Video Geeks in Wireless Workshop
Wireless Workshop (SPC.org) is in the Greenwich former Town Hall. The members (?) are
meeting every week, generally for a talk shop. (some time to save broken computer !)
To create Video images, there are many approaches, from purely shooting real scene, or use real
image as a trigger or source of secondly image —– to Computer Graphics or Graphical animation
or Clay model animation etc etc ! —– Strangely you might think, there are many different kind
of Artists are visiting Wireless Workshop (some said Wireless Wednesday) —- So, last Wednesday
as video artists came, the meeting was held in their “Video lounge” = top of the building which
was the lighting and the Projector’s room of the former Greenwich theater. 🙂
Photo left is a Thermin (Electronic musical sound generator) and the right, there might be old
Super-8 Cine fanatics. = the trace of how this group is related to such as Exploding Cinema.
And as the Electronic Geeks network, it extends to continent too, and also overlapping with
Linux users groups (and Huckers as well 😀 )
Video lab, and the sound mixer —– even hand knitted small pouch (photo right) said to be a
” Testicle Warmer” and its rainbow color suggest “the Gay power movement” though, I have no
idea how it came here 😀
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Dorkboat on Stubnitz
Last night, there was a gathering of the Dorkbot London on the Ship Stubnitz moored
in the dock. I went there with James and John-san of SPC.org (Wireless Workshop).
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Wednesday, this time aboard the amazing MS Stubnitz. One *important*
thing, if you want to come, just email invited@stubnitz.com for entry.
* Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge Pier, London, E16 2BU
* Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
– Chrisantha Fernando and Ed Burton presenting Darwinian Neurodynamic
Cognitive Architectures for Playful Robot Kittens.
– Ben Garrod working around and through and away-from technology’s
relationship with humanity.
– Alias Cummins opendorking on Open Source C++ Development with
Cinderblock SpriteSheet.
Presentation of Newrodynamic control (photo left) and Shauna Concannon’s Hacked
Human Orchestra (photo right = which demonstrated an electronic system to play the
sounds by the switches mounted on the various part of the body.)
And Ben Garrod (photo left) and Alias Cummins (photo right) showed their creativities.
And it’s always the case, nature of the gatherings —– what ever the excuse, meet the
friends and chat over the drinks 😀 —– And it is a well known fact, electronic geeks
are not necessary only talking about technology but quite often very
trivial silly things as well 😀
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PS : They are going to DO the same in the STUBNITZ.
Avast!
Back due to popular demand It’s….
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People seemed to like it last time (http://bit.ly/Uct5Du) – so come!
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dorkbotlondon #83When: 19:00-23:59, 19 December 2012
Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge, E16 2BU (directions below)
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Featuring the bright and glittering…
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Liam Donovan: Two projects, maybe more
– a talking guitar and a barely working self-typing type-writer
Rachel Freire: Imogen Heap’s Musical Gloves
– think minority report for musicians brought to you by the DIY/maker
revolution.
Jokubas Dargis: Echo
– A game where you collect, recycle and destroy sounds on your way to
the king of space, and possibly other adventures.
And open dorks from:
Tim Monsees Stubnitz Projections
– the experience and challenges of a multi-projector setup on a ship
(work in progress)
Maybe you? If you have a 5-10 minute opendork/performance, bring it on
the night! Let us know if you want us to list you on the site:
dorkbotlondon@dorkbot.org
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Location
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MS Stubnitz,
Connaught Bridge
E16 2BU
map link: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
The Motorship Stubnitz is an 80 meters long ex East German fishing
vessel transformed in 1992 into a moving platform for cultural research
and exchange.
Nearest public transport Pontoon Dock DLR.
Turn right out of the station and walk to the next roundabout, take
first exit. Walk to second roundabout (with sculpture of giant woman)
first exit of that roundabout is the gates to the mooring.
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Clean the DUST on the Image-Sensor
In the time of Film Photography, a trouble of DUST was mostly on the film when we
need to make a print. Other than that, the dust on the lens or in the camera body
doesn’t necessary appeared on the photo. (May increase the halation. And in a rare case,
dust on a film might appeared as a dot or two).
But in the Digital Photography, DUST on the image sensor is a very visible
serious trouble —– and quite often happening.
On the moment of changing the Lens, a DSLR body’s sensitive part is completely open
and exposed = hence, a DUST can get into at any moment.
