Words and MIND
To think about the MIND matter, naturally I had to think where the Mind originally came from.
Our internal drive itself may not necessary connected to the mind. In fact, majority of our body’s activities
such as the internal organs were carried out without noticed even by our subconscious.
Yet, some signs given off, out of subconscious may affect our mood.
When a mood or body’s physiological condition were noticed by the consciousness,
this conscious may be categorized and some of them were given a generalized notion with
its associated word. ===> With only those notions and the words, we do conscious thinking.
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It’s mean, our Body and the Mind are having a Pyramid like structure with many layers.
Yet, not everything are fully connected one by one to upper structure = In other words, our conscious is
covering only very limited area of our Mind, let alone the whole Body matter.
Despite we are having an impression of [highly developed, sophisticated ] thinking process though, in fact
it was done in the pretty murky dark operation. = 90 % of thinking are done, out of our
conscious and it takes (said to be) 6 second to become clearly noticeable form by our brain.
Naturally, we see the Mind matter with a mysticism with the fancy words of, Spirit, Soul etc,
still, Lord Buddha was the one who clearly saw this structure = what is the role of the
subconscious (2400 years before Freud, even when the notion of [Subconscious] was not
existed) and he showed the way to tap-into its power to control human life.
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I’ve been thinking that the evolution of man was linked to the change of eating habit, Fruits-eater to the Omnivore
= then, animal protein induced further development of the brain.
Omnivore is the knowledge based eating habit = to communicate and teach which one is edible = ability for
visual pattern recognition and the categorical memory (notion) was forced to develop
(otherwise couldn’t survive = intellectually selected out)
In the same time, shared knowledges and the projected, anticipated search could lead to the higher success =
verbal communication became key tool for the survival.
—– Naturally, accumulated knowledges could be summarized and lead to have the
abstract notion with word ===> abstract thinking has developed.
Those projected (When they think “Get fish” = fish is not there, but expected existence),
abstract notion (such as “Good to eat” “dangerous”) along side the emotion, created
complexed Mind.
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Therefore, in my theory, the development of the language was essential to the development of the thinking
—– yet still, here is an interesting experiment with Bonobos who hasn’t got a language.
( Or, is it just a Conditioning of their basic desire to objectives ? = not a sophisticated thinking
but just a pattern connected to Banana) 😀
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( An article from Gizmzg site )
App would allow humans to communicate with bonobos
The seven bonobos living at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, are
a pretty smart bunch of apes. Among other things, they have a vocabulary of about 400 words
– they don’t speak those words, but instead associate the meanings of them with symbols known
as lexigrams. Using large wall-mounted touchscreen displays, they are able to communicate with
humans by touching the appropriate lexigrams on those displays. Now, the sanctuary wants to
develop an app that could be used on mobile versions of the wall screens, so
tablet-wielding bonobos could communicate from wherever they happen to be.
Read on Desktopor Read on Mobile
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Creative Zen Mind
What can you see in the photo ?
It is a strip of bras metal from an Art material shop.
In fact it is just a cut-off, left-over of a bras panel, yet sold as a material.
Material for what ? —– for Art ? For making small parts of electric device ?
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Some may think to utilize it as a book marker or throw into a bin after twisting it for a while 😀[]
But, flat metal doesn’t necessary to remain, as a flat object. Cut-off piece doesn’t
necessary be a rubbish = They are the stereotypical preconceptions =
If we couldn’t go beyond this kind of preconception, our ancestor couldn’t have invented
an arrow- head out of a stone.
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If it was a Zen question —– the answer could be even “It is the Universe, Sir ”
———- Did you get it ? 😀
If it is a thin metal, it can be easily cut by ordinary scissors, and easily twisted to make a shape.
It can be anything. (Well, in a theory. 😀 )
—– So, here, one of my attempt. This is a kind of 3D line drawing. = Strip of metal was cut even
narrower strips and twisted. If this is still a sculpture, how cheap and easy = This is the beauty of it.
And this is all about [What you can see in a strip of metal]
——– (The face shows different expression with different viewing angle —- I’m studying how and why :-))
BUT, to see it NOT as a strip of metal, but as a 3D figure, isn’t it a Delusion which exists
only in the mind ? = good question 😀
( Here, famous story of Flower Sermon (捻華微笑経) comes = a flower can be the Universe = Dharma.
