Paradox on No-Self
Despite the Buddhism IS the teachings of the NO-Self,
there is no explanation of “What is no-self” in the scripture.
Even more peculiar phenomena were = there were hundreds,
if not thousands of description of “the ideal person” still
there was no words saying that the man has no-self. — Why ?
Because there IS NO-Self.
(To talk about the SELF need to recognize the existence of it = need to
have yet another Self to observe its existence ! — if you can aware/
observe yourself, your observer has already alienated YOU. )
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Our feeling was induced by the Limbic System of our brain.
In fact, all the signal from the sensing organs goes to the
Limbic System first and the most of important process =
selection of those signal, cognition, judgement etc etc were
done in there and only the last result goes to the New Cortex
of the brain and then converted to the conscious and given
the lexical interpretation. = It’s mean, we human being has
enough wisdom to sense the environment and judge the
appropriate response to have the daily life by the process of
the Limbic System alone though, all those feelings and the
process are hidden under the darkness of the Subconscious/
Unconsciousness they ARE invisible for the most of us.
Those process were called instinct though as they were
hidden, often we don’t know why we took such reaction.
So that, when we say “This IS my decision and how I think”
they ARE only a conscious part of the process in the brain.
= And we called this = “Self-Conscious” and the SELF.
Lord Buddha saw this Self-Conscious as a mere delusion
and it was coherent with the view of No-Self = Anatman.
=== To become aware of the SELF is the sign of
the alienation to yourself and the break-down of Mushin.
(State of the Mind of No-mind) —– It IS the paradox.
And this paradox, delusion IS the loot-cause of the
discord to our nature / Dharma.
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Citron bath on Winter Solstices (for Monkey)
冬至でサルもゆず湯
>>> http://www.jiji.com/jc/pp?d=pp_2015&p=latest-jpp020507192
To make a Citron Bath on Winter Solstice is a Japanese tradition.
It was regarded to be good for the winter health.
So, why not to Monkeys too. 🙂
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What is MUSHIN ?
May be I’ve talked about this ten of the times if not hundred.
—– Still, I was asked the same question.
So, this is the most up-to-dated straight answer.
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It is a well known medical symptom among the Alzheimer patients
who lost the nerval connection to the Emotional region in the Brain
lost the recognition related to the SELF such as to recognize own
possessions even to distinguish the face of the own family.
So, Emotion judge the interest of OWN — in other words, this is the
center of EGO, Greed, Well being, Safety, Security, all those Instincts.
Of course, they are the key to the survival though, the total amount
of the signal/Data the brain has to deal is burst, so that there is a
rationalized economical saving was designed = coming data was
selected according to its importance.
The harmless insignificant data or repeating same data, are ignored.
We wouldn’t pay any attention to the same boring TV CM etc. and when
we do the repeating same work, we do automatic without Emotion. = In
deed, in such a case, the Motor Region of the brain would be programed
to do such routine work automatic, involving no Emotion at all.
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So, if we block the data/signal reaching Emotional region, we can do
the job automatic, without the Emotion. (= With highest efficiency !)
Without Emotion mean without the feeling of “Mine” = SELF —
because of no feeling of Ego, Self interest (mean, no envy, jealousy to
others), Own Greed, even No Cling to own Life, be free from the SELF.
This state of Mind mean, no need to cling the past, nor need to imagine
a dream= in other words, just see the world on front of the eyes as it is
Now, without having any Thinking.—– This eyes IS clear eyes.
And this state of Mind IS the “Mind of No-Mind” = Mushin.
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In order to acquire “block the Emotional process” Buddhists use
the long repeating practice for the brain to learn “How to
Opt-out the signal process” and DO the job (or Life) automatic.
(Like, you can branding “The matter” same as to the boring TV CM
and make it no longer recognized to be exists —
we know it’s still there though, it became a remote landscape.)
In certain extent, Zen Buddhism is very cool, even cold.
But, use this to live the life very hot is the other stage of Zen.
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PS : The Related Readings :
Clear the Deck for 2013 Reverse Engineering of Zen
Emotion / Meditation —– they are good to read. = It’s amazing
how Google Algorithm worked out to see the contents !
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Crèche in the Zen Buddhism
There are quite few Crèche in the Zen Buddhism.
Such as Mindfulness, Middle way, to live in Now,Selfless etc etc
and indeed, I did talked about those topics in the early posts.
Yet still, funnily enough, in the Agama Sutra, there was no word of
Lord Buddha for about those topics. And I realized that, the talking
of those Crèche started to appear in the Mahayana scriptures,
typically like Middle way.
—– as a matter of fact, I too wrote in somewhere, the Middle way is
not in the both extreme, somewhere in the Middle.