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A user of Compact Digital Camera may think their camera is perfectly sealed and safe
against the dust though, strangely, the dust can find the way into image sensor =
collapsed lens or Zoom lens are acting as an air-pomp to suck-in the air and the dust.
Once it is in, the dust can only be cleaned by the service engineer, with prohibitively
expensive charge. (Those small cameras were not designed to disassemble and to repair
= as they were assembled by snap fit without using screw = once fit together they are
very difficult to separate without cracking the plastic
= better forget the Dust = take a dust-mark as your own water-mark, otherwise
retouch one by one until you buy new camera 😀 ).
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Having exposed internal guts, DSLR (and the Interchangeable-lens Compact Camera)
can easily get dust on the image-sensor though, as it is open, it is also
possible to clean DIY.
—– When my picture started to have a dark spot, which was found to be
persistent, same position, same shape in all the pictures, it only means
a dust is on the image sensor, I asked the Boss of Canon what should I do, he said
“Bring it to us” though, their office is bloody far out of London and I’m not an owner
driver. —– I decided to clean it myself.
(Its the same principle = If Canon can, I can do too 😀 )
——- (The dust on the image showed, Ultra-sonic Dust-off system is not very effective. Anyhow,
——- even if the Dust was shaken off from the sensor, it stays there unremoved 😀 )
If it was ordinary air-born dust, it can be just blown away.
But if it was water-born, such as the VERY moment when you had removed a lens
“a rain drop got inside” or “you dropped your sliver” —– you may need to take
a measure with a possibility to write-off the camera in the worst case.
** To blow off the DUST, the best I found is to use
an ordinary rubber blower
and a high-quality nylon oil-painting blush.
(such as, Windsor-Newton or Daler kind and
NOT made in China)
(The quality of a blush, came with rubber blower is
pretty bad and it’s hair will fall off then it became yet
another troublesome dust).
** I don’t like Canned Air —– (1) Often its air
pressure is too high.
(2) And with its design, we tend to use its nozzle too close.
(3) The metal nozzle itself could make a scratch. —– After I have accidentally blown
the shutter blades off the slit with those Canned Air blower, I decided to use only rubber
blower to clean the delicate part of the camera, together with paint blush.
(Those Canned Air can blow off the grease on the gear = and the grease may stack
somewhere, always most unwanted place = it’s a Murphy’s law. 😀 )
Those oil-painting blush was designed to withstand against sticky oil paint and to
repeated cleaning in a solvent = they are the best cleaning blush fit for dust-off business,
—– provided if it was washed clean in a pure solvent time to time.
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** Before clean the image sensor, you have to start clean around the lens mount,
even inside of a lens-cap = it got to be through, otherwise dust will come back.
(ideally use another blush) = then, blush inside of mirror box and blow the air around.
(But better not touch the mirror, unless you have a confidence of cleanness of blush)
—> then, set the Shutter to [B] and press the release button to rise the mirror and
open the shutter. = you will see somewhat shiny green image sensor !
(but you may not to see the Dust itself ) —> then, blow the air toward the sensor
( DON’T blush it on this moment yet = if you can get rid of the Dust without touching
the sensor, it is far better) —> while holding camera body downward, blow the air
toward the inside (hoping the Dust to fall off ) —> then finger off the button.
** Put a lens and set the camera to an Auto-mode and click the shutter while
aiming it to white wall or paper (manual set the lens to off focus)
—> then check the image (not over-exposed = a bit grayish white)
= if there is no dark spot = the dust has cleared 🙂
** But IF the DUST is still in the same place, repeat the cleaning above
again but this time gently sweep the sensor with blush.
—> Then examine the picture again.
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IF the dark spot is still there = there could be a possibility of it is not caused by
a dust BUT the aria of the sensor might have become defective =
it is the time to send the camera to proper service though, mind you, to change the
sensor may cost half the camera price, it might be better to keep retouching the photos
until you buy new camera.
—– So, if you clean the sensor by yourself, be patient and pay good attention.
There is nothing you can’t do = have a confidence. (And good luck. 😀 )
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INTUITION / Face reading in the Szondi Test
In the previous post I gave rather vague and not 
necessary positive impression about the Intuition.
It’s because of the invisible nature of the
subconscious brain activities.
Yet still, (strangely, or as a family tradition ?) I got
pretty good accurate intuition.
I can assess the person in one glance, even in a
distance or from a photograph.
