Why less COVID-19 in Japan ?
The world is wondering why the number cases of COVID-19 in Japan was far less than the other country despite their society has also very aged population like Italy and having a lots of Chinese visitors ?
The observations made by the net people and me were, (1) Japanese is not a kind of people of hug and kiss but make a bow while standing meters away. Because of they are very conscious about the hygiene, which was originated from their Shinto religion which demand the absolute cleanness. ( Non-Japanese may not know that in behind, they clean their hand with wet tissue after made a shake hand with others, and wash the hand after touch the bank note. —– Taking off their shoes on the door step typify the base line, so does eating the individually served food with a chopstick. ) (2) In the same context, when Japanese came back to their home, first they wash their hand and gurgle with plenty water. Then take a bath to wash off any filth remained on the body. (Then, time to time they visit the Shinto Shrine to cleanse and purify their spirit.)
All those almost imprinted into their subconsciousness level of the Japanese ethos which was avoid touching foreign body or not to have a close contact with it, naturally prevented the spread of the virus from the begining. = Japanese didn’t need to be told to do so by the government but doing it by themselves without even aware of it ! (While having this metality deep in their mind, to adapt the Zen idea of Mushin = Mind of nomind has no dificulty to them at all)
While having even the Olympic Game postponed due to the many of the country couldn’t have their own athletes selected through the competition neither able to have enough training, the effect to the Japanese socioeconomic situation is immesurable.
So far, mentally, the Japanese seems to cope with the situation, but having no income from their closed down shop or factory, life is hard. Now, how Japanese government could navigate this situation is the burning issue. (The situation in China is even worse, in any moment they could have national scale violent uprising started which could disintegrates their communist government.) >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b27T9jHMzb8 >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKuStsHuJI >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PonD6sTbO3M
——— I received many phone calls from the friends who is anxious about me = thank you very much to all of you = may be I’m the oldest person (except to the OBs of my Japanese Alpine Club) and seen to be the most vulnerable link in the circle though, thanks goodness, so far I’m OK.
——- One of my friend said that he did have the COVID-19 and recovered = when having had it, he said that he noticed that he got his sense of smell and the taste were lost. (and now regained them) = = = So, if you noticed such symptom on top of temperature, coughing etc, it must be the C-19 = Prepare against it ! (either go to a doctor or take a good treatment) —– TAKE CARE !
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eBay fraud
On the face, eBay system was well designed and tightly operated —– That’s what I thought till I stumbled on this trouble. And while dealing with this trouble and went into deeper, I realised that the eBay was also very well designed as the system of the fraud.
When I wanted to buy a Pentax lens which happen to be sold by a Japanese seller, there was a mistake of misspelling of my name. (which was a mistype of “l” instead of “I”most likely made by a staff of Royal Mail = because Japanese (seller) knows Japanese name, such unpronouncable spelling couldn’t be made by them. – – – Anyway, because of the name was wrong, I couldn’t pay the import duty, therefore the item couldn’t be delivered to me, and sent back to Japan. As all those tracking data were clearly recorded, eBay ruled out, that I should be granted the full refund of the money I’ve paid, on the 17th Jan’2020 while saying it may takes 48 hours to appear on my bank account. (In the other refund case of which the amount of the money was less than a pound, refunded to my bank account was made only following day)
But, as no refund was made into my account even after a month, I started to feel suspicious. = I try to see how this kind of trouble was dealt with ? Then I discovered that the most of trouble which was likely occur in the net shopping was categolised and formatted to such as “item was broken” “Who pays return Post” etc etc though, there is no place to click “No refund was paid”. And no channel to make any complaint. There is NO customer service who will take care of the trouble. Neither the phone works. And even no address to send a complaint / inquiry letter. (in their website)
(There is so-called eBay community site where people can make a question etc and other member (?) answer / advice. Though, when I made a question on my case, it was disappeared alltogether while saying “System error” ! ) = (They got AI to watch and supress the inconvenient question)
Going through the net, I found the eBay.co.UK’s legal address in the Luxembourg. And, thier might be address = eBay UK, Hotham House, 1 Heron Sq’ South Richmond, Richmond-on-Thames, TW9 1EJ And a telephon number 0906-665-8030 (though, this phone is dead)
So, the eBay would say that there is no such things like “Refund money was not paid” could ever happened, therefore there is no need to foresee any remedy. But it might be a part of their system to make money. = in other words, the system of the fraud. That’s why, all the channel or the possibilities to make a complaint was tightly shut and heavily guarded.
(If anybody has the trouble with eBay, please give a comment here (which may not be published and answered by me privately)
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Funki’s dream or nightmare ?
It’s from the collection of my friend Funki Porchini —– I didn’t know he created this 2011 such long time ago.