—– though, why only Maha Kashapa could understood it ? What other disciples were doing ? 😀 )
—– Zen has its completely detached eyes, hence see it no more than it IS, but in the
same time, as it posses no preconception = see it in the Blank Space, it can see even
an invisible = it can be a Truth.
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But, [What is the Truth ?] —– is the big question.
The Truth, which affect our life ? Or fundamentals of our existence ?
Is the Truth which is relevant to our life, is the Truth ? —– Isn’t it a bit too utilitarian view isn’t it ?
How about Big-bang and Black-hole, are they True, or anything relevant to us ?
( So far the historical fact, therefore the statistical provability showed, that Zennist
didn’t find any important scientific Discovery or earth-shuttering Truth to the human
= thus, most likely, we don’t need to worry about Big Truth. We are busy enough to
deal with the handful headache in the dairy Life and the matter of the Self. 😀 )
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(When Lord Buddha was asked about those Big Truth, he didn’t give any answer.
Since then, traditionally Buddhists doesn’t talk about those question, which is out of our Life.
After all, so-called Mindfulness is to eliminate any thought other than the matter
the person is facing up front.
—— Even today, the scientists who is seriously dealing with Black-Hole Theory are not more than
handful in the world = it is nothing to do with rest of us, other than an interesting talking piece 🙂
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—– the choice is totally up to to you = the matter of who you are
= if you are a person to see it as a bare strip of metal, see it.
Or if you are a person to see it as a figure, go for it = Zen is not a fixed dogma or
an attitude, since [To be who you are] is only a matter !
But this [Who you are] is neither fixed or ideal existence, as time goes, the same YOU
may not be the same person on the next moment = try to act in a fixed face IS a delusion.
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So, enjoy each moment. And enjoy a creative moment when it comes.
When something new idea of figure, or even an enterprising business plan came up to your mind, while
you are in the state of Mushin (Mind was open to Blank space) the idea was a product
of your subconscious thinking (generally called Intuition, some called a voice of Heart,
the other even calls it as a voice of God = it could be just a random occurence, yet
it could be a result of Karma) = Why not TRY it = Just DO it.
===> Have a fun and enjoy your creative LIFE !
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Research to the Memory Mechanism
This is an interesting article, I found in [Gizmag] news letter.
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Researchers may have discovered how memories are encoded
in the brain
By Ben Coxworth
13:07 March 21, 2012
Scientists have developed a theory regarding how the brain stores memories (Photo via Shutterstock)
While it’s generally accepted that memories are stored somewhere, somehow in our brains, the exact process
has never been entirely understood. Strengthened synaptic connections between neurons definitely have
something to do with it, although the synaptic membranes involved are constantly degrading and being
replaced – this seems to be somewhat at odds with the fact that some memories can last for a person’s lifetime.
Now, a team of scientists believe that they may have figured out what’s going on.
Their findings could have huge implications for the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Leading the study is Prof. Jack Tuszynski, a physicist from the University of Alberta. Also taking part are his
graduate student Travis Craddock, and the University of Arizona’s Prof. Stuart Hameroff.
The project was inspired by an outside research paper, that described experiments in which memories were
successfully erased from animals’ brains. That study concluded that a specific protein
(calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase complex II, or CaMKII) played a large role in the encoding and
erasing of memories, by strengthening or eliminating neural connections.
Tuszynski and his colleagues noted that the geometry of the CaMKII molecule was very similar to that of
tubulin protein compounds. These tubulins are contained within microtubule protein structures, which in
turn occupy the interiors of the brain’s neurons. They are particularly concentrated in the neurons’ axons
and dendrites, which are active in the memory process.
The scientists wanted to understand the interaction between CaMKII, tubulin and microtubules, so based on
3D atomic-resolution structural data for all three protein molecules, they developed highly-accurate
computer models.
What they discovered was that the spatial dimensions and geometry of the CaMKII and microtubule molecules
allow them to fit together. Furthermore, according to the models, the microtubules and CaMKII molecules are
capable of electrostatically attracting one another, so that a binding process can occur between them.