Trouble is, even if visible phenomenon is there, still
I have to give a guess-work to analyze its mechanism = how it’s works.
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It’s strange though, every body can see the personality from a portrait photograph
—– or at least able to judge like or dislike at once.
No body knows how it was done, but this is an obvious fact.
Even with its vagueness of the Intuition, still, some way of the practical use
has been exploited with significantly high reliability.
—– One area is to read the air reconnaissance photograph in the military front. (This is a fact,
not a joke 🙂 ) Instead to scan the details of whole area which is utterly time consuming
laborious work, but just see all the aria with open-eyed detachment —– then
suddenly somewhere catch the attention. The photograph was not necessary showing
typical military installation but giving somewhat odd impression. Then give a detailed
inspection = Boila, enemy’s activities ! This intuitive method is actually employed in
the Military ground image analysis, because of its quick process with
amazing accuracy.
—– And somewhere in this blog, I wrote about a Rail-way Ticket-inspector who
can intuitively distinguish ticket-cheats among hundreds of passengers
passing through in every minutes, with almost 100% accuracy.
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In Psycho-analysis , there is a test called [Szondi Test] invented by a
Hungarian Dr Leopold Szondi. = It is a very simple test = Just chose which person
you like and dislike among 48 photos of the faces.
(You can read this in the Wikipedia, please see yourself its detail.)
—– In fact, when I was in my secondary school, we had this test which gave the result
such as “You are an aggressive sadist” or “Depressive, passive person” and so on, rather
not nice to tell to the 13,14 year old kids though, we were very surprised as its
assessment was amazingly spot-on.
Originally, those 48 photos were in fact, Mental Hospital Patients whose Character or
Pathological symptom was clearly known, such as a person who was a sadistic murderer or
suffering depression etc etc and the person under the test feel like to chose a face who
got the same character, which the person can Intuitively see from a photo
= hence, if you are a maniac, you chose the photo of a maniac as your favourite.
(— sound awful though, this is what we do unconsciously / Intuitively !
= Hence feather gathers :-))
(The test I had, was an American version which was using 4 or 5 sets of 48 photos of
the Prisoners —– that’s what the teacher told us, after the test)
—– As an intelligent decent boy I was (might not true now. 😀 :-D), I’ve chosen looked like
decent-faced, intelligent man’s photos (= hence, I got the assessment, saying “You are an
intelligent decent man with good common-sense, etc = Yes, that’s who I was. Honest. :-D)
Seeing the photos, I couldn’t imagine if anybody dare to chose another gloomy looking faces
—– then we realized, somebody had actually chosen those gloomy faces, hence received the
assessment “You are a sadist” ! = In fact this boy was a notorious bully, so, all of us burst
into laughing. —– (Before 60s, there wasn’t a kind of Human Right notion to protect
sensitive personal nature and anyhow, we all knew the character of every body, we took it
more like yet another mocking = Nobody complained that its assessment was wrong, nor
complained that his secret has been exposed. = It was a fun for the kids. :-D)
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Though, it may not a fun, this psychological test strip you naked = as you intuitively, feel
like particular face and put a mark without knowing why, you can’t hide who really you are.
And, because of this test is blatantly accurate and ruthlessly explicit, yet as no scientific
explanation (= as in a nature of the invisible psychological phenomenon ), and especially in
the today’s “Human Right, Sensitive Privacy, Political-Correctness etc etc” kind of awkward
social climate, it became out of fashion, so that, not many psychologist is using it now.
Yet, this is the most visible demonstration of how our subconscious mind /
intuition actually works, by showing the character with known pathological symptom,
and observe direct coloration between the viewed person (photo) and the viewer.
= Because of no information, other than the facial photos, viewer has to use
solely intuitive perception.
Other than this test, it is difficult to visibly test and demonstrate accuracy of our intuition.
( remaining question is how a person’s character or symptom shows up on the face or
even on the photograph —– I wonder, am I looks like Zen Buddhist ?
—– Or was that what Master Kogetsu found on my face ? ? ? :-D)
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It is impossible to teach Intuition, same as a creativity in the art or invention.
And same as a vision of Medicine-man = apprentice may not have the same mental ability,
so-that a second class Medicine-man needed to resort with hallucinogenic drag.
We can not swap the eyes with other person , let alone the mind = without the apprentice
having had a real experience, it is no point to teach the meaning of the vision or even
humble Intuition. Explanation in the words is utterly pointless = because the
part of the brain which perceive Intuition and processing Language are
completely different. = Somebody can do better but not others.