And I don’t know how he created this image ? ? ? Whether he used any optics or was it done by purely digital ? ? ?
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Expression
Following the previous post, this is the even more enigmatic piece. In fact, I just lost a word and got my jaw dropped. I’m not sure, whether I can call it a dance —– or just an expression happen to be on the body ?
(The viz looks quite dark and mysterious, even nightmarish. —– and that’s I like) The Art in this level would negate all the question such as where it came from or even who made this. Though, the harsh reality is, we may not able to see the same, after some years or decade as the body of the performer will be lost. Without the body, its controlled movement and its moment, this art couldn’t exist. —– should we feel sad ? —– the even harsher reality is, the memory, and its container = brain will be also rotten in the same time. Who said art is long ? —– (Youtube viz may last longer —– yet it’s horrifying to image, after all the living things extinct, still those video data will remain as the electronic form like a fossil stone.
Those two above were more like commercial dancing still showing some relation to the first piece. (They are quite beautiful.)
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Norman the evil AI
With a commonsense, we think that the word or notion “Scientific” is a synonym to “Rational” and often (quite opportunistically) think its nature IS virtuous, while forgetting a lots of evil science like atomic bomb. And believe that the ultimate intelligence / AI could solve all the problem of human being. Though, same to the Great Nature, the Science and the Rationalism is value-free. To see or use it for good or evil is completely up to us. Now the Australian is desperately wanting a stormy rain, even though it has been killing thousand of people in India. The rain itself was caused and acting completely out of poor human emotion = simply, too much moisture in the air has to come down in any manner. Even AI wouldn’t change this. (May give better weather forecast though) 😀
AI or Artificial Intelligence will work based on the all the information and all the ideas or theories known to the human society (that’s what they says). Then use all those data to generate the answer to the question. (It’s a famous story, when a Chinese institute asked AI about their country, the AI answered “You are silly to live in this country. Emigrate to Canada” — Chinese authority shut down the institute.) So, people think that like the all-known God the AI can give the best and ultimate answer to human —– but it was found to be not necessary true. —– Like a poor human, even AI can not necessary be rational and virtuous = it could be fatally biased by the first information like us misjudge by the wrong first impression.
AI-Powered Psychopath — Report by MIT
We present you Norman, world’s first psychopath AI. Norman is born from the fact that the data that is used to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behavior. So when people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it. The same method can see very different things in an image, even sick things, if trained on the wrong (or, the right!) data set. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death. Then, we compared Norman’s responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders.
Note: Due to the ethical concerns, we only introduced bias in terms of image captions from the subreddit which are later matched with randomly generated inkblots (therefore, no image of a real person dying was utilized in this experiment).
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Deeper into the Zen
Some of you, the keen followers might be wondering what this man is talking about ? And what would it to do with Zen ?
—– The fundamental question is, “If the Zen is to deal with the life in the absolutely empty mind = in Mushin, (completely dispassionate, almost like a machine) —– Hey stop joking, which part of the brain is actuary handling it ? ” (If somewhere the brain IS handling = with the intention to handle it, IS not Mushin but just not aware what he is doing, it’s a fraud ! )
How I came to here, you may find how our condition of the Guts (and the chemicals of its bacteria, parasites) influencing our “Feeling = Heart = Mind = ultimately the way of thinking” We are not really in control. (Since this blog IS the live description of the DIY Zen research, I need to see the mechanism what makes the Zen as Zen —– in fact what IS so-called Zen ? = if any at all ?)
Now you must be convinced, that the so-called Zen teaching in the town IS fraud. Zen couldn’t be learned or taught, while saying Zen. As long as the notion of Zen in mind, even if it was hidden in the deepest unconsciousness. It IS not Zen. I’ll show you “The legend = the Archer who try to reach Zen while learning Archery in Japan” in the next post. (If you like to start ahead, find a book and read it before hand = Zen in the Art of Archery : by Eugen Herrigel —– It’s a small book = 100 pages or so in a Penguin books)
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PS : I’ll explain you, my utterly strange Lens Making Game. Do you think is there any complicated theory or creative notion ? —– Non at all. It was the same process of the cutting a lemon. In other word, a kind of work of Just Do It with a material I found then —– Imagine, do you think would it be any sophisticated philosophy or scientific theory behind ? = far from it, cutting minute depth of metal barrel to match the focus = IS the ZEN. (I don’t have a skin thick enough to have a pretense to show-off “Copy the mantra” kind) 😀
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Feeling – Heart – Mind – Thinking
Because of its nature of ambiguity, what going in the depth of our Mind has no clear picture or even the defined notion or name. Nevertheless, we are using a kind of the name for the sake of convenience. And, we are using a kind of words to describe each Psychological phenomena. So, from the murky deep to clear conscious, we named each of them such as to Feeling, Heart, Mind, Thinking.
