Fruits Fly
It seems different people call different Fruits Fly though, I’m talking
about very small common Fruits Fly in England. While Googling, I
found that the others are having the same problem of Fruits Fly.
——( Dead Fruits Flies I found, and they were photographed by Nikkor 24mm F2 lens,
Reverse-mounted with extension-ring on Canon 5D Mk-III — as a X5 Macro-close-up)
—– they suddenly appear in mass and start to pest the place.
Of cause, I wouldn’t believe that they naturally generated —– there
must be somewhere something nursing them. But what was that ?
I certainly don’t have rotten fruits or cow-dung dropped in my room.
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When I was in my junior school, there was a kind of out of course
biology project = To receive a bottle of fruits fly and keep them in
a warm condition. Then next week, 10 of the pupil brought back
each bottle and counted the number of hatched fly — how many of
them had black eyes etc. Actuary, we were assisting the researcher’s
study (without understanding what for we are doing. :-D)
Anyhow, still we learned how to nurse Fruits Fly with a gluey
yeast-starch mix and to see them hatch less than 10 days.
= It’s mean, when one female came into the room and laid the eggs,
a week to 10 days later, suddenly the room would have 100 of them
flying around.
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While observing where they are frocking, I realized that the fruits
skin peel etc anything sweet and wet in the bin is attracting them.
On top of those, I discovered that quite number of them penetrated
the polythene bag of Raisin loaf through small gap = they must have
laid hundreds of the eggs on the raisin. = If I didn’t notice, I could
have eaten plenty protein as well. (That was how the Essential
Amino-acid was delivered to the “Strict Vegetarian” 🙂 )
—– then battle commence. Since then, any wet or not completely
dry rubbish, mostly fruits peel kind were lapped-up in polythene bag
and goes to the bin and any soft food goes either fridge or plastic
container with lid. I needed to make my room as dessicated and futile
as a desert, making them to convince “It’s better to go somewhere else”.
( I did composting before though, I have no garden of compost to go,
and it’s bin itself became a center of unpleasant insects, fly etc
= So, I gave up the idea.)
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So that, in reality, to have an ecological, naturally harmonious life =
“Happily Live Together with other small Lives” is = sound sweet but
not practical or ideal at all. In fact nothing but a pretentious fraud.
We shouldn’t forget “To keep hygienic, clean life” is no other than
the practice to persecute against the pests and the germs.
The Bottle-fly or Cockroach are just having their own life that all.
Even AIDS virus is surely the other life-form. They only happen to
cross over the boundary to the human life and created the conflict.
—– People expecting a beautiful Butterfly just fly over their flowers,
still never anticipates their larvae could infest their plant in their
garden. —– if they saw it, certainly 99% of them will kill it.
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It easy to make-up a softy face and preach love and compassion kind
—– Oh ! Really ?
= Better not to be a filthy hypocrite. I rather stay to be a honest tyrant,
killing millions of grains and beans every year, on top of billions of
other invisible small creatures and the germs for my comfort and the
survival. —– To know the real extent, how we are relying on the sacrifice
of other life-form = Exact reality of the Karma, not a convenient pretty
story to justify and glorify ourselves, is the duty to be a real Buddhist.
Scripture spent so many pages to explain about the Oneness (Ichijo —
such as that “Giving, even without having a conscious of giving” ==>
having pretentious mind is too remote from the Buddhism.)
We need to see and think it in person.
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PS: Since when my flat was made a desert, they just disappeared
and I only managed to find two dead bodies —– Where had they gone ?
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Autumn Color – (2)
Unlike the color of eggs from super-market which color was
controlled by the coloring agent in their feed, the color of autumn
leaves are completely natural phenomenon. (You can’t dye them. 😀 )
If only the selection of plant may be artificial, such as Japanese Maple
was imported to the west only because of their blazing color in autumn.
When the plants was exposed to the air of sudden chill, their
Green colored Chlorophyll noticed that their role to carry-out
Photo-synthesis come to the end —– hence they disappeared.
—–> Once the green has gone, another color underneath which
has been masked by the green, such as red Carotene become visible
= Voila’ glorious Autumn color on fire !
Appreciate it while you can (if you like) ! 🙂
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Last Remain of Flowers —– of this year ?
When I was a bit younger and in business, there was a phrase “4 o’clock irritation”.