Though, think about the extreme — in the Nature/Dharma, if it was
too little, we may not noticed it was existing. And if it was too much,
there is no such things in nature. It was only a product of imagination.
In other words, if we follow the Nature/Dharma, we are
naturally live in the Middle way. Likewise, to live in Now, if we don’t
cling Past, neither indulge imagined Future, we only deal with Now.
In the same way, Mindfulness is not a special notion, it was the state
of Mind, when there was no other imagined matter / things, but seeing
the subject on front = what else can you think of ?
— in short, there wouldn’t be any of those issues exists in the Mushin.
= Mushin mean, live Selflessly. So, it became to clear / too clear that
the script writer of the Mahayana has written those Crèche from an
overheard rumor “That the Enlightened said to live in Middle way,
live in Now and facing the life in Mindfulness”etc etc = and started
mimicking the antic = pretending of “Middle way” “Mindfulness”
“Live in Now”etc. and talked a lot blah blah — While not knowing
what the “Middle way” was = because he hasn’t even experienced the
Mushin, there was no way to know what the real “Middle way” was.
The people who doesn’t know, talk a lot, to pretend !
Still, the matter IS very simple. = once you vacated (emptied) your
Mind, what you can see is only the matter on front (= no memory
of the past, neither imagined future) = when the matter only on
front exists, what else to think about = this is Mindfulness.
And when you follow what you instantly conceived (on that Moment
= so-called intuitive perception) is the way of the Dharma.(what else ?)
(Because the Dharma is rational and harmonious as a whole system,
inherently, there is no extreme = this IS the very Middle way)
—– You see, it’s so simple in real (practical) life.
But, “talk about” the misconceived concept is much more complicated.
Because, such concept (=Crèche) is in the intellectual thinking, BUT
Zen Buddhism is a matter in the state of Mind (the way to handle the
data in the Brain) so, try to find the meaning by way of thinking is like
“To THINK HOW to ride a bicycle” instead to make own body to
“LEARN it”. 😀
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Pinhole Machine in the Field
It’s not a Pinball Machine. And a photo above is a Japanese maple !
As I explained in the Previous post, it is a combined / selectable Pinhole.
Single Pinhole, Multiple Pinholes and a Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole
were all in one panel, with or without a Wide-angle Front Lens.
Those were taken by the Concentric-DD pinhole.
They too, by the DD pinhole with the typical radiating halation.
And those images were taken by the Multiple (4) Pinholes.
If you carefully check the photo, you will find the 4 repeated images.
And DD pinhole image again. (Some years ago I made similar image !)
In the same time same subject but by the Multiple Pinholes.
Taken by a single pinhole though, with a very slow shutter speed =
camera was shaken, bird has moved = hence utterly blurry image. 🙂
Still, they were the very painterly images which I wanted.
By the DD Pinhole.
Last moment of sun hit the Single Pinhole and created
fantastic diffraction pattern.
Single Pinhole with half a second shutter speed = camera shake. 😀
And this image —– 1.6 second exposure.
(I would rather say, not too bad for a hand-held shot !)
I think, the Lens (?) worked well for the purpose to produce
impressionists like / painterly image ! 🙂
(You must have seen the most unusable photos here though,
if you like to have so-called good photo, use Phone-camera.)
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Kyocera Junk Macro — in Practice
I’m well aware, making lens etc is one thing and actually use it is the other.
Still, whether any worthwhile photo was created by it or not, is totally
different matter. —– I know, in this world, some of the people is having
a pleasure of possessing something rather than use it = just for a show-off
(of his, her wealth or So-called Good taste) —– and the manufacturer is
well aware of this phenomenon too. So that they are producing specifically
designed outrageously expensive model for this target, with “Art” or “Opus”
kind of the name. A camera, recently introduced from Leiz, Leica SL is one of
the extreme case, = the camera which can takes more or less the same kind of
picture but priced whopping $7450 for body. Even if non of the photographer
would buy it, still 10 of the “Leica Collector” in the world ought to buy = because,
it was made by Leiz and listed in their catalog. (Collection has to be complete.)
A Camera lens, I made out of junk
Camera has been with me a
while = waiting to encounter
good subject. ————————
Then, I found a tiny tiny dot on a Fig = it was an egg of the Green Lacewing.
Not very fashionable subject still, it is good for a macro-photography.
So, that’s how the top photo was made. ( x4 Magnification. though, quality
of the lens in comparison to my previous work, was not very impressive
—– shows chromatic aberration etc, hence, not very sharp.)
—– still, it was a proof that the lens was in operation.