This process takes place within the neurons, after they have been synaptically connected, to (in some cases)
permanently store memories.
“This could open up amazing new possibilities of dealing with memory loss problems, interfacing our brains
with hybrid devices to augment and ‘refresh’ our memories,” said Tuszynski.
“More importantly, it could lead to new therapeutic and preventive ways of dealing with neurological
diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, whose incidence is growing very rapidly these days.”
A paper on the research was recently published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
Source: University of Alberta
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Of cause, this research only found how the neurons were connected = its structure, but not the way
how they are configured as a pattern. —– It’s mean, on future, we may repair half impaired memory
= as long as the existing connection (even if it is not in full working order) is still there.
To create new memory or re-create lost memory is not possible. —– still, it is a good step forward.
We are still no way near to find, how the nerve grows to the direction where the next neuron is, and
to create the pattern which represent [ the memory ].
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Link to the original Gizmag article >>>
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Sitting in Mindfulness — What ???
Just imagine a situation [ Boss shouted to the staffs. “ Don’t just sitting there. Do something” ]
Can anybody imagine, a staff shouting back “ Yes boss, I’m DOING sitting” —— 😀
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Just sitting is an iconic symbol of Doing Nothing, and in deed, doing nothing.
So, how come [ Mindfulness while sitting ] —— ? ? ?
Can anybody explain what it is ?
( I found hundreds of the people in the cyber space saying in their profile = Mindfulness Practitioner /
Instructor —– there must be someone to come up and explain )
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Lord Buddha taught the people, who even not able to speak standard language then, let alone write and read.
All of his teaching got to be based on the common-sense.
Yet still, against the common-sense, there was a wide spread delusion among those uneducated people,
[ A person could be reincarnated into awful animal ]
—– to brake this useless vulgar belief and associated fear, was one of the aim of the
Lord Buddha’s teachings by saying “ There can not be Perpetual Soul ( solid existence of the
Self ) such as in the Vedic belief —– because of the everything exists in relation to the other
existences.
Therefore when the body dies, the soul also cease to exists ” “ One’s death is the Nirvana”
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When Lord Buddha finished a talking, he just had a break = just sitting and took a rest.
So, sitting is just do nothing and take a rest = doesn’t need to even think anything.
When we need to DO something, we may need to use the brain though, if we do nothing
the brain takes a break as well. You don’t need to put so-called mindfulness to take a rest.
Just empty your brain and the body to relax.
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While doing something, we may conceive new idea, new way of doing or another approach by way of
analytical observation. = This is a logical thinking.
But we often, suddenly conceive new idea while do nothing or doing a thing which doesn’t need to think
such as sitting in a toilet or doing simple routine work. = This is a creative conception.
( In Zen term, this state of the Brain and the Mind was called Mushin / Mind of No-Mind )
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So that, Lord Buddha, while having a rest or after that, might have told “ Hey, Shariputra, that must be
such and such ” —– which made them to mistake that he must have been in deep thinking.
This was how a misconception and a myth of so-called [ Meditation ] had been created. But,
Lord Buddha was just sitting, having a rest, and of cause, his brain was blank or in Mushin.
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Hence, the most fundamental misunderstanding of the Buddhism = [ have to sit in Mushin,
yet still Think something deep and concentrating to this, in Mindfulness ] was created.
Ha ha ha 😀 😀
It is the clearest indication of that the so-called Academics and the Monks who introduced
Buddhism to the west didn’t know what the Mushin is.
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So, when you sit, just sit. = It is to have a break and to rest.
Never even think “ I’m doing something holy Buddhist’s practice ” —– while sitting like that, you may tired
to even think about Buddhism = your brain become blank = this is the Mushin = of which you really need.
And never expect, by sitting in Mushin, suddenly should the Glorious door of the Dharma open for you
and show beautiful rose-coloured room. ( Historically say, you most likely find a Dog Shit ) Ha ha ha 😀
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You may realized, —– you can’t see the Dharma in your brain.
But they are right front of your eyes.
Congratulation = this is your Enlightenment.
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Higgs Boson and the Buddhism
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm[ Photo —- Peter Higgs / from BBC News ]
The scientific world was stirred by the news of the tale of the tail of a sub-atomic particle =
dubbed as the God Particle = Higgs Boson. —– Gotcha !