= before closing time, something could still be done —– otherwise, became too late,
so, what has been done, haven’t been done etc ETC ! —– You know what I mean 😀
—– And coming to the time 4 o’clock in my life, I have to do the stock-taking.
= And in the same context (Useless thinking in Buddhist’s term 😀 ) see the nature
and feel “Oh, you still giving your effort” — but with sigh.
Don’t think. Just see as they are.
Some might have done the work. More than enough or just — what ever
it was a given opportunity and only an opportunity.
(What a bloody hell, Xmas is next month —- I thought,
Xmas was yesterday !) 😀 😀
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Fancy Vinegar Flask ! ——- ? ? ?
Week ago I’ve bought rather fancy item from Lidl shop.
I don’t know the name which the receipt said Geschenkset. = Anyhow
this is a Glass Flask to serve Vinegar and Olive-oil on the dining table.
They were sold as a gift set (for a Xmas ?) —– Olive-oil and a Vinegar
together with a glass flask for £7.99 !
In fact, I was not interested in to
buy Olive-oil nor Vinegar, but
fascinated by the design of
glass which I can use it to
design strange sculpture kind.
Though, watching this many
days, I still couldn’t figure out
“How to make this” —– how a
Glass Craftsman made this !
Simplified description is, “Small glass flask inside of larger flask”
though, it is an utter puzzle to me = How it was made ? —— through a
hole of large flask, inserts a glass pipe with melted glass on the tip-end
and blow it up to make a small flask inside, and weld two together on
the edge of the hole —– though, as the photo above showed, the neck of
the small flask is not an one-piece straight pipe = inside small flask was
made separately and the outside pipe was welded later. But how ? ? ?
= If anybody who is reading this knows about the way to make,
please put a comment “How it was done” !
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Autumn Color
I popped out to the Greenwich with my friend who just bought DSLR this week
for a sort of photo session. He has been watching YouTube Tuitorial viz kind of
“How to make a good photo” and “How to use DSLR”, though, they are still a
theory or knowledge. = Same as a Buddhist’s idea, it takes enough practice to
sink into a level of spontaneity. = Look into view-finder and see the Matter is
such as That “Depth of Field” what a viz told him. —– Anticipate, if the depth
changed what would be looks like then. —– Then own control starts.
Anyone can learn good composition / framing from the sample “To make Post Card
like scene to Post Card like Picture” though, to make “Nothing Special image to
Interesting Photo” need to have a good photographic talent. —– Exaggerate or
enhance the color would make a photo something looks nice though, its saturated
color gives irritation to the eyes too. = Here is the “Middle way” = the level of
saturation which our brain thinks !!! is always too much to our subconscious, since
our subconscious follow what is natural. (Photos here are over saturated 🙂 )
Are you convinced ? —– Take Middle way.
(Looks unusual doesn’t necessary mean Special.
= in most of the case, it is just odd. 🙂
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Eating Kombu / Kelp Sea-weed
Since I don’t have a habit to pick up a cracker / biscuit or sweet kind, instead,
I’m having a kind of light cooking for an odd bite.
I wrote about green-bean / string-bean with Goma-ae source, daikon etc etc before.
And here, how about boiled Kombu / Kelp.
Although, I, myself never seen how it’s grow in the sea bottom, Kelp is not a special
sea-weed, it said to have deep forest of sea-weed of which each Kelp is 20~30m long !
—- I saw them when they were spread and dried on the beach = 1′ wide of long long strip.
And, neither they are special item in Japanese or Chinese food shop.
Japanese eat them most commonly for Dashi (soup-base) and in many other cooking.
(I don’t think, I need to repeat how nutritiously good they are, as it was too well known. 🙂 )
I have no idea how Chinese eat them still, we can buy dried Kelp easily and quite cheap
in Chinese shop. (Photo Left)
To make Kombu-maki — first soak the dried kelp strip in the warm water for 10 min’ or
so and thoroughly wash-off the sand and dirt. Then cross-cut them 2~3″ and roll-up.
(Authentic Japanese Kombu-maki roll was tied-up by edible Kanpyo string though
I short-cut it with tooth-pick. Photo Center ) And boil them in the plain water half to
one hour, then add a packet of Dashi or if you like fishy taste, add a piece of dried squid
as well. (photo Right) —– and after while, add a Soy source according to your taste, and
if you like even a bit of sugar ( I like to put some hot staff as well) — keep boil them until
rolled Kombu become very soft. ( I heard, the authentic one was slow-cooked over night !)
