禅における Detachment = 無着無住の意味
表題としたこの言葉は，実は検策の為に書込まれ，ここにやって来た
もののーつです。簡単に言えば参禅者からの質問という事でしょう。
－－－で，この機会を使ってこれに対する僕流の所見を書いてみます。
禅を云々する上で最も決定的な大前提となるのは「禅は到達する
境地ではなく，悟りに至るプロセス，単なる作業修業のーつである」
という事です。禅は月ではなくそれを指す指，あるいは指している動作
に過ぎません。＝ ではその動作がいかにして悟りにつながるのか？
これは仏教史の中で完璧に見過ごされて来た事ですが，仏教の修業，
勤行の延々と続く繰り返しの中に鍵があったのです。
仮にぐるぐると歩くにしろ，太鼓をたたき続けるにしろ，延々と
続く作業の神経情報処理は人間の脳内でルーチンとして自動的に
処理されるようになり，一方延々と繰返される刺激に対しては
情動的閾値が髙くなり無感動で処理されるようになります。
これは毎日座り続ける座禅においても同様で，遅かれ早かれ人間の頭
には全作業を自動的，かつ無感情で処理する習慣が身についていきます。
実はこれが禅で言う無我無心に外ならず，このメンタリティを持って
物事に対処する事が無着無住と言う事です。
－－－で，これが悟りとどう関わるのか？
＝執着を離れ，情動に翻弄される事も無くなったら，後いったい何の
気懸り苦労が残るのか？ 気懸りなしに生きられるなら，そうして
気懸りなしに死んで往けるならこれ以上の自由（解脱）は無い訳です。
つまりこれが涅槃です。
－－－－－（あっけに取られたとか？）
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追記：
反覆動作のルーチン化とか毎日通り過ぎる道端の看板を見飽きて
それが全く気に止まらなくなる（存在しているにもかかわらず，
存在しないのと同様になってしまう）現象は，本人が自分で経験
して把み取る以外には学びようがないものです。
つまり無我無心，無着無住と簡単に言う事はできても，
こればかりは人から教えられ言葉の意味を理解しても本人が
経験して身につけない限りは何の足しにもなりません。
何故ならそれは知的理解ではなく脳内での情報処理の短絡化＝
情動域（＝偏桃体＝入力された情報に自己帰属の夕グを付ける＝
所有物や家族を見分けられる）の関与の排除，そこでの処理の
ジャンプ（自己意識抜きに物事を処理する）なのでこの回路が
作られない限り無心としての処理は機能しない。
理屈や知識では自転車に乗れるようにならないのと同じです。
現実には直弟子ですら必ずしもそれを体得できていなかった為に
釈尊はいまわの際になってすら｢人の言葉を信じるな。自分で
体得せよ」と繰返さねばならなかったのです。
逆に見れば，仏教史に登場する異説異論は実は無我無心を体得
できなかった者が，その言い訳，目くらましの為にいい加減な
作り話しをやっていたのではとの疑いが涌いてきます。
この点から見ると龍樹（ナガールジュナ）あたりが最もクサい。
本当に無心無住の境に達していた人間がはたして龍宮のハナシまで
デッチ上げて，あそこまで派手なセールスキャンペーンをやるか？？？
『大乗印のエスパーベルト，これであなたも即，菩薩に変身〜！』
えっ！？冗談でしょ？
（実践に依る人間改造ではなく，思い込みを利用した盲信への変質です）
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Yoshizen Phenomena
Alongside the peculiar phenomenon found in the Google Search, such as
“Yoshi – Zappa” which lead to my circular fisheye photo on the top page,
or “Tiny Life Egg” which lead to my photo of the Green lacewings’ Egg
( = on top of the 3.4 million items on their list,)
— the search term “Art Figure – St. Lucia” will have this image
on the top page of the 850,000 items in their listing.
Really ? —- is this an Art ?
Isn’t any better art work or painting of
St. Lucia exist in the world such as the
Spanish old masters religious paintings ?
—– I have no idea how the algorithm of google,
worked-out to select an image of a twisted wire.
Never the less, this is the Google certified “Art”
on top of the million items. 😀 😀
Even more peculiar phenomenon was, the artist
can recognize this as an art in one glance,
while holding the breath. (If you think otherwise, you are not the artist. 😀 )
[]
The same question again. Is this an art or even a sculpture ? If this was a
sculpture, where IS the sculpted substance ? We are seeing a mere contour of
something. Something of What ?
