Jazz at the Cafe / February
Jazz night on this month at the Small White Elephant Cafe had a guest musician
Harrison Cole as a trumpet player.
Handsome boy Harrison (originally from Colombia) has been in Japan several
times, so, I teased him “You must be chased by many pretty girls there” — he said
“No no, nothing like that. My friend tried to chase those Kawaii-ko, neither him
was successful” ” Ha, ha, ha, I don’t believe you”.
—- Left Harrison Cole / Trumpet ——– Tris Harris / Drum ——- Les Booth / Bass Guitar
(They were experienced enough to ignore trespassing photographer — thanks ! )
With a good rethome and a touch of latin Trumpet, the customers started dancing.
During a break and after the music, a lots of chat with musicians, visitors
each other — there was even other photographer who was wondering what a
funny lens I was using. (my handmade fuzzy lens !)
It was more like a socializing occasion —– good fun !
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Dorkbot gathering #87
Dorkbot is one of the most peculiar social group.
As its motto says, it is the gathering of the
people doing strange things with Electricity.
Other than some Core-members taking care of
organizing the meeting, there is no membership kind, but just a mailing list. = If you
are interested in, just visit their site and join them (free).
After a bit of lapse, their gathering got back to the monthly base,
and this one was for the February.
The first speaker was James Auger and he talked about Robot things and
“Somewhat a kind of kinetic Sculptures” = kinetic mean, having some mechanism
with certain electronic controls. = hence, doing strange things with electronics. 😀
And, he is teaching it to the grown-up students and going to be a Phd !
James Auger is a designer, researcher and lecturer whose work examines the social, cultural and
human impact of technology and the products that exist as a result of its development and application.
His PhD topic is Why Robot? Speculative design, the domestication of technology and the considered
future. James is also a partner in the Speculative Design practice Auger-Loizeau, whose projects have
been published and exhibited internationally, including MoMA, New York; 21_21, Tokyo;
The Science Museum, London and the Ars Electronica festival, Linz, and
are part of the permanent collection at MoMA.
The second speaker was Tim Hunkin. Since he has been running Fun Arcade,
with “Strange Game (?) Machine” he was THE genuine Dorkbot tribe.
Tim Hunkin is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist. He created the
Channel Four TV series and Science Museum gallery The Secret Life of Machines, which
explained the workings and history of various household devices. He has just launched
a “new London arcade of home-made coin operated machines built by enthusiasts”:
www.novelty-automation.com
twitter: @NovAutomation
The third speaker was Restart Project.
The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people
to use their electronics longer, by sharing repair and maintenance skills. Through community
and workplace events we create engaging opportunities to extend the lifespan of electronics
and electrical equipment.
twitter: @RestartProject
And the last presenter was Pollie Barden.
Pollie is an artist, activist and game designer who has designed games from the mobile platform
to the urban landscape. Firefly is a tagging game that explores temporal memory, and exploits
the balance of collaboration and competition. The action takes place at night. Your first strategic
move is the clothing you wear. Players, wearing Flashing LED badges will compete to see who can
steal the most badges from other players. However, the prize you seek may be your downfall!
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I’ve been with this Dorkbot London for about 10 years, so, I’ve been watching
the popularity side of the technology. = understanding and approach of the
people toward the electronic technology. — Years ago, the presentation of the
gathering were the handmade strange machines and its electronics. We could
operate the machine and see its function and the way how it was made. — though,
now we got used to fire virtual weapon by pressing a button and see the enemy
smashed over a screen. (I’m guessing = I never played Game) The operation,
movements etc etc getting more and more realistic and the resolution of the screen
is ever getting finer. —– but how many of us does know such as a color in the screen
was generated, let alone to simulate it by the LEDs and its control of brightness. —–
I’m not happy with this trend = “Virtualization of the Life, thanks to the Technology”
—– May be I have to write about it in the other post.
—– incidentally, my pieces such as Wire Dragon, the Archer = Cupidon were
first time presented at Dorkbot many years ago.
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PS: The Red cast on some photos were caused by the low battery in the camera.
And a moale on the Pollie’s pullover was because of its pattern.
—– strange things would often happen in the Dorkbot.
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Dale’s Studio
——– (Note: Photo above by Zeiss 18mm lens for Nikon = Virtually no Distortion ! )
Yesterday, I went to the studio of Dale in the east London who also run the Cafe,
Small White Elephant to help a documentation, photographing his paintings.
As always, when I go out to take picture, it was a sunny blue-skyed day. = Almost
like the first spring day of this year.
(In fact, I’ve told him “If the weather was like this rainy, it would be a sign of
that the Heaven doesn’t like you” as the day before was rainy.)
As always, the studio was in a disused big industrial building,
some walk from the Bromley by Bow station. = Real East End ! —– the area
“was” really a derelict, disused industrial land though, in the past few years,
suddenly new development was started. = would become posh town soon ! ?