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(Boil them how many hours depend on the quality of the Kombu and your taste. — even
from the same pack, some Kombu would be boiled very soft, less than one hour though,
tough one may be still hard even after two hours. —– If you found it still hard, just put
it back to a pan and boil further. 🙂 ) Generally, Japanese Kombu / Kelp is soft and good to
eat but more expensive —– still, considering the serious environmental pollution problem
in China, may be spent a bit more and buy it in the Japanese shop could be wiser choice.
Most of the Japanese Kombu came from northern Japan / Hokkaido where no problem of
radiation scare has been reported — thanks goodness.
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Exists or Not-exists ? —– Where is the SELF ?
Probably the most fundamental matter in the Buddhism is the Selflessness / Mushin.
—– though, this matter questions the credibility of the one who observes its existence, it is
nothing like a scientific objective proof of existence, it’s far more complicated or confused.
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Therefore, here, the most funniest paradox in the human culture comes in.
If you deny the existence of the Self, you can not argue or even put the matter on the table.
= because, its notion itself isn’t exists, there is no word to describe it.
= how to starts arguments ?
—– If the society has no system of personal possession, everything belongs to everybody, so,
there couldn’t be a notion of “theft” let alone the very word “theft”.
If the Self is not exists, no word of SELF, let alone SELFLESS could ever exists.
So, without the notion of Self, how to argue about whether it exists or not. 😀
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Lord Buddha’s teachings were described as “Explain unexplainable” “Describe indescribable”.
In definition, Selflessness couldn’t be taught. Selflessness itself is exists though, you can’t
detect or noticed, let alone capture it in objective observation nor describe it in the words.
Because, to notice “it is there”, it’s mean the observer, who was separated from the subject
= independent self is already THERE ! = You are the established EGO.
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So, Lord Buddha just gave an instruction what to do, but never explained why or what was
the intention. (Like, just let Kisa Gotami to run about, or Churi Pantac to sweep the garden.)
—– While doing it, they will get used with its work or practice, hence became able to do it
without conscious = Selfless —– this was what the teachings were intended though,
it shouldn’t be objectively noticed or talked about. = the matter is, JUST DO IT.
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Once it was talked about, it became a NOTION and a WORD, it became independent
existence called knowledge. Once the notion and the words “I’m cutting Lemon” was
established, “I” who cut the Lemon became THE Existence. —– but, you supposed to cut
a Lemon in Mushin, without the Self. Without such conscious, Just Cut a Lemon, slice
by slice —– your knife, the lemon, your action were all fused in one, with the Dharma
= this is the state of Ichijo / Oneness. —– BUT, once the observant eyes started to see the
situation objectively and started to give a thought or two, the Observer and Be-observed
alienated = the harmony to be in the Ichijo has broken.
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In the Vimalakirti Sutra, when he was asked about what is this Oneness, he answered with
NO word (= and the silence hit the people like roaring thunder !) In fact this was exactly what
Lord Buddha did when he was asked about “after life”.
Oneness (Ichijo / Fuji) could exists if no Self was there. And as NO self exists, of cause, there
couldn’t be any possibility of After-life or Reincarnation, and no such notion or word to
describe it could exist. Hence, just a silence = Strongest denial !
(If he was to explain, “There is no Reincarnation because No-Self” it’s effectively recognize
the existence of the Self by the use of the Notion and the word “Self”.
—– It is the same situation, if the one says “I’m sitting in silence” 😀 )
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It seems that the author of Vimalakirti Sutra did know what the mind of Selfless, as the
descriptions were spot on though, I’m not sure about the other Mahayana Sutra, and the
author (compiler ?) such as Nagarjuna —– he seemed to have written them from the
knowledge just heard from others. They were the scripture for the sake of the arguments
and those arguments, theoretical explanation seemed nothing to do with
actual Selflessness and the Void.
—– Selflessness is everywhere, as you are reading this blog without noticing that your eyes
have been following the lines. = as everybody has born with Dharma, everybody has
Selflessness yet, masking it with the useless thinking and the Ego which has been kept you
away from getting enlightened.