—– to see, it was a frightened woman while she was hit by a blue line (purported
to be a lightning from the God) 🙂 was in fact in the mind of the viewer.
—– otherwise it was just a twisted wire. —– And in its contour, we are seeing a
woman’s body — are we ? Where is the body. = it IS just an empty space between
the wire isn’t it ? —– You believe this or not, this is the very ZEN Buddhism.
(In the term of the liberated mind and the eyes, the mind of complete selfless
Buddhist is very close to the complete open minded artist. — and the children.)
[]
What you are seeing is the wire and the VOID between. Seeing the twisted wire and
in the same time, to see it was a figure of the woman in one glance. (Without hear or
read any explanation still capture the meaning instant, by a naked subconscious.)
To know the meanings in one glance while seeing its twisted wire as it is. = This is
the clear eyes and the mind. Indeed, this is what the Buddhism teaches. We might
be seeing just a contour or shadow, and the substance may there or may not =
Who can see everything anyway ? = and, does it a matter ?
—– as long as we can see its clear face and the meaning, we know what we have to do
and how to live without being bothered by a wrong thinking.
This IS the very enlightenment. (You may say what is the difference between a wrong
thinking or delusion to the clear mind. = the former was a result of the thinking with
a lots of desire and the greed kind so on, and the later will come only on the moment,
without thinking, like as an intuitive, spontaneous reflection.
(= this is the reason why, Zen never give a second thought or negotiation.) =
The interaction of the million factors in the Karma gave very reflection of very moment.
And that was what the Dharma gave the person to pick. —– this Confidence “To be with
the Dharma” is the core of the Enlightenment, hence no hindrance in the life though,
on the face, it looks the life just as it IS = it’s mean no fancy magic or mysterious
supernatural manifestation = hence it was described as common and ubiquitous
as a Dog Shit. = if anybody was saying something “Special Enlightenment” it is a sign
of that the person haven’t learnt what the Zen Buddhism IS.)
[]
So, look at the photo again. What do you think of this. —– do you see, is the VOID
between the wire, still a meaningful existence ? (or the illusion ? = Did the Google too,
saw the illusion and said that this IS the Art ? ? ? Ha ha ha ! )
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PS[]
Remote Cable — Life in Natural Flow
My way of navigating the life is, just follow the flow. Don’t push.
—– some of the people who knows me might feel not necessary true,
as I put enormous effort to do something some time. = though, it was
not a push for me = it was just a normal condition in its situation.
Like, to be born in India, these days they got 45, 50 degree C hot weather
= just to survive needs to have enormous endurance, though,
that what their country is.
This year’s Ramadan in muslim calendar is coinciding with a midsummer
= therefore, the muslim emigrated to the northern Norway couldn’t eat as
there is no sunset. (in reality, they said to have invented an excuse. 🙂 )
Thanks goodness, I’m neither a Norwegian nor muslim I don’t need to
have a problem. Avoiding to have problem is, “don’t do it”.
So, as a holy man, I don’t do gamble, take no drug (in fact any medicine),
no alcohol, no smoking, no woman = Where the cause of a trouble could ever
come ! It’s a well known wisdom, “Do nothing cause no mistake or failure”
= “Barren land makes no weed” — but neither has a wheat or barley even
buckwheat. —– Do nothing mean, just wasting time ? Neither.
Strangely, do something is coming in its course. It just happens as a flow.
Such as being asked to help or advising something. Otherwise, just do it.
[]
—– Give a thought or two. So far, what I made after I’ve started this Blog,
were the result of a fleak idea triggered by the funny material I encountered.
(Before those, the old creation were often made to solve the practical needs
such as the flash system.) So that, the work for “Junk Lens etc” were all
happened with a sheer coincidence. = I mean, I didn’t push it happens
neither I didn’t look for the material etc = it was already there, and I only did
a small finishing part of it for a joke or fun. 
So, when I went to a camera shop to get a new air blower, I found a
Canon’s Remote Trigger Cable, or its converting cable, in their
odds and ends box. = It might be a connecting cable to use old type
cable to 5D etc. — anyhow, it might be an obsolete type, and the
price was only few pounds. (Photo above left = here the cable showes
“after the switch was fitted”).
If it was a cable to go to 5D, why not make it for a short trigger cable ?
