 )
” Oh yah, so far I’ve made the enemies, whole Judiciary here, Japanese Embassy,
Police, Local Council, British Telecom, Virgin Media, Three G, T-Mobile and
barely having a truce with Talktalk.
So that, the Motto of the Zen is the PEACE,—— how to find a Peace / Calm Mind
while shooting 😀 “
—
——– When we are in the battle field, we need to have unmoved, focused mind
and the clear eyes —- therefore the Zen is the most effective way to deal with the situation.
Dealing with the photography / how to capture the subjects, or even dancing on the rhythm, it is
the battle facing with the situation while sensing all the signals, then instant judgement and the response.
Because of the gushing torrent of the information is coming in, to put them in the clear space
in order to give detached bird’s-eye view and make instant intuitive judgement
with appropriate priority, become crucial.
—–
This is the reason why, the sword-masters, martial-artists even the throat-cutting share-dealers
needed to learn the Zen —– they are not chasing Nirvana or Enlightenment (too late any way 🙂 )
but needed to have ultimate efficiency managing their mind,
hence able to maximize their achievement in the life.
Do nothing, just sitting peacefully —— needs no more.
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