May be just forget those words, Selflessness, Void kind of thinkings, and just take a walk
may open your eyes much clearer.
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Hart Mantra — True or False ?
So called Hart Mantra (Sutra) / 般若心経 might be the most well-known Buddhist’s scripture among it’s 3,000 books, except to the followers of the Pure-land sect. (Pure-land sect prohibits their followers to read this scripture !)
[]So, other than the Pure-land sect, all the Buddhist are accepting the teachings written in this Sutra —– are they ?
Its scripture said that “When all-seen Bodhisattva / 観自在菩薩, (suppose to be
Lord Buddha himself though, Bodhisattva is the one yet to be Enlightened = can not to be a Buddha) practising Supreme Wisdom / Panya-Paramita / 般若波羅蜜多, found that the 5 aggregates (effectively everything) are Void, therefore resolved all the (cause of) sufferings, (thence told to) Shariputra that “The existences (Form) are no different from the non-existence (Void) —– which is the teachings of the Voidness in the existences and the Voidness in our own perception, therefore the Voidness of our own existence = hence No-self.
—– sound not much wrong in the Mahayana Buddhism’s context. —– (If we could ignore the silly ignorance in this scripture such as “Bodhisattva who haven’t reached Enlightenment yet still able to have all-seen power and teach one of the senior disciple, Shariputra who has been reached Enlightenment already”)
Shariputra was not the earliest original disciples. He joined the sangha long after Lord Buddha started teaching. If this Sutra has any historical significance, it showed that Lord Buddha found the Voidness long after he started teaching. —– It couldn’t be true at all ! Such fundamentals in the teachings, should have had sorted out on the beginning. Because, that must be his Enlightenment.
The main question what Lord Buddha had to find an answer was, to explain to the people who has been frightened by the idea of being trapped in the endless cycle of rebirth / reincarnation, even to reborn to a beast (= new trend of Vedic belief or beginning of the Hinduism) by showing them “There couldn’t be any possibility of rebirth, because the Self / Atoman (which Vedic teachings said) is not exists”. As he found the answer in the theory of Karma (Moment to moment inter-dependency of the existences) that the permanent Self couldn’t be existed. So, he started teaching of those truths. —– otherwise, what was he teaching before he found this Voidness ?
[]Further more, historian found a funny origin of this Hart Sutra (+Mantra), that this sutra has been written (or compiled) in China in 7th century and then translated back to Sanskrit, therefore, we better not to take its contents as in its face value but to see it as a theoretical metaphor.
—– Of cause, many fantastic story in the Mahayana scripture are nothing to do with original teachings. —– Use your common sense,
Lord Buddha wouldn’t have said any fantasy as he rejected useless thinking as a delusion. Naturally, he never showed a miracle or magic kind and prohibited such practice to the followers. = its mean, that the scripture which contained “Mantra” (or Dharani — which supposed to have a magical power ) is not the Buddhism at all. You know this is why
Lord Buddha taught “Don’t believe what others said or you read, but find it out by yourself”
Blind Buddhists are worse than an ignorant, because he believes that he knew something. 😀
The matter in the Buddhism is, not about to know the words such as Voidness or Selflessness, but actually being Selfless. Actually being Selfless mean, when you read those few lines in here, just now (or few seconds ago ?) you didn’t aware that YOU are reading this. —– so, without having any conscious of the SELF (who supposed to read this), how you could manage to read this? WHO the person reading this blog minutes ago ? = YOU have to sort it out by your self, —– When you were convinced that you don’t need to have your SELF-conscious to DO the things, you ARE most likely found yourself detached from the Ego, Greed, Fear, Lust etc. too, exactly the same practice which
Lord Buddha started to teach 2,500 years ago.
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PS: If you were confused of “Mantra” or “Sutra” —– The main body of scripture is the Sutra. And last line of the words “Jate Jate, Para-Jate ~ ~ ~ Bodhi-suwaka” is the Mantra, which supposed to have magical power hence never translated but chant as they are. Though, the meaning is = (as those words are infact common with ordinary Hindi today = since I noticed while listening Asian Radio here.) = Go Go, Go more, You Go Further, To be Enlightened.