= It’s a matter of just put a double switch. —– And conveniently, I have
a disassembled Olympus compact camera. = I could use their switch and
the button for this purpose. (Photo above middle)
—– Since those small accessories are the company’s cash-cow, (you
could buy a cheap kit lens with a price of 2~3 cables) Canon changed it
many times to the users to buy new cable every time they got new model.
(Photo right = Remote terminal for old (film) EOS)
Anyway, I took the Olympus’ switch and the button and connected it to the
Canon’s cable = Voila’ Remote Trigger Cable for Canon DSLR. (Photo Left)
—– As I said, I didn’t look for what to do. It was there.
This was what I call, a natural flow.
(This natural flow is the way how the Karma leading us = and as I follow,
there is no problem or ill health.)
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[]
Poetry Contest (2)
Not necessary having a thought, I suddenly realized that the story of the Poetry Contest of Huineng and Shenxui was not right. Its contest was the 5th patriarch, Hongren try to find who should succeed him and become 6th patriarch of the Zen. Unlike the other sect of Buddhism, Zen does their learning without rely on the words. = the action in the practice or a thing or phenomenon trigger the understanding.
So, the founder of Rinzai Zen, Rinzai said to have uttered that, “On the way, (may mean Pathway) when you saw the scriptures, through them away. When you saw the monks kill them or met Lord Buddha, kill him too.” —– (this advice was meant be getting rid of any notion, and empty the mind.)
[]On the said Poetry Contest, for the answer to the Hongren’s request to show the Zen mind, well-learned top-rank monk, Shenxui wrote “Mind is like a mirror, I polish the mirror diligently for no dust to settle on it” —– opposing to this, one low rank monk, Huineng wrote “Since Mirror is not exists in the first place, where could dust settle”
—– Hongren found that Huineng has much deeper understanding in Zen, he chose Huineng to be his successor.
[]Zen teaching was started by Bodhidharma on 5th century. Though, as a matter of fact, there were numerous legend and myth about Bodhidharma but little historical facts were known, therefore any story has to be treated with a pinch of salt.
—–When Bodhidharma wanted to choose his successor, there was a similar story. He asked his disciples “Can each of you say something to demonstrate your understanding ?”
Dao Fu stepped forward and said, “It is not bound by words and phrases, nor is it separate from words and phrases. This is the function of the Tao.”
Bodhidharma: “You have attained my skin.”
The nun Zong Chi stepped up and said, “It is like a glorious glimpse of the realm of Akshobhya Buddha. Seen once, it need not be seen again.”
Bodhidharma; “You have attained my flesh.”
Dao Yu said, “The four elements are all empty. The five skandhas are without actual existence. Not a single dharma can be grasped.”
Bodhidharma: “You have attained my bones.”
Finally, Huike came forth, bowed deeply in silence and stood up straight.
Bodhidharma said, “You have attained my marrow.”
Bodhidharma passed on the symbolic robe and bowl of dharma succession to Huike and, some texts claim, a copy of the Lankavatara Sutra.
Bodhidharma then either returned to India or died. (This story from Wikipedia)
(There was the conflicting stories, —– He might returned to Persia. Or even killed in the mass execution at Heyin in 528.) []
My doubt was that why Shenxui, studying under Hongren did have such poor understanding ? (While Huineng who was working in the kitchen could still pick up the Zen understanding from overheard conversation of other monks.)
And the same question goes to the colleagues of Huike too. = they were no ordinary monks, THE direct disciples of Bodhidarma. As they lives together, they must have lots of discussion even arguments. —– still keep maintaining such variety of idea = quite logical and full of blah blah, but where the “Teachings of the Master” which was supposedly on the principle of Void and abhorrence to the words, has gone ?
And, what was the 5th Patriarch, Hongren’s understanding and the teachings of “mind” ? —– (Was he thinking, “There is Zen Mind” ? )
— Who recorded those stories ? — Was that came from the diary of Hongren ? — weren’t those stories made-up to glorify each Huineng and Huike ? ? ?
While making others looks fool = makes stories interesting. And this kind of practice was behind of all those compilation of “Sutra” or scriptures. It’s mean, we need very critical sharp eyes to distinguish what was the true teachings. 🙂
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[]
Hoben (方便) / Upaya — (2)
Most of the books I refer to, are I brought from Japan and unless I need to find
the English word, I do not look into Wiki kind. —– So, I tell you the truth,
until few days ago, I didn’t know that there a Sanskrit word for Hoben (方便), Upaya
existed. In Japan Hoben is a widely used word spread out of the Buddhism,
which has an extended meaning of “convenient mean” or “easy alternative” kind,
and the original Buddhist context was masked by those common usage.