Higgs boson may not even a particle but just a remnant ripple in the invisible field.
—– Like a ripple on the still water gives off a signal, where the surface of water is, and you may notice
the existence of a clear glass panel, only when it shows a scratch mark.
—– Higgs boson is a tell-tale sign of the invisible, undetectable energy field = Higgs field which said to
give a mass to the existence.
—– When you stir a honey in a jar, you feel heavier resistance on the spoon than in a water = it would give you
heavier feeling of the same spoon. = this resistance or impedance effected on the particles (and its compound,
atoms) are called as a mass. (conventional expression of this mass in relation to the gravity is called weight =
less body weight on the Moon because of less gravity is there).
( But don’t ask me why a sub-atomic particle Neutrino can have no mass and able to move even
faster than the light. —– I don’t think even scientists does know this yet 😀 )
Still, we human seemed to discovering the relation and cause of the phenomena next by next.
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Those scientific stances are perfectly in line with the Buddhism.
In the Lord Buddha’s teachings, those relation and the cause behind of the phenomena and the existences
is the Karma, and they, all together is the Dharma.
(Hence, Dharma is all the Existences and its mechanism and the rules behind)
As the dynamics of the phenomena and its momentary appearances are time dependent, so that nothing can
stay the same or permanent. —– Therefore, no perpetual soul kind = Atman can not exist. Hence no SELF.
The reason why Lord Buddha took this stance, instead to contributes the cause of occurrences
and existences to an imaginary supernatural power = Godly existence was, because of
Lord Buddha’s mind-set was more of the scientist not a man of religion.
Religion is the matter of the belief to a particular ideological myth = not necessary to the
factual truth, therefore, he defined such Myth as a delusion.
—– This was why, he was called Buddha = Enlightened man, not a divine figure or prophet.
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But, what made Lord Buddha different from just a physicist was his observation towards the
invisible depth of the human psyche (now we call as subconsciousness) and found a way to
reprogram this subconsciousness through the practice.
Practice to make a person able to do the things or to live, without useless thinking (in Mushin /
Mind of No-mind) and ultimately able to see the invisible part of the Dharma. (and lives with it).
Even the most advanced science still having left quite large unknown part, we human still couldn’t able to know
what ourselves are. —– Yet, the Lord Buddha’s insight was reaching to this area.
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—– In the dawn of the cosmic science, scientists imagined a medium which should fill the space of the vacuum
by which the light-wave can travel, was the Ether.
The existence of the Higgs field could be parallel to this idea of Ether, as Higgs field fill all the space = from cosmic
space down to the internal space of the material which spread between the sub-atomic particles.
Therefore, this ultimate universal field is the invisible part of the Dharma.
—– I suspect, there could be a possibility, — this universal medium = continuous energy field
( Higgs field ) was the very medium which is contributing the way of the psychic communication,
and this is the ultimate meaning of the Dharma,
which Lord Buddha called [Panya Paramita].
If this is the case, of cause, the Dharma is everywhere and as it immerse all the existences
= “Everybody posses the Dharma within” !
—– This is what we Zennist are aiming to see, with our practice.
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Din = Software of the Year
One of my keen reader, Jagannathan is the one who read all the post and remember what I said in where.
He is a computer programmer and designing open-source music program = [ Din – Din is Noise ],
and it was selected for the [Software of the Year Award] by the Pixelache.
—– see the detail in this link;
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/2011/piksel11-pixelache-sotfware-of-the-year-2012/
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As a matter of fact, I’ve mentioned him several times here, as the person having the notorious 8150 number
appeared in his life, hence I advised him ” The Dharma must be appreciated you creating
a program in open-source / for anyone’s use for free —– it is a selfless act “
So that, this time he was awarded for his activities and the quality of the work. Congratulation !
—– Though, there was a shortfall.
As he dedicated his life to create own program, he didn’t pay much attention for a time-keeping.
Hence, his privilege to see me in person has been denied. Ha ha ha 😀 (Still, he is free to read and put
comments to my blog. He just lost a fun to tease me face to face, while having a lunch together 😀 )
Never mind, for him to work for the Dharma selflessly, is the matter.