Utterly out of my guess, Dale’s paintings were the riot of colors with tons of paint.
— paint was not painted but more likely, deposited on the canvas. (= so that,
even after few years, some paint was still not completely dried yet.)
I only say ” Wao, Amaaaaaaazing”. and then, I realized the connection, why
he interested in Zen = those process to dripping the paint without having
much of pattern or figure = almost endless work of Mushin (Mind of No-mind
= Do the task without needing to have the Thinking.) —– And the result
—– it showed nothing or it is the everything ! (色即是空，空即是色 = like what
Heart Mantra said ) —– He was not trying to copy a style of Zen painting
but “Do the Zen” in action.
And, for the next step, for exhibition and for a publication, he needed
to have his paintings digitized.
When we finished the shooting, his friends came to the studio with cans of beer.
In most of the case, the studio of the artist never be tidy —– so, looks like this
pile of mess = was not a mess = it was a collage of the doodles or a draft of plan
etc etc. in his past (= said to be. 🙂 )
Therefore, I wouldn’t make any question “What is this ?” to an artist.
(with obvious reason. 🙂 )
So, I even didn’t have an attempt to guess what they are — why the blobs of
the paint was kept and treasured ? ? ?
In some distance, over the Bow Creek, landscape of the East End.
The life is there as usual. (of usual kind. 🙂 )
(Camera used was: Nikon D810 with PC Nikkor 35mm F2.8 and
Carl Zeiss 18mm F3.5 for Nikon)
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Ai Music — What ? ? ?
This music said to have composed entirely by a computer. It’s mean, a computer
(its program) had its mind how to compose a music, in other words it was an
Artificial Intelligence to be a classic music composer in Bach’s style.
—– It’s pointless to talk about the music without listen it first. (So, ask your ears.)
Sound somewhat a part of J.S.Bach’s clavier collection —– though, what did you
find of this composition ? — In my feeling, I found this, very irritating to listen.
So that, it convinced me that how the man who composed the original
Well Tempered Clavier, Book one = J.S.Bach had human mind and a sensitivity.
I think, the mind was conceived phrase by phrase such as “I like this flower”,
“A is equal to B” or “As A was equal to B, therefore A plus B will be the amount
of twice of A” kind. So, the music expression has more or less the same structure,
whether it has a poetical dialogue inside of the composer or the description of the
landscape etc, in any case, each phrase, description etc is a complete packet.
They never drug the argument endlessly, as they ought to settle somewhere.
Yet, this “so called, Ai composed Music” has no such packet structure, but just
continuing on and on for the sake of making it to the length. How irritating !
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—– My guess is, that the man who programmed this so called Ai, just made an
algorithm “What most likely choice of a note after the note, according to the
statistical tendency of J.S.Bach” not the artificial emulation of Bach’s Mind.
Music is not a permutation of the note, but the emotional phrase induced by
a musical language. —– Language need to have a structure and the words.
They are not an endless line of alphabet.
I don’t mind if this music was played to a computer, but human ear is not a machine.
If you like to follow this Ai story, the link was :
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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.
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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.
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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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HOBEN (方便) / Upaya — in Buddhism
In one before previous post, “Why live”, the author of the book Dr. Ogoshi was
saying that the Hoben (方便) (upaya = Sanskrit) = the mean or way (to lead others to
the Enlightenment) as the vital part of the human relation therefore that makes
the Reason to live.
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Among the religions, the only one asking the followers “to understand (the matter)”
is the Buddhism. All others need just believe what was said or written.
With this reason, only the Buddhism having a notion of Direct transmission or
Hoben/upaya and the Pathway. All those are just the mean and the process. —–
Why those mean or process was talked about, but not the goal itself was = that
because, the goal couldn’t be explained, even if anybody knows. Because, it is Void.
Indeed, it’s a funny religion and the strange deal = on the end, you may get the Void
at its best. If it was short of best, you get nothing. Get nothing, yet even if you did
the best, get Void ! —– How Fantastic ! ! !
( at least the another religion is promising the heaven or paradise kind of good deal!
— whether it was fraud or not in the eyes of Advertising Standard Authority.)
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In the famous Kisa Gotami story, what she was instructed was to obtain the
mustard seeds from the house never had bereavement. — After knocking all
the doors in the village, and running all the day, she was convinced that the
bereavement is the truth of human existence. —– The advice of
Lord Buddha, “To save the dead child, it need to get the mustard seeds” was not
necessary true though, the action she took, definitely brought her the enlightenment
and helped her to overcome a sorrow of the lost child. —– And to give such a good
advice and lead the person to get enlightened IS the Mahayana Buddhist duty.