Lord Buddha’s witty teachings, which was timely and suit to the occasion, or to
the person speaking to, is a well known stories, hence those witty talk style has
been adapted by the Zen talk, or even by the children’s comic book “Ikkyu-san”.
As its casual use became so common, we almost forgotten it had a Buddhism origin.
—– So that, to find this word, “Upaya” really surprised me, not because of its
meaning but the attitude, the ancient monk did created a dedicated nickname for
Lord Buddha’s talking style, yet still, they couldn’t find the meaning of
Lord Buddha’s silence.
[]
Do you talk about the prostitute or prostitution in public ? I don’t think you do.
It’s a dirty talk and officially, it’s not exist in your life. And if it’s not in the society,
neither a word prostitution exists. It’s mean, even if anybody asked about it, you
can not understand what it mean nor able to answer.
To Lord Buddha, talking about Atman or Self never happened, because no such things
of the Self exists and to talk about a thing which is not exists was nothing but a
delusion and it is a dirty talk. Because of it is not exists and as he doesn’t have, it was
no use to make a question about the Self or its reincarnation to him, because
he wouldn’t answer anyway, since even no word, no notion was there.
= This was the reason why, to those questions, there was no answer from
Lord Buddha at all.
[]
And when the teaching was related to the Self, there was no explanatory words
but to show the practice which would lead to the “Selfless State of the mind” —–
or just to give a smile, otherwise (if you can’t get it), the excommunication.
(This was the reason why no explanation of “No Self” was in the scripture.
—– either it was omitted because of the conflict with the Hinduism or it couldn’t
be written down because, no such things like a Self exists.)
(In Buddhism, especially in Zen, there is nothing between Yes and No.
Yes mean 200% commitment but if it was No, even a word No itself is no longer exist.
= it is not a denial or even an argument but a total erasure = the subject, the matter
is completely disappeared. = hence no psychological conflict.
When no-self, there is even no subject, who is thinking the matter.)
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[]
Blinds and Elephant
Among the millions of metaphors human culture has, the one such as
“Moon and Pointing Finger” was known to be associated with Zen Buddhism.
A story of the Blinds and Elephant was too widely known and seemed to have
lost its origin. But this story/metaphor has Buddhist origin too, and this
metaphor was exactly about the Buddhists themselves, was forgotten.
[]
There are tens if not hundreds of the descriptions to explain Buddhism. Such as
Mushin, Void, Mindfulness, Middle way, Clear-eyes, Detachment, Impermanence,
Ichijo, Compassion, Dharma, Karma, Delusion, Contemplation, Enlightenment,
— etc etc. So that, the people whether believer or the outsider, they think that
there are many aspects, or the elements in the Buddhism which necessitates to
master next by next — though, it is the utter misunderstanding or misguided idea.
[]
Since those Notion and the Words were used to describe a state of the mind,
people were made to believe that such each state IS exists. = Just same as
one blind man told while touching its flapping ear saying “The Elephant is a
soft thin disk just like a nan bread” and the other said “Oh, it is a very thick
rubbery hose, like a vacuum car’s hose” etc etc.
—– The trouble to deal with Buddhism was, that the most of its phenomena,
state of the mind are in the subconscious of the person, hence it is invisible to
the people, even to the person himself. Inevitably, all those descriptions were
nothing but a guess work of the person, mixed with the hearsay. —– It’s mean,
a person who couldn’t even see the own mind speaking about the Buddhism, let
alone whether he himself had reached to the level to know what the Buddhism is.
[]
Typical sample of it in these days is, the fashion of “Mindfulness” even in a kind of
business lecture ! The most funny things about this word “Mindfulness”, there is
NO Japanese or Chinese word of this notion exists. = It was a western invention or
made-up —– probably, a sham doctor selling miracle portion kind of “Zen monk”
had used the word first, while having a misunderstanding that the Zen is “a kind of
concentration of the mind”.