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Yoshizen is a landscape, to learn a thing or two. Once learned, then walk further ahead.
After all, everybody having own Karma and the different Pathway —– hence have to find the own Zen.
To find what the Dharma has given to a person, and to follow it, is what ” Live with the Dharma” meant.
And ” The Dharma in YOU” really meant.
The idea of the Soft design comes from the depth in one’s mind.
In that depth, sublimated idea of the structure of the Soft lies = which has been given by the Dharma.
People often say “Got idea from xxx” or “Inspired by xxx” but didn’t aware that the Karma was behind =
[How and Why encountered the xxx] = there always the flow of the Karma = This is what the Pathway is.
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Cognition – Expectation – Speculation
When I wrote my thesis for the Sociology degree (gosh, 40 years ago), my theme was
“Lion was made with the seven deer he ate” = Our lives were based on the intake of not only the food
but also depend on the intake of the information. This pattern is common from the simplest mono-cell
organism to highly evolved animal like us and even a huge social organization or corporate.
What makes the difference of their degree of evolution is, how far the objective / projection is,
in the time perspective = instant reaction to many years long-term development project.
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Until a mono-cell organism actually bumped a food or danger, they couldn’t react.
But the elephants may go to a water-hole they had seen 40 years ago when they got severe drought.
They expect to find it even beyond the weeks of walk.
And we (well, some of us) are experimenting about how Neutrino behave, for any possible
application of its use or knowledges for an unknown future. —– all depend on how much we
have the data to make a judgment and a decision-making.
For my thesis, I made a frame-work to analyze the decision-making of the people, analyze the
[Information sphere] of the people (in its group or social cluster) by their use of the words in comparison to
the use of the same words in the media —– such as the words “social class” were more often used by the people
who is reading the left-wing media = hence they are most likely to respond according to what media was suggesting.
(And this is what Google is doing now by picking the key-word in our Email !)
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Zen is suggesting to eliminate the useless thinking when we react or for decision-making. —– though, even when
our hand picks up a tea-cup, the position of the cup has been coordinated in the 3D sphere, hence our hand, each
bones and muscles are able to move correct direction and proper distance.
Our brain is projecting, if the hand moves in such way and so much, it would reaches to the cup, with an
assumption of the visual information from the eyes is correct.
Simply they has been done without we are noticing that we are processing the data.
—– So, the matter is how much is too much. (Too much thinking read you to nowhere, yet if
literally no thinking at all, our hand may not able to pick a teacup).
In comparison to the expectation and speculation, cognition is mostly passive, but expectation
is inflated with a wishful thinking or even a delusion. This is where its trouble starts.
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Our human lives are based on the projected expectation. Even when we were the hunter-gatherer, to go to
the beach was to pick the sea food. = they knew it’s there from the experiences or other’s direction.
So as the economic activities and its decision-makings are. In here, the greed inflated wishful thinking comes in.
Spanish has expected, the English holiday maker and the retired rich would buy their holiday villa. = Hence they
invested so much money to build the holiday villa, hotels etc. —– though, after Lehman shock, all those
speculation busted. = trouble was, the money they invested was not their own money but the money
borrowed from the bank. Not only the people working in the building industry and their supply chain but
whole economy collapsed, end up with 20% unemployment.
When the developer decided to build, it was the firm anticipation to expect pretty reasonable return of which
the bankers had the same anticipation, hence they rent the money.
Though, it was regarded to be a careless speculation, mistake they made. = therefore inevitable
consequence they are suffering now.
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So, a funny question is, what makes the difference between anticipation / expectation and the
speculation ? —– if it was right in the hind-sight, it was the expectation, and if it was wrong,
was it the speculation ? ———- the trouble is, a famous speculator who made huge, huge money with
his speculation, like George Soros, his speculation was proved to be right, hence he made money.
—– was his speculation, made by days of thinking / analysis, or unknown kind of sheer hunch ?
So far I haven’t heard a story of Zen meditation made any money-making good speculation 😀
And even though, my mother was so accurate to see the future, still all the prediction about herself was not
correct (she expected her life may end 50 something though, she lived much longer in her 80s)
What she taught me was, even the Chinese I-chin, it wouldn’t work when the matter is related to the
own ego or greed. = Spiritualism and money-making can not go together.