—– Para is same as in “Para-mount”, Bodhi is same as in “Bodhi-sattva”. 🙂
* Beliefe of magical power in the words = Mantra / Dharani is a practice of Tantra sect. Nothing to do with
Lord Buddha’s teachings. = Last quarter of this Heart Mantra is praising and promoting the “Power of the Panya Paramita Mantra” though, such notion is all in the mind or only imaginary existence. (If there is any power, why India need to spend so much money for their military weapon.)
All the products of imagination are nothing but the Delusion. It’s not the Buddhism. So, those scriptures are the evidence how the Chinese author was ignorant to the original teachings. —–
Lord Buddha left the last words”never idolize and worship me” = so, why needs to worship mere scripture written by a person who even didn’t know the teachings !
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Cat’s Story / Haori-chan
When the time to give a birth came, the pregnant Mother-cat come and rub her head and body
against my leg. That is their expression of “I beg you” —– I spread a bath towel on the sofa
and lightly give a massage to her tummy. Then she start to push out the kitten next by next.
So, I take each kitten to her face for her to lick the new-born.
But some time (1 in 5~6), a still-born kitten came out. Once, there was a very hard deliver of
over-grown kitten. Only the head came out, I knew the trouble, and I pulled it hard.
When the whole body came out, the Mother-cat screamed.
That kitten was pretty big —- may be over 400g but I couldn’t save him.
Among the 3rd litter, Haori (of cause, named later) was the most miserable kitten.
In fact, she was yet another (almost) still born. I just took minuscule odds and revived her.
= As in the most of the case, kitten seemed to have drowned by the amniotic fluid, I shook
the body, head down to drain the water, and insert a small paper stick made out of toilet
tissue to the nose of kitten, for sucking out the water further. And massage the body in
a warm water while blowing the air into the nose several times. —– in minute or two, three,
the kitten started to move. = Voila’ one life was saved.
(— Sound, and looks may awful treatment though, I’m not intended to play “Tender Buddhist
posture”, —– if the matter was to drain the water, I needed to use centrifugal force, hence
shake the kitten’s body in Karate speed —– To drain the water from a drowned human by
putting the hand into the throat, it neither be a nice picture, nor revive a person in hypothermia
in the mountain, it is more of the battle field operation than a “hart warming tender story” =
What-so-ever, my practice was very effective and altogether 4 out of 6 kittens has been saved =
this is the fact.
Life is not for talking an imaginary sweet story, but just go through hard act. Just Do.
Revived though, Haori was still the smallest and weakest, hence couldn’t compete with other
5 kittens on the milk-sucking battle. I’ve tried as many times as possible, by taking other
stronger kittens off from tits and gave it to Haori, still, it was not enough, and needed to give
her supplement but, ordinary cow’s milk caused her diarrhoea and needed to buy special
“Kitten formulated Milk”.
On top of those trouble her eyes had infection and having eye-glue stacked on her eye lids.
When Mother-cat try to clean her eyes, she chew-off the dried eye-glue, but in the same time
her whiskers had been chewed-off as well.
(Poor Haori-chan, photo left ! / Photo right, Haori and Pino)
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A month past, when all the kittens started to change to the solid food, I trained Haori to eat
Kitten-milk-powder mixed with cream-cheese. Then cheese mixed with cat’s food but Haori
refused to eat cat’s food. —– (One theory said, that the baby (kitten) acquired the taste
(= what to eat) through the minute chemical in the Mother’s milk —– like Haori, who couldn’t
have enough milk from the Mother, hadn’t developed the taste for cat’s food.) Therefore, I
had to feed her frozen Coley Fish (lightly boiled) mixed with cheese. —– sound very special
treatment though, nothing special to Haori herself. It was her norm and she just grown-up
to an ordinary cat. (She didn’t grow Golden Fleece. 🙂 )
She behaved more or less the same to other cat but not so interactive, just sitting and
watching out of window or me. = only not ordinary was what she was eating.
And because of her expensive diet, she couldn’t be adapted by others.
In addition, another cat, once adapted by other family had came back, because she, Pino was
a too clever trouble-maker. Such as to jump to a door handle and open it etc. she was the
expert to open and sneak into anywhere, hence made a lots of mischievous. (= get inside but
couldn’t open it from the inside then shit there, kind of trouble. 🙂 )
(— Though, I could anticipate what she is going to do, hence such as to make the things on the
shelf to fall easily, she instantly learn and never attempt it again.
So, those two, Haori and Pino were the cats lived with me longest, and left many wired stories.
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