If you know about the Zen Buddhism a little bit, you may know the word “Mushin =
Mind of no-mind” —– sound somewhat opposite of “Mindfulness” though, as a state
of the mind, those two is in-separable one. (and nothing like a concentration at all =
Zen is a completely relaxed, open, detached mind = hence No-mind / Void = in fact,
all those different explanations were about the same state —– the person who said,
didn’t know the real situation / state in his real experience — came from hearsay )
= So, it is clear, the person who is using a word “Mindfulness” is a person who is
pretending to know the Zen Buddhism, (and telling “It’s a hose of vacuum-car”) 😀
[]
—– A funny story in Japan is, one of the big University, Waseda Uni’ has a
student group called “Mindfulness Society” = obviously following a book (or two)
written by the westerner. —– Or, they might have learned that “Mindfulness is no
longer the Buddhism but New religion” = Cool western religion !
— What a hose. 😀
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[]
Rimbaud and Zen Mind
There was yet another funny coincidence. At my friend’s party, I met a designer/
planner who happen to know an artist friend who also run a café called
Small White Elephant, which happen to be in my area.
As she suggested, I paid a visit to the café and met a guy, Dale who run it.
Dale was a painter, we got a common talk in the art. — so, while showing my work
in Youtube and the photos in this blog, I talked about what and who influenced me.
As I mentioned my taste of the Surrealism art and the Symbolist poet Arthur
Rimbaud, Dale jumped up, went to his jacket’s pocket to fetch a small book.
It was a Rimbaud’s Poem, [A season in Hell].
[]
When I use the words “funny coincidence” it’s implying “Karmic encounter” =
no rational connection or likely happening situation still, from the hidden history
or life’s context, the pathway got to cross, of which only the heaven knows it.
And my life is having so many of them.
If not, I’m not in here, or even this blog didn’t exist. —– looking back, have I ever
chased anybody and met ? (I mean, from a reputation, I sought to meet the person.)
NONE. I am completely passive. (of course, it exclude the case on the business =
like interview and photograph somebody = it was for the editor’s needs,
not necessary my interest)
[]
In my teens, I started to read Osamu Dazai = rather popular choice of “ a kind of
young people then” and I read all of his work include the letters.
In the same time, I also read the books written by the opposing group of Dazai,
critiques, poets etc. A critic, Hideo Kobayashi and the friend poets were all
influenced by a French Poet Arthur Rimbaud. —– then, I end up with this Poet.
—– I’ve talked about this story in a post. [My starting point (2) ] (I might be the first person
in the history to connect Rimbaud to the Psychological mechanism of Zen mind. 🙂 )
[]
—– (Quote of the post)
< What makes reading of Rimbaud Poems somewhat common with Buddhists Pathway
was, that his approach to be a Boyant (Seer / Watcher) in Alchemy of Life was,
to examine the own mind again and again, deeper and deeper, exposing everything
like a dissected dead body = effectively made his own mind (and the life) a completely
detached dried object. Detachment while having cut-off the Emotion, will lose
the tag of the SELF, hence creating a state of mind, similar to the Buddhists’ Selflessness.
(This process is very similar to the Hinayana Buddhists practice = Process of Self-denial )
And as Rimbaud’s subject, include his own life became a detached object without the
emotional attachment, it was described as a metaphorical object or the Symbol =
thence his poetry was called Symbolism. (This detachment was the self-alienation too, so that
Rimbaud called the state of mind before, as a slumber of the animal
—– he missed it with tears, but it was too late) >
[]
The modern trend of the art then, Symbolism, Surrealism and Dadaism were all try
to find the way to express “True reality” of the existence or the human mind.
So that, all of them created uniquely formed style, since they thought that to express
straight as perceived, couldn’t show the reality or truth. —– with the idea of Freud,
they thought, since there was something behind of our mind, there couldn’t be the
straight raw expression (so, they tried autonomous writing “Automatism” etc with
futile results.) What common in those attempt was that they tried to replace the
subjects with something related or not so related. =
Symbolism used the objects somewhat related or looks like, as a metaphor.
Surrealism tried with unexpected one and Dadaism denied any connection.
[]
Though, there was an inherent trouble departing with raw expression = as it was
a two-step conversion, first, it needed to observe the feeling, then to find a symbol to
replace it = When the original mind, perception was “observed”, its Subject became
an OBJECT = It mean, he is no longer the innocent author. —– Even if it was the
own mind/perception, it was now the separate entity = OBJECT.