(= I’m not feeling happy for just possessing the lens.) 🙂
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PS : In order to have a bit more sharpness and the evenness of the image,
I put a hole of Black tape to reduce the effective F-Aperture to half of the
diameter (equivalent of 2 F-stops down) = the image quality was dramatically
improved ! — You might be realized that how the optics behave in simple
manner and lost a faith to worship expensive lens. 😀
(In fact, we are paying for the Brand image, not necessary for the quality,
otherwise who pay £3000 to a plastic camera ?)
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Morning Sun
Toward the winter solstice, the Sun is going down south. It’s mean, it’s
getting lower and lower in the sky. So, we can see the sun coming through
side of the tree. And now, the tree got their golden leaves.
Unlike Wabi-sabi of typical Japanese, I got bad habit to push even farther.
So, the Curry got to be very hot etc. And to see twice as much Gold leaves,
the instant twice-rich-magic was to give a double exposure. 😀
While giving double exposure, even the focus has been changed to make
painting like images. —– When crispy sharp picture can be made even
by Phone-camera, I rather like to push opposite direction.
And for this picture — focus was made for background leaves and
to the foreground flower. (—– I like this water-color effect too.)
— Have a peaceful nice week, everybody. 🙂
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Salmon Tofu — simple cooking
Indeed, this was the reason why I bought Tofu. —– I used to invite the people
to see my work, and in such a case, often I cook and eat the meal together.
Now, I don’t need to do that since I started to show the photo in my Blog,
even the short viz in the Youtube, = just tell the person “See the blog”.
Anyway, when I cook, Salmon Tofu which I invented was my regular cooking.
—– not because original but above all it is the simplest and easiest cooking.
(no complicated preparation of Dashi etc — just put together and heat) 🙂
Only three ingredients = Tofu, a chunk of Salmon and a fresh Ginger —
well, a drop or two Soy-source.
When the three were put together, place the bowl into the pan with shallow
water to boil = it’s mean, Tofu in the bowl was steamed. (7~10 minutes boil)
(Or put a cover on the bowl and cook in the microwave cooker for 5 minutes.)
The steam drip down through Ginger to Salmon and to the bottom of bowl
makes beautiful soup as well —– and its taste struck everybody. (so far) 🙂
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Although this is not a vegetarian, I regard this is the Zen cooking.
= everything was there as it is but nothing else.
And everything melt together and creates the best by themselves.
No complicated thinking or manipulation = just leave the process to them.
= the nature is having the best in its own. (Proof of the taste — you try !)
And this nature, we call the Dharma.
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My old Basket
I found 130 years old photos of Japan, pretty well hand-colored and preserved.
Among them, this was a photo of a Basket maker and his work samples.
(This is a studio set-up photo by an Italian Photographer
— Photo Credit / 1886-Japon-Adolfo Farsari )
It’s amazing to see, the technique and the design hasn’t been changed much
—– I mean, if anybody still doing it somewhere in the world.
And funnily enough, I have one which has been with my life (mostly in the
mountain) for the past 50 years or more !
I bought this when we went to a mountain in the northern Japan, I found it in
a local shop. = it may looks a bit odd taste for a techno orientated Hi-school boy,
though I was a very opinionated noisy student, a sort of a nemesis of the school
authority then. And I had a view to feel shame for the loss of the traditional
culture and the crafts. Not because of a nostalgic feeling, but I did know such
kind of crafts could be much suited for the daily life and even stronger for a long
term use, as its historical fact = it has been kept used 100s of the years by the folks
= it’s mean, it has been repeatedly modified and refined. = it IS the
manifestation of the accumulated wisdom came from user’s side, not from the
head-big designer or the seller’s side !
And after so many years of the journeys and the climbs, it’s mean packed tight
in the backpack, tumbled, pressurized etc all sorts of hard use, still my basket is
almost intact because of its flexibility. It has been used not just packing
important items such as toolbox, first-aid kit, survival food, money, train ticket
etc but also it was my pillow in the tent or where ever. In any emergency, grub
it and jump-out the tent and run. (if we noticed a flush-flood or avalanche kind
is coming) —– In real life, once I run-away (to the side) from an avalanche and
move the tent just before a flush-flood came down, so not much serious trouble
I actually experienced. (other than, hard climbing itself. 🙂 )
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You may wonder, why I didn’t use plastic container. In fact I did, though,
they didn’t work well in the Winter mountain where the temperature goes down
minus 20~30 degree C. = they easily break. And the another disadvantage of
the plastic container was, when the water get inside, it stayed there for ever.
(They are not water tight = when they got pressure, their rid easily come off)
—– So, I’ve been happily together with Bamboo. 🙂
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