With the advancement of the technology and the medical science, the research and the understanding toward those mechanism of the psychological phenomena were becoming clear day by day. And the development of experimental psychology is started to show quite new fact and the reality.
One of the experiment, which was — the two group of the volunteer was given the Adrenalin hormone (so, the blood pressure rose and the heart started pounding) and one group was told by a decoy volunteer as “I heard we are going to have a pretty funny game after this. So, I’m very excited” and the other group heard the other decoy murmuring that “I heard that the after effect of this experiment could be very bad. I’m very much worried of this” On the after interview, the first group told that he (she) was very excited with the expectation of fun. But the second group answered that they felt fear.
—– The same physiological effect = risen blood pressure and pounding heart was felt by the first group as a joyful excitement. But the second group felt it was a tension of a fear. = Each were biased to the opposite direction by the dubious suggestions. So, the feeling could be as simple as the balance of the chemical, same as too much acid in the stomach. And to figure it out (with the biased expression) “I’m very heavy” is your heart. Then, describe it with more objective words “I feel very heavy” is your mind. And you might started to think “Should I take a pil ?”
Ambiguous shadow in the deep, may not have any holy truth. Neither Carl Jung kind of romantic belief not mention Freud’s delusion. (Now those kind of so-called “Psychology” was dead long since = simply because no such memory device which hold like Oedipus Complex etc or unconscious memory was found under MRI —– all those were our own creation inspired by the learned story in the daily life = same as a Dream.) So, the unconscious mind = “Heart” might be just an unsorted complication of the chemical mix. —– As you know, when you feel so crazy and hot in love, the reality was that you were just filled with Oxytocin and Dopamine in your blood. = So, you feel its urge, still as it was nothing to do with any logic or hi-level thinking, you can not describe its factor or reason in word. (In fact, if you could describe it, you were not in love but just observing third party !) —– We call such invisible drive or a vector as the Heart. 😀
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Self — Subconsciousness
With the incredible advancement of the technology, medical science etc, now we are becoming aware what is the Self in totally different aspect. (Though, those stories were based on the net news, Youtube kind = second, third source. Take this lightly.)
With the forefront study of the monocular biology and the brain science using MRI kind of scanning = observing the activity of the brain, in relation to the internal flora of the bacteria, virus, even the parasite in our guts, are becoming clear. —— Why guts and the brain is linked ? you may say, = those organism in our guts are making many chemicals and those are circulating in our blood and reaching, affecting the brain, and the emotion, even high level decision-making and the behavior pattern.
You might heard the story of the parasite who manipulates the brain of ant to go top of a grass, in order to be eaten by a sheep, then lay their eggs there and it will be spread by the sheep’s droppings then go into the ant again = So, this cycle will be repeated and continues. —– those organisms can produce quite sophisticated chemicals, enzymes which can manipulate even our brain’s thinking and the emotion. Though, who designed this incredible system is nothing but THE mystery.
Our mood, emotion which affects our thinking, behavior could easily be influenced by those chemicals, brain transmitters, hormones. (Though, we may not know what IS the condition of “Without” = co-havitating bacteria and its chemicals could be the NORM of our existence.) = Remember, “Mitochondria” in our body-cells, they are in fact, just co-havitating foreign organism = we didn’t create them = they got their own DNA !
Long since, we human has been using the term / words, such as Guts Feeling, Intuition etc = we can not clearly know but only vaguely feel the effect, the invisible influence or resulting deep mind, which we call “Subconsciousness” —– IS in reality, a result of the balance of the neuro hormones include the chemicals from those bacteria, parasite, and not much to do with spirituality. So, true Self could be a product of the bacteria or parasite you are harboring in your guts. Sound great isn’t it ? 😀
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Throw a stone
The words here “Throw a stone” is a metaphor or a symbol indicating that there is a meaning behind of such action — in Zen term, a Direct Transmission. Why Direct Transmission ? — Because the words couldn’t convey the meaning behind or such meaning would be lost if it was expressed in the words.
After many years, I suddenly realized that Lord Buddha never spoken about the Concept or the Idea conceived in the mind other than in the metaphoric stories. His teachings were doing or show what or how to do. And never explained what its action for or meanings of it. So that, the Disciples were guessing or making their own interpretation if not their own understanding. —– The most of the scriptures were such kind of interpretations or guess-works and very little real teachings of Buddha was recorded because of very few could manage to catch the meaning behind, let alone describe them in the scripture. (So that, the Buddhism has been surrounded by the mountain of buzz-words created by a superficial capturing such as Selfless, No-thinking, Mushin, Dedication, Self-sacrifice, Detauchment, No-greed, No-emotion, No-fear, Mindfulness, Middle way, — etc etc.)