(For instance, even a hot love, when it was observed as an OBJECT and written down
like a stage act, down to the every movements of sexual act, it is no longer the love but
the words in the pages of DOCUMENT. =
That was how Rimbaud’s poem “A season in Hell” was created. And Rimbaud
described it “Je me vois me voir” = I see myself seeing myself.)
In this process, not only the own mind/perception became separate object, but crucially,
the Mind lost the connection to its “Emotion” therefore, the own mind is no longer
connected to the SELF. His life became a Puppet show remotely played.
(Self couldn’t define the own place without having tethered to the own Emotion !)
(When Alzheimer sufferer lost the connection to the emotional region of the brain,
his/her identity, the recognition of the family also gone.)
[]
Unlike most of the Surrealists, Dadaists who has been a part-timer = “Pretender” for
the sake of their art, Rimbaud was a full-time Symbolist, he lost the raw feeling of the
“Live-view”, hence the sizzling excitement of the life. So, he try to sex-up the life, such
as with absinthe, heroin or to play homo-sexuality etc which didn’t bring any solution.
—– on the end, lured by a false excitement, he left to the Abyssinia.
———- (And the other trouble of the Rimbaud’s poems to a reader was, —– as they
were written as narrations, after a while, his words became the reader’s words and
gradually they seeped into the bottom of the subconscious, then “who I am” would be
slowly eroded. = in the end, we will be left in the middle of nowhere alone, without
identity = it would be our Abyssinia.)
[] * * * * * * *
Fundamental difference of Selflessness and the Detachment of Rimbaud against
the Buddhist was, —– to Rimbaud, it was the unexpected by-product.
But to the Buddhist, it was the requisite way to reach peace of life and ultimately
the Enlightenment. In contrast, Rimbaud wanted to have a true reality of the life
which should enhance the excitement though, to became Voyant (seer / watcher)
gave him the opposite effect.
—– ? ? ? to give a thought, ISN’T IT strange, nobody did gave him an advice or after
100.000 years history of human culture, why such wisdom haven’t been established ?
—– then think more, ? ? ? ? ? —– Have we got a wisdom in the first place at all ?
What is the wisdom ?
—– Very basic morality ? Such as that, DON’T do wrong or bad otherwise the society,
and ultimately you will get a repercussion and suffer. —– And the way to see what is
wrong or bad. —– In reality, the burst majority of the practical detail on the
“life’s how to do” is open to the person to experiment on the spot, and find the answer
by themselves. = It’s mean that existing / ready-made “Wisdom” is not more than an
Opinion, since even the people, so-called “Burst majority”, among them, non of two
Karma is the same, and operating strictly individual base. This was the reason why,
Lord Buddha ordered to his disciples “Don’t believe what others said. Think yourself”=
Simply because, the answer will be different, person to person.
—– (This was originally intended to be the 700th post —– though, it gone to banana. 😀 )
[]
Become Immune or Irritated ?
When you read a post, like Key Mechanism in Zen Buddhists Mind you might have
mistaken that while doing repeated practice and keep receiving repeated same signal,
our brain automatically start ignoring it. —– Really ? Think it yourself.
In the real situation, such as when you hear the same CM repeating the same name
on the radio or TV, in most of the case you just feel annoyance and irritation =
our brain, our perception couldn’t stand of it. —– So, which is the true.
— the brain become immune or become irritated and mad ?
[]
My explanation there was
“When a task was given by an order or from a situation in the life, first, it’s needed to
have a “Contemplation” some time interpreted as an acceptance, giving-up (to resist) or
determination to take the task (which ever it was passive or more positive, active way).
—–> And as it was accepted = no way else to go = have to face
the task head-on (this is called “Mindfulness”).
= “needed to have an acceptance” (whether, I’ll do / I have to do / I need to do).
This acceptance or determination, mind-set has to come first, preceding to the act.
And this determination = the conviction “I’ll DO” makes the same task, such as
sweeping the garden, from just a task to the practice to reach the Enlightenment.
Lord Buddha did know this from the beginning therefore in his earliest teachings of
“Four Noble Truth” he said
1) The Life is in sufferings.
2) There was the cause of those sufferings. (because of Karma, hence impermanence)
3) So, it is necessary to (actively) seek the way to escape from the sufferings.
4) And the Buddhism is the way to overcome those sufferings.
Lord Buddha didn’t go any deluded idea, how this world was created by whom kind
of mumbo-jumbo but straight into the reality of the life = It IS the sufferings, and
telling the people to accept it first.