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In the cyber space, the information sphere is almost completely open.
We are no longer limited to a single view of the TYPE of media = theoretically, we can seek any information,
and to have free thinking and own judgment —– really ?
Yet, the last barrier seems to be, our own EGO and the GREED. Ego and the greed makes the
one’s view to very narrow scope, limiting it just to a money game, dropping all the view for the
social implication. Open mind is not only for new idea, but to see the world in every aspects.
( If there was not such blind greed in the bankers or speculators, the economical mayhem which the world is
now facing, wouldn’t be there in the first place)
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Change PATHWAY ???
I’ve received rather heavy question as a comment on [Tiny Comment] post,
which said;
>>> I’m now at a crossroads in my working life. I work with disabled people (for some reason
I seem to work with blind and visually impaired) showing them ICT skills to communicate
with computers across the internet. As you know I also am an artist. Neither is making me a
living, but I find I cannot go back to cleaning toilets and doing basic manual work. Can I be
mindful and find my path again? Something (I do not know what, maybe slight sadness) tells
me I may need to change path completely…
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As a matter of fact I know this man many years as I’ve seen him everywhere, Art events, Computer events and
he is a friend of lots of my friends as well, yet ever knowing his full name or profession.
Hence, I gave him a nick name [Paul the Ubiquitous] in my diary 😀
In my notorious one glance, he was seen as a man of very wide faculty and extrovert, going round a lots
—– adrenaline driven very active person —– in other words, knowing a lots, but because the information
he has to deal with in his brain is so much, not necessary had a time to know a direction or who he is, yet
without knowing direction still able to proceed like a bulldozer, it often go against the other’s grain.
Life wouldn’t be smooth and sweet.
(The line between confidence and arrogance, active and pushy are very thin, but fundamental trouble is that
the [man of confidence] couldn’t guess the mind of the [man of no-confidence], such as even a use of technical
term or talking speed, often it is hard to follow the speed of brain of the [man of confidence] :-D)
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In the quote above, he said [change the path] —– I hope he is not mixing it up with
the so-called [Pathway] in the Buddhism.
In fact, it is not him, generally most of the people who was interested in the Buddhism having
a misunderstanding that the [Pathway] is the special process in the Buddhism study. —– Far
from it, it is the LIFE itself. There is no double life or short cut even in a Buddhist’s life.
Life is total and only one to a person, and it is the very Pathway. ( What makes the dairy life
into so-called Pathway is, how the person could find the core reality out of the mundane occurrences =
some may grasp the truth of whole life in one fallen leaf = it’s called direct transmission in Buddhism)
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While having a ruthless life to chase own greed, there is no redemption by the 10 minutes meditation in the
evening or some donation to the temple. His life itself is not compatible with the Buddhism = the person is
taking a pathway of the greed = Karma follows accordingly.
( though, in Zen, as it follows Mahayana tradition, there is slightly different understanding that a part of the life,
such as [ruthless activity] can still have highest efficiency in Zen —– yet, overall repercussion of the Karma
comes from its totality of the life. I don’t think the Supreme Sword Master Musashi got any regret when he died.
But I don’t think he needed to have, let alone wished to have Nirvana = He lived and died as a
man of the Sword = It was the Zen contemplation)
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So, the question is, whether [Paul the Ubiquitous] need to change his path (direction) —– ?
My view is, as he is living in the environment to deal with ICT, and blind people many years already, he must
have all the expertise, knows resources, possibilities, limitations, it is already his part of the life.
What he needs more is to open the eyes to see what he can do to those blind people —– find a new approach,
better technology to solve the problem. Somebody in unique environment or position is, often because of
he was needed to be there —– could be a Karma.
Though, to fill the duty in the Karma, it needs to work hard = mindfulness mean the objective is only one,
don’t expect anything else, such as good business or fame. ( let alone nice woman 😀 )
Being also as an artist mean, he must have an idea of unconventional approach = idea of pretty new device.
He could be an inventor as well. Provided, he must know, he is an able person = He need to hear and
feel what blind and impaired people is feeling = the mind to hear and to know the other’s mind.