—– Such as a Ticket inspector aforesaid = he was the best in the station, still it was
impossible to teach others because he, himself didn’t know how and why, where to look for.
Neither me can explain why I can see the personality at once = I only feel —– even if
I try to say such as a shape of the mouth brah, brah though, it’s not necessary make an
explanation since, there are too many variations and exceptions.
And all the faces are different.
—– One face contains thousands of the informations, and as in total, it gives off the
impression of who the person is = hence, few parameter of the biometrics wouldn’t and
couldn’t give an answer.
If you imagine, the very same face can express thousands of different
expressions by minute movement of the muscles —– Only Intuitive
perception can grub those informations in total, at once.
But its mechanism is still beyond the our understanding. Funny paradox is, they are all
in the same Brain, yet we don’t know what other part of the Brain is doing.
We know everything else, but not our own brain, let alone its contents = mind.
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INTUITION
Intuition is a tricky subject. 🙂
Every body knows it is there though, as a mater of fact nobody is sure how it works and
works correctly or not. Generally, the woman said to be good at with this though, if it is true,
how come 1/3rd (now it is getting nearly ½) of the marriages end-up in divorce = wasn’t it
correct intuitive choice —– or, correct intuition had been over-ridden by the useless thinking ?
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Many Internet blog sites are keep shouting “Be intuitive” though, funny contradiction is,
in the same time, often the very same blogger also saying “Never judge a person in first
impression but to be Kind to others and Open-minded” or
“Never chose a book with its cover” kind of crèche wisdom.
In most of the so-called WISDOM, there is always opposite wisdom as well.
= Silence is Gold and Eloquent is Silver, still many relation brake down because of lack of
communication —– if intuition is so good, why it needs to speak by the words. 😀 😀
Reality is, to see the situation down to the minute details and to pay attention to every
aspects of its implications and give enough consideration and correct rational judgement
is a heavy task, in fact too much to do —> So, don’t bother JUST react and pick-up first idea
—– IS what people calls “Intuitive Decision”.
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Our subconscious memory-bank has enormous amount of accumulated data, deposited since
we were born —– the more serious matter, it has been imprinted with the more stronger
emotional tag, often with the accompanying pain, or if it is important in the family or in the
society, it has been strengthen by the repeated input as it occurred again and again
= hence, the first INTUITIVE reaction against the situation was based on those
important data without having mere hear-say or “read yesterday” kind of
cheap data and thinking, therefore it is more or less correct, but not necessary
perfect. —– to compare to the result of “Deep consideration” which has been done by
a not necessary very bright brain = may be the probability of hitting right answer
would be the same.
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If the outcome would be the same = right or wrong, half and half, why bother
bothersome consideration or thinking ? Anyhow, we have to pick-up the
consequence — favorable or not = This IS what the LIFE is.
This contemplation is the core of the “Intuitionism”.
And to live the Life in natural flow.
And the more importantly, even the most wisest man in the history,
Lord Buddha has found (= even to such a wisest brain) “the Life is suffering”
= no one can escape from this fundamental truth. (If you feel not seriously suffering
= You’ve done rather well 😉 )
What we can do the most important attitude toward the Life is,
= NOT dwell the idea “IF NOT” = as the situation is changing moment to moment, to
keep regretting a wrong decision which had been made in the past, and a result already
arrived, is in the matter of the fact = have to deal though, the new and current situation is
on front of the eyes and it is burning. = This is what we have to fight against.
(If the fire is not big, a pint of beer could be enough to put the fire down otherwise, just run !
Don’t sitting there ! 😀 )
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Yes, don’t sitting there. DO something ! Enjoy a nice and active Weekend. 🙂
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How Buddhism has survived ? / アビダルマを読む？ エッ，マジ？
It was a real history, once there was a time, the Study of the
Abidharma Mantra was the main task of the Buddhist.
If you open and read few pages of such as Abidharma Kosa, you will see the trouble if
anyone has to study those. = they are incredibly complicated, laborious and endless
description of all sorts of definition or the relation of each phenomenon, existences
= which was purported to be the analysis and elucidated structure of the Dharma.
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I think, and you can easily see, they were not what
Lord Buddha taught. —– Imagine, if it was taught by him, soon he would see, half of the
disciples are sleeping. = No such non-appetizing or boring teachings were ever given, as
Lord Buddha was not such idiot.