First to accept, then seek the remedy. And the way to seek the remedy is the way of
the repeated practice. So that, the repeated same signal in the brain doesn’t cause
the repulsion but just accepted, then got used => ignored => so, the person become
immune to such signal while carrying out the daily life = => become immune to
the sufferings in the life general => able to live in peace without feel sufferings = is the
Enlightenment. (What a clever magic or the clever design of the brain mechanism !)
= this is the mechanism (the Dharma) everybody was born to have
= therefore, anybody can get the Enlightenment !
= This is THE beauty of Buddhism.
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仏教の行と大脳生理 (Effects of Practice)
(This is the Japanese version of previous post = Key Mechanism in Zen Buddhists Mind and in its brain function.)
ここまでのいくつかのポストで，原始仏典のアーガマ（阿含）経から大乗仏典のほとんど全てに至る
までがいかにヒンズー教に書変えられていたかを書きましたが，
それにもかかわらずいったいどのようにして
釈尊の無私，無心，空の教えが失なわれること無く２５００年の永きに亘って受け継がれて来てい
たのか？－－－実はここに仏教を仏教たらしめる核心があり，そこに表立って書かれる事の無
かった［行］の問題があったのです。
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仏教では宗派にかかわらずどこでも信者や修行僧に延々と続く勤行を勤めさせます。
それは延々と題目を唱えたりあるいは太鼓をたたいたり，ぐるぐる歩き続けたり
（比叡山での修行とはひたすらこれである－－－若い頃禅に傾到したアップルの故スティーブ．
ジョブスが延々と歩かされて頭に来たと言うのは有名な話，
中には水を満した丼を持ってぐるぐる歩くなどという［行］をさせる寺が中国に在る。
あるいは座禅とともに特別な呼吸法を習得させたりもします。
しかし何故このような［行］をさせるのか？－－－実はこうした［行］自体に特別な意味が有るわけ
では無く，それをすることで条件付けされる脳の側に要点が有ったのです。
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人の脳は受覚した情報を処理する時，全ての情報を等しく扱う訳ではありません。
間断なく，五感から入力される情報に加え体の内部情報や運動器官からのフィードバックｅｔｃと，
処理せねばならぬ情報は将に膨大でそれの処理をいかに合理化，効率化するかは生体維持の
生理作用同様に極めて重要な問題なのです。（入力される毎秒１１００万ビットに対し脳が取
込める情報はせいぜい毎秒１６〜５０ビットが限界と言われる）
完璧な健康を維持できていても敵の発見が一瞬遅かっただけで全てが無駄になってしまう。
可能な限り自動化，自律化し処理量を減らす事が生存のキーなのです。 従って脳に達する情報
は，その刺激の強度に拘わりなくその重要度（価値観，損得好嫌，危険性など）に応じて処理され
る訳で重要度ナシと分類されたものは完璧に無視される。
あるいは同ーの刺激が繰返される場合，それを評価する閾値 (threshold) が高くなりそれに達し
ない強度の情報を無視するという対応も取られます。
（臭いや騒音に慣れたり，毎日見ている物が注意を引かなくなるｅｔｃ）
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脳の情報処理で重要な事は，この情報の評価分類は生理作用のコントロールにも関与する
大脳古皮質の情動域で行なわれているという事です。
感情が大脳新皮質での価値評価の思考と決定的に異なる点はそれが『己れ』の利益（損得，
安全，生存）に直結した直観的判断に立つという事と，同時にホルモンの分泌をともなっている事で
す。危険の徴候を目撃し“ヤバイ”と感じた瞬間にアドレナリンが分泌され脈拍，血圧が急上昇，防
御や逃走に即応する。しかし危険性も無くあまり損得に関係の無い，延々と繰返される勤行となる
とその同一パターンの情報は感情的には全く無価値，無害のものとして無視され，情動域を素通り
して処理されるようになります。 一方，体の所作は脳の運動領域にパターンとして刷り込まれ
体は自動的に動くようになる。
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＝つまり延々と続く勤行は『己れ』という利害意識に関わる事なく，自動的に処理されるようになる訳で，
実にこれが仏教における勤行の機能だったのです。つまりこれが
釈尊の教えの核であった無私，無心の現象に外ならず長年この勤行を（無条件に受け容れ）
続けるうちに物事を感情抜きに淡々と処理する心理，脳の対応が身に付いていく。
我執，我欲の源である情動域を素通りしてしまうので我にからんだ妄念に捕われる事も無く，
そもそも執着が無い。 これは元々誰もが脳の中に持って生れている情報処理簡略化のメカニズム
で，何ら特別の現象でも，まして神秘的なものでもありません。 これが，無私が全ての人に普遍で
ある事，かつダルマ（法）が万人に内包されていると言われる根拠に他ならないのです。
この［行］の伝統が保たれていたからこそ，仏教の真髄は今日まで綿々と保たれて来ていた。
つまりその［行］からもたらされる無我無心が実に仏敎の真髄＝空無に外なりません。[行]を経て何か気の利いた観念や思想に到達するのではなく、そうした観念や思想のかけらすらも無い空っぽに至る。これが悟りといふものです。
空無であり、何も存在していないのだからそれを形容描写する事もできない。しかしそれの解っていない坊主が無理をして話を作ったものだから後世の仏教は怪し気なオトギ咄で溢れた。そもそも合理主義者の
釈尊が輪廻転生は元より三千世界などを夢想していた筈が無い。＝だからこそアーガマ経の中には夢想も空想的奇跡も登場して来ないのです。（前世が無いから生来のカ一ストも無く、当然、サンガにカーストの区別は無かった。）
－－－－－
(それでは，同様に万人に共通な感情，情動はどうなのかと言う疑問が出て来ますが，)
単純な因果関係を見ただけで情動域での判断傾向，欲やエゴ，愛憎執着がトラブルの種になる
事は有っても悟りを開き静寂な生を得るには何の足しにもならないと見たのが
釈尊であったのです。（だからこそ情動域の関与抜き、無心に作業する事が教えられた＝キサーゴータミに教えられたのは何の観念でもなく、只走り回る事であった）
（ーーーで，すったもんだの騒々しい人生を送って来た僕個人としては，
騒さいへビーメタルロックも悪くないとは思うのですが） （笑）