Buddhist’s listening ears and the compassion, above all clear open mind would be essential.
When the idea developed concrete, apply a grant etc to develop further. As the demography is changing,
this field having a priority in the society. Believe your task and the duty in full.
Good luck.
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Quote of Guess Who ?
[ When you are a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you are not going to use
a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it.
You will know it’s there, so you are going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all through.]
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[ Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma —– which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions down out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow heart and intuition.
They somehow already what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary. ]
—– If you are familiar with Zenist’s word, it may sound one of them.
Or if you are an artist, it sounds somebody, accomplished Japanese craftsman’s words.
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They are the words of Steve Jobs’ who just left this world.
On the first glance, I couldn’t imagine that this is the words of Steve Jobs’ but somebody a Japanese Zenist.
Then I learned that when he was young, he was a fanatic of the Japanese culture, especially Zen. (He married to his wife through the Bhddist ceremony)
From those words, I guess, it might have formed his base of the psyche to be a creator, as his
words are typical expression of mindfulness and showed the confidence to be a free minded person.
Steve Jobs learned his Zen from Soto-Zen Master Kobun Otokawa through Walking Zen Practice —– he was
made to walk round a rock, endlessly round and round and round —– and he mastered the Mushin.
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When he conceived his first gadget business ( iPod ), he knew what makes the product as a desired object,
learned from the Japanese products, especially such as Sony’s Walkman and their CD player = down to the
minute detail of craftsmanship ( [ use beautiful wood, where no one would see ] kind 🙂 ) not only the sound
quality = hence it can sell with a premium price. Yet still, if the gadget is a electromechanical product
he knew, he may not able to compete with Sony, though the time was his side = end of the mechanical era.
Digital sound technology has been established long since. So that the matter was only the size of memory.
Luckily for him, the size of memory was increasing every day, the price was dropping day by day.
So, he was able to produce beautifully made iPod, with new recording format of MP3.
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Unlike mechanical system ( if you remember, think the battle of U-Matic and VHS video system ), digital
electronic system is very easy to design a distinctive own format just using a key-board, which can still be
copy-righted = hence Apple could easily establish the monopoly of MP3 and easily organize monopolized
Music distribution / download system using Internet. Everything was there for him to utilize.
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—– One episode of him to enforce this view was, when he visited Japan last year in summer, stayed at
Kyoto, he bought Ninja throwing knife, and on return journey, it caused a trouble with Kansai Airport
security who confiscated it. Mr. Jobs who was going to fly by his private jet argued with the officials saying
” Who is going to hijack my own aircraft ? ” 😀
Peace for his departed soul.
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Bang in Trinity Gallery
Last Friday night, there was an opening of an Art exhibition and the performance at the newly opened
art gallery called Trinity in Greenwich (5 minutes from Cutty Sark ship) (Click here for Info’)
Exhibition was titled [ Emblem – Deconstructed and Destroyed ] = installation using a lots of books, created
by Christina Mitrentse and the performance of fire-play to burn a book = ( so, Destroyed ? )
May be only an Artist who is using fire powder to create ( or destroy ?) the Art =
Aoife Van Linden Tol prepared the fuse and the explosive powder on a book.
( She is a qualified and licensed explosive handler ! )
While Aoife was preparing, an Art Writer Douglas Park recited a text he wrote for Aoife’s creation.
Then, she put light on fuse — Bushu shu shu shu 😀 —– And Bang , Pang Pang —– ! 😀
Then, it’s so-called Art Talks.
In the gallery floor, Christina’s installation. —————— And Aoife’s victims or her Art.
Something very unusual of this gallery is the structure of
the building, hence floor plan for an art-space.
It got great height = 3 stories height and straight wall, but not
an expanse of floor or side wall.
It’s mean, it is very useful for a kind of display or
performance having interaction with the
space above / another level of existences or
its symbolic expression.
In addition, outside garden having a lots of trees = good spooky back ground !
( In fact, I got quite few idea pretty suited for this space 🙂 )
—– unfortunately exhibition is only untill 2nd October. Still, the gallery is having the series of
exhibitions, I’m sure next events should come soon. =
Check their website to find farther info’ < http://www.hivelondon.org > < Trinity on Facebook >
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