And does anybody think, is any essence or even hint of Buddhism were written in there?
= So, how come, how the tradition or essence of the teachings were
not lost through that period?
—– The secret was hidden in the situation itself.
= If you were a monk then, you were forced to study it.
You got to have strong will to follow the Buddhism. But if you were having strong Ego, you
might be just run away from the monastery. = in another words, if anybody survived its hell,
it was a person having strong will to serve Buddhism but abandon to have any Ego.
Repeatedly read the same book of Abidharma again and again, you must have memorized
everything hence able to recite all the passages = mouth can move automatic and recite the
words though, the Emotion and the Mind is no longer there = NO THINKING.
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Our Brain filter out the same signal. If the same signal is coming again and
again, the threshold of the perception became much higher and it will be
processed without involving any Emotion.
Like the same wall on the street, you wouldn’t pay attention twice = you can see it’s still
there = So What ? = Once you know it has no significance (not special or impose
any danger), the visual signal would be ignored. It is the same to a radio CM. = even if
you heard it 100 times, you may not remember what it was saying, because it has no
significance or took your attention with interest = it mean, it didn’t take interest of your
Emotion or no longer appearing to your Emotion.
= all those signal / information became transparent = doesn’t trigger any thinking.
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= So, the Study of Abidarma Mantra was not what written in there but it was a training
to get rid of the Ego and eliminate the Thinking ( = reach to Mushin).
= this is what all about the Buddhism study needed.
It’s mean, DESPITE of Abidharma, Buddhism tradition was continued. 😀
( In case, if you like and enjoy reading it —– M m m ? Who the hell you are :-D)
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仏教２５００年の歴史の中にはアビダルマ経が教義の主流であった時代が有ます。
パラパラ数頁を読めばすぐ解る事ですが，とにかくしちめんどくさい事がびっちり延々と書かれている。
誰が見ても明らかですがこんな解りにくく退屈なものを
釈尊が延々と説いたとは考えられない。ほんの数例が喩えとして説かれたと言うのがいい所で，延々とやったら
さすがの直弟子ですら居眠りに落ちていたでしょう。
これが全ての存在物，事象それぞれとその関係（因果／縁）の定義で,これがダルマの解明であるという訳ですが
バラしたカメラ部品全ての説明を受けたからといってカメラは元より写真が何かはまるで解らないというのと
同じで,アビダルマ経の全てを読んでも仏教が何であるかは全く解らない。
＝逆に言えば，読んでも足しにならないものを読む事が 主流であった時代を経て来ながら，
どうやって仏教の教えが失なわれる事なく，綿々と受継がれて来たのかと言う疑問が出て来ます。
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この答はその当時の現場の情況を思い浮べてみると解ります。
僧院に入った若い弟子は何が何んでもこのアビダルマ経を学ばざるを得なかった
＝無条件に受入れるしか無くエゴの入り込む余地は無い。さもなければ寺を離れる以外に道は無かった。
＝つまり寺に残るのは苛酷な修行に耐えてでも仏に仕えようという強靭な意志と経文をマスターできる頭を持ち
ながら, しかもエゴ／自我を消滅できた少数のエリートであったという訳です。
それに加え，冗長な経文をマスターするには何千回も繰返して読む必要が有り,最後には全てを暗唱できる
ようになっていたでしょう。
人間の脳は繰返し入って来る同ー刺激（信号）に対しては刺激の閾値が高くなり，それを感情抜きで
機械的に処理するようになります。
見慣れた物や風景はそこに在るのが見えていても全く注意を引かない（思考に結びつかない）事と同様の
現象で， 経文を唱えるにも頭はほとんど無意識のまま口は自動的に動いて唱えられるようになります。
これは禅で言う［無心］に他なりません。
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つまり，アビダルマ経を学ぶという事には，経文の内容の問題ではなく，それを学ぶ実践の過程，
その派生効果の中に仏教の核心（無私，無心への到達）が隠されていたという事です。
（もちろんアビダルマ経は仏教用語の用法やその定義を明確にしたという意味でその後の経典作者や
仏教学者に とっての聖典でもありますが－－－アタシャ苦手だね）（笑）
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Sea Creature ? ? ?
M m m m —– What ? ? ? You may think. What are they ?
Yes. Those photos are genuine. Just straight close-up shot. No Photo shop. 🙂
– – – – – – – – – How do you see them ?
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Perfection
It is an interesting situation.