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（必読＝修行での矛盾）
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Key Mechanism in Zen Buddhists Mind
While you were walking, you never thought how to move the foot for next step and
to read this blog you were not aware that your eyes is following the letters next by next.
This is what we called “Selfless State of the Mind” and you never expect to create the
money out of walking itself (itself mean, not such a thing to find a coin on the street or to
reach the place to do the business = they are the by-product or benefit from the walking.)
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For the people who want to get the Mushin or Selfless state in Zen, this kind of natural
Selflessness seems to be too casual and too far from the Buddhists practice though, it is
a matter of the mind-set which expect “More elaborated fashionable practice”.
But if you were a Prisoner of War and was ordered to walk to a camp 100 miles away —–
the mind-set might make the difference of life or death.
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When a task was given by an order or from a situation in the life, first, it’s needed to
have a “Contemplation” some time interpreted as an acceptance, giving-up (to resist) or
determination to take the task (which ever it was passive or more positive, active way).
—–> And as it was accepted = no way else to go = have to face
the task head-on (this is called “Mindfulness”).
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So, just get on the life (task). Whether it was walking or small manual practice to do,
JUST DO, regardless whether it looks endless and boring.
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When we do repeated endless task, our brain rise the threshold of the importance of
the signal = and whole process would be categorized as neither flesh nor important.
= Brain start to process the matter without referring the signal to the Emotional
region of the brain (in the old cortex) and it become as a routine.
In the same time, whole action process would be programmed into the Motor region
and become to an automatic action. —–> Hence, our brain does the task without
Emotion (=Detachment), without needs of thinking (since it was routine and
done in automatic) = = = This is MUSHIN.
And the task was just a repeated insignificant mundane task = no special interest
could dwell there = nothing to arose EGO or GREED. = = = This is the SELFLESSNESS.
JUST DO IT.
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Once the person get used with “Desensitized perception” even other-things would be
seen detached as well. = No Emotional involvement to the useless matters in the life.
= = = This is the peaceful quiet life to be a Buddhist. 🙂
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And this, neuroscience, brain physiology behind our subconscious was the key
mechanism of the Lord Buddha’s teachings of the Selflessness and the Void.
Also, this was the reason why, despite the mambo-jumbo in the scriptures, the core
of the teachings were kept intact in a tradition of the Practice.
(The Buddhists on the street doesn’t read the scriptures anyway.= They only
taught and know the Buddhism in the Practice. = such as just chanting the title.)
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