(It must be much harder to enlighten the other. Who got the brain of
Lord Buddha, in this world today ? ! )
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PS: In the mainstream Buddhism, Kisa Gotami’s story
was understood only as a sample of Hoben shown by
Lord Buddha. But, what I’ve been talking about is, its contributory effect of
“Repeating Actions” (running and knocking all the doors next by next) to her
brain function. = (Repeating input to the brain lead the apathetic response =
input would be handled emotionally detached = this is all about
the Buddhist’s practice and the VOID in the mind.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”) 😀
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—– 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].
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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)
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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. 🙂 )
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—– (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) >
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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.
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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.)
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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.)
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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. 😀 )
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Utterly useless Banana skin —– still, this is the Glorious 700th Post for a festive evening !
You never seen like this or able to guess what this is. They are the banana skins.
—– ? ? ? Why banana skin was made like this ? —– They were left there to
become dry. —– Why needed to make them dry ? = It was for not to make wet
rubbish in the bin and to prevent the fruits fly to come. —– M m m ? ? ?
—– If I have a grown up teenage daughter, she must hate this kind of practice
and the man who does. = = = I know, that’s why I don’t have a daughter, in fact
any kids or even a possible cause of that, a wife.
(I just read a small article which was telling about his awkward daughter. 😀 )
So that, to avoid to have a cause of trouble was a wise precaution, or wise choice
to have trouble-free life and seems to be a way to reach Enlightenment.
Sound very much Buddhist like thinking. Though, this was an Hinayana approach
to the life. =If the whole planet was filled with such wise Buddhists,
the human-being would be doomed.
As, Hinayana approach was to avoid to have the cause of trouble beforehand,
therefore, to become a man of “Do nothing” was the ideal solution to get Enlightened.
—– but this approach creates more trouble “Not able to follow the rules” = The more
rules, more chance to fail. And anyhow most of the man was not such ideal person.
So, the Buddhism invented another approach called Mahayana = To have a trouble
which is natural to the life is not classified as a trouble. A wife (or two) and could be
an awkward daughter(s) = they may be troublesome but bring a fun as well.
It’s mean, a man (or woman) to have life’s troubles is nothing wrong, it’s just
awkward that all. (After all,
Lord Buddha defined the life is suffering !) = The matter of the Enlightenment is
nothing to do with those troubles. No man is perfect, so, why imperfect was the
obstacle to get enlightened ?
Still, strangely enough, no one (well almost) stay put imperfect = but try to be better.
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So, this is where the banana skin comes in. — but not to make you slip, make us think.
Why fruits fly is not welcome and the fruits skin is the cause of trouble ? = Filthy wet
rubbish made by the fruits skin kind in the bin is the ideal breeding environment to
the fly. —– Still, fly exists according to the Dharma too. All sorts of nasty bacteria,
virus etc etc also exists thanks to the Dharma.
—– If so, imagining own clean life and avoid to have a filth is just an ego and a
delusion isn’t it ?
Giving the opportunities of their life’s fulfilment to the fruits fly, bacteria, virus etc etc
it is a compassion isn’t it ? ? ? —– So, how do you think. (My guess is,
Lord Buddha would have given a smile but no answer.
And Zen master will give a good whack. = shut up, don’t waste the time. 😀 )
—– Have a nice holiday. 🙂
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Poppy Talk
The regular reader of this blog might have noticed that the talk in the previous post [Poppy Poppy] became increasingly lecturing. Yes, I know it. The reason was the same why I made an exception to come to a public event and took picture. —– A while ago, I had a chat with a photographer who has just finished the school and learning to become Professional while doing an assistant work. As she asked me “How to make a good Photograph” I answered ” Just press the button” she stunned and burst into laughing. “Oh gosh, I never heard such answer”.
“When you see a beautiful light, press the button. — It’s mean, if you couldn’t see it’s beauty, you don’t have the eyes to see. And even if you could see it, still not able to press the button, you don’t have a good reflex, either case, you are hopeless and any sort of advice or knuck to take picture would be useless. Otherwise, you were lucky enough to take good picture. Then do it.
Anyhow, it is pointless to speak about photography => it’s better to see the real situation and a way of the photographic approach, and the captured images —– good or bad. = Everything is self explanatory. So, those photos (with the photos of Last Post) were the finishing part of the chat or the “lecture”. 🙂
—– Just press the Button, mean, “Just take picture with the own intuition”, but not a theory or special thinking kind. Still, it is better to know about the subject, history, episode in human term (mean, not politics or technology) which did hit your emotion, but the most important point is to capture the image, sweet to your eyes. (it doesn’t mean looks nice, cute person smiling, but in the image, context and the emotion has settled and balanced) = DON’T chase dramatic image, until you yourself experienced a drama in your life.)
So, this is the picture which was not a settled image but make the mind to stray away. It’s mean, this is not a sweet picture. —– even after 70 years, Poppy field has not settled calm for some people yet.
Peace to the dead soldier’s Soul.
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