When we see a flower or intricate small insect we saw it is perfect.
Even though we human being is the one the most evolved and the most sophisticated creature
in this planet, still, the only one who feel “ I’m not perfect” (may be I should exclude you
in Political Correctness 😀 ) —– in general, if anyone say I’m perfect, others would boo you
and if you are believing yourself is perfect, you are likely a loner and known to be a nut. 😀
—– How come. What went wrong ?
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In Buddhist’s term, especially from the words of Master Dogen, we should know that we
were here as a part of Dharma hence we were perfected as we are, and have to learn
[ As-it-is-ness]= to become perfect as who you are.
This is exactly what Master Kogetsu told me in the Eihei-ji temple. “ You are just a failure to
be a photographer. Couldn’t settle and became as a perfect photographer” then I replied him,
“ What’s wrong with a photographer become a seeker ? Have look,
Lord Buddha forsaken to be a Prince and joined seeker bikku, didn’t he ?” —–
Master Kogetsu was incensed with this “ How outrageous, to use a comparison to
Lord Buddha”
( Incidentally, Master Dogen was not born to be a priest. He was a sun of noble, chief minister
serving to the Emperor = wealthy enough go abroad to study 😀 )
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But, before being as a photographer, I’m a human = Even perfect Samurai is, yet a human in the
same time —– is it a contradiction ? I don’t think so. This is, what a man’s situation is.
On the time of Master Dogen, it was a feudal society = born to be a farmer, the person IS a
farmer, nobody else = it was not a job or profession but a fixed cast.
Today though, to be a photographer is a mere chosen job. It can be changed just like a jacket.
And a job wouldn’t define who you are. To take Master Dogen’s words in the context of the
moment, it would make sense. = On the moment when a photographer is shooting with his
camera in his hand = he got to be perfect as a photographer. (yet in the night, he could be a
boring husband) —– still, [this is a man living as him, perfect “ as-he-is-ness” ]
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When we grow up, kids are seeing Heros, Superman or Super Robot (Gandum ?) etc, and as
we got huge brain and memory bank, we build up a kind of ideal figure and become aware
of should be standard. —- and always there is a person who can do it better — we realize
how we are not perfect. Whether an awareness of this imperfection drives us to make it
perfect or by something another urge = it is an interesting argument, still strangely, we give
an effort to make it better or perfect. === isn’t this an obsession ?
Or, the image of Superman or who ever the ideal perfection —– isn’t it a delusion ?
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—– blessing to your ears is, it’s good to give an effort to make it perfect though, we never
achieve perfection as we are never be perfect.
I’ve met quite few Masters who can produce phenomenal perfection in his crafts etc.
—– something remarkable is, non of them said it is perfect, hence he is still trying
to achieve its perfection = it is an on-going project.
Being as an imperfect existence as it is, is what Buddhist calls [as-it-is-ness] —– and this is
the Enlightenment and that is why all the Masters found it [It’s a dog shit].
So, be relax, you may not too far from the enlightenment. 😀
( It’s mean, believing and cherishing something, such as spiritual perfection
might be in vain = it might be an illusion or delusion, even worse, could be a
fraud in your text book) 😀
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Fun Clock for James
One of my friend James Stevens is going to have his 50th Birthday party in this week.
James is the organizer of the OWN (Open Wireless Network) and having a workshop,
advising the people for their use of computer, network connection etc.
What remarkable about him is, this [etc] part.
He does everything about electronics = from lighting to PA, audio system to how to
organize and set-up the event. Hence, he knows everybody in the field and knows
“Who got which equipment, in where etc” = therefore, able to hire (or let the others
to hire) thence able to organize fully equipped film event, art event, about anything.
He is everywhere, in fact he is the Don.
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This remarkable character came from his fundamental open minded attitude to see
anybody and help anybody who came to him. So that naturally he learned everything
and acquainted right people in every field. He himself isn’t an authority of everything
but a man to know the authority who can help him = therefore he doesn’t need to be
an authority nor boss still he can solve all the issue as others follow him.
In my eyes, he is a Good Buddhist at work = helping others and make things happen !
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—– anyhow, as he said he is going to have a birthday party, I prepared a present
for him. = I made a fun clock.
(I never sold my work but just give them to the people for such occasion).
( I don’t think I need to explain about this = this is what it looks and function as it is,
that all though, if I may boast, its looks silver wire is in deed Staring silver ! )
Happy Birthday James.
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