In deed, Lord Buddha didn’t teach the meaning or the intention behind of his teachings. BECAUSE to explain such meaning WILL destroy the teaching itself. (It was recorded in the scripture typically as “Unanswered Questions” = the abstract, imaginary notions such as an idea of SELF or theoretical existence like an Infinity, were completely ignored by him.)
—– Do something, JUST do something without do other than DO, = such as to take a bicycle and ride, and go shopping. When you do such riding, you ARE not thinking how to ride, how to push the feet or take a balance = because, you do it without any conscious “Let alone any conscious of I’m DOING the bicycle ride” = In fact, you ARE doing it without your SELF. AS this IS the evidence of that the SELF IS not exists, and the idea of the SELF was a creation of your conscious or IMAGINATION. Since the SELF is not exists, the notion or its word is not exists either (in other words, they were INTENTIONALY created to deal with those notion.) = Therefore, it IS not possible to explain the idea of “There is no SELF” = you can’t explain this without using the notion or the word SELF other than you yourself realize that you ARE riding the bicycle without the conscious of SELF. Lord Buddha taught his followers to learn it through the action (or a kind of repeating practice — mind you there wasn’t a bicycle then. 😀 ) —– still, how his teachings was successful or succeeded was quite questionable = AND as he was aware of it, he had to leave the very last words “Don’t take the other’s words, learn it by YOURSELF” —– The history of the Buddhism showed nothing but the silly misunderstanding or more precisely the lack of understanding among the followers since then. (I’ll show it with the most typical sample of “Middle way” in the next post.)
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Kill the SELF
If any Buddhism sect or their instructor told about “Self denial” or “Kill the Self” kind, they are a sham. It was not what Lord Buddha taught 2500 years ago.
(Lord Buddha taught “Selfless” through the practice though, as he didn’t explain the meaning or its intension, it was not necessarily understood by the followers. — Because of the SELF and its notion was not exists, it was not possible to explain. = Can you explain “Self is not exist” without using the word “Self” ? 😀 )
In this situation, could anybody describe what about or significance of the teachings, or the meaning of practice which taught Selfless. = Hence, no description even in Agama. Because the matter was not to understand what the meaning of the word “Selfless” but become able to do the practice without thinking without emotion. ( = completely detouched, which mean without EGO ! )
There are many stories of Buddha’s silence or No-answer. All those questions which was ignored were about the imaginary things, such as infinity, eternal, after a death, perpetual soul kind. Because all those are the imaginary things = deluded by the “Self” which is not even exists. Why bother answer it. In fact, Lord Buddha’s silence = stop talking meant to be a message as strong as to kill the person.
Have you heard a very lucrative investment scheme of the Poca-pinta (10 poca-pinta is about $1) in the Pintaland, where you can buy 1 Kg of Gold for 1,000 Poca-pinta. But to make a deal, you have to send $1000 into a Net Account first. = I don’t think you ever did because no Pintaland exists nor Poca-pinta. Naturally nobody uttered even a word Pintaland = because even the word “Pintaland” is not exists. —– Same as this, When the subject is not exists, no Lord Buddha ever talked about, let alone gave any answer related to it.
By the way, were you aware to be the person who read this stories of Poca-pinta here. Was that YOU ? And did you know the reading was done by your eyes. In FACT, everything has been carried-out without you noticing it = “without noticing” ? So, WHO read those ? —– Since when you were small, you’ve read the texts millions of times and now you can do it with no intentional intent. You can capture a flashing message without reading it but just from its overall pattern. Since, you DO it automatic, without conscious. When you became Self-conscious, because of your EGO, “Me me me” you try to assert YOU and it IS only the situation you try to be Yourself.= Otherwise, in a normal condition, YOU/SELF is not exists. And to read this, you don’t need to have your SELF. Likewise, you can live your life without SELF. It’s mean without having the ugly conflict of the EGO against EGO.
In the first place, Self wasn’t there unless you intentionally made-up. Since, Dharma itself has no Self.
“The person” fist created “SELF” then clung to it = because of own EGO, Me me me, — and made the life awkward. Then try to kill it because it IS too awkward to live with. (How silly.)
Aren’t you doing the same ? (You don’t need to pay an effort to kill the SELF, simply just live in a natural flow, there isn’t any SELF there as Dharma hasn’t one. —– It’s mean, You don’t need to struggle even with this blog = just read like as a casual gossip, though 100 times = if there is any truth, your intuitive wisdom will find it out. If not just forget.) 😀
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PS : One point shouldn’t be forgotten,— to give up a drink, woman etc and become a follower of the Dharma. — You may see it is a sacrifice and the denial of the happiness and pleasure of the SELF / Me. Or, to get the excitement of a sports and a health, spend the time and money for the training — wasn’t that a price to pay, or a sacrifice, denial to the Self ? . The matter IS which you value positive ?
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